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Board of Directors:
David
Stauffer, Chair
Dave
Stauffer has a variety of
professional experiences relevant to YBP’s mission and goals.
He has worked as a consultant to land developers, specializing in
conservation, smart growth, and new urbanism, and his articles on land
use have appeared in periodicals including Urban Land and Western
Planner. In his home community of Red Lodge, Montana, he cumulatively
served 10 years as Planning Board president, city planner,
and city council member; he also served as vice
president of the Beartooth Front Community Forum, which focuses on the
consequences of growth. Dave has written four business books and dozens
of articles on business management and communications for periodicals
including Harvard Management Update and The Wall Street Journal. He has
served as a leadership and disaster relief volunteer for the American
Red Cross.
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Rick
Reese, Vice-chair
Rick
Reese has recently retired as the
Director of
Community Relations for the University of Utah after serving 14 years
in that capacity. His ties to the Greater Yellowstone run
deep
having worked seven years as a seasonal ranger in Grand Teton National
Park in the 1960s, as director of the Yellowstone Institute from
1980-85, and co-founder and president of the Greater Yellowstone
Coalition from 1983-86. Prior to his move to Utah, Rick lived in
Montana for 15 years, serving as a political science professor at
Carroll College, deputy director of the Montana State Commission on
Local Government, and executive director of the Montana Board of
Education. Rick’s educational background is in philosophy,
Latin
American affairs, public administration and alternative dispute
resolution, with degrees from the University of Utah and University of
Denver. He has a distinguished record of conservation work
and
public service in Utah and currently owns and manages property in
Gallatin, Madison and Park counties, Montana. |
Arthur Kull, Treasurer
Arthur Kull is founder and owner of Kull Food Technologies, LLC, a
company specializing in the development, production, and marketing of
food ingredients derived from by-products of food processing. Arthur
grew up in Frauenfeld, Switzerland, and Lyon, France. After earning a
doctorate in chemistry from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,
he joined Nestle S.A. in Vevey, Switzerland. After relocating to Nestle
USA in 1976, he rose to senior vice president, technical. Arthur later
left Nestle to become an independent consultant, and after that joined
Basic American Foods, where he served successively as vice president,
operations; vice president, supply chain management; and senior vice
president, research & development. Arthur has been actively
involved in YBP since its founding, particularly as an adviser and
instructor in the UnCommon Sense program. |
Jennifer
Lamb
– Secretary
Jennifer
Lamb is Public Policy Director
for
the National
Outdoor Leadership School in Lander, Wyoming. With NOLS since 2001, she
has been involved in collaborative efforts to find sustainable,
politically viable solutions to protect the natural values of public
land. For three years, Jen was Advocacy Director for the International
Mountain Bicycling Association where she promoted environmentally and
socially responsible mountain biking for its 30,000 members. Her work
experience also includes ten years in the recycling industry, five of
them with GreenTeam of San Jose, a privately held recycling company
which she helped manage from start-up. Jennifer holds a B.A.
in
Economics from Connecticut College and a Masters in Environmental
Management/Natural Resource Economics and Policy from Yale University. |
Erik
Abrahamson
Erik
Abrahamson is a LEED (Leadership in
Energy and
Environmental Design) Accredited Professional (AP) and
master’s
degree candidate in civil engineering, focusing on building systems
engineering, at the University of Colorado – Boulder. He will
be
living in Jackson, WY, in May through August this year, and permanently
beginning in December. Erik is a co-founder of Leaf, a Jackson-based
firm that consults on sustainability and green building for commercial
and residential developments, specializing LEED Certification services
and small residential to large-scale renewable energy systems. Erik has
more than five years of program management experience in the aerospace
industry, previously working as a NASA subcontractor. |
Julianne
Anderson
Julianne Anderson lives on the family sheep and cattle ranch in the Tom
Miner Basin near Emigrant, Montana, and operates it in cooperation with
her husband Hannibal and children. She is a licensed Physician
Assistant – Certified in Family Practice, operating out of
Park Clinic
in Livingston and summering in Nome, Alaska with the Norton Sound
Health Corporation. Julie has been involved with health care in Park
County since 1974, in Yellowstone National Park, and with native
populations in Alaska and South America. |
Andy Blanchford
Andy Blanchford Grew up on a largely self sufficient farm in PA and
worked on family farms through high school. He received a BS in
Landscape Contracting from Penn State University.
