BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — USA Water Polo announced the addition of four members to the USA Water Polo Board of Directors. Former Brown University standout Gerrit Adams, Susan Bao, Laura Muller and Ted Weggeland were approved to join the board in a unanimous vote held on April 28 in Irvine, California.
A 2008 graduate of Brown, Adams has worked for a family office investment firm, Henry Crown and Company, since 2009 and is involved in the firm’s venture investments in the healthcare sector. He currently serves as a director of Relign Corporation, Solace Therapeutics and Corinth MedTech. Adams also serves on the board of the Ted Mullin Fund. Adams captained the Bears’ water polo team earning Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) All-Academic, All-Ivy, All-North, and All-East accolades. After receiving a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience from Brown, Adams went on to earn an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. A longtime coach of both water polo and swimming, he currently resides in Chicago, Ill. and actively coaches and plays.
In addition, former/current United States Naval Academy parent Ted Weggeland also joins the Board of Directors.
Weggeland is the founder of the Raincross Corporate Group. Based in Riverside, California, RCG is comprised of multiple companies, including Raincross Hospitality Corporation, which operates the Riverside Convention Center, Riverside Convention & Visitors Bureau, Film Riverside, and Taste! Catering. Raincross Advisors, Inc., a boutique government relations firm, represents real estate and clean energy interests. Raincross Development Company develops residential real estate in Inland Southern California. Prior to forming these companies, he was a Senior Vice President with the Entrepreneurial Corporate Group. He was also a member of the California State Assembly, where he chaired the Committee on Banking and Finance, and was later a member of the California Travel & Tourism Commission. Both his sons entered the United States Naval Academy, where Will captained the water polo team and graduated in 2016, and where Jack currently competes in the sport. A graduate of UCLA, Weggeland and his wife Jennifer endowed the university’s first women’s water polo scholarship. He also initiated and chaired the effort to build the Riverside Aquatics Complex, and in 2012 he founded the Riverside Sports Commission. A member of the board of trustees of the National World War II Museum, he serves the museum as Corporate Secretary and chairs its Marketing Committee.