About Us

Let's Start With Who We're Not...

We’re not cheap web developers. If the budget is your overriding concern, then there are thousands of web firms better positioned to help you.

We’re not high school kids working out of our basement. If you think a kid has the experience and knowledge to build a site that will speak to your customers, then read no further.

We’re not looking to complete someone else’s buggy, half-built site. Let the other guy fix the problems he created or let us build it for you the right way.

OK, So Who Are We?

We’re a team of web professionals who want to design excellent websites and maybe even push the envelope now and then.

Our clients describe us as good listeners, patient about learning their needs, and talented at converting those needs into a website that isn’t just something to show off — but gains you leads and business.

We want clients who understand the value of having a partner like us. We care deeply about our craft, as much as you care about your brand and your business. Partner with us and we’ll build a site that will truly help you stand out in your field.

Our Team Leaders

Conrad Strabone, Jr.
President, Internet Marketing Strategist, Project Manager

Conrad cut his teeth as a leading internet strategist in Silicon Alley. Fresh from Drexel, this competitive, all-star ice hockey player worked for others, directing projects for start-ups and big corporations like Sumitomo and Lehman Brothers.

But Conrad wanted to leverage his successes — and his mistakes — into solving problems for his own clients. In 2001, he founded and ran a successful software development company — which he sold in 2006. A year later, e9digital was born.

At e9digital, Conrad’s role is to help businesses grow. He oversees all client relationships, and helps identify and realize their strategic online marketing needs.

“I live, eat, and breathe developing websites. I love sitting in my sunlit loft office in New York, and watching as our work makes a real-world impact on our clients, and their businesses,” he says. Conrad lives in New York.

 

Jina Kiem
Creative Director

Jina missed designing. For ten years, the Hawaii native had been a VP, Creative Director at the New York office of Saatchi & Saatchi — helping shape brand strategies at Procter & Gamble, American Express, Pepsi, General Mills, and more.

But success had its price: less design, way more management. Looking for challenges, she started helping her husband Conrad’s website firm with designing and branding, and she loved the progressive, wide-open feel of this (then) new internet medium.

In 2008, Jina followed her passion, and joined e9digital. Her chameleonic talents and clairvoyant approach have knocked project after project out of the park. “I really listen to the client, read and view everything they give me, daydream and look through images...I just do everything I can to get inside the client’s head. The vision eventually takes shape,” she says. She loves living in New York.

Travis Cox
Technical Director, Senior Software Engineer

Travis is not a math geek. But he is partial to differential equations, and prefers to think of math as the logic that runs the universe. Also, math was one of his several majors, along with new media and computer science (minor in literature).

Like any geek (math or no), he takes pleasure in improving the elegance of his code. Meticulousness aside, he embodies a departure from the stereotype — exhibiting a bullheaded pragmatism that serves our clients well.

Travis’ high-end projects have included enterprise level e-commerce applications, and work for non-profits and Fortune 500 companies like Honeywell, Ricoh and Comedy Central.

Ultimately, though, he’s a smart guy that grew up on a farm. “You might say I have a farmer’s work ethic, but really…I just tend toward the obsessive.”

Jean Tang
Copy Director

Jean began as a lawyer. Yep, you read right. A Juilliard-trained pianist and Ivy-educated lawyer, Jean settled into journalism in 2000 — documenting meals and travels for The New York Times, New York Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, and other publications. Her first book is out March, 2011.

In 2007, Jean saw the need for a 2.6-second website: bite-sized and jargon-free. “Copywriters can lose sight of the fact that their audience is — consistently — human,” she says.

Jean’s writing draws liberally from her background — weaving dazzling imagery together with razor-sharp precision, and setting it to a rhythm that’s pleasing to the brain. She is a ‘word photographer’: able to grasp the mundane or abstract — and bring it to vivid life.

She lives in Brooklyn with a roommate named Jabberwocky.

Chellise Michael
Senior Photographer

It’s not that Chellise sets out to shock anyone. She just wants her photos to produce a reaction. Preferably: one that gets you at a deeper level.

Born and raised in Phoenix, Chellise loves photographing people, and it shows in the way she does it, with joy, ease — and greedy opportunism.

She is particularly proud of a set of life-size photographs on permanent display at Arizona State University, her alma mater. She lives in New York City with her boyfriend, Michael, and a white cat named Unicorn.