About the BCH Foundation

Dave Drach joined the BCH Foundation Board of Trustees in 2016. Dave is the VP of Corporate Strategy at Techstars, the world’s largest startup accelerator operator and one of the largest seed-stage investors. At Techstars Dave focuses on driving continued business growth throughout the Techstars global network. Dave is a board member for Patriot Boot Camp, an initiative to train veterans transitioning out of the military to be successful entrepreneurs. Dave is also on the University of Colorado Strategic Advisory Board for Mechanical Engineering.

Prior to Techstars Dave was a Managing Director with the Microsoft Emerging Business Team, helped build Great Plains Software through an IPO and an exit to Microsoft and worked for Boeing. Dave has an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and an Engineering Degree from the University of Colorado. Dave also always has an old truck or car in his garage undergoing a restoration.

Andrew is the Managing Partner of Montis Capital, a Boulder-based private equity firm. Prior to founding Montis Capital, he held senior executive positions in marketing, business development, strategy and operations for Level 3 Communications. Prior to joining Level 3 Communications, he held partner and associate positions with several venture capital firms.

In addition to his role with the Boulder Community Health Foundation, Andrew serves as a member of the Investment Subcommittee for the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, Colorado and as a Trustee for the Sally and John Morley Family Fund, in Cleveland, Ohio. He has previously served as Chairman of the Investment Committee for the Dawson School in Lafayette, Colorado and as the Senior Warden and a member of the Vestry and Finance Committee for St. John’s Episcopal Church in Boulder. Andrew earned his MBA from Harvard University and his BS from Yale University.

Sam Inman is Wells Fargo’s Commercial Banking Leader for the Denver Tech Center and South Denver Metro Markets. He manages a team of Business Banking professionals who work with local businesses and business executives to support their business needs and goals.

Inman has been with Wells Fargo for 19 years, all within the business banking team. Inman began his career with Wells Fargo as a business banking associate, served as a credit analyst for three years, and as a Relationship Manager for three years before becoming the Business Banking Manager for the Denver Tech Center market. He has since had the opportunity to manage business banking teams across Colorado and in Southern Wyoming.

Throughout his career, Inman has been active in the community. Sam currently serves as Treasurer for the Boulder Community Hospital Foundation, and formerly was Chairman on the Jeffco Schools Foundation Board, a Boulder Economic Council Member, and SEBP Member. He has formally served on the South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Group, SMDC Transportation Committee, SMDC Legislative Action Committee, Town of Castle Rock Investment Committee, and has volunteered for Junior Achievement.

Outside of work, Sam is married with two daughters and enjoys spending time traveling, backpacking, road and mountain bicycling, cooking, and exercising.

Erika is an experienced technology executive, currently leading product management for Google Drive. Prior to joining Google, she was the Founder and CEO of Rapt Media, the leading interactive video technology serving enterprise customers. Rapt Media was acquired in 2018.

Before her career in technology, Erika founded and ran an Emmy-winning production company, Outlier Films, and worked as an award-winning documentary filmmaker and investigative reporter for eight years. Her work has appeared on "60 Minutes," CNBC, The New York Times, NBC, PBS, and others. Erika has a bachelor’s degree from Yale University, where she studied theater and biology, and a master's degree in journalism from University of California, Berkeley. Erika lives in Boulder with her husband, Cameron, and her daughter who is a third-grader.

Amy Batchelor is a managing director of the Anchor Point Foundation, which makes grants to non-profit organizations in the arts, education, entrepreneurship, conservation and the environment, health and human services, women’s and human rights, international development, capacity building, progressive public policy and social justice. She co-founded Social Venture Partners Boulder County (2000), which strengthens non-profits through investments and pro bono consulting, and emphasizes building the capacity and sustainability of organizations. She serves on the Boulder Community Health (BCH) Foundation Board of Trustees and is currently co-chair of BCH's capital campaign for Mental Health.

Amy served on the Board of Trustees at Wellesley College from 2009 to 2015, and 2018 to the present. She is serving on The Nature Conservancy's Global Board and is the co-chair of TNC's Our World campaign. She is also a member of TNC's Africa Affinity Group for Women and Girls. Amy is the co-author of Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur (2013) with her husband, Brad Feld. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1988 with a B.A. in Political Philosophy. She has lived in Boulder County since 1995.

