TED VICKEY

Curriculum Vitæ
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EXPERIENCE

Master's Candidate - International Entrepreneurship Management at University of Limerick, Ireland August 2009
■ The Master of Business Studies in International Entrepreneurship Management has been specifically designed to
meet the needs of entrepreneurs who wish to understand how to manage and grow a business internationally by
focusing on the theoretical and practical aspects of managing and growing an international business.
■ Thesis: Effective uses of technology to manage social capital of entrepreneurs
■ Student Class President

President, FitWell Associates, Inc., Washington, DC August 1994 - present

■ Founder and President of company created to purchase existing company (Health Matters, Inc.) that has provided
services to the White House Athletic Center since 1987.
■ Provides a turn key approach to health and fitness for government and corporate facilities
■ Created company systems for technology, customer service, advertising, marketing, and vendor relations

Board of Director, American Council on Exercise, San Diego, CA July 2006 - present
■ Board of Director Member for the largest nonprofit fitness certification and education provider in the world at
$10 million in revenues and over 200,000 certified professionals
■ Provide oversight and industry expertise to help set standards and protect the public against unqualified fitness
professionals and unsafe or ineffective fitness products, programs and trends.
■ Member of the Nominations Committee
■ Chair - ACE Industry Advisory Panel, 2007, 2008
■ Vice Chair - Nominations Committee, 2007
■ Chair - Nominations Committee, 2008

Vice President, Comprehensive Health Services, Inc., Vienna VA April 2001 - March 2007
■ Vice President in charge of fitness and wellness programming for privately held company
■ Member of Senior Staff developing corporate philosophy and business management
■ Comprehensive Health Services, Inc. (CHS), is a national provider of employer-sponsored on-site health units,
wellness programming, fitness center management and occupational medical examination services to major
corporations and government agencies.

Executive Director, White House Athletic Center, Washington, DC August 1994 – December 2005
■ Oversee all operations of 500-member facility for the Executive Office of the President, ensuring its continual improvements
■ Work closely with 15-member Board of Directors in strategic planning in future goals of facility
■ Research and produce annual fiscal budget for facility

Information Manager, People Karch International (PKI), Chantilly, VA June 1993 – August 1994
■ Manager of the largest Health Risk Appraisal contract with 3M, (35,000 questionnaires, 65% return rate)
■ Member of the development team for PKI Software windows version
■ Manager of the Information Technology customer service center, providing computer support to clients

Fitness Specialist, Housing and Urban Development Fitness Center, Washington, DC December 1991 – June 1993
■ On-site fitness specialist for a PKI consulting site providing exercise testing using ACSM protocols
■ Implemented fitness center membership tracking and reporting via computer
■ Responsible for daily operation of center, exercise equipment maintenance, and membership services

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Association for Worksite Health Promotion

■ 1999 Region 2 President
■ 1998 Region 2 President Elect
■ 1997-1992 International Conference Committee—
Student Activities Chairperson
■ 1997 Region 2 Communication Chairperson
■ 1996 Region 2 Past Conference Chairperson
■ 1995 Region 2 Conference Chairperson
■ Awarded 1995 Region 2 leadership award
■ 1994 Region 2 Conference Co-Chairperson
■ 1993 Region 2 Conference Food and
Facility Chairperson
■ 1992 Region 2 Conference Evaluation Chairperson

Toastmasters International—CTM awarded 1998. Active member of the Five Star Toastmasters since 1997
■ 1997 Treasurer

American Council on Exercise—Active member since 1994

■ Certified Personal Trainer

Penn State Alumni Association—Active member since 1991, Lifetime member since 1997
■ 1997-1996 Metro Washington chapter Charity Golf Tournament planning committee

Penn State Health and Human Development Alumni Association

■ 1998 – 2003 Alumni Board of Director – Department of Kinesiology
■ 2003 – 2006 Member of the Dean’s Leadership Council

CAREER SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE

Strategic business planning Finance/administrative management

Major client development
Competitive maneuvering
Staff supervision/development
Marketing/sales management
Competitor intelligence systems
Start-up operations
Expansion/turnaround strategies
Communications/public relations
Revenue/profit turnaround
Management system operations

Business ownership/buyouts Operations turnaround

Advertising/promotion
Facility management
Budgeting/accountability
Financial planning & analysis
Technology operations
Supply/demand analysis
Site selection/space planning
General management
Procurement operations
Logistical services

