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By David PittmanThe Southern Arizona Leadership

Council now has 137 members who will be seen and heard throughout this com-munity as never before.

SALC is a business leadership or-ganization that’s adept at mounting and funding big-picture initiatives and building cohesive coalitions and alli-ances to support its goals. Over the past 18 years, SALC has been successful lo-cally, statewide and nationally, working with government leaders of all political stripes and business organizations from

every economic sector. Yet it has done so quietly, usually behind the scenes.

“We never really reached out to the community like we plan to do this year,” said Ron Shoopman, SALC president and CEO for the past decade. “It’s the first time we are engaging citizens in an intentional way.”

One impetus for this vigorous en-gagement is the launch of the MAP Dashboard – also known as Making Action Possible for Southern Arizona. This new public resource provides fact-

based insights into pivotal economic and social indicators about our commu-nity and how it measures up to similar cities in the West.

SALC spearheaded the launch of this collaborative project, partnering with the University of Arizona and Commu-nity Foundation for Southern Arizona. (See article on p. 112) and www. mapazdashboard.com)

Pima County Supervisors Chair Sharon Bronson was among many who praised SALC’s leadership in es-

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tablishing the MAP Dashboard, which provides people access to important in-formation “that is not politically driven, but factually driven,” she said.

The MAP is now the cornerstone of SALC’s data-driven strategic leadership plan.

“Today our membership recognizes that to take SALC to the next level, we must add a new dimension to what we are doing and engage the community more broadly,” said Lisa Lovallo, the newly installed chair of SALC and head

of Cox Communications in Southern Arizona. “We must be more visible, more transparent and more assertive in our outreach efforts.”

SALC members are business leaders who drive Tucson’s economy, its philan-thropy and support for key community initiatives. “We are representative of our community. Our investments in people, innovation, technology, manufacturing, wealth creation and philanthropy are indisputable,” Lovallo, the first woman chair of the organization, said in her

address at SALC’s annual meeting and planning retreat in December.

Going forward, SALC plans to fea-ture some of its best-known members in “issue videos” on its website. For in-stance, if healthcare policy happens to be the issue on the front burner, Judy Rich, president and CEO of Tucson Medical Center, could be the face of SALC. If a spokesman on energy issues is called for, the group could have David Hutchens, president and CEO at Tuc-

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continued from page 105son Electric Power, take center stage. If a speaker is needed on the importance of attracting venture capital to Southern Arizona, who better to speak than Harry George, managing general partner of Solstice Capital and co-founder of Desert Angels? The list of im-pressive expertise at SALC goes on and on.

SALC members tackle strategic initiatives with the end goal of precipitating positive change for the betterment of the community. Priorities include economic policies, education, healthcare, trade and transportation, infrastructure and governance.

Lovallo said SALC represents “organizations that produce ev-erything from electricity to vapor phase corrosion inhibitors to ad-vanced missile systems and 110-ton carbon steel heat exchangers. Our members lead organizations that do your taxes, build and sell your home, lease commercial business space, design and engineer our roads and streets, finance business expansion, save lives, insure our assets, educate our children, design websites, advertise your products and services and, yes, sell cable TV, too.”

Shoopman is a retired U.S. Air Force Brigadier General who for-merly served as commander of the Air National Guard’s 162nd Fighter Wing at Tucson International Airport. “When I was hired, the SALC board indicated that they wanted results, not press clip-pings – and I was very comfortable with that,” he said.

Business leaders who join SALC do so because of “a greater-good component” in their makeup, he said. “They’re people who will do things to make this community better – even if it doesn’t enhance their business specifically or enrich them in some way.”

The roots of SALC go back to 1997, when a group of seven prominent Tucson businessmen – Hank Amos, Si Schorr, David Mehl, Larry Aldrich, David Wright, Greg Shelton and Charles Bayless – incorporated the group.

In its first eight years of existence, SALC had three people serve as president and CEO. In the last decade there has been only one – Shoopman.

“When I started at SALC on Jan. 1, 2005, we had 56 members, a tiny budget and a little two-room office,” he said. “We now have 137 members and more revenue and resources at our disposal than ever before.”

Shoopman downplays his role in SALC’s success. He says any influence he has comes from the fact that he represents 137 of the most visionary and influential CEOs in Southern Arizona.


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u Were at the forefront of efforts to create the Regional Transporta-tion Authority, from its inception at the Arizona Legislature to its passage by Pima County voters in a landmark victory in 2006. Creation of the RTA included a half-cent sales tax to fund $2.1 billion in road improvements over 20 years.

u Led the opposition against two separate anti-growth initiatives restricting water usage from the Central Arizona Project.

u Organized the Tucson Regional Town Hall, which brought to-gether 160 local leaders for 3½ days of discussion regard-ing critical issues facing metro Tucson. The Town Hall spawned six “community conversations” on water, literacy, land use, arts and culture, early childhood education and public education and led to the formation of the Literacy for Life Coalition and Tucson Values Teachers.

u Brought together 45 scientists, land managers and government leaders to discuss threats from buffelgrass, a non-native plant proliferating in the Sonoran Des-ert that sucks up moisture faster than native plants and catches fire easily. This scientific forum led to the creation of the South-ern Arizona Buffelgrass Coordi-nation Center.

u Joined Greater Phoenix Lead-ership and Flagstaff Forty in creating the nonprofit Science Foundation Arizona, which fo-cuses on generating high-tech jobs through business startups and expansion. About $43.8 million, more than half of SFA grants, have gone to Southern Arizona.

u Led efforts to create the Down-town Tucson Partnership, which focuses on revitalizing the city’s downtown.

u Raised the issue of needed re-form to the Tucson City Charter. Although charter change pro-posals backed by SALC were defeated by Tucson voters in 2010, a city-sponsored commis-sion that SALC has been assist-ing is now addressing a new charter reform plan.

u Initiated a dialogue with then Gov. Jan Brewer and the state legislature to create a strategic plan providing a context for an-nual financial decisions. Toward that end, SALC co-sponsored an analysis of state finances by McKinsey & Company that re-vealed the extent to which the deficit is structural and not cycli-cal.

u Supported a 1 percent tempo-rary sales tax increase for edu-cation that was approved by statewide voters in 2010.

u Strongly advised Brewer to veto SB 1062, which she did. The bill would have offered a le-gal defense for individuals and businesses facing discrimina-tion lawsuits if they proved they had acted on a “sincerely held religious belief.” Opponents ar-gued it would legalize discrimi-nation, allowing businesses to refuse service to LGBT custom-ers.

u Successfully lobbied for a Med-icaid or Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System ex-pansion bill that was approved by the legislature and signed by Brewer. The bill, which has proved financially helpful to state hospitals, still faces legal challenges, however.

