About Us

Marina Devoulin, principal agency owner, served on Safeco's National President's Council for 15 years and held the Award of Excellence since 1984.  Most recently she and our agency were honored by Safeco and named a top agency and inducted into their prestiges H.K. Dent Society.  Marina has been a licensed real estate agent and was a member of the Diplomats Club for the SF Chamber of Commerce.  She has been a guest lecturer with the University of California and SF Community Colleges on subjects of insurance and financial security as well as contributed articles to Money Magazine on these issues.  In her free time, Marina loves to travel with her husband and agency VP, Nick, as well as garden.

 

Svetlana Artemoff, CPCU, an agency partner specializing in Commercial Lines, and Marina's sister, has retired as of August 2010.  She now gets to spend more time creating art, tending to her vegetable garden, travelling with her husband, and visiting with her nephew Rowan.  We miss her at the agency!

 

 

Nick Devoulin, agency VP and CFO, joined Marina Associates in 1991.  He was a communications engineer and financial planner with PG&E for over 30 years and holds a Masters in Business Management from Santa Clara University.  When not crunching numbers, he can also be counted on to fix our phone system, troubleshoot DSL problems, and keep us loaded up on supplies.  He's our resident Renaissance Man.

 

Steven Devoulin, Nick and Marina's son, is our Santa Rosa branch manager and agency partner.  Steve is a UC Berkeley graduate in Anthropology and Psychology and has been with the agency for over 20 years.  He's responsible for keeping our Personal Lines Department running smoothly.

 

Raquel Devoulin, Steven's wife and agency partner, handles personal and commercial lines.  Before joining Marina Associates in 1999, she worked with an insurance agency for over 12 years that specializes in business insurance.

 

Kathy Lefebvre, Customer Service Representative, works alongside Steve in our Santa Rosa office to ensure our clients get the best customer service possible.  She has been with Marina Associates since 2002 and is the only non-family member, but we consider her family.  She has a BA in Management from St. Mary's College, and took a break from her career in Product Development to focus her energy on her teenage son Jared.  They enjoy the beach, boating, hiking, bike riding, camping - anything outdoors.  Also accompanying Kathy and Jared on their adventures is her longtime significant other, Eric, the skipper of the boat!

 

Suzanne Artemoff, Marketing Director and girl Friday, is Marina and Nick's niece and Svetlana's daughter.  Before joining Marina Associates in 2004, she worked for Levi Strauss & Company for 9 years in Marketing and Merchandising.  She has a BA in International Relations and a minor in Russian Language from U.C. Davis.  She's always looking for a new place to travel to, loves to cook (especially Caribbean food) and play guitar, and has a strange and untreated addiction to mangoes.