LEADERSHIP VISIT SPEAKERS...Mike Ballantyne Land Brokerage Specialist/Managing Partner Thornton Oliver Keller Commercial Real Estate Michael has 21 years of experience spe - cializing

Mike BallantyneLand Brokerage Specialist/Managing PartnerThornton Oliver Keller Commercial Real EstateMichael has 21 years of experience spe-cializing in land acquisition and dispo-sition, as well as investment brokerage.Since 2005, Michael has completedtransactions with an aggregate value inexcess of $294 million and comprisingmore than 31,000 acres of landthroughout Southwest Idaho. Michaelserves as the managing partner ofThornton Oliver Keller. In this role, hecollaborates with the company's leadership team, offers in-sight and direction in business organization, planning, per-sonnel management and corporate vision. In addition, he hasperformed site selection throughout the western U.S. Someof his customers and clients include: Bank of the Cascades,Key Bank, Marvell Semiconductor, Allstate Insurance Com-pany, The Athlete's Foot, Bridgestone/Firestone, CostcoWholesale, Tates Rents, Inc., Prestige Care, Inc., RegenceBlueShield of Idaho, The Wolff Companies, Micron Technology,Hewlett Packard, Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center,Kindred Healthcare, and the Boise School District. Michaelholds the prestigious Certified Commercial Investment Mem-ber (CCIM) designation. Only about 15,000 commercial realestate professionals worldwide hold the CCIM designation.Michael also holds the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors(SIOR) designation. He is a Graduate of the Realtors Institute(GRI) and is a member of the Ada County, Idaho, and NationalAssociation of Realtors. Michael is also a member of the In-ternational Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and the Real-tors Land Institute (RLI). In 2001, Michael was recognized asone of Idaho's "Accomplished Under Forty" by the Idaho Busi-ness Review. In 2011, he co-chaired the Boise Valley EconomicPartnership (BVEP) Competitive Edge Initiative, raising nearly$4 million to bring new jobs to the community. In 2012,Michael was recognized by the Idaho Business Review as a"CEO of Influence" in Idaho. In 2013, Michael chaired theBVEP Board of Directors. Michael currently chairs the SmallBusiness Administration's Regional Regulatory Fairness Boardfor Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Alaska. Michael holds aBachelor of Arts degree in International Studies and Spanishfrom Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. He also at-tended the Universidad de Alicante in Spain.

David BieterMayorCity of BoiseDavid was elected Mayor of Boise in2003, fulfilling a dream he's had sincehe was a boy growing up in the city'sNorth End. He's now serving his fourthfour-year term and is the longest serv-ing mayor in the city's 150-year history.From the beginning, Mayor Bieter'smission has been to make Boise themost livable city in the country, a goalthat continues to transform the citygovernment's culture, drive its strategic direction and buildBoise's reputation as a welcoming city and center for busi-ness, culture, education and outdoor recreation. Mayor Bi-eter was born in Boise, attended Bishop Kelly High Schooland received a degree in International Studies from The Col-lege of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. He earned his law de-gree from the University of Idaho and gained experience inmunicipal government as civil counsel to Bonner County inNorth Idaho. He later served as a land-use specialist in theAda County Prosecutor's Office before opening a privatepractice in Boise. Bieter was appointed to his father's seatin the Idaho Legislature following the tragic death of his par-ents, Pat and Eloise Bieter, in a car accident in 1999. He wasre-elected to the District 19 House seat in 2000 and 2002.

Cherie Buckner-WebbIdaho State SenatorElected to the Idaho House of Rep-resentatives in 2010 and the IdahoSenate in 2012 and 2014 by a widemargin, Cherie's message reflectsthe same collaborative and visionarygoals she emphasizes in her life andwork. As the Senate Assistant Minor-ity Leader, she serves on the Trans-portation, Education and StateAffairs Standing Committees as wellas the Capitol Services, Public Defense Reform, LegislativeCouncil, Idaho Council on Indian Affairs and Justice Reinvest-ment interim committees. She serves as Senate MinorityCaucus Chair and as a State Director for Women in Govern-

