Catherine Walker is Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary at REI. Prior to joining REI, she was Vice President for Administration/ University Counsel for Seattle University, and she was Sr. VP, General Counsel, and Secretary for Westin Hotels & Resorts from 1990 to 1998.

Catherine is co-founder of Plymouth Healing Communities and served six years as Chair of the Board of Directors. Walker was a member of REI's Board of Directors for 8 years, serving as Vice Chair and Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee.   Catherine earned her BS degree from the UW and JD degree, cum laude, from Seattle University. She holds a certificate from Seattle University’s Executive Leadership Program.

Ed Borey is an experienced Chairman, CEO and Board Member that has focused on growth and turnaround opportunities in a variety of global technology companies.  He is the Past Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of WatchGuard (WGRD) Technologies.  Prior to that Ed served as Chief Executive Officer of PSC (PSCX), Chief Operating Officer of Intermec (UNA) and in a variety of Executive positions in General Management, Marketing and Finance. Currently, Ed serves on the Board of AROTECH (ARTX).  Prior Public Board experience includes WatchGuard (WGRD), PSC (PSCX) and MBrane (CNRT).  This is augmented by experience in the Snohomish County YMCA Board of Trustees and participation in a number of Advisory Boards.

Ed received his BS in Economics and Political Science from State University of New York, College at Oswego; a Master of Arts, Public Administration from the University of Oklahoma; and, a MBA from Santa Clara University. 

Craig Cole is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Brown & Cole Stores of Bellingham, Washington, the oldest grocery company in the region. Brown & Cole is a regional supermarket chain of 31 stores and approximately 2,000 employees, and one of Washington's largest privately-held companies.

Mr. Cole graduated from Western Washington University's Fairhaven College. He was a state legislative aide and held management positions with the State of Washington and Foss Launch and Tug Company before joining Brown & Cole as Vice President in 1979, becoming its President and CEO in 1989. Mr. Cole has been a local elected official and has received several assignments from Washington's Governors, including appointment to the Governor's "Kitchen Cabinet", the State Human Rights Commission, Board of Trustees of Western Washington University, Governor Commission on Early Learning and the Governor's Commission on Employment of the Handicapped. He has also served on a blue ribbon panel on state school construction funding, on the State Public Lands Advisory Committee, and on the Washington State Energy Strategy Advisory Committee. In his home area of Whatcom County, he led a citizen task force in developing and implementing a long-range plan for preserving highly valued natural areas.

Craig serves on the Board of Directors of Puget Energy (Washington's largest energy utility), on the Board of Regents of the University of Washington, and on the Washington Roundtable, an organization of 40 CEOs of Washington's top companies who are involved in shaping public policy. Craig also has served as Chair of the Board of Directors of Associated Grocers of Seattle, the region's largest grocery wholesaler. Brown & Cole is its largest shareholder. In addition, he serves on the Board of Directors of the Food Marketing Institute (Washington, DC).

Brown & Cole is the recipient of numerous local, state, and national awards for entrepreneurship, strategic leadership, and public service. Craig has been named Citizen of the Year (Whatcom County Board of Realtors), Business Newsmaker of the Year (Bellingham Herald), Businessperson of the Year (Whatcom County Business Pulse Magazine), one of 100 newmakers in a Century of Community History (Bellingham Herald), and Western Washington University's 18th Distinguished Alumnus (2002). He was also awarded the prestigious Spirit of America Award for Washington State for civic leadership (National Grocers Association); and, in 1994, he was spokesperson for a delegation of business leaders who met at the White House with President Clinton on the topic of healthcare reform.

Evelyn Cruz Sroufe is a securities partner with the law firm Perkins Coie, and a frequent speaker and author on corporate governance issues. Ms. Sroufe also serves as a board member of the Virginia Mason Healthcare System and of the Washington Research Council.  

