Fireside Chat with Anthony Geisler, CEO of Xponential Fitness Speaker Bio

Anthony Geisler

Anthony Geisler is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Xponential Fitness. After graduating from USC in 1999, Geisler and a friend saw the potential in the dot.com era and created a domain name and website development business, before moving into casino gaming software, then to fitness when he purchased LA Boxing in 2001. Seeing more opportunity in specialized workouts, Geisler bought Club Pilates in early 2015, a small collection of boutique Reformer Pilates studios concentrated in California that has now grown to 900 licensed locations. In 2017, Anthony recognized there was further opportunity with scheduled boutique fitness and formed Xponential Fitness, which is now the largest global franchisor of boutique fitness brands across a variety of verticals with brands including Club Pilates, Pure Barre, CycleBar, Row House, StretchLab, AKT, YogaSix, STRIDE, Rumble, and BFT. Along with its boutique fitness studio locations across the ten brands, Xponential also has a video streaming platform, XPLUS, offering on-demand and live-streamed classes across all brands, as well as also recently launching XPASS, the all-brand fitness subscription where consumers can find and book classes across all ten brands nationwide. Xponential and the brands are also consistently ranked in industry growth awards including Entrepreneur Magazine’s Franchise 500, Fastest Growing Franchise, and Top New Franchises, the Inc.5000 List. Along with his dedication to Xponential (NYSE: XPOF), which successfully completed its initial public offering in July 2021, Anthony has been a guest lecturer at USC’s Marshall School of Business for the Entrepreneur program for over 20 years and is also heavily involved in Miracles for Kids, a non-profit organization focused on providing resources to seriously ill children and their families.

Chelsea Grayson

Chelsea A. Grayson was the first ever female CEO of True Religion and also sat on the True Religion board of directors (where she chaired the Audit Committee) and the CEO and a board member of American Apparel (formerly NYSE MKT: APP).

Currently, Ms. Grayson sits on the board of directors of Xponential Fitness (NYSE: XPOF), where she is a member of the Audit Committee, Spark Networks (NYSE: LOV), where she is a member of the Audit Committee and Goodness Growth Holdings (FKA Vireo Health) (CSE: GNDSF), where she chairs the Nominating & Governance Committee and is a member of the Audit Committee. She also serves as an Executive in Residence at Wunderkind (formerly BounceX) and sits on the board of directors of Lapmaster-Wolters (AKA Precision Surfacing Solutions), where she chairs the board and iHerb, where she serves as the lead independent director and chairs the Nomination & Corporate Governance Committee.

Ms. Grayson is a former member of the board of directors of Sugarfina, Inc., where she was a member of the Steering Committee, and the board of directors of Delta Dental, where she was a member of the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee. 

Prior to joining American Apparel, Ms. Grayson was a partner in the M&A/corporate governance practice groups of Jones Day. Ms. Grayson is a Board Leadership Fellow and a Corporate Governance Fellow with the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). She is also a member of the Board of Advisors for the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.