board of directors

Board of Directors

• Steven Akerlow, Executive Director & CRA Officer, UBS Bank

• Dee Allsop, CEO & Managing Partner, Heart + Mind Strategies

• Douglas Anderson, Dean & Presidential Chair, Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, USU

• George Arnold, Partner, Hamilton Partners

• Felicia Baca, Arts Division Director, Salt Lake City Arts Council

• Melissa Garff Ballard, Utah House of Representatives

• Nina Barnes, Former Vice Chair, Board of Regents

• Keith Bartholomew, Associate Dean, College of Architecture + Planning at the University of Utah

• Mallory Bateman, Director, Demographic Research, Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute

• Kelsey Berg, Vice President of Government Relations

• Curtis Blair, President, Utah Valley Chamber

• Melinda Bowen, Executive Director, Utah Center for Legal Inclusion

• Nate Boyer, President, The Boyer Company

• Carlos Braceras, Executive Director, Utah Department of Transportation

• Martha Bradley, Senior Associate VP of Academic Affairs and Dean of Undergraduate Studies

• David Brems, Director of Design, GSBS Architects

• Jason Brown, VP of Education & Communications, Envision Utah

• Mike Caldwell, Mayor, Ogden City

• Darlene Carter, President, C.W. Urban

• Thom Carter, Government Affairs, Pacificorp

• Jessica Chappell, Principal, Structural Design Studio

• Jon Cox, Public Affairs Consultant

• Bill Crim, President & CEO, United Way of Salt Lake

• Karen Crompton, Department Director, Salt Lake County Human Services

• Lexi Cunningham, Director, Utah State Superintendents Association

• LaNiece Davenport, Planning & Policy Director, Mountainland Association of Governments

• David Denison, President & CEO, Gardner Company

• Sydnee Dickson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction

• Kori Ann Edwards, Managing Director, Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity

• Kristen Edwards, Executive Director, Better Days 2020

• Dan England, CEO, C.R. England

• José Enriquez, Founder & CEO, Latinos in Action

• Reid Ewing, Distinguished Professor, University of Utah

• Rick Folkerson, President, Success in Education Foundation

• David Folland, MD, Citizen’s Climate Lobby

• Lorie Fowlke, District Director for Congressman John Curtis

• Jay Francis, President & CEO, South Valley Chamber

• Nicholas Fritz, Senior Vice President & Chief Community Health Officer, Intermountain Healthcare

• Julie Fullmer, Mayor, Vineyard

• Geri C Gamber, Executive Director, SEUALG/SEUEDD

• Chris Gamvroulas, President, Ivory Development

• Bryson Garbett, President, Garbett Homes 

• Elaine Gizler, Director of Economic Development, San Juan County

• Lisa Grow, Professor of Law, BYU J. Reuben Clark Law School

• Karen Hale, Community Advocate

• Miles Hansen, President & CEO, World Trade Center Utah

• Suzanne Harrison, Salt Lake County Council

• Liza Hart, Architect and Real Estate Developer, Giv Group

• Jeff Hatch, Independent Financial Services Professional

• Tim Hawkes, General Counsel, Salt Lake Brine Shrimp Cooperative

• Roger Henriksen, Parr Brown

• Benjamin Heuston, President & CEO, The Waterford Institute

• Beth Holbrook, Trustee, Utah Transit Authority

• Ben Huot, Utah Department of Transportation

• Roger Jackson, President, FFKR Architects

• Thomas Jensen, Business Development/Architect, Wadman Corporation

• Mark Johnson, Mayor, Lehi

• Ted Knowlton, Deputy Director, Wasatch Front Regional Council

• Sri Koduri, Business Initiatives Director, Intermountain Healthcare

• Travis Kyhl, Executive Director, 6 County AOG

• Rosemary Lesser, Utah House of Representatives

• Stephen Lisonbee, Senior Advisor for Rural Affairs to Governor Cox

• David Livermore, Utah State Director, The Nature Conservancy

• Jeramy Lund, Senior Director, CRA Investments

• Susan Madsen, Founder & Director, Utah Women & Leadership Project

• Taylor Mammem, CEO, RCLCO

• Cameron Martin, President & CEO, Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions

• Alan Matheson, Executive Director, Point of the Mountain Land Authority

• Jennifer Mayer-Glenn, Director of University Neighborhood Partners, University of Utah