SALC can boast a long list of accomplishmentsthroughout its 18-year history on a number of fronts. For instance during the last 10 years, SALC and its members:

The roots of SALC go back to 1997, when a group of seven prominent Tucson businessmenincorporated the group.

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“The effectiveness of SALC is not derived from Ron Shoopman or the SALC staff. It is derived from the members. They drive the organization,” he said. “It is their reputations, influence, resources and direction that has allowed SALC to accomplish the great things that it has. I am proud of what SALC has done.”

One of those accomplishments is uniting various business groups and associations – such as the Tucson Metro Chamber, Tucson Re-gional Economic Opportunities, Metropolitan Pima Alliance and other area chambers and trade associations – in collaborative busi-ness coalitions like the Tucson Business Alliance, Tucson Regional Water Coalition and the Southern Arizona Defense Alliance.

“When I first got here, business groups didn’t talk to each other very often,” said Shoopman. “That has changed and SALC has been a catalyst for alliances, coalitions, partnerships and coopera-tive agreements. The point is, the various business groups in the region are working together better than ever before. While we com-pete on some things, if we all speak with one voice on issues of importance to the business community, we are far more effective.”

Lovallo said that in the past, this CEO leadership group failed to fully engage the general population of the Tucson region. This fueled an “inaccurate perception of SALC as an elite, out-of-touch, white-guys-in-the-foothills bunch of colonial overlords.” She said that faulty viewpoint must be addressed in order for SALC to achieve greater results. “Put simply, we must do a better job as an organization and as members of telling the story of SALC.

“I am often struck by the lack of community knowledge around the effort and resources SALC brings to solve big problems that impact the quality of life here. It pains me to have to defend SALC to people who have somehow gotten the wrong impression about who we are and what we care about.”

This year SALC is working with Strongpoint Marketing, a public relations firm headquartered in Tucson, to implement a compre-hensive communications strategy.

TMC’s Rich said, “Ron (Shoopman) is articulate, thoughtful and passionate about the community. He is also very careful. He doesn’t take positions that are not well researched. He is highly respected and very effective.”

“I sometimes think Ron must have eight days in his week because it is just amazing what he gets accomplished on a regular basis,” said Mike Hammond, a former SALC chair who is president and managing partner of Cushman & WakefieldIPICOR, a commer-cial real estate firm. “One of Ron’s top qualities is not only being able to build collaborations with business groups, but to build those alliances with non-business groups as well.”

Collaboration is so engrained in SALC’s strategy that it is now participating in more than 70 partnerships, alliances and coalitions. One of the most important of those collaborative efforts is the Southern Arizona Defense Alliance, an organization that kicked off its Mission Strong campaign last year to support and protect Southern Arizona military assets, such as Davis-Monthan Air Force Base and the Air National Guard at Tucson International Airport.

Its most recent collaborative effort, the MAP Dashboard, is a comprehensive and trusted source of continually updated econom-ic and lifestyle data that is intended to be used as a tool by business leaders, government officials and the general public to make more informed policy decisions.

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The MAP was built and is operated by the the UA Eller College of Management’s Economic and Business Research Center.

“We anticipate the MAP Dashboard Project will be used by com-munity members, organizations and leaders to help identify poten-tial areas of improvement in their community,” said Jennifer Pullen, analyst for the MAP Dashboard and research economist at Eller Col-lege. “We’d like to see the entire community use the dashboard to facilitate conversations on where we’ve been and where we should head.”

Paul Bonavia, retired TEP president and chairman, passed the gavel as SALC chair to Lovallo on Dec. 5. Bonavia said SALC’s role in developing the MAP Dashboard was a major accomplishment for the organization.

“We worked tirelessly to prepare the MAP Dashboard, which will give our community valuable metrics to guide its actions,” he said.

In remarks marking his departure as SALC chair, Bonavia pointed to two more promising SALC collaborative efforts.

“Another significant collaboration was born thanks to SALC mem-ber Mara Aspinall, who provided the leadership necessary to create the statewide Arizona Biosciences Board,” he said. “The board just launched a research project that will help guide the efforts to make more risk capital available in Arizona.”

SALC members Steve Christy, a past RTA chairman and a mem-ber of the Arizona State Transportation Board, and Tom McGovern, regional manager of the Psomas civil engineering firm, were instru-mental in creating Business Partners for Trade and Transportation, a coalition of more than 20 groups working together to address key regional and state infrastructure issues. Bonavia said because of the efforts of this coalition and others in Southern Arizona, the planned Interstate 11 project, which originally was to be built from Wicken-burg to Las Vegas, was expanded to reach south to Tucson and the Mexican border.

Business Partners for Trade and Transportation was also respon-sible for ensuring “that the key connecter route from the border to I-19, State Route 189, was included in the Arizona Department of Transportation’s five-year funding plan,” Bonavia said.

Looking to the immediate future, Shoopman said a contingent representing SALC will make a trip to Washington, D.C., to talk with congressional and military officials on such subjects as protect-ing Southern Arizona military assets, transportation funding and high-tech university research. The visit, scheduled for April 20-23, will coincide with a similar trip by UA officials. Shoopman said some of the meetings will include both visiting delegations.


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By David Pittman

It’s amazing what collaboration be-tween diverse interests can accomplish.

Collaboration between the Southern Arizona Leadership Council, the Com-munity Foundation for Southern Ari-zona and the University of Arizona has created a new tool that has the potential to help business leaders, government of-ficials and the general public make bet-ter, more informed decisions regarding economic and quality of life choices in the Tucson region.

The tool is called MAP Dashboard. MAP is an acronym for “Making Action Possible” for Southern Arizona.

The MAP Dashboard is a new Inter-net site built and operated by the UA Eller Economic and Business Research Center. Unveiled in December, the Dashboard gives residents of Southern

Arizona unprecedented access to con-tinually updated, comprehensive eco-nomic and lifestyle data.

The intent of the SALC, CFSA and UA project is for the community to be-come well informed and then take col-lective data-driven civic action to mea-surably improve Southern Arizona.

“Until you can put a mirror up in front of the citizenry so they have an accurate picture of where we are as a community, they are not in a position to make good choices,” said SALC Chair Lisa Lovallo, the top executive for Cox Communication in Southern Arizona. “The MAP Dashboard provides that mirror and the opportunity to better align community interests to improve results and make resources go further.”

Accurate data with the click of a mouse

The MAP Dashboard website has 36 areas of measurement grouped into six categories – economy, education, health and social well-being, infrastructure, quality of place, and workforce and demographics – providing thousands of factual details gathered in a colorful graphic format that allows visitors to learn about this region and how it stacks up with other cities in the West.

