DMA Team
Nicki Miser
VP of Operations
Ivonne Ortega
Assistant to CEO
Austin Miller
Literary Agent
Rebecca Silensky Echols
Contracts Manager
Sydney Keith
Assistant to President
Noah Benjamin
Technology & Design
Spencer Gaffney
Consulting Editor - NY
DMA FOUNDER
Jan Miller
Jan Miller is the founder and CEO of DMA. She has the rare blend of irrepressible optimism, personal warmth, and shrewd entrepreneurial instincts. She doesn’t just find markets, she creates them. Her unwavering instincts have yielded thousands of international bestsellers across all categories of nonfiction and fiction. She cherishes working with creative people who make the world a better place, and, as she always hastens to add, “we are brokers of intellectual ideas.”
She is an activist for education and human rights which she considers her greatest life work. She and her husband, Jeff Rich, have sponsored dozens of educational scholarships and financed a library in South Africa for The Wilson Foundation. For more than a decade, they have raised millions of dollars for Best Buddies International which is dedicated to establishing a global volunteer movement creating opportunities for one-to-one friendships for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Jan currently serves on the board of SMU Tate Lecture Series, The World Affairs Council, The Dr. Phil Foundation and The Shriver Report.
PRESIDENT
Shannon Marven
Shannon Marven is recognized as a major player in the publishing world and as a key component in DMA’s successful operation. Her clients applaud her dedication, hard work, and uncommon levels of common sense. Shannon Marven has the ability to turn raw concepts into polished products, shepherding them to the marketplace where they become cultural movements. She is hailed as the “secret weapon” by Dr. Phil McGraw and others who have benefited from her astute management and creativity.
Her motto: “If you have to tell people how good you are, you’re probably not.”
Her 2022 resolution is to hike Mt. Baldy and finish the never ending Pink Picasso paint by number peonies project.