Karl and Jennifer Neumaier graduated from Michigan State University. They started their family of three sons in Michigan before embarking on an adventure that initially took them to Shanghai China for 5 ½ years before landing at Tulsa in 2010. Jennifer was entrepreneurial and artsy, running a daycare out of their family home for a few years and more recently teaching Chinese brush painting to younger kids. She is a Spanish teacher and loves to travel to Spanish-speaking countries with her students (and her family naturally!). Karl worked in a combination of the automotive and construction industries for almost 30 years in several different leadership roles ending with his role as Chief Operations Officer. Together they raised their three sons with all three eventually becoming Eagle Scouts and graduating from college. They also grew their engagement in the Tulsa non-profit community, most recently when Karl co-chaired the Tulsa Area United Way campaign in 2023.
In 2022, they decided to take a break together and embarked on a sabbatical to discover what they wanted to do with the next chapter of their lives. That led to Celebree where they found the opportunity to not just work together, but also strengthen opportunities for other families in the community via high-quality early childhood education.