• Ben McAdams, Former United States Representative

• Rich McKeown, Co-Founder, Leavitt Partners

• Erin Mendenhall, Mayor, Salt Lake City

• Andrew Menke, Head of School, The Waterford School

• Mike Mower, Senior Advisor of Outreach & Intergovernmental Affairs, Office of the Governor

• Jim Nielson, Principal, Axis Architects

• Rick Nielson, Nebo School District Superintendent

• Bruce Olson, Attorney, Ray Quinney & Nebeker

• Alan Ormsby, State Director, AARP Utah

• Scott Paxman, General Manager & CEO, Weber Basin Water Conservancy District

• Lee Perry, Box Elder County Commissioner

• Warren Peterson, Former VP, Farmland Reserve Inc.

• Frank Pignanelli, Partner, Foxley & Pignanelli

• Gary Porter, Senior Vice President, Deseret Management

• Steve Price, Founder, Price Realty Group

• Wes Quinton, VP, Farmland Reserve Inc.

• Kyle Reyes, VP for Student Affairs, Utah Valley University

• Mike Roberts, Managing Director of Alumni and External Relations, BYU

• Miguel Rovira, Director of Business & Community Relations, Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Utah

• Clifton Sanders, Provost of Academic Affairs, Salt Lake Community College

• Brenda Scheer, Professor, University of Utah

• Gene Shawcroft, General Manager, Central Utah Water Conservancy District

• Ian Shelledy, Co-founder, Sustainable Startups/Director, Community Foundation of Utah

• Kim Shelley, Executive Director, Department of Environmental Quality

• Soren Simonsen, Executive Director, Jordan River Commission

• Simone Slade, General Manager for Human Resources, Rio Tinto

• Lowry Snow, Former State Legislator

• Wilf Sommerkorn, Former Director of Regional Planning and Transportation, Salt Lake County

• Robert Spendlove, Utah House of Representatives

• Brian Steed, Executive Director, Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water & Air

• Michalyn Steele, Professor of Law, BYU J. Reuben Clark Law School

• Jerry Stevenson, Utah State Senate

• Troy Tortorich, Refinery General Manager, Chevron

• Shawn Teigen, President, Utah Foundation

• Elizabeth Tremiar, Sr. Business Banking Relationship Manager, KeyBank

• Blaine Walker, President, Walker & Company Real Estate and Utah Real Estate Development, LLC

• Sunny Washington, CEO, Utah Tech Leads

• Mark Welcker, President & CEO, Point of the Mountain Chamber of Commerce

• Teresa Wilhelmsen, State Engineer, Utah Division of Water Rights

• Don Willie, COO, South Valley Chamber

• Chris Wilson, CEO Wilson Motors & Utah State Senator

• Randy Woodbury, President, Woodbury Corporation

• Sarah Wright, Executive Director, Utah Clean Energy

Founding Board - 1997

Special Advisors

• Michael O. Leavitt, (Honorary Co-Chair), Governor, State of Utah 

• Larry H. Miller, (Honorary Co-Chair), President, Larry H. Miller Group 

• Robert Grow, (Chair, Coalition for Utah's Future), President and COO, Geneva Steel 

• James R. Clark, (Vice Chair), Chief Planning Officer, American Stores Company

• Tom Dolan, (Vice Chair), Mayor, Sandy City

• Gary Herbert, (Vice Chair), County Commissioner, Utah County

• M. Russell Ballard, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• Robert F. Bennett, Senator, U.S. Senate

• Joe Cannon, Chairman and CEO, Geneva Steel

• Aileen Clyde, Vice Chair, Utah State Board of Regents

• Spencer F. Eccles, Chairman and CEO, First Security Corporation

• Kem Gardner, President and Manager, Boyer Company

• Jake Garn, Vice Chairman, Huntsman Corporation

• Carolyn Tanner Irish, Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Utah

• Victor L. Lund, Chairman and CEO, American Stores Company

• J. Bernard Machen, President, University of Utah

• George Niederauer, Bishop of Salt Lake, Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City

• Richard Prows, Chairman, Prows Corporation

• Governor Calvin Rampton (Ret.), Jones, Waldo, Holbrook, and McDonough

• Harris Simmons, CEO, Zions Bank

• Olene Walker, Lieutenant Governor, State of Utah

• Steve Young, Quarterback, San Francisco 49ers

Scenarios Committee

• Brad Barber, (Co-chair), State Planning Coordinator Governor's Office of Planning and Budget

