M E M B E R S

Matt was born and raised in Boulder where he stayed through his graduation from CU. He then traveled and worked through New Zealand, Southeast Asia, Europe, and Patagonia, eventually finding himself on a fishing boat in Alaska.

It was on the deck of that fishing boat at the end of a 40-hour shift when Matt decided to apply to Lewis & Clark law school in Oregon, dreaming of a career in environmental litigation. Despite the distractions of fly fishing for steelhead, and training a hunting dog, he actually did graduate on time.

Matt spent the next five years working for a litigation firm specializing in natural resource issues, handling cases in state and federal courts related to agriculture, timber, mining, public lands, tribal law, fisheries, wildlife management, and most importantly, water. During this same span of time, Matt and his wife Sonya bought a small ranch in southern Oregon where they kept sheep, cattle, horses, chickens, bees, and did endless fence work and wildfire mitigation…

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Rett grew up in Mississippi and Alabama, and has been a Colorado resident for over 15 years. He has spent most of his career building sales teams or leading growth for a wide range of businesses, from early-stage venture-backed startups to Fortune 50 companies.

In 2021, Rett founded Sholder, an Uber-like platform providing radically affordable, one-to-one emotional support as an employee benefit for low/mid-wage workers. Compassionate elders are trained and qualified as Spaceholders™ (aka "Sholders"), allowing them to earn a side income while delivering non-clinical video & audio sessions on the platform.

Rett is a classically trained singer who is always on the hunt for new karaoke locations and duet partners…

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Kip grew up in Loveland, Colorado as the youngest of three siblings. In his early years, he narrowly focused on sports (basketball & baseball), and analytical challenges (math & chess). Growing up, his best friends were twins so loved being in a "crowd of three.”

In the early 2010s, Kip lived in Ireland while getting his MBA at Trinity College Dublin, and still tries to make it back yearly to see friends in Europe. His time in Europe shaped his worldview and helped him discover a keen interest in investing and developing business strategies.

Kip is striving to build a business that allows him the opportunity to do the work he loves with people he respects. He supports digital service businesses in DC, Los Angeles, Houston, and Indianapolis as a Fractional CFO. He has an investing podcast that is focused on making investing fun and approachable while still being grounded in the quality investing principles of Benjamin Graham…

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David is a Neo-Renaissance man who believes in living a fulfilling multi-dimensional life. He was born and raised in the southern part of India and immigrated to the US in 1999 during the dot.com boom. Since his arrival to the U.S., David has lived in California and New York and moved to Colorado in 2004.

Over his twenty-year career working in corporate IT, David has been active in the startup world as a mentor and innovator and is currently working on growing his own Business Strategy & Advisory practice, which focuses on developing strategic positioning, business identity, building Intellectual property, and incorporating economies of scale.

Among his many other passions, David enjoys reading, creating content, playing music, riding his motorcycle, and getting his style on point. His life heroes include Soren Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jacques Lacan, and Woody Allen. His routine of sunrise walks, physical workouts, and meditation gives him the freedom to pursue his vision, purpose, and mission…

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Eddie Zapata is a Chicago native who moved to Boulder ten years ago from Washington DC. Upon graduation from high school, Eddie joined the US Marine Corps, where he spent six years serving in Somalia, Morocco, Honduras, Okinawa, and Korea. 

After his military service, Eddie attended Northern Illinois University to study History, and then teach high school history in Illinois, Arizona, and Colombia. He is also an amateur writer who needs to stop procrastinating and finish his manuscript! 

Currently, Eddie works as a ride share driver, offering private trips to executives, and many City Club members, to and from Boulder…

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Anna Stephenson grew up the oldest of seven siblings working on a family farm in a wild and beautiful region of Wisconsin. Living life communally close to nature continues to be a guidepost on her path.

While obtaining degrees in business and anthropology, Anna grew up spending summers doing humanitarian and mission work as part of teams around the world. She continues to enjoy adventures with a purpose such as a pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago, and backpacking in Utah with her teenager’s therapy program.

