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Bill Schumacher, Chairman
Bill is an accomplished advertising executive with more than 25 years' experience in all aspects of marketing communications. He has broad-based agency and corporate experience and is presently President/Owner of Barnhart, a leading full-service, integrated communications agency based in Denver. The agency has expanded its client roster in both consumer and business-to-business sectors. Additionally, the firm has strengthened its brand strategy, design, and media capabilities.
Previously, Bill was Advertising Director at Kraft Foods, where he helped establish the advertising services function. He was strongly involved in the development of numerous business-building campaigns, notably Altoids "Curiously Strong," named best U.S. Print Advertising in 1997. He was also Vice President at the Leo Burnett Company, a global advertising agency, working on several consumer product accounts, including Kellogg's, Pillsbury and Procter & Gamble.
Bill is an active member of the Rocky Mountain PBS Board of Directors, having served as Chairman of the Strategy Committee. He also was a member of Access Denver in 2007 and served on the Board of Directors of the American Advertising Federation for several years. He is a graduate of Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and Miami University. He enjoys outdoor recreational activities, including biking, running, and hiking. |
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Doug Price, President and CEO
Doug Price became president and chief executive officer of Rocky Mountain PBS in January 2009. Prior to that, Price had a highly successful career in banking with FirstBank Holding Company of Colorado. A 1978 graduate of the University of Colorado, he became president of the FirstBank of Boulder in 1982. Price was promoted to president of FirstBank of Denver in 1988 and retired in 1999 as president of FirstBank of Colorado, the lead bank in the then $4 billion FirstBank Holding Company.
In 1995, Price became the founding chairman of Qualistar Early Learning, a nonprofit organization in Denver. Qualistar developed a standardized quality rating system for childcare facilities that is being emulated in more than 40 states. He continued to serve Qualistar until 2006. During this time, Price also served on the U.S. Treasury's Working Group on Childcare under the Clinton administration. He was also active with the University of Colorado's Student Leadership Institute for 20 years and currently sits on the Executive Committee of the French American Foundation, which is tasked with improving relations between France and the United States.
Price earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Colorado with magna cum laude honors and attended the Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington. |
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Paul Bortz, Vice Chairman
For 30 years, Paul Bortz has served as a consultant and policy maker in telecommunications and professional sports. First involved in the early 1970's in policy research while head of the University of Denver Research Institute's Industrial Economics Division, his clients included the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy and the National Science Foundation. In 1978 and 1979, Paul served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information (NTIA). He began his first consulting business, Browne, Bortz & Coddington upon his return to Denver in 1979, and founded Bortz Media & Sports Group in 1988. Assessment of business opportunities in telecommunications arising from new technologies, including most recently digital television and Internet related businesses, were long an important element of his consulting. Paul retired in 2001.
Paul has been active in public television for many years. As a Board member of American Public Television, a television program distributor, for the full six years allowed, he served as treasurer, a member of the executive committee, the president search committee, and the new business development committee. A Board member of KBDI-Channel 12 for twelve years, he was board chair for four years. |
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Greg Austin, Secretary
Greg Austin has been practicing law with the Denver-based firm of Holland and Hart since 1962, with the exception of 1973-1977, when he served first as General Counsel to the U.S. Small Business Administration, then as Solicitor (General Counsel) of the U.S. Department of the Interior. At Holland and Hart, he was chairman for many years of the firm's 70-lawyer business department.
Greg has given generously of his time and expertise to non-profit organizations, including the Colorado Legal Aid Foundation, The Children's Hospital, the Colorado Bar Association, the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, and the Denver Police Foundation. For many years, he served as legal counsel to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder. Greg and his wife Deanna have three grown children. |
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Gary Drews, Treasurer
Before bringing his considerable financial and management skills to the non-profit community, Gary worked as a network television producer and production executive, laying the groundwork for his affinity for public television. He led financial and operational oversight of the #1-rated and Emmy-winning "Home Improvement" and over twenty additional series.