• Jim Clark, (Co-chair), Chief Planning Officer, American Stores

• Larry Anderson, Director, Division of Water Resources

• Bruce Anderson, Weber County Commissioner

• Craig Barker, Department Director of Planning Commission, Weber County

• Taz Biesinger, Executive Vice President, Home Builders Association of Utah

• Roger Borgenicht, Director, ASSIST

• Jeff Burks, Director, Office of Energy & Resource Planning Department of Natural Resources

• Mary Carlson, Utah House of Representatives

• Brooks Carter, Chief of lntermountain Section Engineers, Army Corps of Engineers

• Stuart Challender, Automated Geographic Reference Center

• Mike Christensen, Executive Director, Utah Foundation

• Darrell Cook, Executive Director, Mountainland Association of Governments

• Mick Crandall, Wasatch Front Regional Council

• Marda Dillree, Utah House of Representatives

• Stephen Goldsmith, President, Artspace

• Andy Hall, Community Development Director, Payson City Community Development

• Kathy Hillis, Director, Community Relations First Security Bank

• Russell L. Hillman, Former Mayor, Payson

• Leland J. Hogan, Vice President, Utah Farm Bureau Federation

• Max R. Hogan, Former Mayor, West Jordan

• Dr. Robert Huefner, Director, FHP Center for Health Care Studies

• Will Jefferies, Executive Director, Wasatch Front Regional Council

• Joe Jewkes, Associate District Manager, Bureau of Land Management Utah State Office

• Doug Jex, Research Director, Department of Community and Economic Development

• Carl Johnson, Mountainland Association of Governments

• Raymond Johnson, Director of Engineering, Tooele County

• Dan Lofgren, President and CEO, Proswood Companies

• Prescott Muir, AIA, Principal, Prescott Muir Architects

• Dr. Ray Nelson, Associate Professor of Economics, Brigham Young University

• Jack Nixon, Owner/Broker, Century 21

• Eloise Sahlstrom, Utah Chapter, American Society of Landscape Architects

• Wilf Sommerkorn, Community Economic Development Director, Davis County

• Clint Topham, Deputy Director, Utah Department of Transportation

• Jack Troyer, Deputy Regional Forester for State & Private Forestry, US Forest Service

• Ursula Trueman, Manager, Division of Air Quality, Department of Environmental Quality

• H. Blaine Walker, Government Affairs Chairman, Utah Association of Realtors

• Dale Whitman, Professor of Law, Brigham City University

• Bill Wright, Planning Director, Salt Lake City 

Staff

• Stephen Holbrook, Executive Director, Coalition for Utah's Future

• Ryan Davies, Partnership Manager, Envision Utah

• D.J. Baxter, Scenarios Manager, Envision Utah

• Kevin Bommer, Local Government Coordinator, Envision Utah

• Julie Hillman, Public Awareness Manager, Envision Utah

• Eve Leonard, Development Manager, Coalition for Utah's Future

• Rachel Rosenfeld, Neighbor Network Coordinator, Coalition for Utah's Future

• Anita Plascencia, Administrative Assistant, Coalition for Utah's Future

Partners

• Sandra Adams, Executive Director, State Martin Luther King Commission

• Bruce Anderson, County Commissioner, Weber County

• Brad Angus, Sales Manager, Franklin Covey Co.

• Pamela Atkinson, Vice President, Mission Services, IHC

• Janice Auger, Mayor, City of Taylorsville

• Brad Barber, State Planning Coordinator, Governor's Office of Planning and Budget

• Scott W. Bean, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Office of Education

• Lane Beattie, President, Utah State Senate

• Greg Bell, Mayor, Farmington City

• Tom Berggren, Director, Citizens Committee to Save Our Canyons 

• Roger Boyer, Chairman, Boyer Company

• David Bradford, Senior Vice President, Novell, Inc.,

• Glen Brown, Brown Dairy

• Melvin Brown, Speaker of the House, Utah House of Representatives

• Ken Buchi, M.D., Wasatch Front Clean Air Coalition,

• Camille Cain, President/Owner, Dominion Resources

• Don Christiansen, General Manager, Central Utah Water Conservancy District

• James E. Clark, President, Utah Transit Authority

• Louis Cononelos, Director of Government & Public Affairs, Kennecott Utah Corporation

• Deedee Corradini, Mayor, Salt Lake City

• Stephen M. R. Covey, President, Franklin Covey Co.

