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Merit Direct, the New Cannan, CT-based direct marketing firm recently founded by Ralph Drybrough, has named seven partners all former employees of Direct Media Inc.

They are: Mark Joyce, chairman; Chad Slater, Paulette Schlotman and Denise Schremmer, vice presidents list brokerage; Lutz Schremmer, vice president list brokerage and interactive; Blair Barondes, vice president database marketing and Monique Gallowitz, vice president database administration.

The partners have contributed "significant" cash or lines of credit to finance the start-up organized as a private, limited liability corporation, Drybrough said. He added that more partners are expected to join the firm in the near future.

In addition, the company named Tara Smith and Sandy Minor to the positions of administrative assistants. The two are also former Direct Media employees.

Drybrough left the employ of Direct Media in December as the firm's senior vice president of business list services.

The firm expects to be working with a number of service bureaus including Acxiom Corp., Little Rock, AR and Creative Automation in Hillside, IL.

Merit Direct is a full service, list management, brokerage and e-commerce firm specializing in business-to-business. Temporarily based in New Cannan, CT the firm will move to its permanent location in downtown Stamford, CT later this month.