Anna believes journeys are full of lessons in the art of navigating life with common sense, grace, hopefully some wisdom, and love most of all. Her current adventure of raising her three children with her husband of 25 years provides plenty of opportunities to practice what she preaches. In her work as a career coach, it is a true joy to help others discover the course toward their self-knowledge, fulfillment, and legacy…

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I grew up on a Kansas dirt road on the outskirts of Wichita, down the road from our family business, Gilpin Feed and Supply, which my grandfather started. I happily worked at the store and helped out at the farm and the dog kennel as far back as I can remember, loading and unloading bales of hay, straw, grass seed, sweet grain, dog food, and bird seed. I cleaned out the stables, rode, brushed, and fed the horses and other animals, herded cattle, drove them to market, and learned a lot about life along the way. I was never treated differently because I was a girl, as long as I always worked hard, and made myself useful.

My interests include running outdoors, hiking, writing snail mail letters, fashion, art, calligraphy, learning about and experiencing different cultures, wine, seeing how fast I can go on a go-cart, and listening to and making music. I play the saxophone with my Rockstar husband.

My major motivators include nurturing community, harmony, genuine connection, transparency, hard work, respect, integrity, a strong relationship with God, and the idea that small things make a big difference.

During high school, I spent every penny I earned traveling to NYC during summer and spring breaks to find internships, explore the city, learn the trains, and convince Columbia University to let me live in their vacant dorm rooms or rent a room at the midtown YMCA. Current projects include guest/substitute teaching in Boulder Valley and St. Vrain Valley school districts, taking calligraphy classes and jobs, playing more music, and helping my husband with his business start-up called HearLabs. Future projects include buying a house with enough land for some cattle, horses, and a music studio…

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My background is in conventional medicine, pediatric infectious diseases, and I have been practicing Integrative Medicine for the past 5 years. I completed a two year fellowship in this specialty through the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine. My focus is detoxification of the microbiome and the cell.

What is health?

Health: Is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. -World Health Organization, 1948.

The goal of my practice is to restore health and wellness - harmony between the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of life. The healing process has a multifaceted approach addressing all aspects of life. I always start with physical health first and may expand based on individual interest. I have a private practice in Boulder, for in person visits, and offer telehealth services.

My family and I moved to Boulder, CO in 2020. I am delighted to be a member of the Highland City Club where community and giving back are some of the core values. I look forward to learning from each other…

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Boulder entrepreneur, Mo Siegel, founded Celestial Seasonings in 1970 and for more than 29 years was Chairman and President of the largest manufacturer and marketer of specialty teas in North America.

Mo is the Director of his family office and has served on 5 public company boards and 17 private corporate Boards of Directors and non-profit foundations, such as Whole Foods, Annie's, Himalayan Cataract Project, Jesusonian Foundation, Chocolove, Haines Celestial, Boulder Community Hospital, Colorado Impact Fund, and Camelback Corp. He currently serves as Chairman of GOCO (Great Outdoors Colorado).

An avid outdoorsman, Mo founded America’s then-largest international bicycle stage race (formerly the Red Zinger Bicycle Classic and later the Coors Classic) from 1975 - 1989. He's climbed all the Colorado 14ers and traveled to 100 countries. Mo is an active skier, hiker and biker, an avid gardener, reader, and a pickleball player.

Married to his wife, Jennifer, Mo is the proud father of five and grandfather of seven…

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Steve grew up on the water in his native New Zealand, sharing his family's love of sailing, which turned into the start of his career as an engineer designing multi-million dollar racing yachts, and building and coaching high-performing teams to help his clients win the world's most demanding yacht races.

This career brought him to Annapolis, MD, where he rose to be a leader at the world's top yacht design firm. There he worked on many grand prix and round the world race winning designs, as well as multiple America's Cup team stints. These experiences gave him a grounding in high-performing teams, which he took into the Government contracting field, becoming a certified PMP project manager and helping the US Navy launch ships into the fleet…

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Alex grew up in the foothills of Albuquerque, NM, and was an accomplished swimmer. He then moved to Texas to attend college in the late ’90s where he studied business and economics. After college Alex worked as a commercial real estate developer until starting his first company in 2009. After the sale of his company, Alex formed GerTeck Holdings to make strategic investments in businesses and opportunities that were aligned with his and his partner's purpose of providing enduring value.

Alex was heavily influenced by his Grandparents who left a comfortable life in Chicago in 1970 and moved to Santa Fe to pursue their dreams of having land and horses and being a Judge (Grandfather) and Art Gallery owner (Grandmother). In 2018, Alex moved his family to Boulder to pursue his dreams mostly around the quality of life in a community of enlightened people with shared values in a beautiful mountain setting.

