Ben Hess – CEO / Executive Producer
Ben creates digital media campaigns for the company’s clients and has produced, edited, or directed over 100 short-form marketing and sales videos for online and DVD distribution. He’s also created or produced several independent films and original series and campaigns, including Volunteer Nation, the castways, A-List Video, Voices Across America, Doing Time, and The Kiss . For New York PBS affiliate Thirteen/WNET and the non-profit Open Media Network, Ben produced the online video campaign War Stories, in conjunction with Ken Burns’ documentary, The War. During his sales career, Ben ran a distributor channel for the software subsidiary of Silicon Graphics and was selected to the company’s President’s Club. He also managed multi-national accounts and software implementations at Volvo Cars, ISI-Dentsu, and Boeing, among others. Ben has a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and studied at the California Institute of the Arts.
When not singing with her band, Making Dinner, recording a commercial, or voiceover sequence for Volunteer Nation, Devorah is a stellar Operations Manager and has an extensive background in Office and Facilities management, Project Management and Executive support. With Ben Hess, Devorah has acted in two short films, Doing Time and The Kiss and has performed voiceover for the director’s cut of a Nike commercial, several corporate projects, and the development pilot of