Chuck Lacasse has worked as designer, art director, creative director, photographer, producer and brand strategist. At Vendi, he makes sure creative is beautifully connected to business strategy to get the best results possible. His experience includes working with small independent companies as well as national brands such as Walgreens, Whole Foods and Organic Valley. But whoever the client is, he uses his skills as an image-maker, storyteller and strategist to tell their stories in ways that resonate with their customers and achieve their goals.

Sam Przywojski is always up for a challenge, whether it’s hiking up mountains or helping businesses and organizations grow. As agency growth principal, his economics background, enthusiastic approach and personal touch helps open doors to new possibilities. 

Sam spent eight years racking up airline miles as a key accounts executive with a leading international packaging company. Inspired by our culture, he joined Vendi to extend the agency’s reach and help new partners reach their potential with a combination of focused strategy and inspired creative.

The ability to strategize, coordinate and optimize is what Molly Walleser brings to Vendi. In her position as director of digital media, she helps projects run smoothly by making sure everyone involved understands the goals and that the execution is on track. She obsesses over the details so our clients don’t have to. Her work ethic stems from growing up on a busy family dairy farm and creamery business. Along the road to becoming a great marketer, Molly picked up skills by targeting patrons of the arts for a large performing arts center.

Jennifer Lossen brings a fresh approach and impeccable aesthetic to her design and draws on both her creative and organizational skills. She is highly involved in Vendi Share projects, volunteers with Freedom Honor Flight and manages their active social network. Publication design, design for social media and digital advertising are her forte. She finds it especially rewarding to take a project from conception to completion as an art director.

If Vendi had trains, they would not only run on time but anticipate the traveler’s every need. Kate is the reason. As a marketing and media strategist, she’s adept at organizing communications programs, brand strategy projects and media campaigns while providing the day-to-day support that makes client partnerships productive. She keeps her big-picture perspective while minding the minutia—and not letting accolades go to her head. Kate’s special expertise includes digital and social media marketing and she is particularly skilled in the areas of healthcare and higher education.

Elly Reister embraces both her creative and marketing roots, focusing on effective communication for specific audiences and media. After many years in creative direction, advertising agency management and senior marketing management, she followed her passion and now concentrates on copy and content for Vendi. Elly applies broad experience in advertising, publications, B2B marketing, brand, digital and direct marketing to each communication challenge. She has significant financial, healthcare and telecom experience.

Erik is an exceptionally imaginative art director and designer who consistently generates bold, on-target and engaging design. His work has earned national recognition for creative excellence including SIAA, Graphic Design USA and Addy awards. He serves as both design lead for brand identity and design mentor at Vendi. Erik has significant experience working with both business and consumer accounts in the educational, leisure and tourism, manufacturing and tech industries.

As an associate creative director, Winnie Jaworski knows how to leverage her creative impulses to serve clients’ goals. In fact, her approach can be summed up by her favorite quote, “Creativity is a wild mind with a disciplined eye.” Her talents as a designer are complemented by a skill set that includes management and leadership abilities. Winnie is able to grasp all aspects of any challenge that lands on her desk and choose an approach that leads to success. Her goal is to make Vendi clients feel understood and WOW them with our creative.

John Horsfall is an accomplished interpreter who bridges the worlds of design from brand to web, print ads to packaging. With fluency in art and code, John’s concepts anticipate user experience and development solutions with nothing lost in translation. Think design is just about making things pretty? John’s refined design aesthetic engages, informs and guides the user down a deliberate path of action. His portfolio includes campaign development, design and UX for clients in healthcare, higher education, financial services, telecom and food industries.