Above: Front row from left: Mitch Hammer, OMG director of marketing; Ellen Tucker, PPAI director of business development; Matt Kaplan, OMG vice president of customer success; Mo Das, PPAI research manager; Jill Schuessler, OMG office manager; Melissa Massey, PPAI account executive; Danielle Renda, PPAI associate editor; Tina Berres Filipski, PPAI director of publications; Keith Vincent, PPAI director of marketing and James Skidmore, OMG VP of strategy. Back row from left: Dustin Downing, OMG head of product; Bob McLean, PPAI executive vice president; David Butterfield, OMG national sales manager; Dave Dutch, OMG CEO and Austin Parrish, OMG senior account manager.


Seven PPAI staff members from across the Association recently visited the downtown Dallas headquarters of business services member OrderMyGear (PPAI 704581, A1) to learn more about the company’s distinctive business model, meet team members and tour their offices housed in a remodeled 1908 building that was once Dallas’s first Cadillac dealer.

The ecommerce company was founded in 2008 around an online platform that ultimately makes it easy and efficient for small groups to order decorated team apparel, from branded tees for runs to benefit a cause, sweatshirts for school football players, and caps promoting a school’s science club. It entered the promotional products industry in 2017 and now employs nearly 100 people. Read more about OrderMyGear’s model and success story in PPB’s October issue.