Co-founder Juan M. Santana has been developing and managing marketing programs and communications projects for Jungle Communications for 15 years. Prior to that he led advertising and marketing campaigns in managerial positions with various mid-sized to Fortune 100 companies in the USA and Spain. Juan also taught international marketing in the business and translation departments of the University of Las Palmas, Spain. He holds a degree in International Marketing from San Francisco State University. He is a native of the Canary Islands, Spain, and is fully bilingual in English and Spanish.

Co-founder Kerstin Goetz has been directing creative aspects of Jungle Communications' work since its inception. Her professional work experience includes marketing, advertising, public relations and graphic design in the USA, Germany and Spain. Kerstin holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science with emphasis in communications from Freie Universität in Berlin and a Master of Electronic Media from the Center for Electronic Art in San Francisco. She is also a graduate of the Management Development for Entrepreneurs program at UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management. A native of Berlin, Germany, Kerstin is bilingual in English and German and fluent in Spanish.

Lisa Abboud has over 20 years of experience in business and venue management, event coordination, sales and marketing, and media and entertainment production. As Managing Director of a city-owned performing arts theatre she was responsible for marketing and PR for nearly 300 events per year. She routinely utilized grassroots outreach methods targeting diverse audiences, selling out the majority of events. Lisa also has ample experience in all aspects of multimillion-dollar fundraising campaigns and events supporting educational and social causes. She is a graduate of San Francisco State University in Liberal Studies and is bilingual in English and Arabic.

Anke has worked on publicity and marketing campaigns for multimedia agencies and a wide variety of clients in Germany and the USA for more than eight years. She loves creating corporate identities, including the creation and implementation of websites. Anke holds a degree as a Print and Media Designer, specializing in New Media Design, from Friedrich-Haecker School in Kassel, Germany, as well as a B.A. in Graphic and Communication Design from Lazi Akademy, European School of Design in Esslingen, Germany. She is fluent in German and English.

Guolin Zhao’s art has been granted distinguished awards in national and international competitions and has been exhibited in China, America, France, Ukraine, Bulgaria, India, and other countries all over the world. His designs stand out for their masterful integration of different design traditions and help bridge cultural gaps in visual communications. Guolin graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communications from the University of Oklahoma, and earned a Master’s degree in Graphic Design and Photography at the University of Iowa. He is fluent in Mandarin and English.