Founders

JOHN D. CUMMING

John Cumming, his wife Kristi Terzian Cumming, son Shane, and daughters Quinn and Carina make their home in Park City, where they enjoy skiing, golf, mountain biking and climbing.

John is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer of Powdr Corporation. Powdr is a holding company that owns and operates Boreal Ski Area and Soda Springs in the Lake Tahoe region of California; Park City Mountain Resort and Gorgoza Park in Park City, Utah; Mt. Bachelor in Bend, Oregon; Las Vegas Ski and Snowboard Resort (as a 50% owner) in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Killington Ski Resort and Pico in Killington, Vermont.

John has guided and climbed professionally on four continents. He was a senior guide for Rainier Mountaineering based in Washington State and has had sixty-nine successful climbs on Mt. Rainier. He has led clients and aspiring mountaineers on Mt. McKinley, Alaska, Mt. Aconcagua, Argentina, and Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa, with numerous other ascents in South America, Europe and North America.

Bradley A. Olch

Brad is the former Mayor of Park City, a position he held for 12 years. Some of Brad’s most notable accomplishments as mayor include designing, instituting and supporting a $1.1 million Historical Grant Program for the revitalization of the historic area of Park City. He developed and implemented an annual budget that grew during his tenure from $15 million to $40 million in addition to creating a reserve of approximately $12.5 million. Brad created the program for the acquisition of open space and water resource development. His work included the negotiated purchase of hundreds of acres of open space and acre feet of water. Additionally, he is responsible for the preservation of the entry corridor into Park City and the historic barn.

After leaving his role as Mayor, Brad continued his passion for public service and philanthropic giving by founding the Park City Foundation. As Mayor, Brad visited other resort towns in order to learn best practices in resort town management. During these visits, he learned that Park City was one of the few resorts that did not have a community foundation. Brad’s vision for The Foundation is to ultimately build an endowment to support local nonprofits in perpetuity.

Currently, Brad is serving as the Interim Executive Director of U.S. Speedskating.

Brad has lived in Park City since 1976. He has two children, Whitney and Trevor. In his free time, he enjoys road biking, skiing, golfing and traveling.

2010 Board of directors

TOM BAKALY

Tom Bakaly, an avid skier, fly fisherman and cribbage player, was appointed City Manager of Park City in January of 2003. In this position, he has focused on the improvement of organizational design, the development of high performance, self-managed teams, and more effective performance measures—in addition to helping Park City become and continue to be the “Best Run Resort Town in the Country.”

Since joining the Park City team in 1995, Tom has served in the positions of Finance Manager, Director of Capital Management & Budget, Assistant City Manager and Acting City Manager. Prior to coming to Park City, Tom worked for the City of Pasadena for seven years in various positions including Budget Director. Tom's experience with the management of large events in Pasadena such as World Cup Soccer, Rose Bowls and Super Bowls was of assistance to Park City as it prepared for the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Tom has a Masters degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California, with a specialization in Public Financial Management. He received his undergraduate degree from The Colorado College, with a major in History. He is married to Pam Bakaly and they have a son, Henry, who is 8 years old.

HONORABLE JUDITH M. BILLINGS

Judge Billings worked as a commercial litigator and partner at the law firm of Ray Quinney and Nebeker before she was appointed to the Utah state trial bench by Governor Matheson in l982. She served as a trial judge for five years before being appointed to the Utah Court of Appeals in 1987. Judge Billings served for more than 20 years on this court before retiring in 2008. She now works in mediation and arbitration in addition to serving as an Adjunct Professor at the S.J. Quinney School of Law at the University of Utah; this is also where she earned her B.A. in English (1965) and J.D. (1977).

In addition to serving on various boards including the National Association of Women Judges and Westminster College, Judge Billings was the Utah Woman Lawyer of the Year in 1990. She has been recognized as a Distinguished Alumni in both the College of Humanities and the College of Law at the University of Utah.

