P.O. Box 9469
82 East Beaver Creek Blvd.,
Suite 202
Avon, CO 81620

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Capital Campaign

Campaign Leadership

We are grateful to these community leaders for the important role they're playing in making this campus a reality for our valley.

 

Mr. Alan Danson – Campaign Co-Chair

Board Chair, 2005-2007, Entrepreneurial management, venture capital, investment banking and legal experience on Wall Street, in Colorado and in Mexico; Board Member, Dreyfus Founders Funds.

 

 

Mrs. Kathy Borgen – Campaign Co-Chair

Trustee for Eagle Valley Land Trust, the Borgen Foundation and The Nature Conservancy; Member of the Director’s Council, Harvard Divinity School, former board member of the Denver Summerbridge program.

 

 

Mr. Phil Brodsky, PhD

Former Vice President, Corporate Research and Environmental Technology, Monsanto Company; Treasurer and Member of the Executive Board for B’nai, Vail Congregation.

 

Mrs. Kelly Bronfman

Trustee of the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco and the Eagle Valley Land Trust, active with the national board of Girl Scouts of America.

 

 

Mr. Buck Elliott

Owners, Paragon Guides, former board member with the 10th Mountain Hut Association and the Vail Leadership Institute.

 

 

Mr. Markian Feduschak

Gore Range Natural Science School Executive Director

 

 

Mr. Peter Mackechnie

Board member, Pason Systems, Inc.; Board member Zenn Motor Co., Inc.; Former board member with the Samaritan Center in Denver, retired Account Executive with Bear, Stearns.

 

 

Mr. Gary Miller

President, Vail Capital Partners, Founder of Aragon Consulting Group, Inc., former Director for Global Marketing Strategy at IBM, member of the Advisory Board for the Richard T. Farmer School of Business at Miami University.

 

Mrs. Carolyn Pope

Certified financial planner: social columnist, Vail Trail; Board member Samaritan Center

 

 

Mr. Ben Peternell

Former Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Communications for a major hospitality company with over $5 billion in annual revenues. Former board member of Leadership Memphis, the Memphis Interfaith Council and the Memphis Arts Council.

 

Dr. Jon Haerter

Founder and Principal of Vail Dentistry. DDS degree from the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry 2000.

 

 

Mr. Pat Tierney

Before serving as global CEO for Harcourt Education Mr. Tierney was President and CEO of several of Thomson Corporation's major divisions including Thomson Financial, Thomson' Reference, Scientific & Healthcare Group and Thomson Business Information. Prior to joining Thomson, headed Knight-Ridder Inc.'s electronic publishing activities.

 

 

Mr. Doug Dusenberry

Gore Range Natural Science School Capital Campaign Director

 

 

Thank you to the following for their previous service

 

Mrs. Kim Langmaid

Gore Range Natural Science School Graduate Programs Director, Founding Executive Director

 

 

 

Mr. Craig Nelson

President and Founder, Peak Capital Resources

 

 

 

Ms. Kissy Russell

Family founded the Lloyd Center for Environmental Studies, former board member of the Dartmouth Natural Resource Trust, Dartmouth, MA