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Our Leadership
Ashland Evans President & Chief Executive Officer
Lydia Thangaiyan Chief Financial Officer
Karen Aalund Director, Philanthropy
Kristen Mathias Director, Business Development, Marketing, & Communications
Ashley Collins Director, Camp Comfort
Our Board of Directors
Board Officers
Board Chair
Past Board Chair
Board Chair-Elect
Treasurer
Board Secretary
Board Chair
As president of Scripps, Taylor & Associates, P.C., Barb Scripps offers over thirty years of experience in public and private accounting.
Prior to launching her own firm, she spent nine years with the “Big 4” firm of KPMG, providing tax and business planning, tax return preparation and accounting services for small to medium-sized businesses. She later worked for one of the 25 largest CPA firms in Denver, where she gained additional comprehensive experience in these areas. She has also served as controller for several start-up businesses.
In 1992, she started her own public accounting firm. Barb graduated cum laude from the University of Colorado and has completed graduate work at Denver University’s Master of Taxation program. She strongly believes in giving back to her community, thus she is a member of the Evergreen Rotary Club and serves, or has served, on the board of directors of various not-for-profit organizations in Evergreen, including Mt. Evans Home Health Care and Hospice, Center for the Arts -Evergreen, Evergreen Country Day School and the Evergreen Chamber of Commerce.
Past Board Chair
Mark Graybill, a lifelong resident of Colorado, is President and General Manager of Historic Rail Adventures, LLC which operates the Georgetown Loop Railroad for the State of Colorado. He also owns and manages several other businesses in Clear Creek County as well as serving as one of two State of Colorado appointed Commissioners for the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad which is located in Southern Colorado/Northern New Mexico. Mark has served on several boards and commissions in the past including the Clear Creek County Economic Development Commission, the Clear Creek County Tourism Bureau and the Georgetown Business Promotions Commission.
Board Chair-Elect
Allyson Gottsman is program manager for the Colorado Health Extension System, a collaborative of 20 practice transformation organizations, and an evolving workforce of regional health connectors has been in healthcare her entire career, coming from the administrative perspective of healthcare delivery. She began experimenting with practice facilitation in the early nineties with a focus on patient centeredness, patient education and customer service. She expanded to clinical transformation in her role as executive vice president for HealthTeamWorks. Allyson was the original Colorado Director of the national Improving Performance in Practice program. Building on her experience in practice
transformation and years of collaborative working relationships with healthcare leaders across Colorado, she is now turning her attention to the creation of a statewide infrastructure to support and coordinate practice transformation and to connect primary care to local public health and community organizations to support the community based health improvement initiatives to address Quadruple Aim goals. Allyson previously served on Mount Evans’ Board of Directors 2015-2021, serving as Chair 2017. She and her husband Bob have lived in Evergreen for many years, they enjoy skiing, tennis, and connecting with friends.
Treasurer
Elizabeth Hund, SVP, was the Division Head for Food Industries at U.S. Bank. She led a team that provides financial solutions for companies involved in the production, processing and distribution of food and agriculture products. She retired in August of 2018 after having been with U.S. Bank since 2006. In total, she has spent 38 years in agribusiness and agricultural finance.
Hund joined U.S. Bank from Rabobank International in San Francisco where she was responsible for the management of the Western Region. Previously, she worked for CoBank, National Bank for Cooperatives, where she was senior relationship manager, and for Coleman Natural Meats as chief financial officer. Prior, Hund worked as vice president of agribusiness at Colorado National Bank, which has since been acquired by U.S. Bank.
Hund received a Master’s Degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in finance from the University of Colorado in Boulder. She also holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in agriculture from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. She holds FINRA licenses 79, 63 and 24.
Active in the national agriculture community, Hund is a trustee of the Legge Lowden Farm Foundation and serves as a board member and treasurer of the Farm Foundation. She serves on the Agricultural Marketing Advisory Board for the CME Group. She is a trustee of the National Western Stock Show Association, a trustee of the Kansas State University Foundation, and a fellow (class 34) of the California Agricultural Leadership Program.
She has formerly served on the Women in Agribusiness Advisory Board, the Dean’s Advisory Council for the College of Agricultural and Environment Sciences at the University of California at Davis and on the Dean’s Advisory Council for the College of Agriculture at Kansas State University, as well as the USDA Marketing Advisory Board.
