Kwame Kuadey is an entrepreneur and small business expert. He is CEO and Founder of GiftCardRescue.com, a website that allows people to sell unwanted gift cards for cash or buy gift cards at a discount. Prior to founding GiftCardRescue, he spent 7 years at Citigroup in various roles in Operations, Compliance, and HR.

Kwame has published several articles about the gift card industry and has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, Entrepreneur, The Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, NPR, WABC  (Philadelphia), WBAL  and ABC 2 (Baltimore). Kwame was a recent contestant on ABC’s “Shark Tank,” where his business landed a $200,000 investment.

In addition to leading GiftCardRescue.com, Kwame runs a Small Business development program at his local church (Empowerment Temple). He also serves on the Maryland Council for New Americans, an initiative launched by Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley to help integrate immigrants into the community as constructively and quickly as possible. The council’s most recent work, “The Report of the Maryland Council for New Americans” has been hailed as a model for other states to emulate.

A graduate of Middlebury College with a B.A. in economics, Kwame also holds an M.B.A. from the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School. He lives with his wife Patricia and daughter Ava in Ellicott City.