Get to know our Trustees and Board Advisors by reading their biographies.
Katharine Conover-Keller, Chair
Katharine Conover-Keller served as President of the Community Foundation
of Jackson Hole for more than 14 years, prior to her retirement in February
2020. During her tenure, the organization's assets grew over 40% to more
than $85 million. Annually, the Community Foundation raises millions of
dollars for local nonprofits through Old Bill's Fun Run.
Previously, Katharine was the Executive Director of Community Safety Network,
also serving on the Governor's Domestic Violence Elimination Council and
the Wyoming Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Earlier in her human
services career, she was a Licensed Clinical Social Worker at the Jackson
Hole Community Counseling Center. In 2015, she was named Citizen of the
Year by the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce.
Appointed January 2022, Initially Elected November 2022, Current Term Ends
November 2026.
Pam Cutler, MD, Vice-Chair
Dr. Cutler has worked in and directed rural and urban Emergency Departments
in the western United States for over 25 years. She is an experienced
administrative and clinical leader with specific interests in rural health
care and patient safety. Dr. Cutler has served on numerous boards, including
her recent roles as President of the Montana Medical Association Board
of Trustees and as a member of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana Community
Advisory Board. At Presbyterian Healthcare, an eight-health system system
serving the state of New Mexico, Dr. Cutler was charged with patient safety,
risk management, and quality improvement. For the past seven years, she
worked as the President of Western Montana Clinic, an independent multi-specialty
medical group in Missoula. Dr. Cutler graduated from the College of William
and Mary, received her M.D. degree from the University of Virginia, and
completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of New
Mexico in Albuquerque. She will serve on the Strategy, HR Committee.
Elected November 2022, Current Term Ends November 2026.
James K. Hunt, Treasurer
Jim Hunt’s career in corporate finance has been as an investor in
high yield debt, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and managing
financial service businesses. Active in governance, he has served on over
20 corporate and not-for-profit boards, including seven public companies.
Currently, Jim serves as Non-Executive Board Chairman of Hunt Companies,
Inc., an international real estate investment firm based in El Paso, TX.
Jim serves on boards of the Jackson Hole Historical Society & Museum,
Friends of Pathways, and the National Forest Foundation. He received a
BBA from the University of Texas at El Paso in 1972 and an MBA from the
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1975. He is married
to Maggie Fellner Hunt and they have two adult daughters.
Appointed February 2023, Current Term Ends November 2028.
Brent Blue, MD
Dr. Brent Blue has served the Jackson Hole community as a primary care
physician for over 40 years. While a physician at SJH, he founded the
car seat program and championed a tobacco free campus as well as promoting
the first onsite childcare and initiating a home health department. He
served on the Teton County Public Health Board for eight years and founded
Jackson Hole Family Planning and continues to serve as its President.
He is on the Board of Dog is My Copilot, an animal rescue organization,
as well as being a volunteer pilot. He is in his third term as the elected
Teton County Coroner. Dr. Blue is Board Certified in Family Medicine and
Emergency Medicine. He is a columnist for a national aviation magazine
as well as a lecturer and author on multiple aeromedical topics.
Elected November 2022, Current Term Ends November 2026.
Shannon Brennan
Shannon Brennan leverages her experience in a decades-long career in federal
energy management and leadership to bring skills in strategic planning
and forecasting, risk management, decision analysis, facility management,
and stakeholder relations to the Board. Certified in advanced project
management from Stanford, she has led major corporate contract transitions
and complex high-risk, high-hazard facility startups. She has served on
nationwide public engagement boards and was influential in strengthening
federal policy in comprehensive, accurate and transparent public information
release. She was appointed to the Teton County Board of Health in 2021.
She was formerly responsible for reviewing proposed uses of federal funds
for healthcare facilities in Wyoming. She holds an advanced degree in
public and hospital administration from the University of South Dakota.
Shannon was an ex officio member of the Idaho Falls Chamber of Commerce
and currently is a member of the Jackson Chamber. She is a Senior Fellow
with the Washington-based Partnership for Public Service.
Elected November 2024, Current Term Ends November 2028.
Bruce Hayse, MD
One of the longest-serving, and better-known, family practitioners in
the valley, Dr. Bruce Hayse was born in Oregon. Always an avid outdoorsman,
Bruce worked for the U.S. Forest Service in Idaho and earned a MS in plant
ecology from the University of Wisconsin before graduating from the University
of Oregon medical school. Before moving to Jackson in 1983 with his wife
and two daughters, Bruce co-founded the environmental group Earth First!