View the MAP Dashboard at www.mapazdashboard.arizona.edu or www.mapazdashboard.com.

Jennifer Pullen, a research economist at the UA Eller College, is project man-ager and analyst for the MAP Dash-board Project. She expects the MAP Dashboard will be utilized by those

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hoping to make Tucson and Southern Arizona a better place.

“We anticipate the MAP will be used by community members, organizations and leaders to help identify potential areas of improvement in their commu-nity,” said Pullen. “We’d like to see the entire community use the Dashboard to facilitate conversations on where we’ve been and where we should head.”

Ron Shoopman, SALC’s president and CEO, said the MAP Dashboard be-longs to everyone in Southern Arizona.

“SALC worked together with the Community Foundation and the univer-sity to create something beneficial to the community – but we don’t own it and we don’t control it,” he said. “It isn’t the SALC Dashboard or the Community Foundation Dashboard. It is the South-

ern Arizona Making Action Possible Dashboard at UA Eller College. This is the community’s dashboard, not ours.”

Fact-based planning leads to a brighter future

UA President Ann Weaver Hart called the MAP Dashboard “a gift to our community” from the university and its partners. “Having this informa-tion accessible to everyone gives us the tools to build a successful future for our region.”

The MAP Dashboard mirrors more than 125 similar projects across the country. Many of those are static pre-sentations updated annually. The Tuc-son site is designed to be a resource people want to visit often – it’s inter-active and offers monthly updates and

real-time data.Clint Mabie, president and CEO of

the Community Foundation for South-ern Arizona, said the MAP Dashboard tracks a complete range of issues. “It is important to have that 360-degree view of our community so we can identify and work together to address the issues across sectors. To move the needle on each issue we must collaborate and sup-port community-driven civic action.”

The MAP Dashboard reveals both strengths and weaknesses regarding Tucson and Southern Arizona. For in-stance, on the good side, did you know that the average Tucson Water cus-tomer has reduced water usage by 27.3 percent over the last 17 years? Or that Tucson’s four-year college attainment

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continued from page 113rate of 29.8 percent is 1.2 percent high-er than the national average? It’s on the MAP.

However, did you know Tucson’s working age (25-54) labor force partici-pation rate is just 79.4 percent – which is 2.4 percent less than the national average – and 11th lowest among 12 comparable Western U.S. cities? (Thank goodness for El Paso.) That, too, is on the MAP.

SALC’s Lovallo said it is important that the MAP Dashboard becomes a popular website among Southern Ari-zonans.

‘Just map it’“One of the things I will focus on

as chair of SALC is not only making people aware that the MAP Dashboard exists, but encouraging everybody – schoolchildren, teachers, healthcare workers, academics, business people and politicians – to use it. The MAP is accurate, easy to use, interesting and fun – and the data contained in it is the lat-

est available from the economists at UA Eller College.”

The phrase “google it” is commonly used by people everywhere when it comes to looking for information online. Lovallo wants the term “MAP it” to be-come just as common among Tucson-

area residents when it comes to search-ing for information about their part of the world. She said “MAP it” needs to become “part of our nomenclature.”

Shoopman also believes it will benefit the local community if the MAP site is heavily utilized. “The Community Foundation is committed to using the MAP on philanthropic issues,” Shoop-man said. “We (SALC) are committed to using it on economic issues. The United Way, the Tucson Metro Cham-ber and TREO are going to use it. We have to keep widening the circle of or-ganizations that are committed to utiliz-ing the MAP.”

One organization embracing this new resource is the Tucson Airport Author-ity, which already has used the Dash-board as a source for 12 presentations, each specifically tailored to convince a different airline to provide or expand service to Tucson International Airport.

In a February presentation to an air-line that provides passenger service to and from Canada and Europe, TAA

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officials included information gleaned from the MAP to paint a flattering pic-ture of Tucson’s economy, its workforce, its affordability and its quality of life.

Growth of Tucson startups exceeds national average

For instance, information from the MAP Dashboard places the growth rate of Tucson business startups at 4.9 per-cent annually – which exceeds the na-tional average. Tucson ranks fifth best among 12 western cities – Albuquerque, Austin, Colorado Springs, Denver, El Paso, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Antonio and San Diego.

TAA also used MAP data to under-score that Tucson is fourth lowest among those same 12 cities when it comes to the cost of living, and below the na-tional average. MAP data also showed that Tucson’s median home price is just $169,500, second lowest among the 12 cities, and well below the national aver-age of $197,400.

Airline officials also shared that Tuc-

son has a highly educated workforce focused on science, great air quality, large amounts of open space, a bicycle-friendly environment and many recre-ational opportunities.

Bonnie Allin, TAA president and CEO, said the authority began using MAP Dashboard data just two weeks af-ter the website was up and running.

“As an SALC director who had the benefit of knowing about the thought-ful process that went into developing the MAP Dashboard, it was very clear the resulting data would be invaluable,” she said. “Once they saw the site, our team members were very excited as they could see how useful the MAP informa-tion could be for us. They wasted no time in putting the material to use. From my view, it is a valuable part of helping us try to make our case.”

Measuring performance against other metro areas

George W. Hammond replaced Marshall Vest as director and research

professor of economic and business re-search at the UA Eller College of Man-agement in July of 2012. Hammond said that when he arrived at UA, Vest was already involved in “serious discus-sions” with SALC and the Community Foundation about establishing the MAP Dashboard.

“Marshall (Vest) did all the prelimi-nary work of talking to the partners and getting them together in the same room, developing the basic ideas of what the Dashboard would be and getting the fi-nancing and all the budgets set up and ready to go,” Hammond said. “He then passed it on to me and retired.”

Hammond called the resulting col-laboration “a fairly unique partnership between the university and the nonprof-it and business communities.” He said his biggest contribution to the Dash-board was hiring Pullen to coordinate the project.

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“My job has been to get out of the way and make sure she has what she needs.”

Though modest about his role in cre-ating the MAP Dashboard, Hammond clearly sees it is an important tool for Southern Arizonans.

“It’s critical that people have a com-mon place to find trusted information,” he said. “That is what the MAP is de-signed to do. It gives people information on where the Southern Arizona econo-my is at the moment and where it has been – so that they can benchmark our performance against other metropoli-tan areas in Arizona and the U.S. We are doing that in a way that is interest-ing and engaging, with colorful graphics and written analysis that helps people interpret what is going on.”

Groundswell of funding for Dashboard launch

The MAP Dashboard was funded by an array of business, philanthropic and educational organizations. Platinum sponsors of the project were SALC, the Community Foundation, UA, Diamond Ventures, Freeport-McMoRan, Tuc-son Electric Power and the Thomas R. Brown Foundation.

