Our Team
Steve Zimmerman
President
Steve Zimmerman is the founder and President of Zimmerman Marine, Inc. Steve has logged several thousand miles on the water, including the entire East Coast from Canada to the Caribbean, the Pacific Northwest from Anacortes WA to Glacier Bay Alaska, and over forty trips between the Chesapeake and Long Island Sound. He has raced, cruised, and worked as a paid hand and captain.
Steve graduated from the University of Virginia and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. While in college Steve developed and directed a non-profit consumer protection agency which mediated complaints between consumers and merchants.
stevez@zimmermanmarine.com
Kathryn Wallace
Executive Vice President
Kathryn grew up on Gwynn’s Island in Mathews County VA and first learned the ropes from her dad in the family marine business. She has worked in the marine industry for over 20 years and has been involved in all aspects of boatyard and boat dealership business operations.
Kathryn is a graduate of Virginia Tech, with a management degree and is fascinated with human resources, psychology and what makes businesses successful.
kathryn@zimmermanmarine.com
Max Parker
Vice President of Yard Operations
IMax Parker is a confirmed boat nut and loves just about everything involved with being on the water. He has been in the boating industry for over 25 years involved in all aspects of vessel repair. He has been with ZMI for over two decades working as a rigger, electrician, systems tech, scheduler, and yard manager. From cruising his Island Packet 31 with his family to delivering boats up and down the east coast, he rarely passes up a chance to test a boat.
Max graduated from East Carolina University with a degree in Communications.
max@zimmermanmarine.com
Steve Wallace
Business Development
Steve Wallace, a Maine native earned a degree in marine management from Maine Maritime Academy . Steve started his career in the New York area, building and managing marinas.
He gradually became more involved in the service side, and has managed boatyards in New England, Texas, and Virginia, where he managed ZMI’s Mathews yard for five years. Steve has sailed extensively along the East coast from Maine to Florida and in the Caribbean. Despite his Maine roots, Steve feels at home in warmer climates, and enjoys living in Virginia.
stevew@zimmermanmarine.com
Ian Zimmerman
Yard Manager, Herrington Harbour
Ian has been around boats and boat yards literally since he was born. The Zimmerman family lived adjacent to the original Mathews yard, and Ian grew up playing around the boatyard. Swinging in a bosun's chair from the yard crane was one of many ways he experienced the boat yard setting. The yard provided many opportunities to experience sailing on a wide variety of boats.
Ian attended Stevenson University in Towson MD where he played basketball and earned a business degree. After college Ian started his own boat detailing business and worked for several other companies before joining ZMI.
ian@zimmermanmarine.com
Kaitlyn Bize
Service Coordinator, Herrington Harbour
Kaitlyn grew up boating with her family on the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay. Her passion for being on the water led her to pursue a career in yachting. After years of crewing boats in the Caribbean and along the East Coast of the U.S, she attained her USCG Captain’s License in 2019. She then enjoyed instructing hands-on, small vessel training for recreational boaters in the Chesapeake Bay area. She resides in Annapolis, MD with her 2-year-old son and is looking forward to her future with Zimmerman Marine.
Ryan Ducey
Yard Manager, Solomons
Ryan is originally from Seattle and has more than 20 years of experience in the maritime and hospitality industries. He has worked all over the world in Europe, the Caribbean, and across the United States. Before coming to Zimmerman Marine, he was a service manager on the West Coast responsible for operations in Washington and California.
His previous career included general manager of the Wharf Marina in Washington D.C and being the Captain/Engineer of a 112’ Westport private yacht along the Atlantic Seaboard and in the Bahamas. He also ran private yachts in the Pacific Northwest, and he was a Captain with a fleet of vessels operating in Washington DC, Miami, and the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Before his career in Yachting, Ryan managed valet parking operations in Seattle and Atlanta. Ryan has combined his experience in customer service and love for working on boats. He is excited to be a part of the local boating community.
ryan@zimmermanmarine.com
Adam Sadeg
Yard Manager, Deltaville
Adam, a California native, grew up sailing on San Francisco Bay. He taught sailing at San Diego State University and has owned and campaigned many boats. Adam has over 30,000 ocean miles racing and cruising on the west coast from Oregon to Zihuatanejo, Mexico. He comes to us from Svendsen’s Boat Works in the San Francisco Bay Area where he was the Boatyard Foreman.
