about camp associates
Chris and BettyJo met while serving in the Marine Corps, they happened to be attending a mutual friends birthday party in Okinawa, Japan. After their time in the service, they relocated to Oklahoma where Chris began training as an apprentice lineman, while attending college in the evenings. Shortly after graduating, Chris began working for a major auxiliary equipment manufacturer for the gas turbine OEM’s, this equipment included air filtration houses, inlet systems and full exhaust systems as a Regional Aftermarket Sales Manager, covering the Southeast.
BettyJo completed her master’s degree in mental health counseling from the University of Oklahoma and has own practice here in Florida.
In 2016 Chris and Jo moved to Florida to start their careers in the Power Generation Representative industry. While Jo helps keep the administrative and inside sales part of the business afloat, while running her own counseling practice, Chris absolutely loves to hit the road and visit every power plant that he can. Together they enjoy helping customers with their needs, no need is too big, and it is never too small. The feeling Chris gets when walking back to his vehicle after a visit with one of their customers, is still as great of feeling today as it was when they started in 2016.
While Florida is home for Chris and Jo, they can be found from time to time traveling to power plants all over the Southeast, keeping up with the great relationships that Chris developed with these plants while working as a regional aftermarket sales manager. Chris and Jo have one son who has joined the family business. After graduating from Embry-Riddle with a degree in Aerospace Engineering, Lane went to work for a couple of years as a Gas Turbine Field Engineer for GE Vernova; an opportunity that he took full advantage of both learning about the 7F gas turbine and how to run a major outage.
Rounding out the team is Isabella "Izzy" Hunt - Izzy has a work ethic that is simply unmatched. Izzy is a great help with technical hard to find parts and obsolete items that a customer is needing. She spent four plus years as a Safety Specialist for GE Vernova, overseeing all the safety aspects of a major outage and i snow wrapping up here degree in Nuclear Engineering. Be on the lookout for a name change for Izzy as Lane and her are set to get married in Dec of 2025!
They also have two “killer” toy poodles named Thor & Loki.
The message that Chris and Jo would like everyone to know about them and Camp Associates, is that they are just two regular folks working hard to navigate the daily struggles of life and understand that their customers are doing the same thing, anything that they can do to help in that, both professional and personal, that is what they love to do, no thrills or gimmicks, just old fashioned helping one another because it is the right thing to do.
Camp Associates partners are great organizations with many years of experience in Power Generation. These organizations have the same values as Camp Associates, and all are organizations where Chris, Lane BettyJo and Izzy can pick up the phone and talk to the correct person of each one to ensure their customer needs are meet; this is something that Camp Associates is proud of and will not compromise on.
