Board & Staff

Richard W. Roedel is currently a member of the Board of Directors of five public companies: IHS Markit, Inc, Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, LSB Industries, Inc., Luna Innovations Incorporated and BrightView Holdings, Inc. Mr. Roedel Is Chairman of the Audit Committees of LSB and BrightView and serves as a member of the Audit Committees of Six Flags and IHS Markit. Mr. Roedel serves on the Compensation Committee of LSB and Luna and is Chairman of the Risk Committee of IHS Markit. Mr. Roedel is also the Non-Executive Chairman of LSB and Luna. During the years Mr. Roedel has been a director of public companies, he has served as lead independent director on several occasions and the chairman of several governance, compensation and special committees.

Mr. Roedel is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Risk Oversight Advisory Council. In 2016 the NACD awarded Mr. Roedel its life-time achievement award. Mr. Roedel recently completed a three year term on the Standing Advisory Group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB).

Until 2000 Mr. Roedel was employed by BDO Seidman LLP, having been managing partner of its Chicago and New York Metropolitan area offices and later Chairman and CEO. Mr. Roedel is a graduate of The Ohio State University and a CPA.

Martin Inglis retired from Battelle, a research and development enterprise headquartered in Columbus, Ohio in July 2014. He had served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Through July 2013 he had also served as Chief Financial Officer. Previously, he had retired after 32 years with Ford Motor Company where he had held various finance and operations positions around the world including Group Vice President Business Strategy; Chief Financial Officer; President Ford South America; head Ford North America; and VP Global Product and Business Strategy. He was elected a corporate officer in 1996.

Mr. Inglis continues to serve on the Board of Carpenter Technology Corporation, a NYSE company, where he chairs the Finance & Audit Committee. Mr. Inglis and his wife Sue support a variety of charities. He chaired the Board of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra from 2008 to 2014. Martin and his wife, Sue enjoy music, travel, walking and golf. They own a house in Breckenridge.

Bill has 35 years of experience in public accounting, principally in the financial services industry, including service to property/casualty and life/health insurers and reinsurers, investment companies and broker dealers. Since retirement as a partner in Ernst & Young LLP, he has joined the Boards and Audit Committees of RBC Funds, a private captive insurance company and a private technology company; cofounded Citizens for Higher Education, a group of business executives advocating for state funding of higher education in Kansas; served as Chair of the Kansas University Business School Advisory Council and Chair of the KU Research Institute at the Medical Center.

He is Treasurer of the Kansas City Symphony, and has recently been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

Bill is a graduate of the University of Kansas and has been active on the Boards of the KU Endowment Association, the KU Alumni Association and the University Multicultural Scholars Advisory Council. Bill and Marilyn enjoy international travel, summers in Breckenridge and visiting their son and his family in St. Louis. The Taylor family actively support a variety of scholarships for young women in memory of their daughter

Sue was raised on a farm in Illinois and learned early on that wherever she has lived, being involved in the community is important. She has spent many years on the board of the Continental Divide Land Trust and volunteering at the County Pet Shelter, and supports many other non-profits in Summit County. Sue and her husband Howard have been skiing Summit County since 1983, have owned a home in Silverthorne since 1998, and became fulltime residents in 2010. Her favorite activities are skiing, hiking, golfing and gardening!

Laura joined the Board in 2010 and served as President 2011 – 2016. She retired from Air Products and Chemicals as a Human Resources Executive, specializing in Human Resource Strategy and Organization Development.

Working to advance Breckenridge as a cultural destination, she serves as President of the Breckenridge Cultural Coalition. Also, as a PSIA certified instructor, Laura volunteers in the ski program of the Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center (BOEC).

Prior to Breckenridge, she was active with the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce, serving as Chair as the Chamber grew to be the 2nd largest Chamber in Pennsylvania. She also provided volunteer assistance to the Latino Economic Development Center, the Lehigh Valley Business Education Partnership and the United Way.

Laura and Jerry came to spend the winter of 2005 – no plans, no expectations. So impressed with the community, they never left. She enjoys many mountain activities: skiing, snowshoeing, golf, hiking, biking. Her passion is the Breckenridge Music Festival. She recalls the thrill of attending her first BMF concert, sitting in the middle of town surrounded by amazing music. That sense of awe never leaves her.

Brian Hall and his wife Linda have had a home in Breckenridge since 1990. They currently split their time between their homes in Breckenridge and Tucson, AZ.

Brian is retired from the Thomson Corporation (aka ThomsonReuters – TRI NYSE) where he served as vice chairman. Prior to joining Thomson, he was with the McGraw-Hill Companies where he was an executive vice president. He has served on the boards of numerous public companies and non-profit organizations.

Heidi and her Husband, Andy own an upscale home furnishings business, Mountain Comfort Furnishings & Design in Frisco, CO and in Truckee, CA. In 2006 they started their business together in Coeur d’Alene, ID then moved back to their beloved, and her native Colorado, where they purchased the Frisco business in 2014. In her free time from family and business, Heidi loves to volunteer in the local community and in her children’s elementary school. She was previously co-chair of board at the Summit County Preschool. Heidi and Andy have been an active supporters of Breckenridge Music through the Champagne Series. They thoroughly enjoy the intimate musical settings the series provides with the top notch musicians. Before the home furnishings business, Heidi worked in Quantitative Biology for cancer and inflammation research and has a bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Colorado. She loves living in the mountains with their two active boys ages 9 & 6, where she enjoys hiking, biking, skiing, home design, music and anything science.

