Only CU degrees are noted.
JANELLE BLESSING
Janelle grew up in Littleton and graduated from Fort Lewis College. A strong advocate of conservation, she performed field research for FLC and Oak Ridge National Laboratory for three summers during college, assessing the effects of the Yellowstone fires of 1989. Janelle’s diverse interests and intellectual capabilities have also led her into the fields of medicine and finance, respectively, as a registered nurse at both Swedish Medical Center and Boulder Community Hospital and then as a financial planner. She has served on the board of the Family Learning Center, and is a member of the Gates Center for Regenerative Medicine Advisory Board and is a board member for The Cycle Effect in Vail. Currently, Janelle also serves as a member of the Colorado board of trustees for The Nature Conservancy. Janelle enjoys traveling, biking and skiing and has found a special niche in endurance competitions having participated in two Ironman competitions, the Leadville Trail 100 Mountain Bike Race and the New York City marathon. Together, Janelle and her husband, Buck, have four daughters, and live in Denver.
RANDLE “RANDY” CASE (UCCS ’83 BS Business)
Randy is from a family rich in ties to the University of Colorado. He is a graduate of UCCS and his son is currently a student at CU Boulder. His mother, brother, stepson and cousin also hold CU degrees. Randy is a licensed attorney, earning his law degree from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. He is president and general counsel of Case International Company. He is involved with the University of Colorado as a member of the UCCS Ambassadors, and he has been a director of the CU Real Estate Foundation (CUREF). As a CUREF director he chaired the Audit Committee and advised UCCS on real estate matters. Randy is a native of Colorado Springs and involved in numerous civic and educational organizations locally.
JOHN “JACK” COCHRAN, MD (CU Anschutz ’73 MD)
John “Jack” Cochran, MD (CU School of Medicine ’73 MD) is an alumnus of the CU School of Medicine and Colorado State University. He completed a surgery residency at Stanford University School of Medicine and a Plastic Surgery residency at the University of Wisconsin. He returned to Denver to a private practice at St. Joseph Hospital in 1981 where he also served as President of the Medical Staff. In 1991, he moved to Kaiser Permanente to establish its Department of Plastic Surgery. At Kaiser, he served on the board of directors and became chair of the board and president of the region’s medical group from 1999 to 2007. He was then recruited to be Kaiser Permanente’s national physician leader as executive director (CEO) of the Permanente Federation from 2007 to 2015 where he led innovations in care delivery and major improvements in clinical quality. He was frequently consulted to advise in health care reform design and was named a Top 50 Physician Leaders in the U.S. in 2009, 2010, and 2012 by Modern Healthcare. Dr. Cochran lectures globally on transforming health care with a focus on physician accountability. He co-authored The Doctor Crisis in 2014 and is now a clinical professor at the CU School of Medicine and regularly volunteers as a surgeon in East Africa.
RAMON COLOMINA
Ramon is senior vice president of Indirect Procurement for Sprint Corp. Prior to joining Sprint, he held executive positions with SoftBank Group Corporation, Brightstar Corporation and Accenture. Ramon earned a degree in telecommunications engineering at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona. His older daughter, Dana, is a junior at CU Boulder. His younger daughter, Kyla, is in middle school at the Highlands Ranch STEM school. Ramon supports programs at UCCS, CU Boulder, and the CU Anschutz Medical Campus. Ramon lives in Colorado Springs and enjoys flying his small plane to all the beautiful destinations our great country has to offer.
BRIAN DOLAN
Brian retired at the end of 2011 from Resource Capital Funds, a mining-focused, global private equity firm, where he was a Partner, member of the Investment Committee and General Counsel. During his tenure the funds grew from a $40 million start up to having over $2 billion under management. Prior to that, he had a 31-year career at the Davis, Graham and Stubbs law firm in Denver and Washington DC. He has been an adjunct professor at Denver University Law School and Georgetown Law, among others, teaching natural resources law. Brian’s CU connection began when he attended CU Boulder for two years before transferring to Stanford. His wife, Kathy, was named the outstanding MBA graduate from the CU Leeds School of Business in 1983, and their daughter Leslie Dolan Stratton is a graduate of CU’s Law School. Brian and Kathy are longtime Denver residents and are active in the community. Brian has served as a director of numerous public and private companies, and of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Colorado Habitat for Humanity, Food Bank of the Rockies, Amigos de las Americas and Africa School Assistance Project.
