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Dean Giamundo
Chief Executive Officer

Dean is a former owner of a Gold's Gym franchise on Long Island, where he built a very successful kids fitness program. The success of that program and the positive feedback from parents is what drove Dean to build a better program and to make it flexible enough to implement easily. Dean is also the current Chairperson for the American Diabetes Association Leadership Board and works hand in hand with the ADA on their fundraising and awareness events. Dean comes from a very strong IT background where he spent 20 years in Computer Technology positions. Dean's IT background was instrumental in making the Forward Strides system turnkey for teachers and instructors.

Michael Campagna
Chief Operating Officer

Michael is a Certified American Council on Exercise Personal Trainer. He owned and operated Kids Fitness of America, a kids fitness center. Michael designed SHAPE DOWN, a fitness program for overweight children (Co-operated with Dr. Constance Stewart, Pediatric Endocrinologist). In 2008 Michael was hired by PS 49 Elementary Schools in Middle Village, Queens to design and run an after school fitness program for their students. This program is still ongoing today and has been incorporated into the physcial education curriculum. Michael writes all of our programming. All programs are reviewed by our advisory board, which includes a licensed Pediatric Physical Therapist, and tested in a real life environment.

Michael is a lifelong trainer who has held program design positions at the following fitness clubs: American Physique, Valencia, Synergy Fitness.