Governing Board
Jim and Susan Swartz, Board Co-Chairs
Jim and Susan Swartz are involved in arts, business, community building, education, film and philanthropy that enables others to make a difference. Together, they founded the Christian Center of Park City, a faith based, humanitarian community resource center and Impact Partners, a financing and advisory firm for independent cinema addressing social needs.
Jim Swartz is Founder of Accel, a prominent global technology venture capital firm, and lead director in numerous pioneering technology projects, receiving the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Venture Capital Association. He is an engineering graduate of Harvard University and holds an M.S. in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University. Currently he is involved in leadership roles at the Swartz Foundation, the Christian Center of Park City, FairSport, Carnegie Mellon’s Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, and MVYouth. He is also Founder of the Deer Valley Music Festival, the YMCA of Martha’s Vineyard, and Director Emeritus of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Foundation where he sponsors the Borgen-Swartz Scholarship Fund. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University, its inaugural Founders Medal, the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award from its Tepper School of Business, and an Honorary Doctorate from Western Governors University. As a documentary film producer, he has won two Oscars for Icarus (2018) and Navalny (2023) and two Emmys. He and his sailing teams have won two world championships and a number of national championships.
Susan Swartz shares her passion for nature and the environment, exploring the landscape through potent color and richly layered abstract paintings, inspired by the intersection of art, nature, and spirituality. Susan’s distinctive style has been recognized with nine solo museum exhibitions around the world and is currently represented in NYC by the Georges Bergès Gallery. Her works are in the permanent collections of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing, Springville Museum of Art, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, and the International Olympic Museum as well as the Art in Embassies Program (AIE) of the U.S. State Department. Susan has been honored by Harvard Divinity School for a career that blends artistry and faith receiving the Dean’s Distinguished Service Award in 2017 and the Peter J. Gomes Honors Award in 2023. She was also the Official Olympic Environmental Artist for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. Susan serves on the National Advisory Board of the National Museum of Women in the Arts and on the Dean’s Council of Harvard Divinity School, is the Founder and Chair of the Christian Center of Park City, and on the board of the Utah Film Center. Susan paints from studios in Park City, Utah, and Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Geralyn Dreyfous, Board Secretary
Geralyn White Dreyfous began her career at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University as a special assistant to Dean Graham Allison. In this capacity, she helped raise $22M for three new public policy initiatives: The Taubman Center for State and Local Government, The Weiner Center for Social Policy, and Marvin Kalb’s Meet the Candidates, Press and Politics Initiative. While working at the Kennedy School she began exploring the unique relationship between philanthropy, non-governmental organizations and social innovation.
At the invitation of Alfred Taubman (philanthropist and real estate entrepreneur) and Frank Stanton (founder of CBS) Geralyn began consulting privately on special philanthropic project initiatives in New York City in 1988. In 1989, she and Peter Karoff founded The Philanthropic Initiative, a consulting business for people of wealth and corporations interested in strategic advice and staffing for their philanthropy. The Rockefeller Foundation financed the company. Today TPI represents over 40 family foundations and 20 corporations.
In 1992 Geralyn was awarded a Lyndhurst Prize for her work in philanthropy. The prize, modeled after the MacArthur award, was a three-year “no strings attached” grant of $40,000. Geralyn used that grant to be trained as an Outward Bound instructor, and teach with Robert Coles at Harvard University. In 1994 she left TPI, taking two private foundation clients and began devoting half of her time to working with Dr. Robert Coles on establishing a Center for Community Service and Documentary Studies. This work was the precursor to what is now the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, which birthed DoubleTake Magazine and the DoubleTake Film Festival.
In 1995 Geralyn was married and moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. In Utah, she has been a member of several boards including The Reebok Human Rights Foundation, Peter Gabriel’s Witness, the Utah Symphony/Opera Olympic Aid and the Moab Music Festival. She is a founding member of the Social Venture Network and remains active in connecting businesses and philanthropies to social causes.
Geralyn founded The Utah Film Center in 2002 and serves as its Board Chair today. Since then, she has Executive Produced dozens of films, including the Academy Award-winning documentary Navalny. Geralyn now lives between Utah and Massachussettes, and has two children, McKarah and Jake.
