Music with a message

Stephan Schier

Stephan has been a photographer and ideas consultant to our work.  He has taken hundreds of photos of the recording sessions and work we have done over the past months to complete the album.  He is also a long time friend to us and is an excellent human being, in every way.  He is a helpful and thoughtful spirit and his advice and support has been super valuable to our work.

BeachSaint - Kate Hannon

Kate has been an extremely valuable resource and aid in our work.  She wrote the album jacket and has submitted many great videos on YouTube that use our music.  She has offered her advice and takes calls from us often.  Having been a republican and worked inside of political campaigns before, her knowledge, attitude and advice have helped us to see this project achieve its fullest impact.  We are grateful for her continued advice and friendship and look forward to working closely with her for many years to come.

Joshua Stroman

In addition to starring in the incredible video "What Victory in South Carolina looked like" and even more marvelous, the full version "An American Dream (full version)".  Joshua has been an inspiration to our work.  His thoughtful comments on the (full version) video and his success story.  We believe his success has a lot to do with him.  Being able to leg himself up and reach for a great life.  We are confident that Joshua is going to go a long way in his career and will constribute to making the world a better place. His story is also a part of the key arena introduction to our song Fired Up, Ready To Go. We are thankful to have had our paths cross and hope for many years of friendship. 

DesertRatDan - Daniel McKernan

Daniel is an avid Obama supporter and film enthusiast.  Daniel has been in contact with us and beyond doing calling and canvassing for the Obama campaign, has found time to create some videos using our music.  His current video on YouTube "Barack Obama - For America" features our song "For America" and is a really great video that captures the spirit of this amazing campaign.  In Dan's own words he says "I honestly believe that Barack Obama is the best presidential candidate from either party, that I have seen in 40 years and I would love to be in D.C. next January to see him sworn in.  Who knows, maybe I’ll see you there."

We are grateful for Dan's efforts and will be watching for his next piece of work.

Maria Arita-Howard

CEO  & Creator/Producer Veridicus Films
Former CBS11 News Anchor Maria Arita joined KTVT-TV in December 2003.  A veteran broadcaster, Maria began her career in 1983 as a host/reporter for “On the Beam” – a nationally syndicated show which helped pioneer black entertainment news. Maria won her first Lone Star Emmy in her first year in news and has been the recipient of other national awards such as the National Latina Communicator’s Award of Excellence and the National Religion Newswriters Award as well as two Press Club Katie Awards for “Best Newscast in TX and Best Breaking News.”
A third-generation American Latina, Maria was the first in her family to go to college.  She attended a two-year college and with a 4.0 GPA received a full-tuition academic scholarship to Southern Methodist University, Dallas.  She graduated cum laude in 1996 with a major in broadcast journalism and a minor in Latin American Studies while raising two children and mentoring immigrant children in literacy.  Maria went on to explore many venues in television, including work as a general assignment reporter for NBC Dallas, fill-in host for E! News Daily, L.A., and national correspondent for “Haven,”  hosted by Joy Philbin, New York.  Other hosting roles included, “American Digest, N.Y,” and most notably “Hispanics Today, N.Y/Washington” – the first nationally syndicated, all-English news magazine for Latinos ever to air on American television.  

Maria is responsible for our music and video being inlcluded in the new documentary available in BlockBuster stores called: "Barack Obama: Who is this man?"

Thomas Howard

Chairman & COO                                                                                                                                                                                         Veridicus Films, LLC
Thomas is an IBM executive with 30 years of corporate management experience.  He’s demonstrated leadership achievement across multiple facets of corporate sales and consulting services and has received some of IBM’s and Corporate America’s most prestigious leadership awards, such as the coveted “Blue Chip” award, the IBM General Managers Award, and three IBM Leadership Excellence Awards.
 
He’s managed mature business models as well as successfully launched new ones, as the founder and leader of one of IBM’s first management consulting and services practices in the Southwest in 1994.  Thomas also lead IBM’s e-business practice for the Southeast, helping growing one of the most creative and influential  business consulting practices in the industry during a period of rapid growth for on-line internet businesses between 1995 & 2000.
 
Thomas has launched and successfully grown to profitability multiple sales organizations during his 30 years with IBM. and over the last fifteen years, successfully developed, lead, and managed sales and consulting organizations focused on Line of Business and IT strategies, internet business development, systems integration, and internet business strategies.
Thomas is a graduate of Marshall University and a board certified management consultant.  He also has over 200 hours of continued IBM executive and Industry education at the  Wharton School of Business, Harvard University, Babson College and Company sponsored curriculums.