If we go all the way back, our team’s origin story begins with a high school lifeguarding class.
It was in the pool of Memorial High School where Hannah Gern, Yvonne’s daughter, befriended Julia in 2008. Their friendship remained strong past high school, and eventually, Yvonne and Julia became friends, too.
In 2018, the opportunity to bring in a partner came along and it did not take much arm-twisting to get Julia to join. In 2026, Julia's husband George decided to leave the health-tech world behind to jump into real estate, and thus the Gern Zehel Team became a trio.