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With over 14 years of experience, Garbanzo is more than just a tasty bean. Our friendly team is world-class and will take your ideas and season them with our secret blend of creative vision and technical know-how. The result is a tasty video, brand or website that makes your clients mouths water.

Leadership

Studio MAIN 1

Wes Townsend

Founder, Executive creative director

Founder and ECD Wes Townsend brings over 15 years of post production, motion graphics, and broadcast design expertise to Garbanzo. Beginning his freelance career with MTV in 2003, Wes cut his teeth designing motion graphics for national music videos and commercials for the likes of Christina Aguilera, Foo Fighters, Velvet Revolver, SONY, and Johnson & Johnson.

In 2010, Wes established Garbanzo as a premiere NYC motion graphics company, where he manages, leads, and directs its creative and technical personnel. His team is broadly experienced in the post industry, and includes top editors, sound designers, illustrators, concept artists, 2D and 3D animators, simulation experts, and programmers.

Studio MAIN 2

Alex Velázquez

Creative Director

Alex Velázquez, Creative Director, has been working as a creative leader for over a decade and has a particularly good eye for detail. In fact, he’s pretty obsessed with details. Alex has been able to master many skills in various industries including motion/web/graphic design, directing, editing and animation. His work can be seen in theme parks, movie theaters, TV, social media and various websites.

As part of Garbanzo's core team, Alex has been instrumental in growing the production department and service offerings, contributing to Garbanzo's most successful year ever in 2019.

We just wished he came to work dressed like this everyday.

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Employment

Interested in joining our team? Take a look at our open positions below and send your resume and portfolio over to [email protected].

Executive producer / business development
producer