Donald J. Hall, Jr. is president and chief executive officer at Hallmark Cards, Inc. He also is vice chairman of the board of directors for Hallmark and serves on the board of dire ...read more
Donald J. Hall, Jr. is president and chief executive officer at Hallmark Cards, Inc. He also is vice chairman of the board of directors for Hallmark and serves on the board of directors for Hallmark Entertainment, Inc.; Crown Media Holdings, Inc.; and Hallmark International. Hall earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and literature from Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, Calif., and an MBA from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan. Hall, a grandson of the company’s founder, Joyce C. Hall, joined Hallmark in 1971. Kansas City-based Hallmark is known throughout the world for its greeting cards, related personal expression products, and television’s most honored and enduring dramatic series, the Hallmark Hall of Fame. The company’s Hallmark Entertainment, Inc. subsidiary is the world’s leading producer and distributor of movies and miniseries made for television.