Andy has been the Owner/operator of Blanchford Landscape Contractors
since 1997, and has been around the construction industry in the region
since 1994. Andrew Served on the Board of Directors for the
Montana
Nursery and Landscape Association from 2004 to 2010, and was president
in 2007. Andy served on 2007 PLANET (Professional Landcare
Network)Crystal Ball Committee, and currently serves on the PLANET
Design/Build/Install Committee. Andy has been a YBP member since 2005,
and is a graduate of the UnCommon Sense program. |
John
M. (Jack) Brady
Jack Brady is currently pursuing a career heading his own architectural
firm, focusing on design and historic preservation. He is a retired
commercial airline pilot and member of the family that has been in the
media business in Southeastern Idaho since the early 1900s, with a
current ownership interest, through The Post Company, in the Idaho
Falls Post Register and several weekly newspapers in Southeastern
Idaho. He is currently a member of The Post Company board of directors.
Jack holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the
University of Notre Dame, and both bachelor’s and
master’s
degrees in architecture from the University of Utah. |
Ken
Bullock
Ken
is CFO for Partners for Prosperity, a nonprofit
seeking to reduce poverty in 16 SE Idaho counties. He also is
the
Mayor of McCammon.
Ken
has degrees in business management,
accounting,
and computer science.
He has been a
controller and cfo for numerous years for organizations in business,
retail, and
petroleum distribution.
He has held
elected public offices for 25 years currently serving as mayor of
Blackfoot, Idaho. Ken
has been a business owner and sold real
real estate and insurance.
He has lived
in idaho
for his entire
lifetime
experiencing the wonders and challenges of the yellowstone region.
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Garett
Chadwick
Garett
Chadwick is a fourth-generation
Eastern
Idahoan and
father of two young sons. A resident of Driggs, he is an
Associate Principal of Plan One/Architects, where his responsibilities
include design, project development, contract administration, and
overall project coordination. Garett has managed major projects for
Teton County School District No. 401 in Idaho, and also for several
Oregon school districts. He has also managed projects for a
number of other private, commercial, and civic entities in Idaho,
Wyoming and Oregon. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture
degree
from the University of Idaho, is an NCARB-certified Architect, a USGBC
LEED Accredited Professional, and is currently beginning work on his
third and fourth LEED registered projects in the region. He is also
currently serving on the Built Environment Team for the Greater
Yellowstone Framework for Sustainable Design. |
Laura Cuddie
Laura Cuddie is Director of Residences at Four Seasons Jackson Hole,
responsible for managing 45 Private Residences, 12 Residence Club
Condominiums and all Homeowner Association issues. She acts
as a
liaison between all Owners and the operating departments of the Hotel
and handles all Owner issues.
Since joining Four Seasons in July 2005, Laura has been involved in
developing a successful rental program which contributes greatly to the
revenues at the Resort. She is the leader of the
Resorts’
Green
Committee and Sustainable Business efforts which have earned the Resort
a reputation as a local community leader.
Laura was raised in Toronto, attended Havergal College and then
obtained an Honors Bachelor of Arts in History at University of Western
Ontario in 1994. She also earned a Hotel Management Diploma
through
the American Hotel and Lodging Association (AHLA) and is an Accredited
Residential Manager (ARM) through the Institute of Real Estate
Management (IREM). Laura is an active Member of the Salt Lake
City
chapter of IREM.
