Gayle Sato

Gayle Sato is a seasoned personal finance and business journalist who’s a regular contributor to the Experian blog, frequently covering tax basics, retirement and small business finances.

Gayle started her career more than three decades ago as a staff writer and columnist for Entrepreneur magazine and has since published thousands of articles on financial wellness and small business for national magazines and blogs. She’s also worked inside the financial services industry, focusing on payments technology and reporting on consumers’ changing relationships with money as a writer and editor at large for banks and credit unions.

Expertise: Tax basics, retirement, small business, banking

Experience: Gayle has written for consumer brands including Entrepreneur, Independent Business, Men’s Fitness, Shape, Fit Pregnancy and the Los Angeles Times. Her financial services clients include Wells Fargo, Lending Club, Co-op Solutions (now Velera), Firefighters First Credit Union, Altura Credit Union, Addison Avenue Credit Union, Technology Credit Union and American First Credit Union.

As an independent publisher, Gayle edited and produced a series of personal finance magazines for credit union members as well as THINK, an executive magazine for the credit union industry. She was also the co-author of a New York Times bestselling book on young millionaires.