core team
They come together with a single pulse of creativity. A dynamic team of people creating currents of energy and excitement. The members of PDG+creative’s Core Team have passion for their work. Design. Code. Write. Create. But they also have passions and interest beyond the world of graphic design and marketing. Music. Sports. Theater. Coffee. Come explore their passions and interests. Get to know the unique individuals who drive our success and create the electricity behind PDG+creative.
Matt Pendergraff
Founder and Creative Director
He defies every label. Because you can't label an idea. As Creative Director of PDG+creative, Matt melds pure instinct with conceptual imagination to develop every idea. His objective is to unleash creative that will lead to an effectual product. To broaden the reach of influential creative, Matt serves as a professor of branding and design at a local liberal arts university. Before launching PDG+creative in the early 90s, Matt worked with a consulting firm as a Communication Specialist. In conjunction with PDG+creative, Matt has consulted with clients from around the US to develop and communicate concepts.
Barbara Pendergraff
Chief Financial Officer
She communicates in numbers. And her brilliant mind for business upholds every aspect of PDG+creative. After earning a B.S. in Accounting, Barb first took the world of business as a stock broker; for five years she managed the financial markets of several corporations and individuals. Now, at PDG+creative, her intrinsic logic and keen attention to detail keeps an unpredictable creative team on track.
Jennifer Gomez
Account Director
She is a meticulous leader, whose verve adds unsurpassable quality to each project she directs. Vast experience in the industry has equipped Jennifer with innumerable talents and strong ingenuity. Utilizing her eloquent skill as a communicator, Jennifer worked with Plan B in Chicago as the Account Executive specializing in new business development. She has also lent her directorial talents to Stevens & Tate in the Chicagoland area, for whom she was a freelance Account Executive. Her attention to detail and natural sense of order keeps every project at PDG+creative focused and on-target.
Natalie Turner
Senior Designer
Natalie is pretty much what you’d expect from a redhead—adventurous, passionate, outspoken, driven. Her love of story-telling led to her love of design, believing that visual communication is the most lasting and inspiring (and sometimes dangerous) influence one can have. As PDG+creative's lead designer, Nat approaches every client’s project as a story to tell and works to ensure that it’s authentic, meaningful and enduring. Her creative mind finds new outlets in guitar-playing, oversees missions work and the rejuvenation of being outdoors. With a natural fire for life, it’s Nat who keeps ours alight at work.
Johnathan Warlick
Director Of Interactive Media
Johnathan is focused, determined and intense - all the qualities we love our team members to possess. As the head of PDG+creative's Interactive Department, he sees each job as an opportunity to conquer a new coding challenge and help a client see their website dreams come to life. When he's not immersed in code, Johnathan finds time to frequent the local basketball courts and read as many books or publications that he can get his hands on.
Jessica Swan-Warlick
Account and Media Manager
She's energetic, driven, and determined. She posses core strengths to help lead and guide each project in the right direction. Several years in customer service and work at ConocoPhillips have given her a deeper understanding of people in the different industries which she uses to help each customer find their niche with unique perspective. She has been drawing and designing, in her spare time, items such as clothing to housing blueprints since she was 6 years old. She graduated Oklahoma Wesleyan University with her B.S. degree in Marketing.
Cody Carter
Interactive Developer
Solid and sturdy, he creates a positive work environment. Quiet and reflective, he guides his web work in the right direction daily. He is also well spoken and genuine with clients; he brings tranquility and ingenuity to the team. To stay in tune to what is new in the web world he loves to read news and history so that he can come up with new strategies from what he finds and implement them in his day to day work. In his off time he enjoys the majestic outdoors and travel, and spending time with his lovely family.
Ian Whitley
Interactive Developer
Bright and budding, he brings fresh perspective to the team. Currently still in college he is soaking in the knowledge around him as he daily progresses and dives further into the world of web. His desire to learn leads him to picking up many new tricks to implement on web designs, particularly in the area of user interface and functionality. When he isn't building websites, he is usually playing guitar, enjoying time with friends, or making something with his hands, and with no ability to be complacent he is always looking for new things to learn which has lead him to pick up many different hobbies.
