Andy James was born and raised in Boulder. In 1981, he became the co-owner of James TravelPOINTS (1750 14th St.), an American Express Representative Travel Network office - specializing in corporate travel management and leisure vacation planning. Through the company, award winning travel specialists with broad destination knowledge assist clients with travel plans to far off places including Central America, Europe, France, Italy, Hawaii, Mexico, and the South Pacific. James TravelPOINTS specializes in cruise and ski vacations. James has been a member of the Downtown Boulder, Inc. board of directors since 2005. Prior to that, he served as the chair and a member of the Boulder Improvement District from 1999 – 2004. James has been extremely active in the Boulder community serving terms as the president and a member of the Boulder Valley Rotary Club, a YMCA board member and chair & board representative of the University Hill General Improvement District.
Bonnie Dahl has resided in Boulder since 1974, after graduating with a degree in sociology / psychology from ArizonaStateUniversity. Dahl has co-owned a The Pipefitter (on the Hill) since 1975. She became actively involved in Downtown Boulder when opening Savvy (a women’s clothing and apparel store), at 1114 Pearl St. in 2007. Dahl became a member of the DBI board in 2008 and also holds a position as a city board member for the University Hill district.
Caitlin Stauffer has been a Regional Marketing Manager for Rock Bottom Restaurants for the past three years, overseeing marketing for the Walnut Brewery and the Boulder ChopHouse & Tavern. She has over nine years experience in the restaurant industry. Stauffer came to Boulder in 2002 for graduate school and has been involved in local business ever since. She is actively involved with chambers, convention & visitor’s bureaus as well downtown partnerships in Boulder, Loveland, Westminster and Denver. Stauffer holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Oregon and a Master of Journalism (integrated Marketing Communications) from CU. She has been a member of DBI’s board of directors since 2007.
Chuck Hunker grew up in the Chicago suburb Barrington, attended GunnerySchool in Washington, Connecticut and MiamiUniversity in Oxford, Ohio. A resident of Boulder since 1979, Hunker ran the Applause retail stores with locations in Boulder, Denver’s Cherry Creek and at Flatirons Crossing in Broomfield with his wife, Jody. He has been a counselor with the SmallBusinessDevelopmentCenter, a division of the US Small Business Administration, since 2004. Hunker has served on the board of directors for Boulder’s Business Improvement District and is currently the chair of the board for Downtown Boulder, Inc.
Chris Toomey has a unique and diverse background with a Bachelor of Science degree in Optics from the University of Rochester. After 14 years in the aerospace industry, including time at Ball Aerospace as a Senior Systems Engineer, he became a police office for the city of Wheat Ridge. Toomey eventually left law enforcement and re-entered the engineering field as a Sales Engineer for Meadowlark Optics. Toomey and his wife, Maryfrances took on the rewards and challenges of owning and operating a premium quality chocolate shop in Boulder.
The shop outgrew its original location and moved to a bigger and better space at 15th and Pearl streets in January 2006. The Toomey’s strongly believe in giving back to the local community through such non-profits as BoulderCommunityHospital, Boulder County Aids Project, Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Non-Violence, the Longmont Humane Society, The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County and many others. They also make every attempt to be environmentally friendly, to the best of their knowledge, theirs is the only chocolate shop in the state that is 100% wind powered! In addition to sitting on the DBI board of directors, Toomey is also a member of the Longmont Humane Society board of directors.
Cindy Ward is the Administrative Vice-President at JVA, Inc., a consulting engineering firm specializing in structural and civil engineering. JVA, Inc.(celebrating 52 years of business) is headquartered in Boulder has other offices in Fort Collins, Winter Park, and Bozeman, Montana. Ward has lived in Boulder for 22 years. She is the DBI Chair-Elect and will begin her new duties in January 2009.
Eric V. Love received his undergraduate degree in business administration and accounting from the University of Kansas. He is also a CPA and worked for Deloitte & Touche for two years as an auditor. Love received his law degree from the University of Kansas. His practice (Kingsbery Johnson Foster & Love LLP) focuses on estate planning, estate and trust administration and business law. Love is on the boards of directors of the Colorado Music Festival and Downtown Boulder, Inc., Boulder Improvement District, and Imagine! Foundation. He lives in Erie with his wife, Jennifer, and son, Joshua.
George Karakehian has owned Art Source International, located at 1237 Pearl St. for 30 years. He has been actively involved in the Downtown Boulder community since 1975. Over the years, he has served on the board of directors for the Downtown Management Commission and has been the chair of the Downtown Boulder, Inc. (DBI) board of directors. Karakehian also sits on the Downtown Management Committee as well as the Marketing and Event Committees for DBI. Karakehian and his wife, Kristin have two children and two grandchildren.
