Executive Team

Michael Weiss, Chief Executive Officer

As Partner/CEO at imagistic, an award-winning Web agency in southern California, Michael serves as a dynamic force in the Web marketing and development industry as a veteran speaker, consultant, client advocate, and sales executive. Under Michael's sales and marketing leadership, he has signed many world-renowned clients for imagistic, including: ACLU, Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, Network for Good, Technicolor, Walden Media, and Hollywood.com.

With his more than 20 years in the industry, Michael offers extensive experience conducting and leading sessions for such prestigious organizations as the Non Profit Technology Network, FS/TEC, Boston University, the Center for Nonprofit Management, Network For Good, and Pepperdine University. His business development background has also merited significant leadership recognition, including an American Business Award nomination for Sales Director of the Year. He is highly sought after as a keynote for world-class Webinars and conferences across the country, speaking on such topics as Web strategy, technology planning, and social media marketing.

As a former educator possessing an innate ability to make the Web comprehensible, Michael is an invaluable asset to such publications as the L.A. Times, Chicago Times, BusinessWeek, CXO News, and WebProNews, all of which tap him regularly for personal quotes. He also regularly contributes his writing talents to his blog at: http://blog.imagistic.com.

Along with his extensive management, marketing, and sales experience, Michael also possesses a background in education and counseling. He has taught at the Crossroads School, Palms Middle School, and Daniel Webster Middle School, all located in Los Angeles. In the past, he has also worked in the entertainment industry for such moguls as Quincy Jones, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Arnold Kopelson.

Michael's educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Boston University and a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology from Loyola-Marymount University. As an outlet for his zeal for non profits, Michael serves on advisory boards for several philanthropic organizations, including The Ojai Foundation and The Wildwoods Foundation.

Review Michael's past and future speaking engagements here.

Kevin Goldberg, Chief Technology Strategist

As Partner/Chief Technology Strategist at imagistic, Kevin oversees and directs all projects with a business-forward technology approach that has led to hundreds of successful technology implementations, corporate recognition, and long-term clientele.

From his early experience in management consulting and software development, Kevin offers more than twenty years experience combining business and technology, helping serve executives at many Fortune 500 companies.

Since 1997 at imagistic, Kevin has delivered successful business and technology strategies for such clients as GE Capital, California Pizza Kitchen, Boston University, the ACLU, Franchise Services, Inc., Move.com, Disney, UCLA, and Reed Publishing, meeting corporate objectives, tight deadlines, and even tighter budgets. His leadership and unparalleled ability to align business and technology needs are key imagistic value-adds that keep former clients coming back for new engagements year after year.

Before starting imagistic in 1997, Kevin held senior positions in multi-million dollar video game divisions at Film Roman, Lionsgate (previously Trimark), and Philips Interactive Media, where one of his innovations resulted in an audio compression / decompression scheme, which doubled the sound effects storage capacity for all of Philips' video game titles.

In the fall of 2010, Kevin will serve as instructor for an introductory course on programming concepts through eClasses.org. He currently holds a position on the Santa Monica College Computer Science and Information Systems Advisory Board. In 2006, he was invited as a guest expert for the ACLU Nationwide Staff Conference, speaking on the topic of Web development and production.

Kevin holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and Entrepreneurial Management from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also completed coursework towards a master's degree in Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Publications include the critically acclaimed book: "XML: Visual QuickStart Guide (2nd Edition)," published in December, 2008 by Peachpit Press. He is also an author on IBM developerWorks, focusing on open-source technology applications.