Nearly 30 years of building the deck that has to work

Jamel Herbert-Deans

I’ve spent nearly three decades in presentation design, starting on the desktop art teams inside investment banking presentation centers — Merrill Lynch and Bank of America — where a deck went out the door only after it passed banker review, print production, and a deadline that didn’t move.

From there, my work moved into pharmaceutical and medical advertising, building physician education and launch materials for agencies including Health Science Communications, BGB Communications, and Inventiv Health — presentations that had to satisfy medical, legal, and regulatory review before a single slide reached a doctor.

I’ve also worked directly with attorneys and trial teams — at Precision Trial Solutions-Golkow and RLM Resonant Legal Media — building courtroom-ready demonstratives and traveling domestically to support trial teams on-site.

Most recently, I worked as a Senior Presentations Specialist at Rothschild & Co on M&A and advisory materials. Jaymelology Creative brings all of that experience — banking, medical, and litigation — into one practice built for organizations that present under real scrutiny.

I studied architecture at City College of New York and trained at the High School of Art and Design in New York, which is where the structural, spatial thinking in this work started.