Former chef and restaurateur, Joe Schneider opened öm time yoga center with his wife, Shannon as a means to support the health and wellness aspects of the Boulder community for which they were most passionate. öm time yoga opened its doors in February of 2003 and enjoys its high-energy Downtown location on Broadway between Spruce and Pearl streets. The öm time yoga studio has been voted the Denver and Boulder’s Readers’ Choice, the favorite yoga center since 2003, by the Boulder Weekly and has been featured in the Denver Post, 5280 Magazine, and The Boulder Daily Camera.When Joe is not teaching yoga or managing the center’s many details, he enjoys the Boulder County Farmers’ Market, cooking, gardening and hiking with his dog Venus.
A Colorado-native, Jack Stoakes moved to Boulder in 1967. He attended the University of Colorado at Boulder. For over 25 years, Stoakes has walked to his business, Liquor Mart an average of four days per week. Actively involved in the Downtown Boulder community since he arrived, Stoakes served as a foster parent to over 42 children (mainly infants) in the early ‘80s and was involved with Club 1360 (a teen center on the Hill) in the early ‘90s. During those years, he also participated in the Chamber of Commerce board eventually serving as board president. He also has been involved with Community Food Share since its inception in 1980 – serving as the first board president. And, he has been actively involved with the Imagine Foundation for the past six years.
Stoakes participated in the Downtown Businessman’s Association which turned into Downtown Boulder, Inc. (DBI) of which he has chaired the board and served on the Marketing Committee. Today, Staokes remains an active board member for DBI. In 2003, Stoakes was elected to City Council and met his wife, Gale. Between the two, they have five children and nine grandchildren who keep them busy and extremely happy.
Kerry Unrein was promoted to district manager for Wells Fargo’s retail banking services in Boulder in 2004. He manages a team of nearly 150 financial services professionals at seven stores who work with individuals to satisfy all of their financial needs and help them succeed financially. Unrein and his team provide customers access to Wells Fargo’s complete range of financial services including banking, mortgage, investments, trust and estate planning, insurance, consumer finance and more.
Unrein has nine years of experience in the financial services industry, all of it with Wells Fargo. He joined the company as an assistant store manager. He relocated to Longmont in 1999 when he accepted a position as a personal banker at the Ken Pratt Boulevard store. Within a short period of time, Unrein was promoted to store manager. He was promoted again in late 2000 to store manager of the Downtown Boulder store at 1242 Pearl St. Unrein was named to his current position as senior vice president in November 2004.Unrein is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps where he served for 10 years. He is an active member of the Boulder community and serves on the board of directors for Downtown Boulder, Inc.
Ken Wilson was elected to City Council in July 2007. He was a member of the Water Resources Advisory Board from March 2002 through March 2007 and served as the chair from March 2006 to the end of his term. Wilson has worked on neighborhood livability issues since 2000 as one of the early members of the University Hill Neighborhood Association where he served on the executive committee from July 2002 through July 2004. Wilson is an engineer and scientist, working at Bell Labs and AT&T from 1980 through 1998. From 1998 to 2007, he ran a Boulder-based telecommunications consulting business. Wilson started a second career in microbiology at the University of Colorado in 2005 and is now a graduate student in the Department of Ecological and Evolutionary Biology at CU, working on a second master's degree.
Mary Street moved to Boulder in 1976 with her three children and then husband, Jack Street, after living in Asia for 10 years. The Streets opened an upscale jeans store, Boulder County Clothing Company (“BC’s”) which was branded and designed by Richard Foy and Henry Beer of Communication Arts with construction by Phil Shull of Deneuve Construction. Street was involved with the then DBA (“Downtown Boulder Association”) and was on CAGID board and “ex officio” member of the Mall Commission.
With a 1966 major in French and minor in German, Street attended the University of Colorado Law School from 1983-1986. During law school she was a law clerk for the Boulder County District Attorney’s office, Colorado Attorney’s General Office, two downtown Denver commercial litigation law firms and Judicial Arbiter’s Group. After law school Street worked for a Greeley banking law firm and then was in-house counsel for Monfort, Inc., handling workers’ compensation cases.
In 1990, after working for William Louis Dreyfus’ Ralph Lauren operations in Europe, Street came back to Boulder and opened her sole practitioner's law office, specializing in family law and continues that practice to present. It was at that time that she became re-involved with Downtown Boulder and joined the DBI board. In addition, she spent five years on the University Hill General Improvement District commission, three years on the Bach Festival and YWCA boards, as well as various law-related boards/committees..
