Bill and Pam Stewart joined City Club in April 2006, nearly a year after we opened, when we were more of a club in concept than in reality. While Pam was more outgoing, energetic and excited about the club, it was Bill who I bonded with and brainstormed about our vision for an ideal community.
One day I told Bill about an item on my bucket list which was to visit the Bohemian Club’s summer camp in the redwood forest north of San Francisco, which many believe it is harder to get into than Fort Knox. After listening intently, Bill casually stated “I am a member and will be glad to get you an invite for next summer.” While being a part of this all-American experiment was a lifetime achievement, the real highlight was spending ten days with Bill and the chance to get to know him, his lightness of spirit and his joy for life.
Leonard is the Founder, President, and CEO of Figure Engineering, located on the flight line at Ft. Belvoir in Fairfax, Virginia. Figure was born in 2005 in a one-bedroom apartment as a manufacturer of aftermarket car parts. Today, Figure develops technology for the Department of Defense. Figure's Industry 4.0 technologies are used by the US Air Force to sustain weapon system readiness for aircraft including the F-16, A-10, C-130, and ground equipment including missile transporters, bomb lifts, and high-output generators at the Ogden Air Logistics Complex.
Figure's beginning in automotive parts soon expanded into a job shop for specialty metal finishing applications, branded Figure Finishing™, which offered unparalleled quality in powder, ceramic, and liquid coatings, precision grinding, etc. Figure Finishing™ quickly became known within motorsports enthusiast communities as one of the premier metal finishers in the US. Figure Finishing™ and has won multiple awards.
Born and raised in Grosse Pointe, Michigan and educated in Paris at the American University, Paul is happy to have called Boulder home for the last 15 years. Paul and his wife Anne with their daughters Georgia and Lauren own and operate Cure Organic Farm. Paul owns Mea Culpa Productions (www.weneedtotlk.com), is on the Design Board of the Conference on World Affairs as well as the board of Historic Boulder. When not at board meetings he can be found swimming or playing tennis. “I am thrilled to join a dynamic and passionate team at City Club and to help it with its continuing success."
Read MoreIn the Introduction, we mentioned the physics of the Flywheel, but did not expand on the concept. To begin with, it takes a lot of energy to get the flywheel going, after which it seemingly runs by itself effortlessly.
This week we celebrated the 15th anniversary of Glenn Schroeder’s employment at Highland City Club. Glenn acts as our “Controller,” but in fact he manages everything that has to do with money, insurance, property taxes; and maintains the half dozen licenses we need to operate. Glenn issues every monthly invoice you get and his accuracy score is a tad above 99%.
Marty Kaegel is a social activist, cinephile, a tireless optimist and a big fan of the City Club and Boedecker Theatre.
Marty spent her career living in St. Louis and working as a Nurse Practitioner in women's health and biofeedback therapist.
While taking care of patients, Marty also lectured, taught and trained nationally on women's health and sexuality. Her many accomplishments included an appointment by the Governor of Missouri to the State Board of Health as the only woman at the time on the board. Marty still works tirelessly on issues related to reproductive and sexual freedom and freedom of the press.
Barry was born and lived in Brooklyn for the first 11 years of his life. He considers that place and those years to be particularly formative.
His family then moved to Oceanside, Calif. where he lived through high school. After Stanford and during Harvard Law he married Tina Collen. They moved to LA where he practiced in Beverly Hills. They had two sons, Andy and Mark, with whom Barry remains quite close.
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Boulder-raised Jeptha Sheene has also lived in San Francisco, Vail, Grand Junction, and New York City. In New York and San Francisco, she worked in fashion for over a decade. In Vail, she discovered and reopened a shuttered dude ranch. It remains a successful operation today. Still, the Vail achievement of which she is most proud was giving birth to her daughter, Calloway. Calloway earned her M.D. in April, and is now a emergency medical resident at Rush Medical College in Chicago.
Looking for a new adventure led Jeptha to a career in real estate. Now a licensed broker with RE/MAX of Boulder, she has been selling Colorado real estate for the past 15 years. Her "think out-of-the box" life has been key to an ever expanding and varied career in real estate including experience with residential, new construction and development, relocation, land, commercial, ranches and wineries.
Solomon Halpern began meditating at age 12 with his first meditation teacher, Pema Chödrön. The original pioneer of Mindful Finance, and co-host of The Mindful Finance Podcast, Sol bridges his personal meditation practice with his professional life as a financial advisor.
Mindful Finance aims to reunite humanity with finance, by recoupling our physical and emotional experiences with our financial lives. Sol teaches that the equanimity and clarity roused through mindfulness are the perfect support for financial empowerment, and Mindful Finance is inspired by the belief that we can reclaim finance as a positive influence in the world.