Judge Billings lives in Park City with her husband Tom. She enjoys skiing, hiking, biking, golfing and gardening. They have two sons and four grandchildren.

CHRISTOPHER M. CONABEE

Mr. Conabee is married and an active father of three children. He enjoys skiing, golfing, fishing, hunting and lacrosse.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Economics from the University of Utah in 1989 with a minor in Mathematics. He graduated from Columbia University in 1992 with a graduate degree in Business Administration. He worked for PaineWebber Incorporated from 1983 through 1997. He left the firm in New York as Corporate Vice-President of International Derivative Trading.

Mr. Conabee is currently a Principle of Paladin Development Partners. His daily responsibilities involve construction management and contract negotiations pertaining to a $120 million mixed-use slope side development at Park City Mountain Resort in Park City, Utah.

J. TAYLOR CRANDALL

J. Taylor Crandall is a Managing Partner of Oak Hill Capital Partners; he has worked for the firm since 1986. J. has senior responsibility for originating, structuring and managing investments for the firm's Technology, Media & Telecom industry groups. He serves as a co-Managing Partner of Oak Hill Special Opportunities Fund, L.P. Prior to his affiliation with Oak Hill, Mr. Crandall was a Vice President with the First National Bank of Boston, where he managed a leveraged buyout group and the bank's Dallas energy office. Mr. Crandall earned a B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Bowdoin College, where he has served on the Board of Overseers.

WILLIAM H. COLEMAN (Bill)

Bill has been involved with many groups in Park City, including the Park City Chamber of Commerce (President, 1980), the Park City Visitors Bureau (Founding Member), the Park City Chamber Bureau (President, 1989-1990), the Park City Board of Realtors (Founding Member), the Summit Land Owners Association (Founding Member), the Summit Land Trust (Founding Member) and Jans Ltd. Sporting Goods (Founding Member), among others.

Bill is the Owner Partner of Residential Brokerage Services Company, LLC, US-Mexico Real Estate and Land Equity Partners, Inc. He has been involved in Real Estate in Park City since 1972. Bill attended the University of Colorado, where he earned a Bachelor of Science and Business Administration. He enjoys skiing, auto racing and sailing.

JIM HILL

Jim has longtime roots in Park City. The Snyderville Basin is named after his great-great grandfather Samuel Comstock Snyder. As Managing Partner of East West Partners – Utah, Jim leads the development of the new on-mountain village at the Deer Valley Resort in Park City. The village will include 300 ski-in ski-out residences and an alpine club.

Jim joined East West Partners in 1999 to direct development of Riverfront Park, an urban residential neighborhood in downtown Denver encompassing 14 city blocks adjacent to Union Station. The neighborhood will ultimately be home to approximately 5,000 residents and includes lofts and condominiums, shops, and a 25-acre park along the South Platte River.

Prior to joining East West, Jim was with the Walt Disney Company for 9 years focusing on real estate and resort projects in Europe, Latin America and North America. Based in Paris, France, he opened the first resort hotel at Euro Disney as project manager for the 1,000 room Hotel Cheyenne. He started his career in 1984 in Washington DC where he specialized in development and leasing of office and commercial properties.

Jim holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and is a graduate of Brigham Young University. He enjoys mountain sports and recently completed a 500-mile bike tour of southern Colorado. He lives in Park City with his wife Cathy and children Alex, Avery, and Maren.

ELIZABETH LOCKETTE

Liz has been a full time resident of Park City since 1996 when she returned to Utah from San Francisco to enjoy all that the mountain lifestyle has to offer. She and Dave Thomas, MD, share a home in Park Meadows and can be found biking, golfing, fishing or skiing together on most days.

Liz has been involved with many nonprofit organizations in Utah, San Francisco and Colorado, including Lighthouse for the Blind, Junior League, United Way, Bizworld, National Ability Center, Youth WinterSports Alliance, and National Sports Center for the Disabled. She is a former board member of Bizworld and the National Ability Center.