He remains a conservation activist today, serving on the boards of the
Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance, Western Wetlands Project, and Wyoming
Wilderness Association. His family practice office is on Broadway in downtown
Jackson. Bruce was named "Citizen of the Year" in 1992 by the
Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce.
Elected November 2008, Current Term Ends November 2028.
Bill Hoglund
Bill’s business background is in finance: he earned a BA in Management
Science and German Literature cum laude from Duke University and an MBA
from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He spent 18 years
working for JP Morgan as an investment banker in New York, London, and
Chicago before leaving to work as a CFO for one of his clients in Seattle.
He retired in 2000 and since then has been actively investing in small
private companies.
Bill is a board member and chair of Kratos Defense & Security, a NASDAQ
quoted company. He also serves as chair of SAFE Boats International, a
private leading manufacturer of vessels for the military, law enforcement
and industry. He is also a Director of Bridger Trust, a Wyoming Trust
Company and serves on its audit committee.
In addition to being actively involved philanthropically, Bill served on
the board of the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole for 11 years and
was its Chair for two years. He was one of the founding members of the
Teton County Search & Rescue Foundation, served on its board, and
was its Chair for two years. He has also served on the board of the Teton
Literacy Center.
Bill and his wife Lannie have lived full-time in Jackson for almost 20
years. Together, they have three adult children and six grandchildren.
With his family, Bill enjoys skiing, biking hiking, and travel.
Elected November 2024, Current Term Ends November 2028.
Board Advisors
Bob Hopkins
Bob Hopkins is a Managing Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Since
joining BofA in 2008, he has led the firm’s U.S. medical technology
equity research group covering the medical device and supply industry
including companies such as JNJ, Abbott, Medtronic, Boston Scientific
Stryker, Zimmer, Becton Dickinsen, Baxter, Hill-Rom, Edwards, and Intuitive
Surgical. Bob is currently the #1 ranked analyst in the space as per Institutional
Investor Magazine’s annual poll, which surveys the largest institutional
money managers and hedge funds around the world each year to assess which
banks add the most value. For the last 16 years Bob has been ranked by
Institutional Investor magazine, and he is known as one of the most influential
voices in this $450 billion industry.
Prior to joining BofA, Bob led the medical device equity research groups
at Lehman Brothers and Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette where is also covered
the managed care industry. Bob graduated from Trinity College in Hartford,
CT in 1989 and received his MBA from Columbia University in NY in 1995.
Bob has built up a strong reputation for his long-standing clinical expertise,
his independent research, and his industry knowledge.
Bob Hopkins, who is also the nephew of Jane Carey, has been coming to Jackson
for 30 years. He and his wife own a condo at Teton Village, and their
last child will be heading to college this fall. Although they currently
reside in Manhattan, they are contemplating making Jackson Hole their
permanent home. Bob’s three passions are family, Jackson, and health
care. As an avid squash player, he serves on the Board of a nonprofit
which provides tutoring and squash lessons for inner city kids to prepare
them for college.
Bob Pisano
Bob Pisano is a retired entertainment executive; having worked more than
30 years in Hollywood, and prior to that, practiced law in Los Angeles
and Paris, France.
He currently serves on three for-profit boards, including Co-Chair of the
St John’s Health Foundation Board, and just stepped down as the
Chair of the Board of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, the charitable
foundation which supports the entertainment industry.
He and his wife Carolyn have had a home in Jackson Hole for more than 30
years, and in recent years established fulltime residence
here.
Marcia Lux, MD
Dr. Marcia Lux is a board-certified internist and is the medical director
of the Hospitalist program at St. Johns Health. She is also the current
SJH Chief of Staff. Originally from Boston, she received a BA from the
University of Vermont and MD from Harvard Medical School. She spent a
decade in New York City, completing internship and residency at Columbia
before joining the faculty at Columbia and Cornell as an academic hospitalist.
She moved to Jackson in 2012 and has worked full time at St. John’s
since 2013. During her free time, she enjoys spending time with family,
hiking, snowboarding, traveling, and rooting for her favorite Boston sports teams.
Jane Hopkins Carey
Jane serves as Co-Chair of the St John’s Health Foundation Board.
She will begin her two-year term as Chair in January 2023. Jane and her
husband John moved to Jackson Hole full time in 2016. Prior to that the
Carey family had been frequent visitors winter and summer since 1990.
