Project Principals
Matthew Naythons, M.D.
Lewis J. Korman
Robert Gottlieb
John Silbersack
David Hume Kennerly

Editorial Team
Dawn Sheggeby, Editorial Director
Acey Harper, Director of Photography
Tom Walker, Creative Director

Guy Cooper, Assignment Editor
Peter Goggin, Assignment Editor
SSG Gary Kieffer, Assignment Editor
Florence Nash, Assignment Editor
Travis Ruse, Assignment Editor

Shonquis Moreno, Assistant Director of Photography
Jennifer Castle, Assistant Editor, Website Project Manager
Heather McNama, Project Assistant

Matthew Naythons, M.D.
President and CEO, EpiCom Media
Producer, A Day in the Life of the United States Armed Forces
Matthew Naythons has spent the last thirty years as a physician, award-winning combat photographer, book publisher and Internet entrepreneur. He began his association with A Day in the Life as a photographer in Australia in 1981, and continued photographing the next eight Day in the Life projects, including A Day in the Life of America.

Along with two partners in 1989, Dr. Naythons produced The Power to Heal, a look by 100 photographers at health, healing and medicine around the world, over the course of one week. The book has over 220,000 copies in print.

In 1992, Dr. Naythons founded Epicenter Communications. The company creates innovative photojournalism, multimedia and Internet projects. Popular Epicenter titles include The Face of Mercy: A Photographic History of Medicine at War; Sarajevo: A Portrait of the Siege; Christmas Around the World; The Mission; and SpeedWeeks, Ten Days at Daytona. Dr. Naythons was the producer of the last three official Presidential Inaugural books commemorating the inaugurations of President George W. Bush (2001) and President William J. Clinton (1993, 1997).

Dr. Naythons joined with Lewis J. Korman and Robert Gottlieb in founding EpiCom Media, and is President and CEO.

Lewis J. Korman
Chairman, EpiCom Media
Lewis J. Korman has an extensive background in the entertainment industry as a chief operating officer of major entertainment companies and as a principal and business advisor, including; Senior Executive Vice President, then Chief Operating Officer of Tri Star; Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Columbia Pictures Entertainment, and Chairman of its Motion Picture Group; and President and Chief Operating Officer of Savoy Pictures Entertainment, Inc., a company engaged in the marketing and distribution of major motion pictures and the owner of a number of Fox affiliated television stations.

Mr. Korman is currently involved in a variety of entrepreneurial and advisory activities, and is a co-founder and Chairman of EpiCom Media.

Robert Gottlieb
Chairman, Trident Media Group
Co-chairman, EpiCom Media
Robert Gottlieb began his career in the mailroom of the William Morris Agency, as part of the company's Agent in Training Program. In 1982 he became a literary agent. In 1989 he was promoted to Senior Vice President, becoming one of the youngest agents to ever head the William Morris Agency's Literary Department. He was elected to the WMA Board of Directors in January of 1992 and was also made an Executive Vice President of the company.

In 2001, he founded Trident Media and became its Chairman. Mr. Gottlieb has represented a wide variety of authors, including many with expertise in military areas, including the New York Times Hardcover Best Sellers; Into the Storm by Tom Clancy with General (Ret.) Fred Franks; Every Man a Tiger by Tom Clancy with General (Ret.) Chuck Horner, about their roles in the Persian Gulf War; and Shadow Warriors: Inside the Special Forces by Tom Clancy with General (Ret.) Carl Stiner and Tony Koltz.

Mr. Gottlieb is a co-founder and Co-chairman of EpiCom Media.

John Silbersack
Senior Vice President, Trident Media Group
Senior Vice President, EpiCom Media
John Silbersack brings over 25 years of publishing and editorial experience to EpiCom Media. As Senior Vice President of Trident Media Group, a literary agency, he works with a diverse group of clients in fiction and non-fiction, licensing, television production and merchandising. During his career as a publisher, Mr. Silbersack built five new imprints at companies as diverse as HarperCollins, Warner Books, the Putnam Publishing Group and Penguin Books. He was the founding Senior Vice President, Publishing Director of HaperEntertainment/HarperChildrenšs Entertainment, HarperPrism and HarperHorizon.

