Our Team

  • Jewel Kinch-Thomas

    Jewel is Chief Operation Officer and Partner. She has 25+ years of experience in organizational operations, budget management, event planning, production. She is COO and Co-founder of JPL. and has worked with Google, Verizon, JPMorgan Chase, Verizon, and the Center for Policing Equity. For the past five years, she has curated and produced the annual Juneteenth Celebration for Carnegie Hall. Jewel is an alum of Columbia University’s Arts Leadership Institute, New York Foundation for the Arts Leadership Circles, and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government’s: Women and Power: Leadership for the 21st Century program.

  • Joanna Allen

    Joanna is Chief Marketing Officer and Partner. Her background is in consumer marketing, public relations, brand development, media relations. She is also Chief Executive Officer of Allen Marketing Communications, Inc. a boutique consumer marketing agency specializing in travel marketing. She has worked with Alpenwild Food and Chocolate Tours, Luxury Scotland Tours, Maker’s Mark Bourbon, Sublime Samana Hotel, Puerto Rico Tourism Company, San Pellegrino USA. Joanna graduated from Hamilton College with a Bachelors of Arts in Economics with a minor in Creative writing.

  • Aeon Cummings

    .Aeon Cummings is CFO and a Founding partner. His background is in finance, business, operations, and technology. He has led teams and partnered with business leaders to implement strategy and deliver on performance goals at Fortune 500 companies, Aeon holds a Bachelor of the Arts in Economics and a minor in government from Hamilton College, a Masters degree in Economics from Brooklyn College, CUNY and an MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. He is an avid fine arts collector and the founder of Artmuze.com,

  • Hugh B. Cummings

    Hugh is Founder and Chief of Design and Strategy, CDS0. He is responsible for web design, maintenance; social-media; data analysis. Among his interests are: design and systems thinking, logistics, ethics and sustainable tourism. He has worked in government and various clinical settings. Hugh is a physician. He completed a Fellowship at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons/New York Psychiatry Institute; received his medical degree from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and a B.S in Chemistry from Brooklyn College, CUNY.