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PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONS

Guest lecturer for Penn State University, San Diego State University, Keene State University, University of Pittsburgh,
University of Limerick, Mercyhurst College
2009 Presenter at BizCamp Ireland – “How to use LinkedIn to increase your credibility”
2008 Presenter at American Camp Association – “Fitness programming for kids”
2008 Author, 101 Fitness Tips for Golf, Coaches Choice Publishing
2007 Presenter at Precor National Sales Conference – “Successful Strategies to selling fitness equipment to
the federal government”
2007 Author, 101 Fitness Games for Kids at Camp, Coaches Choice Publishing
2004 Co-Author, The Complete Idiots Guide to Partner Fitness, Penguin Publishing
2003 Presenter at Nordic Track National Sales Conference – “Opportunity Knocks—A Healthier U.S.”
2003 APCA Personal Chef Summit: Personal Chef and Personal Training: “Combining Healthy Food & Exercise”
1998 Association for Worksite Health Promotion Region 2 conference: Using Myers-Briggs in Health Promotion
1998 International Ticketing Association conference Keynote speaker: “Fitness in the Stressful Workplace”
1997 Association for Worksite Health Promotion Region 2 conference: CYBER WELLNESS

TELEVISION AND RADIO

Capital Golf Weekly – Golf Fitness Expert – Washington DC

Tee Time Radio – Golf Fitness Expert – Dallas, TX (heard nationwide)

EDUCATION

Exercise and Sport Science Bachelor of Science, Penn State University, 1991

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY BIOGRAPHY

T
ed Vickey is Founder and President of FitWell LLC. FitWell is a fitness management
consulting company specializing in operations, design consulting and professional
development to the fitness industry, government agencies, Fortune 1000 companies
and the golf industry. In addition to his FitWell duties, he is a member of the Board of
Directors for the American Council on Exercise, the largest non-profit accredited
certification organization in the fitness industry.
From 2001 - 2006, he was a member of the Executive Team as Vice President at
Comprehensive Health Service where he was responsible for the operations, sales,
consulting and client account management for the fitness management and wellness
screenings division of the company.
Ted is an innovator and leader in the corporate fitness management industry and
has presented at industry conferences on many topics including the integration of
technology and wellness. In 2004 he was the co-author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide
to Partner Training. He has been a member of professional organizations such as the
Association of Worksite Health Promotion and the American Council on Exercise.

■ Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise and Sports Science, 1991

■ 1995 FitWell won the White House Athletic Center contract

■ 1998 Vickey appointed to Board of Directors for the Penn State College of Health and Human
Development
■ 1999 Fruit of the Loom® and Osram Sylvania® contracted FitWell to design and manage their
fitness centers
■ 2000 FitWell was awarded the fitness management contract for the Security Exchange Commission
■ 2000 The first ever eManagment fitness contract for Eastern Mountain Sports®
■ 2001 Department of Commerce fitness center chose FitWell when they were unhappy with their
current management company
■ 2001 Homeland Security’s TSA fitness testing project chose FitWell to deliver their programs.
■ 2002 Pension Benefit Group Plan tenant of Franklin Plaza™ chose FitWell to manage their fitness
center when they were unhappy with their present contractor.
■ 2003 Vickey appointed to Dean's Leadership Council for the Penn State College of Health and
Human Development
■ 2004 The Pentagon Force Protection Agency choose CHS & FitWell to manage the physical fitness
performance medical and fit for duty testing
■ 2004 United States Department of Agriculture Eastern Region Center awarded FitWell Associates
management of their fitness center and wellness program
■ 2005 Civilian Police® (subcontractor to the Department of State) chose CHS and FitWell to design
their fitness testing program
■ 2002-2005 USAA®, Lands End® Corporation, and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center chose
FitWell to perform their health screenings nationwide from 2002-2005.
■ 2006 Vickey elected to the Board of Directors for the American Council on Exercise
■ 2007 Vickey joins Tee Time Radio as fitness consultant, with CJ McDaniel, the PGA’s first Director
of Marketing, Lisa DePaulo, a former LPGA Tour Pro, Dan Potter, Texas' most-listened-to radio
news host, and PGA Hall of Famer and Masters Champion Ben Crenshaw.

