Advisory Board Colorado

Kara Buckley, a full-time resident of Crested Butte, Colorado, is the founder and director of the Crested Butte Institute, which engages in academic research in three Western Slope policy areas: energy, land use, and water. Kara has spent three decades in education, as a high school teacher, a graduate lecturer, a college professor, and a department chair. 

Most recently, Chavez served as director of Global Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Relations for Ball Corporation. Chavez led Ball’s global social sustainability strategy and corporate citizenship initiatives. Additionally, he served as Executive Director of the Ball Foundation, partnering with nonprofits in areas of environmental sustainability, disaster relief, food security, and STEM education. 

Chris is a real estate sales & marketing executive based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has 25 years of success in sales of resort real estate and urban infill properties. He has been intimately involved in the planning & development of master planned resort communities in the Park City and Salt Lake areas and is currently a consultant to one of Utah’s largest developers, City Creek Reserve Inc.

Most recently at Panasonic as the Executive Managing Director, Scott Ingvoldstad started a new position in 2019 as the Vice President of WSP, one of the world’s leading engineering professional service firms. Previous experience includes nearly 12 years at CH2M as the Vice President of Government Relations and the Colorado Area Manager. There, he led permitting, land acquisition and branding to help deliver the City of Aurora, Colorado’s innovative water supply project, the Prairie Waters Project. From 2003 to 2006, Scott operated his own communications and political consulting company. There he represented political campaigns, foundations and companies such as the Big Horn Institute, Trout Unlimited, John Salazar for Congress and Bill Ritter for Governor. Before that, Scott was the regional strategic communications officer for Environmental Defense Fund’s Rocky Mountain office where he managed the legislative affairs and public communications. He has played leadership roles in numerous ballot campaigns including the campaign to preserve ten percent of Colorado’s State Trust lands. Scott is an avid mountain biker, and has been certified as an EMT.

Jeff Resnick is a former partner and managing director at Goldman Sachs, where he was global head of commodities trading and money market businesses and served on the firm's risk and finance committees.