Liz has spent her career in the financial services industry beginning with Charles Schwab in 1986. During her seven years there she was part of many start-up projects. She spent the next 10 years in management roles at three firms- Fidelity Investment, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs with a focus on Organizational Development. While a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, she moved over to private wealth management and returned to the core business of managing investments for clients, and is currently with Smith Barney in the same capacity. Liz holds a BS in Mathematical Economics from the University of the Pacific and a Masters of Applied Statistics from the University of Utah.

Liz is also the founder and business manager of Madeleine’s Marmalade, a traditional English marmalade that is handmade in Park City, Utah. To learn more, check out their website at www.madeleinesmarmalade.com.

HANK LOUIS

Hank Louis was born in Chicago in nineteen and fifty-one. Some of his formative years were spent in Orleans, France, where his father served in the Army as an orthopedist captain during peacetime, which led to multiple trips to Zermatt and Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Alas, his father then moved his allergies to Phoenix, Arizona. Hank went back to the cold to be educated at Deerfield Academy, where visions of the cheerleaders on the sidelines of televised University of Southern California football games became more and more appealing, and even though, according to the counselors, it was a “back-up” or “safety” application, he chose the sun and the beach and, though the smallest of fishes, the NCAA swimming championship.

To graduate with a Humanities degree Hank decided to drive south to Tierra del Fuego in order to learn Spanish. After eleven months he arrived in Costa Rica, but learned, passed and received a diploma. He continued to work in journalism, translating for World Press Review and working with the ex-pat English language newspaper, and writing to be published in “little” or literary magazines. A stint in Boston made him an avid Red Sox fan for life. Facing the opportunity to work for the L.A. Times he drove with his wife and year-old son cross country, stopping in Park City for a two week ski vacation before facing the looming dose of real life. The car broke down on the way out of town and before it could be fixed they had bought a house and helped found The Newspaper, which soon bought out the Park Record and took its name. During this time Hank co-founded Silver Vain, a literary magazine which won an O’Henry Prize Award for short fiction, and became Editor of a monthly magazine, The Intermountain Skier, while all the time stringing for Powder, Ski and Outside.

Back to Costa Rica, Hank worked mornings on a still-unpublished coming-of-age type novel, and afternoons on designing and building a house in the jungle with zero utilities, nor roads. Two and half years later, the house finally finished enough, enamored with the process of designing and building, he enrolled in the Masters of Architecture program at the University of Utah. He graduated with a Certificate of Merit for the study of Architecture from the Henry Adams Fund of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). He co-founded 15-15 Architects in Park City, which completed projects throughout the United States, Japan, Singapore and France.

In the late 1990s Hank discovered his current passion, teaching a design/build studio at the College of Architecture+Planning at the University of Utah. He has gone forward to found DesignBuildBLUFF, a non-profit support organization to the aforementioned entity, which takes first-year graduate students to the Navajo Reservation, where they select a family from on-site interviews and then proceed to design a home for that family throughout the fall semester. During spring, beginning in cold, cold January, they build the home, learning everything from the ramifications of mere lines on paper to teamwork to interacting with a third-world culture. The program has won numerous AIA Design Awards and been published in DWELL, Domus, Architectural Record and Shelter, among many other publications. His architectural firm is now named Gigaplex.

SUSAN PEARLSTINE

Susan primarily resides in Park City, but considers Charleston, SC an “equal first home.” In Park City, she was involved with the first Capital Campaign at The Colby School and most recently served as Campaign Coordinator for a $10 million initiative to build a synagogue and Jewish center in Park City. She has consistently supported various organizations in town including Park City Performing Arts Foundation, Mountain Trails and The National Ability Center.

In Charleston Susan was active in many areas of The Coastal Community Foundation including Chair of the Allocations committee, Board of Directors member and manager of a family Donor Advised fund. The CCF held $8 million in assets when Susan first became involved and now has grown to over $130 million in assets. Susan has served on the boards of The American Cancer Society, The Children’s Hospital at the Medical University of South Carolina, Lowcountry Aids Services, Hotline and others. She was the coordinator of a $5 million capital campaign for the oldest synagogue in America in Charleston.

