The Green Business Competition Team
Brad Holmes Director, Green Business Competition
Brad Holmes is a partner at Green Spaces, a collaborative work space to launch green entrepreneurs. He is also the director of New York’s first Green Business Competition which is a groundbreaking platform to promote and reward companies that have the potential to revolutionize their industry by creating green jobs while preserving our ecological resources.
Brad is also the co-founder of The Green Spaces Innovation Institute, a non-profit organization that provides educational and business services to young individuals and entrepreneurs looking to foster a career in the emerging green economy.
Brad has over 10 years of experience in editing, producing and directing countless hours of television programs such as the Sundance Channel’s Big Ideas for a Small Planet and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Brad grew up in Los Angeles and attended the University of Colorado at Boulder and has lived in New York for over 8 years.
Marissa Spano Event Coordinator, Green Business Competition
Marissa is a NY-based events professional who has been involved in vegetarianism, yoga and sustainability since the age of 12. Here at The Green Business Competition, she helped launch and coordinate our 1st Annual Competition. Her specialties include securing sponsorships, goodie bag inclusions, establishing relationships with vendors and being involved on the marketing side of the Competition. In her spare time, this registered yoga instructor teaches classes in and around NYC. She recently sold her Award-Winning Yoga Studio in NJ to immerse herself in marketing and events full-time. Her recent launch of soulspeekermedia (www.soulspeekermedia.com) supports her creative and resourceful nature and puts her in touch with mom-and-pop businesses. She has a strong network and believes anything is possible when it comes to entrepreneurs and business. In Q2 of 2009, she will be launching green earth events (www.greenearthevents.org): a worldwide directory of events and concierge resources for event locations. Feel free to visit the site and register for more information or membership. Her hobbies include: cycling, traveling, yoga, reading non-fiction, and collaborating with creative minds.
Freida Orange Consultant, Green Business Competition
Freida Orange has spent her career working in film and television. She has been Assistant to Martin Scorsese, a publicist for Miramax/Dimension Films, Associate Producer for Oxygen Sports and Associate Producer on the independent feature film BOTTLEWORLD. As a publicist, she worked on the award wining films FAHRENHEIT 9/11, PAPERCLIPS, KILL BILL VOL. II, SPY KIDS 3, BAD SANTA, COLD MOUNTAIN and THE AVIATOR. She worked for Martin Scorsese and Sikelia Productions for three years on films such as THE DEPARTED, SHINE A LIGHT, NO DIRECTION HOME: BOB DYLAN and the upcoming Paramount Pictures feature SHUTTER ISLAND starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo and Michelle Williams. Freida is a life-long tennis player and has served as Tennis Liaison at the U.S. Open for CBS Sports from 2001 through 2008. She actively supports THE INNOCENCE PROJECT as a member of their Young Professionals Committee. Born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama, Ms. Orange holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from the University of Georgia in Athens.
Te Baybute Designer Green Spaces Brooklyn
Té Baybute is a New York based Graphic Designer and a graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design in Advertising Design. After being exposed to so many wonderful creations, he decided that the communication is the true art and elected to pursue his degree in Advertising Design. Té arrived in New York at the beginning of the year and is pursuing a career creating advertising for socially responsible institutions and causes. For the 'Green For Good' Launch Party of the Green Business Competition, Té Designed materials like the slideshow, posters, nametags, and gift bags as well as helped to coordinate the event
His professional portfolio is available at http://tebaybute.net