Laura lives in Jackson Hole with her husband John Morgan and their
beloved beagle Molson. They enjoy travel and all outdoor sports,
especially skiing, hiking, golf, running and tennis. |
Ingrid
Eickstedt
For
the last nine years Ingrid
has been
coordinating community education programs and the community health fair
in Powell, a small Wyoming college and agricultural town of less than
6,000. She is currently a media liaison for YBP in Wyoming,
specializing in the area west of the Bighorn Mountains from Thermopolis
to the Montana border. Years of practical business and volunteer
experiences have accumulated in the following industries: tourism and
hospitality, retail (grocery, floral, bookstore), healthcare, and
education.
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Dan Stevenson
Dan Stevenson is a native of Bridger, Montana, who received his
engineering degree from Montana State University. Dan is a
principal of CTA Architects Engineers and focuses on Energy Engineering
and running the Bozeman office.
"Projects that have meant the most to me are those that provide a
benefit to society. I helped a small hospital-Beartooth
Hospital-upgrade the ventilation system for their surgery suite. The
budget was extremely limited, but we managed to dramatically improve
the condition in the space. Although this was a very small project in
the scope of my career, it was very important to the standard of care
that this small rural hospital was able to provide."
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Advisory Board Members:
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Gary
Van Dyke -
Advisory Board Chair
Gary Van Dyke and his firm, The Van Dyke Technology Group, Inc. based
in Bethesda, MD, were among the first out-of-region members in YBP.
Gary and his wife, Lynne, built a second home in Pray, MT, and have
become as integrated as possible into the local business, ranching and
church communities. With an undergraduate degree from Rutgers
University in 1961, Mr. Van Dyke began his career in information
technology (IT) that would lead him to establish his own firm in 1978.
Over a twenty year period, J.G. Van Dyke & Associates, Inc.
grew to
over 300 professionals and became well known for developing security
technologies for the defense and intelligence communities. After
selling his firm to Wang Global in 1998, Mr. Van Dyke formed his
current company in 2002 to improve data sharing among intelligence,
defense and law enforcement agencies of the federal government. |
Helen Schroeder
Helen Schroeder has previously served on the YBP Board, distinguishing
herself as Nominating Committee chair and recruiting most of
today’s current Board members. Helen was a member of the
legislative staff for Gerald R. Ford, then Minority Leader of the U.S.
House of Representatives, and later worked in marketing with the Rand
Corporation and Waste Management International. Helen and her husband
have had their property in Paradise Valley since 1970. |
Deb Barracato
is currently manager of Warbirds Restaurant in Driggs, Idaho. She
founded Powder
Mountain Press, based in Driggs, Idaho, in 1997 after
serving as interim editor of Teton Valley
Independent and founding editor of Fun
Magazine, Teton Valley’s first full-color
visitor guide. A graduate of University of
Maryland’s
journalism program, Barracato was
among YBP’s first directors from Idaho. |
Paul Bertelli
is Senior Design Principal and President of Jonathan
L. Foote & Associates, an architectural firm in Bozeman,
Montana. A graduate of Montana State University’s
architecture
program, Bertelli has received many awards for his designs and
scholastic
achievements. With training in
environmental design, Bertelli is committed to the natural landscape as
the key
to the future of the Rocky Mountain West.