Jane’s career spanned more than three decades in the advancement
and support of education. A 19-year career leading fundraising, communications,
special events, and career development divisions at Georgetown University
has been complemented by volunteer leadership positions there. As Chair
of Georgetown’s 100-person Board of Regents, Jane led the Regents’
work to support the University’s $1.5 billion capital campaign until
2016. During this time, she also served on Georgetown’s Board of
Directors and on its Executive Committee. Beyond her career at Georgetown,
Jane worked for nearly a decade as a Grants Consultant for the MBNA Education
Foundation in Wilmington Delaware, identifying and evaluating cutting-edge
teaching programs in K-12 schools throughout Delaware. During that time
Jane also served on the Board of the Buffalo Seminary, an all girls school
in Buffalo New York.
After moving to Wyoming Jane served as a strategic consultant for City
Kids Wilderness Project, a program that brings youth from Washington DC
to spend summers at the Broken Arrow Ranch in Hoback Wyoming. She was
also a fundraising advisor to the Global Good Fund in Washington DC and
currently advises the fundraising efforts of the Jacobs Institute in Buffalo,
New York. In addition to the St. John’s Health Foundation Board,
Jane is a member of the Board of the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole
and serves on its Competitive Grants Committee. Jane and John, have three
sons, two daughters-in-law and three grandchildren.
Vance Vanier, MD
Vance Vanier, M.D. is a Co-Founder and Co-Managing Director of Chicago
Pacific Founders (CPF), a private equity firm focused on health services
and senior living. His career in healthcare and innovation has spanned
over two decades and has included roles as an investor, CEO, entrepreneur,
and physician.
Dr. Vanier received his M.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
and completed his residency training at the University of California,
San Francisco, and Highland Hospital in Oakland. He received an M.B.A.
from Stanford University, as well as dual bachelor’s degrees with
honors. He continues to serve on the clinical faculty of Stanford Medical
Center as an Assistant Clinical Professor. He was named a Henry Crown
Fellow of the Aspen Institute in 2011, recognized as one of San Francisco’s
Top 40 Under 40 in 2012 and Genetic and Biotechnology News’ GEN
Ten Young Guns of Biopharma.
All correspondence to the Board of Trustees, including emails, will be
public record except for information that St. John's is required to keep
confidential by law. This includes, but is not limited to protected health
information.
Katharine Conover-Keller served as President of the Community Foundation
of Jackson Hole for more than 14 years, prior to her retirement in February
2020. During her tenure, the organization's assets grew over 40% to more
than $85 million. Annually, the Community Foundation raises millions of
dollars for local nonprofits through Old Bill's Fun Run.
Dr. Cutler has worked in and directed rural and urban Emergency Departments
in the western United States for over 25 years. She is an experienced
administrative and clinical leader with specific interests in rural health
care and patient safety. Dr. Cutler has served on numerous boards, including
her recent roles as President of the Montana Medical Association Board
of Trustees and as a member of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana Community
Advisory Board. At Presbyterian Healthcare, an eight-health system system
serving the state of New Mexico, Dr. Cutler was charged with patient safety,
risk management, and quality improvement. For the past seven years, she
worked as the President of Western Montana Clinic, an independent multi-specialty
medical group in Missoula. Dr. Cutler graduated from the College of William
and Mary, received her M.D. degree from the University of Virginia, and
completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of New
Mexico in Albuquerque. She will serve on the Strategy, HR Committee.
Elected November 2022, Current Term Ends November 2026.
Jim Hunt’s career in corporate finance has been as an investor in
high yield debt, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and managing
financial service businesses. Active in governance, he has served on over
20 corporate and not-for-profit boards, including seven public companies.
Currently, Jim serves as Non-Executive Board Chairman of Hunt Companies,
Inc., an international real estate investment firm based in El Paso, TX.
Jim serves on boards of the Jackson Hole Historical Society & Museum,
Friends of Pathways, and the National Forest Foundation. He received a
BBA from the University of Texas at El Paso in 1972 and an MBA from the
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1975. He is married
to Maggie Fellner Hunt and they have two adult daughters.
Appointed February 2023, Current Term Ends November 2028.
Dr. Brent Blue has served the Jackson Hole community as a primary care
physician for over 40 years. While a physician at SJH, he founded the
car seat program and championed a tobacco free campus as well as promoting
the first onsite childcare and initiating a home health department. He
served on the Teton County Public Health Board for eight years and founded
Jackson Hole Family Planning and continues to serve as its President.
