John Ellis
Chairman, Co-Founder

John has 18 years of experience incubating and marketing high-growth businesses at leading brands like Yahoo, EarthLink and Kinko's. He has held executive roles in marketing, strategy, business development, product management and operations. If you're into details you can read more here.

Gear:
Canon 5D Mark II

Shoots:
My ever-moving children and Travel photos whenever possible

Inspirations:
Frank Gehry, Phil Hansen and too many photographers to mention.

Ryan Phillips
President, Co-Founder

Ryan has loved art all his life and has been a professional photographer for 22 years. He is recognized as one of the leading portrait and wedding photographers in the industry and is continually on the cutting edge of image-making in terms of both style and technology. He has a long list of celebrity clients and serves some of the wealthiest private clients in the world.

Phillips graduated from the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and moved to New York City where he went on to work with some of the most renowned shooters in the fashion industry. His stunning images have been featured in leading publications such as Forbes, Fortune, Sunset, Via, Angelino, Ocean Drive and Travel + Leisure, as well as top wedding publications such as InStyle, Modern Bride, and Los Angeles Weddings.

Ryan's love of art began from an early age growing up with his mother, a well-known art collector. He was surrounded by works from Warhol, Katz, Jasper Johns, Christo, Makos, Keith Herring and many others. For years, his afternoons were spent in art galleries sketching and watching the patrons. He brings all of these experiences to PurePhoto to help make it the premiere web destination for discovering and collecting great art.

Gear:
Canon 5D Mark II

Shoots:
Weddings & Portraits

Inspirations:
Andrew Moore, Zhang Jingna, Mona Kuhn, Paul Souders, Tim Flach, JoeyL, Ditte Isager and Cig Harvey

Ryan Fuller
Creative Director / UI Designer

Prior to PurePhoto, Ryan founded Estebull.com, a cutting-edge design and development firm. Ryan is both a designer and photographer and he brings a fresh eye to the world of photo sharing sites. His primary goal is to bring a clean, scalable design that rivals professional desktop applications.

Ryan began his career in Sports Marketing at Oakley. He has worked on everything from websites to worldwide advertising campaigns for such companies as Virgin Records, US Navy, Spike TV, Fox Sports, IBM, Net Applications, National Geographic and many more.

Gear:
Canon 5D Mark II, Canon Elan 7, Fuji E550, Samsung Dual View

Shoots:
War, Fine Art, Advertising, Nature, Travel, Portraits and Sports Photography

Inspirations:
My Wife, Life, Space, AD, TAR3N, Just about everything in this world, "even the bad".