Our Team

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Susan Stimart

President

Susan is an economic development practitioner with 25 years experience in policy and project implementation relating to urban planning, transportation planning, affordable housing and community economic development. Susan has over 500 connections in Linkedin; many of those are entrepreneurs, financiers, investors, and educators. Susan has experience growing tourism programs such as the Monticello Artisan Trail. She also is experienced with policy implementation including creating new grant programs to incentivize entrepreneur growth, as well as streamlining governmental permitting to help with business growth, and shaping workforce development strategies.

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Marshall Hanbury Jr.

Creative Director

Throughout his entire career path, Marshall has explored the ever changing relationship between creativity, media, and commerce. Following his departure from a 8 year career as a recording and touring artist for both RCA and Canvasback/Columbia Records, Marshall re-located from Chicago, IL to Richmond, VA to begin a self reinvention process that culminated in receiving his degree in Psychology from the University of Virginia. While at UVa, Marshall decided to dive deeper into the world of research and began studying the effects of social situations on both creativity and decision making processes at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.

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Jill Krais

Social Media Specialist

Jill has served the marketing needs of several different organizations, both large and small. In college, she was a copywriter and proofreader for a small-town newspaper where she learned first-hand how to generate excitement and community pride and condense those important elements into strategic and efficient marketing plans. She began her post-college marketing career at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (currently called CME Group) where she was heavily involved in market research as well as marketing strategy implementation across several different types of finance products. On a smaller scale, she has helped several organizations develop their community exposure in order to attract donations as well as development opportunities. For several years, she has managed the Facebook page for AOK for today which is a non-profit organization that cultivates kindness-based activities for school children. AOK today has created programs for children of all walks of life and ages. These programs have been utilized by schools, churches and community organizations as an anti-bullying educational platform.



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Seth Coogan

Videographer & Aerial Drone Pilot

Seth Coogan, Charlottesville, Virginia native and University of Virginia alumnus,  left his career in biotechnology in 2014 and spent four months traveling the world as the videographer for a popular travel website. He traveled through 7 countries and produced videos for clients ranging from local dive shops to some of the world’s finest 5-star resorts. Returning to Virginia, he has worked on film crews for documentaries, short and feature length films, and countless commercials. Today, he works as a video creator based out of Charlottesville, Virginia.