Gold sponsors were Ashland Group, Cox Communications, McMiles Family Fund, Tucson Foundations and Wells Fargo.

Silver sponsors included BFL Ven-tures, Holualoa Companies, Jewish Community Foundation, Jewish Fed-eration of Southern Arizona, Vante and Cushman & WakefieldIPICOR.

Hammond welcomes feedback from the university’s project partners and others involved in launching the project. Yet he is very clear that Eller College economists are ultimately responsible for the MAP content.

“Our partners are helping to fund the project and they are also giving advice on what is important to track, what we should be paying more attention to and what we should be paying less attention to,” Hammond said. “But we are the economists. We make the final decisions about what goes on the Dashboard and how it gets interpreted. They help us understand what their constituents are thinking.”

Finding regional common groundThough SALC and private business

interests contributed to develop and launch the MAP Dashboard, perma-nent funding sources will be needed in the future.

“We (SALC) and others will be users and advocates for it, but we are not the owner of it,” Shoopman said. “We are funding this for a while – but we’ll need to figure out how to secure sustained funding for it the long term because it is so important.”

Government, business, nonprofit and educational leaders throughout South-ern Arizona are voicing optimism about what the MAP Dashboard Project can accomplish.

David Hutchens, president & CEO of Tucson Electric Power, said the MAP provides a common set of data to mea-sure how we are doing as a community. “You get what you measure and hav-ing data that is trusted from a reliable source like the University of Arizona’s Eller College is very important,” he said. “It gets us all on the same page, all looking at the same information.”

Sharon Bronson, chair of the Pima County Board of Supervisors said in-formation provided on the MAP Dash-board “is from a trusted source that people can use from their living rooms or their offices to get a sense of this community’s strengths and weakness-

es.” She said the MAP “ratchets down the rhetoric and stops the ideology. It re-veals facts about our community – and it’s the facts that should inform our deci-sion making.”

Tony Penn, president & CEO of the United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona and chairman of the Tucson Metro Chamber, praised the partner-ship between the UA, the Community Foundation and SALC that created the MAP Dashboard. “In those three or-ganizations we have the business, edu-cation and social service and wellness communities represented,” Penn said. “That kind of cross-section coordina-tion is essential to create the very best environment for economic development that is needed to acquire the very best jobs and be able fill them for today and tomorrow.”

Tucson Mayor Jonathon Rothschild said the MAP Dashboard “will identify our strengths and weaknesses” and we can use the MAP “to determine what areas we need to focus on as a commu-nity.”

Manuel O. Valenzuela, superinten-dent of the Sahuarita Unified School District, said the MAP Dashboard can provide people from all walks of life and various communities information to help “find regional common ground about who we are, what we have in common and who we want to be.”

Oro Valley Mayor Satish I. Hiremath said all cities and towns want trusted, re-liable data that allows comparisons with other jurisdictions. Thanks to develop-ment of the MAP, Southern Arizonans “will finally have metrics available that are statistically valid so we can actu-ally have apples-to-apples comparisons” with other communities in the South-west and nationwide.

Mike Hammond, president, founder and managing shareholder of Cushman & WakefieldIPICOR, said “people on different sides of issues tend to choose their own facts and there are many bi-ased sources of information that dis-tort the facts. The promise of the MAP Dashboard is that it is a reliable and trusted source of information associated with the Eller College at UA.”


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training program with the knowledge and dedication of experienced South-ern Arizona business executives and you get a group of people prepared to take charge and move the region and the state forward.

The Arizona Center for Civic Lead-ership, administered by the Flinn Foun-dation, educates and trains individuals for state-level civic leadership through its Flinn-Brown Civic Leadership Acad-emy.

“Flinn’s research in 2010 showed that, while Arizona had many leader-ship development efforts, there hadn’t been one focused on state-level issues and leadership,” said Jack Jewett, presi-dent and CEO of the Flinn Foundation. “The Flinn Foundation saw this as a gap it could help to fill.”

The organization reached out to the Thomas R. Brown Foundation in Tuc-son to partner in the creation of the pro-gram and soon the Flinn-Brown Civic Leadership Academy was born. Each

year 35 people from all over Arizona are selected via a rigorous application process. The application period for the 2015 Flinn-Brown Academy ends April 13.

Those admitted to the program at-tend a series of classes and seminars in the fall. They attend classes in Phoenix and the Flinn Foundation covers travel expenses. “We didn’t want there to be any barriers to participation,” said Nan-cy Welch, VP of the Arizona Center for Civic Leadership.

The graduates of the program, called fellows, are expected over time to be-come actively involved as state-level elected officials; board, commission and advisory council members; state agency executives; and leaders in state organi-zations that affect public policy. Since inception, nearly 200 individuals have become fellows. Many have gone on to run for state office or take jobs in the public sector.

Ron Shoopman, Southern Arizona Leadership Council president and

CEO, said the Flinn-Brown Academy is critical for training qualified, motivated civic leaders. To continue that learn-ing process, SALC offers fellows from Southern Arizona a free one-year asso-ciate membership.

“They interact with senior business leaders and come to understand the is-sues faced by businesses,” he said. “And they give something very valuable back to SALC in the form of a different per-spective on issues – all the time sharing a passion for our community and state that is infectious. After one year, the fel-lows and SALC members have a very different perspective and appreciation for one another.”

Jewett added, “Fellows are exposed to leaders who have made public service part of their business. The mentorship of SALC members to the fellows is sure to have lasting impact both in the Tuc-son community and as fellows pursue state-level positions.”

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classes, fellows are matched with lead-ership coaches to help them identify not only their goals for civic leadership, but also an action plan to make those goals a reality. “We have a cadre of eight coaches who meet with fellows several times,” Welch said. “The end goal is a narrative that maps their future path-way to state-level leadership.”

Suzanne McFarlin, executive direc-tor of Greater Tucson Leadership and a leadership consultant, is one of the Flinn-Brown leadership coaches. She meets with fellows to get to know them and what motivates them. McFarlin said the coaches help people see things dif-ferently and make changes, and they also hold people accountable.

“My job is to ask questions and chal-lenge their thinking. Then we create alignment with what’s important to the client and creating impact at the statewide level,” she said. “In the end, they’re going to have a leadership plan with a timeline that describes their goals and how they’re going to achieve them.”

Tucson attorney, SALC member and former Greater Tucson Leadership Woman of the Year honoree Keri Sil-vyn is a 2011 Flinn-Brown Fellow. She said the experience exceeded her expec-tations.

