Stephen Mackey, Co-founder & Creative Director

Stephen brings to Mesh Multimedia a wide range of experience in all facets of multimedia production, including audio engineering, production design, software development, digital media product management, and most recently technology and operations executive management. Engaged internationally as an audio engineer and event producer, his work has taken him to six continents with entertainers such as Matchbox20, Bon Jovi, Garth Brooks, Ted Nugent, Jars of Clay, Amy Grant, Tanya Tucker, Midnight Oil, and Julio Iglesias. His experience with various corporations and government agencies includes Avaya, AOL, IBM, Citigroup, Primerica Financial Services, AIPAC, and the Minority Business Development Agency. While holding executive management positions at Viva Creative, AOL, and Greenfield Online, he has conceived, coded, and brought to market a wide array of digital media, Web 2.0, and channel integration products. His keen ability to assimilate emerging technologies enables Mesh Multimedia to deliver effective, relevant, and profitable solutions for our client’s successful business initiatives.
Favorite Quote
“The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both.”

Shannon Mackey, Co-founder & CEO

Shannon is a veteran of the digital media and technology business development space. For over a decade her work in digital media product development, technology specifications, direct-to-consumer strategies, content syndication, and contract negotiations have brought to market dozens of successful products on the leading edge of technological achievment. After her early work on the HDTV specification with the Advanced Television Technology Center and product management for Comark Digital Services, she moved to Discovery Communications to develop global broadband and interactive television strategies. During subsequent executive management positions at World Wrestling Entertainment, AOL, and Viva Creative she developed business and content models for VOD, negotiated content syndication deals, defined SEO/SEM initiatives, and managed cross-functional live event, video pre/post production teams to deliver impactful experiences for client’s target audiences.

George Patterson, Video Producer

George brings over 30 years of broadcast television experience to Mesh Multimedia. He studied advertising and public relations in the Journalism School at The University of South Carolina, then moved into television at WCIV TV in Charleston. A desire for travel and life in a bigger market brought him to Washington DC, first at WJLA TV-7, then to ABC News as a staff cameraman. After working on his craft in the news business, George expanded his creative horizons in documentary, news magazines, corporate, cable, and political projects as a freelance videographer and producer. Clients included shows for NBC TV, HGTV, Food Network, PBS, political consultants, and various public relations and media consulting firms. His latest venture was as co-founder of The Downstream Project, a non-profit multimedia company that is concerned with natural resource conservation and water quality issues. Among the more notable achievements in George’s career were Director of Photography for many PBS documentaries in the “Great Museums Television” series, Director of Photography for the “Swift Boat Veterans” political advertising campaign, and primary cameraman for NBC on the “Dole for President Campaign” in 1996. George also co-produced the independent documentary “Shenandoah; Voices of The River”, and was Director of Photography for “He Who is Blessed,”, a documentary about the remarkable life of the late Brother Benedict Simmonds. The cable television series “Dream House” on HGTV in 2007 brought George and The Mackeys together, when they realized, while working together for over a year, their shared values for professional and personal excellence.

Chad Anderson, Director of Web Development

Experienced in all facets of web development, Chad brings a passion for database-driven solutions and Information Architecture to Mesh. An expert in jQuery, MySQL, PHP and CSS, Chad is able to seamlessly develop custom solutions across all open-source content management systems such as WordPress and Joomla!, as well as eCommerce platforms.