Operator.
Builder.
Investor.
I help lead consumer brands and manufacturers by day. With my family and a few close partners, I also run Reagan Brooks, our family holding company. We launch, build and invest in local businesses: food, golf, commercial auctions, real estate and more.
“Take the biggest bite you can, then figure out how to chew it.”
Where I
come from
I grew up in a blue-collar, rural town north of Pittsburgh, in a family where work wasn't something you talked about. You just did it.
My grandmother came to this country from Korea as a first-generation immigrant, built a life from nothing, and never stopped working. She taught me that no job is beneath you and that you finish what you start.
My dad built Full Circle Distributors, a beverage distribution business in Pittsburgh, from the ground up. I grew up riding along on his routes and watching him outwork every problem in front of him. He gave me my first real job in the business, and he still keeps me honest.
Everything I know about grit, I learned from the two of them. It's also where my motto comes from: Stay hungry.
Landscaping, door-to-door sales, sealing asphalt, night-shift security — and a short stint as a bounty hunter. Whatever paid, I took it, and I learned how to sell and how to show up.
Right out of high school I bought a car wash and detail shop. I fought for it and still had to close it — the most expensive education I've ever paid for. Then I built Fortitude Property Services, managing foreclosed homes for lenders across ten counties in southwestern Pennsylvania with a network of more than fifteen subcontractors.
It started riding shotgun in my dad's business, where I learned consumer goods from the warehouse floor up: routes, retailers, and what it takes to win a shelf and keep it. Then I took a sales job at Boylan, liked it more than I expected and kept at it. I’m still there, still learning from the people around me.
I built Cleveland Party Rentals and sold it.
Alongside family and a group of close partners, I've built Reagan Brooks to launch, build and invest in businesses we believe in — from food trailers and golf simulators to commercial auctions and real estate. I'm also a licensed Ohio auctioneer.
At 14, I joined Fawn Fire Company No. 2 in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, as a junior firefighter. I grew up in that firehouse, served as company president, worked through the line officer ranks, and at 27 was elected Chief. Today I serve as a Search and Rescue Technician with the Ohio Special Response Team, sit on a couple of nonprofit boards, judge the occasional pitch competition, and call charity auctions for free.
Operating roles
Pretty Tasty
Ready-to-drink collagen tea, now on shelves nationally at Sprouts and Target.
Boylan Bottling
Craft soda in American-made glass since 1891, plus MASH and the JOLT Cola brand.
RainShadow Labs
Contract and private-label cosmetics manufacturing for brands of every size.
Reagan Brooks
Reagan Brooks is our family holding company, named for our children, Reagan Grace and Charlie Brooks. I serve as Executive Chairman and run it alongside family and a group of close partners.
Most of it is small, local businesses that family and partners run day to day. We take care of the people who run them, and we plan to keep them a long time.
We also put money and time behind a few founders we believe in.
Food
Sports & entertainment
Consumer goods
Auctions & equipment
Business services
Real estate
Public
service
Life member of the Fawn Township Fire Company in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where I served in every line and executive office, including Chief and President.
As a licensed Ohio auctioneer, I call benefit auctions for local nonprofits at no charge. Request a charity auction →
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