Brian Bowler Chairman
Brian’s career is one of international experience and accomplishment on two continents. Before re-locating to the US, he held a board appointment in Europe for eight years as Sales & Marketing Vice President for Volkswagen Audi UK. Brian came to Mandala from Reno, Nevada, where he was President and CEO of Porsche Cars North America. He was responsible for all of Porsche’s operations in the challenging US market, reporting directly to the Management Board of Porsche A.G. in Stuttgart, Germany. Immediately prior to that appointment, he was President and CEO of the advertising agency DDB Needham Worldwide in Detroit, Michigan. In January 1995, he purchased Mandala, with the goal of further developing the agency’s strong clientele and its commitment to multi-faceted marketing programs. Brian is married with three grown sons and is now a full-fledged US citizen. He’s a committed outdoor enthusiast and private pilot who, in his few spare moments, you’re apt to find on or above the slopes of Mt. Bachelor.


Matthew Bowler President and CEO
After graduating Cum Laude in Political Science from Tufts University, with a year of study at Oxford University, Matthew went into the Management Training program at Porsche AG in Stuttgart, Germany. Following that, he spent four-and-a-half years working for International Game Technology (IGT) in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he was responsible for all sales and marketing of gaming products in sub-Saharan Africa. After returning to the United States in 1997 Matthew chose to follow his father’s footsteps into advertising. To no one’s surprise, he jumped right in and continues to make major contributions to accounts like Adair Homes, The Ranch at the Canyons, Roseburg Forest Products and Pinemeadow Golf. He became President & CEO of the agency in July 2000 and followed that up by becoming a citizen of the US in 2001. He and his wife, Annette, a native of Sao Paulo, Brazil, seem to be doing a good job of raising their two young sons, Dominic and Sebastian, as US natives. Every time Matthew watches a soccer game on TV or Annette puts on some Samba music, the little guys fall right to sleep. How American can you get?


Irving D. Fish Board Member
Irv was an original partner of the highly respected advertising agency: Fallon McElligott first as the CFO then COO as the company grew to Fallon Worldwide and expanded to seven offices around the globe. Irv was always responsible for all of the financial, legal, and administrative functions at the agency. His overall knowledge of the company was an important element in the success of Fallon and its expansion. He was so respected by Fallon’s senior clients that clients such as The Coca-Cola Company, Ameritech, and Porsche Cars NA adopted his approach to agency compensation and accounting as their model for other agency relationships. It was while Brian Bowler was head of Porsche Cars NA that he and Irv became associates and friends. At Brian’s invitation he consulted on the 1995 acquisition of Mandala and joined its Board. Irv is a past director for the Twin Cities Chapter of the American Association of Ad Agencies and has served on committees for the National AAAA. He was a board member of the Hazeltine National Golf Club and a Member of the Executive Committee for the 1991 US Open held at Hazeltine. He is a Board Member of Hamline University, Minnesota. A lifelong golf addict, Irv is a member of the USGA Members Committee and the USGA Communication Committee. He joined the USGA Board as of 2004 and now offers free advice to struggling Mandala staff members on how to improve their golf swing.


Paul Grignon Creative Director
After graduating with a degree in Business Administration from Skidmore College in New York, Paul spent a year working as a roughneck on an offshore oil rig in the North Atlantic. Subsequent occupations failed to deliver the same excitement and danger, until he made his first creative presentation as a copywriter. He made numerous such presentations during a three-year tenure as copywriter for SCCS Advertising in San Francisco. His work included award-winning campaigns for clients including Pacific Bell, Wells Fargo Bank, VISA and the San Francisco Chronicle. With Mandala since 1995, he’s had a significant impact on accounts like Ray's Food Place, The Portland Trailblazers, Portland Lumberjax, South Valley Bank & Trust, Roseburg Forest Products, Teledyne Continental Motors, EARTH2O, Mountain Hardwear and Columbia Aircraft Manufacturing Company (formerly known as The Lancair Company).


Ryan Huffman Art Director
Born in Snellville Georgia, where 'Everybody is Somebody,' Ryan made a name for himself drawing demons on the church bulletin. Not deterred by early unwarranted and some particularly vicious criticism, he still wanted to turn his love for art and design into an exciting career. After Gainesville State College he was persuaded to join the circus by a leading figure in advertising. Adding to an already copious set of motor skills, not the least of which includes an almost freakish mastery of juggling, he was educated in Art Direction at The Creative Circus. Ryan soon landed his first work on the cover of Entertainment Weekly, via JWT Atlanta, and has since been an internationally published art director. His client book includes the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Virgin Islands, Norfolk Southern, Bridgestone, Columbia Aircraft and TransWorldNews among others. His future goals are to become a great family man, a sales-winning art director, and to be outlawed in Peru and the southern peninsulas of Madagascar.


Molly Williams Designer
Molly was born in 1970’s hippie Seattle, the oldest of her hippie parents’ four children. She grew up in the Washington countryside, where she rode a big horse named Dusty and frequently engaged her brother in heated battles of who-can-hold-onto-the-electric-fence-the-longest. She confesses to a stupid curiosity, which kind of explains the fence thing. She considers herself a Southerner, having lived in Alabama and Georgia for 16 years before returning to the Pacific Northwest with her two children, Alaysha and Tre. Molly studied design at The Creative Circus in Atlanta, where Alaysha often sat in on her design classes, nurturing her own love for illustration and tattoo art. After graduating from the Circus, Molly brought her  keen eye and design talents to Mandala. She has since wowed our clients with her abilities to take a brand and bring it to life through visual representation, as evidenced by the Pencil she won for a logo at the One Show awards.


