The Gift & Home Trade Association announced its 2025-26 board of directors during a business meeting at GHTA’s Annual Conference, which took place Oct. 15-17 at the Grand Hyatt Deer Valley in Park City, Utah. Members voted in the new board of directors both via an electronic vote and in-person vote.
The 2025-26 board members include:
- Chair: RaeLee Walton, Road Runners
- President: Chuck Fraelich, tag
- Vice President: Alison Blackmore, Just Got 2 Have It
- Secretary: Janice Dayon Christensen, nora fleming
- Treasurer: Trudi Bartow, Unemployed Philosophers Guild
- Melissa Bloom, Twist Sales
- Cole Daugherty, Dallas Market Center
- Adriana de Mello, de Mello Co.
- Lindsay DeMyer, Darrah & Co.
- Benno Duenkelsbehler, (re)Align Expansion Sherpas
- Michael Griffith, Enesco
- Michelle Leuthold, Sincere Surroundings
- Terence Morris, ANDMORE
- Andy Bjork, Parliamentarian
GHTA is the gift and home industry’s professional trade association formed in 2000 to help vendors, sales agencies, retailers and industry affiliates. The association aims to connect industry leaders in their pursuit of ideas and best practices to advance business progress and educate one another.
