Gretchen Gaede co-founded A-Train Marketing Communications, Inc. in 1998 with a mission of helping drive the greater good through creative and strategic marketing, branding, advertising and digital solutions that are designed to gain aggressive results for clients worldwide.

Beyond winning dozens of national awards for creative marketing and advertising campaigns, she was recently added to the list of the Top 100 female entrepreneurs in Colorado by the Colorado Business Journal and listed as one of the 2019 Enterprising Women of the Year by Enterprising Women magazine. In May of 2010, Gaede was honored to accept the Governor’s Award for Outstanding Colorado Business at the annual statewide Service & Leadership Awards given on the State Capital steps in Denver, CO.

She currently holds executive board and planning positions for several organizations including the National Audubon Society, Hunger Free Colorado, TAB Alternative Board, and the Women’s Presidents Organization (WPO).