He is on the Board of Dog is My Copilot, an animal rescue organization,
as well as being a volunteer pilot. He is in his third term as the elected
Teton County Coroner. Dr. Blue is Board Certified in Family Medicine and
Emergency Medicine. He is a columnist for a national aviation magazine
as well as a lecturer and author on multiple aeromedical topics.
Elected November 2022, Current Term Ends November 2026.
Shannon Brennan leverages her experience in a decades-long career in federal
energy management and leadership to bring skills in strategic planning
and forecasting, risk management, decision analysis, facility management,
and stakeholder relations to the Board. Certified in advanced project
management from Stanford, she has led major corporate contract transitions
and complex high-risk, high-hazard facility startups. She has served on
nationwide public engagement boards and was influential in strengthening
federal policy in comprehensive, accurate and transparent public information
release. She was appointed to the Teton County Board of Health in 2021.
She was formerly responsible for reviewing proposed uses of federal funds
for healthcare facilities in Wyoming. She holds an advanced degree in
public and hospital administration from the University of South Dakota.
Shannon was an ex officio member of the Idaho Falls Chamber of Commerce
and currently is a member of the Jackson Chamber. She is a Senior Fellow
with the Washington-based Partnership for Public Service.
Elected November 2024, Current Term Ends November 2028.
One of the longest-serving, and better-known, family practitioners in
the valley, Dr. Bruce Hayse was born in Oregon. Always an avid outdoorsman,
Bruce worked for the U.S. Forest Service in Idaho and earned a MS in plant
ecology from the University of Wisconsin before graduating from the University
of Oregon medical school. Before moving to Jackson in 1983 with his wife
and two daughters, Bruce co-founded the environmental group Earth First!
He remains a conservation activist today, serving on the boards of the
Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance, Western Wetlands Project, and Wyoming
Wilderness Association. His family practice office is on Broadway in downtown
Jackson. Bruce was named "Citizen of the Year" in 1992 by the
Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce.
Elected November 2008, Current Term Ends November 2028.
Bill’s business background is in finance: he earned a BA in Management
Science and German Literature cum laude from Duke University and an MBA
from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He spent 18 years
working for JP Morgan as an investment banker in New York, London, and
Chicago before leaving to work as a CFO for one of his clients in Seattle.
He retired in 2000 and since then has been actively investing in small
private companies.
Bob Hopkins is a Managing Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Since
joining BofA in 2008, he has led the firm’s U.S. medical technology
equity research group covering the medical device and supply industry
including companies such as JNJ, Abbott, Medtronic, Boston Scientific
Stryker, Zimmer, Becton Dickinsen, Baxter, Hill-Rom, Edwards, and Intuitive
Surgical. Bob is currently the #1 ranked analyst in the space as per Institutional
Investor Magazine’s annual poll, which surveys the largest institutional
money managers and hedge funds around the world each year to assess which
banks add the most value. For the last 16 years Bob has been ranked by
Institutional Investor magazine, and he is known as one of the most influential
voices in this $450 billion industry.
Bob Pisano is a retired entertainment executive; having worked more than
30 years in Hollywood, and prior to that, practiced law in Los Angeles
and Paris, France.
Dr. Marcia Lux is a board-certified internist and is the medical director
of the Hospitalist program at St. Johns Health. She is also the current
SJH Chief of Staff. Originally from Boston, she received a BA from the
University of Vermont and MD from Harvard Medical School. She spent a
decade in New York City, completing internship and residency at Columbia
before joining the faculty at Columbia and Cornell as an academic hospitalist.
She moved to Jackson in 2012 and has worked full time at St. John’s
since 2013. During her free time, she enjoys spending time with family,
hiking, snowboarding, traveling, and rooting for her favorite Boston sports teams.
Jane serves as Co-Chair of the St John’s Health Foundation Board.
She will begin her two-year term as Chair in January 2023. Jane and her
husband John moved to Jackson Hole full time in 2016. Prior to that the
Carey family had been frequent visitors winter and summer since 1990.
Vance Vanier, M.D. is a Co-Founder and Co-Managing Director of Chicago
Pacific Founders (CPF), a private equity firm focused on health services
and senior living. His career in healthcare and innovation has spanned
over two decades and has included roles as an investor, CEO, entrepreneur,
and physician.
