Team

Joe Flood

CEO

Joe Flood leads N2’s team of accomplished writers, researchers, and producers. He’s been a data and financial reporter at places like The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Economist.com, and Chief Investment Officer magazine, and is the author of The Fires, a history of computer modeling systems being used for public policy making, and how bad data analysis helped burn down and bankrupt New York City in the 1970s.

Laura Williams

Head of Finance

Laura Williams oversees all of N2’s financials, from contracts to invoices to payments. Laura has 12+ years of experience in public accounting and has worked with one of the largest CPA firms in the US.

Lindsay Elliott

Head of RFP Response and
Technical Writing

Lindsay Elliott is N2’s energy industry lead and produces large-scale projects for N2, specializing in highly technical RFP responses. He previously led technical sales operations for a Fortune 500 energy company. He studied English literature and molecular biophysics at Yale.

James Longley

Creative Director

James Longley leads N2’s content marketing team. He has 10 years of experience building and executing content strategies for startups and global tech enterprises, including Segment, PagerDuty, and a leading cloud services provider. He brings an expertise in creative team building and data-driven writing to the projects he manages. Based in the Bay Area, he holds an MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Jody Avirgan

Podcast Strategist

Jody Avirgan is N2’s founding podcast strategist and one of the most experienced podcast hosts/producers/editors in the business. He was the founding producer of Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight podcasts, ESPN’s 30 for 30 Podcasts, is the executive producer of Trevor Noah’s podcast “What Now?” and produces shows with places like NPR, WNYC, Major League Baseball, Apple TV+, the TED Audio Collective, and Adam McKay’s “Death at the Wing” podcast. N2 Communications and Jody’s Roulette Productions are producing partners on many projects, including The Friendly Ghost.

Alex Spacher

Design Strategist

Alex Spacher leads N2’s graphic design department. He is an award-winning creative director and brand strategist with over 20 years of experience in the media industry, focusing on luxury and lifestyle publications. Alex has an exemplary track record in creating and executing comprehensive editorial design with an emphasis on powerful storytelling and unique visual problem solving. He has created multiple successful brand identities and developed award-winning assets that get to the critical center of the unique stories we have to tell. In the publishing industry, his responsibilities have included directing, inspiring, and motivating a team of designers and photo department to elevate the print and digital aesthetic and to build a tenacious visual statement.

Steven Ujifusa

Ghostwriting Strategist

Steven Ujifusa is N2’s lead author for founder biographies, corporate histories, and architecturally significant homes. As a popular historian, he’s written books on American business, social, and maritime history. He was named a Top 10 nonfiction book author of the year by the Wall Street Journal and was the recipient of the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, a MacDowell artist residency, and the Athenaeum of Philadelphia’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction. On the client side, Steven is the author of Local for the Long-Term, a history of Airgas, Inc., and Creative Capital, the official history of J.M. Forbes & Company, one of the oldest independent financial services firms in the United States. He is also the author of numerous books and monographs on historically significant homes, and he is the president of Tradewinds History, a longtime partner of N2.

Chris Edmonds

COO

Chris Edmonds specializes in economics and finance. He leads our team-building and workflow-management processes, as well as serving as primary editor on special projects. Chris spent more than a decade working at newspapers before co-founding N2.

Victoria Elghasen

Head of Talent and
Executive Editor

Victoria Elghasen builds and oversees skilled teams of editors, writers, designers, and producers to tackle projects for some of our biggest tech and finance clients. She holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Nevada Las Vegas and was formerly a copy editor for the Black Mountain Institute’s Witness magazine.

Nicholas Hutchison

Chief of Staff

Nicholas Hutchison is N2’s Chief of Staff. As a recent Harvard graduate, Nicholas was a senior writer and editor for the Harvard Lampoon, and he graduated cum laude with high honors in economics, receiving Harvard’s Hoopes prize and a summa grade for his econometrics thesis that used a novel AI algorithm to analyze racial bias in movie reviews.

Das Rush

AI Strategist

Das Rush advises companies on the latest in AI and what it means for their content. They first began working in tech and AI as the content and design lead at OSIsoft, an industrial data infrastructure company that sold for $5B to Aveva in 2020. Most recently, they were the head of content for the growth fund at the legendary Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, where they had a front row seat to the latest wave of AI breakthroughs. In that time, they created a16z’s AI Revolution series; ghostwrote a book on executive hiring; and edited numerous hit AI pieces, including What Builders Talk About When They Talk About AI, AI in B2B (podcast), AI in 2020, The New Business of AI (and How It’s Different from Traditional Software), and Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure.

Felicity Barber

Speechwriting and Executive
Comms Strategist

Felicity is N2’s speechwriting and C-suite communications strategist. She has spent a decade managing the communications of CEOs, helping them tell their stories, developing their thought leadership platforms, and writing their speeches. She’s worked with CEOs and Presidents at the Federal Reserve, BlackRock, and Lloyd’s of London, to name a few. She’s had op-eds published in the New York Times and Financial Times, and wrote a book given as a gift to the late Queen Elizabeth II. Felicity is the host of The Friendly Ghost podcast, co-producing it with N2 Communications and Jody Avirgnan.

Zoe Petkanas

Public Policy Strategist

Zoe Petkanas is a researcher, writer, and editor overseeing policy research, issue-messaging, and political campaign projects for N2. She has a PhD in politics from the University of Cambridge, where she specialized in political research and election integrity. She has over 13 years of experience in research and international development and is an expert on political participation, elections, governance, democratic transition, state-building, post-conflict peace and security, and gender-based violence with a regional specialization in the Middle East and North Africa.

Chase Wright

Senior Account Lead

Chase Wright works with clients to develop content strategies, oversee production, and measure content performance across various platforms. Chase brings more than a decade of experience in content creation as a journalist and newsroom leader. He holds an MBA in digital marketing strategy and management from the University of Connecticut and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Syracuse University.