Mixed handed
About
From Hawaii
to the Mainland
Mixed Handed began in 2019 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Our founder, Rob, worked to help local businesses succeed for two years before moving back to the Mainland and settling in Eugene, Oregon.
We still work with some of those original clients, but since then our client list has grown to include clients all across the United States!
Building Brands That Break Boundaries
Our Mission
For us, helping our clients market and grow their businesses is the real goal. We understand that we can only thrive if you do, and that's why we work hard to develop comprehensive strategies and stunning brands.
Meet the
Marketing Dream Team
Our team is small but growing! Get to know the minds behind the Mixed Handed team down below.
Rob Reilly
Chief poncho wearer
After graduating with a degree in design and advertising from Iowa State, Rob left his homeland of Iowa for the PNW, landing first in an advertising role at The Seattle Weekly. From there he worked in higher education, advising college media at the University of Hawaii, then at the University of Oregon, until it finally came time to build the unique, client-focused creative branding and marketing company he’d always dreamed of.
In March of 2019, that dream became reality and Mixed Handed Branding was born! Rob loves generating creative, results-driven solutions for businesses that are ready to grow and then seeing how our work at MHB helps them realize that growth, continuing to collaborate with clients as their brands evolve. In our sweet little office sitcom, you might call Rob “The Wisecracker”, always tossing a bit of humor into meetings and our daily routine. When he’s not here being the wisecracking “Chief Poncho Wearer”, he’s outside hiking, running, disc-golfing, body surfing, and generally keeping things active.
kylie jess
creative director
In 2015, Kylie made her way down from her hometown of Portland to study Art at the University of Oregon, which she immediately followed up with three years of professional design and web development experience before landing at MHB.
Now our Creative Director and a highly-skilled graphic designer, Kylie specializes in brand development and custom web design. Her passion for branding lies in taking each client’s goals and ideas and using them to generate a professional, cohesive, powerful aesthetic that elevates their brand’s identity across all platforms.
Her other official title here at MHB is “The Deadpan Snarker”, and we’re happy we can count on her to deliver sarcastic, sometimes cynical but always clever little asides to keep us on track. When she’s not here directing and snarking us to our goals, she’s at the river rockhounding with her adorable dogs, attending local shows, and generally arts-and-crafts-ing her way through life.
TIM RUSSELL
GRAPHIC DeSIGNER & print boss
One of our few Eugene natives, Tim began his marketing journey with a local family-owned business, where he worked his way up from farm grunt to Director of Marketing.
In 2022, he returned to college to complete a graphic design degree, in service of his true passion: visual communication. Much of his 20 year marketing career has focused on printed materials, including everything from bumper stickers to full scale catalogs with mailings in the millions, mostly geared toward generating sales and conversions.
Now at MHB, Tim loves working with our varied client roster, finding creative ways to elevate each unique brand with attractive, innovative, accessible designs that effectively communicate their intended message. Being a wheel-throwing ceramicist and a voracious lover (and critic?) of music, art, and global cuisine, we feel he’s earned his title as “The Snob” in our office sitcom, but like a lovable snob – exactly the breed of snob you want as your brand’s designer.
YEATS GOODWIN
WEB DEVELOPER
Yeats landed a job as a Web Developer right out of college and has been honing his specialization in website development and creating custom coding solutions ever since. These impressive technical skills are only strengthened by his artistic sensibilities, which manifest these days in writing and performing of electronic, punk, and experimental music around South Florida, where he lives.
He says it’s hot there, but he’s also “The Eccentric” of our sitcom experiment, so we can’t be certain if he means literally, figuratively, or both. More importantly, what Yeats loves most about his work is capturing the essence of a brand and effectively bringing that to life through a web experience.
SOPHIA SOLEIL
summer '25 intern
Born with a love for connection and raised on stories that matter, Sophia is our Summer 2025 intern from the University of Oregon, where she studies Journalism: Advertising with a minor in Business. She came to MHB with curiosity as her compass and a passion for people-driven branding, and she’s been soaking up everything from client voice guides to content strategy ever since.
Sophia thrives at the intersection of creativity and intention—digging into the “why” behind a brand and helping bring it to life with clarity and spark. She’s quick to listen, quicker to contribute, and never afraid to ask the kind of question that makes everyone pause (in a good way).​
​​In the MHB sitcom, Sophia is The Lovable Rogue—charming, disarming, and just rebellious enough to challenge the status quo (nicely). She’s the intern who’ll gently question the brief, reimagine the deliverable, and still have the team laughing by the end of the meeting. Bold yet grounded, she’s part strategist, part poetic wild card, and full-time vibe curator. When she’s not brand whispering, she’s building her own fair-trade business, editing audio like a pro, or plotting how to become the Beyoncé of ethically-sourced bilum bags.