Ready to celebrate your business

GiftBiz wants to normalize entrepreneurship as a life milestone worthy of celebration and gift-giving. When someone shares that they are launching a business, we want one of the first responses from their friends and family to be “let’s plan your shower” or “where are you registered?”

OUR MISSION

Our Values

We provide a helpful and empowering platform that connects business owners with the resources and support they need to get started without overwhelming stress and accumulating debt.

  • We are innovators who won’t stop until we revolutionize the gifting industry. Who won’t stop until starting a business doesn’t feel like a far-fetched dream. Who will put in the work to support those who–like us–have big ambitions of building a business from the ground up.

  • Every communication, decision or move we make, should inspire trust in our audience. Our goal is to be a resource that business owners can confidently turn to, and a place where service providers are proud to be featured. 

  • We want everyone who encounters our business to feel seen and empowered. Entrepreneurship can be isolating and we want to provide the resources and the community to help business owners feel supported through every step as they get started.

  • When you think of starting and running a business, the last word that comes to mind is simple. We want to change that. From the way we communicate to our process, everything we do is rooted in making the business building process as easy and accessible as possible. 

Meet the board

Beverly Beal Jr.

Beverly Beal Jr. Is the Founder and CEO of GiftBiz. Owner of the Law Office of Beverly Beal, she provides mentoring, education, and legal services to small business owners. Since its founding in 2019, her law office has helped over one hundred entrepreneurs start, grow, and protect their companies and brands. A leader in her own right, Beverly is highly respected in the small business community. Beverly believes in a strong legal foundation and advocates that small businesses should have access to such resources.

As a small business owner herself and through her experience in her firm she consistently came across creative and innovative founders and startup owners with amazing ideas but lacking the capital, fellowship and knowledge to execute. Her solution to this problem is GiftBiz.

Erica Thomas

Erica Thomas serves as the Director of Advocacy for GiftBiz, where she oversees public relations and sponsors. Erica has over a decade of experience in marketing and communications. She focuses on building brand awareness and engaging the public through storytelling.

Erica takes pride in giving back to her community and proudly supports various charitable organizations, including No Kids Hungry, March of Dimes, the Atlanta Food Bank, Feeding America, and Children’s Health Care of Atlanta. She has extensive management and board experience in nonprofit and foundation institutions where she has been a leader in strategic planning, training, executive and board recruitment, and fundraising.

Beverly Hogan

Beverly Beal-Hogan serves as Chief Financial Officer for GiftBiz. She oversees the organization’s accounting and financial operations. She has more than twenty years of business experience ranging from accounting, entrepreneur mentorship, and community building and management.

An entrepreneur herself she devotes her time to helping her community by providing affordable care centers, producing employment opportunities, and educating others on financial literacy.