MICHAEL DONNELLY (CU Boulder ’03 BS Business)
Mike is vice president of GVC Capital, an investment banking firm in Greenwood Village, CO. He is an alumnus of CU Boulder, majoring in Finance. As a senior, Mike was Tri-Executive/Student Body President. Mike supports the Leeds School of Business mentor program and has participated as a mentor for the last three years. He was also involved with a community program called Friends of Kids in Crisis and served as treasurer of that organization. Mike and his wife, Julia Sayre-Donnelly, have three young children and live in Cherry Hills, Colorado.
BECKY FIGUEROA
Becky Figueroa has been involved with the CU Boulder Parent Leadership Society Board since its inception in 2010. She served as PLS board chairperson from 2012-2014. Both her children are CU Buffs, Michael (BA Psychology ’13 and Post-Baccalaureate Health Sciences, ’16) and Ann Marie (English/Creative Writing, ’17). She has spent many years working in education, as a teacher in grades K-6 and then more recently as a special needs associate in grades 9-12. In addition to her work in education, she has worked in development with CU Boulder, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and manages the family’s foundation. In addition to other campus programs at CU Boulder, she and her husband, John, also support the CU Anschutz Medical Campus and the Leeds School of Business. She holds a BA in Communication from UCLA, and an MA in Education from Pepperdine University. She and her husband, John, reside on Mercer Island in Washington.
SCOTT FLANDERS (CU Boulder ’79 BA Economics)
In 2016, Scott took the helm as CEO of eHealth, once the nation’s largest marketplace for health insurance. Prior to this role and in a career spanning almost four decades, he held CEO positions with The Columbia House Company, Freedom Communications, and Playboy Enterprises. In addition to his professional associations, Scott is president of the Board of Visitors of the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University and is a trustee of the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, CA. where he and his wife, Linda, reside. In addition to being a proud alumnus of CU Boulder, Scott also earned a Juris Doctor from Maurer School of Law at Indiana University. He is also a C.P.A.
KENT FORTUNE (UCCS ’89 BS Business)
Kent is vice president and general manager of USAA, a position he has held since 2011 with the insurance, banking, and investment company serving military members. As an alumnus of UCCS and a former men’s basketball player, Kent has remained involved with the campus. He is the board chair of the Chancellor’s Leadership Class Advisory Board. He has also served on numerous civic boards, the Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce, the YMCA of the Pikes Peak Region and the Pikes Peak United Way. Kent is married to Stephanie Finley-Fortune who is the executive director of University Advocacy and Partnerships for UCCS. They make their home in Colorado Springs.
RICK GARDNER
Dr. Gardner was a tenured professor in the Department of Psychology at CU Denver for over 20 years and served as department chair for nine years. He is now Professor Emeritus, and serves on the CU Denver College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Circle. During his tenure, Dr. Gardner established a faculty scholarship fund and several memorial and honorary funds. After retirement in 2007, he created the Rick and Elizabeth Ann Gardner Doctoral Fellowship Fund to support students in the Clinical Health Psychology PhD program. He earned his BA in psychology from Humboldt State University, and went on to earn his MA and PhD from the University of Nevada Reno. Dr. Gardner and his wife, Elizabeth, live in Lakewood, Colorado.
LISA GLATCH (CU Boulder ’84 BS Chemical Engineering)
Lisa is executive vice president for Integration with CH2M, a $5 billion/year Colorado-based engineering firm recently acquired by Jacobs Engineering of Texas. At CH2M, she served as EVP Growth & Sales and as a member of the Board of Directors for the past three years. She began her professional career with Chevron and spent 24 years with Fluor before moving to Denver to join CH2M. Lisa, her husband, and son are CU Boulder alumni. Her daughter serves as assistant volunteer coach for the CU Buffs Women’s’ Tennis team. Lisa chairs the Dean's Engineering Advisory Committee for the College of Engineering and Applied Science. She was awarded CU Boulder’s Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award in 2016. In addition to her degree from CU, Lisa completed the advanced management program at the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) and the Directors' Consortium at the Stanford Graduate School of Management. While they move frequently, Lisa and her husband, Trey, currently reside in Denver.
