About Us
We live in a fast paced digital crazed world.
It takes creativity, experience, a bit of grass-roots flair and strategic know-how to develop a story that captivates your target audience. INGroup Creative offers all of this and more when setting up small businesses for success.
Our experienced team believes in building solid INternal communication structures, developing INnovative campaigns, INvesting in community opportunities, and establishing brand awareness so your business is the IN thing.
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Meet the Team
Jeannette Punsoni Dardenne
Owner & Creator of Opportunity
With an MBA in finance and fortune 500 corporate experience, Jeannette decided to apply her management experience, creative spirit and passion for community engagement into owning her own business. Jeannette turned her financial know-how into starting a Connecticut based, nationally awarded real estate team and soon after began investing in real estate properties which she oversaw with her own a property management company. This experience ignited her passion for entrepreneurship.
As the foodie social media craze was in it’s infancy, Jeannette saw an opportunity to use her marketing skills to support locals entrepreneurs to gain the public attention they deserved. She started a social media based foodie community named Eat IN Connecticut. Still going strong, a vital dialogue was created to bring public attention for hospitality brands. As Jeannette’s reputation grew, it was natural that her outreach expanded to reach all kinds of innovative business brands. Thus, INGroup Creative was born - a Marketing and Public Relations company that would allow Jeannette to use her expertise and passion to support small businesses. Jeannette understands that dreams can turn into great innovations that support the entire community.
Catherine Ribeiro
Director of Storytelling
As a native Connecticutian, Catherine McKenna Ribeiro always adds a little extra nutmeg in her Banana Bread recipe. Catherine cut her Communications teeth on Capitol Hill, working in both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate for former Vice Presidential Nominee Joseph I. Lieberman (I/D-CT). Always a fan of spinning plates while spinning stories, she was also the Deputy Director of the Press Information Centers for the past four Democratic National Conventions, and enjoyed the opportunity to shadow the Media Operations team at the Jacksonville Super Bowl.
Loving larger-than-life schools almost as much as she enjoys large-scale events, Catherine holds two bachelor's degrees from Penn State University and is a Master of Science in Media and Communications as awarded by the esteemed London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Moreover, she is an alumna of The Women's Campaign School at Yale.
McKenna-Ribeiro joined IN with IN Group Creative in 2017, and she has been lobbying for the publicity light to shine on Connecticut's burgeoning lifestyle scene ever since.
Allison Kane
Creative, Graphics, and Events
Allison Kane comes to INGroup from just north of the Mason-Dixon bringing with her the diversity of spirit synonymous with the towns she called home and the diligence of the post-industrial steel town where she attended college. From studying and working in fun places like Connecticut, Ireland, Massachusetts and Minnesota, Allison uses her conversations with clients to create fireworks of print, copy and design.
Allison holds bachelor's degrees from Lehigh University, a Masters from St. Mary's and a Juris Doctorate from UCONN School of Law. She is a full-time secondary school teacher in Norwich and an original INGroup creative.