Meet Our LDM Team

With a background in retail marketing and years in promotion strategy and execution, Chris brings real-world marketing and communication to Lentini Design & Marketing. She has her BA in Advertising from the University of Illinois-Urbana, an MA in Organizational Development from DePaul University and is certified as a strategic facilitator through the Creative Problem-Solving Institute. Chris founded and led The Grand Group, a Creative Marketing Agency in Chicago with top tier clients including Gatorade, Crayola, Kraft, Haagen-Dazs, Guinness, Motorola and Keebler. She brings promotional ideas and the words to communicate these to LDM clients.

Leanna is a graduate of New England Conservatory in Boston where she received her Master’s Degree in Violin Performance in 1992. She later attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Leanna’s clean, fresh, disciplined yet lively design style is very much sought after and appreciated.

She has worked with Caruso Affiliated, CBS Paramount TV, The Doors: 40th Anniversary Book, DJM Capital Partners, FedEx: United Way Fundraising Campaign, Kathy Ireland Home by Alta, Scholastic Books, and Sony Pictures.

Leanna has been with LDM since 2008, using her design talents primarily on print design and web user interface design. She especially enjoys being part of this dynamic team.

Keith has decades of experience as a professional software developer, and has worked on every platform, framework, and technology since the 90s. He holds a BSCS from University of Arkansas. To him, one of the most important lessons learned from a lot of experience is what NOT to do, and how to set a project up for long term success. Keith has built and maintained many websites and applications from scratch and is fluent in systems like WordPress, Drupal, jQuery, and others. Selecting the right tool for the challenge at hand, Keith’s expertise means the client and LDM’s editorial/design team can concentrate on the real goal: the content and the message. Keith is an expert in programming languages including CSS, HTML, Javascript, JSON, XML, PHP, C#, SQL, and has designed, built, and maintained websites and back-end systems serving 15+ million searchable documents, and terabyte sized databases. He’s also an expert in eCommerce systems, security, and backup and recovery.

AJ is our social media strategist and head barista. He’s spent a nifty 26 years as a comedy writer, performer, and radio talking head. If you look back far enough you’ll find his standup appearances on MTV, Showtime, Fox, and Oprah. There’s also a degree in Communication and Fine Arts that he’s not ashamed of. And yes, he’s aware he just ended a sentence with a preposition. He also tends to refer to himself in the third person. Finally, since it’s wrong to pad one’s resume…the end.

Aria graduated with a BA in English from Humboldt State University. There, she curated her love for writing and the creative arts. At LDM, Ari assists with project management, graphic design, website builds, and proofreads digital and print content.