Kari Saitowitz
Prior to creating Fhitting Room, Kari, was a marketing executive at Pepsi. She focused on building equity for powerhouse brands and launching new product innovations.
In 2007, she left the world of boardrooms and bubbles and entered the world of diapers and sleepless nights. Exhausted and time-starved, Kari began Functional High-Intensity Interval Training as a means to work off her pregnancy weight in her scarce free time. As someone who hasn’t always loved exercise, Kari was blown away by the physical and emotional results of HIIT and the efficiency of her new, only 2x weekly, workout routine.
Around this time, specialized boutique fitness studios started popping up, and people were getting instantly hooked on the fun, social dynamic classes provided. Kari loved the idea of working out with friends but couldn’t find a studio that offered functional HIIT workouts with enough personal attention from certified trainers. Her friends were taking classes 2-3x weekly and seeing personal trainers 1-2x per week, a time consuming and expensive practice.
Kari took her love of planning unique consumer experiences and finding creative solutions to develop a new way for anyone to access the benefits of a personal training session in a motivational group setting. This “Gym Idea” became the subject line of an email Kari sent to a close friend in 2012 and led to the opening of the first Fhitting Room location in a small studio on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in March 2013. The lease for Fhitting Room’s flagship Flatiron location was signed six months later, followed by the Upper West side flagship in 2017.
Kari is the Founder + CEO of Fhitting Room overseeing three Fhitting Room studios in NYC, Fhitting Room On Demand and Fhitting Room LIVE!, the brand's virtual boutique class platform. She has an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she graduated with honors, and she graduated summa cum laude with a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania.
Laura Diamond
Jonathan Fagg
Jonathan Fagg is the Director of Digital and Media for GoodLife Fitness, Canada’s largest fitness club and the 5th largest globally. With over 15 years experience pushing the boundaries of digital innovation, Jonathan leads GoodLife’s digital strategy and platforms to deliver exceptional experiences to their members and customers.
Claire McFerran
Jon Caranick
Jon Canarick is a Managing Director with 18 years of consumer private equity investment experience. Since joining North Castle in 2001, Jon has actively managed North Castle’s investments across a variety of Healthy, Active, and Sustainable Living sectors and across all job functions at North Castle. Having started his career at NCP as an Associate out of investment banking, Jon has played a crucial role in the development of North Castle and many of its portfolio companies. Jon currently sits on the Board of Directors of Echelon Fit, CR Fitness, Encore Vet Group, Kettlebell Kitchen, The Escape Game, Barry’s Bootcamp, Brooklyn Boulders, Curves, Jenny Craig, Palladio, and SLT. Previously, Jon served on the Board of Directors of Mineral Fusion, gloProfessional, Flatout, International Fitness, Enzymatic Therapy, Performance Bicycle, Avalon and DDF and was actively involved in the Firm’s investment in Grand Expeditions. Prior to joining North Castle, Jon worked in the Financial Sponsors Coverage and Leveraged Finance groups of Bear, Stearns & Co., where he executed leveraged buyout transactions and provided advisory services for financial sponsors. Jon earned a B.B.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.
Joan Murphy
Jimmy Martin
Jimmy is a New York based creative + health and wellness professional with over 10 years experience creating inimitable experiences with everyday people. Prior to conceiving and co-founding Brrrn, Jimmy was a former scholarship Division I athlete for George Mason University Men's wrestling program. Following college, Jimmy started his own private personal training business with clients ranging from C-Suite Executives to celebrities in film, television and fashion. In addition, Jimmy had also worked as a stuntman, background performer on SNL, humor greeting card writer and, most notably, as an advertising copywriter, where he penned memorable campaigns for brands such as Manhattan Mini Storage, ParkFast and Seagram's Gin. As Brrrn's co-founder, Jimmy serves as a founding instructor, executive producer of Brrrn At-Home, and leads all branding, marketing and fitness programming for the company.
Jim Huether
Jim Huether is the Chief Executive Officer at Hyperice. He earned his MBA in Finance and Marketing at Loyola Marymount University, joining Hyperice in January 2014 after serving as Executive Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Xenith, LLC, a sports health and technology company at the forefront of head protection.
Prior to Xenith, LLC Jim led as Executive Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy for the Sports Concussion Institute and held senior Marketing and Finance roles at Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) and Smith Barney, Citigroup.
Under his leadership, Hyperice has grown explosively, placing on the Inc. 500 for five years in a row while defining the international standard for Sport Recovery and Movement Enhancement Technology. A continuous learner with a real passion for business, Jim prides himself on the team-first culture he has built at Hyperice and looks forward to the Hyper-Connected Recovery Ecosystem that will usher Hyperice into its next and most exciting era.
Jeff Morin
Jeff Morin is a MIT-educated engineer and certified personal trainer with an eye for both physical and technological performance. Prior to founding Liteboxer, Jeff operated as Manufacturing Lead at Formlabs then DEKA, overseeing manufacturing management, supply chain and procurement for next-gen product development.
Jean-Michel Fournier
Jean-Michel (JM) Fournier is currently CEO of Les Mills Media, a division of the Les Mills International Group. He leads Les Mills worldwide consumer business, the entire B2B and direct-to-consumer digital portfolio of products and P&Ls, as well as our worldwide music management. With nearly 7 million weekly active users & 140,000 fitness instructors, Les Mills is one of the largest active fitness & wellness community in the world.
Before joining Les Mills, JM co-founded and led several start-ups in Silicon Valley, including QEDSoft, Janalent and BitGym. I have also been Senior Vice President at United Health Group, and Vice President of Business Development at Hewlett-Packard.
JM is also a strategic adviser for the French government, focusing on supporting the development of French start-ups abroad. He is an active member of California Harvard Angels networking group, and He has been consulted by government organizations, venture capitalists and corporations about technology and business entrepreneurship.
JM was born in France and have an Electronic Engineering degree from the Institut de Technologie in Nimes, as well as being a masters graduate of the Harvard Business School.