Imagine you had a team of wizards at
your disposal…
Gilbert Gomez
A Graduate of Parsons The New School for Design, Gilbert honed his talents in corporate design, and branding before applying his talents to promotional marketing in the entertainment industry. As our Creative Director he is responsible for translating customer insights, market research and brand values into effective advertising and brand creative. Building on his multicultural background, Gilbert goes beyond the often abused title of Creative Director at Laughing Samurai to perform feats of amazing. Among his super powers are whispering at triple digit decibels, inverted pancakes and play dough sculpturing. He can also rap without a rhyming dictionary.
Benjamin Collins
Before Laughing Samurai, Benjamin traveled the world searching for unicorns and slaying dragons. After realizing there wasn’t such a thing as unicorns (or is there) Benjamin settled in Orlando to make magical things happen for companies in search of real things, like Marketing and Branding. Holding a degree in Finance and Economics from the University of Central Florida, he is responsible for marketing and brand strategy, both traditional and non-traditional, and day to day operations. He also no longer deals with dragons.
Nikki Tuck
Country born and raised in fabulous Ocala, FL, Nikki is passionately against all that is country. A student of Advertising and Marketing at the University of Central Florida, Nikki is the worlds most amazing executive assistant. Two things that Nikki likes about working at Laughing Samurai are the tunes and the sweet tears of laughter. If Nikki ever leaves us she is planning on frontwomaning an 80′s hair band intergalacticly displaced to the twentyteens. She originally got interested in Advertising and Marketing when she heard about creative agencies, and creativity is in Nikki’s blood. Unbeknownst to most she is a direct descendant of viking warriors, who drove the world crazy with creativity for millennia.
Chiara Andriole
Originally from Orlando, Chiara currently attends college at Washington University in St. Louis’ Sam Fox School of Design. Chiara’s superstar DJ name is Juicy Bottom and you can find her show on www.kwur.com. At Laughing Samurai she is honing her designification skills under the mentorship of Gilbert and learning to make things more awesome. Among her loves are music, concerts, art, dance, dance art, and art dance. She also believes in unicorns, despite the assurance of Benjamin that they do not exist.
Sara Poindexter
A Graduate of the University of Texas with a BS in Civil Engineering, Sara moved to orlando to work in urban development over 9 years ago. She believes, like we do, that one of the most important parts of urban development is public art. Sara works with us to help develop the Orlando Art Community, delivering amazing art on an almost monthly basis. She also represents Laughing Samurai on the Orlando Ivanhoe Village Main Street Board, enforcing our will on the masses of Orlando. She was also the original inspiration for the television shows Macgyver AND Murder She Wrote, which many people don’t know were based on the same person.
