SCOTT TILLITT / founder
Scott Tillitt / Photo: Dan Fiege
Scott is a socially conscious communicator, equal parts consultant, publicist, marketer, social entrepreneur and writer. He has 15-plus years of experience promoting ideas, products and services in various culture-shaping (and sometimes suffocating) worlds — advertising, media, interactive design, photography, technology, television and fashion. Some years ago, he broke the trance of an increasingly cynical consumer culture and started applying his corporate skills to the public interest.
In his new incarnation, he has worked with a range of groups, people, films and books covering the environment, religion and spirituality, social justice, healthcare and education — from the Dalai Lama, Phil Donahue and healthcare “whistleblower” Wendell Potter to Rainforest Action Network and the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies. He founded communications consultancy Antidote Collective in 2004 and has served clients on both US coasts and places in between, in Europe, and down under in Australia.
He moved to Beacon from Brooklyn in 2006 and started BEAHIVE in 2009.
TRACY METZGER / partner, Albany
Tracy Metzger
Tracy has been active in commercial real estate in the Capital Region for more than 20 years. In early 2000, she opened her own brokerage and consulting business, TL Metzger & Associates, which has been ranked as one of the top brokerage companies in the region. As principle broker, she specializes as a Tenant/Buyer Representative and represents Landlords/Sellers in the Capital Region.
Tracy has received a number of awards, including: Capital District Business Review: Top 40 Under 40 Business Leaders in Capital Region-2000; Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce Award; Women of Excellence, Excellence in Management, For Profit-2003; Capital District Business Review: Best Places to Work-2006; Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce Award: Small Business of the Year-2008
JASON STERN / partner, Kingston
Jason Stern
Jason is the publisher and co-founder of Luminary Publishing, which publishes Chronogram, a monthly magazine about arts, culture and spirit in the Hudson Valley. He has a penchant for starting things, but they endure only in response to a present need. His relevance is tested relentlessly.
He was educated at a remote brotherhood deep in the Shawangunk Mountains and emerged from seclusion to found Luminary Publishing with a guiding admonition in view: “Don’t quit.” In addition to guiding the business life of Luminary Publishing, Jason personally pens the Esteemed Reader column in each issue of Chronogram.
AMARA PROJANSKY / partner, Kingston
Amara co-founded Chronogram with Jason Stern in 1993 in hopes of creating something with which to buttress her epitaph. She’s a publication designer by training and has a thing for unusual spices. She’s also the operations director of Luminary, in charge of custom publishing and business development.
Jason and Amara are both Hudson Valley born and bred. They live in New Paltz and work in Luminary’s offices above BEAHIVE in Kingston.
