Office: (419) 885-2626
Toledo, Ohio Metropolitan Area
Rae Navarre
Marketing Director
As the Marketing Director at SJS, Rae brings extensive experience in branding and strategic marketing to the firm. She also serves on the Community Involvement and Events Committees, reinforcing her passion for fostering connections and engagement.
A Toledo native, Rae attended St. Ursula Academy before earning her Bachelor of Science in Visual Communication Technology from Bowling Green State University. She also studied at the Studio Arts Center International in Florence, Italy—where her true love of coffee began.
With expertise in branding, websites, video, photography, social media, and digital marketing, Rae is passionate about crafting meaningful messages that help brands connect with their audiences. Her dedication to community-driven marketing was evident in her role as Marketing Manager for the Downtown Sylvania Association, where she fostered business collaboration, strengthened branding efforts, and enhanced economic development through strategic branding initiatives and events.
Most recently, Rae worked at Owens Corning as a Creative Project Manager, leading teams to ensure projects stayed on track and within budget. Now, she enjoys collaborating with the SJS team to bring ideas to life and elevate the firm’s brand presence.
Outside of work, Rae enjoys spending time outdoors with her family—including her two children and golden retriever, Nelson—traveling, practicing yoga, reading, going to local coffee shops and playing pickleball.
SJS Investment Services creates a weekly market update to summarize performance characteristics for major stock and bond indices.
This fall, we had the pleasure of working with Isaac Saffold, an intern from Georgetown University. Isaac joined us through a meaningful connection — he was referred by the Georgetown football coach, as SJS Senior Advisor Andrew Schaetzke also played on the team. It’s a great example of how strong relationships open doors and create opportunities.
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At SJS Investment Services, we believe the client experience is about more than numbers on a page. Our mission is to empower you to build better lives. Recently, our internal SJS Book Club explored The Power of Moments by Chip and Dan Heath, a book that examines why certain experiences stand out — and how we can intentionally create more of them for our clients, colleagues, and communities.
Our purpose at SJS is to empower you to build a better life. What a better life–a good life–means varies from person-to-person. While our focus is on finances and investments, our purpose extends far beyond money.
To more deeply understand what a better life entails, the SJS Book Club recently read The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness by Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz.
SJS Investment Services is proud to be #11 on CNBC’s 2025 Financial Advisor (FA) 100 list, an annual ranking of registered investment advisory (RIA) firms within the United States.[1]
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SJS Investment Services has been recognized in the Forbes / SHOOK 2025 list of America’s Top RIA (Registered Investor Advisor) Firms.