Telegraph Branding is purposefully boutique, multi-disciplined, and charmingly abnormal. Our team is a conglomeration of the most talented people you're likely to ever meet.

Isaiah Same

Isaiah Same

Cofounder / Creative Director

Isaiah grew up on the banks of the Thames River in London, England, thereby rendering all of your childhood memories inferior to his. In the early part of the 21st century he took his afternoon tea and fading cockney accent to the Yanks, seeking ways to seduce them with his award-winning ideas and strategies. Armed with an embarrassingly astute eye for design and a gift for storytelling unmatched even by the likes of Hemingway, Isaiah’s designs have singlehandedly helped breathe life into companies and products around the world. Not one to boast, he often blushes at such embellishments. When not under the spell of Seth Godin, Isaiah can be found five steps ahead of everyone else.

Kevin McLendon

Kevin McLendon

Cofounder / President

Kevin has really good ideas, like super good, every day. His ideas are superior to your ideas. But that’s good news for you. Because we enable our clients to pass off these strokes of genius as their own. The client takes all the credit. After all, ideas are the ultimate currency. Kevin is absolutely fascinated with human behavior. Predicting it. Influencing it. Shaping it. That is what first drew him to this racket and what fuels his ambition and passion every day. He has over 8 years of priceless experience in agency land… Isn’t that how most bios start? Is that relevant? Kevin's daily Twitter reviews are more relevant to our client's success than any hyperbolized Madison Avenue agency experience that took place pre-iPhone. If you want inspiration, read more Shakespeare. If you want innovation, call Telegraph.

Peyton Russell

Peyton Russell

Director of Client Services

Peyton brings to the table over 8 years of experience in TV advertising and sales, including being a part of one of the top ranked Fox stations in the country. Impressed? At Telegraph, Peyton is on the forefront of working with clients to ensure they are heard – a value we hold very sacred here. Her organizational skills keep the wheels running smoothly at Telegraph. Frankly, we couldn't do it without her. Peyton also utilizes her media background to facilitate regional and national media buys, place advertising across TV, Internet, and radio and coordinate new business. As a mother and wife, Peyton values being able to fulfill both her family's needs and her career goals. Which she can do thanks to awesome bosses.

Bhrett McCabe, PhD

Bhrett McCabe, PhD

Director of Thought Strategy

At Telegraph, Dr. McCabe helps brands think about changing and influencing behaviors, trends, habits and mental barriers. His thinking is an essential part of Telegraph's core approach – developing an understanding of consumer behaviors, building user acquisition strategies and thinking about a brand's fundamental building blocks. Dr. McCabe is a licensed clinical psychologist, a graduate of Louisiana State University (BA, MA, and PhD), and completed his doctoral internship at the prestigious Brown University Clinical Psychology Training Consortium with a specialty in Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology. He is author of the One Percent Principle and founder of The MindSide, a performance curriculum, platform and thinktank.

Tim Webster

Tim Webster

VP of Business Development

Tim is a man of results, and he's produced a great many of them throughout his 20 years of running multi-million dollar companies. Tim's history is one forged out of sweat equity, not feather cussioned trust funds. Mr. Webster made his fortunes in industrial motor controls, where he designed lighting and power systems for large commercial office buildings and plants. Having dealt with industrial salesmen, Tim carved out an expertise in sales, business development and the school of hard knocks. In 1989, he started Belt Power and grew an industrial sales empire across the southeast for the next two decades. Besides his impressive career, Tim feels no less blessed with his family of 5: a wife and 4 wonderful children. Nowadays, Tim spends his time helping brands forge attainable growth models, achieve the highest returns and results, and steering a solid ROI into all of Telegraph's branding and design initiatives.

David Hildebrand

David Hildebrand

Visual Interface Designer

Specializing in print and web design, David turns ideas into design. When strategizing his next award-winning project, he bears in mind the words of April Greiman: "Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response." From logos to posters, videos to websites, he makes the creative challenge look like child's play, pushing himself to create things you never could. But that’s good for your business, because his astute listening skills equip him to turn your problems into solutions while making you look good. When not practicing awesome, David enjoys playing drums and learning to cook in his downtown flat.