Alex spends Mondays at Highland City Club working on his various business ventures, and the balance of his time he trains and competes at a high level as a triathlete. Alex also enjoys skiing, travel, camping, and helping raise his two boys ages 6 and 9. As a side note, Alex is seeking help in creating an inventory and liquidating over 2000 art pieces, and welcomes guidance and recommendations from members.

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Carla Fredericks is the CEO of The Christensen Fund and a seasoned leader in sustainable economic development, human rights, business, finance, Indigenous Peoples law, and Federal Indian law.

Carla’s career focus has been the realization of Indigenous Peoples human rights. She has served in several capacities, including providing core support to the UN Special Rapporteur on Rights of Indigenous Peoples for the entirety of her two terms, serving as of counsel to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in bringing their opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline to international fora and financial institutions, assisting the Maya peoples of Southern Belize in implementing the affirmation of their land rights, and developing a model for Indigenous-driven consent processes and remedy.

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In 2008, after a three-year work stint in New York, my wife Karal and I decided to move to Colorado, and chose Boulder to plant our roots, and plan our new lives. My career path was managing hotels, restaurants, and conference centers; and her path was owning a hair salon. Since then, we have both thrived independently together.

I have always been passionate about health, diet, and physical fitness as a path to personal growth. My other passions are riding motorcycles in the summer, and snowboarding in the winter, allowing me to enjoy the seasonal cycles, and to ground myself.

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In 2015, faced with the prospect of becoming an empty nester, Lisa made the leap to put her Chicago area home for sale and move directly to Boulder’s foothills. She has not looked back since. At the time, Lisa was a partner at a wealth management firm, and after her move to Colorado, she launched her own registered investment advisory firm—Opus Financial Solutions.

Before moving to Colorado, Lisa worked in securities compliance, investment analysis, institutional portfolio management, and teaching investments and financial planning topics at the undergraduate and graduate levels.These different fields of study methodically converged to shape her final career path. Given her personal experience with divorce with young children, she developed an expertise in divorce financial planning and mediation to help people make more informed financial decisions and make the process of divorce less painful and expensive.

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Michelle is a recovering litigator who was able to rediscover the joy of helping people through work in a variety of countries and personal progress toward spiritual freedom.

Michelle’s early legal career as a litigator was most interesting as it related to matters of the built environment. She then began working on the policy level to help national and local governments determine strategy and enact rules related to construction, spatial planning, informal settlements, urban resilience, and property rights. Through this policy work, she ignited a passion for creating impacts on a large scale.

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I grew up in Europe where I was a travel agent and tour guide leading cultural exchange programs. I have lived in Boulder since my early 20s, and attended Free School classes at Highland during a previous incarnation of the building.

I owned and managed a land surveying and engineering company for many years, and completed projects including Concourse B at DIA, the CU Research Park, Arvada Arts and Humanities Complex, and many others, including the initial survey of Highland when Sina first bought it in 1978.

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City Club member and Scholar in Residence Kevin Townley is an author, teacher, and student of the Western Mysteries and Ageless Wisdom for nearly 40 years. He began his studies in a Carmelite Seminary at the age of 13, and from there was drawn to study the Ageless Wisdom. Kevin completed his decade-long curriculum with the Builders of the Adytum, a comprehensive study in the western Mysteries which includes the Qabalah, Tarot, Tree of Life, Alchemy, and Astrology.

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David Spiro has been a member of the City Club for more than 10 years, and claims his membership is a major factor in making him grow into the person he is today.

David started the City Club movie series, including the Dinner and a Movie special events, showing a movie followed by a wonderful meal that tied in with the theme of the movie. He was also responsible for locating the first piano City Club bought and owns to this date, to encourage community music and singing.

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I have lived in Boulder for over 20 years and raised my family here. We have two boys, Cutter(23) and Charlie(20). Cutter works for Amazon Web Services, and Charlie is a Sophomore at the University of Wisconsin. My wife, Timolyn, and I are approaching our 25th anniversary of marriage.

I started my career at Andersen Consulting, now Accenture, doing Systems Integration work. From there I moved to SignalSoft, which was a Boulder start-up that laid the foundations for location services in the wireless industry.

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