Layaco Media creates promotional, training and fundraising videos for the San Francisco business, education and non-profit communities.


Our Promise
We strive to understand your business. Using our story-telling and production expertise, we help you make a difference in your industry.

Our Strength
Since 2004, Layaco has prided itself in forging successful, continuing relationships with its clients. Each project is artfully crafted and engineered for both adaptability and scaleability. We care about our clients and never stop looking to the future. Layaco designs projects and workflows that allows for convenient revisions and the birth of new projects.

Our Team
Carol Gancia, Layaco's Executive Producer, has been a video and television production entrepreneur for 15 years. She has built four media-related businesses from the ground up. Working with Fortune 500 companies and international foundations, she has earned numerous awards for both her production skills and talents and her strong business acumen. She received a business plan award from the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center in 2004. In 1995, she brought home a silver medal for her television documentary work from the New York Festivals for TV and Film. In 2006 and 2007, Carol earned back-to-back Emmy awards for her work at KQED, the Public Television station serving the San Francisco bay area. She also runs a professional networking group based in San Francisco called "Coffee Anyone?."

Daniel Ogawa, Layaco's Creative Consultant and Writer, has a deep background in both film and network television production. He has over 20 years of creative experience in top New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco bay area corporations such as Apple, NBC, Warner Brothers and now, KQED. Through the years, he has garnered numerous Emmy awards and nominations from both local and network television shows he has worked on. He excels in writing documentaries as well as technology, science and health-related video stories. His labor relations background from Cornell University, coupled with years of TV and corporate video production experience in the finance field has also proven to be a great asset to Layaco during its day-to-day business operations.