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Dara McKinney, an attorney, spent 12 years in private practice in Los Alamos and Santa Fe before transitioning to In-House Counsel, Trust Officer, Compliance Officer, and then Senior Business Analyst at Los Alamos National Bank. She is now a regulatory compliance enforcement coordinator at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dara has served on several nonprofit boards

Lea Ann Knight, CFP®, is a Managing Partner for Better Money Decisions, a registered investment advisory firm in Santa Fe. Before joining Better Money Decisions, Lea Ann was a partner and Director of Wealth Management for North American Management, a Boston-based registered investment advisory firm. Previously, she had various roles at Edward Jones, Morgan Stanley and

After 30 years as an engineering psychologist, Terry retired and moved to New Mexico in 2008. Among other Boards of Directors, he served as President of the Santa Cruz (California) Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Chairperson of the Governor’s Advisory Board for New Mexico State Parks. Terry earned a BA from

Ardith Eicher spent 20 years as a marketing executive for Procter & Gamble and Clairol, and as a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company in New York. Since moving to Santa Fe in 2003, she has run a successful marketing consulting business catering to both business and nonprofit clients. She has also served on the

Michael Hodges assisted large corporations in raising capital and managing financial risk for more than 30 years. He served both publicly traded and privately held firms, spanning the credit spectrum from investment to speculative grade. Most recently, he served as Global Treasurer of Cushman & Wakefield, a multinational commercial real estate services firm, preceded by

Gayle has been a Chief Business Officer and Senior Business Development Officer at some of the world’s most premier pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, including Roche. In her tenure, she executed some of the industry’s largest collaboration agreements and was involved in the sale of several biotechnology companies to large pharmaceutical companies. In Santa Fe, she

Susan Kiely spent 35 years as an executive for Macy’s Department Stores, the past 15 years as a Vice President in their Stores Division in Southern Florida. Susan earned her B.S. Degree from the Indiana University School of Business in Marketing and Business Administration. Susan, her husband Robert, and their two dogs, Sky and Coco,