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Board Member
Aug 2025
Meridian Fleet Services is a long-term operating partner for independent fleet maintenance businesses across the United States. We invest in the people, systems, and legacies that make great service businesses thrive for generations.
We bring permanent capital, deep operational expertise, and a people-centered mindset to every partnership. We seek growth with purpose: protecting what works and building sustainable platforms that empower technicians, delight customers, and endure for decades.
Learn more at meridianfleetservices.com
Board Member
Jun 2021
Lyra is a collective of brands in the Personal Care and Family categories, dedicated to caring for you and your loved ones.
Our trusted brands are designed with comfort, quality, and transparency first, because we believe everyone should experience care done right.
Formerly Forum Brands.
Board Observer
Oct 2019
Smartsign is the internet leader in physical display products. Our family of over 30 websites sells 250,000+ different Sign, Tag and Label products for offices, factories and home.
Investor
Aug 2019
Vuori makes premium performance apparel inspired by the active Coastal California lifestyle; an integration of fitness, surf, sport, and art. Breaking down the boundaries of traditional activewear, we are a new perspective on performance apparel.
Board Member
Dec 2018
JOLYN is a designer, manufacturer and eCommerce retailer of women’s performance swimwear, athletic apparel and accessories. Based in Orange County, the brand is inspired heavily by its Southern California roots. The result is a fun and distinct take on traditional swimwear that goes the distance sitting at the pinnacle of fashion and function.
JOLYN sells primarily direct-to-consumer through its website and trunk shows hosted by brand reps. The companys in-house and rep teams are comprised of highly decorated athletes: swimmers, divers, lifeguards, surfers, water polo players, runners and more that played at the collegiate, professional and Olympic levels.
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2026
Board Member
May 2026
East Range Group is a team of high purity water systems and service companies. We are dedicated to our core purpose of building phenomenal places to work for our incredible team of employees, and to building the best high purity water service company in North America.
2025
Board Member
Aug 2025
Meridian Fleet Services is a long-term operating partner for independent fleet maintenance businesses across the United States. We invest in the people, systems, and legacies that make great service businesses thrive for generations.
We bring permanent capital, deep operational expertise, and a people-centered mindset to every partnership. We seek growth with purpose: protecting what works and building sustainable platforms that empower technicians, delight customers, and endure for decades.
Learn more at meridianfleetservices.com
2022
Board Member
Jun 2022
Poolwerx is the world’s largest global franchise pool service brand. Established by Executive Director and Founder John O’Brien in 1992, Poolwerx has grown to over 650 service vehicles and 180 stores in Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Poolwerx has multiple revenue streams with repeat clients and is secure in the growing home services sector and is a technology leader. Poolwerx is the Official Partner of the Brisbane Heat and also champions the importance of teaching lifesaving water skills through its annual community initiatives.
The companys commitment to excellence is evident in its rigorous franchisee selection, thorough franchisee training and support, and its focus on pool health and safety. These efforts have been recognised on numerous occasions in the form of both franchising and industry awards.
Poolwerx Awards & Recognition
- FCA Franchisor of the Year 2022, 2016, 2004
- FCA Multi Unit Franchisees of the Year 2015, 2013 and 2012
- FCA Marketing Campaign of the Year 2020
- FCA Field Manager of the Year 2021, 2022
- Inside Franchise Business Top 30 Executives – Nic Brill, CEO
- SPASA Multi-location Pool Store of the Year 2023, 2022
- SPASA Best Pool Store of the Year 2023
- SPASA Marketing Campaign of the Year 2022
- SPASA Retail Service Award 2023, 2022
- Westpac NZ Franchise Awards – Home & Lifestyle Franchisee of the Year 2021
- SPASA NZ – Best Mobile Service Business 2021
- SPASA NZ – Professional of the Year 2021
- SPASA NZ – In-Field Technician of the Year 2021
- SPASA NZ – Best Single Location Pool Store of the Year 2023
2021
Board Member
Sep 2021
The most-inspired wines in the world are made in small quantities. Finding them is the hard part. That’s what we do.
For over 25 years, our sourcing team has traveled the globe’s wine trails in search of the world’s finest wines. And weve shared our experiences with members, enabling them to tell the stories behind the wines they serve to family and friends.
The wines we select are grown — not made. Vineyard tours with growers help us understand soil makeup, exposition, and vineyard treatments (biodynamic, organic, sustainable), all of which have a profound effect on the finished wine.
To ensure quality, wines are evaluated at least twice: First in the cellars in which they were made. And then again before we offer them to our membership. Even the most practiced tasters can have a bad day (or a cold). After 25 years of critical tastings, its unlikely that well have two.
Learn what is truly extraordinary about wine. Sign up today at wineaccess.com
Board Member
Jun 2021
Lyra is a collective of brands in the Personal Care and Family categories, dedicated to caring for you and your loved ones.
Our trusted brands are designed with comfort, quality, and transparency first, because we believe everyone should experience care done right.
Formerly Forum Brands.
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