We believe that every business problem is unique.
That’s why we won’t give you the same old “agency” website. Yes, we have staff, awards, and all the capabilities you’d expect (and some you don’t), but with a twist: we make sure you get the right specialists to overcome your challenges. At Steadfast, we create the technology and marketing programs that actually help build your business, brand(s), and profits.
Key Bios:
Lawrence Neisler
Lawrence has spent a big part of his working career on the client side in marketing and sales—with P&L responsibility so he knows how to integrate a marketing program into a sales program. And he is always looking to help our clients innovate in every area of their business. Lawrence leads our award winning team that capable of taking on any business challenge.
Joe Mcgowan
Joe’s resume speaks for itself. Before joining our team, he was Senior Partner at Leo Burnett where he was responsible for some of their largest consumer clients to include Com Ed, Harris Bank, Heinz, Nestle, United Airlines, and United Distillers (Dewar’s). Joe is a master tactician, strategist, and innovator of big ideas.
Laurence Minsky
Larry has created marketing solutions for many blue chip clients, including Bay Valley Foods, Beltone, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Charter One Bank, Coca-Cola, Dean Foods, Diners Club, Direct Merchants Bank, Dole, Fleetwood Homes, Frito-Lay, GE Finance, Kraft, McDonald’s, Motorola, Nike, PETsMART, S.C. Johnson, Sears, Skil, SunTrust, Time-Life, Tropicana, True Value, Unilever, United Airlines, United States Postal Service, Upromise, USG, and Y-Me National Breast Cancer Organization. He is author of the advertising classic, “How to Succeed in Advertising When All You Have Is Talent” and is presently co-writing a book on promotions. Larry won more advertising awards this year than most agencies win collectively and still managed to teach advertising at Columbia College Chicago.
Mark Ingraham
Mark has been an Art Director for the best of the big and small agencies, including BBDO, Ogilvy & Mather, and the Ungar Group. And he has won piles of awards, including Addys, Tellys, New York Festival, Effies, London International, AICP, International Film Festival, Creativity Annual, Mobius, and many others. Bob Garfield of Advertising Age singled out Mark's work as being among the very best in the country.
Kristen Althoff
Kristen has the rare talent of being able to code and design, specializing in web user interfaces. She previously worked as a graphic designer for Grrr Records and for many local bands, shops, and organizations. She has also worked for numerous non-profits including Cornerstone Community Outreach Homeless Shelter, Illinois and US Public Interest Research Group, Sierra Club, and Human Rights Campaign.
Dan Slage
Dan was developing hospital bulletin board systems before the Internet, web-based data applications before most of us had a PC or email and he can write code in languages that us non-geeks have never heard of! He is skilled in ASP 1.0/2.0, MSSQL, T-SQL/Stored Procedures, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, DHTML, XML, ASC X12, Visual Basic, ActiveX, Access, ADO, DNN, asp.net, .net, Access, Clarion, Crystal Reports, TCP/IP, Sybase, Novell, Btrieve, Microstep, PowerBuilder, Network Design, NT Server Administration, Lease-line Internet Connectivity, Remote Access, Virtual Private Networks, Web hosting, E-mail Hosting, DNS Servers, Digital Certificate, MS SQL Server Administration, Firewalls, MS Windows Server Applications, Cisco Switches & Routers, 3-Com Routers, Citrix/MS Terminal Servers, Large Database Manipulation and Conversion, Data Mining/Reporting, Client-Server Applications, Accounting, Specialized Utilities, Telecommunications, Customer Tracking, Front end user interfaces, and a host of other stuff that we would have to talk him into telling us.