JACKELINE NIEVES
Owner and Lead Technician
Jackeline ‘Jackie’ Nieves is a proud alumna of The Pennsylvania State University, where she earned a Bachelor’s in Business Administration Management with a Human Resources concentration. For over a decade, Jackie has cultivated a passion for Program Development and Management, Business Consulting, and Resource Management, while simultaneously building a career teaching classical Pilates, functional movement, life coaching, meditation, and breathwork. She utilized her experiences and expertise to help create, develop and manage an international Pilates Teacher Training Program.
Jackie is the owner of Sentry Pilates Solutions Inc., one of the first Pilates Equipment Maintenance service companies, and two thriving live/virtual Pilates studios. As the Wellness Advisor and Consultant at Kinetic Leaders, she also works on a wide range of consulting and talent engagements. With extensive experience teaching Pilates, to both groups and private clients, she has a natural gift for assisting clients in connecting to the power of a healthy mind/body connection. Jackie uses her intuition and educational expertise to develop “outside of the box” techniques to assist clients in getting stronger physically, mentally, and spiritually. She combines her love for business with her love for Pilates, mindfulness, and movement to guide individuals and businesses, with gratitude.
REGINA ARRAS
Lead Technical Consultant
Aerospace Engineer and Nationally Certified Pilates Teacher (NCPT), Regina Arras, has a unique take on body mechanics and a very real passion for the “nuts and bolts” of Pilates. Regina approaches Pilates from an engineer’s perspective, dissecting the mechanics of each exercise, and from the artistic perspective of a dancer, always pursuing and appreciating the beauty and elegance of each movement. Regina’s distinctive approach has given rise to a whole new business model as she tackles the service and maintenance side of the industry to redefine what studio upkeep really means.
Regina, the mastermind of this maintenance business, founded Top Gun Pilates Engineering in 2013. After becoming a Pilates instructor in 2009, she quickly realized there was a huge void in the industry for maintenance providers. She combined her Pilates teaching expertise, with over 10 years of aviation engineering experience to develop the industry-leading Pilates maintenance business. Highlighting safety as the utmost priority, Regina did more than fill the void, she brought awareness to the industry that we owe it to our clients to have safe equipment.
HEATHER DUFEK
Maintenance Technician
Heather has a passion for all things Pilates. She is a forever student of Pilates, a fully certified Pilates instructor, and a Pilates maintenance technician. As a single mother of three teens, while working with private clientele and at several large Pilates studios in NYC, Heather works to keep her time management skills sharp. Growing up in South GA, she was raised in a home that valued discipline, hard work, good work ethics, and attention to detail. Her father was very handy and always made sure every moment was a teaching moment, tools and problem-solving were a natural part of daily life. Heather makes a great effort to keep herself and her students challenged and focused through the practice of Pilates, and finds great fulfillment in maintaining Pilates equipment so that all students and teachers can remain safe while practicing the life-changing Pilates system.
