Brian Aitken is a marketing and communications professional who served as the first Director of New Media for the Foundation for Economic Education and the Head of Creative Strategy for Emergent Order. He supervised global campaigns for Adobe while at Edelman Digital—the interactive arm of the world's largest PR firm—and is the publisher and Chief Creative Strategist for Alister & Paine Magazine. He lives over the mountain from New Paltz, New York with his wife and their two dogs, Frankenstein and Rockefeller. In 2010, Brian Aitken was sentenced to seven years in prison for possessing firearms he legally owned. He spent four months behind bars before Governor Chris Christie demanded his release.