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The Gardeners
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Mike Stretch - Partner
Mike has been a graphic designer for 25+ years and a business owner for much of that time. His two prior firms, Pine Creek and Steadfast, attest to a love of historic preservation and a personal faith that he brings to work. He was also vice president and creative director at PrintManagement and chief marketer for a development company that built waterparks and amusement parks throughout the Midwest. Mike graduated from the University of Cincinnati/DAA with a degree in graphic design. Today he lives in Mason with his wife and three children. During the weekend you may find him tramping around Civil War battlefields or making sawdust in his wood shop.
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Doug Landers - Partner
Doug has an exceptionally deep background in website development and internet marketing technology. Over the past 20 years he has worked for Cincinnati Bell Information Systems, General Electric, 3X and HSR in lead technology and technology management roles. During that time he also started up website development ventures aimed at improving the online presence for small business and non-profits. Doug has a degree in computer science from Bowling Green State University and an MBA from Xavier University. He participates fully in the actual world, living in Mason with his wife and two children, and coaching the kids in sports. There are alpacas in his future.
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Valerie Hoffman – Design Director
Valerie has been chief designer and design director at Steadfast since its inception in 2006, and worked with Mike at PrintManagement for five years before that. Her talents are instrumental in translating client objectives into visual language, and managing the process in a way that everyone can count on. Valerie is a graduate of the School of Advertising Art in Kettering, Ohio. Away from the office, her world centers on her husband, two young children, church and various physical aspects of their home in Centerville. She indulges in a healthy fantasy life of hiking, painting, skydiving and cooking long, involved meals.
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Hannah Stout - Graphic Designer
Hannah is a recent graduate of Miami University in Oxford Ohio. She has been pursuing design for the majority of her 22 years on this planet. From her humble beginnings teaching four younger siblings how to draw, paint and use their imaginations, to her real-life quest to make her love for art an employable talent, Hannah’s passion has always led her to find new and exicting ways to apply her vast stores of creativity. When she is not behind an Apple product, Hannah and her husband enjoy all things out-of-doors. You can find them skiing, climbing, biking, hiking, and joyfully frolicking in all of God’s creation. Someday Hannah would like to move to a remote log cabin in the San Juan mountains, cook over a wood burning stove and raise a full quiver of children. Until then, she is perfectly content using her epic design skills at BrandGarden and listening to audio books about the wild west.
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Marcene Nichols- Marketing Strategist
Marcene has been engaged in some form of marketing or communications since that spring day at Georgetown College when she tossed her mortar board into the air. For over 15 years Marcene has brought her sunny and optimistic approach to life to her clients and colleagues alike. With her knack for uncovering valuable business insights from her clients, Marcene brings an entirely new level of strategic thinking to the BrandGarden client roster. When not serving alongside her colleagues and friends, Marcene enjoys her role as a BSA-trained scout leader and Chaplain, as well as traveling as a short-term foreign missionary. With three active boys, a doting husband and a black lab named Scarlet, life for Marcene is full of the richest blessings.
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