Nancy Bernstein is a seasoned marketing and human resources executive with proven ability to increase company value.

Nancy, together with Karen Kovach, was co-founder of eCreativeSearch and took the company from “kitchen table idea” thru its sale three years later (now part of publicly traded DG FastChannel - NASDAQ: DGIT.)

For the past three years, she served as VP, HR & Organizational Development and member of the Executive Committee at FastChannel Network, where she built a comprehensive training and professional development program as the company doubled in size.

Previously, she was President & Founder of Blue Anchor Productions, a pioneer in interactive training videos and computer-based training for clients like AT&T, Ford, and GE.

Nancy brings together the rare combination of expertise in HR management, advertising and a successful track record in entrepreneurial business development. She also spent thirteen years in agency account management at agencies DDB Chicago and Saffer Advertising, working with clients such as Sears, Maybelline, Clorox, Montgomery Ward and SC Johnson.

Nancy has a B.S.J. degree from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, and an M.B.A. from The University of Chicago.

Karen Kovach is a dynamic business creator with real-world experience building winning businesses, brands and teams. Her accomplishments include strategic business building for a myriad of clients, as well as launching a successful independent repping firm.

Karen, together with Third Wing Principal Nancy Bernstein, co-founded eCreativeSearch, the first online creative archive for television commercial production companies, directors and agencies worldwide. Sold in 2001, eCreativeSearch is now known as CreativeChannel, a part of publicly traded DG FastChannel advertising services.

Prior to eCreativeSearch, Karen was an executive for sixteen years in the advertising business at firms such as Foote, Cone and Belding, DDB, and Leo Burnett. Karen has been fortunate to work with some of the world’s most dynamic and innovative brands, including General Mills, Frito-Lay, Wrigley and Sears.

As founder and principal of the Karen Kovach Company, she has provided marketing and sales strategy as well as outside sales services for a variety of client companies in need of business development. She has also successfully represented live action, animation, special effects and music and sound design companies to advertising agencies and national advertisers.

Karen earned a B.A. from Manhattanville College, and an M.S.J. from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism.