Lydia Wilbanks
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF + FOUNDER
Lydia brings more than 25 years of corporate marketing experience to Haute Pink. She held executive positions in New York City with Macy’s Herald Square, Ann Taylor and Henri Bendel as well as serving as Sportswear Editor of the Tobe Report and Worldwide Marketing Director of Cotton Incorporated. Lydia received her education from Boston University, Parsons School of Design and The Tobe-Coburn School in New York City. She has three children and currently resides in Mountain Brook, Alabama.
Wendy Bozzelli
Director of Client Services
Wendy Bozzelli has spent much of her career as a real estate finance expert forging strategic partnerships with employees and real estate agents. Wendy’s credentials include Alabama’s most outstanding rookie of the year, where she remained in the top 5% in production for the company. The majority of Wendy’s career has been dedicated to finance and sales, and her expertise has proven to be an important aspect for the research and development of Haute Pink. She assumes the role of Director of Client Relations where she assists in managing pre & post production pipelines, account relationships, and assists in advertising and sales.
Susan Waggoner
ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE
Originally from New Orleans, Susan attended the University of Alabama where she obtained a B.S. in Corporate Finance. Following graduation, she lived in New Orleans, Atlanta and Birmingham working as a paralegal and eventually became Director of Marketing and Event Planning for a local law firm. After settling down she became focused on her family and raising her kids for many years. Now, however, Susan has returned to the workforce as Account Executive for Haute Pink Birmingham.
Mathieu Schmutzler
Creative Director
Born in Madagascar and raised in Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia, Mathieu has been creating brilliant aesthetics for over 15 years in companies all over the globe. He studied Visual Communication and Design in Canada and Japan and began his career at Sony France which led to being recruited by one of Birmingham’s premier advertising agencies, Slaughter Hanson. Mathieu later worked for Landor in Paris and London, headed back to Alabama to start Cayenne Creative, then went back to Landor as Creative Director of Corporate Identities for the firm’s key clients. In 2010, he returned to Birmingham to start his own company, TBIB Creative, LLC. He is a founding member of Haute Pink and serves as the company’s Creative Director.
Harry Long
Account Executive
Originally from Anniston, AL, Harry attended the University of Alabama where he obtained a B.S. in Marketing. Harry also received an M.B.A. degree from the Manderson Graduate School of Business in Tuscaloosa, AL. He has spent time as an on-air personality and producer at WJOX, and in sales and management at XM Satellite Radio and Simmons Media Group. Having lived in cities throughout the Southeast, Harry has particular expertise in understanding the behavioral patterns of the Southern consumer, and brings this experience to Haute Pink and its client-partners.
Judy Jones
SALES DIRECTOR
Judy brings more than two decades of media-rich experience to a remarkable career in public relations and marketing. With a strong penchant for bringing out the best in big and small companies, Judy is a master in the art of leveraging strategy and creative resources to make her clients shine in the spotlight. She worked in broadcasting sales for many years, interacting with stations and companies from New York to Los Angeles, and earning the National Sales Promotion Director of the Year title from Emmis Broadcasting. She leads the sales team.
Jestina Howard
Editor
Jestina Howard has worked as a professional makeup artist for over 20 years in the areas of print, television, video, live performance and private consultations. With years of experience and tireless commitment, she is a highly sought after cosmetics professional. Jestina is known for enhancing a person’s natural beauty by creating polished and classic looks. Her focus is mainly on beauty makeup.
Joe O’Donnell
CONTRIBUTOR
Joe O’Donnell has worked in publishing since 1982. Once a reporter for the Huntsville News, a morning daily in Huntsville, AL., he began working as a editor of Birmingham Magazine in 1987. He managed Birmingham magazine for 22 years, leaving in July 2009 to start Fergus Media, a publishing company that launched a city monthly magazine and website titled “B-Metro.” Founded in November 2009, B-Metro provides custom print and digital publishing solutions for clients. B-Metro focuses on local personalities, arts, dining, travel, health and business.
Caprenia
CONTRIBUTOR
Caprenia Anthony is Founder of WAVE, Inc., a not for profit organization that helps to cultivate the talents and gifts of youth by encouraging them to tap into their creative abilities to flourish to their personal and professional best. She created Kids Acting Out Programs which specializes in training and offers performance opportunities for kids of all ages in Musical Theater, Dance, Acting, Commercials, Voice-overs, Production, Modeling and more. Kids also learn to explore their own creativity, and embrace a positive self image and self esteem to become pillars in their society.
Cherri Ellis
CONTRIBUTOR
Cherri Ellis spent 3 years on the morning drive as Cherri Mason on the Mason and Dixon Morning Show on Classic Rock 99. She is currently the Regional Creative Services Manager for Charter Media, the advertising arm of Charter Communications.
Kathy G
CONTRIBUTOR
Kathy’s passion for food and entertaining began at an early age. While at Spring Hill College, in Mobile, Kathy was always in the middle of campus social activities. After college, she moved to Atlanta to work in television where she planned events for national and international network celebrities. Kathy has served on the Board of Directors of the International Caterers Association. She is also a member of the International Special Events Society and the company has won industry awards from both associations. Her work has been featured in numerous magazines such as Special Events, Catering Magazine, Birmingham Magazine, Southern Living, Southern Accents, Portico, Alabama Weddings and many more.
Albert Gaulden
CONTRIBUTOR
Born in Florida and a graduate of Birmingham-Southern College and a former graduate student at the University of Alabama, Albert started out to be a minister and then switched to pre-law–neither fit his soul urge or his astrological birth chart. By coincidence or synchronicity he met a woman while living in New York in the mid-60′s who taught him everything he needed to know to do birth charts. At the time he was working at The Villager, America’s #1 ready-to-wear line. Published by Simon & Schuster, Signs and Wonders and You’re Not Who You Think You Are will soon by joined by From the Dog’s Mouth and Il Principe Dorme Que later this year. Albert has written an astrology column for TANGO MAGAZINE, TONE MAGAZINE in CANADA as well as for his own Sedona Intensive Newsletter. His health and wellness 5-day Sedona Intensive is considered one of the world’s premier personal growth programs.
