ABOUT US
At Custom Direct, Inc., we work with a range of small to medium-sized businesses, primarily industrial resources and manufacturers. We enjoy learning about your business, and industry opportunities. How do we get started? We begin by actively listening to you.
OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU
By understanding your unique capabilities and services, our team of in-house experts is dedicated to providing innovative solutions to your most challenging business growth needs.
The Team

ABOUT US
At Custom Direct, Inc., we work with a range of small to medium-sized businesses, primarily industrial resources and manufacturers. We enjoy learning about your business, and industry opportunities. How do we get started? We begin by actively listening to you.
OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU
By understanding your unique capabilities and services, our team of in-house experts is dedicated to providing innovative solutions to your most challenging business growth needs.
The Team

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John Georgas
President/Principal

John Georgas
President/Principal
John brings more than 50+ years of entrepreneurial experience to the leadership team of Custom Direct. John’s broad range of experience in the graphic arts and communication industries includes leadership and ownership roles in companies ranging from sheetfed and web offset lithography, to complex and comprehensive management and production of 3,000-page catalogs, forms and prepress operations. John’s years of experience continue to provide a common-sense, stable lead in today’s current and ever-changing business climate.
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Geoff Bevington
VP Marketing Director/Principal
Geoff is a pragmatic entrepreneur who seeks to combine creative impulses and rational thought with sound strategy and practical experience – to build and nurture ideas, people and organizations. Geoff has more than 30 years of entrepreneurial, business-building experience, working with both B2B and B2C companies. Strategy’s equal partner in success is the ability to execute a tactical plan – to actually get things done. He has a highly successful track record of consistently identifying opportunities and providing the skills and guidance necessary to deliver results.
- bevington@customdirect.com
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Nancy O’Leary
Director, Marketing Strategies
Nancy partners with clients to understand their business challenges, industry nuances, and opportunities for a competitive advantage. Nancy focuses on providing marketing strategies which resonate and deliver measurable returns on investment. By leveraging paid media messaging to create brand momentum, as well as capitalizing on the incredible strength of marketing automation to nurture prospects into leads, Nancy and the CDI team bring a common-sense approach to marketing projects: create brand awareness and demand.
- oleary@customdirect.com
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Kristen Cudden
Digital Creative Director
Kristen’s extensive design and development talent is evident from project conception through completion. With a depth and breadth of experience that ranges from true design for print to interactive graphics and online experiences, Kristen’s unique design sensibility provides a truly integrated, omni-channel solution. As part of the Custom Direct team for over 20 years, Kristen brings creative innovative solutions to every digital platform.
- cudden@customdirect.com
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Jeff Maniglia
Creative Director
Jeff’s 30+ years of experience includes an extensive background as a print designer, illustrator, photographer and creative strategist. His print and pre-press background, as well as a continuous effort to stay on top of technology has served as the basis for many of our growing service offerings over the years. Jeff’s attention to detail and creative abilities are evident in his team’s delivery of successful marketing-driven design solutions.
- manigs@customdirect.com
- 630.529.1936 x. 238

Brenna Dunckel
Marketing Project Coordinator
Brenna brings tremendous project management acumen to our team and keeps our projects moving – and on time. Joining Custom Direct in 2019, Brenna brings a fresh perspective combined with experience in Account Management, and Marketing Content Creation – combining overall strategy and specific tactics for achieving, and surpassing, our clients’ goals and objectives.
- dunckel@customdirect.com
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Ryan Rudolf
Marketing Project Coordinator
Ryan integrates content creation with analytics to grow our clients’ online presence. Using custom social media marketing strategies, he creates original content and digital advertising campaigns that are required to execute successful marketing plans. Ryan also analyzes and builds analytics reporting to optimize your online presence and digital marketing strategy, simplifying the complex data into an easily digestible and understandable format. This allows clients to see how their websites and social media are performing.
- rudolf@customdirect.com
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Tim Williams
Color Correction + Retouching Expert
With over 30 years experience I am always looking to further my extensive color knowledge and Prepress experience. I have had experience on almost every type of Catalog or Print Ad account. I have extensive swatch matching ability and color knowledge. I am quick, accurate, organized, and confident of my Prepress abilities. I always look ahead and plan situations out which is always useful in the Prepress market. I am always looking for and implementing smoother work flows to save the company and client money.
- williams@customdirect.com
- 630.529.1936 x. 249