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Pamela Basham, 39
Pamela Basham 39 Account manager and service tech Royal Pool Service & More, LLC Charlotte, North CarolinaRPoolService.com Pamela Basham’s parents instilled a strong work ethic in her from an early age. Her mother started a pool service business from her garage in West Virginia in 1979, while her father worked nights in the coal mine…
Power Women: Julie Kazdin
Julie Kazdin has never known a life without pools. Born into a family business on the East End of Long Island, she grew up surrounded by the rhythms of the industry her parents helped build. Her mother and father founded Kazdin Pools & Spas in 1974, years before she was born, and from the start, it was a true family operation. “They joked that the accountant used to feed me peas while he was doing his work,” Kazdin says.
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For 60 years, Heritage Recreation in Sutton, Massachusetts, used pen and paper to manage the business. In 2015, the company was still scheduling 800 pool openings and closings a year this way. But the method was both time consuming and unworkable, says second-generation owner Paul Domey. “We had one notebook to use among six office…
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Jeffrey Campbell, 39
Campbell started selling above-ground pools and hot tubs at a local Joplin, Missouri-based company. When hopes of buying that business fell through, an opportunity with United Aqua Group, the buying group for the company, came available. Over the next 36 months, Campbell visited over 126 retail, builder and service locations in 42 states. Campbell has…