ALPSEC Producers and Staff

Jack Rinella - Visionary & Producer

For more than seventeen years Jack Rinella has been writing LeatherViews a weekly, column about his favorite topic: kinky sex. A sought-after lecturer, Jack has presented seminars on BDSM history, techniques, and relationships across the country. Born in Albany, New York of Italian-American parents, he's the author of eight books, including the best-selling The Master’s Manual. He has a Bachelor degree in Philosophy and a Master Degree in Business Administration.

He has been active in the Leather scene since 1983, is a founding member of MAsT-Chicago, an associate member of the Chicago Hellfire Club, and serves as a director on the board of the Leather Leadership Conference. He lives on the North side of Chicago where he passes the time writing, cruising, and falling in love whenever he can.

Malik - Producer

Malik has been active in organized BDSM/Leather lifestyle since April 1999. Currently he is member of Tulsa Dungeon Society (TDS), Tulsa Uniform and Leather Seeking Association (T.U.L.S.A.), National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF), National Leather Association-International (NLA-I), founder of MAsT-Tulsa, and is associate member of Chicago Hellfire Club (CHC).

Malik has been producing Great Plains Olympus Leather Contest and Xpressons Annual Events since 2007. So far, he has managed to not lose any significant amount of money in these emotional masochism adventures. Malik has also been presenting in several local, regional and national events and conferences.

Malik's role as ALPSEC Producer is to be ultimately responsible to produce ALPSEC conferences. This requires finding and procuring venues, arranging and managing volunteers to run the conference, taking care of the presenters, classes and supplies. He is also responsible for collecting fees, paying expenses and requesting donations from other organizations and friends. In short, he shall be neck deep in doing the toils nobody else wants.

Auburn Landry - Marketing Chair

Auburn Landry is a highly experienced presenter both professionally and in the leather community. Auburn has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, with a Master’s Certification in Project Management from George Washington University. A certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and former international consultant in her vanilla career, she has presented frequently to fellow project managers, senior executives and at annual conferences over the last fifteen years. In the BDSM lifestyle community. Auburn Landry and her slave Devon DeLandry have presented at numerous southeast organizations as well as regional and national events such as SELF, TESFest, Leather Leadership Conference, Beyond Leather, Winter Solstice and DomCon Atlanta. Locally in the central North Carolina area, Auburn has facilitated the formation of a presenter peer networking and support group called KinkMasters, where presenters can get candid feedback from their local peers.

Auburn's role with ALPSEC in 2010 is that of Marketing Chairperson. Through her kink-friendly web design company Her Devious Designs, and their affiliated graphic designer, Myra Ray Graphix, Auburn is responsible for all media creations and communication on behalf of ALPSEC. This includes creation of the new ALPSEC logo, website design and maintenance, hosting, marketing displays, promotional cards and newsletter announcements.