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The NSAA Board of Directors welcomes four

new officers and three new directors:

Executive Committee New Directors

WIN SMITH, CHAIR JESSE BOYD, NEW ENGLAND REGION
Win Smith is the chairman and chief exec- Jesse Boyd has been the senior vice pres-
utive officer of Summit Ventures NE, ident of operations at Peak Resorts since
which owns Sugarbush Resort in Vermont. 2009. He has served in a number of oper-
He is also on the boards of the Vermont ating capacities since joining Peak in 2003
Ski Areas Association, Lake Champlain as the mountain manager of Crotched
Regional Chamber of Commerce, and Vermont Business Mountain in New Hampshire. Subsequently, he served as
Roundtable. Smith’s family is the majority owner of general manager at Hidden Valley in Missouri in 2004,
Sugarbush, and he oversees daily operation of the resort. and later as GM at Jack Frost and Big Boulder resorts in
Pennsylvania.
ALAN HENCEROTH, VICE CHAIR
Alan Henceroth is the chief executive CHRIS BATES, SOUTHEAST REGION
officer/vice president of Arapahoe Basin in Chris Bates is the co-owner and president
Colorado, where he has worked since 1988 of Cataloochee Ski Area in North Carolina.
in a variety of roles before becoming CEO/ Bates joined the resort as assistant ski area
VP in 2005. In addition to his participation manager in 1999, was promoted to GM in
on the NSAA Board, he serves on boards for The Summit 2004, and became president in 2014. He is
Foundation, the National Avalanche Foundation, and the vice president of the North Carolina Ski Areas Association,
Colorado Passenger Tramway Safety Board. past president of the Southeastern Ski Areas Association,
and serves on the board of the Haywood County Tourism
KEVIN MCCARTHY, SECRETARY Development Authority. He is also a longtime member of
Kevin McCarthy has been a part of the the NSAA Small Resort Committee.
White Pass Company since 1979, after
graduating from the Whittemore School of KENT SHARP, SUPPLIER MEMBER
Business and Economics at the University Kent Sharp has been with the SE Group
of New Hampshire, where he was a since 1996 and assumed company leader-
member of the ski team. McCarthy joined White Pass as ship as president/chief executive officer in
food and beverage manager, then became assistant general 2018. For the past 30 years, Sharp has been
manager before being promoted to general manager in 1984. engaged in mountain resort planning and
He became a principal owner and president of the company federal lands permitting. Before that he was a ski area permit
in 1992. He has been a past NSAA director and president of administrator for the US Forest Service.
Pacific Northwest Ski Areas Association (PNSAA).

PAT CAMPBELL, TREASURER
Pat Campbell is president of the mountain FACE SHOTS SUBMISSIONS
division for Vail Resorts (VR). She has Send press releases and other notices
been with VR since 1999, beginning about new-hires, promotions, and
as Breckenridge’s director of ski school, other important developments to the
moving over to Keystone as COO in 2006, NSAA Journal editor, Rebecca Ayers,
and returning to Breckenridge as COO in 2009. Campbell at bayers@nsaa.org.
began her career as an instructor with Wyoming’s Jackson
Hole Ski School, followed by a stint as ski school director at Please send photos as separate
Grand Targhee before joining VR. She currently serves on high-resolution attachments.
the board of the Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center.

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