Marco Chung-Shu Lam is a curious and compassionate fellow who has a passion for health, the environment and the ability of entrepreneurs to create a better world. He has practiced Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture for over 20 years and is lauded to have a unique style of practice that accelerates his clients breakthroughs in both physical and cognitive arenas. As the clinical director at the Mandala Clinic, he is well known in the Boulder community for supporting elite athletes, business leaders and entrepreneurs in pursuing peak performance and expanded flow states. He is the senior permaculture teacher for the Boulder bioregion and has taught and consulted on regenerative human design for over 25 years. As a well-known professor at Naropa University, he created the permaculture undergraduate curriculum.
He is the founder of two herbal companies, Performance Tea and Freya Health, both of which bring the traditional medicine of Asia to address modern health challenges and to support our communities in living lives of peak vitality.
Chris Foreman has lived in Boulder since 2010 with his family. He enjoys biking, fishing, traveling, great food and wine.
Chris graduated from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1988 with a degree in Economics. Moonbeam Investment Corporation invests in and acquires distressed assets of which the underlying security interest is real estate. Such assets include, commercial and consumer debt, tax liens, large land tracts and commercial real estate. One local project he has worked on is called Trailhead and is located at Boulder at 4th and Dewey.
Carol is passionate about business, networking, animals and the intersection of the three. After starting her career as an auditor, over the next 20 years Carol founded and operated three pet companies in Dallas – a retail pet store, a wholesale distribution company, and a pet product manufacturing company. She sold her last business in 2007 and then made the (then) best decision of her life – moving to Boulder in 2008, which is when she joined Highland City Club.
Carol is a now a Mergers and Acquisitions specialist in the pet industry. She is both a Managing Director with MHT Partners, a middle-market investment bank based in Dallas that specializes in consumer products, healthcare, and technology; and the owner of BirdsEye Consulting. BEC advises pet companies on smaller M&A (sub $15 million) transactions.
Lynn Streeter retired in 2014 from a long career as a research and development executive in computer science and related fields. Her last employer was Pearson, a large publishing and assessment company based in London. She now avidly pursues her career as an amateur pianist, practicing several hours a day and taking lessons from gifted professionals. (If she runs out of money, she might pursue a job playing at Nordstrom.) Lynn is active on two NGO Boards: The Boulder Philharmonic (secretary) and Child Aid (president), which does literacy training of Mayan teachers in rural Guatemala. She enjoys reading and obsessing over current events, cooking, cultural activities, travel, and minor philanthropy.
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Perry Towle plays sports, games, and writes songs with his wife and two daughters ages 10 and 14. Mountain biking at least one weekend morning is non-negotiable.
Making videos and music has been his creative outlet since early in high school in the late 1980s. Back then, no one owned a video recorder much less even knew how to use one. After editing the videos Perry would mix them with music he had composed. He still enjoys doing this 30+ years later.
In his twenties Perry was a youth counselor. He was enamored with the personal growth that tweens and teens were experiencing while participating in collaborative activities in the wilderness. He went on to get a Masters in Experiential Education.
Liz has recently found her way to the mountains of Boulder. With years of non-profit immigration experience in Miami and employment based immigration in Silicon Valley, Liz embraced the idea of lifestyle design and geographic neutrality and founded her own firm, Dinnen Law. With the belief that all should pursue their dreams without limitations, much less geographical barriers, she works with a global clientele to connect people with the opportunity to lawfully build a future in the U.S.
Liz is a fun loving extrovert who looks forward to connecting with people at Highland City Club. She enjoys trail running, hiking, and adventuring, and is also an avid cook and global traveler. Feel free to connect with her at [email protected].
Susan Graf was drawn from Chicago to Boulder by CU’s MBA program, fell in love with blue sky in the winter and has been here ever since. After graduation, she led operations for a number of local companies including Leanin’ Tree greeting cards for fifteen years. Her desire to serve the community led her to serve on many non-profit boards and, after chairing the Boulder Chamber of Commerce (BCC) board, they convinced her to take the helm. She led BCC for eight years; which included oversight of the Boulder Economic Council, Small Business Development Center and the Convention and Visitors Bureau. Her love of Boulder is contagious and she can still be found on Pearl Street helping out-of-towners with directions.
Founder of StickerJunkie, YogaJunkie, Delinquent Distribution (which owned sales rights for clothing of massive brands, Minecraft, World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, Walking Dead, etc). Andrea has started 14 companies since 18 years old. Her newest projects are TEEacher with Dan Caldwell (TapouT) & Daniel DiMassa (DieEpic), and Mentor Mojo with Dan Caldwell. Both are e-learning platforms helping people on their journey with entrepreneurship. She has been featured in all those business magazines & podcasts (you know the ones). Speaker, most notably: Summit, YPO, Harvard, Microsoft. Road trip addict, former professional fire dancer & was contestant on The Apprentice (a million years ago). Strange, but true fact: she has read the entire Harry Potter series out loud with different voices for all the characters. Andrea has just moved to Boulder and is looking forward to meeting you all. Lastly, she is an adoring dog mom to Rico (5 year old, Black Lab/Plott Hound mix rescue dog), who is incidentally Eddie Bauer's Summer 2018 catalog dog (...not kidding). You'll be seeing him around Highland City Club in the afternoons.
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