Cecil Bozard Copywriter
Cecil Bozard comes to Mandala following several years of delivering results for clients in Charleston, South Carolina. His hometown of Florence is best known as the exit where Northern vacationers leave I-95 en route to wasting their money in Myrtle Beach. With this in mind, Cecil’s parents shipped him to a Virginia stockade doubling as an all-boys boarding school. He returned several years later to attend the University of South Carolina, where he suffered through four years of watching a very mediocre football team. It was here he discovered his passion for writing. After a brief stint in Montana, Cecil began honing his copywriting skills at the Creative Circus in Atlanta, GA. Upon graduation, he migrated to Charleston, where he produced award-winning work as a copywriter and art director for such clients as Moe’s Southwest Grill Inc., the Charleston Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Charleston Angler.


Laury Benson Chief Financial Officer
When Laury Benson began her last job, she walked into the makeshift offices of a start-up advertising agency in Minneapolis, MN. When she left, she walked out of a downtown high rise that housed more than 600 employees and one of the most respected agencies in the country, Fallon McElligott – now Fallon Worldwide. In her many years as Controller at Fallon, Laury was involved with nearly every element of the business as it exploded into one of the nation’s largest independent ad shops and established offices overseas. Laury managed both the staff and systems supporting the agency’s operations. This included establishing company-wide procedures and practices to ensure compliance with tax authorities, client contracts, and business objectives. She worked closely with the company’s accounting firm, corporate attorney, banker and a valuation firm. Laury does all of the same things at The Mandala Agency - it seemed to work for her last employer. With an Oregon Duck in the family and her second son a year away from college, the Civil War is taking on a new meaning for Laury and her husband Bill.


Penny Bacon Account Director
In 1992, Penny left her position as Account Executive and Director of Public Relations at Mandala to spend more time to ride her horses and write a great American romance novel. Three years later, the horses were sold, the novel was on hold, and Penny was back at Mandala by popular demand. Which is not to say that her time away wasn’t productive. She spent most of it working as Manager of Investor Relations for Bend-based, Consep, Inc., then a Nasdaq-listed company that developed environmentally safe pest control products. Prior to joining Mandala in 1990, she earned her MBA in Finance and headed-up public, media and investor relations for two California-based, NYSE-listed, financial services firms. One of these firms, Franklin Resources, Inc., was the fifth largest mutual fund company in the U.S. at that time. Now well into her second term at Mandala, her financial and corporate expertise is a great asset to clients such as South Valley Bank & Trust and The Private Consulting Group.


Chris Schweppe Account Director
Armed with a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Oregon, Chris joined The Mandala Agency as an Account Coordinator just two weeks after graduating in 1992. Since then, the native of Portland has proved himself on accounts running the gamut from insurance products to health care, from a buffet restaurant chain to the Test and Measurement division of Tektronix. Currently, Chris serves as Account Director on Cessna, Teledyne Continental Motors, Warn and ReliOn.. He handles most of the agency’s Public Relations efforts, as well. Chris who gave up his care-free days of bachelorhood and run-down apartments for the joys of marriage and a brand new home, is now a new father.


Caryn Hill Account Supervisor
For almost 20 years, Caryn has developed, designed and managed successful marketing programs of every level of complexity. Her experience ranges from strategic planning and product launches to product development, market research, media and direct marketing. After almost a decade of account management work with advertising agencies in Los Angeles and San Diego, Caryn took a senior role at Thermoscan Instant Thermometer, where she was instrumental in the successful launch of the professional and consumer ear thermometer. After many years of living in Southern California, Caryn and her family were drawn to the beauty and livability of Central Oregon. Over the last 5 years she has been working with local companies and the Mandala Agency to provide strategic planning and implementation of marketing services.


Jeff DeWolf Account Executive
Jeff joined Mandala’s Account Service Group after graduating last year from the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism. He was able to hit his career path running at the same pace as he ran the 800 meters at the U of O and works on a range of accounts including Montecristo Golf & Beach Resort (Nicaragua), Lone Pine Village (The Dalles) and local Bend clients; The Garner Group, Tuscany Pines and Volo Restaurant. He came with two summer’s intern experience inside the walls of Mandala where he proved himself to be an asset to the agency and its clients.


Laura Bryant Media Director
By her first week of Media 101 at the University of Oregon, Laura had found her calling. She graduated in 1987 with a B.S. in Advertising (no pun intended) and there was no looking back. She cut her teeth in L.A., designing million-dollar media campaigns for Unocal Agri-Chemicals for Len Scholl & Company. She moved back to Oregon in 1989 to be a Broadcast Media Buyer for Sprouse Reitz stores, buying TV and radio in 22 markets across the West. In 1991, Laura went to Gerber Advertising in Portland and worked on various accounts including G.I. Joe’s, United Grocer, Sentry and Thriftway supermarkets, Newport Bay restaurants and Thomason Auto Group. By the end of the millennium, Laura and her hubbie Steve had become a quintet, traded their sports cars for SUVs, and moved to Redmond. At Mandala, Laura handles planning, negotiating and buying media for Cessna, South Valley Bank & Trust, Linfield College, Warn and Teledyne Continental among others. And in between T-ball games, her singing group, and teaching her youngest to play nice with the cat, she can be found pouring over the latest Nielsen numbers. Yeah, we think that’s weird too, but she seems happy.