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http://www.hhdev.psu.edu/news/meet_alumni/vickey.html

MEET OUR
Ted Vickey is “In Charge”
at The White House
ALUMNI

Ever since he was a young boy growing up

in Erie, Pennsylvania, Ted Vickey ’91 EX SCI
dreamed of someday becoming president and
working in The White House. Today, after a
lot of hard work and with the help of some
important people along the way, he is just one
of a handful of people who can say he made
that dream come true.
Well, sort of…
Ted is president of FitWell Associates Inc.,
a fitness management company that designs
and operates fitness facilities and has created
health and fitness programs for a variety of
large companies in the eastern United States
and several federal government agencies.
However, FitWell’s first client remains perhaps
its most prestigious—since 1987, the company Ted Vickey
has operated The White House Athletic
Center. fascinated with the thought of helping people
Yes, that White House. get healthy and stay fit,” he says. “That’s
Ironically, Ted’s childhood dream was to when I decided to change majors.”
get into politics and eventually become Although no longer destined to become
President of the United States. “I used to tell President of the United States, Ted’s dream of
my grandmother all the time that I was going working at The White House was about to
to live in the White House someday,” he come true. While completing his
recalls. So, when Ted came to Penn State in undergraduate degree, Ted was one of only a
the summer of 1987, it came as no surprise to handful of students in the country selected to
his friends and family that he planned to (continues)
major in political science.
Those plans changed that October after
Ted broke his ankle playing a game of pick-up
football on one of his first trips home from
college. “I remember going through
my rehab and being

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serve an internship at The White House Athletic
MEET OUR Center. The first time I walked in there, I was on
ALUMNI cloud nine,” he admits.
But that was just the beginning. In 1994, Ted
was working in the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development’s fitness facility when he
received a phone call from Denise Terry-Evans, the
person who owned the company that ran The
White House Athletic Center and had hired him to
work there.
“She told me that she was leaving and wanted to
know if I might be interested in buying the
company,” he says. Here I am, only 24 years old—I
had no idea what I should do.”
That is when Ted called Dr. Bob Ricketts,
currently senior lecturer in kinesiology and head of
the department’s undergraduate program, for some
advice. “I called Bob and said I have this
opportunity to buy this company but wasn’t sure
what I should do. He asked me how much it was
going to cost, and I told him. Bob gave me a lot of
advice. He also wrote the check and told me to pay
him back when I could, which I did over the next
five years. So, by Christmas 1994 I started the
process of buying the company.
Unfortunately, Ted’s excitement of buying the
company was tempered by his grandmother’s
failing health. He remembers his last trip to visit
his grandmother in June 1995. “She had been in
and out of a coma, but when I got there she woke
up and we talked. She told me she would always be
my guardian angel.
On July 27, 1995, the day Ted closed on the
sale, he received a plant from his grandmother
with a note attached. “Congratulations, you’ve
reached your dream,” it read. “You’re now a
president in The White House.”
“I called my aunt later that day to tell her I had
signed the papers, Ted says. “Two hours after she
told my grandmother the news, my grandmother
passed away. That’s when I decided that, with my
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grandmother—my guardian angel—always watching
over me, I’m going for it.”
That philosophy has served Ted well—in the
seven years since purchasing the company, FitWell
has built a fitness center for Fruit of the Loom in
Kentucky and operates fitness facilities for OSRAM
Sylvania and Eastern Mountain Sports in New
Hampshire. In Washington, FitWell manages a
facility and provides services to the Securities and
Exchange Commission in addition to maintaining
The White House Athletic Center. Most recently,
the company received a government contract to
conduct fitness evaluations on 100,000 federal
employees nationwide. FitWell currently employs
15 full-time and more than 150 part-time
employees.
Two years ago, Ted sold FitWell to
Comprehensive Health Services Inc. (CHS). Based
in Vienna, Virginia, CHS is one of the national
leaders in managing and administering
occupational health programs and boasts a
network of 10,000 physicians in 6,000 locations
throughout the United States. Clients include 30
Fortune 200 firms and several federal government
agencies. Ted is still president of FitWell and was
named a vice president of CHS after selling the
company.
Ted admits that the past seven years have
sometimes been a blur. “I was never a twenty-
something person,” he says. “I had to grow up
pretty quickly and learn how to run a business,
and I had to do it under The White House
microscope.”
However, Ted also says he is pleased with the
choices he has made along the way. “I love what
I’m doing and I love helping people—there are
times I even forget that my office is at The White
House.”
And what about that aspiring political career?
“People assumed I was a Democrat when Clinton
was President, and people assume now that I’m a
Republican because Bush is there, but I try to keep
politics separate from the facility. I do know one
thing for sure, though—I definitely wouldn’t want
to be in politics.”■
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How to Help the President Shape Up by Ted Vickey ’91 H&HD