He designs buildings that capture the unique sense of place surrounding
Yellowstone Park and the natural
resources needed to maintain it. |
Bill Bryan
is a co-founder of Off the Beaten Path, a travel
planning and consulting service specializing in helping clients plan
personalized trips to the Rocky Mountain West, Desert Southwest,
Alaska, and Patagonia. Bryan has a distinguished 35-year
career
in working to
protect the landscape of the Northern Rockies. With a Ph.D. in Resource
Planning and
Conservation from the University of Michigan, he established and led
the Northern Rockies Action
Group, served on the boards of several environmental, civic, and
educational
organizations, and operated the Silvertip Consulting firm, all focusing
on
planning and conservation. Bill was one of YBP’s founding
members
and served as
its Vice-Chair and Program Committee Chair during his tenure on the
board. |
Scott Carsley
is the owner of Yellowstone Alpen Guides in West
Yellowstone, Montana, which offers snowcoach-based tours during the
winter and
scenic day trips during the summer. Carsley has worked as naturalist in
Yellowstone National Park for many years and
operated commercial guided tours in Yellowstone and the surrounding
region. Originally from Maine, Carsley moved to West
Yellowstone
to teach school in
1977. After four years, he moved to remote Alaska, where he taught for
another four years before returning to Montana and co-founding
Yellowstone Alpen Guides. He also worked
in Yellowstone as a naturalist for
three years, and has led guided groups on outdoor adventures throughout
the
West. Scott was among the YBP founders and its only director to date
from West Yellowstone. |
Peter Christ
is the owner/operator of Bridge Creek
Backcountry Kitchen & Wine Bar in Red Lodge, Montana, a
restaurant
that has consistently garnered national
attention – the Wine Spectator
"Award of Excellence". In
addition to his extensive experience in hospitality management, Christ
is a
member of several civic and professional associations, both locally and
nationally, serving as an executive board member or officer in several
regional
associations. Currently enrolled in
seminary in Minneapolis, Peter is an active member of Messiah Lutheran
Church and a supporter of the Lutheran Bible Camp on the Boulder River
south of Big Timber, Montana. He served as YBP Chair in its earliest
years. |
Dwight Minton
retired to Bozeman after serving in various executive capacities at
Church and Dwight Co., Inc., makers of the Arm & Hammer
brand. His roles included President, CEO, and
Chairman of the Board, and Chairman Emeritus. Minton also
owns
Elkhorn Ranch, a guest ranch
in Montana’s Gallatin Canyon. Minton has
been a dedicated businessman and community servant, with tenures on the
boards
of several civic and charitable organizations, schools, and
colleges. In the Yellowstone
region, he has been involved in the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, the
Institute for Environment and Natural Resources at the University of
Wyoming, the Yellowstone Park Association, and the National
Parks Conservation Association. Dwight Minton
served as YBP Chair from 2005-06. |
Cheryl O’Brien
is a department manager at the DOE Idaho
National Laboratory in Idaho Falls, ID. Prior to her
management assignment, Ms. O’Brien specialized in advanced
computational stress
analysis of mechanical, wind, seismic and impact loading on unique
national
facilities. She holds bachelor and masters degrees in Civil
Engineering,
is a registered Professional Engineer, and was one of the first LEED
2.0
Accredited Professionals in the State of Idaho. She is served on the US
Green Building Council Life Cycle Assessment committee, and represented
the
Laboratory in the Federal Network for Sustainability. |
Chris Pope
is a commercial realtor with ERA Landmark Realty in Bozeman,
Montana. For 15 years Chris and his wife Maddy operated
the Great Rocky Mountain Toy Company that featured creative and
educational
toys throughout the Yellowstone region. Before
moving to Montana and getting into the
toy business, Pope was marketing manager for a subsidiary of the Amoco
Corporation in Washington, D.C., working with solar
technology issues. He is past President
of the Bozeman Downtown Association, chaired the Bozeman Parking
Commission,
and was past President of Eaglemount, a non-profit dedicated to
providing
recreational therapy for people with disabilities. Chris was
a
founder of YBP and its secretary. |
John Rutter
is the Chief Operating Officer of the Grand
Teton Lodge Company in Moran, Wyoming, and is responsible for directing
all operations with
an ethic and commitment to sustained and continuous
improvement.
For some 30 years, Mr. Rutter led operations
and development of internationally-known resorts in Colorado and
brought a depth of knowledge and experience to
his service-oriented company in Wyoming. Mr. Rutter
has a Forestry degree from the University of Washington and an MBA from
the Denver University School of
Business. John served as YBP Treasurer for several
years on the board. |
Steve Shuel
is the former President and CEO of MacKenzie
Northwest, Inc., the restaurant management and development corporation
that
brought MacKenzie River Pizza and Montana Ale Works to the Yellowstone
region. With 15+ restaurants now in
operation throughout Montana and N. Idaho, Mackenzie Northwest employs
over 600 people. Before selling the company and retiring,
Shuel’s
responsibilities included strategic planning, finance and facilities
management. He was a founding member of
YBP and served as its original Treasurer. |
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