PATRICK MEYERS (CU Denver ’87 BA Sociology)
Pat is partner and was the chief legal officer of Smashburger and involved with the venture capital firms Consumer Capital and PEM LLC. Earlier in his career, he also was an owner, general counsel and head of finance for Quiznos, and earlier as special assistant attorney general in the Colorado Attorney General’s office. Pat was a law clerk for the Honorable Justice William H. Erickson. Pat has twin daughters who graduated from CU Boulder in May 2017 and is a member of CU Boulder’s Parent Leadership Society Board and the Law Advisory Council. He also supports the CU Denver campus. After earning his BA from CU Denver, Pat earned his JD from the University of California, Hastings College of Law. Pat is a Denver resident.
MORTON MOWER, MD
Dr. Morton Mower is Professor of Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at Howard University College of Medicine, and Distinguished Professor of Medicine at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. He is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland Medical School and is board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease. He has served as chief of cardiology of Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Captain Medical Corps, and chief of medicine at the United States Army Headquarters Bremerhaven, Germany, vice president of Medical Sciences at Cardiac Pacemakers Inc., St. Paul, MN, and is at present chairman and chief science officer of MR3 Medical Inc. of Minneapolis, MN. He has received the Space Technology Hall of Fame Recognition Award, the Michel Mirowski Award of Excellence in the Field of Clinical Cardiology and Electrophysiology, the Medical Alley Award for Outstanding Contribution in Research and Development, the President’s Award of HRS, the University of Maryland School of Medicine Alumni Association Honor Award and Gold Key For Outstanding Contributions to Medicine and Distinguished Service to Mankind, and is a 2002 Inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, and the 2015 Prince Mahidol Awardee in Medicine. His research interests are clinical and cellular electrophysiology, implantable devices, and effects of electrical currents on non-conducting and non-contracting tissues. Dr. Mower and his wife, Toby, reside in Denver.
HEATHER MULVIHILL
Heather, a Licensed Professional Counselor, is board chair for the Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Depression Center at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus and has been involved with the Depression Center since its inception seven years ago. She plays a critical role in the center’s annual fundraising, and board and organizational development. Heather has been involved with several local educational organizations as well. She is a current trustee of the Kent Denver School, and has also served on boards for Denver Venture School and Joshua School. Heather earned her BA from Lynchburg College and her MA in counseling psychology from the University of Denver. She and her husband, Jimmy, live in Greenwood Village, Colorado.
KIMBIRLY K. ORR (CU Boulder ’83 Business)
Kimbirly is president of Knock Out Performance, a firm specializing in marketing, communications and event planning. She has a long history of involvement with CU, beginning in the ‘80s as president of Forever Buffs chapters in Dallas, later Los Angeles, and in 2013 as board chair for the Denver chapter. She has also held numerous volunteer leadership positions with the CU Boulder Alumni Association. In 1997 Kimbirly received the Outstanding Alumni Award, in 2015 she was the CU Advocates Marketer of the Year, and last year was named the CU Advocate of the Year. In addition to her support for CU Boulder Athletics, she supports the Leeds School of Business. Kimbirly lives in Centennial, Colorado.
NANCY PIERCE
Nancy Pierce has over 30 years of experience in public and private companies in strategy, business development, corporate governance, finance, operations, legal, information systems, financing, investor and media relations and mergers and acquisitions. Pierce currently serves as president and managing director of KELD and KELD Ventures LLC, investment management and strategic advisory companies focused on advising and investing in young technology companies. In addition to her duties as president of KELD and KELD Ventures, Pierce has also been a director, audit committee member, and compensation committee member for three publicly traded companies. She currently serves on the board of directors of TermScout, serves on the board of directors of the Silicon Flatirons Entrepreneurship Board, at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and is the Managing Director of MCAP Ventures. She previously was on the Advisory Board for TTO at CU Boulder, Board of Advisors at CU Denver Business School, a director for Community Food Share, and a director of Boulder Community Hospital’s Foundation Board. Prior to KELD, Pierce was co-founder, director, chief financial officer, treasurer, corporate development officer and secretary of publicly traded Carrier Access Corporation. Prior to co-founding Carrier Access, Pierce held senior positions at IBM and ROLM Corporation in Silicon Valley. Nancy has a BS from Colorado State University, a MBA from California State University, Chico and an honorary PhD in Commercial Science from St. Thomas Aquinas and lives in Boulder, Colorado.