Dr. Allen and Bonnie Liles
Dr. Allen Liles was a Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina and recently transitioned to the University of Utah. Dr. Liles focuses on the delivery of evidence-based care to vulnerable patient populations. Recent quality improvement projects include developing a hospitalist protocol for the evaluation of patients for alcohol detoxification, treatment of vaso-occlusive pain crisis in Sickle Cell Disease patients, and end-of-life care for patients with cirrhosis.
Bonnie Davidson Liles was born in Virginia and met Allen during her senior year of high school. She taught English as a Foreign Language in Budapest with a Christian nonprofit organization, then returned to the United States to marry Allen and attend Duke Law School. After practicing law for one year, she got promoted to motherhood. She loves her family, her neighbors, her church small groups, her book clubs, and her church.
Byron Russell
Byron founded Byron Russell LLC in March of 2011, based on his years of experience in academics, national and international politics, journalism, fundraising, finance, economic development, higher education, public relations, philanthropy and social enterprise. Having expanded a wide network in varied interests, Byron Russell LLC was formed based on a need of facilitating corporations and foundations to connect. ideas. connections. results. has been a template of performance for well over a decade.
Byron was Vice President of Development for over five years for Western Governors University, fundraising and leading the National Advisory Board of Fortune 500 corporate partners to enhance the quality of an educated workforce. Before joining WGU, Byron was the Founding Executive Director of the Salt Lake Cultural District Development. Byron created this initiative to create state-of-the-art facilities in downtown Salt Lake City with a mission to project a greater quality of life through increased economic development. Formerly a Private Banking Vice President at Zions Bank, Byron was provided on loan to the Salt Lake Chamber for two years. In 1994 he worked in Development at the Utah Symphony for six years. Prior to making Utah home, he was a writer at the Washington Post Style section and a political reporter for the Washington Times covering the U.S. Congress and the Executive Branch. His experience in politics began in South Africa, the British House of Commons, including his assignment in leading the Namibia independence campaign from former South West Africa.
Byron is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park in Government Politics, Journalism and French. He was born in Washington, DC, and now regards Utah as home, where he serves as co-chair of the Utah Multicultural Commission and serves on the boards of the Utah Film Center, PBS Utah, Salt Lake Education Foundation, Encircle, Christian Center of Park City Board and National Advisory Board, Westminster College Emeritus, Welcoming Americans, Utah Census 2020, and Utah Governor’s Mansion Foundation.
Doug and Deb Schillinger
Doug and Deb Schillinger have been residents of Park City since 2005. They are both East Coast transplants who feel fortunate and blessed to have landed in Utah.
Doug is a Managing Director with DW Healthcare Partners (www.dwhp.com), a healthcare-focused private equity fund. He has served as Director or Chairman for Boards in a wide range of healthcare sectors including laboratory services, institutional and specialty pharmacies, physician practices, clinical research organizations, behavioral health providers and medical device manufacturers. Deb spends much of her time managing the divergent calendars and busy lives of their three school-age children (Karsten, Rhys and Aster) and teaching Yoga classes at a local studio in Park City. They are active via Board roles or development work with several faith-based and relief organizations including YoungLife, Medair, and The Paradigm Project.
Doug received a Bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and an MBA from Harvard Business School where he previously sat on the Alumni Board of Directors. Deb graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University.
Dr. Austin and Lauren Smith
Austin and Lauren met in college at The University of Texas at Austin while serving as YoungLife leaders. They completed degrees in finance and biology (Austin) and education (Lauren). In 2012, they married while Austin attended medical school at UT Health Science Center in San Antonio and Lauren taught third grade. Residency training moved them to Nashville where Austin completed his Emergency Medicine residency and chief residency at Vanderbilt University. Lauren taught first grade in Nashville until welcoming their first child. Austin stayed on faculty at Vanderbilt after residency, but with long standing ties to Park City, they made the move to Utah in 2018.
Lauren currently cares for their three young children and volunteers at her church.
Austin currently serves as the chair and medical director of Park City Emergency Department, medical staff president at Park City Hospital, medical director of North Summit Fire Department, and research director for Emergency Medicine at Intermountain Health.