Ms. Sroufe is past director of Willamette Industries, Inc., Portland, OR, and Past President and CEO of The WebSea Group, Inc. She was a Vice President with Microsoft Corporation and a Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations with Visio Corporation.

Bob Felton is a Director Emeritus of McKinsey & Company, Inc.  Prior to retiring on August 1, 2005, he managed the Firm’s Seattle office, and he managed the Seoul, Korea office from 1996 to 2001.  He previously was a leader in the Los Angeles office from 1974 to 1996.  During his time with the Firm, Mr. Felton has served companies in a number of industries, most notably energy, industrial, consumer, and financial services.  He has helped these companies on a wide range of issues including sustaining profitable growth, business restructuring, operations improvement, strategy, organization, international growth, compensation/incentive systems, M&A, and board/corporate governance.  He has worked extensively in North America and Asia, and has a great deal of experience in Europe, South America, and the Middle East.

He started the McKinsey’s Board Governance practice in the early 1990’s and until recently lead the Firm’s governance activities globally.  In this content, he has helped boards of directors on a wide range of issues, including board organization and processes; board recruiting; board roles in strategy, leadership development and risk assessment; director recruiting; and CEO recruiting, development and evaluation.  While in Korea, he helped a number of boards, including POSCO’s, improve their activities.

Mr. Felton writes and speaks frequently on the topic of corporate leadership and board governance.  In the past year he has had articles published in Directors and Boards, Directorship, ISSue Alert, and the McKinsey Quarterly.  He has been quoted in Business Week, Fortune, New York Times, The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal and a number of other publications on corporate leadership and board governance matters.  Lastly, in 2003 Consulting Magazine named him one of the twenty-five most influential management consultants in the world.

Prior to joining McKinsey, Mr. Felton worked for General Electric Company for several years in engineering and manufacturing positions.  He has an M.B.A. with distinction from the Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Washington State University.  He grew up in a small farming town in Eastern Washington.

Chuck Gottschalk is a Managing Partner with Tatum, LLC. He has overseen the growth of Tatum’s Pacific Northwest practice to approx 45 professionals over the past six years. His 27 years of experience is deep and varied with a mix of senior strategic, operational, and financial experience at the CEO, President and CFO levels with emerging-growth companies, as well as in public accounting with a Big 4 firm. He has built and led strong teams, negotiated and closed strategic deals and financings, made numerous presentations to investment bankers/analysts/VCs, positioned two companies for an IPO, spun off a corporate division and sold two companies. Serving as a Managing Partner allows him to take full advantage of his combination of skill sets and experience.

Annette Jacobs serves as the Lead Independent Director for Alaska Communications Systems (NASDAQ:ALSK) and previously served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SafeHarbor Technology Corporation in Seattle.  In her 3.5 year tenure at SafeHarbor, she transformed the company from a dot-com to a technology leader serving Fortune 100 enterprise clients.  Its primary solution, SmartSupport™, developed under Ms. Jacobs’ leadership, combines software and business services to dramatically improve Web product support and was recognized with more than 16 industry distinctions in the last year.  SafeHarbor received a Stevie Award for “Best Overall Company” in June 2007, while Ms. Jacobs was honored with 2 Stevie Award finalist distinctions as CEO and Chairman of the Year.  

Jacobs entered the technology sector after a 24-year executive career, managing multi-billion dollar business units in wireless and telecom with GTE Wireless, Verizon Wireless, Qwest Communications and AT&T.  Ms. Jacobs' positions, as well as her board involvement, have spanned the country.  She is currently vice chair of the Washington Software Alliance (WSA), on the boards and executive committees for the Seattle Humane Society, and serves on the Seattle University Albers School of Business and Economics, Dean’s Executive Advisory Board.

Linda Killinger is the President of Olympic Consulting Partners, a venture capital and consulting firm. She is also teaching classes at the MBA school at the University of Washington. Before moving to Seattle she was the Executive Vice President of the Mercy Health Network (a 24-hospital firm), and Managing Director of Consulting Services for Deloitte & Touche LLP.

