Meet Our Team

Airam Gessner

Airam is a founding member of Vexing Media and its Creative Director. He has been designing web and print media for over twenty years since receiving his Associates in Graphic Design and is skilled in traditional design while also bringing a sense of freshness in type, color, illustration, and creativity.

Brandon Smith

Brandon Smith is a founding member and co-owner of Vexing Media LLC. His focus is on project and marketing management.

As the project manager, Brandon oversees all contracts and projects held by Vexing Media. He directs the day-to-day activities (workflow, products and deliverables, quality management, and team effectiveness) of each Vexing Media contract; serves as the primary contact and maintains ongoing communication with the client; and practices earned value management to measure project performance and budget adherence.

Matt Slotemaker

Matt Slotemaker is the newest partner at Vexing Media. Originally the owner and founder of 12 Acre Films, he’s collaborated with the Vexing team over the years. Notably, the annual TEDx Spokane event has been ongoing since 2018, and they produced an award-winning vaccine campaign in 2022 for The Native Project.

Tom Dineen

Tom is a founding member of Vexing Media, with a majority of his background in the entertainment industry. While working both on the set of SyFy’s Z Nation and in the production office of HBO’s True Detective, he discovered a great interest in designing interactive experiences for gallery and festival-goers with his first curated project, Z Nation at the MAC museum.

Isaiah Gessner

Isaiah Gessner is the Digital Marketing Specialist at Vexing Media and offers a level of analytic depth when seeing each client through their digital marketing journey.

Graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, minoring in Communication and Journalism, and being the Editor in Chief at Eastern Washington University, Isaiah holds the tools to offer a collaborative, inventive, and open-minded approach when determining the needs of each client.

Maria Griffin

Maria is the Senior Business and Technical Content Writer at Vexing Media. Combined with her master’s degree in English from Eastern Washington University and over 35 years of experience as a technical writer and editor, Maria brings communication skills that convey messages clearly, concisely, and accurately through written, oral, visual, and contextual methods.

Megan Petersen

Megan Petersen is an experienced graphic designer, marketing professional and small business owner. Her resume includes over 13 years of working for Spokane Public Schools as a graphic artist, contracting as a digital marketer for several agencies throughout Washington State, and over two years as the digital marketing manager for Canopy Credit Union. On top of her experience as an employee, Megan is the founder of her own e-commerce business that ships thousands of handmade products across the globe. Megan holds a BA in Graphic Design from Whitworth University and an MBA from Western Governor’s University. Megan’s diverse skill set, extensive experience, and education offer a unique blend of creativity and business acumen.

Thomas J. Brown

Thomas is the Senior Web Developer at Vexing Media and has professional web development experience ranging across various channels since 1995 when he taught himself to build basic websites. He is proficient in HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL as well as a number of other front and backend web technologies. While holding a Bachelor of Arts degree in Electronic Media and Film, Thomas takes a user-centered, device-agnostic approach to building websites and is also an accomplished screenwriter, screen actor, and voice actor.