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Innovations in Health, Fitness, and Travel

Innovations in

Health, Fitness, and Travel

Our current focus , Global Fast Fit, has on the ground teams in the US, China, Kenya, Uganda, Indonesia, Thailand, and India creating health oriented clubs, and working towards our goal of making Global Fast Fit the universal standard for functional fitness.

Some examples of our partnerships with local gyms are Nitya’s Fitness Center in Srikalahasti, India, Winsim gym in Njoro, Kenya, and Ironville gym in Dongguan, China. In 2024 people of 30 different nationalities around the world participated in Global Fast Fit over 4700 times in gyms, at events, and in all sorts of other settings.

We also are taking advantage of our deep experience in some locations, starting with Bali, Indonesia, to offer health and culture focused vacation travel through Bali Travel Partners. We have plans to expand this program to Kenya and Thailand.

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Our affiliates also engaged in a number of not-for-profit activities in 2024:

Groom Ventures, through its various for-profit and non-profit affiliates, has partnered with companies, organizations, and communities from our very beginning, when from 1992 to 1994, Groom Properties, Inc. developed the Maple Valley subdivision in Franconia, Virginia and sold finished building lots to publicly traded national homebuilder NVR.

Over the years we’ve worked on many different types of projects with many different partners and created value in real estate, media, digital technology, and philanthropy.

With the right partners, a small company can have a big impact.

People

  • John F. Groom

    Founder
    Language: English

    John has been involved in digital technology since 1996 with the launch of the Positive Press website, which garnered wide publicity.

    In 1998 he became the 4th full time employee of AnnuityNet, the first company in the world to sell variable annuities online.

     
    John has 5 software patents:
    • System and Method for Searching, Organizing, Exploring and Relating Online Content – issued in 2018
    • Alternate Search Methodology – issued in 2021
    • Multi-dimensional interaction with data stores related to tangible property - issued in 2022
    • John Groom, Prudhvi Nag, and Bryan Matott filed a patent for the Everything Tag - Digital Tags to Facilitate Production, Collaboration, Transparency, Privacy, Authentication, History, Synchronization, Ownership, and Regulatory Compliance During the Creation and Use of a Product - issued in 2023
    • Dynamically Generated Object-Responsive Interactive Action Display, filed February 27th 2023,status pending
    USA

  • Bryan Matott

    Design Lead
    Language: English

    Bryan has been with Groom Ventures since June 2020. During his time with Groom Ventures he has been working on design, research, and testing for development of Casa Command.

    Previously, he held the role of Lead Designer for three years at Rome Technologies, a management software developer. He has a Bachelors Degree in Graphic Design.

    USA

  • Prudhvi Nag

    Technical Lead
    Languages: English, Telugu, and Hindi

    Prudhvi has been with Groom Ventures since 2019. He has a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science & Applications and a Masters in Business.

    Previously, he was a Software Engineer at Sigma Info Solutions, Bangalore.

    India

  • Ketut Adhi

    Manager, Bali Team
    Languages: English and Bahasa

    Adhi has a masters degree in Art Research for Visual Communication. He joined Groom Venture in early 2022 after successfully organizing various charity VGF events and art production for IAH.

    Previously he worked on a startup project and creative production as a freelancer.

    Indonesia
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    Sancita Resen

    Public Affairs Manager, Bali Team
    Languages: English, Bahasa, and Balinese

    Sancita has a bachelor's degree in economics and a masters degree in tourism. He was previously head of public relations at a tech start-up. He has been involved in Virginia Groom Foundation programs since they began in mid-2021.

    Indonesia

  • Sean Suvanadesa

    Project Manager
    Languages: Thai and English

    Sean leads our efforts in Thailand from Bangkok and is focused on building Global Fast Fit. Sean’s background is in media and event production. He studied communications and public relations at Bangkok University before starting his own company.

    Thailand

  • Made Kariasa

    Logistics support, Bali Team
    Languages: English, Bahasa, Balinese

    Made provides logistics support for the Bali team. He formerly traveled around the world as a cruise ship employee.

