Terry Merrell

Terry Merrell is a Co-Owner of Merrell Brothers and also serves as its Chief Financial Officer. He is also an Angel Investor. His motto has always been to "try harder," which is what his teammates did, and together they beat the big Goliath-- City of Kokomo's high school team that was made up of a group of much larger athletes. This philosophy carried over into the business world, and in 1982, he and his brother Ted bought their first Big Wheels waste hauling truck. Since they did not have much money, they "tried harder" and personally operated that truck around the clock, day and night, to pay for it. Terry remembers the evening before his wedding day, in the month of December, he was driving the truck with a snowmobile suit on because the door had rusted off, and the heater was broken. Because of the debt they faced from purchasing the truck, they could not afford to fix the cab's heater.