Mardi Foster-Walker has owned a corporate gift and promotional products company since 1989. She is a part president of the Pacific Northwest chapter of the International Special Events Society, a past chapter president of Meeting Professionals International (MPI), and a founding member of CSES. Foster-Walker is the author of the best-seller, Start & Run a Gift-Basket Business, also published by Self-Counsel Press. Foster Walker Gifts has twice been the recipient of the MPI Corporate Donor of the Year Award, and Foster-Walker is the recipient of the MPI Supplier of the Year Award.