An experience marketing executive, Jesse recently served as the Director of Marketing with Vail Resorts Breckenridge. In that role he was a member of the Breckenridge Tourism Office’s Board of Directors. Prior to his time in Breckenridge, he served as CMO for Taos Ski Valley and as a Regional VP of Marketing for Caesars Entertainment. Jesse holds a MBA from Vanderbilt University and an BS degree from the University of Utah. In his spare time, he enjoys skiing, fly fishing and traveling with his wife, Lindsay.

Over the last ten years Jen has put her life and skills to work in the Summit County community as a marketer, elected official, board member, fundraiser, project manager and small business owner. She is currently the Child Care Program Administrator with the Town of Breckenridge where she manages a tuition assistance program to help local working families and non-profit partner schools. She also serves as Co-Chair for the Organizing Committee of the USA ProChallenge.

As a former Town Council member, and Mayor ProTem, Jen served on the Council Housing and Child Care Committees. From 2003 – 2008, Jen was Board of Directors President for the Little Red School House where she supported the $1.1 million capital campaign to build the new 6,000 sq. foot building. Jen holds three degrees from the University of Wisconsin in International Relations, Political Science and History.

Janet has been a licensed architect in the state of Colorado since 1984. She has served on numerous architectural review boards and the Town of Breckenridge Historic Preservation Committee since inception. Educational involvement includes mentoring Colorado Mountain College and Summit High School students. Outside of architecture she spent many years developing and coaching girls’ youth hockey programs statewide. Currently Janet serves as a board member for the Breckenridge Heritage Alliance. Her love of design inspires an unrelenting effort to improve the built environment, and to keep new projects in harmony with the natural beauty and historic legacy that define our community.

Having grown up near Princeton, New Jersey, Janet decided in sixth grade she wanted to be an architect and never strayed from the path. After earning a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Syracuse University in New York, she entered the Princeton corporate world, later took a sojourn to Jackson, Wyoming and fell in love with the west. Janet spent the next few years interning in Jackson, then moved on to Summit County, Colorado, where she has resided since 1982. She began work as a project architect for Witter Architects in Keystone until their relocation to California in 1986 and has owned and operated her own practice ever since

Carole Weller has volunteered for Applause! since moving to Breckenridge in 2013. Originally from the South East of England, Carole moved to the US in 2005 with her husband Paul, who is also English. Having expressed a desire to employers to spend some time living overseas, they relocated to San Francisco where Paul was employed in the tech industry. They both fell in love with the city and America and decided to stay, becoming American citizens in April 2012. Carole has had a long career in recruitment, both as an individual contributor, as a manager and her final full time role as Vice President for Robert Half, one of the world’s leading recruitment consultancies. She specialized in placing contract and full time senior level finance professionals and worked closely with many early stage start-ups to ensure that they had the finance talent to grow successfully.

Paul and Carole learned to ski in Breckenridge in 1991 and always had a plan to retire to the mountains. In 2013 they were lucky enough to fulfil their dream and now live here full time. They spend time skiing, biking, hiking, walking their Bernese Mountain dogs and working with several non-profits in Summit County.

Hans Wurster and his wife Mary Jane (MJ) retired to Summit County in 1999. They moved here from Appleton, Wisconsin where Hans was owner and VP of Kaukauna Cheese, a national specialty cheese company. They often visited Summit County to see their son Pete, founder and owner of Unity Snowboard Mfg. in Silverthorne, and their son Fred, who was completing graduate studies at CSU. Upon arriving in Colorado, Hans and Mary Jane got involved in nonprofit work for Breckenridge Music Festival (BMF) and Continental Divide Land Trust. Hans was board president for the BMF and served on the steering committee that raised private funds to replace the tent with a permanent roof for the Riverwalk Center in Breckenridge in 2007-08. Hans and MJ enjoy participating and competing in masters athletics. They are particularly fond of rowing and sculling on Lake Dillon which is a world class venue for this sport.

Hans joined The Summit Foundation board in 2007. Through the Summit Foundation, they have established designated funds or agency endowment funds for Breckenridge Music Festival and Continental Divide Land Trust.

During their years in Wisconsin, Mary Jane was very involved in the nonprofit community in Appleton, which included a board position with a large community foundation. Together, she and Hans often visited Summit County to see their son Pete, founder and owner of Unity Snowboard Mfg. in Silverthorne, and their son Fred, who was completing graduate studies at CSU, until they retired to Breckenridge in 1999. Upon arriving in Colorado, Hans and Mary Jane got involved in nonprofit work for Breckenridge Music Festival (BMF) and Continental Divide Land Trust. MJ is co chair of music education. Hans and MJ enjoy participating and competing in masters athletics. They are particularly fond of rowing and sculling on Lake Dillon which is a world class venue for this sport.