Adam graduated from San Diego State University with a degree in Economics.
adam@zimmermanmarine.com
Thomas King
Service Coordinator, Deltaville
Thomas King is the Service Coordinator in Deltaville, VA. He has been working in the marine industry for 10 years and is an ABYC Certified Technician. He started working on boats with his father in the Chesapeake Bay area as a kid and landed his first maritime job working on yacht interiors & refits in South Florida, eventually becoming a Marine Technician and now a Service Coordinator at Zimmerman Marine. He lives aboard a sailboat in the Chesapeake area and is happy to be back in Virginia with his dog enjoying the area and lifestyle change from South Florida.
tom@zimmermanmarine.com
TBD
Yard Manager, Mathews
Brian Murphy
Service Coordinator, Mathews
Brian grew up in Mathews County, Va, and has been on the water all his life. He comes from a mechanical background of over 30 years including boats, industrial and farm equipment. When he is not working on restoring old trucks and tractors, he enjoys boating, fishing, and spending time with his wife and two children.
Eric Pittman
Yard Manager, Oriental
Eric has been involved with boating since a young age, as his father was a marine technician locally in Oriental while growing up. After high school, working in aviation in the Navy helped to hone his skills as a technician. After his tour was complete, he became a marine service technician and eventually General Manager at Deaton Yacht Service in Oriental, North Carolina. Seventeen years later, he stayed on through the transition from Deaton’s to Zimmerman Marine as a marine service technician and is now the yard manager. Outside of work Eric plays bass in local bands and enjoys as much time as possible being a father to his daughter.
Jason Homant
Service Coordinator, Oriental
Jason was raised in a family rooted in recreational boating, hailing from Tennessee and Michigan. He spent several years running around eastern North Carolina with the United States Marine Corps. He was a former technician at Deaton Yacht Service in Oriental, and also a former technician at MarineMax Wrightsville Beach. Jason was previously American Boat and Yacht Council certified in diesel and gasoline engines. He is certified on Yanmar small and medium engines, saildrives, and smart assist, and he is experienced with Volvo Penta, Mercruiser, Westerbeke, Perkins, Cummins, and Northern Lights. As a self-described shadetree mechanic, you can find him on weekends turning wrenches on his classic motorcycle, 2-stroke stand-up jet ski, or anything with an engine.
John DeVivo Yard Manager, Holden Beach
Growing up, I spent my time boating off the coast of Atlantic City, New Jersey. After moving to South Florida, I decided to turn my passion for boating into a career. I started in the marine industry by working in semi-custom production boat building at manufacturers like Bertram Yachts and Viking Yachts. With a decade of experience, I have held various positions within the industry. Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with my wife and four children, waterfowl hunting, and training hunting retrievers.
john@zimmermanmarine.com
Cory McDonald Yard Manager, Charleston
Cory McDonald is a seasoned professional with eight years of experience working on boats, specializing in marine electronics and electrical systems. Holding ABYC and NMEA certifications, Cory demonstrates a high level of expertise and dedication to ensuring the safety and efficiency of marine technology. Outside of work, Cory finds joy in spending quality time with his wife and dog, cherishing moments of relaxation and companionship. With a passion for tinkering with his car, Cory enjoys exploring new projects in his spare time.
Yacht Purchase Support Team
Bob Arrington
Yacht Purchase Support
Bob Arrington has 45 years boating experience on the Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay and off-shore waters of the U.S. Atlantic Seaboard and Caribbean. He holds a U.S. Coast Guard 100 Ton Master’s Certificate. Bob shares his love of the water as a writer, marine industry consultant, boat training captain, and scuba instructor. He provides boat owners with lessons in seamanship, safety systems, handling and vessel operation, at the TrawlerFest boat show seminar series and boat brand owner’s clubs. Based in St. Petersburg, Florida, he and his photographer wife Dori cruise extensively aboard their trawler Liberdade, looking for the next story to tell.
bob@zimmermanmarine.com
Graham Wright
Yacht Purchase Support
Family connections on the Maine coast and a lakeside camp in western Massachusetts set the path for Graham’s love of the water from an early age.
A graduate of Maine Maritime Academy, Graham started his yacht service career in Marblehead, MA, learning rigging from the best in the business. He then returned to Maine where he spent the next 30 years providing service management at two of the best boatyards on the coast. His reputation for sound advice, clear communication, and attention to detail have followed him throughout his career.
Graham holds a 100T USCG masters license, he has moved boats up & down the intracoastal waterway and cruised the Bahamas & the Canadian Maritimes. He additionally provides boat owners guidance in operating their vessels knowledgeably and safely.
Graham & his wife sail their Tayana 37 from their homeport of Harpswell, Maine with a crew of two standard poodles.
Haywood May
Yacht Purchase Support
Haywood grew up in New Bern, NC, spending most of his free time from an early age on the water. He was fortunate to have grandparents and parents who loved the water and cannot remember a time when there was not some kind of boat in the family. Haywood attended NC State and St. Andrews College, graduating in 1972 with majors in Business and Economics.
Haywood managed a yacht yard in Maine for 16 years, and has made 20+ round trips on the inland waterway, many trips to the Southeast Coast of Nova Scotia, and one transatlantic sailing trip.
Haywood lives in Southwest Harbor, Maine.
haywood@zimmermanmarine.com