Returning to Colorado, Gary served as the Chief Financial Officer for Colorado Outward Bound School, then as Chief Operating Officer for Regis University's School for Professional Studies. Since 2006, he has been with The Colorado Health Foundation as CFO and Vice President, Finance & Administration. Gary's love for the outdoors was a key factor in his return to Colorado, and he enjoys hiking, climbing, camping, skiing and golf. He is also a singer/songwriter, photographer and short-story writer. He and his wife Laura Saye have one son, Taylor. |
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Patricia Barela Rivera
Patricia Barela Rivera retired in early 2008 after 11 years as Colorado District Director of the U.S. Small Business Administration, capping 20 years of federal service. During her tenure as District Director, the Colorado office approved 17,500 small business loans worth nearly $2 billion. Prior to her SBA career, Patricia served under Governor Roy Romer as Deputy Director of the Colorado Department of Local Affairs and Director for Citizen Advocacy and Outreach. She oversaw statewide community outreach programs and special projects and directed the Governor's Diversity Plan – the nation's first plan developed at the state level. Patricia also owned a successful management consulting and training firm.
The many organizations bestowing honors on Patricia include the SBA, the Denver Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the Colorado Women's Chamber of Commerce, Denver Women's Foundation, the Girl Scouts of America, the City & County of Denver, the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the National Bar Association. Patricia currently serves on the boards of the Denver Zoo and Junior Achievement, as well as the Denver Art Museum's Latino Advisory Board and the President's Community Advisory Board at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Her extensive community service has included terms on the boards of Denver Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (Honorary Advisory Member), the Denver Foundation's Inclusiveness Initiative, and the Kempe Foundation.
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Jim Foster
A retired advertising and public relations executive, Jim Foster has been a Durango resident since 1992, first as a part-time resident and then full-time since 1999. An Iowa native, he lived in New York City most of his adult life, retiring as Chairman and CEO of Brouillard Communications, the corporate communications division of J. Walter Thompson Company. Jim actually started his career as a journalist with the Des Moines Register, with assignments ranging from sports to politics. He joined J. Walter Thompson in 1961 and was one of three founders of Brouillard Communications in 1968.
Jim's corporate work at Harvard Business School, Columbia College and the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University led him to volunteer on marketing projects at Durango's Fort Lewis College, where he has served on the Marketing Committee of the College. He is currently President of the Fort Lewis College Foundation, and is also a member of the Professional Associates Council and several other committees, including the Artist in Residence Committee. Jim is also a long-time supporter and member of the board of directors of Music in the Mountains, Durango's summer festival of classical music, and served as President of the organization from 2000 through 2003. He was named Volunteer of the Year for 2005 by the Durango Chamber of Commerce and was presented with the Distinguished Service Award by Fort Lewis College at the December 2005 commencement ceremony. |
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Tim Foster
Tim Foster has served as the tenth president of Mesa State College since March 2004, when he was appointed by the Mesa State College Board of Trustees.
As a member of Governor Bill Owens' cabinet, Mr. Foster served as the executive director for the Colorado Commission on Higher Education. He was initially appointed to the position by Governor Owens in 1999 and reappointed in 2003. Mr. Foster also served as head of the Department of Higher Education, which includes the Colorado Historical Society and the Colorado Council on the Arts, and served on the boards of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, the Denver Chamber of Commerce and its Committee on Science and Technology.
Prior to directing the Colorado Commission on Higher Education, Mr. Foster was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 1988 and served as the Majority Leader from 1993 to 1996. He received numerous awards from diverse groups such as the Sierra Club, Ducks Unlimited, the Iron Skillet award from the Colorado Restaurant Association, and the Guardian Award from the National Federation of Independent Business. During that time, Mr. Foster was also a partner in the general practice law firm of Foster, Larson, Laiche and Griff in Grand Junction.
A Grand Junction native, his numerous community activities include service on the Board of Governors of the Colorado Bar Association, the Board of Powderhorn Ski Area and as chairman of the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce. He currently serves on the chamber board.
