Doubled Christmas all by herself.

Lindsay loves Christmas exponentially more than the average person and so unilaterally expanded “the most wonderful time of the year” to include any month ending in ber. That means, for Lindsay, the Christmas season is September, October, November and December. In addition to reworking the holiday calendar, Lindsay has been busy excelling in leadership roles in marketing communications for regional and international businesses. These represent a wide range of industries, including economic development, Eprocurement, human capital/talent development and life science.

Lindsay grew up in Lansing, MI, and attended Western Michigan University, her mother’s alma mater. She is wife to her high school sweetheart, Mike, and mother to son Jackson. In 2007 Lindsay and Mike left the security of what Lindsay calls the “mitten-shaped Motherland” and moved to Chicago, where the three Tjepkemas live today. Lindsay values her faith, her family, her friends and her work and feels blessed with the opportunity to balance all four. Dislikes? Put seafood (“anything that once lived in the water”) at the top of that list.

Lindsay loves the positivity, confidence, enthusiasm and creativity she finds resonating throughout Maestro. “How can you not love a place where imagination is cultivated and encouraged until it blossoms into reality?”

Tjepkemaese

• Loves ice cream more than most people can comprehend and has been known to ravage an entire half-gallon in one sitting.
• As a child, actually thought she was a mermaid and added salt to her bath water to coax out her tail.
• Is the youngest person named one of “West Michigan’s Business Leaders Under 40.”

One of Lindsay’s favorite songs: “You & Me” by Dave Matthews Band