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We saw a $127 billion industry with an image problem,
and decided to change it.

GCI was founded based on the insight that consumers feel the $127B gift card industry lacks warmth and personalization. It is often viewed as a last minute gift of convenience.

Through countless research projects, we established our expertise in understanding the dynamics between communications and gifting that occur around key events throughout the year. Our team has since expanded its capabilities to provide digital and physical solutions that dramatically improve communications by creating more meaningful engagement. Through significantly investing in technology and engineering to improve the level of engagement when celebrating an occasion, we created a comprehensive approach to inventing new, innovative solutions.

In the physical world, GCI developed uniquely engineered packaging solutions to improve the presentation of a Gift Card. With 84% of consumers placing a gift card into some type of packaging before giving to the recipient, this market was underserved and lacked quality and innovation. GCI has been awarded more than 50 patents with dozens pending, for the unique techniques used to provide best-in-class packaging.

Our innovative packaging is available at most major retail stores and for the majority of leading brands offering gift cards.

In the Digital world, GCI invented a technology platform to create multi-media communication experiences that are a significant improvement over yesterday’s traditional email or text message. These engaging techniques add in-depth personalization and allow a scalable system for improving the loyalty and engagement desired by retailers, brands and corporations. The system integrates smoothly into existing platforms to allow broad data inputs. It also integrates into gift card transaction platforms to deliver gift cards, rewards and incentives when desired. GCI has received numerous awards, patents and trademarks and expects to share its extensive research and capabilities collaboratively with its partners to establish the next generation of engaging communications and gifting.

GCI’s success is greatly attributed to the top level of talent it has been fortunate to obtain with backgrounds ranging in technology, top CPG companies and agency creative.

Karl Geisler

Karl Geisler

Senior VP, Technology
Marcia King

Marcia King

Senior VP, Finance
Jaime Yeager

Jaime Yeager

VP, Sales & Marketing

Clients

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Brett Glass

Brett Glass

Founder & CEO

Brett is an experienced CPG Executive with a diverse leadership background from Accenture, Pepsi and Clorox. He is considered an expert on Gifting and Communication trends and how they apply to improve the emotional connection between people. Brett has worked closely with nearly every major retailer, most brands within the Gift Card Industry and numerous fortune 100 companies to develop strategies that improve the loyalty engagement with their customers and employees.

At GCI, Brett hand selected his executive team resulting in the attainment of a leading market share position of decorative gift packaging within the Gift Card Industry, the issuance of more than 60 patents and the recognition of 19 industry awards for innovation in the last 4 years. As the majority shareholder, he used profits from the decorative packaging success to organically fund the company’s significant investment in technology that drives GCI’s digital platform. Brett is committed to providing new technology solutions that help consumers, retailers, brands and corporations celebrate important messages better than today’s email, and text messages allow.

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Nicole Glass

Nicole Glass

President

Nicole is a vertically integrated professional with a strong background in Licensing, Product Development, Operations and Sales. During her time at Enesco, the leader in Gifts and Collectibles, Sunbeam, Coleman, Wilton Industries, Houston Harvest and Zak Designs, Nicole managed relationships and product development for brands such as Disney, Coca-Cola and Warner Bros. Nicole is a Disney Innovator of the Year winner, Target Category Captain, and RGCA board member.


RGCA

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Dominique O'Hara

Dominique O’Hara

Senior VP, Creative

Dominique is a creative executive and trends expert for the gifting industry. Dominique has worked with major brands on creative direction and strategy. In her current role as Senior Vice President of Creative for GCI, she guides direction for both physical and digital gifting trends bringing innovative solutions to retail clients including Target, WalMart, Walgreens, CVS and many others. Her award winning ideas have fueled strategies that are reinventing the way people communicate and gift. Through leading extensive consumer-insight studies, Dominique brings a left and right brain approach to her creative leadership and vision for gifting programs that appeal to a diverse set of consumers.

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Mark Steiner

Mark Steiner

Senior VP, Operations

Mark brings many years of management experience to GCI. As the former President of Emerald City Graphics, Mark possesses a broad skill set that encompasses finance, sales and manufacturing. This experience makes Mark uniquely qualified to help bring new products and technology to market. Having worked with Starbucks, Nintendo, Microsoft and many other customers, he has experience taking on a wide variety of complex projects and developing innovative solutions to satisfy customer needs.