Mr. Foster earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics with honors from Kenyon College in 1980. He completed graduate coursework for a master's degree in mineral economics at the Colorado School of Mines from 1982 to 1984. Mr. Foster also earned a J.D. degree from the University of Denver's College of Law in 1984. |
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Joseph Garcia (ex-officio)
Joe Garcia served five years as President of Pikes Peak Community College in Colorado Springs before picking up the reins at Colorado State University-Pueblo in August of 2006. He had also previously worked as the Mountain States representative for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, as Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies and as a partner in the Colorado Springs office of law firm Holme Roberts & Owen.
Twice selected as Hispanic Business Magazine's "Hispanic Legal Elite" and as Outstanding Administrator in Higher Education by the Colorado Springs NAACP, Joe serves on a number of boards and committees, including the Colorado Springs YMCA, the Colorado Springs Economic Development Corporation, the Downtown Depot Arts District, and Goodwill Industries of Colorado Springs. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1979 from the University of Colorado and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1983. |
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Thomas H. Kenning
Tom Kenning is Alpine Bank's regional president. Based in Glenwood Springs, he is responsible for retail operations for all 37 locations. Tom sits on the bank's board of directors and previously had eight years of experience with FirstBanks in Denver. He then moved to Ouray to become president of First National Bank. After First National Bank's 2006 merger, he was promoted to the San Juan regional president.
Currently, Tom serves on El Pomar Foundation's Regional Council, as a director of the Region 10 Revolving Loan Fund, and as Treasurer of the Montrose Rotary Club. As a Ouray resident, he served as Vice President and Director of the Imogene Pass Run, Vice President of the Ouray Board of Education, President of the Ouray County Regional Service Authority, President of the Ouray Performing Arts Guild, and Treasurer of the Mount Sneffels Education Foundation. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1983 from Colorado State University and attended the Pacific Coast School of Banking. |
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Sheila S. Kowal
Sheila Kowal brings 24 years of investment banking and financial consulting experience to the Rocky Mountain PBS Board, as well as a wealth of talent in working with people in many different contexts. She retired in 2003 as Vice President of Investments at A.G. Edwards after 14 years with that firm and a prior decade with Smith Barney. Sheila earned a BA from Wellesley College and an MA from Boston University.
A long-time Democratic activist, Sheila has also served on the Board of the Children's Hospital Foundation, including a term as Chair of their Investment Committee. She has also been a member of the Clayton Foundation Board and the Women's Forum of Colorado, and has volunteered on various initiatives of the Denver-based Housing Justice. She and her husband, architect and affordable housing specialist, Blake Chambliss, have 14 grandchildren between them. |
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C.J. Moore
As the Public Affairs Director for Kaiser Permanente in Colorado Springs, C.J. is responsible for media and community relations, charitable contributions, marketing and member communications. To many people in Colorado Springs, C.J. is one of the people who "gets things done," as shown by the level of her community involvement. A sampling: C.J. serves on the American Heart Associate Community Board, UCCS Chancellor's Leadership Class Community Board, Independence Community Fund Board, Colorado Springs Conservatory Board, United Way Leadership Summit; Wagon Wheel Girl Scouts Board, Boy Scouts Friends of Scouting Committee.
C.J. has won numerous awards for her community service, including the 2007 Modeling the Way Community Leadership award from Leadership Pikes Peak, 2006 Athena Award, 2005 Girl Scout Women of Distinction, 2004 Colorado Springs Business Journal Woman of Influence and Top 25 Dynamic Women in 2002. C.J. has two grown children and one grandson. She is an outdoors enthusiast, enjoying skiing, bicycling, and hiking, as well as the challenges that a Southern gardener faces in Colorado. |
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Jim Moylan
Jim Moylan represents a relatively new category of working Americans – long-distance telecommuters. A Steamboat Springs resident since 2003, he maintains a full-time Chicago law practice via electronic means: email, telephone, and fax. Jim specializes in securities and commodities law and is also a certified mediator and arbitrator for securities and commodity futures trading disputes. At the University of Denver, he has served as an adjunct professor of law, teaching Securities Litigation. Jim earned two degrees from DU: a B.S. in business administration in 1969 and a J.D. in 1971.
