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