“I knew the program was going to have several components and put differ-ent perspectives around the issues,” she said. “What I didn’t know was the di-versity of people in our cohort – people from different backgrounds, different political affiliations. It was invaluable to be able to discuss issues in a calm, safe place and to truly try to understand oth-er people’s perspectives.”

Board member and former chair of Imagine Greater Tucson, Silvyn said having the opportunity to learn to view critical issues through different lenses has made her more effective in her job and in her volunteer service on com-munity boards. It has made her an all-around better leader, she said.

“I’m a zoning and land-use attorney and locally we’re always affected by state politics,” she said. “The program ultimately helped me better understand public policymakers.”

Although the program is relatively new, Jewett said it’s generating informed and motivated civic leaders. “We’re see-ing fellows from all over the state col-laborating in ways that make this state richer for all of us. Their contributions to Arizona will only grow with time.”

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Dan ColemanRandi DormanJulie Katsel

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SALC MentorsTomorrow’s

Business Leaders Tucson Young Professionals play a unique role with the Southern Arizona Leadership Council. TYP members are also associate memberships in SALC and their current board president, Jes-sica Galow, occupies a seat reserved for TYP on the SALC board of directors.

TYP’s goal is to attract and retain young business people in Tucson and help them grow into tomorrow’s leaders, said Ron Shoopman, president and CEO of SALC. “Their voices add greatly to the conver-sations and action plans of SALC.”

The group was started following SALC’s Tucson Regional Town Hall in 2007 when several young professionals ap-proached SALC about membership in the organization. The SALC board sug-gested the younger generation establish their own organization with its help. They embraced the idea – and the rest is history. Today TYP is widely recognized as the leading organization for young leaders in Southern Arizona.

TYP members range in age from 21 to 40. They attend SALC’s general member-ship meetings and work on its commit-tees. TYP has played key roles in SALC initiatives over the years and led many on its own. The experience of forming and leading a nonprofit gave these young leaders a great start on learning how to effectively engage their commu-nity.

TYP is a place for the next generation of leaders to share their ideas, test their insight and participate in a vibrant con-versation – not only providing young professionals with a voice, but an outlet for affecting change.

SALC is proud of its association with TYP and the relationships that have been cre-ated with its dynamic members, Shoop-man said. “TYP gives everyone hope for the future of our region.”

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Marian SalzmanExecutive ChairTucson Values Teachers

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Teachers Are ‘Lifeblood of Community’

3 Rs of Tucson Values Teachers – Respect, Reward, Retain

Remember when metrosexual was the word of the year in 2003?

Marian Salzman made that happen.Considered one of the world’s top five

trend spotters, this international market-ing force and queen of the pop-culture buzzword is said to have a finger firmly placed on the country’s collective pulse.

She’s known for getting things done – including brokering a meeting between the father of the Sandy Hook Elemen-tary School killer and the parents of one of 20 first-graders killed in the massa-cre.

Now her focus is on Tucson Values Teachers.

Salzman, the new executive chair of TVT, is on a mission to elevate respect and reward for members of a most no-ble profession – teaching. She will lead the organization with the assistance of Katie Rogerson, who successfully directed all of TVT’s high-impact pro-grams over the past year.

TVT was founded by Southern Ari-zona Leadership Council six years ago with the understanding that a strong economy requires a strong education system.

In addition to her leadership at TVT, she will remain CEO of Havas PR North America, the earned-media and buzz agency within Havas, a top-five global advertising and communications services group.

This marketing dynamo has been named PRWeek’s U.S. PR Professional of the Year and Global PR Professional of the Year. She sits on the board of the Bob Woodruff Foundation, which

serves wounded warriors, and writes for the Huffington Post, The Guardian and

Forbes.com.The teachers of Southern Arizona

are now her cause.“There is something wrong with any

community where I as a CEO am af-forded more respect than my neighbor the teacher,” Salzman said. “Until such time as we are treated with equal re-spect, we all have a job to do.”

Statistics regarding teacher retention and satisfaction are bleak. More than a quarter of current Tucson teachers indi-cate they are not likely to be teaching in Southern Arizona five years from now, and the national mean for teachers stay-ing in the profession is one year, accord-ing to TVT.

We can fix this, Salzman says.“We have four serious issues – respect

from the community, pay, training and development, and leadership in schools. I argue that TVT today can impact re-spect and training and development.”

Salzman said the current political cli-mate won’t result in teacher pay raises anytime soon.

But TVT, with its strong signature programs (see box) that can benefit from “a coat of shine” – and a major infusion of funding from local and national cor-porations and foundations – can make a significant impact, Salzman said.

Look out, corporate America, here comes Salzman.

“I am not used to hearing ‘no’ if my request is rational and fair,” she said. “I’m not prepared to lose on behalf of a cause. These teachers are the lifeblood of this community, yet they are paid so


Tucson ValuesTeachers Programs

• Teacher Discount Card, provid-ing discounts at 80+ Southern Arizona businesses

• Tucson Supplies Teachers, an annual community-wide drive that has delivered more than $660,000 in supplies to schools, helping teachers to spend less of their own money

• Teachers in Industry, a nationally recognized business-education partnership that features a UA College of Education master’s degree program for STEM teachers who earn industry wages and gain business experience in local companies during the summer.

• Teacher Appreciation Week, offering free professional devel-opment, classroom resources and special discounts

• Teachers’ Voices, with television and radio spots highlighting teachers

• Teacher Excellence Award, a monthly tribute spotlighting teacher excellence

• Raytheon Spirit of Education Award, an annual event

honoring outstanding business investment in education and benefitting TVT


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poorly and shown so little respect.”She said partnerships are critical.

“We have an extraordinary University of Arizona College of Education and we need to partner even further with Dean Ronald Marx and his colleagues. We must figure out how to best exploit the wonderful resources already avail-able.”

Salzman’s goal is to raise $250,000 more in 2015 than has been historically raised in a year. Her goal for 2016 is to make Tucson a beta site, attracting fed-eral money to determine how to benefit teachers in a multicultural urban com-munity.

She plans to launch a micro-philan-thropy campaign she is calling Lessons in Gratitude, asking community mem-bers to put up $10 to $15. She’s hop-ing that 2,500 households will commit, demonstrating respect for teachers.

This Ivy Leaguer is fueled by the im-pact teachers had on her life.

“If I didn’t have a great fourth-grade teacher, I never would have been a strong student going into junior high,” Salzman said. “My parents had gone to City College. What was I doing at an Ivy League school? Teachers encouraged me to try it.”

So how did Salzman end up in Tuc-son?

Her husband Jim Diamond came to Tucson to get his legal academic degree at the UA and fell in love with the uni-versity. He’s now an instructor in the new undergraduate law program.

