U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Foundation Adds Members to Board

The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Foundation announced Thursday the addition of seven new members to its Board of Trustees. The new Trustees are John Bloomberg, Craig T. Brown, Kenneth Gart, Bing Gordon, Scot Jarvis, Dennis Keller and Daniel E. Waters. This addition brings the Board to its maximum total of 60.

“Undoubtedly we have the most enthusiastic board and an energized nominating committee which did a great job identifying individuals with a great level of interest in supporting our Team on its path to be Best in the World in 2006,” said Trisha Worthington, Foundation vice president. The seven new members joining the Board of Trustees are:

• John Bloomberg – A skier himself, Bloomberg was the 2001 U.S. Masters
  super G national champion and 2002 NASTAR national champ. He is a
  graduate of Amherst and Harvard Business School, and spent 20 years in
  the New York financial world. Bloomberg was a founder and board
  member of Ballard Medical Products in Salt Lake City, and in 1993
  founded Bricoleur Partners in San Diego, a $1.1 billion hedge fund
  where he was senior partner and chairman of the board until his
  retirement in 1999. Currently he is a board member for the John Moran
  Eye Center, home of the Bloomberg library. He and his wife Toni
  divide their time between Park City and La Jolla, Calif.

• Craig D. Brown – For the past 23 years, Brown has been a key
  participant in the globalization of the advertising industry, most
  recently as president and COO of Bcom3 Group, an advertising and
  communications services holding company. A Michigan State graduate
  and a certified public accountant, Brown recently founded Keelers
  Ridge Associates, a private equity and consulting firm. As an
  advocate for young people, he serves on the boards of directors of the
  Partnership for a Drug-Free America and the MSU Foundation and was
  formerly the National Board Chairman for “Just Say No, International.”
  Brown lives with his wife Vicki and three children in Wilton, Conn.

• Kenneth Gart – Since graduating from Stanford Graduate School of
  Business in 1982, Gart has spent the bulk of his career in the
  sporting goods industry. From 1983 to 1992, he served as president of
  Gart Bros. Sporting Goods Company in Denver, CO. Since 1992 Gart has
  been president of Specialty Sports, Inc., which operates over
  100 specialty ski and outdoor shops primarily in Colorado. Gart is
  involved in several civic organizations in Colorado, serving on the
  board of directors for the Colorado Conservation Trust, Denver Area
  Council Boy Scouts of America and Telluride Foundation. He received
  his undergraduate degree from Middlebury College.

• Bing Gordon – As co-founder of Electronic Arts, a leading independent
  developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software for
  personal computers and advanced entertainment systems, Bing Gordon is
  considered one of the most experienced entertainment software
  marketing executives in the industry. Gordon currently serves as
  chief creative officer and executive vice president of EA, and plays a
  key role in providing counsel to marketing and development teams as
  well as studio producers to ensure EA's games are the most creative
  and innovative on the market. Gordon is a graduate of Yale University
  and holds a masters from Stanford. He lives in Redwood City, Calif.

• Scot Jarvis – Skiing has been in Scot Jarvis' blood since he was a
  toddler learning to ski at Crystal Mtn., Wash. He even taught skiing
  at Jack Nagel Ski School from 1976-'80 while attending college at the
  University of Washington. Jarvis is the co-founder and member of
  Cedar Grove Partners, LLC, a private investment company, and Cedar
  Grove Investments, LLC. He also is co-founder and chairman of
  Slingshot Sports, LLC, a kite board company. Prior to founding his
  current businesses, Jarvis was vice president of acquisitions and
  development for McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc. Jarvis lives with
  his wife Kristen and their three children in Sammamish, Wash.

• Dennis Keller – As chairman and co-chief executive officer of DeVry
  Inc., Keller is deeply involved in education. DeVry Inc. serves more
  than 96,000 students in 45 countries with associate, baccalaureate,
  master and doctoral degree programs and professional certification
  exam preparation. Keller also co-founded Keller Graduate School of
  Management in 1973, and is a member of the board of trustees for
  Princeton University (his alma mater, where he was a National Merit
  Scholar) and the University of Chicago (where he received his master's
  in business administration as a Graduate School of Business Fellow).
  Keller, who with his wife Connie lives in Oak Brook, Ill., and has
  three sons and two grandchildren.

• Daniel E. Waters – Currently a partner at FrontPoint Partners, a hedge
  fund management firm, Daniel E. Waters has worked in the financial
  sector for the majority of his career. Previously, Waters spent
  10 years at Morgan Stanley as managing director and head of the wealth
  management services and client strategy group. Before starting with
  Morgan Stanley, he was vice president of sales and marketing for UNUM
  Corporation in New York City. He is a graduate of Bowdoin College and
  Harvard Business School, where he currently participates in alumni
  fundraising. He lives with his wife Victoria and their three children
  in Greenwich, Conn.