Stacy L. Kahan
After receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Risk and Insurance and also Finance from the University of Wisconsin, Stacy entered the insurance business. For nearly a decade, she was associated with New York Life, Mesirow Financial, and JMB Insurance.
She founded the Chicago office of Lang Financial Group in 1990. Lang Financial specializes in advising businesses and individuals about estate and business planning, executive benefits, and individual insurance protection.
Stacy and her team specialize in designing employee benefit packages for businesses. With more than two decades of experience finding solutions for clients’ financial and insurance needs, Lang Financial is a thriving entity.
Stacy continues her education to stay current with ever changing insurance industry and economic trends. She has earned the designation of Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU). This honor is held by only one percent of all insurance professionals.
She has also become a Certified Senior Advisor (CSA) to better understand the needs of the senior population, and the available networks to guide the aging client and their family. Stacy understands the importance of Long Term Care as an essential piece of every client’s planning for the future. Finally, Stacy became a Registered Financial Consultant (RFC) to round out her skill set to make her an essential part of her clients’ professional team.
Stacy has been married for 20 years, and has two teenage daughters. She has lived in Chicago for more than 20 years and loves walking in the woods with her husband and dog, traveling, skiing, practicing yoga, and enjoying a balanced life.
Brandie Roark
Brandie Roark has more than six years experience in the insurance industry. She has worked on both the employer’s side of insurance as well as the broker’s side. She also has experience in market analysis and as an IT liaison. Brandie joined the Lang Financial Group team in 2003.
Brandie is proficient in handling claim and billing issues and is excellent in customer relations. Her responsibilities include implementing new group enrollments, and handling all client service functions including processing contract changes, employee claims and billing issues.
Donna Landa
Donna has more than 20 years experience in the insurance industry. She has worked at several large insurance companies and has extensive experience working in the group side of the industry. Donna is experienced as a claim adjuster, claim auditor and claim supervisor. She has spent the last three years working on the broker side of the business as an account manager, processing contract changes, and handling all aspects of client service.
Donna joined the Lang Financial team in January, 2006 to service new business enrollments and group renewals. She will handle market analysis, enrolling new product lines, and rolling out ancillary lines of coverage.
Melody Rammel
Melody has more than 20 years experience in account management and client service in the insurance industry. She holds a BA in English/Communications from Mundelein College of Loyola University, and an MS in Management and Human Resource Development from National-Louis University. She has also earned the insurance industry designations of Health Insurance Associate (HIA) and Associate, Customer Service (ACS).
She entered the insurance industry in 1971, and has experience in client service, account and office management, and sales support. Her background is in individual life and health insurance. She has worked in both corporate office and brokerage environments. Melody joined the Lang Financial team in late 2003.
Melody is a native Chicagoan, but has traveled extensively in Europe and Scandinavia, and the Caribbean.
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Howard Schuff
Howard Schuff joined Lang Financial Group/Chicago in 2003. He has almost 30 years of experience in life, long term care and disability insurance and employee benefit planning, including medical, dental, disability, voluntary and various other employee benefits.
Howard graduated from the Indiana University in 1971 with a BA in business administration. Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, Howard traveled overseas after graduation for two years in the Middle East, Europe, Scandinavia, and North and Central America. He relocated to the Chicagoland area and entered the insurance business in 1974. Howard obtained his Series 7 securities license from the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) and has been helping individuals and businesses put together retirement plans since 1985.
Howard has been active working with graduate students of the Kellogg Graduate School of Management Health Industry Management Program. He has been involved in advisory roles and served on various advisory boards for many of the national health carriers doing business in the Chicagoland area. He has helped design benefit plans and provided valuable feedback on various plans strengths and weaknesses.
Whitney Katz
Whitney Katz, COO of Lang Financial Group, spent all of her childhood and high school years in Munster, Indiana. She entered the insurance industry in 2000 after graduating from Bradley University with a Bachelor of Science in psychology.
As a teenager, she developed a passion for the insurance industry. She witnessed and learned how disability insurance had helped her family when her father became disabled due to a hereditary disease that limited his ability to practice law for intermittent periods of time.
In 2001, Whitney had the opportunity to develop her passion for disability insurance when she was hired as a disability insurance marketing specialist. In this position, she studied all of the individual disability contracts in the marketplace. She helped and advised insurance agents all over the country which contracts would best fit their clients’ personal needs. In February of 2005 Whitney was introduced to Stacy Kahan, the Managing Director of Lang Financial Group. Stacy presented her with the opportunity to expand her knowledge, skills and experience with estate planning and corporate business planning. Whitney is currently managing the operations of Lang Financial Group as COO, assisting in Stacy’s client’s annual reviews, as well as other client services while building her own business and studying for her CLU.
Whitney has been living in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago for over 5 years. She still has a passion for psychology and helping people with mental obstacles. She serves on the board of Personal Solutions Counseling, a charity that raises money for those that need mental health counseling, but can’t afford it.
Sherri Silberg
Sherri Silberg originally joined Lang Financial Group in late 1998, and managed day-to-day operations until February, 2003, when she moved to southern California for 4 ½ years. She returned to Illinois, and to Lang Financial, in September, 2007.
Having worked both on the employer side and as an independent broker in a general agency environment, Sherri has more than 10 years experience in the field of insurance. Her specialty is designing individual and group sales presentations.
At Lang Financial, her responsibilities are primarily in the client review process. She assists our brokers in gathering information for business, estate and family income planning for our clients’ current and future needs.
Sherri’s other love is massage. She is an extraordinary Certified Massage Therapist, trained at the School of Healing Arts in Pacific Beach, California. She has linked her philosophies of Insurance and massage together in a unique way. With insurance, she feels she can help people ease their minds, and therefore their bodies, of the stress of worrying about the future needs of their families. With massage, she feels she can help them ease their bodies, and in turn their minds, of daily stress so they are free to enjoy being with their families.
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