Board
2025 Co-Chairs
Leslie Chihuly
Leslie Jackson Chihuly is an American arts executive and philanthropist. She is the president and chief executive officer of Chihuly, Inc., which includes Chihuly Studio and Chihuly Workshop, both of which feature the artistic work and vision of her husband, Dale Chihuly. In 2018, she was elected as chair emerita of the Seattle Symphony Board after serving nine years as board chair and implementing a number of revitalizing changes. Those included filling the roles of CEO and music director with fresh talent, and taking the organization from financial challenge and organizational strife in 2009 to the stage of Carnegie Hall in 2014. Under her leadership, the symphony won three Grammy Awards and the Gramophone “Orchestra of the Year Award” in 2018. Leslie Chihuly serves on the boards of the Seattle Symphony, Vassar College, and the Pilchuck Glass School. In 2022, President Joe Biden announced his intention to appoint Jackson Chihuly to the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts.
kristen hamilton
Kristen Hamilton, CEO and cofounder of Koru, which provides data-driven talent analytics to help companies screen, hire, and develop early-career millennial talent. Kristen is an entrepreneur and executive with a passion for education innovation and technology. She co-founded e-commerce pioneer Onvia and took it public in 2000. As co-founder, Kristen built the organization from 0 to 500 people, raised over $300 million of investment capital, and led the M&A team to acquire and integrate four private companies in two years. Kristen then shifted focus to education: Her additional positions include COO of World Learning, where she ran operations for their education and development programs in 66 countries, and later leading educator strategy for Microsoft.
FOUNDERS:
Bob Beattie
Henri Moreault
IN MEMORIAM:
Bob Beattie
Denny Engleman
Doak Walker
Sam Zell
HONORARY BOARD:
Lenny Barshack
Carl & Renee Behnke
Jerry Blank
Paul Carson
Michael Culver
Tim Dattels
Howard Ecker
Chuck Ferries
Phil Handy
David Helfand
Bobby Jaffe
Kathy Kendrick Abby Killebrew
Bob Mardian
Chris McCutcheon
Phil McNichol
Henri Moreault
Kipp Nelson
Bill Shaw
Bippy Siegal
Bill Thorvilson
Johnny Walker
Will Weinstein
Thom Weisel
Doug Woodcock
DAN BOLAND
Newly relocated to Park City, UT to take advantage of the greatest snow on Earth. Business consultant focused on large scale business transformations for large cap technology and media businesses.
Emily Carroll
Artist / art consultant living in Mill Valley, CA. Since moving to the Bay Area 25 years ago, I have been involved in various art organizations including California College of the Arts, SFMOMA, and Bay Area Discovery Museum. My first Director's Cup was in 1991. Since then, I have become an avid and passionate skier. Though, I would not claim myself as a "ski racer,” now, I find myself chasing both my kid's down the mountain and traveling to watch my son ski race. I always enjoy attending DISC; dual racing for fun, meeting old friend's and new, "dancing," and always making new memories!
BOBBI BABITZ
Bobbi alternates between the race course and the timing hut during the event. On an as-needed basis, she re-debuts her renowned proprietary pole-flailing techniques and her DISC starting gate roar. Off slope, Bobbi serves as a co-Founder and co-CEO of the middle market investment banking practice Britehorn Partners and as a co-Founder and Partner of the private equity partnership Centrum Cibus Partners . She brings more than 25 years of investing and transactional experience to high-growth private and public companies in the business services, technology and consumer foods and beverages sectors.
CHRISTINE DUSEK
After four years of retirement, Christine recently returned to her former PR agency, Ruder Finn to lead strategic corporate accounts. Prior to rejoining Ruder Finn, she was the global head of communications for IMS Health (which TPG acquired and took private in 2009 – thanks Tim D). Still married to David (13 years…can you believe it) and celebrating her 14th DISC event (only missed one to give birth to daughter, Sabrina), Christine is looking forward to announcing the ski races this year, getting all of you to beat last year’s U.S. Ski Team Auction fundraising goal, and celebrating a very special milestone birthday with some of my favorite friends!!!
