Carla Frank, with over 20 years of award-winning experience, she is celebrated as an influential collaborator who continually lifts brands she works with to leadership status.

Specializing in media, from concept to launch, reinvention or expansion, Carla is known as a hands-on director, designer, manager, team developer and value-add as a big picture thinker.

She has worked with some of the world’s most dynamic brands, across categories, to produce transformative omni-channel content. Notably, she was the founding design director of O, The Oprah Magazine, the most successful magazine launch in history.

Carla is also deeply involved in the industry. She is an adjunct professor, mentor, participating member of professional organizations and a frequent speaker sought by universities and industry conferences.

Constantly curious, she is always inspired by culture and travel. Most especially in Italy!

Mark Kelly partners with Carla Frank in higher education assignments under the division of Kelly & Frank here at CFC+ Co. He is a strategist, editor, writer and previously worked as a communications / marketing executive, as well as, editor for four public and private universities and a national education association. Kelly & Frank have reimagined editorial properties for Furman University, Loyola University of Maryland and the In Trust Center.

Sarah Viñas, an associate at CFC+ Co., is an award-winning New York-based graphic designer with over 20 years of experience in the editorial magazine world. She has held senior positions at a variety of national magazines, where she has been recognized for her work by the American Society of Magazine Editors and The Society of Publication Designers. 

Aspen Gengenbacher graduated in 2023 with a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri, where she became the first student from her school to win the Society of Publication Designers Student Competition, after which she traded in her reporter’s notebook for a sketchbook.
Aspen is passionate about editorial and is aiming to relocate to New York in the near future to pursue her career at a magazine.