Jack Springer:
CLASS OF 1979

Permian High SchoolClass of 1979
Odessa, TX
Jack's Story
As we all say, where has the time gone. After Permian, I went to UTPB and graduated from there. In 1981, I married my wife and we had two sons in 1982 and 1985. Also in 1985, we moved to the DFW area and have been here since then. Our sons are still living around us and we now have three grand sons who are quickly becoming adults.
I had a great career. Remember Gibson's? That was my first career job as Controller. In 1985, when we moved to Fort Worth, I was Controller and then CFO of Monnig's Department Stores. I moved on to a Dallas job in textiles manufacturing and then in 1996, I went into consulting and over the next twelve years served as CEO/CRO for several companies as a partner in my consulting company. In 2009, I left my firm and became the CEO of Malibu Boats and over the next fifteen years, we had tremendous success becoming the #1 performance boat manufacturer, then going public in 2014. After that, we ac...Expand for more
quired Cobalt Boats, Pursuit Boats and Maverick Boat Group, growing to a $1.5 billion company. I left Malibu in 2024 and I am now retired, except for board work and advisory work.
Today, I have a ranch that I work out near Eastland, running cattle. There is always work there. I stay busy with that and advisory committees locally for my church and other charitable organizations.
I was recently asked two questions: 1) Would I go back in time to any previous age in my life? My answer was I hate getting older and miss my sons and grandchildren at earlier ages, but I would not go back. 2) What would I go back and change if I could? My answer was nothing. I have certainly made mistakes and done some things wrong, but that is part of what defines us, helps us learn and helps us be better so I am perfectly happy with what has occurred over the last (almost) fifty years and cannot think of anything I would go back and change.
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