Gordon Gray
Director of Business Development for Synapse Product Development, a global product development and technology consultancy, helping the likes of the fortune 100 or a soon-to-be unicorn start-up develop and launch break-though hardware and cutting edge, complex, engineering systems. Inspired by passionate individuals, I love connecting people and building teams to solve hairy problems and bring ideas to life. Having been nominated to the US Alpine Ski Team and experienced a short career as a professional actor, I bring a breadth of perspective, empathy, and honesty to innovation and design.
Solveig Tschudi Lawrence
Solveig Tschudi Lawrence in a senior commercial real estate advisor with Kentwood Commercial in Denver, Colorado. She began her career in commercial real estate as the managing director for Howard Ecker + Company and was responsible for managing the Denver office for over ten years. with opening and running the Denver office for Howard Ecker + Company from 2008 to 2017. She then moved over to Kentwood Commercial in 2018. Prior to that she worked in New York in sports and entertainment marketing and sponsorship consulting for IMG.
KEN HAUSMAN
Ken is an angel investor and advisor upon company creation with crème de la crème VCs such as Sutter Hill Ventures, and is a successful entrepreneur brought in by Gene Kleiner (NASDAQ:RSND) as first full-time employee. Current or former advisor to Intel, Deutche Telekom, Technicolor, Silicon Valley Bank, and NASDAQ on innovating more rapidly. Ken serves on the boards of Avegant (Editors Choice CES) and Square Panda (Ed Tech) alongside Andre Agassi. For fun, Ken hosts rare Bordeaux wine roundtables dinners and moderate discussion with thought leaders on Entertainment, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Security, IoT, Enteprise, AR & VR and Advertising, etc. Ken is a former member of NASDAQ’s President’s Advisory Board and former President and Emeritus Board Member of The Churchill Club. Last but not least, Ken was the Squaw Valley Warriors Basketball Camp MVP in a past century.
TOM HUANG
I attended my first Directors' Cup in Whistler in 2003 and haven't missed one since.
I have lived in New York since 1995 and am a partner at a private equity firm, focusing on investments in consumer products and communications services companies.
Peter mack
I grew up ski racing in Vermont and there’s nothing that I love more than skiing, so I’m looking forward to another fantastic DISC! Veteran of the Hotel industry and passionate about the mountains and the outdoors, I’m Now Founder and CEO of Collective Hotels & Retreats, a venture-backed pop-up hotel company on a mission to redefine global travel through a collection of dynamic destination retreats and enriching experiences, connecting person, community, and environment.
I live in Aspen, but consider NYC and Aspen home.
Barrett yates-mack
Barrett is the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Strategy Officer at CrossLead. Barrett also currently serves on the Board of Directors of HEYCO Energy Group, PetroYates, and three education and agricultural non-profits. She holds a Master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor’s from Cornell University.
Steven Nyman
Steven Nyman is a World Cup alpine ski racer on the U.S. Ski Team. Formerly a slalom skier, he is now a speed specialist, with a main focus on downhill. Nyman made his first World Cup podium in December 2006, placing third in a downhill at the Birds of Prey course at Beaver Creek, Colorado. Fifteen days later, he won his first World Cup race, a downhill in Val Gardena, Italy. As the fastest racer at the 2010–2011 NASTAR National Championships, Nyman was the NASTAR National Pacesetter and represented the National Standard or Par Time for the 2010–2011 season. Nyman won his third World Cup downhill in December 2014, all at Val Gardena. He injured his right knee (ACL) in late January 2018 at Garmisch and missed the rest of the season, including the 2018 Olympics; he had finished third at the pre-Olympic downhill at Jeongseon two years earlier.
SHAWN RIEGSECKER
Shawn founded Centro in 2001 intent on building software to eliminate operational inefficiencies, solve growing complexity and fragmentation challenges, and help marketers make smarter decisions. Since then, as CEO, he has built Centro into one of the largest providers of media operations software and managed services in the industry. Centro has been No. 1 on Crain’s Chicago Business’ Best Places to Work for four years in a row (2011-2014). He is on the selection committee for 1871, a community of Chicago-based digital start-ups, and an angel investor in the FireStarter Fund, a group of Chicago founders supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs.
