Tom Finerty - Founder and CEO

Tom Finerty is an Emmy Award winning television producer/director, new media specialist and social entrepreneur. His career spans documentary, reality and narrative television, to a turn as a producer on CBS network's first major foray online, from which the idea for YourGardenShow was born. Fascinated by innovations new media presents in storytelling, Tom continually strives to uncover innovative and compelling ways to communicate narratives that move people to action.

Lisa Marini Finerty - Founder and Inspiration

Lisa Marini Finerty was a Master Gardener, Kellogg MBA and community activist. She and Tom, her husband of 25 years, lived in Chicago and Santa Barbara, California, and in Rome and Umbria, Italy. In 2007, Lisa established SecretGardensItaly, a specialist tour company focused on historic gardens; in 2008 she founded Amici dei Giardini di Roma, a non-profit cultural association dedicated to historic green space in and around Rome. Lisa's dream, now taken on by her friends and family, is to see the brief spring of boreal flora chronicled across continents and shared by the community of YourGardenShow.com.

William R. Healy - CFO

William R. Healy is a Certified Public Accountant with 35 years of experience providing the full life cycle of accounting services for local and national business, nonprofit and new media enterprise. He is a member of the Illinois CPA Society and the American Institute of CPAs. William is known for his personal and professional leadership and is a committed, active member of the Chicago community. He is also a very practical gardener.

Mark Kane - Strategic Editor (Groundskeeper)

Mark Kane is a gardener, writer, and photographer. He founded Fine Gardening and Garden Gate magazines and was Executive Garden Editor at Better Homes and Gardens magazine, where he also designed and built the BH&G Test Garden and produced the garden segments of BHG-TV and bhg.com. Mark has taught gardening and photography at botanical gardens such as Strybing (San Francisco), Chicago, St. Louis, and Brooklyn. He is an ardent gardener at his home in Des Moines, Zone 5. The next plant on his list is Seven Son Shrub (Heptacodium miconioides).

Maria Mobilia - Director of Content / Product Manager

Maria Mobilia is experienced in both the creative and technological aspects of content production: broadcast television in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, entertainment programming for NBC Universal, international network news, and documentaries for PBS, United Nations and National Geographic. Maria has produced films and videos promoting sustainable development and as a community organizer has advocated on environmental and conservation issues. A native of Massachusetts, she fondly remembers her grandfather's rose gardens.

Kristen R. Mobilia - Director of Operations and HR

Kristen R. Mobilia has held Operations, Human Resources, and Accounting leadership positions within start-up and multinational corporations. She has an MBA and is SPHR certified. Kristen has lived in a number of cities within the U.S. and France and often travels internationally, which gives her an appreciation of global cultures. Currently she resides and gardens in the historic Fenway neighborhood of Boston, MA, where she is also an active Board member of the Fenway Garden Society.

Joey Shepp - Director of New Media

Joey Shepp is an Internet entrepreneur, professional speaker, and sustainability consultant. As Director of New Media for Your Garden Show, he cultivates the growth of the garden network. Joey has two Permaculture Certifications, holds a degree in Ecological Design from UC Santa Cruz, an MBA in Sustainable Enterprise, and is also a black belt in Aikido. He lives, works, and gardens in Northern California.

Claire Taylor - International Outreach Director

Claire Taylor is an award-winning creative copywriter with more than 20 years experience in international communications, branding and strategy. Based in Amsterdam, Claire is a community builder skilled in both traditional grassroots outreach and social media. She understands what motivates people - no matter what the culture, geography or language. A dedicated balcony and urban gardener, Claire’s singular creativity, strong logic, charisma and enthusiasm are helping YourGardenShow’s international network truly blossom!

Emmet Brady - Partnership Pollinator and Business Development Consultant

Emmet Brady has worked for over a decade with sustainable industries as a biologist, business developer and event producer. He is a founding member of the Biomimicry Guild Speakers Bureau and co-founded the San Francisco Bay Area Green Tours. Emmet is attracted to gardening through his predilection for insects, and as the Founder of the Insect News Network he intends to redefine the field of Cultural Entomology - which addresses how people think and feel about 6- and 8-legged animals (especially the ones in your garden!).