About Our Team

Jason Heller
Jason Heller (Publisher & CEO) is an accomplished entrepreneur and a professional photographer. Jason, is also a digital marketing pioneer, agency executive, thought leader, public speaker, and author. Determined to develop a business around his passion of underwater imagery, he sold his digital advertising agency in 2005 in order to develop Underwater Holdings, a marine related media and technology company, and its flagship product, DivePhotoGuide.com.

Jason co-authors the Images column for Sport Diver magazine, and his images have been published in several other publications and used in advertising. He is part of the current generation of digital marketing gurus, and the next generation of top underwater photographers. Images and links to articles and published work can be found on Jason’s website jasonheller.com .

Wendy Heller
DivePhotoGuide.com is run by Jason his wife Wendy Heller, also an avid diver and an underwater model who has been featured in several magazines including Sport Diver, websites and advertising. Wendy is also a co-founder of the New York Underwater Photographic Society (NYUPS.org). Her role is multi-faceted, but she is primarily focused on dive operator relations and managing much of the logistics for DPG related events and international competitions. Wendy is currently completing her biology degree between her travels around the world exploring culinary experiences that perfectly compliment the exotic diving.

Jason and Wendy are both champions of the marine environment and involved in increasing awareness of the plight of our ocean and reef ecosystems. The husband and wife team have a new outlook on life after diving in Thailand during the December 2004 Tsunami .

Carm Hodzic
An old-timer in internet terms, Carm has been involved in front end design and website architecture since 1996. In 1999 he set off to pursue the creative freedoms of working freelance, and since has worked on assignments for many industry leading clients. Carm and Jason have been working together since 1998. Their collaborative credits include one of the largest internet ad campaigns of 2000, which helped AltaVista.com and Shopping.com become the 8th largest website, and largest shopping website in the US at the time.

Matt Weiss
As contributing editor for DivePhotoGuide Matt has been in the field and covering events for DPG since 2007. Matt is a biology major at Skidmore College pursuing a career in Marine Biology. A diver for 7 years, he’s traveled to some of the best dive sites in the Caribbean and Asia and loves to photograph what he sees. Matt's a muck diving fanatic. He also is a web designer and the official website manager for NYUPS.org and has been instrumental in keeping NYUPS events running smoothly.

Keri Wilk
Having grown up in a family of divers and underwater photographers (ReefNet Inc.), it is no surprise that by the age of 23, this Canadian diver has already accumulated 13 years of underwater photography experience. Starting with the Nikonos series and progressing through various SLR's and DSLR's, Keri has accumulated a large image library and vast diving experience throughout the Caribbean and the Indo-Pacific at a very young age, as he participated in all of ReefNet's coral reef research expeditions and photo shoots.

Other than in ReefNet's field guides, Keri's first published underwater image appeared in Sport Diver when he was 16. Since then, his work has appeared in dozens of other magazines, scientific journals, books, and museums. We are happy to have Keri on board as a contributing editor.

Mike McNamara
As Contributing Technical Editor, Michael brings a wealth of technical knowledge to the readers of DPG. Mike was Popular Photography & Imaging Magazine's Executive Technology Editor for 17 years, a renowned expert on digital cameras, imaging products, inkjet & digital printing, and color management systems, and also an underwater photographer. It's a brave new world out there - the cameras are getting more powerful, workflow, and image storage are necessary skills for today's photographers. Mike's an expert on it all, and he's now here reporting it to the underwater community.

Andrea & Antonella Ferrari
Born in 1957 in Milan, Italy, Contributing Editor Andrea Ferrari is a movie journalist by trade and an underwater photographer, amateur marine biologist and book author by passion. Together with his beautiful wife of 20 years Antonella, he has authored several volumes - published in Italy, France, Germany, Holland, Spain, Great Britain, Malaysia, the USA, Brazil and Japan – which include Malaysia Diving Guide (1997) Malaysia - An Underwater Paradise (1998), Layang Layang  (1998), Top Nature and Dive Resorts of Borneo (2001), Reef Life (1999), Sharks (2000, with a foreword by Doug Perrine and contributions by Valerie Taylor, Marty Snyderman and Howard Hall), the coffee-table volume Oceani Segreti (2004), which has been awarded the World Grand Prize at the Underwater Image Festival at Antibes.  With their own company Nautilus Publishing, based in Malaysia, they have also published their best sellers: A Diver's Guide to Underwater Malaysia Macrolife (2003), A Diver's Guide to Reef Life (2006) and the new A Diver’s Guide to the Art of Underwater Photography (2007). Andrea and Antonella are associate editors of Singapore-based FiNS dive magazine, on which they author a column on underwater critters. Information on Andrea & Antonella’s books and projects can be found on their website ReefWonders.net.