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John Georgas
Chairman Emeritus
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Geoff Bevington
President
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Nancy O’Leary
Vice President
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Kristen Cudden
Digital Creative Director
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Jeff Maniglia
Creative Director
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Ranjit Pillai
Developer
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Brenna Dunckel
Marketing Project Manager
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Ryan Rudolf
Digital Marketing Analyst
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Joe Assise
Print Production Manager
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Tim Williams
Premedia Specialist
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Laura Hill
Social Media Marketing Specialist
John Georgas
Chairman Emeritus
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.
- 630-529-1936 x. 228
Geoff Bevington
President
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
- 630.529.1936 x. 223
Nancy O’Leary
Vice President
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
- 630.529.1936 x. 224
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
- 630.529.1936 x. 237
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
Ranjit Pillai
Developer
Ranjit Pillai known by RJ is a core tech guy and has a PHD in computer application and Masters in Computer Science. Previously, RJ worked as a Project Manager as well Senior Software Engineer for big corporations including LinkedIn.
Brenna Dunckel
Marketing Project Manager
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
- 630.529.1936 x. 230
Ryan Rudolf
Digital Marketing Analyst
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
- 630.529.1936 x. 250
Joe Assise
Print Production Manager
- assise@customdirect.com
- 630.529.1936 x. 236
Tim Williams
Premedia Specialist
With over 30 years of experience, Tim is always looking to further his extensive color knowledge, prepress and premedia skills with a continued emphasis on improvement and training. Tim’s experience with a wide range of consumer and business catalog, web and print ad accounts. including high fashion luxury goods, has developed into a knack for successfully managing media for omnichannel use including web, mobile and print platforms.
Tim’s innate sense of color and understanding of how his work translates to the final medium, whether print or digital, combined with his ability to manage and organize complex workflows make him a tremendous asset to Custom Direct and our clients.
- williams@customdirect.com
- 630.529.1936 x. 249
Laura Hill
Social Media Marketing Specialist
Laura is a wonderful addition to the CDI team, contributing to all things social media, research, and content development. Laura will be a senior this fall at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, studying General Management with a minor in Spanish.