Originally from the South, Mollie Fager attended high school, college and graduate school in Colorado. She received her undergraduate degree from CU-Boulder in 1993, followed by a Master's in Business Administration, with an emphasis in non-profit management, from CU-Denver in 1999. From 1999-2004 she worked for the Colorado Chapter of The Nature Conservancy as the director of operations. Fager had a brief hiatus for three and a half years when she served as the executive director for The Dairy Center for the Arts, a multi-disciplinary arts center in BoulderCounty. She returned to The Nature Conservancy in 2007 as a senior associate director of philanthropy—exclusively to raise money for the organization and continue her commitment to conservation.
Personally, Fager has been actively involved in both the arts and nature. On the arts side she pursues a passion for writing, with a specialty in poetry and short essay. She has been published both in on-line journals and in print, in addition to being the recipient of local and regional grants to support her work. On the nature side, Fager has worked as an interpretive naturalist for the Denver Public Schools and was both a former wildland firefighter and Outward Bound instructor. Mollie draws inspiration from both worlds, believing that art and nature are inextricably linked and food for the soul. When not trying to save the planet, Fager lives in a log home on 30 acres of beautiful rangeland in the foothills outside of Lyons with her husband, Gary. They have two children, Daniel, 10 and Ruthie 7 and two dogs, Callie and Willa.
A founding partner of RRC Associates, Nolan Rosall has a varied and extensive background in both public and private sector planning and strategic research. He has been principally responsible for a wide-range of tourism-related research and master planning for ski resorts, convention and visitors’ associations, and municipalities. Rosall has been a major contributor of national level research and policy analysis for the ski industry. He has also provided ongoing advice for a wide variety of winter and year-round resorts throughout the United States. Nolan has administered numerous Public Planning projects, starting with his involvement as Planning Director for the city of Boulder in the ‘70s, and continuing through his consulting work.
Rosall was responsible for coordinating the planning, design and implementation of the Pearl Street Mall. He was also actively involved in several mixed-use redevelopment projects located Downtown. In addition to serving on the Downtown Boulder Inc. Board of Directors, Rosall has also served on the Downtown Management Commission. He was part of the consultant team that assisted the Downtown Alliance in developing a Master Development and Public Infrastructure Plan for Downtown Boulder and has conducted annual visitor surveys for the Downtown Boulder Improvement District since 2001.
Paul Eklund was born in San Diego, California and has a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from OregonStateUniversity. He served as a Lt. in the US Navy from 1966 – 1970. From 1971 – 1984, Eklund became a general contractor & resident real estate developer in Colorado. From 1984 to date, he serves as President for P.N. Eklund Interests, Inc. - an asset management, commercial real estate company. He is an owner-partner in residential and commercial real estate property entities in Boulder and San Diego.Eklund has been a Downtown Boulder, Inc. board member since 1992 – serving as board chair in 1998. In addition, he sat on the Business Improvement District’s board of directors (and participated on the Finance Committee) from 2000 – 2004 and has been a member of the board of directors for Siddha Yoga Dham Boulder since 1994.
Peter Heinz runs his architecture practice at his firm PEH ARCHITECTS, on the historic Pearl Street Mall. In its over two decades of service, his multi-disciplined firm has received awards for energy-conscious design and material sustainability. Heinz has served on numerous community boards concerning the management of Downtown Boulder. Outside of work, he participates in softball, skiing, running and hiking and performs with the University Men’s Chorus.
Heinz and his wife, Arlene, live next to the foothills in Boulder where they enjoy walking their black lab, Abby. Their daughter Erica teaches English at MontanaStateUniversity. She and her husband, Brian along with daughter, Gracie Ruth live in Billings. Heinz son, Kevin (a 2005 CU Journalism graduate) is video editor / producer for Plum TV in Vail.
Philip Shull, president of Deneuve Construction Services, began working as a general contractor in Boulder in 1972. He has handled all aspects of contracting from developmental drawings to health department coordination, general carpentry, subcontractors and municipal requirements. He has managed an average of 50 projects per year ranging in size from $75,000 to $3,000,000. The company now provides these services to a diverse client base in fourteen states.
Reg Gupton has presented programs to real estate and business groups for almost 30 years.He has been a guest speaker at numerous industry and trade group conventions across America. Gupton has consulted for national, regional and local firms in numerous areas. His consulting projects focus on areas such as strategic, business and marketing planning, negotiation, turnover reduction, productivity increases and conflict resolution. He is the founder and president of Creative Growth Solutions, a service dedicated to “creatively help businesses solve critical problems and grow to new levels of productivity and profitability."
