Meet The Team Tim Hancock
PUBLISHER & CREATIVE DIRECTOR
As a high-end fashion photographer and creative director for the last decade, Tim Hancock has collaborated with clients Angelo Galasso USA, IK Retail Group, and , where he passionately showcases each brand in perfect light, crafting and driving the visual voice of his clients’ brands and visions. A Las Vegas native, Hancock’s work has been sought by the city’s elite print and online publications, from headshot work and stylized shoots to red carpet affairs. Hancock is also the creative director for Vegas Legal Magazine and producer of Luxe News Live, where he produces a product that is crisp, professional and pursuant of perfection. As founder of Deluxe Version Magazine, this is Hancock’s inaugural publication continuing in it’s eigth issue.
Jen Chase
MANAGING EDITOR
From Boston to Las Vegas and places in between, Jen Chase’s food and lifestyle writing has featured the stories of good companies and people doing great things, in more than 500 clips across multiple formats. Owner of Button Soup Consulting, Chase’s work has appeared in content for brands MasterCard®, Breville®, Bertolli®, Lens.com; the television show PBS’ Ciao Italia; publications Forbes Travel Guide, Hard Rock Hotel magazine, Time Out Las Vegas, and lifestyle magazines on both coasts. As content director for Las Vegas-based The Juice Standard, Chase is the online voice for the company’s website, blog and Facebook presence. And as editor of this publication, she works with writers to elicit the very best content for the pub’s very best readers (you!). Find her on Instagram at @ culinarietherapie and her Tumblr blog by the same name.
Stacey Gualandi
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
There’s not much Stacey Gualandi won’t do for a story: The Emmy award-winning journalist (KTNV/Ch. 13 Action News) once went 80 hours with no sleep to test the effects of sleep deprivation; painted the Hollywood sign; and even flew a plane after only 15 minutes of instruction. But her tenacity is tempered with humor and softness that puts colleagues and interviewees at ease…evident in both in her ability to get the tough “get”— she obtained the first interview with Mary Kay Letourneau’s young lover and a rare interview with Kit Culkin, Macauley’s father, about the case against Michael Jackson, just to name a few—and, her graceful, playful way with words. Drawing from her reporter years with Inside Edition and American Journal, Gualandi is Deluxe Version Magazine’s contributing editor.
Tyra Bell-Holland
CONTRIBUTING PUBLICIST
It is an exceptional skill to influence a room of executives and one that Tyra Bell-Holland commands with grace. As DV Magazine’s publicist, her 15 years both as a medical executive and within the hospitality industry have given her the necessary aplomb (and Rolodex) to ensure that any Bell-Holland event is a successful, media-covered one. As president of Ava Rose Agency, with a focus on expert branding, influencing, marketing, and overall “instigating,” clients include Bellagio, Caesars Palace, Nobu, STK, Rent The Runway, and The One Group, among other satisfied clients.