CEO
Scott got his start in the pool industry at the age of 24 working for California Pools, a pool builder, digging ditches for plumbing. Over the years, he slowly moved up in the business and became a superintendant. After working for them for 4 years, he opened, with his father and brother, his own pool construction company called Trimac Pools. They built high-end pools in the San Diego area. Having decided to stay in the industry but to change focus slightly from building pools to remodeling them, they bought Gardner Pool Plastering. His dad has since passed away. Over the years, they built up Gardner from a small plastering company to a complete remodeling business with three branches in Southern California.
Personal Touch: Scott has been playing basketball 3 days a week at 4:30 in the morning for 25 years.
Sales Manager
Julie is a San Diego native, originally from Point Loma. She attended Point Loma Nazarene University.
After college, Julie went into wholesale food service as a sales representative but changed course into her life-long passion of interior design. Julie’s career in interior design, working with high-end furniture, was a stepping stone into the pool industry. She wanted to expand her design experience by diving into the world of swimming pools. She began her new path with Gardner as an Outdoor Specialist and has since moved her way up to Sales Manager.
Personal: Julie loves spending time with her two children and enjoys going on hikes and runs with her dogs.
Controller
Erik started at Gardner as a 1-2 week temp and just never left. He came from Central Oregon where he ran a small roofing company with his dad, but moved south when he got married at the end of 2006. He came in to help get the front office caught up, and then stayed on quickly moving through the ranks of Accounting, HR, Assistant Controller and now as Controller. These days his daily duties cover the full spectrum including accounting, IT, payroll/HR and managing the office.
Personal Touch Erik played football in high school and some of college, but has now moved onto long distance trail running.
Business development
Erik started at Gardner as a 1-2 week temp and just never left. He came from Central Oregon where he ran a small roofing company with his dad, but moved south when he got married at the end of 2006. He came in to help get the front office caught up, and then stayed on quickly moving through the ranks of Accounting, HR, Assistant Controller and now as Controller. These days his daily duties cover the full spectrum including accounting, IT, payroll/HR and managing the office.
Personal Touch Erik played football in high school and some of college, but has now moved onto long distance trail running.
General manager anaheim branch
Josh was born for construction work, nearly working at it his entire career. As an excavating contractor, he can run most anything with a motor; from a chainsaw to a 180,000 lb Bulldozer. He started with Gardner Pool Plastering mixing plaster when the team was plastering pools, he moved to service (since he can fix practically anything) and finally opened and running the Palm Springs area branch. Josh has been successfully running this branch ever since.
Personal Touch Married in 2005, Josh and his wife had their first child in 2008. He loves to travel, visiting so far, 24 states and 22 countries in 5 continents.
operations manager anaheim branch
Steve Bender has been working in the pool business since 1990 – practically born to water. He began his career in the tile and coping specialty, but soon expanded his experience and knowledge to the entire pool remodeling and new construction industry. With his background, Steve is a tremendous asset to Gardner and well-loved by our clients for this patience and professional demeanor. Steve is just a really nice guy quick to smile!
Personal Touch Steve enjoys going to the Colorado River spending weekends water skiing. He also likes playing golf which mystifies us – thought he would find work challenging enough!
Warehouse Manager
Plumbing Foreman
V.P.
Mike started working out of High School building swimming pools. Mike began his career working for Pacific Custom Pools, traveling the United States building water theme amusement parks – his first park was right here in Southern California; Raging Waters. Started Trimac Pools with his dad and brother building high-end pool in San Diego area and co-bought Gardner Pool Plastering with his family.
Personal Touch Aside for building pools, Mike is a late starter in some ways: he is learning to play the piano at 56 and was recently married at 54.
branch manager, palm desert office
Cameron went to Rancho Bernardo High school graduating in 2012 and began working for Gardner during the summers. After graduating from Endicott college with a degree in Business Management, Cameron joined Gardner full-time, working in the office, soon promoted to work with various crews to better understand the inner workings of remodeling, eventually becoming the Branch Manager.
