Meet The Owners!
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Nathan Cambron – Founder & Craftsman
📍 Boise, Idaho
Born and raised in Boise, Nate is a husband, dad of two, and a master fabricator with over 20 years of experience in heavy-duty industrial welding and repair.
His fitness journey started with BMX and skateboarding, then moved into traditional lifting. In 2017, he built his own garage gym—a turning point that reignited his training and introduced him to kettlebells and kettlebell sport.
When tricep issues started limiting his progress, Nate turned to mace training. It worked. But the gear on the market didn’t meet his standards—so he built his own. That first adjustable mace became the foundation for CK Maceworks.
Today, he combines expert craftsmanship with a passion for training to build the most durable, performance-driven steel maces and clubs on the market—handmade, loadable, and built to last.
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Kellie Rongo – Owner & CEO
📍 Ithaca, NY
With a background in business administration and over a decade in the fitness industry, Kellie brings a unique mix of strategy, strength, and no-BS training to the CK Maceworks team. She’s a certified personal trainer, nutrition coach, and tactical conditioning specialist who’s coached more than 10,000 people—both in person and online.
Kellie discovered CK Maceworks while hunting for a quality mace for her own home gym. After connecting with Nate, she jumped in to help with marketing, operations, and business development—and never looked back.
Today, she oversees everything from day-to-day operations to long-term vision, making sure every person who swings a CK mace knows they’re holding something built to last.
Her training style blends traditional strength & conditioning with unconventional tools like maces, clubs, sandbags, and kettlebells—making her the perfect bridge between high-quality gear and high-performance training.
