Jose Moranchel 38OwnerJose and Sons Pool ServiceSouth Carolina Jose Moranchel started as a pool industry supervisor at 18 years old. He managed pools for a lawn care company, then spent five years as a foreman for another pool business. But after a series of broken promises for advancement, Moranchel needed a change. “One day my…
Paul Cruze 38Designer/project managerPremier Pools & Spas Sacramento Sacramento, CaliforniaPPAS.com Paul Cruze’s father-in-law is a pool industry lifer and got Cruze a job at SCP Distributors loading up bags of marble dust and cement and driving a forklift in the warehouse. Cruze worked his way up to a design center salesman for NPT, eventually going…
Jason Bryant 33OwnerPool Works LLCBrandon, MississippiPoolWorksMS.net Jason Bryant started working in the pool industry when he was 18, “extremely broke” and trying to work full time and attend college. It was exhausting, Bryant says. He became the retail manager at a local pool retail, service and construction company. Bryant worked there for eight years before…
Jennifer Roscoe 35Co-ownerA Plus Pools, Inc.Norton, MassachusettsAPlusPoolsInc.com Five years ago, Jennifer Roscoe’s boyfriend, Shaun Andrews, decided to open a pool business. “She jumped on board,” Andrews says. “Jenn is now the co-owner and does all the behind the scenes work, including raising our two kids. She’s spent the last few years learning everything she can…
Mason Guarino 33OwnerAccelerated PoolsBillerica, Massachusettsacceleratedpools.com Mason Guarino started his pool career at South Shore Gunite Pools & Spas, working summers and when he was off school, doing rebar, shotcrete, gunite, plaster, plumbing, excavation, grading and flatwork. He got a bachelor’s of science in construction management and started full time at the company in 2009. He…
Chris Cavanaugh 34OwnerCavanaugh Pool, Spa & PatioMadisonville, KentuckyCavanaughPool.com Chris Cavanaugh is a third-generation pool professional. He started helping out in the family business when he was a teenager, installing pools, helping in the store and doing service calls. After college, it didn’t take long for him to return home. “I came back and took over…
Justin Lex 33Service and renovations managerSwimming Pool Services Inc.Waukesha, WisconsinSwimmingPoolServices.com Justin Lex joined Swimming Pool Services in 2011 at the recommendation of a friend who was an employee. He started doing service and maintenance work in the field and eventually moved into the office. By 2013, he became the service manager. This year, he added…
Taylor Technologies The team at Taylor Technologies includes a number of young professionals poised to grow the company and industry. Here’s what they had to say about each other. Josh MaulerAssembly managerIn his 17-plus year career at Taylor, Josh has become known as a leader and problem solver. He values integrity and trust, both of…
Dustin Kauffman 34Aquatics sales managerProMinent Fluid Controls ProMinent.us Dustin Kauffman started at ProMinent in fall 2010. It was a winter job that would get him through until spring, at which point he’d return to his career as a PGA-certified golf professional. But he never left ProMinent. Kauffman has moved through several positions: Pump sub-assembly, receiving…
Spartan Pool & Patio Norman, OklahomaSpartanPoolAndPatio.com Jordan Demeter, 34, Co-ownerSam Stroud, 34 Co-owner Sam Stroud and Jordan Demeter both lost a parent to cancer when they were preteens. Then their parents married each other. Already best friends, they also became step brothers. Demeter’s grandfather, Don Demeter, owned Pools by Spartan and had been installing vinyl-liner…
Chet and Aly Goudy 36 & 34OwnersGoudy PoolsSeverna Park, MarylandGoudyPools.com Aly Goudy remembers the day her boyfriend called to asked if she wanted to lifeguard at the pool he managed. A college freshman, Aly thought mixing work and romance was a bad idea, but she took the job. Fifteen years and two kids later, Aly…