Gupton is actively involved in the community as a member of DBI’s board of directors. In addition, he participates on the Marketing Committee, Online Strategy Task Force and serves as the chair of the Non-Survey Task Force. Gupton has been a member of the National Association of REALTORS® since 1980. He is a member and former president of the Bouler Flyercasters (Trout Unlimited) and serves on the board of directors for Historic Boulder, Inc. Gupton holds both a bachelor’s degree in Business and Master of Business Administration degree from EasternMichiganUniversity. He is an avid reader and enjoys hiking, bicycle touring and fly‑fishing.
Richard Foy co-founded Communication Arts Inc. with Henry Beer in 1973.His work has appeared nationally in Print, Graphis, Communication Arts, The New Yorker, WIND, World Interior Design and Identity magazines. Foy has earned awards from the Art Directors Clubs of New York, Denver, Houston and Los Angeles, as well as the American Institute of Graphic Artists. In 1980, the firm won the National Honor Award from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the design of the Downtown Boulder Mall.
Foy received his Bachelor of Arts in Design from CaliforniaStateUniversity at Long Beach in 1968. He has served as the Chairman of the Downtown Boulder Mall Commission and has been on the board for over 20 years. In addition, he has been a member of the boards of the Society for Environmental Graphic Design, the Colorado Music Festival, the CU Artist Series, and the Alliance for Technology & Learning and Society.
Richard Pendleton has over 35 years of experience in banking, securities and business serving as a Corporate Controller as well as practicing accounting and auditing with companies such as Barclays Bank of London, Paine Webber, Shearson Lehman Brothers and TCF Bank Colorado. Pendleton has undergraduate and graduate education that includes studies in finance, accounting, business law, education and management. Pendleton owns an accounting & tax firm (Richard Pendleton & Assoc. LLC Accounting & Tax) which is located in Downtown Boulder. He is serves on the DBI board of directors and also participates on the Membership & Services Committee.
E. Richard Polk is the president and co-founder of Boulder's 40-year-old Pedestrian Shops, known as the region's leading retailer of comfortable footwear. In addition, the company is noted for social programs and green business practices, including shoe drives that have collected over 30,000 pairs of reusable footwear for community members in need, as well as a variety of environmental programs. Most recently Pedestrian installed a 10 kilowatt photovoltaic array that is believed to have made it the world's first solar powered shoe store. Prior to being elected to Boulder's City Council in 2005, Polk served on a variety of boards and commissions, including chair of the original Downtown Mall Commission, chair of the Downtown Management Commission, business partner of the Community Foundation, member of the 9th and Canyon Civic Task Force, member Transportation Master Plan Update, president of the Polk Family Charitable Foundation, member of the board of the Dairy Center for the Arts, president of the Boulder Parks and Recreation Foundation, and board member of Downtown Boulder, Inc.
While serving on the City Council, Polk proposed Boulder's socially innovative Solar Rebate ordinance, which contributed to a dramatic and unprecedented increase in solar installations during the first two years after it became law. Since completing his council term in 2007, Polk has continued serving on the Parks and Recreation Foundation and the board of Downtown Boulder Inc. He has joined the Citizens Advisory Board of the Xcel Renewable Energy Trust, has been elected chair of the DairyCenter for the Arts, and most recently was elected to the Board of the Colorado Chautauqua Association. He works with his daughter, Lauren Polk, in managing their family businesses, and lives in Boulder with his younger daughter, Zoe Polk, a senior at BoulderHigh School.
Sam Sussman Sam Sussman, along with his wife Cheryl, have owned Eight Days A Week for 32 years. Over three decades, Eight Days A Week has grown from a small general store to the high tech imaging and copy center it is today. From the first color copier in Boulder in 1977 to today's most state-of-the-art equipment the Sussmans have kept Eight Days A Week on the cutting edge of technology in a friendly hometown atmosphere. The Sussmans have fostered strong ties within the community with participation and generous donations to many local charities and organizations such as ETown, EFAA, Parenting Place, Boulder Valley Women’s Health and KGNU radio. Sussman is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and has lived in Boulder for 36 years
Sean Maher has been active in Boulder’s business community since moving here in 1989. Most recently, he served as Director of the Boulder Economic Council where he co-founded the BoulderInnovationCenter and launched Boulder’s first business incentive program. Prior to the BEC, Maher headed the SmallBusinessDevelopmentCenter at the Chamber of Commerce. Before joining the Chamber, Maher brought the first Ben & Jerry’s franchise stores to Colorado and founded a multi-unit retail business featuring gourmet foods made in the Rocky Mountains.
He was also a partner in Terra Communications, a marketing communications firm serving national clients. Prior to his entrepreneurial ventures, Maher worked as a marketing consultant with Sterling-Rice Group. He holds an Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Colorado and a marketing degree from the University of Montana,
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