Marci Montgomery is STORIA's founder and company president. She is a writer, executive producer, and former journalist, whose career began as a staff writer for a New York Times-owned daily newspaper and led to business development and media production for companies Verizon and Fujitsu. A graduate of the University of South Florida, Marci earned her B.A. in mass communications, minoring in business. She soon found herself helping companies develop the narrative elements behind their brands and organizing their approaches to new media. In founding STORIA, her goal was to foster a creative, familial environment in which the company itself would have its own joie de vivre -- and where stories would always be well told. Marci is a member of UC Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive, The Commonwealth Club, and the French American Chamber of Commerce in San Francisco (FACCSF). When not working, she can be found reading early 20th Century literature and watching foreign and classic Hollywood films. Her favorite directors are Truffaut and Hitchcock.
Phil Montgomery was born in Tampa, Florida but grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is currently studying marketing strategy and finance at Golden Gate University. After internships at one of the Big 4 public accounting firms, he decided to try his hand at the creative side of business with STORIA, where he serves on the creative team and is in charge of account relations and office management. An avid outdoorsman, Phil is passionate about cycling, rock climbing and hiking.
Meryem Zaghdoud is a pure product of a cultural mix. Born in Morocco, she moved to France and graduated from the University of Rennes II with a degree in Corporate Communications. She interned at the non-profit organization Fondation de France, where she was responsible for press relations. Following her internship, she joined a consulting agency specializing in Customer Relationship Management (CRM), where she was in charge of communications and brand development. She is now part of the STORIA creative and production team, and handles French titles and translations. A natural born traveler, Meryem moved to San Francisco with a specific goal: to discover the American culture that had long piqued her curiosity. She enjoys watching The Simpsons and eating pumpkin pie, and says that she has "...taken a quick taste of American life, and loves it!"
Marci Montgomery is STORIA's founder and company president. She is a writer, executive producer, and former journalist, whose career began as a staff writer for a New York Times-owned daily newspaper and led to business development and media production for companies Verizon and Fujitsu. A graduate of the University of South Florida, Marci earned her B.A. in mass communications, minoring in business. She soon found herself helping companies develop the narrative elements behind their brands and organizing their approaches to new media. In founding STORIA, her goal was to foster a creative, familial environment in which the company itself would have its own joie de vivre -- and where stories would always be well told. Marci is a member of UC Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive, The Commonwealth Club, and the French American Chamber of Commerce in San Francisco (FACCSF). When not working, she can be found reading early 20th Century literature and watching foreign and classic Hollywood films. Her favorite directors are Truffaut and Hitchcock.
Phil Montgomery was born in Tampa, Florida but grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is currently studying marketing strategy and finance at Golden Gate University. After internships at one of the Big 4 public accounting firms, he decided to try his hand at the creative side of business with STORIA, where he serves on the creative team and is in charge of account relations and office management. An avid outdoorsman, Phil is passionate about cycling, rock climbing and hiking.
Meryem Zaghdoud is a pure product of a cultural mix. Born in Morocco, she moved to France and graduated from the University of Rennes II with a degree in Corporate Communications. She interned at the non-profit organization Fondation de France, where she was responsible for press relations. Following her internship, she joined a consulting agency specializing in Customer Relationship Management (CRM), where she was in charge of communications and brand development. She is now part of the STORIA creative and production team, and handles French titles and translations. A natural born traveler, Meryem moved to San Francisco with a specific goal: to discover the American culture that had long piqued her curiosity. She enjoys watching The Simpsons and eating pumpkin pie, and says that she has "...taken a quick taste of American life, and loves it!"