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-hospital 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 2024.
Cynthia Hogan, Secretary
Ms. Hogan has a wealth of experience in the health care industry, both
as a professional and as a patient advocate assisting family through serious
medical conditions. She has over 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical
industry, having worked for Novartis for the last 20 years. Among other
things, she established a Patient Services Center to provide reimbursement
support and disease education to patients with specialty diseases. She
was the co-chair of a Novartis executive women’s organization, leading
its growth from 50 to over 1,000 members. Ms. Hogan also helped with strategic
planning to prepare the corporation for changes brought on by the Affordable
Care Act. Ms. Hogan has served on a variety of nonprofit boards including
New Jersey Hospice. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ms. Hogan co-founded
Quarantine Cuisine, a service helping to fight food insecurities by delivering
meals and groceries to individuals in mandatory or self-imposed quarantine.
Appointed April 2015 – Current Term Ends November 2024.
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.
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 2024.
Evan Jones
Jones was a Board member and Vice Chairman of the Board for the Children’s
National Hospital, Washington, DC and Board Chairman for the Children’s
Research Institute. He serves on the Board of Directors of the American
College of Medical Genetics Foundation and the Advisory Board for the
BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado. He is Managing Member,
jVenCapital, LLC, a life sciences investment company. Prior to forming
jVen Capital, He was cofounder, Chairman and CEO of Digene Corporation,
a publicly traded biotechnology company focused on women’s health
and molecular diagnostic testing. He has a B.A. degree from the University
of Colorado and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Initial Appointed Term May–November 2022. Appointed January 2023,
Current Term Ends November 2024.
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-hospital 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 2024.
Ms. Hogan has a wealth of experience in the health care industry, both
as a professional and as a patient advocate assisting family through serious
medical conditions. She has over 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical
industry, having worked for Novartis for the last 20 years. Among other
things, she established a Patient Services Center to provide reimbursement
support and disease education to patients with specialty diseases. She
was the co-chair of a Novartis executive women’s organization, leading
its growth from 50 to over 1,000 members. Ms. Hogan also helped with strategic
planning to prepare the corporation for changes brought on by the Affordable
Care Act. Ms. Hogan has served on a variety of nonprofit boards including
New Jersey Hospice. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ms. Hogan co-founded
Quarantine Cuisine, a service helping to fight food insecurities by delivering
meals and groceries to individuals in mandatory or self-imposed quarantine.
Appointed April 2015 – Current Term Ends November 2024.
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.
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 2024.
Jones was a Board member and Vice Chairman of the Board for the Children’s
National Hospital, Washington, DC and Board Chairman for the Children’s
Research Institute. He serves on the Board of Directors of the American
College of Medical Genetics Foundation and the Advisory Board for the
BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado. He is Managing Member,
jVenCapital, LLC, a life sciences investment company. Prior to forming
jVen Capital, He was cofounder, Chairman and CEO of Digene Corporation,
a publicly traded biotechnology company focused on women’s health
and molecular diagnostic testing. He has a B.A. degree from the University
of Colorado and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Initial Appointed Term May–November 2022. Appointed January 2023,
Current Term Ends November 2024.
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.
