The homegrown community for Hudson Valley creatives, professionals, and businesses.

Beckie Hermans

Pleasant Valley / Dutchess County

Intuitive Branding & Web Design | Tender-hearted brand-envisioner with 10+ years of experience seeking the dreamy, bold, magic, and weird. Let’s revel in the alchemy of birthing something from nothing, together.

Giorgio Baravalle

Millbrook / Dutchess County

Art Director

Chris Fontakis

Beacon / Dutchess County

Founded Serious Comedy Theatre in Beacon, NY. He coaches, teaches ands perform improv, stand up, acting & sketch comedy.

Derek Enos

Beacon / Dutchess County

Software engineer, maker, and humanist - working to build new digital and physical capabilities in Beacon.

Jonathan Duncan

Poughkeepsie / Dutchess County

Lived in the HV on and off since 2009, classically trained violinist and musical artist - looking for opportunities to connect with other creatives as well as networking.

Helen Tyliszczak

Wappingers Falls / Dutchess County

Born and raised in the Hudson Valley, just purchased my first home in Wappingers

Scott Tillitt

Beacon / Dutchess County

Founder of Beahive. Connector — of dots and people. Strategist, publicist, marketer, social entrepreneur, nonprofit leader, and writer with 25+ years in various culture-shaping worlds before applying my corporate skills to social impact.

Local intelligence source for Rhinebeck area. At your service.

I am a long time Hudson Valley resident, ecosystem builder and startup and small business supporter. I am currently providing coaching for startup founders and consulting as a fractional embedded COO for Small and medium sized businesses.

Dennis Rush

Staatsburg / Dutchess County

Poet and visual artist in Staatsburg, New York.

Jordan Koschei

Poughkeepsie / Dutchess County

I build and run ConnectHV. On the side, I interview interesting people at Creative Hudson Valley and write about software with a sense of place at Digital Terroir. By day, I'm a product designer at Okta.

Erin Koschei

Poughkeepsie / Dutchess County

B2B Healthcare Content Creation | Social Media Strategy & Planning | Digital Marketing