Our Founders

After more than 30 years leading enterprise technology operations, service delivery, and automation initiatives, Akiena (“Kie”) Bordain-Dodds founded GDA Enterprises, LLC in May 2026 with a clear mission:

The vision for the company actually began years earlier through her cousin, Tiffany Houser, a cosmetology professional with more than 30 years of beauty industry experience.  While Tiffany studied Information Technology in college, her true passion has always been cosmetology. Through decades of working closely with beauty professionals, she recognized a major gap in the industry: many talented Beauty Bosses lacked access to the technology, automation, branding, and operational support needed to successfully grow and scale modern businesses.

Motivated by that need, Tiffany originally launched an IT consulting concept called “Software Chickz,” focused on helping beauty professionals better navigate technology and business systems.

As the vision continued to evolve, Tiffany approached Kie about partnering together to expand the idea using Kie’s enterprise IT leadership, operations management, and automation expertise. That collaboration ultimately evolved into GDA Enterprises, LLC — a company built on the belief that small business owners deserve the same level of professionalism, efficiency, and innovation traditionally available to larger organizations.

Today, Tiffany serves as GDA Enterprises’ Beauty Industry Subject Matter Expert, helping bridge the gap between real-world cosmetology experience and modern technology solutions. Together, Kie and Tiffany combine enterprise-level systems thinking with authentic beauty industry insight to help beauty professionals elevate their brand, automate operations, and create premium client experiences designed for long-term growth.