Katherine Brown has been part of Hansen’s Pool & Spa for as long as she can remember — literally. “I’ve grown up within the company,” she says, recalling days spent stocking shelves, assisting customers in their backyards and eventually making sales on the showroom floor.
Cody Meador has built a career helping shape standout brands in the hot tub industry. He began at Jacuzzi Group, serving as senior product marketing manager for Jacuzzi, Sundance and Dimension One, where he worked closely with engineering, sales and international teams to launch products and support global marketing campaigns.
He may be a fresh face in the pool and spa industry, but Marcus Ragonese is standing out with his knack for solving problems. At the end of 2023, he joined Patio Pleasures as a service technician.
Jacob Specht grew up with the pool and spa industry woven into family life. His father, Rick Specht, founded Pool to Spa Services in 1993 after a career with Aqua Quip dating back to the 1970s.
Austin Anderson first joined Dover Pools while in high school, working part time in both service and retail for his parents’ pool and hot tub business.
Kaydee Maloney joined Real Market Solutions in 2018 with no experience in the pool and spa industry — but quickly proved herself indispensable.
Daniel Greeson may be new to the hot tub industry, but his impact has been immediate and substantial. In 2023, he joined Generation Hot Tubs as plant manager, helping launch a manufacturing facility from the ground up.
Rachel Rutter joined Taylor Water Technologies in 2020 as a research and development chemist, bringing her scientific background to an industry she was eager to learn from the inside out.
Juan Pablo Alzate didn’t just step into a sales role when he joined Gohlke Pools in 2019 — he reshaped the company’s approach to hot tubs.
Mario Kumar stepped into the hot tub and swim spa industry fresh out of college in 2021, joining Hydropool Hot Tubs and Swim Spas as a digital content creator. In just a few years, he’s advanced to web and digital marketing manager, overseeing online strategy for both the manufacturing side of the business and two corporate retail stores.
Joe King’s life in the pool and spa industry began before he even had a driver’s license. As a teenager, he worked alongside his father, servicing swimming pools and learning firsthand the value of clean water, customer trust and hard work. That experience planted the seeds for what would become King Technology, officially founded in 1979 by King and his father, Lloyd, who had invented a brominator small enough for a hot tub.
In 1977, Alice Cunningham and her late husband, Blair Osborn, took a leap of faith. Leaving behind successful careers — Cunningham as a U.S. Department of Labor administrator and Osborn as a mechanical engineering professor — they founded Olympic Hot Tub in Seattle. With no business experience and little precedent to follow, they launched one of the first dedicated hot tub companies in the Pacific Northwest and helped create a new category in the American home experience.