Mr. Silbersack is a co-founder and Senior Vice President of EpiCom Media. His background in illustrated books includes major publications with brands such as Nascar, Peanuts, X-Files, Major League Baseball, Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen, Independence Day, the NBA, Titanic, The Simpsons, Smithsonian and National Geographic.

David Hume Kennerly
Executive Producer, A Day in the Life of the United States Armed Forces
Winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for his photographs of the Vietnam war, David Hume Kennerly is photographer and journalist whose experience in the field spans four decades and includes experience as personal photographer to President Gerald R. Ford; Contributing Editor for Newsweek Magazine; Contributing Photographer for George Magazine; and Contributing Correspondent for ABC's Good Morning America Sunday.

Kennerly's books include Shooter, published 1979 by Newsweek Books; Photo Op, 1995 by the University of Texas Press (Critics' Choice Award); Sein Off: The Final Days of the Seinfeld Show, 1998 by Harper Collins. In 2001 he was the Executive Producer of Celebrating America's Spirit Together (the Inauguration of President George W. Bush), 2001.

Included in Kennerly's list of awards are five prizes in the 2001 White House Press Photographer's contest including first place for best 2000 campaign coverage; the 1997 President's Award for Excellence in Journalism from the Greater Los Angeles Press Club; World Press Photo contest (two first place prizes); National Press Photographers contest (first place); and the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad. He was also named one of the top 50 journalists in the March 2001 issue of Washingtonian Magazine, the only photographer on the list.

Dawn Sheggeby
Editorial Director
Dawn Sheggeby is an accomplished editor and project manager with 15 years of editorial experience. She was most recently senior editor of A Day in the Life of Africa, which sent 100 photographers to more than 50 African countries, with all profits going to AIDS education.

As vice president/managing editor at Epicenter Communications, a company she helped found with Dr. Matthew Naythons in 1991, she edited or project-managed 14 large-scale illustrated book projects including The Mission: Inside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; The Face of Mercy; the bestselling Clinton: Portrait of Victory; and the award-winning Sarajevo: Portrait of the Siege. She first teamed up with Naythons on the worldwide photo project The Power to Heal in 1989.

In 1995 Sheggeby moved to Internet-based endeavors, launching one of the Web's first greeting card sites with Naythons (Christmas95.com), and then becoming managing editor of CMP's NetGuideLive.com. She later served as Vice President/Editor in Chief at PlanetRx.com, directing a major health information portal.

Acey Harper
Director of Photography
Acey Harper is an award-winning photographer and accomplished picture editor, and has also served as Director of Photography on several large-scale photojournalistic book projects, including the official commemorative book of President Clinton's second inauguration.

Harper began his career in photography at The Fort Myers News-Press, where he won the title of Gannett News Photographer of the Year two years running--the only photographer ever to do so. In 1982, Harper was chosen to be one of the founding photo editors of USA Today. While there, he edited the book Portraits of the USA (Gannett, 1986). A freelance photographer since 1987, Harper has traveled worldwide on assignment for People, National Geographic, Time, and USA Today.

Over the past ten years, Harper has also been involved in several prestigious photo book projects. In 1992, he teamed up with Matthew Naythons at Epicenter Communications, assigning all photography for the book Open Minds: Sun Microsystems, Inc. He went on to serve as director of photography for An American Journey: The 53rd Presidential Inauguration, Santa Speaks, and The Mission: Inside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, assigning 40 top photojournalist to more than 100 stories around the world, chronicling the culture and practices of the Mormon church.

Tom Walker
Creative Director
Tom Walker's creative background bridges the worlds of design and photography with brand development and strategic planning.

Most recently he was design director of A Day in the Life of Africa, responsible for the design of book, website and all ancillary products. Over the past 17 years he has been responsible for the design of the Day in the Life series including A Day in the Life of America, Soviet Union, Spain, and Japan. In addition, he is responsible for the creation of other books including Christmas in America, The Power to Heal, From Alice to Ocean, The Who's Tommy, the Musical and Passage to Vietnam.

