About

All about us:

The Crawford Group is a multimedia firm that generates ideas and media campaigns around the world. Our approach is quite simple: We want to make our clients successful. We measure our success by our ability to deliver original media that produces results. Any company can paint their office orange and scream really loud “we are cool creative people!” then deliver an updated version of a tired approach. For us, tackling every project with an upside down approach to communicating is at the core of who we are. It just so happens that we are also cool creative people.

The Group

Chad Crawford
Owner and Creative Director
A native of Florida, Chad has oranges in his blood. He grew up in the Orlando area where he attended school and eventually made his way to the U.S. Navy. After that, Chad received a degree in video and film from Full Sail University.

Kristy Crawford
Chad’s better half and Vice President
Kristy, like Chad, is a native Floridian. She was born in Melbourne, raised in Tallahassee, and eventually moved to the Central Florida area. Kristy acquired her B.S. in Occupational Therapy from the University of Florida in 1998.

Mark Greenwald
Producer
Mark was born and raised in South Florida, and brings over 20 years of media and television production experience to The Crawford Group. His background, training and education as a U.S. Marine (“ooo-rah!”) and University of Florida graduate drive him…

Len DePanicis
Director of Program Development
Len, or Lenny, as we call him, is a New Yorker, born in Mt. Vernon, NY, sometime in the last century. Lenny could never decide if he wanted to be an astronaut or a P.E. teacher. Somehow, he decided on film making and broadcasting…

Erik Wieder
Post Production Supervisor
Born in Homestead, Florida, in 1979, Erik started his career early by attending multiple art schools since age 10. Soon he found himself at Miami-Dade Community College, where he skated away with degrees in both architecture, and film and video.

Brian Hogan
Motion Graphic Designer
Brian has seen his fair share of corn fields and snow by living in northern Illinois most of his life. And so, at the age of 23, he decided it was time for a little change of scenery, which lead to completely submersing himself in the humidity and the vast orange groves…

Jamie Mendoza
Accounting
Jamie grew up in a small town north of Syracuse, New York, and moved to Florida in 1993. She’s always liked money and handling money. She completed her Bachelor’s of Finance degree from the University of Central Florida

Carly Hambsch
Production Coordinator
Carly is completely in love with the ocean, having grown up in Fort Myers, Florida, only a stone’s throw from the beach. Throughout her childhood, she drew all kinds of pictures, painted, and danced…essentially anything that allowed her to be creative.