Meet your new
virtual marketing
& design team.

VAAI means to see, to envision (in Sāmoan). 

Our VAAI team is rooted in our desire and passion to help clients share their story through digital media – 
the story of their people, community, products, services, and dreams. 

Las Vegas, NV + SF Bay Area

Upuia Ahkiong

Co-Founder

Upuia Ahkiong is a community organizer and leader. Her entrepreneurial history represents the vision she has for building businesses and groups as a massage therapist who helped develop Google’s massage therapy program. She then founded Silicon Valley’s first massage incubator, Kua Body LLC, in Los Altos and Pleasanton. In 2016, she created a grassroots non-profit organization WELA (Women Entrepreneurs Launch) to help support aspiring and active women small business owners in local communities. Upuia has a degree in Social Work and a Master in Counseling Psychology.

Chicago, IL

Ariana Pletta

Co-Founder + Designer

Ariana Pletta is a storyteller through design, promoting and elevating the voices of businesses through digital platforms. Creating her first handmade goods business while in college, Ariana has a creative spirit that aims to translate that creativity into business results for her clients. She has a degree in Marketing and has trained as a graphic designer at schools in Milwaukee, WI and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Mexico City, Mexico

Juliana Stoy

Co-Founder + Designer

Juliana Stoy is a designer with a wide range of artistic skills, from web design to illustration and photography. She has a degree in Graphic Design from University of the Arts, London. Juliana loves working in close collaboration with her clients to creatively explore the potential of their business. She’s passionate about traveling and draws inspiration from different destinations and cultures.

We’d love to hear more about your story.