Dane Howard

Dane Howard co-founded VUVOX as a way to help people extend the uses of their digital photos and videos. He is constantly trying to improve people's means of expressing themselves through media. Dane has used his experience to help develop products and creative strategies for Microsoft, BMW, Major League Baseball, NBC Olympics, and Disney. As a father, Dane uses his background in media creation and design to share the stories of his own experiences and family adventures. He seeks out existing and evolving technologies that will shape the future of digital photography and self-publishing for the mass market.

Richard Koci Hernandez

Richard "Koci" Hernandez is a national Emmy® award-winning video and multimedia producer who worked as a photographer at the San Jose Mercury News for 15 years. His work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times and international magazines, including Stern, and he has worked with lynda.com in producing the course Pitching Projects and Products to Executives. In 2008, Richard was awarded a national Emmy® award for the New Approaches to Documentary category for his work on the Mercury News video, Uprooted. In 2003, Richard was the recipient of the James K. Batten Knight Ridder Excellence Award. His work for the Mercury News has earned him two Pulitzer Prize nominations. His photography and multimedia work has won numerous awards on the national and regional level, including two Emmy® nominations. Richard was named Deputy Director of Photography and Multimedia after spearheading the creation of MercuryNewsPhoto.com. He has taught multimedia workshops for Stanford University, National Press Photographers Association, The Southern Short Course, National Association for Hispanic Journalists and National Association for Black Journalists. He has lectured at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Stanford University. A San Francisco State University journalism graduate and a guest instructor, he is currently a visiting fellow at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism supported by a Ford Foundation grant to produce digital news sites for San Francisco Bay Area communities.