Gary is President and Founder of Polo Gear LLC and its predecessor Polo Gear, Inc. He founded the Company in 1993 and is responsible for it developing from a concept to being a major provider of upscale polo products to the Polo Community and Polo Team Apparel and Polo Way of Life Apparel for Polo Participants and the general consumers.  By being the entrepreneurial developer of the Company, he has been responsible for and involved in all business aspects including design, product development, marketing, merchandising, fiscal management, complete management, and development of the Company brands. PoloGear is now developing its direct-to-consumer apparel website and its new Christian lines Polo for Christ, and the 4 Horseman. He remains its President and CEO.

In addition to his background in the Polo Community, Gary has had an extensive career in the ski and apparel industry.  Upon graduating from college, he started his career handling sales and marketing for key ski and ski apparel product companies.  Clients included Dynamic Skis SA, Vokyl Ski Company, Technica Ski Boots, and CB Sports ski apparel which he helped develop from a garage operation to the largest ski apparel company in the world. From there, he developed a multi-store retail chain of upscale specialty stores selling men’s and women’s apparel in New York and Florida.  He was President of that operation, which was named and branded as Saratoga.

Gary has played polo since 1970’s and for several years was a professional polo player with a United States Polo Association “3” goal handicap. He played and competed in tournaments around the United States and Argentina winning several important tournaments along the journey.  With his wife Jeanette they founded two significant equestrian/ranching ventures, Centaur Farms, Inc in Wellington, Florida and Nicholson Ranch in Parkman, Wyoming. Gary is also the cofounder of Valiant Ventures, Inc and the Valiant Trust Foundation, a not-for-profit foundation to promote equine-human consciousness and to support important equine medical research. Valiant was a blind horse that his wife cared for and trained that has inspired and encouraged many.

While in Wyoming Gary and Jeanette founded the Professional Indian Horse Racing Association and developed it into a 16 state, 18 tribe Indian Relay event series that attracted thousands of spectators and a championship attended by over 30,000 people. Millions of dollars in prizes were distributed to Native American relay teams through the northern plains. Indian Relay is America’s oldest and most exciting sport. Gary and Jeanette were the only non-native members of the all-volunteer team that planned and ran the events.

For the past several years Gary, along with his wife Jeanette, have been involved in the creation of the Touch Of Heaven Christian Community in Boone County Arkansas. They are founders of the Touch Of Heaven Trust. TOH is a self-sustainable community dedicated to service. Gary resides in Wellington, Florida and Lead Hill Arkansas with his wife Jeanette and two border collies and a cat. They have no children. They are actively involved in community and church activities.  Gary was born on February 25, 1950, in Rochester, New York.  He is a 1972 graduate of New York’s St. Lawrence University with honors and a BS in Biology (pre-med).