People would always ask me,“Do you work out with the president?” And I’d say,
“No—I love my job too much.” Can you imagine the stress? Let’s just say you’re
spotting him on dumbbell presses and a dumbbell falls and hits him in the head.As
much as they say they put their pants on just like you and I do, you and I don’t run
the free world.
My job was to serve the staff, and he just happened to be one of the people we
took care of.The Oval Office would call and say,“Ted, we need an elliptical machine,
a bike, and a stepper delivered to the West Wing.” Once I got a call saying,“The
president is flying to Central America, and he wants to run while he’s on Air Force
One.” We got one of those fold-up treadmills, and I had to check with some experts
and crunch numbers to make sure it would be safe to exercise at that altitude.
The president can work out wherever he wants. At the White House, he has
equipment in the residence, or he can work out near the pool. Either way, there
are 20 people making sure you don’t get in.
I was executive director at the White House Athletic Center for 11 years.
through Bush, Clinton, and Bush, but the presidents never came over to the main
fitness center. If they did, it would put a stop to everything. Everyone would want
to work out with the president or just say hi.And interruptions aren’t conducive
to a good workout.
—Ted Vickey, founder and president of the fitness consulting company
FitWell Inc., is former executive director of the White House Athletic Center.
He stays fit in Vienna, Va.

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Tedfindsthatit’s
nevertoolateto
gobacktoschool
Ted Vickey at the Kemmy Business School
EDUCATION
LIMERICK’s MBA course
in Entrepreneurship is
attracting people from
across the globe – one of its
latest recruits has already
spent time working in the
vicinity of the most powerful
political office in the world.
Thirty-nine-year-old Ted
Vickey, who last summer
moved to Limerick from
Washington DC, has for
the last 15 years, worked in
various roles at the White
House Athletic Center,
including the top role of
executive director for over
a decade.
Ted, whose company
Fitwell Inc – which pro-
vides fitness solutions to
large companies - won its
first major contract in the
American seat of power.
After swapping the
White House for the com-
paratively more low key
surroundings of the Uni-
versity of Limerick, and
the Kemmy Business
School, he says he is here
to better himself.
Despite owning an exer-
cise firm which turns over
millions of dollars, Ted
feels to be accepted by his
business peers, he needed
the MBA qualification -
having initially defaulted
on a postgraduate degree
when he finished his
undergraduate study at
Penn State University.
He said: “People would
not take me seriously as a
businessman because I did
not have an MBA after my
name, so that is one of the
reasons why getting this
degree is important. It is
kind of ironic, if you look at
the clients I have worked
“Ted finds that it’s never too late to go back to school,”
The Limerick Leader, January 31, 2009
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for, you are looking at blue
chip firms - the who’s who
of the business world
essentially. But still people
just say, ‘You’re a gym guy,
you don’t really know
business’.”
During his decade-and-
a-half in Washington,
undoubtedly one of the
days which stuck out for
Ted was September 11 - a
day which the western
world changed dramati-
cally.
Managing a team of staff
in the White House gym,
he recalls: “I could tell my
staff were concerned. You
could hear it in their
voices. I just said to them,
Whatever the secret
service tells you to do, just
follow it.”
Asked about the war in
Iraq, he said the atmos-
phere was “even more
stressful than normal.”
However, when he was
working, Ted was not
allowed to let stress get the
better of him - especially
when it came to outsiders
perceptions of the facility.
Now Ted is on the
course at UL, he has put
his company on the back-
burner for now.
“I am focused on con-
sulting, going into corpo-
rations and helping hem
run programmes. That’s
the next stage for the com-
pany. Although the educa-
tion side of my time here is
important to me, when all
said and done, I want to be
able to look back with a
smile on my face, and be
able to say to myself that,
at this stage in my life, liv-
ing in Limerick was the
right choice for me,” he
told Business Leader.
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