Faruk Ateş is a designer, developer and entreprenerd. He started his career building Content Management Systems at a small firm in The Netherlands, and then went on to Apple in Cupertino where he worked on the Online Store and MobileMe. After that, Faruk was the Product Designer for Apture in San Francisco, until they got acquired by Google and he left to build his own startup, which hopes to launch its first product later this summer. @kurafire | www

Erin Kissane is a reader, writer, editor, and content strategist based in Brooklyn. She is the author of The Elements of Content Strategy (A Book Apart, 2011), a handbook for everyone faced with the task of creating and managing big batches of useful content for real people. Erin leads projects for Brain Traffic, the consultancy behind Confab: The Content Strategy Conference. She was formerly editor of A List Apart magazine and editorial director at web agency Happy Cog Studios in New York. As co-founder of Contents, a new magazine about content and online publishing, she seeks to bridge gaps and strengthen connections between communicators and information-slingers from all over the content/publishing world. When she isn’t doing those things, she cooks with exuberance, shakes cocktails, and reads to excess. @kissane | www

Matthew Smith is the Creative Director at Zaarly and Jamin Jantz is Zaarly’s Project Manager. In their life before Zaarly (LBZ), they ran Squared Eye. They both life in Greenville, SC and continue to work on side projects together, including Matthew’s invention, PatternTap, LifeinGreenville and CoWork Greenville. Their business partnership is the result of a shared passion for quality and craftsmanship in business and design. @zaarly | www

Jessica Hische is a letterer, illustrator, type nerd, and secret web designer best known for her personal projects, obsession with cats, and occasional foul mouth. She currently serves on the Type Directors Club board of directors, has been named a Forbes Magazine “30 under 30” in art and design as well as an ADC Young Gun and one of Print Magazine’s “New Visual Artists”. She’s been lucky to work for amazing clients like Wes Anderson, McSweeney’s, Penguin, Target, and Tiffany & Co. @jessicahische | www

Jina Bolton enjoys creating beautiful user experiences with visual interaction design and style guide-driven CSS development (preferably with the SCSS flavored syntax of CSS). She has previously worked at rad companies including Apple, GitHub, Engine Yard, and Crush + Lovely. Jina has cowritten Fancy Form Design and The Art & Science of CSS. She has also created the coffee art gallery, Art in My Coffee. @jina| www

Paul Boag has been working with the web since 1994. He is now co-founder of the web design agency Headscape based in the UK, where he works closely with clients to establish their web strategy. Paul is a prolific writer having written the Website Owners Manual, Building Websites for Return on Investment and numerous articles for publications such as .Net Magazine, Smashing Magazine and the Web Designer’s Depot. Paul also speaks extensively on various aspects of web design both at conferences across the world and on his award winning web design podcast Boagworld. Paul likes to pretend he has a life but actually just suffers from an unhealthy obsession with Twitter.  @boagworld | www

Jon Tan co-founded the webfonts service Fontdeck. He is part of Analog, a co-operative of friends working on a new app called Mapalong, an event called Brooklyn Beta, and a co-working studio called Mild Bunch HQ. His addiction to web typography has led him to start co-writing a book on the subject. He also writes for publications like 8 Faces and The Manual, speaks at events like An Event Apart, and works with such organizations as the BBC.  @jontangerine | www

Cameron Moll is a designer, speaker, author, husband, and father living in the coastal town of Sarasota, Florida. His work or advice has been featured by Forrester Research, Communication Arts magazine, HOW magazine, Print magazine, National Public Radio (NPR), and many others. He’s the founder of Authentic Jobs, a targeted destination for web professionals and the companies seeking to hire them. He’s also the artist behind a unique series of letterpress type posters that re-imagine buildings as if constructed entirely of type. Cameron is a sucker for anything that involves his four sons and sports equipment. He’s also been known to spend a little too much time building, flying, and ultimately crashing R/C airplanes. @cameronmoll | www