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Gary is a seasoned entrepreneur with strong leadership skills and extensive experience in launching and growing companies. His expertise includes consumer and business direct-response marketing and advertising, business development, customer-acquisition and retention, team-building and leadership.

In the last 15 years, Gary has built several successful companies, including Vantage Mortgage Corporation, a residential mortgage brokerage firm, Active Health, Inc., an online/mail-order vitamin supplement company, and Valuestream, Inc., an online network of over 200 consumer-focused websites.

Gary has a proven track record of identifying profitable market opportunities, developing sound strategy, assembling and leading teams, and executing on his vision.

Prior to founding Podclass, Gary was the founder and CEO of Valuestream, Inc., a network of consumer websites, offering pay-per-click and pay-per-action advertising. Under his leadership, his team successfully developed and launched over 100 consumer websites in the first 59 days of operation. Valuestream, Inc. now owns over 200 consumer information websites spanning over 40 different markets, including health, consumer electronics, financial services, sports, Internet services, pharmaceuticals, skin care, and others.

In early 2006, Gary formed Podclass, Inc. with a vision toward creating the world’s largest online marketplace for teaching and learning.

In his role as the CEO of Podclass, Inc., Gary has assembled a world-class team of developers and programmers to carry out his vision of developing Podclass.com.

Gary was born in Delano, California and holds a degree in Business Administration from San Diego State University, and resides in San Diego with his wife and two children.