Hannah Jones
Chloe Steinberg
Jeremy Newns
Jeremy Newns is the Director of R&D for KT Tape and simply put, Jeremy’s role is to make ideas happen. This involves championing ideas into the pipeline, developing and capturing business opportunities, aligning them with design-driven solutions, navigating those solutions through development & innovation to a successful launch.
Jeremy is a Los Angeles native who has always been discovery-driven, creative, mechanically minded, and fascinated by how things work. Jeremy views himself as a divergent thinker who has never been very respectful of the status quo, caution or tradition. Jeremy is a learner, a visual thinker, problem solver and constantly studying what makes products work, how they are made, their materials, how components are designed and come together.
In addition to his experience at KT Tape, Jeremy has 20+ years of experience that spans multiple areas of involvement as a creator including print production, graphic design, production design, product design & development, manufacturing, packaging, merchandising, and teaching.
Jeremy has a degree in graphic design and has taught in the Art & Visual Communications programs of both Provo College and Utah Valley University and he recently received his B.S. in Business & Marketing Management. Jeremy enjoys photography (@avacadokid), cooking, being outdoors, and advising product startups.
KT Tape info:
Based in American Fork, Utah and founded in 2008, KT Tape has revolutionized the sports medicine industry with the introduction of the most advanced and recognized kinesiology tape and recovery products. KT Tape develops breakthrough solutions that enable athletes to painlessly perform at their best. The Company currently designs, develops, and distributes a variety of kinesiology tape lines, including KT Tape (cotton) and KT Tape Pro (synthetic), engineered for targeted pain relief and enhanced functionality, as well as a lines of performance and recovery products. KT Tape is the largest kinesiology tape manufacturer in the consumer-facing channels, available in 42,000+ domestic retail locations and 40 countries. All Channels Domestic Share exceeds 90%.
Emily Santamore
Chris Picardo
Scott Yamano
Todd Andrews
Nate Forster
Nate Forster is a former professional tennis player turned entrepreneur. Nate started his career in hospitality and transitioned into the health and wellness industry in 2010. At the start of his entrepreneurial career, he was an operating partner at dek23 and b.e.d. nightclubs in Miami, in which he brokered the sale of both businesses. In 2010, he became the owner and operator of the first Reebok-partnered CrossFit gym and by 2014, he was the largest CrossFit affiliate owner globally with 15 locations. Nate is now the co-founder and CEO of NEOU, a digital fitness platform that helps fitness influencer and workout brands scale to a larger audience. The mission of NEOU is to bring consumers the best of all types of fitness, health + wellness concepts and trainers to anyone in the world at anytime.
Terry White
Terry is the Founder and CEO of the performance apparel brand Way of Life Athletic Company, known as WOLACO. The Harvard graduate moved to New York City after graduation and found himself restless by the sedentary and hierarchical lifestyle of the corporate world. As a lifelong athlete and former Division I lacrosse player, Terry was determined to build a brand that represented a healthier way of life.
Through this, WOLACO's signature style, the North Moore, was born. The original 9” compression short featured first-of-its-kind sweat-proof compressive pockets designed for storing a phone and valuables during exercise. The product launched in 2014 with a Kickstarter campaign that exceeded its funding goal by 400%. Since then, WOLACO has developed their collection to a full offering of men’s and women's performance apparel and capitalized on their loyal base of evangelical customers. The business has continued to grow impressively behind a strategy that is centered around building community organically and scaling their relationship with a highly engaged customer base.
Scott Kinworthy
Scott Yamano is the Co-founder and CEO of the fast-growing premium women's activewear subscription service YogaClub.
Prior to developing YogaClub, he Co-founded and eventually sold the digital ad network Dedicated Media to Media General who was eventually purchased by Nextstar Broadcast Group. (Nasdaq:NXST)
Earlier in his career, he cut his digital media teeth as Director of Sales for Myspace during its meteoric rise to the #1 worldwide property online.
Scott was honored in 2012 with the USC Alumni Entrepreneur of the Year award and later taught at his alma mater as an adjunct professor and frequent guest lecturer in the Loyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurship at Marshall Business School at USC.