Founder and creative director of Valley Design Group. Since 1989, Valley Design Group (VDG) — https://www.vdg.net — has built strong brands and online experiences for market leaders in health, bioscience, energy, communications, finance and fine art. Our agency creates compelling stories and identifies key insights that engage audiences, increase sales and build loyalty. Our team strategizes, plans and implements content-driven marketing campaigns that fully integrate messages to build lasting brands. Clients have included: Perlara PBC, Maggie's Pearl, iT2, Lifelike, Ilene Adler, DrGreene.com, CTC Global, Pacon, Clear Ventures, Sonitus Technologies, Genomatica, Michelle Gregor, Lynne Meade, Profit Velocity, McAffee, Dow Jones, VISA, Quantum, Novell, 3Com, KLA-Tencor, NEC, Caltrans, Infinity Financial Technology, Marimba, Selectica, Panasonic, TXU Energy…http://www.vdg.netRichard Sachs, and his collaborator, Karen Herzog, are also co-founders of Sophia’s Garden Foundation, a legacy to their daughter, Sophia. They co-developed a prototype of Healing in Community™ Online (HICO), a virtual world that combines the richness of real-life collaboration with online learning to help families of children with life-threatening and chronic conditions to harness the power of community to address all of their needs.http://www.sophiasgarden.orgSpecialties: Branding, identity, marketing and media strategy, video, print, web marketing and user interface design.