Recently she was also Vice Chair of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines, a for-profit $45 Billion AAA rated GSE. She served as Chair of the Audit and Compensation Committees.

She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Seattle Art Museum, the Board of Directors of the University of Washington Foundation, Board of Trustees of the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, the Board of Governors of the Iowa State University Foundation, and a member of United Way's Million Dollar Roundtable.

Before moving to Seattle, she served on the executive committees of the Boards of a number of Iowa boards including the Greater Des Moines Chamber of Commerce, the Mercy Hospital Foundation, the Greater Des Moines YWCA, the Greater Des Moines Airport Commission, the Iowa Business Group, the Greater Des Moines Ballet, the U.S. Small Business Advisory Council and many others. She also was appointed Chair of the Governor's Housing Task Force, Co- Chair of the Mayor's Economic Planning Commission, Co-Chair of the Mayor's Drug Task Force, Vice Chair of the Mayor's High School Equity Committee, and Vice Chair of the Mayor's Strategic Planning Commission.

She has completed post graduate work at the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, has an MBA from Drake University, and a Bachelor of Science from Iowa State University. She is a Certified Compensation Professional (CCP), a Certified Benefits Professional (CBP), a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), and a certified design professional (IIDA).

Mr. Leybold is the Chief Financial Officer for the Port Townsend Paper Company.

Mr. Leybold previously held CFO or board positions with The Port Blakeley Companies, RLC Industries and The Cutler Investment Group. He practiced public accounting with the Seattle office of an international firm until 1986. Mr. Leybold holds an MBA from the University of Oregon and graduated maxima cum laude from the University of Portland.

He serves on the board of BJSS Duarte Bryant, and is a member of Financial Executives International and the Association.

Arlen I. “Arnie” Prentice is Chairman and CEO of Kibble & Prentice, a Pacific Northwest financial services firm providing commercial and personal property and casualty insurance brokerage, a full range of employee benefit services, and investment advisory services to high net worth individuals and qualified retirement plan sponsors.  

He also serves on the board of directors of Flow International (nasdaq), Northland Telecommunication Corporation and Pacific Marketing International. Mr. Prentice served nineteen years on the Starbucks Coffee Company board of directors and as the non-executive chairman of Percon Inc. (nasdaq) for eight years. He is also a principal of the Prentice Family Partnership which invests primarily in early stage Pacific Northwest companies including the Northwest Drug Emporium franchise (sold to Longs Drugs), Optiva Corporation – maker of the Sonicare toothbrush (sold to Phillips), Wizards of the Coast (sold to Hasbro), Advanced H2O (sold to LaSalle Partners) and Spider Staging (sold to Flow International).  

Mr. Prentice is a member of many professional and civic associations at the international, national and local levels, including the Million Dollar Round Table, the Central Washington University Foundation Board of Directors, the Board of Trustees for the Seattle World Trade Center, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Business Alliance and the Methow Conservancy.

Ms. Rorem is President and Chief Executive Officer of ClearMedical, Inc. , and serves on the Board of Directors of Flow International (NASDQ: FLOW). Prior to joining ClearMed, Sandra served as Chief Executive Officer of Medalia HealthCare, LLC, a medical practice of 350 doctors in 50 clinics with a $189 million operating budget and $40 million capital budget. In addition, Sandra led and implemented strategic planning efforts for the merger and acquisition of primary care and associate lines of business for two major health systems, and built the infrastructure to manage over 100,000 full risk managed care lives.

Before joining Medalia, Sandra served 17 years with the Providence Health System where she held numerous key executive positions. She was a founding member of the Leadership Institute, and has presented at numerous conferences on a variety of healthcare topics. She is a Board Certified member and Diplomat in the American College of Health Care Executives, and a member of the American College of Medical Practice Administrators. She holds an MBA from the University of Washington.