TVT’s Rogerson said the ultimate

goal is to attract and retain the best workforce in Southern Arizona by sup-porting teachers. The plan is to expand TVT throughout Arizona.

“The No. 1 reason so many teachers leave the profession in the first five years is they don’t get the support, training and mentoring that they need.”

She said TVT “makes a huge differ-ence to teachers, knowing there is an organization that is dedicated to sup-porting them.”

Ron Shoopman, SALC president and CEO, called Salzman “a truly remark-able and talented CEO.

“Marian is the perfect executive to lead the joint SALC/TVT initiative to put a great teacher in every classroom in Southern Arizona,” he said.

Colleen Niccum, VP of education policy at SALC, said Salzman “has demonstrated success in raising national attention and support for a variety of critical issues, such as wounded warriors and those suffering from traumatic brain injury. We are so fortunate that she has been inspired to apply her talents to the issue of the teacher workforce, an issue that is reaching crisis proportions in Ari-zona and across the nation.”

Salzman said it’s a way to give thanks for all that teachers did for her.

“You have to be grateful for the im-pact teachers have on your children, on your neighbor’s children and on the community,” Salzman said. “Imagine where we would be without them.” Learn more at: www.tucsonvaluesteachers.org


SALC Priorityis Education

Education is a high priority for the Southern Arizona Leadership Coun-cil. The group works to build a strong education system that promotes out-standing achievement through high standards, a rigorous curriculum, ac-countability and community involve-ment – starting with early childhood education and continuing through graduate school and beyond.

SALC is committed to addressing education policy issues and it does so working with education groups statewide including the Rodel Foun-dation of Arizona, Helios Education Foundation, Expect More Arizona and the Arizona Business & Educa-tion Coalition.

SALC’s higher education work is focused on two areas. “First is serv-ing the people of Arizona through education that results in a high qual-ity workforce to fill the high paying jobs we envision for Arizona,” said Ron Shoopman, SALC’s president and CEO. It also works closely with Arizona’s universities to grow our state’s economy.

SALC’s commitment to higher educa-tion is reflected in its membership. All three university presidents – Ann Weaver Hart from the University of Arizona, Michael Crow from Arizo-na State University and Rita Cheng from Northern Arizona University – are members of SALC, as is Pima Community College Chancellor Lee Lambert.

Current members of the Arizona Board of Regents include Shoop-man and SALC member Rick Myers. Former regents include SALC board of directors Donald Pitt and Hank Amos.

“There is something wrong with any community where I as a CEO am

afforded more respect than my neighbor the teacher. Until such time as we are treated with equal respect, we all have

a job to do.”– Marian SalzmanExecutive Chair, Tucson Values Teachers

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Powerhouse of LeadersTalk about a brain trust. The

Southern Arizona Leadership Coun-cil is 137 members strong. How do you harness the power and passion of all those business and community leaders to address SALC’s priorities?

That’s the challenge for SALC Chair Lisa Lovallo and her team – to lead these leaders and tap into the expertise of the region’s top business and industry professionals.

“Lisa is the perfect chair at the per-fect time to make SALC more visible, which will enable it to make greater strides in improving the business cli-mate and quality of life in our com-munity,” said Ron Shoopman, SALC president and CEO.

At the top of SALC’s leadership pyramid are the four officers of its board of directors, led by energetic and hardworking Lovallo, the first

woman to chair SALC. They are joined by 13 co-chairs for SALC’s six strategic focus areas.

“If you look at the membership of SALC, they are all leaders. SALC is a large and committed group of busi-ness and community leaders who care about Tucson and Southern Arizona and want to make it better,” Shoop-man said.

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SALC Leadership Team from left

Gregory White, Secretary

Duff Hearon, Treasurer

Lisa Lovallo, Chair Mark Mistler, Vice Chair


“SALCmembers drive

the organization. It’s their reputations, influence, resources and direction that

has allowed SALC to accomplish the great things that it has.”– Ron Shoopman

President & CEO Southern Arizona Leadership Council

Meet the SALC leadership team• SALC Chair Lovallo, market VP for

Southern Arizona at Cox Commu-nications. In addition to her respon-sibilities at Cox and SALC, Lovallo serves on 10 community boards in-cluding Tucson Regional Economic Opportunities, DM50, Downtown Tucson Partnership and the Uni-versity of Arizona Cancer Center. Lovallo was named Woman of the Year for 2010 by the Tucson Metro Chamber, a Woman of Influence by Inside Tucson Business, a Woman on the Move by the YWCA of Tucson, and was given the Spirit of Philan-thropy Award by the Southern Ari-zona chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. She was just named this year’s “Woman of Excellence” by the American Adver-tising Federation Tucson.

• Vice Chair Mark Mistler, presi-dent of BBVA Compass Bank for Southern Arizona. As vice chair, Mis-tler oversees the SALC Membership Committee and is in line to succeed Lovallo as chair. A past board chair-man of the Tucson Metro Chamber, Mistler serves on numerous nonprofit boards, including the National Board of Advisors for UA’s Eller College of Management, Tucson Regional Eco-nomic Opportunities and the Habi-tat for Humanity Executive Advisory Board.

• Treasurer Duff Hearon is the founder/CEO/owner of the Ash-land Group, a diversified investment company in commercial real estate, startup companies and securities. Hearon – who earned bachelor’s de-grees in finance and accounting, as well as a law degree, all from UA – serves or has served on a number of boards, including Tech Parks Arizo-na, Tucson Conquistadores and the United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona.

• Secretary Gregory White is VP and CFO at Raytheon Missile Systems. Before joining Raytheon, White worked as VP of finance for the electronics, information and sup-port business at BAE Systems.

“The strength of SALC is not just in its board of directors,” Shoopman said. “All of our members – from the newest to those who founded the organization – are community leaders.”

That’s how SALC can take on a num-ber of important issues simultaneously and comprehensively – because it has a variety of focus areas so members can actively participate in their areas of ex-pertise and interest.

SALC Focus Areas and the people who lead them

• The Education Focus Area is led by a trio of heavy hitters – Rosey Koberlein, Steve Lynn and Don-ald Pitt. Koberlein is CEO of Long Realty and Long Companies. Lynn, who recently retired as VP and chief customer officer of UNS Energy and Tucson Electric Power, formerly served as SALC chair. A lawyer/busi-nessman/real estate developer, Pitt has been among the most influential Tucsonans for five decades.

• The Infrastructure Focus Area is led by Steve Christy and Tom McGovern. Christy, a former auto-mobile dealer who is now a director of the National Bank of Arizona, is a former chairman of both the Re-gional Transportation Authority and the Arizona State Transportation Board. McGovern is VP and regional

manager of Psomas, a leading civil engineering firm.

