Jamie Plante, Founder & Web Developer
jamie@simplicitydesigngroup.com

Jamie has a B.A. from the University of Rhode Island, and has completed additional training at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He attended graduate school for acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine and worked with a number of successful technology companies before reading The Diamond Cutter written by Geshe Michael Roach. The ideas presented in this amazing book impacted him so strongly that he left his corporate career to study full-time with the author. In July 2010, Jamie completed an intensive 6 year training program where he has trained deeply in the ideas introduced in The Diamond Cutter book. He is the founder of Simplicity Design Group and Director of The Knowledge Base, and runs these companies entirely based on the basic tenet that our reality, and our business success, is shaped by how well we help others. He has a passion for building websites that make a powerful impact in the world, and is able to combine his training in Diamond Cutter business method with his knowledge of emerging trends in technology. This combination alows him to help people harness the power of the web in order to bring their products, services and ideas to the world, and to assure that they will be successful doing it.

Ora Maimes, Organizational and Cretive Mastermind
ora@simplicitydesigngroup.com

Ora has spent the past fourteen years developing and producing educational courses for Asian Classics Institute, Diamond Mountain University, and the Yoga Studies Institute. She graduated with honors from Sarah Lawrence College, and continued her education in Asian languages and religion at UC Berkeley and Harvard Divinity School, as well as interpedently with some of the world’s greatest scholars throughout the United States and South Asia. She has used her strong language skills to help organize the world’s largest digital collection of Asian literature for the Asian Classics Input Project and to translate and distribute thousands of its Tibetan and Sanskrit manuscripts to scholars and students throughout the world. Ora is our team leader for The Knowledge Base project.

Rosa Van Grieken, Graphic Designer & Brand Strategist
rosa@simplicitydesigngroup.com

Rosa received a BFA degree in fashion design and an AAS degree in comunication design, both from Parsons School of Design. In the fashion industry she has worked for Jcrew, Ann Taylor and Emanuael Ungaro. In the comunication industry she has served as the creative director for Kaladanda Yogawear, Diamond Cutter Productions and the Meditation Practice Institute. Rosa combines her backgrounds in fasion and communication design with her passion for photography to develop unique concepts and design solutions.