Susan is a fifth-generation owner and Chairwoman of the Board at Pearlstine Distributors, Inc., which is one of the oldest and largest privately owned companies in South Carolina. Pearlstine Distributors is a wholesale beverage distributor of Anheuser-Busch, Heineken and other beverage products.

Susan has two daughters attending the University of Colorado, Boulder and a son at Park City High School.

MYLES RADEMAN

Myles is currently on a part-time contract as a Public Affairs Specialist with Park City after serving as Director of Public Affairs, Communications & Leadership with the city for over 20 years. Myles served as Director of Information for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Park City and was honored to be an Olympic Torch Bearer. He has served on numerous public and non-profit boards. In addition to his Board position with Park City Foundation, he is currently a board member of the Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance, the Utah Ski and Snowboard Association, and the Park City Chamber/Bureau.

Since 1970, Myles has been involved in all aspects of Park City’s strategic planning, resort development and leadership training. He served as the Planning Director for Park City, Utah and as Community Development Director for Crested Butte, Colorado. He has worked with numerous corporations, communities, and public and private associations on policy planning, public involvement strategies, environmental initiatives, and leadership training. His personal philosophy is proactive and reality-based. He is an avid student of the sociology and psychology of communities, and has spoken widely on future trends and the types of leadership needed to ensure success in challenging times. He is widely appreciated as a knowledgeable, vibrant, motivating and entertaining speaker.

Myles holds graduate degrees in law and urban planning from New York University, and was a Fulbright Professor, a Kellogg National Fellow and a Salzburg Fellow. He has received numerous professional awards, including the prestigious 2002 Preceptor Award from the International Community Leadership Association, the Spirit of Hospitality Award, and in 2006 was inducted as a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners by the American Planning Association.

He was a founding member of the Colorado Association of Ski Towns, and was featured in the PBS special documentary, Subdivide and Conquer: A Modern Western, decrying the environmental impacts of urban sprawl in the Rocky Mountain West.

SYDNEY REED
Sydney has worked at the Park City Historical Society since she joined the Board in 1985. After serving as President of the Board, she came to work at the Museum to start and implement an education program for children and adults. In 2003, Sydney joined the board again to assists with the Strategic Planning, membership, Women’s Guild, and co-chairs the $8.9 million Fund-raising campaign, for the newly renovated and expanded Park City Museum.

Sydney received her BA in Education and Music from Hunter College in NYC. She worked 3 years in advertising and taught school for 5 in New York City.

She met her husband Harry Reed on Fire Island where they grew up spending summers. He convinced her, after 10 years, to leave NYC, marry, and moved to Park City, Utah in 1974. She taught at Marsac Elementary School for three years then left to raise her three children. She stayed very involved in the community; Treasurer of the Kimball Art Center Guild, Board of Directors of KPCW chaired an after school enrichment program in the Elementary schools, was class mother and PTA member and headed the Community of Caring program, and graduated with the 4th Park City Leadership class.

Sydney is also a sports enthusiast. She grew up racing 14 foot Blue Jays. She and her husband raced Hobie 16s and a Hobie as well as the 33 ft monohull in National races around the west, including Newport to Encinata, Mexico races. She loves skiing and followed all three children racing all around the country. Playing competitive tennis was a passion, now she is learning golf and enjoys mountain and road biking trips. Her love for cooking not only put her on KPCW radio for 4 years with a cooking show in the early 80's, but also produced three cookbooks. She never misses an opportunity be with family and friends, golfing, sailing, biking, skiing, or meeting for lunch.

EMILY SCOTT POTTRUCK

Emily Scott Pottruck, a resident of Deer Valley and San Francisco, is a former Wall Street Executive who now devotes her energies to philanthropy and marketing consulting. She is the author and publisher of Tails of Devotion: A Look at the Bond Between People and Their Pets. The book has raised over $250,000 for more than 50 animal welfare non-profit organizations in 20 states.