Board Secretary
Rob resides in Evergreen and is Managing Partner of Buchalter’s Denver office and Co-Chair of the Firm’s Litigation Group. Rob practices in both Colorado and California and is also a member of the Orange County office. Rob specializes in commercial litigation, which includes prosecuting and defending all manner of contractual disputes, including purchase agreements, partnership/LLC disputes, real estate disputes and sports-related negotiations and disputes. Rob also commonly litigates trade secrets, defamation, breach of fiduciary duty, tortious interference, and other business-centered torts. Rob likewise has a significant employment practice on behalf of employers, to include litigating and advising clients in the areas of non-competition and non-solicitation agreements, wrongful discharge, harassment, discrimination, retaliation and wage and hour violations. Rob frequently represents clients in state and federal courts and before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Colorado Civil Rights Division, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Rob currently serves on the Executive Committee for the Colorado Defense Lawyers Association, the preeminent legal organization in Colorado dedicated to the defense of civil actions and the promotion of fairness and integrity in the civil justice system.
Board Members
Gray is currently the COO of Critical Care, Pulmonary & Sleep Associates, Colorado’s largest intensivist medical practice. He is a fifth generation Coloradan and has lived in Evergreen with his wife Nicole Moore Behrhorst and their three boys since 2004. Gray has a BA from Colgate University and MBA from the University of Michigan. He was previously the President and CEO of Air Lift, an international medical device manufacturer which was headquartered in Evergreen prior to its sale. Gray has served on the boards of the Montessori School of Evergreen, Mountain Lacrosse League and World Trade Center Denver. He and his gang enjoy skiing, biking, hiking and sailing.
Jim Chiddix is a retired engineer and a seasoned board member. He was deeply involved with the development of technologies that have shaped modern cable TV services, including streaming video and high-speed broadband delivery. He spent many years at Chief Engineering posts with Time Warner Cable in Honolulu, Denver, and New York. He and his team pioneered the adoption of optical fiber and digital video streaming technologies. In 1994 Jim accepted a Technical Emmy Award for his team’s work in these areas. He was inducted into the Cable Television Pioneers in 1991 and the Cable Hall of Fame in 2007. Jim also served as Chairman and CEO at San Francisco-based OpenTV, which supplies software for set-top boxes to cable and satellite companies around the world.
Jim is currently on the board of Evergreen-based Mountain Area Land Trust and is the founder of the Evergreen Boating Association.
Jim co-authored and published “Next Stop Honolulu,” a history of the Oahu Railway, reflecting an interest that began during his 15-year tenure in Hawaii. He now devotes time to the construction of a Hawaiian model railroad. Jim is married to Trudy Evard Chiddix, an internationally recognized artist who works in clay and glass. They enjoy biking and swimming and split their time between Evergreen and San Francisco.
Fred Doyle is a retired aerospace executive, having advised government agencies and companies on markets, strategy, relationship management, and competition. He spent 20 years in government service, with leadership positions at the Defense Mapping Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office and was a member of the Senior Intelligence Service.
Fred retired after sixteen years at Ball Aerospace, developing sensors, spacecraft, systems, and components for U.S. Government and commercial markets. Prior to joining Ball Aerospace, Doyle held various leadership positions at Space Imaging. Space Imaging was at the forefront of starting the United States high resolution commercial space imaging market, with the launch of the IKONOS satellite in 1999. He was responsible for the integration and initialization of the IKONOS satellite and developing the U.S. Government acceptance and use of commercial satellite imagery.
Fred holds engineering degrees from Virginia Tech and Purdue University. He lives in Evergreen, Colorado with his wife Janet where they enjoy traveling, running, skiing and snowboarding, fly fishing, and golf.
Marvin is retired from the financial industry. Born in Springfield, Illinois and raised in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, he started living in Colorado part-time in 1986 and became a full-time resident in 2008. Marvin received his M.S. in Finance from the University of Minnesota and is a Charted Financial Analyst. He and his wife, Delene, live in Georgetown with their “three-legged mutt,” Chloe. They have four grown children and six grandchildren. Marvin enjoys hiking, recreational bicycling, cooking, Jeeping and camping. He is particularly interested in economic development in Clear Creek County, and is a member of Clear Creek Rotary and chair of the Georgetown Business Promotions Commission. Marvin previously served on Mount Evans’ Board of Directors 2014-2020, serving as Treasurer 2017-2019 and Chair 2020.
Alan is Of Counsel in the law firm of Arnall Golden & Gregory, LLP. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and currently resides in Evergreen. Apart from practicing law, Alan has significant health care experience having held clinical, faculty and management positions at major medical centers where he utilized his management skills as well as his background as a registered respiratory therapist and a registered nurse. Alan is a graduate of the Widener University School of Law, where he earned his Juris Doctorate, and also earned his Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the same university. Alan enjoys hiking, biking, exploring Colorado, traveling and writing legal columns. He has a daughter, Beth who lives in Denver. Alan is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA), the American Bar Association (ABA), the American Medical Directors Association – The Society for Post-Acute and Long Term Care Medicine (AMDA), and the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA). Alan has written chapters in medical textbooks as well as having written over 100 articles dealing with legal aspects of health care. He is also a frequent speaker at state and national forums.
