Stephen Conley

After many years in the ad agency world, working on some of the best brands in the US, Latin America and Europe, Stephen weaned himself off the cozy corporate teat in 2009 to venture out on his own. The most common question he asks himself now is: "Why didn't I do this earlier?"

He first founded The Slogan Shop (www.thesloganshop.com), a virtual branding boutique offering diverse, affordable marketing services to small and medium sized businesses. Gisteo (www.gisteo.com) is his second online venture, launched in 2011, and is a wholly-owned division of The Slogan Shop.

Gisteo crafts concise, attention-grabbing videos that will mark a "before and after" for your business or brand. Due to its rapid growth and considerable volume of work, Stephen devotes a good bit of his time to running Gisteo these days. The company has created over 550 of its unique style of animated videos for clients big and small all over the world. And it has been a lot of fun too.

Stephen has also brought his creativity and video experience to the educational market, producing classic stories in an innovative format: think audiobook meets graphic novel meets video. His Edgar Allan Poe compilation is currently being used in thousands of middle and high schools around the US.

He holds Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the University of Colorado and an MBA from The Thunderbird School of Global Management. He’s fully fluent in Spanish, both spoken and written.

He is continually intrigued by the sheer number of people who are tripped up by this spelling of his first name and refer to him as "Steffen." The good news: no one has a hard time with "Steve."