PHTA Appoints New Chairwoman, Announces 2025 Board of Directors
The Pool & Hot Tub Alliance has appointed Donna Williams as chairwoman of the board for 2025. Williams is vice president of product management at POOLCORP, a wholesale distributor of swimming pool equipment, parts and supplies and related outdoor living products.
Williams played a key role in the formation of PHTA in 2019, the result of a merger between the Association of Pool & Spa Professionals and the National Swimming Pool Foundation. She served on the APSP Board previously and continued to serve on PHTA’s first board of directors.
PHTA’s 2025 executive committee includes:
- Chair-elect: Scott Frost, Fluidra
- Treasurer: Matt McDermott, Heritage Pool Supply Group
- Secretary: Caley Gibbs, Gib-San Pool & Landscape Creations
- Immediate past chair: Joseph Laurino, Periodic Products, Inc.
PHTA’s board members at large include:
- Stuart Baker, Hayward Holdings, Inc.
- Kyle Chaikin, The Chaikin Ultimate Group
- Mike Church, Cody Pools, Inc.
- Gregory Claffey, Pentair
- Tim Colon, Pools of Fun
- Greg Howard, Carecraft
- Ted Lawrence, BioLab / KIK Consumer Products
- Kevin Post, Counsilman-Hunsaker
- Steve Stigers, Watkins Wellness
- Alan Walker, Anthony & Sylvan Pools
- Paul Yates, Teserra Outdoors
For more information, contact Amy Willer, PHTA’s director of content and communications, at awiller@phta.org or 703-838-0083, ext. 121.