Emily is the President of The Pottruck Family Foundation, which was established in 1995 to improve the lives of disadvantaged children and youth, and to support volunteer-driven organizations, primarily in San Francisco. The foundation’s aims have evolved to focus specifically on foster youths and special projects initiated by the Foundation.

In addition to The Pottruck Family Foundation, Ms. Scott Pottruck serves on the boards of Simmons College and V-Day. She has served on the boards of KQED, the UCSF Medical Foundation, the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, SF AIDS Foundation, the Planned Parenthood Board of Sponsors and Lake Merced Women’s Golfers Board. She frequently employs her marketing skills as a fundraiser and speaker for these and various other causes.

Emily started her career in the Retail Industry after receiving her BA from Simmons College. She also earned an MBA from Cornell University. She spent 12 years as a trader and a marketing/sales professional with The American Stock Exchange, Merrill Lynch, Shearson Lehman, and Charles Schwab. She also spent 4 years as President of ESP & Associates, a marketing consulting organization.

Emily lives with her husband, David, and has two adult step-children. She is an avid lover of dogs, especially her own 2 Yorkshire Terriers, Andy and Boomer. Lastly, she is an obsessed golfer and crossword puzzle/Sudoku solver.

MARK R. THORNE

Mark Thorne, an enthusiastic golfer, skier, hiker, and cyclist works as Talisker’s Senior Vice President of Resort Development.

For 25 years, Mark has directed all components associated with the development of large, high end master planned communities. For the past decade, he has concentrated on the development of low density luxury destination resort communities located in extraordinary environments. In Deer Valley, Talisker has acquired over 9,000 acres of prime mountain real estate and launched a luxury ski and golf resort community. Less than 25% of the total land holdings will be developed: the majority are preserved for open space/recreation, view preservation, environmental protection, and dedicated conservation trusts.

Prior to his work in the Park City region, Mark was Vice President of Development at Vail Resorts. Similarly to his current role with Talisker, Mark developed the overall planning and vision for the planned communities, hired and directed the key management positions, oversaw entitlements, development, engineering and construction, brand creation, marketing and sales programs, architectural design standards and controls, owner services and amenities, financial performance indicators and budgets and finance procurement. In short, for both Vail Resorts and now Talisker, Mark serves as a senior development executive.

Mark has a Masters in Business Administration with a focus on Finance from the University of Kansas. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and the Recreation Development Council. Mark has a daughter Jennifer, a recent graduate of the University of Colorado and a son James, who is attending Boston College.

STEPHEN A. TYLER

Steve first came to Utah on a family ski trip in 1982. He loved Utah for the fabulous skiing and Park City for the family atmosphere. He and his family have been coming to Park City ever since, and they consider it their second home. They spend a number of months there each year skiing and golfing.

Over the years, Steve has participated in a number of charitable and civic organizations. Currently, he serves on the Advisory Committee of Love, Inc., a local charity in Red Bank, New Jersey, and is an “Afterguard” member of The Corinthians, a sailing association. He is an avid sailor, a lifetime passion that he shares with his family.

In 2001, he became involved with the Community Foundation of New Jersey (CFNJ). He established the Tyler Family Fund, a donor advised account, and was the first Chair of the newly founded Monmouth County Division. He joined the Board of Trustees of CFNJ in 2003 and has served as Chairman of the Board since 2006.

Steve received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1969 from Cornell University. He joined JP Morgan in 1970 and spent 28 years in various market related positions including fixed income sales and trading, investment portfolio management, and risk management. Upon retiring from Morgan in 1998, he partnered with other investors and founded Rumson-Fair Haven Bank and Trust Company, which opened for business in July 2000. He served as President and CEO until 2003 and currently is an active member of the Board of Directors.

Steve and his wife Ingrid enjoy sharing their home with their two daughters, Diana Tyler and Bridget Mulcahy, son-in-law Michael Mulcahy, and granddaughters Cassi and Malia Mulcahy.