Davis began with Edward Jones in 2011 and took responsibility for the Genesee Branch in 2012. Building a business through volunteerism and community service has always been important to him. He has served on the board of directors for the Conifer Chamber of Commerce, he is a graduate of Leadership Evergreen and past board member, and current board member of the Evergreen Rotary Club. In 2020, He was recognized as the Business of the Year from the Conifer Chamber.
Davis graduated from the University of Iowa in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in business management. While at Iowa he was a member of the Track & Field and Cross Country teams. He has added his CFP®, ChFC®, CLU® and AAMS® designations. In 2019 he completed his master’s degree in financial planning.
Originally from Iowa, he relocated to Colorado in 2008 and immediately began taking advantage of many of our state’s natural resources. An avid camper, hiker, is scuba certified, and has five remaining 14’ers to complete. Next year he anticipates starting work towards the National Parks and his pilots license.
Robert W. Loeffler was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and earned both his BBA in Accounting and JD in Law from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He worked for a private practice law firm in California primarily doing litigation work, becoming a partner. He changed emphasis to a public interest career when he moved to Eagle, Colorado where he served in the Eagle County Attorney’s office, variously as Assistant, Deputy and Acting County Attorney. He then moved to Georgetown, Colorado where he served as the Clear Creek County Attorney until he retired in 2020. He’s been a trustee of the Georgetown Library Association, a Director of the Clear Creek County Library District, the President of Clear Creek Rotary Club, and the Assistant Governor of Rotary District 5450.
Rachel Mulvihill is a third generation Coloradan. In 2001, she planted roots in the foothills outside of Denver, wanting a rural setting in which to raise her family. In the years since then, she has fallen deeply in love with living in the foothills and the community. Rachel holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Colorado and has a diverse work background ranging from medical research to marketing to selling eyeglasses. Rachel is a Team Leader and a real estate broker at Keller Williams Foothills Realty.
Rachel is actively involved in her community through her PTA. In her spare time, she enjoys camping, hiking and knitting. She loves being outdoors exploring all the nooks and crannies of Colorado with her family.
Theodore (Ted) C Ning, MD is a semi-retired urologist and a Clinical Professor of Urology at the CU School of Medicine. He trains and operates with residents at Denver Health Hospital. He also works as a part-time urology hospitalist at numerous Denver area hospitals.
Ted graduated from Northwestern University Medical School and completed his urology residency at the University of Colorado. His medical training was interrupted for two years by US Army service. He spent one year as a combat surgeon with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam. In 1975, he began private practice in the West side of Denver including the Evergreen community. He and his family moved to Evergreen in 1976.
Ted and his wife, Connie, raised a large family and participated in many community organizations. In 1988, Ted and Connie returned to Vietnam to help in the post-war reconstruction especially in the area of medical and nursing education. They created Friendship Bridge and over a 12 year period sent numerous teams of professionals to create programs throughout Vietnam. Ted left private practice in 1995 to do this work full-time. The project evolved to rural community development with focus on Women at the Center Development coupling it with a new concept of Microcredit- small loans to poor women.
With Nike funding, this became a huge success. In 1998, they began a similar project in rural areas of Guatemala which today serves 25,000 families. In 2007, they began another organization, Starfish One by One (now rebranded as MAIA Impact) to educate young Mayan girls through high school. Another program was created with 45 girls currently at the university.
He was a founding Board Member of the Center of Global Health at CU Medical School.
Ted served 9 years on the Board of the Community First Foundation.
Ted received an Honorary Doctorate from the CU Board of Regents for his international service.
He is the Founding Board President of Evergreen Sustainability Alliance and Resilience 1220.
He has been a member of Evergreen Rotary for 12 years and is active in their grant programs.
Bill Slaughter has a BS, Engineering, from the University of Texas, Austin, and an MBA, Finance, from the University of Chicago. His career focus has been on repositioning organizations to better serve changing product sources and markets. He was involved in the start-up of the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, CA, and was a USA delegate to the International Energy Agency. Bill retired after serving as Executive Vice President of the Duke Energy / ConocoPhillips Midstream partnership, responsible for strategy, M&A, engineering, HR, and public/regulatory affairs.
Bill has served on Boards including TEPPCO (NYSE), Altra Energy Technologies, American Gas Association, Houston Society for the Performing Arts, Spring Branch Educational Foundation, Geneva Glen Camp, and Sculpture Evergreen. He and Carol relocated from Houston and Palo Alto and have many Colorado friends dating from earlier Colorado camp counseling and performing arts days. Mountain climbing, skiing, photography, and community development are their favorite activities.
