Gay Warren Gaddis is president and CEO of T3 (The Think Tank). She started her company in 1989 with a cashed in IRA and two employees. Today, T3 is the largest independent advertising agency wholly-owned by a woman in the country, with offices in Austin, New York and San Francisco, over $200 million in capitalized billings, and a staff of 200. Organized as a marketing and creative think tank, T3 works with clients including Dell, Marriott, JCPenney, Chase Card Services, UPS, MSN, John Deere, Universal, Ingenix and MTV.
Her dynamic business acumen and corporate culture has led to national recognition. She has been recognized as one of Fast Company’s “Top 25 Women Business Builders,” Inc. magazine’s “Top 10 Entrepreneurs of the Year” and 25 Advertising Working Mothers of the Year by Working Mother magazine. T3’s family-friendly workplace programs have been recognized by the White House, NBC’s Today Show, The New York Times and most recently in the May issue of Fortune Small Business.
Gay is an active industry spokesperson and entrepreneurial advocate. She is a business mentor for Count-Me-In’s Make Mine a $Million Business™ program, a columnist for iMedia Communications, Inc., an interactive media and marketing trade publisher, and recently participated in the Global Businesswomen and Leaders Forum in Dubai, the New York Times Small Business Summit and the ad:tech Chicago Conference. In addition, she’s a member of the Texas Governor’s Business Council’s executive board, the Advertising Women of New York (AWNY) and the Committee of 200 (C200).