• The Healthcare Focus Area is led by Joe Coyle and Judy Rich. Coyle, the managing director for Ritter International in Tucson, formerly served as a VP of human resources for Raytheon. Rich is president and CEO of Tucson Medical Center.

• The Science & Innovation Fo-cus Area is led by Dr. Paul August and Harry George. August leads the discovery biology team at the Sanofi Tucson Innovation Center. George, the managing partner of Solstice Capital, has more than 35 years of experience in founding, operating and investing in rapid-growth tech-nology companies.

• The Governance Focus Area is co-chaired by Si Schorr, Sarah Smallhouse and Lovallo. Schorr, a longtime community leader, is senior partner in the law firm of Lewis Roca Rothgerber. He formerly chaired the Arizona State Board of Transporta-tion and was the first chairman of the Regional Transportation Authority. Smallhouse is president of Thomas R. Brown Foundations in Tucson. She also chairs the UA Foundation Board of Trustees and the Southern Arizona Buffelgrass Coordination Center Board of Directors.

• The Strategic Initiative Commit-tee is co-chaired by Bruce Dusen-berry and Warren Rustand. A former lawyer, Dusenberry is president of Horizon Moving Systems. Horizon has offices in Sierra Vista and Yuma. The other offices were recently sold to Suddath Companies. Rustand is CEO of Providence Service Corpo-ration, a $1.2 billion social services and logistics management company. He has served as chairman/CEO of eight other companies, as a board member of more than 50 public, pri-vate and nonprofit organizations, and in high-ranking positions in President Gerald Ford’s administration.

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SALC Team From left – John Pedicone, director; Mary Rowley, CEO of Strong-point Marketing; Colleen M. Niccum, VP of educational policy; Ted Maxwell, VP

SALC Partners for ProgressOver the past 18 years the Southern Arizona Leadership Council formed ongoing partnerships with these entities committed to make a difference in Tucson and Arizona:

Biosciences Leadership Council of Southern Arizona

Brown Family Foundations

Center of the Future of Arizona

Flinn Foundation

Flagstaff Forty

Greater Phoenix Leadership

Helios Education Foundation

Rodel Foundation of Arizona

Science Foundation Arizona

Southern Arizona Buffelgrass Coordination Center

Tucson Regional Water Coalition

– Alliance of Construction Trades

– Arizona Builders Alliance

– Arizona Multi-Housing Association

– Arizona Small Business Association

– Greater Oro Valley Chamber of Commerce

– Marana Chamber of Commerce

– Metropolitan Pima Alliance

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From left – Ron Shoopman, president & CEO; Jim Kiser, director of governance; Pam Duncan, executive assistant; Pamela Speder, director of science and innovation

Tucson Regional Water Coalition (cont.)

– Safe and Sensible Water Committee

– Southern Arizona Home Builders Association

– Tucson Association of Realtors

– Tucson Hispanic Chamber

– Tucson Metro Chamber

– Tucson Regional Economic Opportunities

– Tucson Utility Contractors Association

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SALC Collaborators for ChangeThe Southern Arizona Leadership Council works closely with entities across the state to address issues ranging from economic policy to governance, healthcare and infrastructure. In alphabetical order they include:

Alliance of Construction Trades

Arizona Bioscience Board

Arizona Board of Regents

Arizona Chamber of Commerce

Arizona Commerce Authority

Arizona Department of Transportation

Arizona Hospital Association

Arizona-Mexico Commission

Arizona State University

Arizona STEM Network

Association of General Contractors

Arizona Business & Education Coalition

Business Partners for Trade and Transportation

– Arizona Builders Alliance

– Green Valley Chamber

– Imagine Greater Tucson

– Marana Chamber

– Metropolitan Pima Alliance

– Greater Oro Valley Chamber of Commerce

– Tucson Business Alliance

– Tucson Utility Contractor’s Association

Community Foundation for Southern Arizona

Desert Angels

Elected and government officials

Employers Health Alliance of Arizona

Expect More Arizona

First Things First

Flinn Foundation Bioscience Steering Committee

Grand Canyon University

Literacy Connects

Morrison Institute

Northern Arizona University

O’Connor House

Pima Community College

Southern Arizona Defense Alliance

Southern Arizona schools

Startup Tucson

Tech Launch Arizona

The Arizona We Want

Trade and Transportation Corridor Alliance

Tucson Business Alliance

– Southern Arizona Home Builders Association

– Tucson Association of Realtors

– Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

– Tucson Metro Chamber

– Tucson Regional Economic Opportunities

– Visit Tucson

Tucson Charter Change Coalition (200 diverse groups and individuals)

Tucson Association of Realtors

Tucson Utility Contractors Association

UA STEM Learning Center

United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona

University of Arizona



SALC Members

Morgan AbrahamPresident & CEO

The Abraham Avdee Group

Stan AbramsPresidentSPA 550

Hank AmosPresident & CEO

Tucson Realty & Trust Co.

Bruce BeachPresident & CEOBeach Fleischman

Ken AbrahamsGeneral PartnerCadre Partners

Larry AldrichManaging Director, ArizonaThe Newport Board Group

Mara AspinallCo-Chair

Arizona Bioscience Board

Jim BeckmannPresident & CEO

Carondelet Health Network

Gary AbramsPresident

Abrams Airborne Manufacturing

David AllenVice President

UA Tech Launch Arizona

Bill AssenmacherCEO

CAID Industries, Inc.

Carmen BermudezChairman & CEO

Mission Management & Trust Co.

Bonnie AllinPresident & CEO

Tucson Airport Authority

Paul AugustUS Head Early to Candidate Unit

Sanofi

Fred BoicePresident

Boice Financial Company


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SALC Members

Don BournPresident & CEOBourn Companies

Don BudingerFounder & Former President

Rodel Foundations

Chris ClementsCEO

Golden Eagle Distributors

Paul Bonavia(retired)

Tucson Electric Power & UNS Energy Corp.

Garry BravPresident & CEO

BFL Construction Company

Neal CashPresident & CEO

Community Partnerships of Southern AZ

Jim ClickPresident

Jim Click Automotive

Kevin BonineDirector of Education & Outreach

UA Science: Biosphere 2

John BremondPresident

Bremond Company

Rita ChengPresident

Northern Arizona University

David CohenExecutive Vice President

Beach Fleischman

Martha BrumfieldPresident & CEO

Critical Path Institute

Steve ChristyDirector

National Bank of Arizona

Mel CohenPartner

Mesch, Clark & Rothschild

Dan ColemanOwner

Dan Coleman

Jannie CoxCEO

Meet Me Concepts


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SALC Members

Joe CoyleManaging DirectorRitter International

Rob DraperPresident

O’Rielly Chevrolet, Inc.