Betsy Wallace
Betsy joined the Board of Directors in 2023. She is currently serving as the Executive Director of the Park City Institute. She had been Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of Sundance Institute since 2015. Before joining the Institute, Betsy spent more than 40 years in senior leadership roles—primarily in the role of either chief operating officer or chief financial officer—of both public and private-sector companies such as PetSmart, Designer Shoe Warehouse, REC Solar (where she was also CEO), and American Skiing Company (seven years based in Park City). Betsy has served on several boards of directors of nonprofits organizations, including Leadership California (founding board member) and PrimeTime Singapore. Locally, she currently holds positions on the boards of People’s Health Clinic, Park City Chamber of Commerce (Chair of the Executive Board), and Park City Institute.
For close to a decade, Betsy lived in Singapore, where she served as Chief Financial Officer of Citigroup’s business development group for its greater Asia business, and International Chief Financial Officer of Hubbell, Inc. She began her career with Deloitte & Touche CPAs.
Betsy holds an MBA from the University of Southern California’s Marshall Graduate School of Business and earned her BA at UCLA. She is a member of Class 12 of Leadership Park City.
Betsy lives in Park City with her husband Ed and have lived here since 2002.
Doug Wells
Doug Wells is a Vice President and Partner for Albion Financial Group. He holds a Masters of Business Administration from Stanford University. Doug deeply enjoys helping Albion’s clients succeed in their financial lives. Some of Doug’s additional professional activities include residing on multiple boards such as the Salt Lake Estate Planning Council, Vutara (a startup high tech company) and Catheter Connections.
Doug is a frequent public speaker and an author on topics of interest to high net worth families, business executives/owners and to many of the charitable causes they support. As an author and presenter, his goal is to connect seemingly disparate pieces of information into important patterns and actionable insights.
Doug is an avid fan of outdoor activities including skiing, paragliding and flying general aviation aircraft. He is an FAA certified flight instructor for single and twin-engine aircraft and is a PSIA certified level one ski instructor.
Doug lives in Park City with his wife Linda and has 2 daughters.
Emeritus Board Members
Jim and Judy Bergman
Jim was a Founder and General Partner of DSV Partners III and IV and their predecessors. These firms provided capital and management assistance to emerging companies primarily in high technology, particularly those technologies associated with electronics, communications, biotechnology and health care. Later he served as a Special Limited Partner of Cardinal Partners I and II, Princeton, NJ based funds which focused on early-stage investments in the health care sector.
For over thirty years Jim served DSV in several capacities. He was Vice President and Treasurer of Data Science Ventures and later a co-founder and General Partner of DSV Associates, DSV Partners III and DSV Partners IV. He was involved in the early funding of a number of significant technology companies. He has led investments in data communications, semiconductors, computer peripherals, and advanced technology areas. Most recently, Jim focused on investments involving consolidation strategies in various technology-based industries. Jim has served on Boards of more than thirty-five companies, including DeCrane Aircraft Holding and Maxim Integrated Products. He was also a director of the National Venture Capital Association from 1985 to 1990. He is presently active on the Board of Maxim Integrated, a public company and also serves on a number of Boards and Committees for charitable organizations.
In the past, Jim has served on the Boards of OIBM (Malawi) and OISL (Ghana), two Micro Finance banks, Faulu Tanzania and OI/WEDCO, two other MFI’s affiliated with Opportunity International based in Tanzania and Kenya. He has also been on the Boards of Fuller Seminary, Concordia University-(Advisory), Opportunity International, the Christian Center of Park City and the UCLA Foundation. Jim and Judy have taken more than forty field trips to countries in the Developing World with World Vision, Church Resource Ministries, Opportunity International and other organizations.
Jim attended UCLA, where he graduated with honors with a B.S. in Engineering and received his M.B.A. with distinction. Jim and his wife have endowed two fellowships at the UCLA School of Social Welfare to promote the implementation of new ideas to help women and children in the inner city and the Developing World and several scholarships at Fuller Seminary targeted to assist inner-city and low-income students.
He currently resides in southern California with his wife and has three grown sons, two daughters-in-law and five grandchildren.
Bob and Annie Lewis Garda
Bob and Annie-Lewis Garda are retired and live in Park City, Utah. Bob is a retired director of McKinsey & Co. where he headed their world-wide marketing practice. He is also retired from being Executive in Residence in the Marketing Department of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He continues to serve on three corporate boards as well as committees at Duke.