As Medical Director, Tracy attends field staff meeting at Mount Evans to coordinate patient care. She also performs home visits to oversee patients’ medical condition and clinical management. Tracy received her MD from the University of Miami in 1996, before which she attended Barnard College and Columbia University. She currently holds positions as physician for Centura (2002-present) and Medical Director for Denver Hospice (2011-present). Tracy and her husband live in Evergreen with their four children. They enjoy hiking, skiing, snowboarding, and travel. Tracy calls the Mount Evans staff “a wholehearted, committed team that is a joy to know and work beside. They are truly committed to deeply satisfying patient care and comfort.”
Jane Weinfeld grew up in the suburbs of Boston, MA and has lived in Evergreen for 20 years. She received a B.A. in Economics from Trinity College in Hartford, CT. While her career has spanned many industries, she has been a software consultant for 20 years, specializing in Human Resources and Payroll implementations for healthcare organizations.
Jane’s passion for Mount Evans stems from her deep appreciation for the invaluable role they play in our mountain community. Eight years ago she knew she had to give back and began volunteering with Mount Evans in various roles.
Jane is an avid hiker and telemark skier and tries to spend as much time in the great outdoors as possible (when she is not playing with her rescue kitty).
Honorary Board Member
Susan served on the Mount Evans Board of Directors for 25 years between 1987 and 2021, including numerous Officer roles and three terms as President in FY1992, FY2000, and FY2008.
Susan was all things to Mount Evans: board member, donor, volunteer, staff member, and lastly, patient. In recognition of all that she gave, the Mount Evans Board of Directors made her an Honorary Board member in 2020.
Susan’s life was defined by sports and charity. While growing up in Ohio, each of her parents encouraged her and her siblings in their own way. “Dad was active, mom was charitable,” she explained. When her mother asked her to help with a Junior League fundraiser she offered to be in the dunk tank. “I sat there for hours and it made an impression on me-that it could be fun to help.”
Susan’s love of skiing led her to choose Colorado State University for college. After graduating, she took a year off and moved to Vail where she worked as a dishwasher and skied. A year of skiing and dishwashing, however, motivated Susan to go to CU Law School. There, she met her husband, Frank.
After moving to Montana, Boulder, and Lakewood, Susan and Frank eventually settled in Evergreen. Susan started her own law practice in Evergreen focused on estate planning and elder law. She shared office space with other local attorneys. In 1987, one of them, Jim Robinson, got her to join the board of Mount Evans Home Health Care & Hospice. She spent 25 years on the board, including three terms as president, and saw the organization grow as a thriving community asset. Most of her time on the board was spent on fundraising events like the Freedom Run 5K and the Annual Benefit Gala.
Her time on the Mount Evans board led to many other connections such as Leadership Evergreen and Kiwanis, as well as introducing her to organizations she likes to support such as Mountain Area Land Trust (MALT), EAS+Y (Evergreen Alliance for Sustainability and YOU), Center for the Arts Evergreen (CAE) and Bootstraps.
When Susan retired from her legal career in 2013, she joined the staff of Mount Evans. The organization was looking for someone to do planned giving, 15-20 hours a week, and Susan’s experience in estate planning and elder law, made her the perfect fit. Susan retired from her position with Mount Evans in 2018 after nearly five years, but continued to give her expertise, time, and attention again as a board member.
Susan passed away January 29, 2021 from ovarian cancer. Her legacy lives on through everyone she touched with her kindness and generosity.
Our Medical Directors
Medical Director
Medical Director
Medical Director
As Medical Director, Tracy attends field staff meeting at Mount Evans to coordinate patient care. She also performs home visits to oversee patients’ medical condition and clinical management. Tracy received her MD from the University of Miami in 1996, before which she attended Barnard College and Columbia University. She currently holds positions as physician for Centura (2002-present) and Medical Director for Denver Hospice (2011-present). Tracy and her husband live in Evergreen with their four children. They enjoy hiking, skiing, snowboarding, and travel. Tracy calls the Mount Evans staff “a wholehearted, committed team that is a joy to know and work beside. They are truly committed to deeply satisfying patient care and comfort.”
Medical Director
Dr. Todd Wisser earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, and completed his residency at the Michigan State University Department of Internal Medicine in East Lansing, Michigan. He has been in practice since 2016 and is an active member of the American Osteopathic Association, American Geriatric Society, American College of Physicians, and American Medical Association.
Dr. Wisser is dedicated to his calling as a physician. He takes pride in his work, is fulfilled when helping others, and feels privileged to have the opportunity to practice medicine. He recently moved to Colorado with his wife and three children and is practicing at New West Physicians’ Evergreen Internal Medicine office. He loves spending time with his family, and enjoys any opportunity to immerse himself in mountain activities.
