Our Team

Since 1975, the team at Art + Business ONE (A+B1) have served clients ranging from early-stage entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 corporations. Our experience in brand development runs the gamut from worldwide players to respected local and national enterprises.

We believe in the power of big ideas. We also believe in the authority of a disciplined, systematic approach. Our long-time clients recognize our expertise in converging artful thinking with systematic business strategies.

When you meet us, you will be impressed with our diversity of expertise. When you work with us, you will experience our singular focus on your business goals.

Lance Jackson

Lance Jackson

President / Strategic Brand Director
Pat Jenni

Pat Jenni

Senior Vice President / Resource Director
Cindy Milnick

Cindy Milnick

Vice President / Creative Director
Bryan Davis

Bryan Davis

Brand Internet Director
Ethan Demby

Ethan Demby

Director of Integration
Marc McClure

Marc McClure

Brand Manager
Jessica Davis

Jessica Davis

Brand Design Director
Sara Shipman

Sara Shipman

Bookkeeper
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President / Strategic Brand Director

Lance Jackson

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For Lance, achieving that delicate balance between the rational and the abstract has been a lifelong pursuit with a career that spans over 40 years. Lance has created brand strategies for a bevy of blue chip brands. He founded his firm in 1975 and immediately began designing corporate identities, sales collateral and advertising programs. Within a few years, his firm was pioneering the idea of integrated marketing communications. Today, he guides brand building strategies that are artfully rendered and focused on his clients’ business objectives.

  • Career highlight(s): Starting my design firm in 1975 upon graduation from design school.  I knew if I could cover the overhead of my office rent and have enough left over for new markers and sketch pads everything would be fine…and it has been fine for 45 years.
  • Best travel experience(s): Italy, Italy Italy.  The history, the art, the people and the food – WOW!
  • Favorite food/restaurant: Sushi – anywhere.
  • Where are you from/born: I am a native of Colorado – third generation.
  • Favorite movie: Bird Cage. It is a family favorite and we laugh at the same scenes even though we’ve seen it dozens of time.
  • Music choice: Neil Young, Leonard Cohen and Willy Nelson
  • Favorite time period: I defined myself via the late 60’s and early 70’s.  Politics, protest and defining philosophies.  It was the best of times.
  • Favorite artist(s): Kandinsky, Picasso and Monet
  • Morning ritual: Walk my dog – who reminds me daily what it means to be in the moment.
  • Morning hot drink: Espresso.
  • Go-to Happy Hour cocktail: Dewars scotch.  My then future father-in-law introduced it to me 48 years ago when he found out his daughter was about to marry an art major…he needed a stiff drink.
  • Typical weekend adventure: Our weekends are occupied with the typical “to-dos” and, whenever possible, spending time with our grandson Bob.
  • Favorite Sports Team: Growing up and living in Denver my entire life it’s of course the Broncos – through thick and thin.
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Senior Vice President / Resource Director

Pat Jenni

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Patricia offers more than 28 years of professional experience in advertising and marketing communications. Her industry experience spans real estate, community development, professional services, retailing, health care and technology. Patricia manages many aspects of the client relationship including collaborative processes and asset management – enhancing client access, confidence, control and overall productivity and accountability.

  • Career highlight(s): Owner of several businesses and working with Lance Jackson since 1987
  • Hobbies: Reading, 4-wheeling, soap making, collectible car shows
  • Best travel experience(s): Holidays on Captiva with family
  • Bucket list item(s): Visit Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, tour USA
  • Favorite food/restaurant: Mexican and Italian
  • Accomplishment: Successful businesses, MBA Marketing/Biz admin, raising a family and enjoying grandkids
  • Organizations you support:  Adoption Options, Bayaud Enterprises, Post Polio/Easterseals
  • Where are you from/born: Denver, CO native (3rd generation)
  • Favorite neighborhood: Wash Park
  • Favorite movie: Dr. Zhivago
  • Music choice: Classic Rock and Roll
  • Favorite artist(s): Lance Jackson
  • Favorite time period: Today
  • Morning ritual: At the dog park in Cherry Creek with the sunrise
  • Morning hot drink: Java
  • Go-to Happy Hour cocktail: Red Wine
  • Go-to exercise: Walking
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Vice President / Creative Director

Cindy Milnick

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Cindy has assembled an impressive and award-winning career portfolio that spans over 20 years of brand development for architecture and planning, real estate, business-to-business, consumer goods and high technology. Her passion for design is expressed with intelligence and sensitivity to your brand and to your business objectives. From beginning to end, she checks her creative against business strategy and exudes absolute professionalism, consistency, and integrity.