GEORGE SALIBA (CU Boulder ’77 BS Electrical Engineering; CU Denver ’83 MS Electrical Engineering)
Mr. George Saliba is the President and CEO of Saliba Technologies. Saliba is currently leading the development of Technology & IP and providing consulting in the advanced data storage and management products for various customers. Saliba has been an active member for University of Colorado Denver CCIS for seven years and held similar Engineering Board roles at University of Colorado Boulder for 10 years, Harvard University for four years, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for one year; he’s represented Quantum Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation, and Saliba Technologies. Prior to Saliba Technologies, Saliba held the position of Vice President of Engineering, General Manager and Chief Technology Officer at Quantum Corporation. Saliba joined Quantum in 1994 as the primary DLT inventor from Digital Equipment Corporation and led the explosive growth of the multi-billion dollar DLT business. As VP/GM and CTO Saliba managed the Advanced Products Group and the corporate IP for over 12 years and was the primary inventor at Quantum Corporation leading the development of multiple businesses and technologies for a number of successful product advancements at Quantum Corporation including the GSS systems and Super DLTtapeTM. Saliba’s career spans over 35 years in the data storage industry. Prior to Quantum, he was the Senior Group Engineering Manager for Data storage products at Digital Equipment Corporation. Saliba also held a variety of senior engineering management and technical staff positions in developing state-of-the-art disk drives at Storage Technology Corporation. Saliba received numerous awards for his work. He was voted Quantum’s “Inventor of the Year” for the years 1996 and 1998. For his many DLT inventions and innovations, in 1997, he was awarded Quantum’s “Lifetime Achievement” Award. Saliba holds 85 US issued and 41 pending patents in the data storage and system technologies, over 50 patents issued in the EU and JP, and has published extensively in various data storage fields. Saliba earned BSEE and MSEE degrees from the University of Colorado, and also holds BT1 and BT2 degrees in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Des Arts et Sciences.
TANA SCHULTZ
Tana is the owner and chairwoman of Lighthearted Entertainment in Southern California, and a former public high school teacher. She earned her bachelors at University of Southern California, but became acquainted with CU Boulder through her husband, Howard Schultz (UCB ’75 AS Communications), who passed away in 2014. Her two sons also graduated from CU Boulder, further deepening her ties to CU. She is a strong advocate for the College of Media, Communications and Information, and is becoming a Guardian Scholars mentor. Tana also supports the Counseling and Psychiatric Services program in the Office of Student Affairs. Tana also is a hobby rancher and raises meat goats on her forty acre Boulder County property. Passions include support for local farming and food enterprises, restorative land management and biodynamic farming.
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DEXTER WILLIAMS (CU Boulder ’84 MA Art History)
Dexter is the senior vice president of Capital Group Companies in Los Angeles. He received his MA in Art History from CU Boulder in 1984. He is also a former CU parent as his son Tyler graduated from CU Boulder in 2002. Dexter’s philanthropic passions include art, art history programs, and the CU Art Museum. Dexter is co-chair of the Drawing and Photography Acquisitions Committee at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. He is also co-president of “My Friend’s Place,” a homeless youth center in Hollywood. He and his wife, Gina, reside in Los Angeles.
DAVID WOLACH (CU Boulder, ’73 Business)
Dave retired in 2011 from the Savage Companies, an international transportation and materials handling company, and now serves on its Board of Directors. He graduated from CU Boulder in 1973, along with his wife Sarah (BA in Psychology). They have remained connected and invested in CU Boulder through the National Buff Club Cabinet, the Heritage Society and as football season ticket holders. Dave’s hobbies outside of CU are golfing, traveling and the Denver Broncos. Dave and Sarah split their time between Arizona and Utah when they are not traveling to CU football games.