• Wes Curtis, Rural Economic Development Specialist, Utah Center for Rural Life

• John D'Arcy, Executive Vice President, Zions Bank

• David Eckhoff, VP, Regional Manager, Psomas & Associates

• Larry Eilertson, Mayor, Lindon City

• Steve Erickson, Director, Utah Housing Coalition

• Max Farbman, Attorney at Law, Jones, Holbrook, Waldo & McDonough

• Wendy Fisher, Executive Director, Utah Open Lands Conservation Association 

• Sidney Fonnesbeck, Deputy Director, League of Cities and Towns

• Thomas Forsgren, Vice President, PacifiCorp/Utah Power

• Christine Fox-Finlinson, Majority Leader, Utah House of Representatives

• Steven Goodsell, General Solicitor, Union Pacific Railway

• Randy Horiuchi, County Commissioner, Salt Lake County

• Robert Huefner, Director, Scott M. Matheson Center for Health Care Studies

• Ellis Ivory, CEO, Ivory Homes

• David M. Jones, State Representative, Utah House of Representatives

• David Jordan, Partner, Stoel, Rives LLP

• David Kano, Mayor, Brigham City

• Ardeth Kapp, Board Member, Deseret News

• Ken Knight, Vice Chairman of the Board, Sinclair Oil Corporation

• Sandra Lloyd, Mayor, Riverton City

• Dan Lofgren, President and CEO, Prowswood Companies

• L. Alma Mansell, State Senator, Mansell Real Estate

• Kelly Matthews, Economic/Government Relations Senior Vice President and Economist, First Security Bank

• LeRay McAllister, State Senator, Utah State Senate

• Dannie R. McConkie, County Commissioner, Davis County

• Glenn J. Mecham, Mayor, City of Ogden

• Leo Memmott, Legislative Fiscal Analyst, State of Utah

• Albert DeMar Mitchell, Mayor, City of Clinton

• Elder Alexander Morrison, First Quorum of the Seventy, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• Eleanor Muth, New Business Director, Scopes, Garcia, and Carlisle

• Jackie Nicholes, President, Quality Press

• Dianne Nielson, Executive Director, State Department of Environmental Quality

• Ann O'Connell, League of Women Voters

• Brad Olch, Mayor, Park City

• Scott Parker, President, Intermountain Health Care

• Stan Parrish, Vice President and CEO, Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce

• Cary Peterson, Commissioner, Department of Agriculture

• Craig Peterson, Majority Leader, Utah State Senate

• Dave Phillips, Vice President & General Manager KUTV /CBS Channel 2

• John Price, Chairman of the Board & CEO, JP Realty, Inc., 

• LaRen Provost, Commissioner, Wasatch County

• Bruce Reese, President and CEO, Bonneville International

• Charlie Roberts, Mayor, Tooele City

• Blake Roney, President, Nu Skin International

• Janet Scharman, Assistant Student Life Vice President and Dean of Students, Brigham Young University

• Eric Schifferli, Commissioner, Summit County

• Chris Segura, Executive Director, Utah Coalition for La Raza

• Gerald Sherratt, Former President, Southern Utah University

• David Simmons, President, Keystone Communications

• Paul Slack, Special Asst. to CEO Iomega Corporation

• Bennie Smith, President, Beneco Enterprises, Inc.

• Ted D. Smith, Utah Vice President, US West

• Phyllis Sorensen, President, Utah Education Association

• Steven G. Stewart, CPA, Coopers & Lybrand LLP

• Ted Stewart, Executive Director, Utah Department of Natural Resources

• Clint Topham, Deputy Director, Utah Department of Transportation 

• Jan Turner, County Commissioner, Morgan County

• Tauna Walker, Vice President, Elite BodyWorks, Inc

• Dominic Welch, Publisher, Salt Lake Tribune

• Rabbi Fredrick Wenger, Congregation Kol Ami

• Dale Whitman, Professor of Law, Brigham Young University

• David Winder, Executive Director, Dept. of Community & Economic Development

• Richard Young, Mayor, City of Mapleton