Our Leaders
Behind every great organization is first-class leadership. We’re here to understand you—and perhaps more importantly, your customers—and then irresistibly draw you together.
Moira Vetter
CEO
Lo DeRamus
Director of Account Service
Melissa Nordin
Director of Media
Kari Hiner
Associate Creative Director
Kirk Wells
Associate Creative Director
Allen Hsu
UX Design Lead
Khoi Ta
Studio Manager
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Moira Vetter
CEO
Moira Vetter didn't get serious about business until third grade. Thirty years & hundreds of clients later, her marketing counsel generates revenue and impact for serious brands.
Behind every great organization is a first-class, buck stopper.
Moira founded Modo Modo Agency in 2007 after holding nearly every position on the agency org chart and doing time client-side in technology and healthcare.
She is a Forbes contributor, the author of AdVenture, and serves on the AMA Executive Advisory Board and the Zoo Atlanta Conservation Society. She has won the AMA Atlanta Agency Marketer of the Year award, an inaugural Atlanta Business Chronicle Women Who Mean Business award & an Enterprising Woman Entrepreneur of The Year award.
Singer for 90s pop band Whirligig. Their hit "I Work With an Idiot," featuring Vetter on lead vocals, was played on 99X.
Lo DeRamus
Director of Account Service
Seasoned Account Director with over a decade of experience at ad agencies leading award-winning, omnichannel campaigns for B2B and B2C Companies. A highly motivated leader who excels in marketing strategy and implementation. A strategic and creative-thinker passionate about leveraging my expertise to nurture growth - of portfolios, people, and brands.
Lo plans luxury events and was featured in numerous wedding publications.
Melissa Nordin
Director of Media
Passionate about connecting brands with the right audiences, Melissa is a proven expert at driving results by developing & executing strategic media programs.
Before landing at Modo Modo, she led and grew the media departments at Blue Sky Agency and Ames Scullin O’Haire (ASO). She also spent time at Ogilvy & Mather and Merkley Newman Harty in New York, managing multi-million-dollar campaigns for consumer telecom, food & beverage, and international luxury textile companies.
As our Director of Media, Melissa applies big-budget consumer campaign management to niche markets in crafty ways to support the unique needs of our B2B clients. She loves aligning audience needs with the nuances of each media platform, leveraging data to build an effective and optimized media mix.
Melissa can play three musical instruments and briefly majored in music in college.
Kari Hiner
Associate Creative Director
Kari is a thinker and self-proclaimed “creative doer.” From SaaS to healthcare to engineering, she finds inspiration and delight in the diverse complexities that accompany B2B. Her curiosity and understanding of clients’ businesses combine with a passion for smart design and storytelling to craft strategic, award-winning work that does more than just look good—it works.
Extending her passion beyond Modo, Kari serves on the board of AMA Atlanta as VP of Creative. She's always looking for opportunities to share her perspective of how creative strategy plays an integral role in even the most obscure corners of the marketing world.
Kari took home 1st place in the 2014 SCAD Sidewalk Chalk Arts Festival in Savannah, GA.
Kirk Wells
Associate Creative Director
Kirk is larger than life—and not just because he’s our tallest employee. He is an artist and artisan at his core; a true visual and creative thinker.
Kirk has 15 years’ agency experience and 11 years’ experience with Modo Modo. He has a BFA in graphic design and was an invaluable collaborator with Moira Vetter on AdVenture—for which he received the Ben Franklin Award for illustration. He has helped shape the visual aesthetic of Modo Modo from our founding and has been a huge contributor to the company we have become.
Before Kirk started designing brand systems and concepting campaigns, he was catching passes and blocking tackles as a tight end for the Florida Gators. You might have even seen him score a touchdown in Sugar Bowl X.
He won $600 on an episode of Cash Cab in NYC.
Allen Hsu
UX Design Lead
Allen is the UX Design Lead at Modo Modo Agency, focused on the latest design trends and rapidly evolving development technologies impacting the interactive space. As a hybrid designer and developer, he carries a project from conception to design to development and testing.
Ever the world explorer, Allen was born in Houston, raised in Taipei, Taiwan, graduated from school in Montreal, Quebec, and finally settled in Atlanta to pursue his creative and development passions. Now, he uses his multicultural background to design and execute digital campaigns that connect with diverse global audiences.
Allen was once a contracted musician who has produced music for TV and internet commercials.
Khoi Ta
Studio Manager
Khoi is a master juggler and a wearer of many hats. On any given day, he can be found routing projects, cooking up a gourmet meal in the Modo Modo kitchen, behind the camera during an in-house photoshoot, coordinating vendors, and/or just about anything else you can think of. He joined the team in 2012 on the Account Service side of the biz. A few years later, he found his calling in studio management, and has been keeping projects moving efficiently through the agency ever since.
Khoi is fluent in Vietnamese and is a graduate of Georgia State University, where he majored in marketing and managerial sciences. In his spare time, he loves to cook and enjoys spending time with his niece and nephew.
Khoi is the current Modo Modo ping pong champion and resident documentarian.