  • Career highlight(s): Won $500 for Women’s Day magazine Earth Day poster contest at age 3 (used to buy first bike)
  • Hobbies: Bicycling on dirt
  • Best travel experience(s): Moab, Moab, Moab
  • Bucket list item(s): Visit every National Park, live in a van
  • Organizations you support: Denver Dumb Friends League
  • Where are you from/born: Milwaukee
  • Music choice: The Avett Brothers
  • Favorite artist(s): Keith Haring
  • Favorite Designers: Massimo Vignelli, Paul Rand
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Brand Internet Director

Bryan Davis

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Bryan has successfully bridged the gap between designer and developer. As a perpetual student of design and web development, Bryan has honed his skills in a variety of industries including sports programming graphics, for which he won a Heartland Emmy Award two years in a row. Bryan’s strong background and passion for design and technology has lead to an impressive portfolio of his varied skills.

  • Career highlight(s): Walking into Tattered Cover and purchasing “Teach Yourself HTML in 7 Days”. That book kicked off my obsession with web development and my career.
  • Best travel experience(s): We took our first family trip to Europe in Spring of 2023, traveling to London, The Netherlands and Belgium. That trip changed me…there’s not a day that I don’t think about it.
  • Favorite food/restaurant: Sushi Den
  • Where are you from/born: I am a Colorado native, but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. I jumped at the chance to move back to Colorado after graduating high school.
  • Favorite movie: Rounders. The cast of actors is fantastic, and John Malkovich steals the show.
  • Favorite book: Ready Player One. If you enjoyed the movie, definitely read the book.
  • Music choice: I have a very eclectic taste in music, just depends on the mood. Never country though. 🙂
  • Favorite time period: I love the 80s!
  • Morning ritual: I walk my dogs every morning before work. Spending some time outdoors before the sun comes up gets my day going.
  • Favorite TV Show: Ted Lasso! It’s more than a show about football…it’s amazing!
  • Go-to Happy Hour cocktail: I love fruity tropical drinks, and anything with tequila or mezcal.
  • Typical weekend adventure: Life has changed a lot since the boys are grown and no longer playing hockey every weekend. Now my wife and I spend the weekends with the dogs and a margarita on the patio.
  • Favorite Sports Team: Chelsea Football Club, Seattle Seahawks, Colorado Avalanche
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Director of Integration

Ethan Demby

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Ethan’s passion for a holistic convergence of social business and artful strategies propels innovative thinking for conceptualizing new opportunities for your brand. His experience in managing successful growth of brand presence and creating efficient processes for internal and external communication, coupled with his interest in psychology, contribute to Ethan’s effective communicative strategies and methodical process programming

  • Hobbies: Snowboarding and jogging
  • Best travel experience(s): Heliskiing in New Zealand
  • Bucket list item(s): Skydiving in Israel
  • Favorite food/restaurant: Uchi Sushi in RiNo
  • Accomplishment: Being a father
  • Organizations you support: Restorative Justice Education, Denver Health, Anti-Defamation League
  • Where are you from/born: Denver Native
  • Favorite neighborhood: Montclair (my neighborhood)
  • Favorite movie: Big Lebowski (a family favorite)
  • Music choice: R&B
  • Favorite artist(s): Lee Ufan
  • Favorite time period: The ’80s
  • Favorite architecture style / Favored architect: Mid-Century Modern
  • Morning ritual: Making smoothies with my daughter (lots of turmeric)
  • Morning hot drink: Cortado with oat milk
  • Go-to Happy Hour cocktail: Old Fashioned with Buffalo Trace
  • Typical weekend adventure: Snowshoeing with my girls
  • Go-to exercise: Pilates and Running
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Brand Manager

Marc McClure

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Marc’s background in design empowers his focus on managing brand deployment. His concentration in digital communication is commonplace in his support of design and production efforts for digital brand presence. Marc’s experience with Art + Business ONE and LJ Studio 209 has given him a unique perspective in the development and production of brand related communications.