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ment, and she is Idaho's first African-American legislator. Afifth-generation Idahoan, Cherie is the principal of a success-ful coaching and consulting business and a respected voicein Idaho's business community. Her experience spans multi-ple disciplines, in a variety of roles with both corporate andsmall business enterprises. She also is a nationally recog-nized keynote speaker, consultant, coach and communityleader. Buckner-Webb has also been focused on improvingIdaho's economy and adding good-paying jobs. Encouraginginput from the business community, she recognizes that toattract business, the state must offer a well-trained pool ofapplicants. This means investing in public schools, higher ed-ucation and workforce training programs, and Cherie hasbeen a tireless proponent of improving all three. In 2014, shealso supported the Hire Idaho Act, a bill that would havegiven Idaho companies preference against out-of-state com-panies when bidding on state government contracts. Cherieis also a leading voice in the fight against discrimination inIdaho. She is the co-sponsor of legislation to "Add theWords," which aims to end legalized discrimination againstIdahoans because of gender identity and/or sexual orienta-tion. Cherie has also been a strong ally on issues concerningwomen's rights and continues to promote fair treatment forall. Her leadership also extends into the non-profit sector.She is the founding board member of the Idaho Black HistoryMuseum in Boise and has won numerous awards for her pub-lic service. Cherie attended Boise schools: Central, Washing-ton, and Lowell Elementary Schools, North Junior High, BoiseHigh School and Boise State University. She also attendedthe University of Alabama and graduated from George FoxUniversity with a Bachelor of Arts, Management and Organi-zational Leadership degree. She earned a Master of SocialWork degree from Northwest Nazarene University.

Bill ConnorsPresident & CEOBoise Metro Chamber of CommercePrior to joining the Boise Chamber, Billserved on the U.S. Chamber of Com-merce Association Committee of 100,representing the most influential asso-ciation CEOs in the U.S. Bill began hiscareer as an educator in upstate NewYork, where he was a teacher, guidancecounselor, coach and school adminis-trator. In the 1990’s, he entered leader-ship positions in the nation's most prominent travel industrytrade associations in Boston and Washington, D.C. Since ar-riving in Boise in 2009, Bill has been appointed Vice Chair-man of the Boise Airport Commission, and to the Boards ofthe Idaho Technology Council, Idaho Business for Education,Boise Valley Economic Partnership, Boise Convention & Vis-itor's Bureau, Downtown Boise Association and Associationof Chamber of Commerce Executives. He also chairs the Bet-ter Boise Coalition and the Idaho Chamber Alliance and wasnamed "Idaho CEO of Influence" in 2012 by the Idaho Busi-ness Review. Previously, Bill was executive director and COOof the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), the world'slargest business travel organization. In seven years withGBTA, Bill grew the organization's revenue 72 percent, whileexpanding the organization to new offices in Australia,Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Europe. While in Washington, Billwas appointed by President Bush to the Next Generation AirTransportation Board and the Aviation Security AdvisoryCouncil. He held board seats on the U.S. Travel Association,the Convention Industry Council, Business for Diplomatic Ac-tion, the Travel Institute and the Alexandria, VA Convention& Visitors Bureau. Prior to GBTA, Bill held the position of Sen-ior Vice President of the American Society of Travel Agents(ASTA) in Washington, DC, and before that, was Vice Presi-dent of the Travel Institute in Boston, MA. Bill has a bache-lor’s degree from St. Lawrence University, and holds fourmaster’s degrees.



Dale DixonChief Innovation OfficerBetter Business Bureau Northwest + PacificDale has 30-years of broadcast newsand media communication experienceworking in radio and for CBS, ABC, &NBC-TV affiliates. Dale is a regular con-tributor to daily newspapers, TV andradio stations and speaks to live audi-ences about personal development,business ethics and protecting yourmoney from scams. Dale is an Associ-ated Press and Idaho Press Club award winner, Better Busi-ness Bureau Integrity Counts honoree, and was named anIdaho Business Review Accomplished Under 40 recipient.

Mike FrancisOwner/BrewerPayette Brewing CompanyMike left corporate life as an industrialengineer to engineer some industry ofhis own. He earned a Bachelor of Sci-ence degree from the University ofWashington and spent nearly threeyears as an industrial engineer withBoeing Corporation in Seattle before de-ciding to take a different path. After re-ceiving an Associate Degree in BrewingTechnology from Chicago's Siebel Institute of Technology, hespent a brief amount of time at Schooner Exact Brewing inSeattle. Then he headed to his home turf of Boise in 2010 toestablish Payette Brewing Company. After six years in busi-ness, the company has expanded its reach by opening a sec-ond production facility and tasting room in the heart ofdowntown Boise, which functions as its main office and head-quarters.

