by Jessey Sanchez | Jun 26, 2025
Dee Pizer’s support of the Manufactured Homes Community Industry has been significant… This includes guest speaking at MHI National Meetings: mentoring women in the Industry to reach their potential and continues to volunteer her time whenever asked to assist other Community Owners/ Developers throughout the country. The time she gives new Community Owners and Operators at these meetings has been a tremendous help to new Operators in the Industry. Her reputation and success make her a great source of information and she always makes herself available. She helped change the perception of this being an “Exclusively Male Dominated” Industry. She has not only been essential to the growth and success at Zeman Homes here but the overall growth and continuing success of the Community Industry as a whole.
by Jessey Sanchez | Jun 26, 2025
Alan H Spencer has 35-plus years of accomplishments in the MH industry, including MH community involvement, pioneering direct-to-consumer factory sales lots, expansion / management of national MH dealerships and more. Alan has decade’s long involvement in MH associations; with service on industry leading national action committees. He has helped to pass laws or fight against legislation that would have negatively impact on the industry or consumers in South Dakota and several Midwestern states. He was further instrumental in passing a law in SD that enabled Manufactured Homes to be placed on foundations allowing them to be converted to real property giving the customer the option to obtain mortgage financing and therefore making manufactured housing more appealing to a larger customer base.
by Jessey Sanchez | Jun 26, 2025
Eleonore Hamm is a leader who has strengthened and unified the RV industry, not only in Canada but in the U.S. as well. Eleonore’s passionate promotion of technical education, her development of deep bonds with the campground segment and her successful government lobbying has raised the stature and professional level of the industry. CRVDA, under Eleonore’s lead, has partnered with CRVA, RVDA, RVIA and others to unite the industry to overcome common obstacles. Worked closely with dealers and industry stakeholders to provide RVs to first responders during the first wave of the Coronavirus pandemic outside of the RV and Camping industry. Eleonore was frequently seen volunteering in her community at youth hockey fundraising events as well as charity drives supporting homelessness.
by Jessey Sanchez | Jun 26, 2025
Few people can match Jeff Hirsh’s achievements in business and volunteer work in the RV industry and the local communities he serves. Over his career, he built a network of twenty-eight RV dealerships in multiple States, while also serving in many capacities for the national dealers association (RVDA). Jeff looks for ways to give back and pay forward. On the local level, he often lends RVs for charitable events. He bought uniforms for the Little League baseball team, a new radar gun for the police department and special equipment for the East Kingston elementary school to set up a Virtual TV and have a remote classroom. Some of his volunteer activities include: Make a Wish Foundation, Special Olympics, Heart Association, and many others. Jeff served in several capacities on the RVDA Board of Directors. Jeff also received RVDA’s highest honor—the JB Summer’s Award, and the Chairman’s Service Award, among several others.
by Jessey Sanchez | Jun 26, 2025
Bob Parish’s knowledge gained as a significantly involved volunteer to the industry, helped Wells Fargo CDF (as a critical component of the RV industry) to navigate the uncertainty of 2008-2009. CDF, the only wholesale finance lender to never stop funding the dealer base, remained true to the industry by fairly communicating its strategy necessary to remain a partner in one of the darkest periods in the RV industry thereby benefiting the viability of the industry as a whole. In addition to being successful in his career, Bob Parish has consistently provided support to issues impacting the growth of the entire RV industry through willing and dedicated service at the board and committee levels of RVlA, using calm rationale and a data-driven approach, yet with diplomacy. He has also been a champion for RVDA’s Con/Expo as a Wells Fargo CDF Gold Sponsor for many years and a charter sponsor of the Top 50 RV Dealer Awards. His key guidance in the formation of the RV Technical Institute is importantly noteworthy as it will have a positive industry impact for many years to come.