Walker's creative experience in brand identity began with supervising the worldwide implementation of HongKongBank (currently known as HSBC Bank) and has carried through the design and development of websites and online marketing campaign for Continental Airlines, Ernst & Young and Capitol One. Most recently he is responsible for developing online brand strategies for Proctor and Gamble's Tide and Cascade products.

Shonquis Moreno
Assistant Director of Photography
Shonquis Moreno is a Brooklyn-based writer and picture editor who covers architecture, design, and the convergence of technology and the arts for magazines such as WIRED, Metropolis, Time Out New York, FRAME, Dutch, The FADER, 2wice, and Interior Design. She has also been a contributing editor for *surface magazine.

After spending a year assisting photographers and editors at the Magnum photo agency in New York, Moreno worked for two years at National Geographic headquarters in Washington, D.C. conducting research for a stable of 15 National Geographic writers, as well as editing pictures for award-winning photojournalist David Alan Harvey.

After receiving her Master's degree in journalism, Moreno worked as a senior writer and content strategist in Ogilvy & Mather's interactive division, and at the global Internet design agency Razorfish.

A Day In the Life of the U.S. Armed Forces reunites Moreno with Director of Photography Acey Harper and other members of the creative team with whom she worked on the worldwide photo book project The Mission: Inside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, published by Warner Books.

Jennifer Castle
Assistant Editor
Website Project Manager
Jennifer Castle is a skilled editorial administrator who has helped launch major ventures in Internet publishing, interactive television/Web production, and traditional magazine publishing.

As an Associate Producer at Emmy award-winning ZDTV (now TechTV), Castle helped plan and produce integrated television and Web content for Call for Help, The Screen Savers, and Internet Tonight, all live, daily television shows with integrated websites. Prior to the launch of the TV network she was Assistant Editor of ZDNet's HelpChannel.com, a computer help website.

In 1999 ChickClick.com, a division of IGN Entertainment Inc., brought Castle on to develop and produce the network's first original lifestyle content for young women. She created EstroClick.com, a daily website covering work, money, home, and living.

Heather McNama
Project Assistant
A graduate of the Brooks Institute of Photography, Heather McNama has worked as a photo editor for Yahoo! Internet Life magazine, assisted Dave Stock, staff photographer for the National Football League, documented marine life activity as a videographer aboard the Dolphin Fleet, for the Center for Coastal Studies, and taught underwater photography with Cathy Church in Grand Cayman, B.W.I. She currently lives in New York City.

Guy Cooper
Assignment Editor
Guy Cooper was born in London. He has been a Photo Editor for thirty-five years working for BBC TV News, Camera Press, Contact Press Images and for Newsweek. He was Newsweek's Picture Editor from l989-2000. He has edited several Day in the Life projects including A Day in the Life of Italy, A Day in the Life of Ireland and A Day in the Life of Africa. He lives in New York.

Peter Goggin
Assignment Editor
Photography Logistics Director
Peter Goggin has worked in journalism, book publishing and web development. He began producing photography books with the RxMedia Group in 1989, and in 1993 joined Epicenter Communications, where he was Vice President, Associate Publisher. Epicenter published a number of large-scale photo book projects, including Christmas Around the World, The Mission, SpeedWeeks: 10 Days at Daytona and the official Presidential Inaugural books for Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Goggin has also managed e-commerce websites, as well as photo logistics for the recently-published book, A Day in the Life of Africa. His company, Terra Firma, currently manages the DayMilitary.com website.

SSG Gary L. Kieffer
Assignment Editor
SSG Gary L. Kieffer began his photographic career in the U.S. Army in 1973. He served on active duty for ten years and is a graduate of the DOD Advanced Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is currently serving on active duty in the Reserves at U.S. European Command, Stuttgart, Germany. Kieffer was a staff photographer for U.S. News and World Report, and has contributed to Time, Newsweek, USA Today, and LA Times among others. He was the founder of the Foto Consortium photo agency and Vice-President/Operations of Photo Press Intl. before moving to Zurich, Switzerland in 1999.

Florence Nash
Assignment Editor
Florence Nash began her career as a writer in Paris before coming to New York City where she became involved with photography. She has represented photojournalists from the Sygma, Liaison International, Corbis and Gamma photo agencies.