Clark KrauseExecutive DirectorBoise Valley Economic Development PartnershipClark Krause has been the Executive Di-rector of the Boise Valley EconomicPartnership (BVEP) since 2010. In thattime, Clark has been instrumental increating a new mission based on meas-urable and accountable actions andgoals. In the past six-plus years, the or-ganization has welcomed 23 compa-nies and over 4,300 jobs to the BoiseMetro. Clark has been on dozens of national sales missionspromoting the Boise Valley to companies and site consult-ants, built a marketing program and public relations out-reach, and actively advocates for local and statewideprograms that will jumpstart economic-based job growth. Hewas also instrumental in helping pass two new state incen-tives: the Idaho Opportunity Fund and the Tax Reimburse-ment Incentive. Clark's knowledge of state incentiveprograms has helped Idaho become a nationally competitiveplayer in economic development. Clark’s team created “Grow.Ideas. Here.”, an initiative that launched in 2014 to assistlocal Boise Metro companies attract new workforce talent. In2017, Clark redesigned the organization, strategically addingtwo workforce talent experts to the team; BVEP is nowuniquely positioned to help companies grow workforce talentin the next decade. An organization dedicated to helping thecommunity grow, find and keep the talent needs of the future.Clark came to BVEP with a strong history and experience ineconomic development, spending seven years as Presidentand CEO of the New Mexico Partnership. During his tenureat the New Mexico Partnership, Clark and his team weretasked with out of state recruitment of economic-based jobsinto New Mexico. Under his leadership, the Partnership at-tracted 45 companies and created over 14,000 jobs in thestate. Prior to his time in New Mexico, Clark was the Directorof Economic Development for Cedar City/Iron County, Utah,where he recruited nine companies, 1,150 jobs, and $185 mil-lion worth of industrial development. He also spent sevenyears as Director of Sales and Marketing for the Brian HeadSki Resort in southern Utah, and ten years in sales and mar-keting for American Honda Motor Corporation and FordMotor Company.



Dr. Robert W. KustraPresidentBoise State UniversityDr. Bob Kustra has led a trans-formation that has turned BoiseState into a metropolitan re-search university of distinction.In 2016, Boise State was offi-cially designated a Carnegie doc-toral research university — agoal of Dr. Kustra’s since he wasappointed president in 2003.Harnessing the creativity andcan-do attitude that Boise Statefootball famously exhibited inthree Fiesta Bowl wins, Dr. Kus-tra continues to challenge our campus community to reimag-ine and reinvent the higher education experience to betterprepare our students to take their place in the workplace oftoday and tomorrow. The latest example is the College of In-novation and Design, providing new cross-disciplinary ma-jors and courses designed to build the skills employersdemand, while incubating the most innovative and excitingideas facing Boise State and higher education today. The cam-pus community has changed dramatically with increases inthe number of full time students, the academic profile of in-coming students, the number of out-of-state students, and afocus on maintaining a vibrant undergraduate atmosphereand experience. Boise State now confers more than 46 per-cent of all bachelor’s degrees awarded by Idaho public col-leges and universities and has also more than doubled itsgraduate offerings. It is now the largest graduate college inIdaho. Boise State’s campus has expanded considerably inDr. Kustra’s tenure. After nearly $400 million in capital devel-opment, the university now boasts state-of-the art multidis-ciplinary buildings, high-tech classrooms, clean rooms andlaboratories, and cutting-edge facilities for the arts, businessand economics, engineering, science, public policy and more.The University recently broke ground on an innovative andiconic Center for Fine Arts and planning is underway for theMicron Center for Materials Research, enabled by a $25 mil-lion donation from the Micron Foundation. Before coming toIdaho, Dr. Kustra had a long and distinguished career in pub-lic service in Illinois, serving two terms as lieutenant gover-nor, and 10 years in the Illinois legislature, where he served

in leadership. He chaired the Illinois Board of Higher Educa-tion, responsible for funding and oversight of the state’s ninepublic universities. He served as president of the MidwesternHigher Education Commission and president of Eastern Ken-tucky University. He has held faculty positions at Northwest-ern University, the University of Illinois-Chicago, LoyolaUniversity of Chicago and the University of Illinois-Spring-field. Each week, Dr. Kustra features lively conversations withsome of the nation’s leading fiction and non-fiction authorson his radio show, Reader’s Corner, which airs weekly onBoise State’s NPR station. Dr. Kustra holds degrees fromBenedictine College and Southern Illinois University, and aPh.D. in political science from the University of Illinois, Ur-bana-Champaign.

Peter O’NeillFounder & PrincipalO’Neill Enterprises, LLCPeter is the founder of O'Neill Enter-prises LLC. In his role as chief advisorfor strategic planning, Pete is active inidentifying potential land acquisitionopportunities and providing experienceinsight into the viability of potentialO'Neill Enterprises projects. He wasborn and raised in Chappaqua, NewYork, and received his B.A. degree fromDartmouth College in 1959. His first job was as a sales engi-neer for ALCOA from 1959-1963. He then attended StanfordUniversity Business School and, upon graduation in 1965,joined Boise Cascade Corporation. After holding several man-agement positions with Boise Cascade and rising to seniorvice president, he resigned in 1976 to pursue entrepreneurialventures. The first was the co-founding of the SandpiperRestaurant in Boise. He and his partners built the Sandpiperinto a chain of five restaurants in Idaho and Oregon, sellingthe business in 1985. In 1979, O'Neill started River Run De-velopment Company, the predecessor of OE LLC. The venturedeveloped River Run, a 120-acre planned residential commu-nity along the Boise River. River Run received the covetedUrban Land Institute Award for Excellence in 1990. Other OELLC residential communities include Spring Meadow, TheSprings, Meadow Creek and Surprise Valley in Boise; LaneRanch in Sun Valley, Idaho; Spring Mountain Ranch in Mc-Call, Idaho; Woodbridge in Meridian, Idaho; and most re-



