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Q: Who is the founder of PADI?

John J. Cronin and Ralph D. Erickson founded PADI.

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John J. Cronin

Founders

Ralph D. Erickson

Founders

Drew Richardson

Board Member

Chad Kuehn

Chief Financial Officer

Chad Kuehn is a Chief Financial Officer at PADI and is based in Rancho Santa Margarita, California. He has worked as Controller at Srixon/ Cleveland Golf/ XXIO, Senior Tax Associate at Deloitte, and Chief Financial Officer at Incase. Chad studied at USC Marshall School of Business between 2006 and 2008, USC Marshall School of Business between 2000 and 2002, and University of Utah David Eccles School of Business between 1996 and 2000.

Gary Prenovost

Chief Financial Officer

Gary Prenovost works at Padi Worldwide Corp and a Chief Financial Officer at PADI and CFO at Padi Worldwide Corp and is based in San Clemente, California.

Kristin Valette

Chief Brand & Membership Officer

Chief Brand Officer, Business Developer, Thought-Leader, Brand Marketer, Diving Enthusiast, Ocean Advocate & Environmentalist, Inspired Leader

Xinhua Huang

Chief Engineer

• Experience of building and managing team from startups to large, geo distributing ones.• Practice of agile project management using scrum, delivering products from requirement collection and refinery, architect design and implementation.• Expertise to design scalable distributed, microservice based system.• Technology enthusiast and rapid learner, capability of web/app development using java, node.js, react.js, angular.js, graphql, nosql and mobile native development.

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John J. Cronin

Founders

Ralph D. Erickson

Founders

PADI board members

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Drew Richardson

Board Member

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Updated November 18, 2022

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