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Officers

Chair
Koger Propst
President
ANB Bank
Denver, CO

Vice Chair
Philip James
Senior Vice President (Retired)
ConAgra, Inc.
Fort Collins, CO

Treasurer
Phil Lane
Manager
Culebra Properties, LLC
Colorado Springs, CO

Trustees

Paul Allaire
CEO (Retired)
Xerox Corporation
Norwalk, CT 

Bill Barclay
Founder and Vice-President
Martek Biosciences Corporation
Boulder, CO

Janelle Blessing
Griffis/Blessing Inc.
Colorado Springs, CO 

Kathy Borgen
Secretary-Treasurer
Borgen Family Foundation
Denver, CO

Mike Branham
Tusker Adventure Company
Denver, CO 

Stuart Brown
Typha Partners, LLC
Brown-Forman Environmental Sustainability Foundation, Inc.
Brown-Forman Corporation
Telluride, CO/Boston, MA

Carol Burt
Burt-Hilliard Private Investments
Denver, CO

Katie Cattanach
General Partner (Retired)
INVESCO Private Equity
Denver, CO

Susan Daggett
Acting Director
Rocky Mountain Land Use
University of Denver
Denver, CO

Tom Gart
President
The Gart Companies
Denver, CO

Sam Gary, Jr.
Samuel Gary, Jr. & Associates
Denver, CO

John Hereford
Founder
Oak Leaf Energy Partners
Denver, CO 

Larry Kendall
The Group, Inc.
Fort Collins
 
Kristin McKissick
World Bank (Retired)
Denver, CO

Gary Neale
President and CEO (Retired)
NiSource, Inc.
Steamboat Springs, CO

David C. Smith
CEO and President (Retired)
GMAC Commercial Holding
Denver, CO

Jim Smith
Chairman and CEO (Retired)
StellarOne Corporation
Denver, CO

Pamela Smith
Former Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova
Telluride, CO

Bill Travis
Professor of Geography
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO

Peter Welles
Private Investor and Conservation Volunteer
Boulder, CO

Don Woods
President, Van Gilder
Insurance Corporation
Castle Rock, CO