After less than a year, James Weaver, CEO of Gold’s Gym International, has resigned, according to a source affiliated with Gold’s. Weaver was brought on in November 2008 to improve the structure of the organization and to repair damaged relationships with franchisees. Jim Snow will be taking over as president of Gold’s Gym International.
Weaver said in June, “I don’t believe that things happen due to circumstance alone.” Club Solutions Magazine wrote that he felt his entire life had prepared him for the role of CEO at Gold’s.
Weaver has had a successful professional career. He led sales and marketing for Johnson & Johnson’s Medical Hospital Division, co-founded Tecnol Medical Products – a medical supply company. After selling Tecnol to Kimberly Clark in 1999, Weaver worked as a business consultant for one of the largest law firms in Dallas while helping his wife, Joy, get her company on the fast track. In October 2008, Weaver received an e-mail from Jim Caldwell, president and director of TRT Holdings, the parent company to Gold’s Gym International, to discuss Weaver joining Gold’s as president and CEO.