Brent FausettPresident

Vante

Michael CrowPresident & Professor

Arizona State University

Michael DuranVP/Chief Development Officer

TMC HealthCare/TMC Foundation

Patricia FeeneyPresident, So. AZ Market,

Comm. BankingChase Commercial Bank

Don DiamondChairman

Diamond Ventures, Inc.

Bruce DusenberryPresident

Horizon Moving Systems

Ryan FlannaganCEO

Nuanced Media

Randi DormanPrincipal

R & R Development

Ali FarhangPartner / Owner

Farhang & Medcoff

Tony FonzePresident & CEO

St. Joseph’s Hospital

Duane FroeschlePresident, Arizona Division

Western Alliance Bancorporation

Jessica GalowDirector of Resource Development

United Way of Tucson & Southern Arizona

Harry GeorgeManaging PartnerSolstice Capital


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http://www.holualoa.com


SALC Members

Duff HearonPresident

Ashland Group

David HutchensPresident & CEO

Tucson Electric Power & UNS Energy Corp.

Chris GleasonCEO

NextMed

Margaret HepburnPresident & CEO

Legacy Foundation of Southeast Arizona

Ike IsaacsonManaging Director

CBRE

Guy GuntherVP/GM - Outstate AZ Regional

Markets GroupCenturyLink

Ted HinderakerPartner

Hinderaker, Rauh & Weisman

Gregg JohnsonCampus Director

University of Phoenix

Mike HammondPresident & CEO

Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR

Barney HoltzmanManaging Director

Tucson OfficeFennemore Craig

Tim (TJ) JohnsonCEO

HTG Molecular

Robert JohnstonLt. General (Retired)

USMC

Gary JonesChairman

Arizona Earthworks

Tom JonesCFOCTI

I. Michael KasserPresident

Holualoa Companies

Julie KatselSouthern Arizona Director

Office of Senator Flake


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SALC Members

Todd KellerRegion Manager

Granite Construction

Chad KolodisnerExecutive Vice PresidentDiamond Ventures, Inc.

Chuck KillCFO

Bedmart (retired)

Garrett KowalewskiFounder & Owner

Staff Matters

Eileen KleinPresident

Arizona Board of Regents

Steve LaceExecutive Vice PresidentRoyal Automotive Group

Thomas W. KeatingPresident

Trailhead Ventures

Rosey KoberleinCEO

Long Companies

Lee LambertChancellor

Pima Community College

Taylor LawrencePresident

Raytheon Missile Systems

Alan LevinOwner

Port of Tucson/Century Park Research Center

Lisa LovalloMarket Vice President for

Southern ArizonaCox Communications

Steve LynnChief Strategy OfficerStrongpoint Marketing

Clint MabiePresident & CEO

Community Foundation for Southern AZ

Kevin MaddenCEO

Madden Media


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http://techlaunch.arizona.edu


SALC Members

Jill MalickVice President

Business Banking ManagerWells Fargo Bank

Derek McCannGeneral Manager

Loews Ventana Canyon Resort

Dewey ManzerChairman & CEOInstant BioScan

Robert McCrightAssistant Attorney General

Arizona Attorney General’s Office

Edmund MarquezAgency Owner

The Edmund MarquezAllstate Agencies

Fletcher McCuskerCEO

Sinfonia HealthCare Corp.

Ross McCallisterPrincipal

MC Companies

Tom McGovernP.E., Principal

Psomas

David MehlPresident

Cottonwood Properties

Patrick MerrinPresident & CEOHudbay Minerals

Frances MerrymanSenior Wealth Strategist

& Vice PresidentNorthern Trust Company

Dennis MinanoVice Chair

Sonoran Institute

Ed MoomjianPartner

Rusing, Lopez & Lizardi

Omar MirelesExecutive Vice President

HSL Properties

Mark MistlerPresident, So. ArizonaBBVA Compass Bank


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Rick MyersCEO

Tempronics

Dan NeffPresident

M3 Engineering

Tom MorganPresident & CEOGrayline Tours /

Citizen Auto Stage Co.

Allan NorvilleOwner

Norville Investments / Gem & Jewelry Exchange

Wayne MorrisonCEO & CFO

Nord Resources Corporation

Jim MoorePresident & CEO

University of Arizona Foundation

Hank PeckPartner

TCI Wealth Advisors

Tony PennPresident & CEO

United Way of Tucson & Southern Arizona

Mitch PisikPresident & CEOTM International

Donald PittChairman of the Board

Campus Research Corporation

Jane PoynterCEO

World View Experience

Tamara PrimeChief of Staff

Tucson City Council, Ward 3

Robert RamirezPresident & CEO

Vantage West Credit Union

Manuel RamosPresident & CEO

Asarco

Chase RankinPresident & PublisherArizona Daily Star


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http://www.swgas.com


SALC Members

Cody RitchiePresident

Crest Insurance Group

Bill RoeCommunity Leader

Curt ReimannPartner

Snell & Wilmer

Warren RustandCEO


Judy RichPresident & CEOTMC HealthCare

Glenn SampertGeneral ManagerWestin La Paloma

Si SchorrPartner

Lewis Roca Rothgerber

Keri SilvynAttorney

Lazarus, Silvyn & Bangs

Pat SimmonsSenior Vice President

Alliance Bank of Arizona

Neil SimonPartner

Venture West

Sarah SmallhousePresident

Thomas R. Brown Foundations

Jim SmithExecutive Vice President

Empire Southwest

Teri SpencerPresident & CEO

Ephibian

Nan Stockholm WaldenVice President & Legal Counsel

Farmers Investment Co.

Priscilla StormVice President

Diamond Ventures


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SALC Members

Matthew SwegerPartner

Lewis Roca Rothgerber

Nathanael TarwasokonoPresident & CEO

Pima Federal Credit Union

Teri Lucie ThompsonSenior Vice President University Relations


Phillip SwaimPrincipal

Swaim Associates Architects

Steve TouchéPresident

Lovitt & Touché

Richard UnderwoodPresident

AAA Landscape

Kip VolpeVice President/Treasurer

Estes Company

Kurt WadlingtonSenior Project Director

Sundt Construction

Richard WaldenChairman, President & CEO

Farmers Investment Co.

Matthew WandoloskiVP Strategy and Informatics

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona

Ann Weaver HartPresident


Greg WhiteCFO, Vice President Finance

Raytheon Missile Systems

Julie WilliamsVice President, So. AZ Division

Southwest Gas Corporation

Terry WilsonVice President, Army & Information

Systems Business UnitTASC

Judy WoodCEO

Contact One Call Cente


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