Terri Benjamin is a long-time Boulder resident. Originally from Cincinnati, she came to the University of Colorado where she received a degree in Journalism. Terri believes we are at our best when we are of service to others. She was the Executive Director of “Kop’s n Kids” in Denver raising money for families of fallen police officers. She was on the Board of Directors for the Bridge House and Collage Children’s Museum and was named Woman of the Year by the YWCA Boulder County.

She has served in a fundraising capacity for a number of non-profit organizations and is a patron for the Omega Leadership Academy which provides scholarships for deserving students of color. Terri has been a Boulder Community Health Foundation Trustee since 2013. She enjoys traveling, her horses Cha Cha and Cooper and spending time with her daughter, Gabriella.

Virginia Carducci joined the Board of Trustees as the liaison representative of the Ambassadors Leadership Council January 2019. Virginia retired from BCH after 39 years of service in the capacity of Director of Rehabilitation, Behavioral Health and Integrative Care. She served as the Executive Director of the Foundation from February 2016 to July 2017. She became a BCH volunteer in January 2017 to supervise Urban Zen candidates. Virginia served as Board Chair of the Chanda Plan Foundation from 2008-2015 and Chair of their Capital Campaign 2014-2016. She has also worked with Empowering Global Communities, Hospice of Broomfield and Boulder Counties and volunteered as a Reiki provider at the Chanda Center for Health.

Scott Filion joined the BCH Foundation Board in 2019. He is the CEO of Rev360, a software and services company serving the eye care industry employing over 300 people. Scott has a 25-year+ track record of success in healthcare and healthcare technology companies including extended involvement with market leaders such as GE and EMC. Scott also has significant experience with Private Equity-backed entities.

Scott is married, has three children and has lived in Boulder County for nearly 25 years. He graduated with distinction from Clarkson University in New York. He has been active with the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). In addition, Scott has served as a volunteer, advisor and board member on multiple Health IT companies and community organizations.

Helen Gemmill has devoted her professional life to managing complex projects and teams at the intersection of philanthropy, investing and social change.

Among other roles, Helen has served as Chair of the Community Foundation Serving Boulder County (where she also chaired the Early Childhood Education Committee from 2008-2016, and Co-Chaired the Search Committee for its new CEO in 2016), the Chair of the Women Donors Network, worked as the founding Director of Individual Giving at Global Greengrants Fund, worked as the national Development Chair for the White House Project, and as trustee of her family’s charitable foundation from 1998 until it completed a planned sunset in 2011. She currently serves on the board of Conservation Colorado and Impact Charitable.

Helen earned her B.A. in International Studies with a specialization in French Literature from Middlebury College, her M.A. from Naropa University in Environmental Leadership, and a second M.A. from the University of Denver in International Studies with a specialization in International Water Scarcity.
In 2011, she was inducted into Boulder County Business Report’s “Forty Under 40” list of emerging leaders. The award recognized her as, “a combination of strategic thinker, policy developer and hands-on community worker...She is considered by her peers as diplomatic, visionary, focused and generous.”

She resides with her husband and three young children on a horse and cattle farm just outside Boulder, Colorado.

Suzanne Hoover graduated from DePauw University in Greencastle, IN with a major in American History and training for secondary education. Suzanne taught English and history at the junior and senior high school levels for five years and during that time also received a Master of Science degree in secondary education from Indiana University.

Suzanne has been an active community volunteer in both Muncie, IN and Boulder, CO. Many of her activities were centered around her children and their schools, including PTO, classroom and library volunteer, Girl Scouts and Cub Scouts. Additionally, Suzanne served on the board of the Muncie Children’s Museum and the Junior Achievement Board and a number of philanthropic organizations. In 1994, while living in Muncie, Suzanne was elected to the school board for the Muncie Community Schools. She served one term, including one year as President of the Board.

More recently, Suzanne has served as a member of the board of Impact on Education, the Foundation for Boulder Valley Schools; Via Mobility; Presidents Leadership Class; Advisory Board for the College of Music at CU; Development Advisory Board for the School of Education at CU; and as a trustee of the CU Foundation. Suzanne was also a member of the Chancellor’s Campaign Cabinet for the Creating Futures Campaign at CU.

