International Hot Tub Association Elects Four NEW Board Members

May 20, 2009

PORT CHARLOTTE, FL - The International Hot Tub Association has announced the nomination and election of four new Directors to their Board. Beth Hamil, Vice President, Corporate Compliance Market Development for DEL Ozone; Bob Lauter, President and CEO of Master Spas; Larry Savage of Lawrence R. Savage Associates, Inc. and Bill Drury, Co-President of Custom Molded Products.

All four of the new Board members bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the IHTA. Beth Hamil has served the spa industry for over 30 years and working with ozone for 27 of them. She co-wrote and published the “Application Guidelines for the use of Ozone for Commercial Pools and Spas.” She is named in multiple ozone patents and developed the first UL listed ozone systems for pools and spas. Larry has been around the spa industry for a long time running two companies that were subsidiaries of Hayward, making filters and pumps. He was VP of Sales, Marketing and Distribution for several years for Leisure Bay Industries before becoming an independent rep selling not only in the USA but also overseas for companies including Waterway, Pleatco, Sloan LED and EMG Motors.

Bob Lauter is a leader of leaders in the spa industry serving over two decades in manufacturing. He has lead Master Spas to become one of the largest manufacturers and oldest companies in the industry today. And, Bill Drury was educated at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he received his BS in Chemical Engineering, MS in Metallurgical Engineering, and PhD in Materials Science. In 1993 he co-founded Custom Molded Products, Inc., a leading manufacturer of molded plastic components for the bath, pool, and spa industries. He currently serves as co-President of CMP, which now does business in the U.S, Europe, Australia, and Asia.

We are grateful for dedication of these industry leaders stated Mitch Brooks, IHTA’s Executive Director. “We thank them for their vision and leadership as we work together as a team with the objectives to attain outstanding results for the portable hot tub industry!”

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