Michel Bayan, Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Michel’s creative spirit combines with a deep understanding of technology and human psychology. Michel has been mingling creativity, technology and psychology since childhood. Exposed to these worlds growing up, (his mother in fashion, father a musician and pioneer in psycho-acoustics) his fascination for these subjects is deeply rooted.
Living in Los Angeles since 1999, Michel began his time in L.A. as an actor, intensely studying the human condition researching psychology, neurology, eastern and western philosophy. Moving into film production in 2005 his passion for storytelling blossomed. In 2007, his first feature film, “One Day Like Rain” was completed and nominated for the jury prize at the Seattle Intl. Film Festival (the largest fest in the US) thanks to the success of his low budget marketing and promotion plan. “ODLR” went on to several other festivals and recognitions.
Michel was also owner of a computer services and web design company for 3 years, managing a small team of designers and technicians and studying the effects of the web. One day in early 2008, he had an epiphany: The future of creativity and intelligent marketing is based on technology. Why not take these worlds and bring them together? And thus, Mingling Media was born. Michel has a passion for creating customized solutions for clients that engage with their target clientele and make the most of what the digital age has to offer.
He also sits on the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce’s Legislative Action Committee and In his personal life Michel is an avid world traveler, “Big Brother” and Sunday yoga teacher.
Hunter Gray, Co-Founder & President
Hunter is a team builder and team leader. His range of leadership spans building world-class sales and marketing organizations to developing successful mobile app development teams.
Hunter studied Game Theory and Psychology at Yale University where he wrote his graduating thesis on how technology and marketing influence consumer purchasing. This led him to seek out hands on experience in marketing where he built and then led a marketing organization that has now sold millions of dollars in legal insurance. Frustrated with the many inefficiencies in the sales and leadership process, Hunter began to use and innovate technology to streamline and improve marketing and salespeople’s performance.
Hunter has been a guest speaker on the topic of team leadership and personal productivity at the MGM Grand, Los Angeles Convention Center, and Anaheim Convention Center. He has spoken in front of more than 17,000 people at a time. He is respected for his knowledge of marketing, sales, leadership, and innovative technology solutions.
He sits on the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce’s Technology Committee and can often be found hacking his iPhone or playing a pickup game of soccer.
