Our team

Elisabeth Brennen Client Success Team Intern

Education: B.A. International Studies, Political Science - University of Michigan (2017)
Personal interest: Spanish, Swedish, international economics, knitting
Favorite quote: " You get in life what you have the courage to ask for."

Edward Stahlin VP & COO

With Direct Incorporation for 11 years
Education: University of Michigan
Personal interest: Small boat sailing and U.S. history
Favorite quote: "Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge." - Proverbs 14:7

Jennifer K. Harvey Client Success Team & Research

Education: Eastern Michigan University, Washtenaw Community College
Personal interest: Music, reading, baking, finding new and inventive ways of limiting my teenagers' screen time
Favorite quote: " Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon. "

Bill Rachwal Corporate Service Representative

Personal interest: Team Sports, Video Games, Hunting and Fishing, and Poker
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Joe Guenther Designer

Education: Bachelors of Fine Arts from Eastern Michigan University
Personal interest: Art, Hockey, Snowboarding
Favorite quote: "You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design"
Phone: 810 956 4912
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Maryann Lawrence Corporate Service Representative

With Direct Incorporation for 9 years
Education: University of Detroit
Personal interest: Sustainable business models, alternative education and health/wellness
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Graham Matthews Corporate Service Representative

Education: Eastern Michigan University
Personal interest: golf, netflix, fantasy football
Favorite quote: "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky
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Shannon Stahlin Founder

With Direct Incorporation for 11 years
Education: Baldwin Wallace, Tulane University
Personal interest: Family time Up North, Biking to work, Art
Favorite quote: "Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly." - Neil Gaiman
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Rebekah May Client Success Team & Research

Education: Eastern Michigan University
Personal interest: Colorguard, Taylor Swift, Twenty One Pilots, Makeup
Favorite quote: " Without your past, you never could've arrived - so wondrously and brutally, by design or some violent, exquisite happenstance....here. " - Taylor Swift

Eric Fine Graphic Designer

Education: Bachelors of Fine Arts from Eastern Michigan University
Personal interest: video games, boards games, comedy, music, and art.
Favorite quote: "Do good work. For good people." - Aaron Draplin
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Vitalii Valerivich Maximov Web Developer

Education: BA in Mathematics and Computer Science at Siena Heights University
Favorite quote: "Trust everyone, but always cut the cards." - Benny Binion
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MC Hataway Client Success Team & Research

Education: Louisiana State University
Personal interest: coffee, reading, napping, art history, Pinot Grigio
Favorite quote: " Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit." - Oscar Wilde

Sarah Gawne Client Success Team & Research

Education: Western Michigan University
Personal interest: Music, Reading, spending time with my daughters
Favorite quote: " Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne