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(2)Josh Tabaj
Josh Tabaj is the Chief Marketing Officer and one of four co-founders of Branded Bills, the Arizona headwear and apparel company that turned a hand-branded leather patch into a national custom-merchandise business. Branded Bills started around 2015 in a Mesa garage with a branding iron, a knife, and roughly $1,000 from each founder; its first patch hat went to a South Dakota brewery. The company grew from state-pride hats into a vertically integrated operation that sources and produces its own headwear, runs a custom and corporate-branding division, sells officially licensed collegiate gear, opened its first physical store inside the Phoenix Suns' Footprint Center in 2022, and moved into a 96,000-plus square foot Tempe headquarters in 2025. Tabaj handles the marketing side of that machine - the brand voice, the customer story, and the argument that a logo deserves better than a screen print.
Branded Bills
Branded Bills is an Arizona-based premium headwear and apparel company that started in a garage in 2015 with a branding iron, a knife, and a leather patch hat. It grew from one-of-one state-pride caps into a direct-to-consumer and business-to-business brand offering custom and stock hats, apparel, and corporate branding. The company has sold more than $50 million of product, employs roughly 200 people, and operates the first Branded Bills retail store inside the Phoenix Suns' Footprint Center.