Board of Directors Meeting Calendar 2010-2011
Board Retreat – August 24-25, 2010
Friday, October 1, 2010
Friday, November 5, 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010
Friday, January 14, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
All regular meetings begin at 8:00 am in the Library Conference room
Jack Bunce, Chair
Jack was a part time resident of Ketchum from 1995 to 2002
and has been a full time resident since 2002. Jack is the founder of
the investment firm Greyhawk Capital Management and serves as a Senior
Advisor to Hellman & Friedman, a San Francisco private equity firm
where he worked as a Managing Director from 1988 to 2006. He serves on
numerous corporate boards including NIC, Arch Capital Group, BirdDog
Solutions, Active Business Network, Serra Energy Holdings, and IMSI
Design. He earned an AB degree in International Relations from Stanford
University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Jack and his wife
Elizabeth have three children who have graduated from TCS: Austin Nalen (`10), Wyatt Bunce (`10) and Devon Bunce (`06.)
Pat Aluisi
Pat Aluisi moved to the Wood River Valley from Florida in 2002. Her daughter Jordan Sachs is in the sixth grade at TCS. Pat was general counsel and then a director of the global construction company, Bovis, LTD, based in London. She was a founding director of Qorval, a business turn around company in Naples, FL. Pat has served on a number of Boards including the Naples Children and Education Foundation, The Boys and Girls' Club of Collier County and A Company of Fools in Hailey.
Barbara W. Boswell, Ex-Officio
Barbara has lived in the Wood River Valley since 1986. She moved from Southern California where she received her masters from California State University, Northridge and her doctorate from the University of Southern California. She has a love of and commitment to education and has taught at all levels from the third grade through college. She also served on the board of the Paso Robles Joint Union High School District from 1981-1985 and was its chair for a period of time. She has been a member of The Community School's board since 1993 and served as Chair of Campaign 2000. Barbara also has been on the board of Claremont McKenna College for the past 16 years.
Charles Conn
Charles is Senior Advisor to the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation and a private investor. At the Moore Foundation, he focuses on conservation projects, including the Foundation’s wild salmon ecosystems initiative and the Palmyra Atoll research station. As an investor he works with energy and green tech companies. Charles is active in the Ketchum community, and currently also serves on the boards of Idaho’s Bounty, Leroy’s and Trout Unlimited. He is a member of the Energy Solutions Team of the CDC and of the Ketchum City Council. He is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. Previously, Charles was an entrepreneur and business consultant. He co-founded Citysearch and as CEO led the company through its mergers with Interactive Corporation’s Ticketmaster, as well as its public offering and acquisitions of Microsoft Sidewalk, Match.com, Evite, and other companies. Prior to starting TMCS, Charles was a partner with McKinsey & Company, and a leader of its Growth Strategy Practice. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School, Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and Boston University. He is married to Beverley Robertson and have two children Hannah (Class 2016) at TCS and Alex (`09.)
Michael Engl, Emeritus
Michael has been an active contributor to the arts and education for many years. He has been actively involved with the Sun Valley Center for the Arts as a member of the Advisory Board, and Michael has served The Community School in many capacities over the years. He was Chairman of Board of Trustees of The Mountain School, and was instrumental in the effort to merge the two schools in 1988. He also served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of our School for six years. He is currently on the Board of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe and is the Chair of its Research Center Committee. He is also Vice President of The Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe and a member of the Director's Council of The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Michael was Dean and Chairman of the Visual Communications Division at New School University in New York and has spent many years managing and directing family trusts. Michael received his B.A. from Williams College and did his graduate studies at Yale University and Columbia University. His daughter Riley graduated from TCS in 1992.
Leigh Everitt
Leigh is the mother of George (Class of 2015), Henry (Class of 2016), James (Class of 2018), and William (Class of 2020). She and her husband, Jamie, moved to Ketchum in 1992 from Marin County, California. She has been an active volunteer with The Wood River Community YMCA, and has been a Community School room parent for many years. She received a BA from St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y. in 1988.
Tim Flaherty
Tim and His wife Tracy moved to the Wood River Valley from Seattle. Tim is the founder of Silver Creek Capital. He and his wife Tracy have five children. Four of their children attend TCS; Jake (Class of 2014) and their triplet sons, Dane, Sean and Braden (Class of 2016.)
Ellen Gillespie
Ellen Gillespie and her husband James are the parents of two TCS students, Lily (2014) and Thomas (2016). She is the co‐owner of Sun Valley Events, organizing some of the largest events in the Wood River Valley, including Wagon Days and the Wellness Festival. Prior to moving to Sun Valley from New York in 2003, Ellen worked for Time Warner in Washington DC and London. She is a graduate of Duke University.
