Jeffrey Fry had a long career as an electrical engineer in various high-tech semiconductor, communications, and equipment supplier companies including Philips, Texas Instruments, Harris, Synopsys, and Advanced Micro Devices and even forming a few tech startups on his own. That all changed when he was forced to care of his mother, Gladys, after his brother, Joshua IV, passed away in 2007. During the subsequent years of caring for his mother, Jeffrey discovered that there were quite a few things wrong with caregiving and the private duty industry in general. He promised his mother that he would fix these issues, including the poor treatment and pay of caregivers, who disproportionately are female. He started Keep Safe Care with Stacey Berlow, in part to fulfill that promise he made to his late mother.  In addition, this aligns with Jeffrey’s motivation to help people on many levels including bringing joy wherever he is or whomever he deals with.

Stacey Berlow began her college education thinking that she would want to become a doctor. She quickly found out that she preferred engineering and then pursued a career in food sciences and process management. This naturally brought her into the field of project and process management and she soon became an industry expert and then started her own company, Project Balance. As founder of Project Balance, her company was involved with projects dealing with health and caregiving in Africa and India, working with organizations such as Johns Hopkins and Catholic Relief Services. It was Project Balance that created the engine behind Keep Safe Care Direct, which Keep Safe Care uses to run its operations. It was because of the insights and knowledge she brings to both the caregiver acquisition, project management and operational execution that Stacey decided to become a co-founder of Keep Safe Care.

Christina Earls serves as Keep Safe Care’s Care Ambassador. Christina is a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), and has over 20 years of caregiving experience in a variety of settings and situations. As the Care Ambassador, Christina is often the first person a client deals with involving care. Not only is she a great caregiver, she also mentors and guides other caregivers in their duties and responsibilities. As Care Ambassador, she fills in when there is a caregiving need, and there is not another caregiver to be deployed. Christina is a critical member in the success of our fledgling office in Central Austin, and her knowledge and know-how in the caregiving space are invaluable. Christina is also a 7th generation Austinite and her family was one of the first to settle in the Austin area prior to Texas gaining its independence from Mexico.