Michelle Poley is a five time Emmy nominated, three-time Emmy winning lighting designer and director with over 36 years of professional network lighting experience. In addition to her Emmy wins, she received a Peabody, and numerous film festival awards. Most recently, Michelle was CNN Washington’s Director Of Lighting, creating the first design group outside of Atlanta. For 20 years she managed the daily programing and designed CNN’s largest productions around the world; created huge Presidential Debate designs, town halls, and special event programming. She developed new theater, theme park, studio construction designs and worked multiple “skunk-work projects” such as mobile studio buses and vans for news gathering. She is a founding member of the Lumen Guild, a Entertainment Production Innovation Think Tank.

Scott Kepley - In the past 25 years, Scott has worked on multiple Emmy award-winning lighting projects creating designs for numerous national and international television news and sports networks, daytime television shows, theatrical, dance, and musical productions, as well as lighting design work for digital media and multinational corporations.  

Scott brings a multifaceted perspective to projects from his extensive experience in Theatre, Dance, Opera, Rock and Roll on top of his years in broadcast lighting. He also understands managing the operational challenges that come once a big project has been completed from his experience in facilities management.