Gerry Souter has been a writer, producer, director and media project manager for over 20 years. His background includes:

Four years at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and University of Chicago graduating with a B.A.E. and Honors in Photography.

Two years as a staff photographer with the Chicago Tribune

Two years with the Chicago Committee on Urban Opportunity documenting Chicago's social problems

Seven years as a freelance photojournalist traveling around the world writing and producing film documentaries, magazine articles, restaurant reviews and advertising photography

Eight years with Motorola buying, writing, producing and shooting films, video programs and written materials for national and international markets.

Eleven years with Motivation Media,Inc., a video-commercial-business communications production house writing and producing award-winning programs for business and public domain including: interactive training and multimedia, documentaries, commercials, infomercials, trade show exhibits and satellite broadcast programs. He wrote most of the proposals for his projects and had a very high success rate. He has studied film directing with Paul Gray, cinematography with Vilmos Zsigmond and participated in stage design and pioneering concepts in video walls, projection systems, multimedia and graphic animation.

Twelve years as an author and creative director, Avril 1 Group, Inc.

Janet Souter is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After careers in graphic arts and the travel industry, she turned her sights to writing and editing.

Besides co-writing and editing projects for Avril 1 Group, Inc, her fiction writing appears in Nightwriters' Chapbook (J.B. Strout and Co., 1999).

Her short story No One Knew Yet, was a finalist in Francis Ford Coppola’s new Century Writers competition.

Janet's book, Arlington Heights, Illinois - Downtown Renaissance, is going into its second printing.

Janet is a community news coordinator and feature writer for the Daily Herald newspapers. The Souters' three children all have careers in the creative arts.