Cindy Lefkoff is an active philanthropist in the Boulder community. She has lived in Boulder since 1999. She has focused most of her philanthropic attention on Boulder nonprofits including Collage Children’s Museum, Boulder Philharmonic, Friends’ School, Dawson School, Congregation Har HaShem and the Boulder Community Health Foundation. She has served in a variety of roles including development, bylaws and governance, and search committees. Cindy has been on the BCH Foundation Board since 2013. She served as Board Chair in 2017. Cindy also serves on the Red Lipstick Fund Advisory Board.

Cindy and her husband have two teenage sons. In her free time, she enjoys skiing, rock climbing, hiking, gardening, and traveling.

Janet Martin joined the BCH Foundation Board in 2019. Her 37-year business career in Boulder began at the nationally recognized design firm, Communication Arts Inc., where she served as Principal and Managing Partner. She then held the role of Managing Principal at Stantec, a global engineering firm. Community and career have always been intertwined for Janet. She was elected to the Boulder County Business Hall of Fame and has served on the boards of the Boulder Chamber, Museum of Boulder and CU Art Museum. In 2017, she was recognized as one of the Women Who Light the Community and was awarded the Extraordinary Volunteer Service Award by Boulder Community Health. One of Janet’s most meaningful accomplishments was serving as Chair of the BCH Governing Board from 2016-2017.

Catherine is a marketing and strategy professional with experience in developing successful marketing strategies and client relationships in consumer, technology and business-to-business markets. She has a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from Boston University.

She joined Arch11, an architecture firm, to lead their marketing and strategy efforts. Prior, she was actively involved as a volunteer for The Dairy Arts Center. She helped develop their strategic plan, program expansion and manage the $6 million facility renovation. She has worked in brand strategy with Volan Design in Boulder, where she was responsible for new business development, brand strategy development and project management, working with companies such as Samsung, Nokia and Hansgrohe; as an account manager with Oden Marketing and Design in Memphis, where she worked with the firm’s top client, FedEx; and in positions with Insight Services in Memphis and Cleveland in the oil analysis business. She also was a TV producer and assignment editor with WKYC in Cleveland.

A native Coloradan, Lisa’s entire 30-year career has been focused on helping her clients grow and protect their wealth. Based in Boulder since 1993, she is Vice President and Senior Relationship Manager for Key Private Bank. Previously, Lisa served in similar roles with JP Morgan and BOK Financial. Lisa has long been involved with Boulder nonprofits and served on the very first Board of Intercambio de Comunidades. She has also been a staunch supporter & a former Board member for The Family Learning Center. She was appointed to the BCH Foundation Board of Trustees in 2014 for which she has served as Treasurer, Vice Chairman and Chairman.

Vikas Reddy is a co-founder of Occipital, a computer vision startup based in Boulder and San Francisco. Occipital is building a platform for spatial awareness and 3D mapping, which is being used for applications like custom orthotics and prosthetics, interior design, VFX, and 3D mapping of large scale construction sites. In the past, Vikas and co-founder Jeff Powers led the development of RedLaser, a popular barcode-scanning application launched in 2009 that was acquired by eBay from Occipital in June 2010. He has previously worked at NYC based startup Xanga.com. Vikas is a mentor in Techstars Boulder, a Michigan grad (Go Blue!), and lately enjoys not getting enough sleep due to having a 2-year-old son.

Michael J. Repucci is a founding Partner of the Boulder, Colorado law firm of Johnson & Repucci LLP. Prior to forming his current firm, Michael was a partner in the Boulder law firm of Porzak Browning & Johnson LLP and was President, Chief Executive Officer and Project Manager for Winter Park Village, Inc. Michael was a member of the University of Colorado Law Review and served on First Western Trust Bank’s Boulder Advisory Board. Michael has been a speaker at a number of seminars sponsored by the American, Colorado and Boulder Bar Associations.
Currently, Michael serves on the Boulder Community Health Foundation. Michael is married to his wife, Mimi, and has two sons, Alex and Peter. Mr. Repucci is an avid skier, fly fisherman and historian, who also struggles to find time to learn Italian in his remaining free time.

John Wyatt joined the Board in 2015 and is currently in the first year of his second term as Foundation Trustee. John manages Wyatt Construction and has been with the company since his graduation from the University of Colorado in 1987. John has volunteered his time to various local causes including the Colorado Chautauqua Association, The Buffalo Bicycle Classic and Impact on Education. He has lived in Boulder County since 1970.