Who We Are

Foundation Board

Officers

President
Bill Kent, M.A. Mortenson Company

President Elect and Secretary
Paul Swegle, ING Direct Sharebuilder

Treasurer
Al Dunnell, Peterson Sullivan LLP

Board Members

Peter Adler, PeaceHealth
Shiv Batra, Tetra Tech INCA
Mary Cabrian, The Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc
Laura Celis, Community Volunteer
Jim Chesemore, Parker, Smith & Feek
Sam Chughtai, Microsoft
Louise Cooley, Community Volunteer
Jim Coughlin, Coughlin Porter Lundeen
Courtney Courter, Honda Auto Center of Bellevue
Al Dunnell, Peterson Sullivan
Don Grant, Wells Fargo Bank
Cyrus Habib, Perkins Coie LLP
Sophie Hager Hume, Starbucks
Amy Hedin, HumanPoint
Mike Humphries, Waldron
Dale King. GLY Construction
Sarah Langton, Langton Spieth, LLC
Angela Lepley, Tangerine Travel, Ltd.
Steve Litzow, EMM Group
Rob McKenna, Washington State Attorney General  
Robin Nelson, Community Volunteer
Faith Roland, Roland Resources
Stan Rosen, Rosen Harbottle Commercial Real Estate
Joshua Schaer, Routh Crabtree Olsen, P.S.
Paul Swegle, ING Direct ShareBuilder
Carol Taylor, Group Health Cooperative
Chad Wall, BNY Mellon Wealth Management
Rudy Wolf, Puget Sound Energy
Stacie Wyss-Schoenborn, BECU

Ex-Officio

Laura Saunders, Bellevue College
Larry Herron, Bellevue College
Vicki Orrico, Community Volunteer
Lynn Frair, Community Volunteer
Megan Phan, Bellevue College

Members Emeritus

Bob Alexander, Alaska National
Lynn Bain, Key Private Bank and McDonald Financial Group
Rick Collette, First Mutual Bank
Allen Courter, Honda Auto Center of Bellevue
Robert Cunnison, Community Volunteer
Dorothy Graham, Consultant/Community Volunteer
Peter Horvitz, Horvitz Newspapers, Inc.
Michael Kalian, Seattle Home Show, Inc.
Barrie Macdonald, Community Volunteer
Neil McReynolds, McReynolds Associates, Inc.
Dave Mentz, Medtronic Physio-Control
Dan Olson, Bank of America
Toni Richmond Hoffman, Coldwell Banker Bain and Associates
Dennis Shay, Brown and Shay Partners
Catherine Springman, Springman Inc.
Angela Sutter, Smith Barney
Frank Young, FNY Associates

Foundation Staff

Larry Herron, Interim Executive Director, BC Foundation and Interim Vice President, Institutional Advancement

Larry most recently served as Vice President for Development at The Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle managing fund-raising, communications, publications, the website, media relations, and events for the Institute, an independent non-profit biomedical research institution founded in 2000. Prior to that position, he was Vice President of Development and External Relations for the Boston-based CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, Inc. (CBRI), a self-governing affiliate of Harvard Medical School now doing business as the Immune Disease Institute. Larry has also held institution-wide positions at Northeastern University and Tufts University. He graduated the University of Iowa and the University of Chicago.

He has served on the Boards of Directors of the Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association (WBBA) and the Northwest Association for Biomedical Research (NWABR). As a supporter and volunteer for the arts, he serves as president of the board of directors of the Early Music Guild of Seattle, vice president of the board of directors of the Seattle Chamber Music Society, and a member of the board of overseers for Opera Boston.

On the Right:
Megan Elmer, Development Associate and Kara Talbott, Director of Development

Susan Kingsbury-Comeau, Foundation Business Manager