Avila, Kathleen

Kathleen Avila, Managing Member of Avila Retail Development & Management, LLC. Graduated from Texas Tech University with a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education.  After having taught school for two years, she moved to Albuquerque in 1968.  She stayed busy as a homemaker until 1972, when she began her career in retail and merchandising.  Since that time, she has been instrumental in the growth and development of the retail success she and her husband John Avila own and operate.  Kathleen takes a special interest in the community as well, having held leadership positions on many community boards during the past 10 years including the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce.  She currently serves on the Denver Region Federal Reserve Board.  In recognition of her community involvement and business leadership, Kathleen has been nominated for Female Executive of the Year and YWCA's Woman on the Move Award. 
 

Burnett, Brian

Brian Burnett, president of Bohannan Huston, graduated from the University of New Mexico with a BS in Civil Engineering and an MS in Hydrology and Water Resources.  He holds leadership roles in a variety of organizations and community service groups including Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, Economic Forum and the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties. 

DeWitte, Michael

Michael DeWitte, Deputy Director and Senior Technical Manager at Sandia National Laboratories,  is a registered professional engineer with a BS from the US Air Force Academy and an MS from the University of Illinois.  He also has an MBA from the University of New Mexico and has completed Executive Programs at Northwestern University and Harvard University.  As Program Manager, he and his team received the NM Society of Professional Engineers 50th Anniversary Outstanding Engineering Achievement Award.  Michael was inducted into the UNM Anderson School of Management's Hall of Fame in 2005 and was also a recipient of the Governor's 2000 NM Public Service Award. Currently he acts as Co-Chair of the Economic Forum, is Chairman of the NM Business Roundtable for Education Excellence and serves on the Board of Directors for the Association of Commerce and Industry. Michael and his wife, Barbara, are originally from the Chicago area and have been residents of Albuquerque for over 25 years.  They have three sons.

Krewer-Scott, Noreen, CED

Noreen Krewer-Scott, Executive Director for the Rio Rancho Economic Development Corporation, has more than 16 years of economic development experience as both a private sector board member and in the New Mexico Economic Development Department.  She worked for six years with the Department; three years as Community Development Director and three years as Marketing Director.  She was responsible for marketing all divisions of the department including Technology, Foreign Trade, Film, New Business Recruitment, Retention, Expansion, and Housing.  She is a graduate of the Economic Development Institute and Certified Economic Developer (CED).  Under her leadership, the RRECDC has created 7,500 jobs with the location of nationally recognized companies such as Gateway, Bank of America Services Center, etc.  She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism from Mundelein College, Loyola University, Chicago and a Master's Degree in Guidance and Counseling from Western New Mexico University. 

Leonard, Anthony C.

Tony Leonard, Certified Financial Planner, is a registered representative and investment advisor representative for AXA Advisors, LLC.  He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School and has over 30 years of business management experience.  Tony has been very involved in the community and has served as past chairman of the Presbyterian Healthcare Foundation, past president of the YMCA of Albuquerque and past board member of the Samaritan Counseling Center and Foundation.  Tony and his wife Susan have six children and are residents of Albuquerque.

Roberts, Fran , RN, Ph.D.

Fran Roberts is the Dean of the College of Nursing at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona.  Prior to her position as Dean, Dr. Roberts served as the Vice President for Professional Services at the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association and the Director of the Healthcare Institute. Dr. Roberts clinical practice areas include rehabilitation, rheumatology, community mental health/psychiatry, and long term care/gerontology. She has two Bachelor of Science degrees from Elmhurst College in Illinois, one in nursing and the other in psychology. She received her Master of Science degree from Arizona State University (ASU), in community mental health/psychiatric nursing and is a psychiatric nurse practitioner.  Dr. Roberts' Ph.D. is in nursing from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.  Fran is the past Chairperson of the Center for Hispanic Excellence for the University of Arizona's College of Medicine, is a Fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Executive Nurse Fellows Program and a member on the American Hospital Association's Commission on Workforce for Hospitals and Health Systems. 

Roberts, Thomas, MD

Dr. Roberts received his M.D. from Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA.  His training includes a fellowship in Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Alabama-Birmingham in Birmingham, AL.  He moved back to Albuquerque from St. Louis, where he held a Clinical and Research Fellow in Infectious Diseases at Washington University School of Medicine.  He currently practices with the Infectious Disease and Internal Med Associates.  Among his hobbies are golfing, fly-fishing and skiing. 

Stryker, David, MD

Dr. Stryker, born of sturdy peasant stock in Michigan, was raised on an island in the Detroit River.  A maternal great-grandmother, however, was born in 186something in Fort Bayard.  Both parents were physicians.  Recruited to Cornell to wrestle, and privileged to participate in the events of the late ‘60s, he graduated in 1972 with a BA in experimental psychology.  After medical school at the University of Michigan, a general internship was followed by itinerant general medical and emergency room work through Intermountain Healthcare in Utah and Idaho. After completing an internal medicine residency, first in Spokane and then at UNM, he was chief resident and then took an infectious disease fellowship.  Current employment is with four other physicians by Infectious Disease and Internal Medicine Associates, providing city wide services in internal medicine, infectious disease consultation, epidemiology and antibiotic utilization.  Other medical positions have included presidency of GAMA, Councilor to New Mexico Medical Society, and presidency of New Mexico Medical group.  Married to an economist with two grown daughters (still in town!) avocations include hiking, bicycling, Nordic skiing, photography and woodworking.

Wertheim, Helen

Helen Wertheim graduated from HS in NM and completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and Marketing in 1984 at the University of Arizona.  Helen began her career as the Director of Marketing for an Architecture and Engineering firm in Phoenix, AZ.  In 1988, Helen moved back to Albuquerque and joined Charter Insurance Services, where she is now President and CEO.  Helen is very active in community affairs and has been awarded the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce's Chairman's award for Excellence in 1996-1997 and 1998-1999.  She is also the recipient of the New Mexico Business Weekly's 40 under Forty, 2000 and the Anderson School of Management “up and Comers' Award, 2000.