David Holmes
David attained a B.A. in political science at Middlebury (1964) and an M.A. in International Affairs at Columbia University (1966). He attained a Ph.D. in higher educational administration, with cognate work in Chinese politics, at the University of Denver (1974). He worked at the University of Vermont, where he created a university-wide instructional improvement and faculty development center. He headed up the center for 13 years, taught graduate courses and was tenured as an associate professor. While researching a book on the McCarthy era in education, he began work as a program officer at the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education in Washington (FIPSE) in Washington, D.C. He is the author of the book Stalking the Academic Communist published by in 1988. In 1991 David became the headmaster’s at his old school, Suffield Academy in Connecticut. He served as Headmaster until 2004. In 2004 David moved to Sun Valley and became Vice President for Programs at the Foundation for Excellent Schools (FES) and joined in creating the Sun Valley Leadership Institute. FES has programs in 130 schools across the nation with the aim of raising aspirations and educational attainment of youth in low income urban and rural communities. In August 2006, he assumed duties as Executive Director of the Lee Pesky Learning Center. David is married to Antonia Kiley Holmes and has two children, Chris and Caleb.
Randi Kanellitsas
Randi moved to the Wood River Valley with her family in 2000. Prior to that, after graduating college with a BS Degree in Nursing, she worked as a registered nurse followed by a career in the medical equipment industry. Randi has been active in the Parent’s Association, serving as room parent, VP of the Lower School, VP of the Middle School and as a Co-President. Randi and her husband John have two children at TCS, Tim (Class of 2012), Ben (Class of 2013).
Jim Milgard
Jim and his family moved to the wood River in 2005 from Seattle. Jim and his wife Jennifer have two daughters attending The Community School, Madison (Class of 2015) and Molly (Class of 2018). In 2003 Jim started a small private investment company focusing on acquisition, private equity and venture capitol named The Great Day Group, that is now based in Ketchum. Jim sits on the board of Directors for two additional non-profit groups The Sun Club and The Great Day Foundation.
John Perenchio
John and his wife Stephanie moved full time to Ketchum in 2004 from Santa Monica, California. They have four daughters: Robin (24), Lauren (23), Gabi (TCS Class of 2012) and Lena (TCS Class of 2014). John is chairman of Fearless Records, LLC, a boutique record and music publishing company. He is also a private investor and lawyer. John has over 18 years of experience as a director of public companies and he is currently a director of Deckers Outdoors Inc. and chair of its governance committee. John has been on the board of Heal the Bay, a Southern California environmental non-profit, since 1989. John has previously served on other non-profit boards, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, where his responsibilities included chairing its Hollywood Bowl committee. John is a graduate of Brown University (AB Political Science 1977) and the University of San Diego School of Law (JD 1981).
Jake Peters
Jake Peters is a transportation entrepreneur and former investment banker. Jake's current transportation-related endeavor is swoop Technology. He is also involved with an edutainment site, PicLits.com, and Leroy's Ice Cream (whose profits benefit Wood River Valley children). Prior to moving to Ketchum in 2001 with his wife Trina and daughter Katie (Class of 2018), Jake was a managing director at Credit Suisse based in Boston, New York and London.
Kirk Riedinger
Kirk Riedinger is the co-founder of Alta Colleges, Inc., a nationwide network of career colleges. Kirk currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors and previously also served as Executive Chairman of Alta Colleges. During his tenure as Executive Chairman he was responsible for developing and overseeing the company's operations. He has served as a member of the Governor's Commission on Science and Technology (Colorado), a member of the Board Nominating Committee of the Career College Association and a Board member of the Career College Association. Kirk was a finalist in the Rocky Mountain Region Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002 and is a member of the Mile High United Way Tocqueville Society. He has coached youth soccer for many years and was active in Boy Scouts in Denver, Colorado. Kirk earned his BA in International Relations from Stanford University and his MBA from Harvard Business School. Kirk and his wife Kathy have three children at TCS Patrick (Class of 2015), Paige (Class of 2013) and Gray (Class of 2012.)
Peter Smith
Peter was born and raised in Southern California. After graduating from Santa Clara University with a degree in business administration, he joined a family business. Pete and his wife Becky moved to the Wood River Valley in the mid 1980s. His daughter Alison graduated from the Community School in '89. He has served on the boards of the Idaho Nature Conservancy, the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation, and the Sun Valley Center for the Arts. Becky has served on the Board of the Community School, as well as the Sun Valley Center for the Arts. Pete has four sons, the youngest of which was in college when they moved to Sun Valley.
Joan Swift
Joan and her husband, Tom, have two sons at The Community School, Ben (2014) and Nick (2017). They moved full time to the Valley in 2005, having owned a home here since 1990. Joan spent several years working in commercial real estate development with Hines Interests and, previously, in investment banking with Merrill Lynch. Her non‐profit experience includes trustee and board chair positions with both the Bay Area Discovery Museum (Sausalito, Ca) and the Environmental Working Group (Washington, DC). She is currently involved locally as trustee and treasurer of both the Wood River Land Trust and the Building Materials Thrift Store. Joan earned a BA from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Stanford University.
Don Wiseman
Don Wiseman has lived in the Wood River Valley for over 25 years. He earned his B.S. in Accounting from Montana State University. Don was an owner and operator of the Sun Summit Ski and Bike Shop before becoming the Director of the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation. Don's two children graduated from TCS, Katie Matteson (2002) and Mike Matteson (2007.)