Allen Oakman

Allen Oakman

Lead Web Developer

Allen speaks source code, widgets, apps and all things nerdy. Let's face it: only one in ten thousand of us can build the kind of robust front end and backend experiences that Allen whips up in his sleep. Back in the dark ages of 1996, Allen began combining his two greatest super powers into one. He took on huge roles with large health care companies as the man behind the curtain... Calling himself the "WEBMASTER". Perfecting his skills he forged on helping small to medium size startups appear to be billion dollar generating companies. Today, Mr. Oakman protects the less fortunate sites in this vast world from the common henchmen known as "hackers" and prevents poorly designed sites from getting destroyed by the evil "downed economy". If you find yourself in need send Allen a telegraph and he will be there for you too.

Jameson Trinker

Jameson Trinker

Web Developer

Jamie has been on the frontline of the left-brain-right-brain battle for 26 years. 1s and 0s versus design layout. Fiction versus nonfiction. Brewing science versus taste. Never satisfied with one or the other, Jamie finds his niche in places that demand big picture solutions built on details, and the world wide web is such a place. Whether it's working with robust content management systems or building cutting edge Rails apps from the command line, Jamie loves the instant gratification inherent in code and pixels. He's also a firm believer that water, barley and yeast are ingredients for success.

Seth Baird

Seth Baird

Visual Motion Designer

Seth is obsessed with HD video. Before coming to Telegraph, he headed up the video production for top-level recruiting startup NextSpex.com, as well as helping put Iron Tribe Fitness, America's fastest growing CrossFit gym, on the map. At Iron Tribe, Seth forged out a name for himself with the video series TribeVibeTV, a popular website and YouTube channel sporting fitness videos and health journals. At Telegraph, Seth takes his passion for telling stories to new heights, crafting videos, commercials and webisodes for brands and products that will blow your mind. Sporting a strong Southern accent and a few D5100's at his fingertips, Seth loves anything to do with sports, CrossFit and video production.

Cory Anchors

Cory Anchors

Designer / Illustrator

Cory is a mad man illustrator. He draws things that some people say simply can't be drawn. He uses his secret arts to conjure up visual masterpieces that capture the heart and soul of our clients ideas and services. Without him, your ideas are bland, perhaps even ugly. What Cory does to them cannot be spoken of, but the results do all the talking. His extensive porfolio has helped countless clients connect with their audiences in ways previously thought impossible. His favorite pastime is visualizing and illustrating highly complex ideas into something that anyone can understand and relate to. When not drawing on paper (old school) he is bringing his designs to life through animation and motion effects via his new favorite toys, After Effects and Cinema4D.

Josh Same

Josh Same

Motion Graphics Designer

Born in the Philippine Islands and with more than 4 countries to call home, Josh is an avid world-traveller and connoisseur of culture. Currently attending SCAD Atlanta, Josh lends Telegraph his cutting edge interactive design and motion media skills. When not working on the latest and greatest techniques in motion and 3D design, Josh explores new ways off-screen to incorporate found objects, type and human emotion into the videos and commercials he produces. Though he won't admit it, he's soon to be the next Kyle Cooper or Paul Rand. Josh works remotely from Atlanta and enjoys being young and free. Meaning, he works 80 hours a week and lives and breathes all things design.

Alex Kistler

Alex Kistler

Social Strategist

Alexander is all about being social. He basically gets to sit on Facebook (and Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Pinterest) all day while in the office. Right? WRONG! Alex is busy coming up with clever social strategies that will build a tight-knit community and personality around your brand. If you don't have a social conversation strategy, then you’re not in tune with your audience. In fact, you should probably just leave it to the experts. Like Alex, whose sole goal in life is to create blueprints for your brand to express themselves in human, meaningful ways. Alex is always looking for the newest tools and ideas to engage even further. Gauging from the mind-blowing success he has helped achieved for Telegraph's clients, he's pretty on top of it. Give Alex a buzz, he's always looking for recommendations on the coolest places to visit in Birmingham.