Kyle Sleeper
Kyle is an entrepreneur currently running operations and finance for Rosebud Woman, a luxe intimate skincare brand he co-founded in 2018. His previous company, Now Labs, was an agency and incubator that ran innovation initiatives for companies large and small, including world class enterprises such as Panasonic, Estée Lauder, HP, and Autodesk. He is also the chairman of Vision Agency, an experiential software company founded by renowned digital artist Android Jones which develops Chromadose, Chromadome, and MicrodoseVR. He is based in Venice, CA.
Resi Stiegler
Born and raised in Jackson, Wyoming, Stiegler is the daughter of Olympic champion Josef "Pepi" Stiegler of Austria. She began skiing at age two and racing at six at Jackson Hole. Junior Olympic and Nor-Am success while still a teenager led to a berth on the U.S. Ski Team; she made her World Cup debut at age 17 in December 2002 at a slalom in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, where she finished a remarkable eleventh. At the 2003 Junior World Championships in France, she won bronze medals in slalom and combined, to which she added a tenth-place finish in combined at the "grown-up" World Championships that year in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Through March 2016, Stiegler has 21 World Cup top-ten finishes, with one podium. She finished sixth in combined at the 2005 World Championships in Santa Caterina, Italy. Stiegler made her Olympic debut at the 2006 Torino games at age 20, placing eleventh in the combined and twelfth in the slalom. Stiegler's trademark is the tiger ears she usually wears atop her helmet. She won a well-publicized battle with the International Olympic Committee, allowing her to compete with the ears at the Torino Olympics. After a series of injuries, Stiegler made her first World Cup podium in March 2012, a runner-up finish at a slalom in Ofterschwang, Germany.
KEVIN STONE
Kevin R. Stone M.D. is an orthopedic surgeon at The Stone Clinic and the Chairman of the Stone Research Foundation. He has lectured around the world as an expert in cartilage and meniscal growth, repair and replacement. Dr. Stone has pioneered new ways to address biologic as opposed to bionic (artificial) joint replacement. He and his clinic (The Stone Clinic in San Francisco) developed the first collagen scaffold for re-growing the meniscus cartilage, the first techniques for replacing the meniscus in an arthritic knee, the first method to humanize animal tissue for use as ligaments in ACL replacement, the first stem cell cartilage paste graft for re-growing articular cartilage inside injured joints, and the first glucosamine beverage for joint health. His work has led to multiple awards, publications, grants, approximately 50 issued US patents and initiated multiple start-up companies. Dr. Stone is a weekly feature columnist for the San Francisco Examiner. As an orthopaedic surgeon, he has served the U.S. Ski Team, the U. S. Pro Ski Tour, the Marin Ballet, the Smuin Ballet, the modern Pentathlon at the U.S. Olympic Festival, and for the U.S. Olympic Training Center. He was trained at Harvard in internal medicine and orthopaedic surgery and at Stanford in general surgery. His sports and knee fellowship was with Richard Steadman in Lake Tahoe.
OTTO TSCHUDI
Otto skied on the Norwegian Olympic team at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble and at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo. He is a two-time Norwegian ski champion and a five-time NCAA champion for the University of Denver. After retiring from skiing, Otto became a partner at Montgomery Securities and TWP; he is currently the managing director at Stifel International Group. He is also the proud grandfather of a toddler and twin infants.
Tyler Wick
Tyler grew up in Burlington, VT and lives with his wife Hannah and two kids in Boston, MA. When not fly fishing, skiing or boating on Cape Cod, Tyler works as a private equity investor for Abry Partners. At work Tyler seeks to make investments in profitable companies in the software, healthcare and business services sectors. Tyler majored in English at Amherst College, graduated cum laude with honors, and was a three year starter on the football team. Tyler comes from a skiing family, but as anyone who has seen him race would agree, he was not born with the talent of his cousins Tiger Shaw (two time Olympian) and Andrew Shaw (NCAA national GS champion for UVM).