cently Bown Crossing, a mixed-use community in southeastBoise. O'Neill has been active in community affairs, havingserved on the boards of a number of community entities in-cluding Fundsy, The Greater Boise Area Chamber of Com-merce, the Boise Metro Economic Development Council, TheChildren's Home/Warm Springs Center, the Boise FuturesFoundation, Bogus Basin and Bogus Basin Ski Racing Al-liance. He also served as chairman of the Boise Redevelop-ment Agency in the mid-1980s, during which time theplanning, refinancing and rebirth of the heart of the city tookplace. Currently, he serves on the Steering Committee forBlueprint for Good Growth and as Chairman of The TreasureValley Air Quality Council. He has served on the Board ofTrustees of the College of Idaho and The Nature Conservancyof Idaho, the steering committee of Blueprint for GoodGrowth, and the boards of IdaCorp, Idaho Power Co. andBuilding Materials Holding Corporation. O'Neill also hasserved on the policy advisory board for the National Associ-ation of Homebuilders and on the HarvardMIT Joint Centerfor Urban Studies and is a member of the Urban Land Insti-tute.

Mike RockwoodExecutive Vice President, FinanceBalsam BrandsMike Rookwood is the EVP of Financeat Balsam Brands, where he managesthe finance, accounting, treasury, andinventory planning functions, andserves on the company’s LeadershipTeam. Balsam Brands strives to be aplace where employees love their jobsand that remains profitable. While Mikeloves working to realize these goals withhis Balsam colleagues, the most meaningful portions of hisday are often outside of the workspace. Mike lives in Boise,Idaho, with his young and growing family, and when he isn’twatching baseball and soccer games or dance recitals, onemight find him biking in the foothills, running on the green-belt, or fishing on the river. Mike is a Certified Public Ac-countant and before joining the Balsam team, worked as asenior manager for Deloitte. He graduated from the Univer-sity of Texas at Austin with a Masters in Professional Account-ing and received a bachelor’s degree from Utah StateUniversity.

Faisal ShahFounderMarkMonitorAfter a legal career and a partnership atPillsbury Madison & Sutro, a New Yorklaw firm, Shah in 1999 began to co-found technology and services compa-nies in Boise to protect the brands ofcorporations and their customers on-line. His first startup, MarkMonitor,was sold in 2012 to Thomson Reuters.His second, First to File, was bought byCPA Global in 2013. In 2011, Shah co-founded AppDetex tohelp mobile-app owners protect their intellectual property byeliminating fake copycat apps in mobile app stores. Shah isa co-founder of Trailhead Boise, a nonprofit that helpsBoiseans start and build businesses. He founded the formerNebula Shift, a tech-business incubator, with partner JamesHepworth. He advises and invests in Idaho startups andmentors young entrepreneurs in programs such asBllaunched, an initiative he established with the Boise YoungProfessionals, an arm of the Boise Metro Chamber of Com-merce.

Ray StarkSenior Vice President, Government & CommunityRelationships, EventsBoise Metro Chamber of CommerceIn his capacity with the Boise MetroChamber of Commerce, Ray overseesthe Chamber's comprehensive pro-gram of advocacy of business issueswith local, state and federal govern-ments, including transportation, educa-tion and tax policy. Ray also overseesthe Chamber's significant conferencesand events for business and commu-nity leaders. Prior to his position with the chamber of com-merce, Ray served 12 years on the staff of the Idaho StateLegislature as a financial analyst, with budgetary emphasison higher education, health and welfare, prisons and thestate's building program. Among his current community ac-tivities, Ray is Past Chairman of the Boise Philharmonic As-sociation and serves on advisory boards for Boise StateUniversity, the University of Idaho and Bishop Kelley High



School. Ray graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University ofIdaho with undergraduate degrees in Political Science andHistory and a Master's degree in public administration.

Megan StollMarketing Director & Co-FounderTreefort Music FestMegan is a North Car-olina native, but hascalled Boise her homefor the past nine years.She went from workingin the corporate world topursuing her love ofmusic, art, and design.When she’s not scouringmusic blogs, she works in creative marketing by promotingshows at multiple venues in downtown Boise and helpsbands gain visibility. Megan is a partner in The Duck Club, abooking and promotions company based in Boise. She isalso a co-founder and Marketing Director of Boise’s TreefortMusic Fest (year #8 in March 2019). Megan is a co-host ofExplorations on Radio Boise, Wednesdays from 5-7 p.m.



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