Board of Directors

Sean Carrithers
Sean is an advocate for lifetime sports and fitness participation and has been involved in several related non-profit efforts, including World TEAM Sports, Hot Tubes and Living Fit. In 1995, Sean helped lead the AXA World Ride, an around the world bicycle ride to promote the abilities of people with disabilities. He currently works with his non-profit Living Fit to promote health and fitness for children. Sean is also a former professional cyclist and current Category 1 cyclist and has collectively bicycled over 125,000 miles. When he is not exercising or encouraging others to do so, Sean is Vice President of Enterprise Solutions for TeleTech. Sean is a graduate of Davidson College and currently lives in Richmond, Virginia with his wife and two children.

Dennis Crumpler
Dennis has over 30 years of experience in building and managing successful technology companies, including Sales Technologies, XcelleNet, TechDiscovery, and Reveille Software. Since 2000, Dennis has been involved in environmentally responsible real estate development in North Carolina and Virginia, including The Coves at Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia. Dennis is a graduate of MIT (BS'75) and Harvard University (MBA'82), and served as a US ARMY officer from 1975-79. He is married and has two grown children living in Colorado.

John Crumpler
John is a partner and co-founder of Hatteras Venture Partners where John is responsible for the firm’s investments in healthcare and life science information technology, and overall fund operations. Prior to Hatteras, he was founder and CEO of E-Comm, Inc., a software development and services firm specializing in remote and mobile computing. He holds an A.B. from Harvard University. John and his wife Lou Anne have two grown children and live in Raleigh, NC. They have two grown children.

Will Frischkorn
Will was a member of 1996-97 Hot Tubes teams and then went on to a successful 10-year career in professional cycling. He competed internationally for the Mercury, Saturn, Colavita, and most recently Garmin-Slipstream professional programs. He competed in the 2008 Tour de France placing 2nd on stage 3. Other career highlights include a victory in the 2007 Univest Grand Prix, 2nd in the overall classification in the 2007 Tour of Missouri, and overall general classification victories in the 2003 Tour of the Delta, 2004 Colorado Cyclist Classic, and the 2007 Tour of the Bahamas. Will claimed over a dozen national championships and by his late 20s retired from cycling to move into his other passions, food and wine. In 2011, Will and his wife, Coral, opened Cured, a specialty cheese, meat and wine market in his adopted town of Boulder, Colorado. He is involved with a number of local food related non-profits and occasionally will ride with the local pros in Boulder. He is responsible for the Hot Tubes alumni relations and helps with cycling industry connections.

Alston Gardner
Alston is a venture partner in Fulcrum Equity Partners, an Atlanta-based private equity firm. He also invests in early stage technology companies through his own firm, Fulcrum Capital and is a partner in Somerset Properties a Durham, NC-based real estate development firm. Alston and his wife, Barb Lee have four adult daughters and split time between New York and Chapel Hill, NC.

Stephen Holowesko
Stephen is a partner at a Nassau, Bahamas-based hedge fund. His career stops include teaching English in Japan, Television Tokyo’s Washington, DC bureau, and Goldman Sachs, in New York and London. He is also the founder of the Pirate Republic Brewery in Nassau. He and his sister co-founded the Ride for Hope Bahamas, a cancer-related charity in The Bahamas. He is a graduate of Georgetown University. Stephen and his wife, Alessandra, four kids and three dogs live in Nassau, The Bahamas. His eldest son, Liam, joined the Hot Tubes Development Team in 2013 and was the US Junior (13-14) national time trial champion in 2014.

Jeff Muir
Jeff is the founder and Managing Partner of Fulcrum Equity Partners in Atlanta. Prior to Fulcrum, Mr. Muir was COO of On Target and began his career as an attorney with the Atlanta law firm of Alston & Bird. He was a member of the world-renowned 1971 Indiana University swim team before transferring to the University of Georgia. He holds a B.A. and law degree from the University of Georgia, both with honors. Prior to law school, he served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force and was also a member of the U.S. Modern Pentathlon National Team. He and his wife Doris live in Atlanta and host Hot Tubes annual spring training camp at their home near Lake Burton, GA.

Ryan Tie
Ryan was a member of the 1993 Hot Tubes team. He later went on to win the 1996 Collegiate National Road Race Championship in San Luis Obisbo, CA and ride for the U.S. National Cycling Team in 1997 while earning his B.A. from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Today, Ryan is a partner and Chief Investment Officer of Lepercq de Neuflize Asset Management, an investment firm based in New York. Ryan and his wife Stacey have two children and live in Darien, CT.

A recent Hot Tubes board meeting