Management Team

Lisbeth Bagnold, President & CEO

As president, owner and CEO of L&M Production Design Group, Lisbeth Bagnold has an unyielding zest for the communications business.  Her career extends over 28 years of experience, with virtually every aspect of the industry.  Before entering the industrial communications business, Beth had already distinguished herself as a performing artist, choreographer and director in New York.  Her extensive experience in preparing shows for international tours has proven invaluable since her move into “business theater.”

Beth’s emphasis on creative efficiency is reflected in the caliber of L&M’s staff.  She searches for people with multiple skills that complement one another and bring an increased dynamic to the team.  Beth gives creative guidance to each project that L&M produces.  This close involvement gives her a firsthand understanding of each client’s needs, and helps her identify which in-house resources are most valuable to the client.

Her clients include The Internal Revenue Service, Department of Justice – COPS, International Bottled Water Association, Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc., Worldwide Food Expo, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Bath and Body Works.

Under her guidance, L&M has won dozens of awards for creative achievement and innovation.  In addition, L&M won the Blue Chip Enterprise Award for exceptional business practices and the Global Paragon Award for meetings excellence.  Beth received a Bachelor of Arts cum laude and a Master of Arts Degree from UCLA.

Melanie Battle,  Vice President of Administration & Finance

As VP of Administration and Finance, Melanie Battle brings a spectacular blend of skills to the L&M team. Her experience encompasses pivotal roles on Capitol Hill, at the National Institutes of Health, and in the arena of higher education. Melanie mastered the logistics and political nuances of Washington by first working for a Member of the House of Representatives, and later with the staff of the powerful Senate Finance Committee. She also worked on a prestigious lobbying team that served clients such as medical professionals, metropolitan transit authorities, and a major sports league. 

Melanie went on to direct a ground-breaking program with the Wheeling Jesuit University that helped scientists working for the Federal Government to take their inventions to the open marketplace. In that role she interacted with inventors, venture capitalists, software developers, incubation firms and with industries as diverse as medical devices and aircraft manufacturing. Her expertise in intellectual property, budgeting, marketing and feasibility research helped establish a program that continues to thrive at the University today.

For NIH, Melanie was part of a 6-person team that analyzed and steered budgets and policies for IT programs costing hundreds of millions of dollars. Her mastery of government requirements in contracting and her ease of coordinating large scale, multi-faceted projects are skills that translate exceptionally well to the many tasks she supervises today at L&M.

Bruce Greenfield, Vice President, Production & IT

As Vice President of Production and IT at L&M, Bruce is constantly expanding the company’s capabilities into the widening world of digital communications.  His complete grasp of computer-based technologies has propelled him into a mastery of Websites, Internet communications and a vast array of tools to support L&M’s dynamic stage presentations.

Bruce trained in photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and then swiftly evolved from photojournalism and publication work into creating special effects for industrial multi-image presentations.  His move from photography to digital technologies was a natural one. 

Clients are consistently impressed not only by Bruce’s strong creative design skills and his command of multimedia tools, but also by his ability to communicate their use to audiences with diverse technical knowledge.  This ease of expression, the complete focus on client needs, all grounded in Bruce’s depth of expertise, make it possible for L&M to steadily advance along with the future edge of technology.

Paul Lamonia, Vice President, Marketing

Paul Lamonia joined L&M in 1997 as Vice President of Marketing after 28 years of experience in business-to-business and business-to-consumer marketing with a variety of leading packaged goods manufacturers. His Marketing efforts have earned him a Gold Effie and a Silver Effie from the American Marketing Association for brand growth, and he has also won numerous awards for packaging and trade advertising.

Paul’s overall objective for L&M’s clients is to maximize the return on investment of the Marketing programs using creative solutions to reach the target audiences.

At L&M, Paul has been leading the Marketing programs for the IRS Tax Talk Today® Internet broadcasting program. The marketing program has covered brand development, advertising, public relations, sponsorship programs, market research, email opinion surveys, and brochure development. The success of the program can be measured in the program awareness and continuing growth of the viewership audience.

Paul also developed the marketing plan covering advertising, PR, and a sponsorship program for the Final Approvals website. A complete Brand Building marketing plan for DISA/ACQ (Defense Information Systems Agency) was also developed.

He has created and launched a marketing program for the DOJ Office of Community Policing Oriented Services (COPS) that established the DOJConnect.com branded website. The program included building awareness and gaining registered viewers for all webcasts.

Paul has a Bachelor of Business degree from Western Illinois University and a MBA from Loyola University of Chicago.

Douglas Spiro, Director of Production

Doug is an award-winning producer with over 20 years of experience in the production of special events, video/film projects and communications media.  He brings to each project an invaluable mixture of organizational expertise and artistic passion.  Combine this with a keen ability to target client needs and translate those needs into realistic solutions with dramatic impact, and you have a remarkable talent on your team.

Winner of numerous awards for his production talents, Doug directs the production staff to seek out effective approaches to solve communications needs.  From concept to design to execution, these projects have been realized as video productions, 2-D and 3- D graphics, print projects, website design, live webcasts, original music, live entertainment and multi-media productions.

Doug brings a commanding sense of style, design and innovation to projects across the country and around the world, including the 2-hour PBS special Tutu and Franklin: A Journey Towards Peace.

Among his diverse mix of clients have been international corporations and organizations including: International Brotherhood of Steelworkers, LUZ Solar Energy, Kenetech Windpower, The National Visionary Leadership Project, ABC, The Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel and PBS to name a few.  Concise management and a belief in keeping surprises to a minimum and impact to the maximum consistently define his production philosophy.

Doug attended George Mason University where he studied communications.  From there he went on to work with award-winning production firms in the Washington, D.C. area.  He is also an accomplished photographer having held shows at the Smithsonian Institution and the South African Embassy in Washington.