  • Career highlight(s): Becoming a Partner at the beginning of 2019
  • Best travel experience(s): Making handmade pasta on a Tuscan hillside in Florence
  • Bucket list item(s): Travel to all seven continents
  • Favorite food/restaurant: Izakaya Den
  • Favorite movie: Tropic Thunder
  • Music choice: Deathcore, Rap, Progressive Metal
  • Favorite artist(s): Salvador Dali & Ct Nelson
  • Go-to Happy Hour cocktail: Macallan 12 on a big rock
  • Go-to exercise: Weightlifting
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Brand Design Director

Jessica Davis

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Jessica has more than a decade of experience working in the creative space, and contributes added expertise in marketing strategy and implementation for the homebuilding industry. A skilled graphic designer, she provides visual direction for brand design and collaborates to develop dynamic print, electronic and environmental applications as elements in clients’ holistic brand programs.

  • Hobbies: Music, Arts, Travel, Running, Cycling, Swimming, Tennis, Hiking and Skiing
  • Best travel experience(s): Visiting Morocco with my Grandmother, who grew up in Casablanca & Off-shore Sailing from East Coast to Carribbean
  • Bucket list item(s): So many…here’s a few…complete an Ironman, African Safari, Gorilla Trek, Cappadocia, Turkey, Sail the Mediterranean, Swim with Pink Dolphins in the Amazon, Volcano Trek in Indonesia, Learn French and Spanish, Own Vacation Home in La Jolla
  • Favorite food/restaurant: LeRoux, Brasserie Ten Ten, Satchels, Sushi Den, Juniper
  • Accomplishment: Vineman, 5 Marathons, including Boston, Triple Bypass (x2)
  • Organizations you support: Food for Thought, HomeAid, Home Builders Foundation
  • Where are you from/born: Denver Native
  • Favorite neighborhood: Cherry Hills, for the land, country feel and beautiful architecture. La Jolla, for when I retire.
  • Favorite movie: Pretty Woman
  • Music choice: Electronic
  • Favorite artist(s): Henry Moore’s Monumental Sculptures, Andy Goldsworthy’s Outdoor Exploration, M.C. Escher Metamorphosis
  • Favorite architecture style / Favored architect: Frank Lloyd Wright, Gaudi, Frank Gehry
  • Morning drink: Iced Vanilla Soy Latte
  • Go-to Happy Hour cocktail: Aperol Spritz
  • Go-to exercise: Anything outdoors
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Bookkeeper

Sara Shipman

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  • Career Highlight(s): Owned a business with my husband for over a decade while raising two small kids. Working for Nordstrom Finance and with A+B1
  • Hobbies: Reading, movie nights with the family, hiking and skiing
  • Best Travel Experience(s): Spending time in Peru as a teenager and being able to travel with my kids and show them new places
  • Bucket List Item(s): Visit England, Germany and Spain. Visit Svalbard (island closest to the North Pole)
  • Favorite Food/Restaurant: Mexican food and fondue
  • Accomplishments: Starting and running a successful business, BA Business Administration/Sociology, my happy and healthy family
  • Where Are You From/Born: Colorado Native
  • Favorite Neighborhood: I grew up in the mountains and am fortunate enough to be able to raise my kids there as well.
  • Favorite Movie: “Vertigo” with Jimmy Stewart
  • Music Choice: I don’t have one favorite genre. I am happy with anything, except for country…
  • Favorite Artist: Monet
  • Favorite Time Period: I love the esthetic of the pre-WW2 era.
  • Morning Ritual: Letting our herd of dogs out, making coffee and sitting on the deck (unless school is in session and then is chaos)
  • Morning Hot Drink: Blonde Caramel Macchiato
  • Go-To Happy Hour Cocktail: White Wine
  • Go-To Exercise: Walking, hiking, yoga and snowboarding/skiing