Meet Our Team
BRING OUR EXPERTS TO YOUR BUSINESS
MEET OUR WORK FAMILY!
Over the past 5 and a half years, we’ve been building a team. The people who work for this company love working together. They have collaborated on 100’s of projects and added value to hundreds of businesses.
Our team is BUSY and we work hard. But we support each other, we laugh together and when we win, we celebrate together. Thank you for helping us to build this organization. We really care about you, and each other.
The management team
Katie tippelt
Owner & Director of Marketing
Katie began Brand Ambition in her living room, creating marketing strategies for businesses in the health & wellness field. 5 years later, Brand Ambition has grown to more than 15 staff members and has launched more than 400 brands in real estate, tech, municipal, retail, aeronautics and leisure industries.
Lija Nicol
Graphic Design Creative Director
Lija has been working in graphic design for more than 7 years. After graduating the York/Sheridan Bachelor of Design Honours Program, Lija was the lead designer at Benefit Cosmetics in Canada before joining us at Brand Ambition. Her experience in the beauty industry has given her a sophisticated sense of design, as well as experience designing for print, packaging and web. Lija is always challenging herself to grow her skills and is currently learning hand lettering.
Kaitlyn Araujo
Project Coordinator & Operations
Kaitlyn graduated from Durham College in 2015 from the Office Technology and Administration program, and since then has worked for a new home construction company and in real estate. Organization is her passion, coffee and wine are her hobbies and her growing young family is her life.
Marie Stevens
Account Manager, Project Coordinator & Ad Specialist
Marie is a chronic entrepreneur, having owned businesses in both agriculture and the beauty industry.
In 2017 she graduated from Cat Howell’s highly regarded Facebook marketing program. Since that time she has been helping business owners develop technically strategic online ad campaigns. She joined Brand Ambition in 2020 where she has been collaborating with our team to help businesses increase revenue and grow brand awareness.
Tayler Michaelson
Account Manager & Project Coordinator
THE BRAND AMBITION TEAM
Tatiana Gomez
Web Developer
Tatiana is graduate from the Contemporary Web Design Program at Durham College and has a Bachelor of IT Security at UOIT. She knows about WordPress, HTML5, CSS3, LESS, JavaScript, jQuery and among others. If your website is malfunctioning, you need an update or e-commerce capabilities, her skill-set is available to you.
Ali McKelvie
Sr. Graphic Designer
Our Senior Graphic Designer, Ali began working at Brand Ambition as an intern out of Flemming College. Ali has grown to become a talented illustrator and specializes in hand lettering. She lives with her husband and dog Kodi and enjoys hiking and weekend adventuring.
Ashley Adams
Photographer
Ashley Adams is a professional photographer, graduating from Ryerson University with a degree in image arts. Since graduating, Ashley completed additional advanced training in marketing photography and now specializes in business and commercial photography
Beth McCohen
Stylist & Studio Manager
Beth McCahon is a graduate from both Seneca College Digital Media Arts program as well as Humber College Business of Fashion program. Beth is the creative mind behind all Brand Ambition shoots and is currently our studio Manager.
Elyse Duncan
Social Media Manager
Amanda Cummer
Social Media Manager
Meghan Dobson
Graphic Designer
Mallory Horner
Photographer
Haleigh Kimble-Mahoney
Graphic Designer
Kayla Price
Web Developer & Designer