Board of Directors
&
Executive Director
MJ Maloof
Chair of the Board and President- mj.maloof@sailpc.org
Claudio Brasca
Vice President- claudio.brasca@sailpc.org
Claudio Brasca, originally from Italy, studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he picked up his passion for sailing. He has raced Olson 25s out of the Berkeley Yacht Club and now calls Park City home, where he lives with his wife Jo-Anne and imports olive oil from Italy under the Brasca Olive Oil brand. Claudio sails in the Ultimate 20 fleet on #24 Avalanche, volunteers on Race Committee and serves as Vice President of Park City Sailing Association.
JR Dethorn
Treasurer- jr.dethorn@sailpc.org
JR was born in Fort Bragg, NC, but has lived in a variety of places growing up. He has moved 27 times so far. With that, he has been sailing all over the states, from Newport, RI to Chicago to Seattle and now Utah. He moved to Utah in 2012 and lives in Cottonwood Heights with his family. You can catch JR racing his laser in our Tuesday night laser racing series.
Greg Lake
Secretary- greg.lake@sailpc.org
Greg Lake grew up in Toledo, Ohio, and became a full-time Park City resident in 2022. His daughter Emma discovered her love of sailing through the Park City Sail summer camp and is now part of the junior race team. Greg is a strong supporter of the junior sailing program, seeing it as a valuable community asset that helps kids build confidence, teamwork, independence, and life skills on and off the water. He is an executive leading Private Equity–backed companies and enjoys spending free time with his wife, Nicole, and their daughters, exploring the lake and the mountains.
Tom O’Malley
Tom.OMalley@sailpc.org
Tom and his wife, Laura, live in Phoenix, Arizona. He is an avid cyclist and volunteer, active in adaptive sports programs for individuals with physical and developmental disabilities. His family has been spending summers in Park City for over 35 years, and intend to make Park City their home upon full retirement, recently purchasing townhomes in Park Meadows and Tuhaye golf communities. Tom was raised on a lake outside Kansas City, MO, at which he was an avid sailor and water skier.
Tom is an accomplished senior executive and attorney with more than thirty-five years of leadership experience spanning professional sports, real estate, hospitality, and senior living. He has built a career at the intersection of law, strategy, and operations, leading complex organizations and advising ownership groups on governance, compliance, and enterprise risk management.
Lara Azria-Reucassel
Lara.Azria-Reucassel@SailPC.org
Scott VerMerris
Executive Director- scott.vermerris@sailpc.org
Scott grew up sailing on the Great Lakes, Lake Erie to be exact. His family's current home port is Vermilion, Ohio.
Scott made the pilgrimage in 1999 out west for skiing, college, and a career in experiential education and wilderness therapy. Scott's lifestyle living between Utah and Colorado over the past two decades landed him not only working in wilderness therapy and teaching sailing, but also working as a professional skier and marketing guy for an up and coming ski company called Icelantic.
Scott is a licensed captain and has a passion for teaching and helping others grow personally through sailing. When he's not sailing in the Great Lakes or Utah, or working and playing in the snow somewhere, you can find him running charters in various parts of the globe, working with families and student groups.
Scott has been a head instructor, a program director, and active member of Park City Sailing for over 10 years. He took on the role as Executive Director for PCSA in 2019, and has taken the lead on running and developing the organization he calls "a huge part of his heart and soul".