About us

TEKNIK DIGITAL ARTS, INC.

John Ward, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Ward has over 25 years experience in the data storage, software, entertainment and wellness industries. Managing director of Swiss Capital Management, LLC, a private venture capital firm located in Basel, Switzerland and Scottsdale Arizona. The founder and CEO of a data storage company that was named  Investor’s Daily’s number one performing computer stock. He has  lived in the Phoenix area for 28 years, married, one child.  Has helped finance and has volunteered in children’s sports leagues and activities in the Phoenix area for the past 20 years.

Benjamin Robins, Vice President of Business Development, Director has over 25 years’ experience in professional sports, entertainment and sports marketing. He has worked for some of the leading companies in the industry including the ATP Tennis Tour, and SFX, the largest sports management company in the world.

Ray J. Artigue   Senior  VP of Marketing has lived in the Valley of the Sun for most of his life. He recently served as Senior Vice President of Marketing for the Phoenix Suns basketball team, in charge of all sales and marketing for 15 years.. Currently, Mr. Artigue is the Executive Director of the Arizona State University (ASU) Sports Business MBA Program as well as a "Professor of Practice." Mr. Artigue is a 1976 graduate of ASU, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. In 1994, Ray received the Hall of Fame Award from the ASU College of Public Programs and in 1997 he received the Hall of Fame Award from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Mr. Artigue serves as a member of numerous civic and community organizations and boards.

MEDICAL, EXERCISE, AND WELLNESS ADVISORS

Dr. Craig M. Phelps is a fellowship-trained primary care sports medicine physician and is board certified in family medicine.  Practicing over 20 years in the phoenix metropolitan area, Dr. Phelps currently serves as primary care physician for the NBA Phoenix Suns, and WNBA Phoenix Mercury, physician for Ballet Arizona, team physician for Grand Canyon University, Scottsdale Community College, Paradise Valley Community College and Gateway Community College. Dr. Phelps also serves as Provost of A.T. Still University of Health Sciences Mesa campus, overseeing the development of the campus’s medical school of the future, Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health, and programs in Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Physician Assistant Studies, Audiology, and Athletic Training.

Dr. Charles B. ("Chuck") Corbin has been a professor at Arizona State University for more than 20 years. He is currently a member of the faculty in the department of exercise and wellness at Arizona State University-East. He is the senior or sole author of more than 70 books. Fitness for Life (winner of the Texty Award of the Text and Academic Authors Association), Concepts of Physical Fitness (winner of the McGuffey Award), and Concepts of Fitness and Wellness are the most widely adopted high school and college texts in the area of fitness and well ness.

Two of Dr. Corbin's video programs have earned Telly Awards for Excellence for educational videos. He was first author of the national physical activity standards for children, published by the Council on Physical Education for Children (COPEC) and the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE).

Dr. Corbin is acknowledged as the father of the conceptual physical education movement that he pioneered at both the secondary school and college levels. He is internationally recognized as an expert in physical activity, health and well ness promotion, and youth physical fitness. Dr. Corbin demonstrates his commitment to physical education by sharing his work at state alliance for health, recreation and dance (AHPERD) meetings. He has been the keynote speaker at more than 35 state AHPERD conventions and has made major addresses in Brazil, Ireland, England, Australia, and various European countries. He has presented numerous named lectures including the Cureton Lecture at the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) convention, the Hanna and Sargent Lectures at the National Association for Physical Education in Higher Education (NAPEHE) convention, the Prince Phillip Lecture at the British Physical Education Association convention, and the Weiss Lecture at an American Alliance for Health, Recreation and Dance convention.

Dr. Corbin has published more than 200 professional, research, and popular articles. He is a former president and fellow of the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education. Among the awards he has received are the Healthy American Fitness Leaders Award (President's Council, National Jaycees), AAHPERD Honor Award, Physical Fitness Council Honor Award, the COPEC Hanson Award, and the Distinguished Service Award of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. He is a lifetime member of AAHPERD and a 30-year member and fellow in the American College of Sports Medicine. Dr. Corbin was named Alliance Scholar by AAHPERD, and Distinguished Scholar of NAPEHE. Dr. Corbin served as editor of several periodicals, including Quest and the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sport (PCPFS) Research Digest. He is a member of the scientific advisory board of the PCPFS President's Challenge Program and is a charter member of the FITNESSGRAM/ACTIVITYGRAM advisory board.