    Indonesia

  • Dr. James Muchiri

    Medical Consultant
    Languages: English, Kiswahili and Kikuyu

    James is a practicing physician at J.M. Kariuki Memorial County Referral hospital and in charge of Global Fast Fit’s public health initiative.

    He graduated with a bachelor's degree in medicine and surgery from Moi University in 2018. Since then he has worked at Machakos Level 5 as a medical officer, Nyahururu County Referral Hospital as a medical officer and Kimanjo Sub County Hospital as the medical superintendent.

    Kenya

  • Abigael Cheruto Rotich

    Coordinator, Kenya
    Languages: English, Kiswahili

    Abby is a registered nurse and was the valedictorian student at the Kabarak School of Health Science. She is involved with Global Fast Fit events and the related public health initiatives.

    Kenya

  • Shakayla Aretha Shaima

    Associate, Bali Team
    Languages: English, Javanese, Bahasa, Sudanese

    Aretha joined the team in 2023 and works on Virginia Groom Foundation and the Global Fast Fit projects, as well as making contributions on the design team.

    Indonesia

Health

GFF Event in Bali, Dec 2023

Groom Ventures is developing a universal benchmark for functional fitness, Global Fast Fit, that is being used to both measure and improve fitness.

Global Fast Fit requires no special equipment or clothing and can be done anywhere by anyone. It’s 3 simple exercises plus a short run, but measures, and improves, both strength, speed, and cardiovascular fitness.

We believe that short, intense periods of this exercise routine can have a major positive impact on lifestyle related diseases, such as Diabetes 2, that affect hundreds of millions of people around the world.

We have staged GFF events in Kenya, Thailand, India, and Indonesia, and have pending trademark applications covering most of the world’s population. The Global Fast Fit trademark is registered in the United States.

Global Fast Fit

Real Estate

Our Projects

GV has been doing real estate ventures in Northern Virginia since 1989. It’s interesting to take our first real estate project and compare it to our latest one; both 10 acres, but quite different.

 

In the early 90s, Groom Properties, Inc. did the grading, built the road, and installed the street and utilities, then sold 22 finished single-family lots to NV Homes, a division of publicly-traded NVR, for the Maple Valley Project in the Franconia area of Fairfax, Virginia.

 

Now our Rock Hill Development LLC affiliate is taking the same amount of land, very close to the future Innovation Metro Station in Loudoun County, Virginia, and partnering with Greystar, the biggest apartment developer in the US, to build 415 apartments.

Media

Groom Ventures has a long history working with cutting-edge technology. In 1996 one of our ventures, Attitude Media, launched the Positive Press website, followed by The Outrage in 1997. These early web ventures garnered a lot of high-level publicity.

THE OUTRAGE REVIEWS

  • Web Magazine: “a brilliant use of the Web”
  • Netscape’s Netcenter: “Unbridled rants that can brighten even the dullest day”
  • The Boston Globe: “John Groom also understands that man’s nature is contradictory”
  • Playboy: “Entertaining rants on topics such as NBA labor negotiations and government waste.
 

Through various entities such as Groom Books and Attitude Media, Inc., Groom Ventures has published a wide array of books, websites, email lists and social media.

You can sign up for the Positive Quote of the Day by email, running since 1996, here, or get it via Twitter here.

Books

Counting to God: A Personal Journey Through Science to Belief

Living Sanely in an Insane World: Philosophy for Real People

Life Changing Advice From People You Should Know

Official Lies

The Real Case Against Goldman Sachs

From Tragedy to Triumph : 100 Amazing and Inspiring Comebacks

New Home Buyers Guide

The 1.4 Billion Dollar Man

Web

  • John F. Groom

  • INDO ART HOUSE

  • GROOM MEDIA

  • POSITIVE QUOTE OF THE DAY

  • HOW MUCH RISK

  • DAILY OUTRAGE

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Groom Ventures LLC is a US based limited liability company. Indo Art House is a registered trademark in the US and Indonesia. Global Fast Fit is a registered trademark in the US, Indonesia, and the European Union; other applications pending throughout the world.

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