Annie-Lewis’ last jobs were working for the now-Senator George Voinovich-first creating and running a loaned executive and volunteer program (Project MOVE) for the City of Cleveland when he was mayor there, then leaving the City Hall staff to join his first campaign for the Senate. Additionally, while in Cleveland, she served on a bank board and seven non-profit boards, including The Cleveland Foundation and The Cleveland Orchestra. Since leaving Cleveland, she has been very happy being a Grandmother.
Peter and Gail Ochs
Peter Ochs serves as Chairman of the Board with his wife Gail as Vice Chair of their personal foundation, First Fruit Inc. Peter also serves as Chairman of the Board of The Fieldstone Corporation, a residential development company with operations in California, Utah and Texas, and of the Fieldstone Foundation, Fieldstone’s charitable giving arm.
Their strong Christian principles are seen in their individual participation on numerous non-profit boards, including Prison Fellowship Ministries, The Wycliffe Seed Company, Board of Governors of United Way of America, The Gathering, Wycliffe Bible Translators US, and BEE (now Entrust). They have been members of Mariners Church in Irvine for over 30 years where Peter has served as an Elder and Gail has counseled and mentored young women and been involved in women’s ministries. She sees herself as living out God’s call as daughter, wife, mother, grandmother and servant of the Lord.
They have been married 42 years and live in Corona del Mar but spend the winters in Park City. They have four married daughters and nine grandchildren and enjoy biking, skiing and international travel.
Greg and Laurel Spencer
Greg and Laurel Spencer have been residents of Park City since 1989 and have been active in the community through their involvement on the Boards of Mountain Life Church, Intermountain Christian School (Salt Lake) and giving to both the Food Pantry and the Counseling Center at CCPC. The Spencers have been active supporters of local organizations such as Park City Young Life, Pregnancy Resource Center of SL, The Peace House, the SL Rescue Mission on the local level, and in regards to international poverty relief, justice and faith-based level, organizations such as Food 4 The Hungry, International Justice Mission and World Vision. Greg founded Blue Source (www.bluesource.com) in 2000, which today is the leading climate change portfolio in North America, and, with Laurel, founded The Paradigm Project, L3C (www.theparadigmproject.org) in 2008.
Paradigm is headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO, and operates in East Africa and Central America to create sustainable social, economic and environmental change in the developing world. Paradigm was recently recognized by BusinessWeek as one of the five leading social innovation companies in America. Greg and Laurel have been married 34 years, enjoy traveling to Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and especially San Diego, which is home to their three grown children.
Jacki and Greg Zehner
Jacki Zehner dedicates her time and resources towards the advancement of women and girls. As the President of The Jacquelyn and Gregory Zehner Foundation, a role she has held for the past 15 years, Jacki funds a wide variety of projects and organizations, with a particular focus on women’s rights, women’s foundations, movement building, and media. Jacki has served as the Chief Engagement Officer and President of Women Moving Millions (WMM) since 2012, with the goal of mobilizing unprecedented resources for the advancement of women and girls. In addition to her work with WMM, Jacki serves on a number of boards and advisory committees, and is an active writer, speaker, consultant, and featured expert on topics relating to women and wealth, philanthropy, and leadership. Since 2013, Jacki has been a blogger on the LinkedIn Influencer platform, attracting over 200,000 subscribers to date, and over the past several years, she has invested in and executive produced numerous documentaries that illuminate today’s pressing social issues. In 2015, Jacki had the privilege of being named to the Economist’s Global Diversity List and was honored to receive the Zions Bank Women in Leadership Award. Prior to her philanthropic focus, Jacki was a Partner and Managing Director at Goldman Sachs in New York City, where she was the youngest woman and first female trader to make partner. She currently lives in Park City, Utah with her husband Greg and two teenage children.
Greg grew up on Long Island and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987 with both a Masters and Bachelors in Electrical Engineering. Upon graduation, he joined Goldman Sachs where he spent eight years in the mortgage department before co-heading the emerging market trading desk. Greg (along with his wife Jacki) was named partner in 1996. In 2000, Greg left Goldman to spend more time with his two children, Matthew and Allie. In 2003, he felt called to ministry and enrolled in Yale Divinity School. He graduated cum laude with a Masters of Divinity in 2006 and became associate pastor at Grace Community Church in New Canaan, Connecticut. In 2010, Greg and Jacki, along with their family, moved to Park City.