Site Theme/Company Logo/Banner Design For Professional Financial Website

The project in question is for a Finance/News Website located at [login to view URL] We need a designer who has experience in creating professional logos/brand images for reputable companies. We will need a new banner image to replace the existing Economic Discourse logo. We will also need a basic vector of the logo in isolation as well. We are NOT looking for an amateur, the designer should provide a portfolio of work they have completed. Essentially, we are looking for a designer to build us a logo for our corporation from scratch, and implement it onto a nice looking banner. Also, the existing color scheme need not be utilized, a fresh new color scheme can be applied to the website to match the new banner/logo. Our existing header image has been provided for sizing requirements etc...Also we use skype and we hope you do to!