Dec 4, 2025
GHTA announces 2025-26 Board of Directors

Gift & Home Trade Association (GHTA) members elected its 2025-26 Board of Directors both via an electronic vote and an in-person vote held during the business meeting at GHTA’s Annual Conference held at the Grand Hyatt Deer Valley in Park City, Utah, Oct. 15-17.

Photo courtesy of GHTA.

The 2025-26 Board members are:

  • Chair: RaeLee Walton, Roadrunners
  • 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
  • Michele Leuthold, Sincere Surroundings
  • Terence Morris, AndMore
  • Andy Bjork, Parliamentarian



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