St Hilaire Cellars president Gary L Jackson grew up in Yakima and ventured across the Cascades to Seattle where he graduated from the University of Washington Foster School of Business. After honing his marketing skills at an advertising agency and Boise Cascade Corporation, he started a newspaper and built it into a major publishing company with the largest paid circulation weekly in the Northwest and a number of other publications, including tourist guides, tv guides, specialty newspapers and college newspapers
Gary and his wife Christine, built a major thoroughbred breeding and racing operation in the early 1980’s and still remain involved in the sport.