Jim recently completed a term as community representative on the editorial board of the Steamboat Pilot and Today. He also serves or has served on several city-sponsored committees, including the Growth Management Advisory Group, the Community Support Money Steering Committee, and the Board of Adjustment, which he currently chairs. In late 2007, the Steamboat Springs city manager asked him to chair the Historic Preservation Policy Review Committee. Jim is also a member of his church's finance council. |
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Roger L. Ogden
In July of 2007 Roger Ogden retired as President and CEO of Gannett Broadcasting and Senior Vice President, Design, Innovation and Strategy of the Gannett Company and has since pursued various activities including consulting with several broadcast related companies as well as personal activities including skiing, sailing, traveling and in general enjoying life.
Roger began his broadcast career in Denver at the age of 13 at radio station KPOF. He worked at stations KLIR and KBTR while attending school. He later held management positions at WLKY-TV in Louisville, Kentucky and KUSA-TV in Denver and at KCNC-TV, also in Denver, where for 14 years he was President and General Manager. Prior to rejoining Gannett, Roger had been President and Managing Director of NBC Europe. He was also heavily involved in NBC's international operations in Mexico, managing NBC's cooperative efforts with TV Azteca, Mexico's second largest television group. From August 1997 to July 2005 he served as President and General Manager of KUSA Television in Denver, where he had overall management responsibility for this local NBC affiliate station, and as a Senior Vice President of the Gannett Television unit of Gannett Company, Inc.
He took on various leadership positions in his community of Denver, serving as Chairman of the Greater Denver Chamber of Commerce, President of the Colorado Broadcasters Association and Chairman of the Colorado Winter Games Committee and the US Olympic Festival. He also served on the Associated Press Board of Directors as Chairman of the Broadcast Committee. In this capacity, he was also involved in the launch of Associated Press' new video service, APTN based in London. Roger served on the CBS Affiliates Board, is a member of the National NATAS Executive Committee as well as a past Chairman of the NBC Affiliate Board. He also is a board member of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. In 2005 Ogden became a NATAS Heartland Chapter Silver Circle member and in 2007 was named Broadcaster of the Year by Broadcasting & Cable. That same year he was also inducted in the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences hall of fame.
Roger is married to Ann Penny and together they have two children, Catherine and Andrew. |
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Rob Redwine
Rob Redwine grew up in Pueblo, Colorado, and graduated from Colorado College in 1971. Before joining the "real world," he was a professional ski instructor in Aspen. He entered the financial services field in 1977 and has consistently been one of AXA's leading advisers. Rob has earned his Chartered Life Underwriter and Chartered Financial Consultant designations and is a member of the Million Dollar Round Table.
His current and previous civic duties include: Board of Directors for the Pueblo Economic Development Corporation, president of the Colorado College National Alumni Council, member of the College's Board of Trustees and member of the Sangre DeCristo Art Center Board. In 1998 he was inducted into the Centennial High School Hall of Fame and also received the Warner Award at Colorado College, honoring outstanding alumni. Rob has two grown children and enjoys skiing, triathlons and mountain climbing. |
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Doug Shand
Born in Pueblo and raised in La Junta, Doug Shand received his BA and JD degrees from the University of Colorado in Boulder and headed for Durango in 1968. He and his wife Priscilla have been active members of the community ever since. His law firm, Shand, Newbold & Chapman, emphasizes real estate and real estate development law, as well as general business law, and Doug has been active since 1973 as an advisor to the non-profit Durango Industrial Development Foundation.
Doug is a long-time member of the Fort Lewis College Foundation and has been active in many community fundraisers and capital campaigns, including United Way, Rotary Club, Mercy Medical Center, Durango Industrial Development Foundation and various educational groups. He and Priscilla, a teacher, have two grown daughters. |
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George A. Sissel
George Sissel is retired as a member of the board of directors and chairman and CEO of Ball Corporation. He joined Ball in 1970 in Boulder, Colorado, and transferred to the former Muncie, Indiana, headquarters in 1973, where he served as general counsel, corporate secretary, senior vice president, president and CEO. George relocated, along with Ball's corporate headquarters, to Broomfield, Colorado, in 1998. He retired as CEO in January 2001 and Chairman in 2003. Prior to his career with Ball, he was an attorney with the Denver law firm of Sherman & Howard.
