About us
Vilma
VA Brand Studios director and a slightly obsessive tennis player
ABC News, NBC News, CNBC, CNN, BBC News… Vilma has been collecting work experience at broadcasters with A, B, C and N letters throughout her career to just confuse her mother.
From running fast-paced international news desks to making travel programmes and overseeing live updates and panel discussions at the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering at Davos, she’s enjoyed an exciting and diverse career.
With two degrees in journalism and 15 years in commercial and sponsored content production for CNBC, Reuters, the Financial Times and ITN Productions, she has been at the forefront of producing world-class multi-format content that meets the highest editorial and brand journalism standards.
Dayna
Executive producer and a passionate foodie
For over 20 years Dayna has been immersed in the business of production and live events for some of the world’s biggest media companies from CNBC to CNN and the Financial Times.
Working with Fortune 500 companies as clients she has created innovative branded content campaigns and original programmes from the AIB nominated CNBC Meets…with Tania Bryer to CNN’s d360 and Art of Life.
Dayna’s strong editorial and creative vision has also led her to orchestrate numerous live events on the global stage from Davos to SPIEF, CNBC Meets Live to FTS/Google News Initiative.
She’s also a passionate foodie and dreams of becoming a Michelin inspector.
David
Director of photography extraordinaire and a chocolate addict
David’s experience spans 30 years and includes all formats and locations from shooting feature films and falling out of helicopters to travelling, to Africa to cover the Ebola epidemic with one super super super famous Hollywood actress.
David is equally happy to film corporate events and pieces-to-camera: “At least no one is shooting at you then,” he says, enjoying a delightful chocolate mousse from Pret.
He does have some fascinating stories to tell and accepts invitations to dinner!
Leah
Creative director and a sewing celebrity in the US
With almost 30 years of design, animation and creative directing experience, there isn’t much Leah hasn’t designed and animated.
From a fully immersive dome in Kuwait and 25-metre-long media walls in Saudi Arabia to live broadcast, interactive exhibits and social media content, she doesn’t just ‘fix it in post’ but manages and creates the entire project from pitching to storyboarding, design, CGI direction and compositing.
In her downtime, Leah is a sewing celebrity with a loyal fanbase in the United States, where she sells creative sewing patterns.