He is a past chair of the University of Colorado Foundation, a member and past chairman of the board of Governors for the Can Manufacturers Institute; was a director of the National Association of Manufacturers, the Mountain States Employers Council, chairman of the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry, and First Merchants Corporation; and was a member and chairman of the University of Colorado at Boulder Engineering Advisory Council and a member of the Board of Advisors for the University of Colorado at Denver College of Business. George has served on the Banc One Equity Capital Board of Advisors, is a member of the executive board of the Boy Scouts of America, Denver Area Council, a former member of the Denver's School of Science and Technology and is a member of Rotary International in Denver.
George received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1958, and served in the U.S. Navy until 1963. In 1966, he received a J.D. (cum laude) degree from the University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and was an editor of the Minnesota Law Review. In 1984, he completed the MIT Sloan School of Management's Program for Senior Executives, where he was class chairman. He is married to Mary Sissel, community volunteer. They have two children and three grandchildren, all living in the Denver area. |
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Tom Sutherland
Tom Sutherland is unquestionably the world's most famous professor of animal sciences, due to his six and a half years as a hostage in Lebanon, the second longest period of captivity of any Western hostage. After 25 years at Colorado State University, Tom was serving as Dean of Agricultural and Food Sciences at the American University of Beirut when he was taken captive by the Islamic Jihad.
Since his release in 1991, he has held the position of Professor Emeritus at CSU and does professional speaking and consulting in international affairs. A native of Scotland, Tom holds degrees from Glasgow University and Iowa State University. He has earned many honors and teaching awards during his distinguished career. He and his wife Jean have three grown daughters. |
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Landri Taylor
Landri Taylor works as Vice President – Community Affairs for Forest City Stapleton, the development company that is transforming the former Stapleton International Airport into a new community of 12,000 homes and apartments, 35,000 jobs, and more than 1,100 acres of parks and open space. He is responsible for small business development, job training, and Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprise outreach.
A 1995 graduate of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce Leadership Denver, Landri currently serves on the boards of several organizations, including Skyland Community Charter High School, American Association for Blacks in Energy, Stapleton Foundation, the Shaka Franklin Foundation, DIA Business Partnership and the Community College of Denver Foundation. A 1974 graduate in biology from the University of California, Berkeley, Landri and his wife Gloria have lived in Denver for 28 years and have three grown children. |
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Brian Turner
Brian Turner works as a Systems Integration Senior Executive specializing in communications companies at Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, with a bachelor of science degree in 1995, Brian has flourished at Accenture, and is now a Partner and a member of the Accenture Circle of Excellence, an honor reserved annually for the top 15% of the company's performers. This group works as a board to drive company improvement at the local level. He has also served as an instructor at Accenture's training programs for new executives, managers and consultants.
Brian is actively involved, from fundraising to teaching, in Denver's chapter of Junior Achievement, whose hands-on, experiential programs teach the key concepts of work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy to young people. He and his wife Amy have two sons, James and Jackson. |
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Steve Watson
Steve Watson grew up in Denver, but has called Grand Junction home since 1975, when he became director of that city's Retired Senior Volunteer Program. He moved from the non-profit sector into sales a few years later, and worked in advertising media sales before he found his niche in residential real estate sales at Bray Real Estate, a long-established Grand Junction business.
Steve has been a very active contributor to Grand Junction's community efforts. He has served as president of the Mesa County American Cancer Society, the Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish Council, the Grand Valley Audubon Society, and the Grand Junction Area Realtor Association. He is currently a member of the Institutional Review Board at St. Mary's Hospital and was co-chairman of St. Mary's Special Gift Campaign in 1993. Steve earned bachelor of arts and master of theology degrees from St. Thomas College in Denver. His wife Lenna, a Grand Junction native, is a former member of the Rocky Mountain PBS board of directors. |
