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FACE SHOTS PEOPLE chief of legal, ethics officer, and corporate PLACES secretary in 2008, and has held that post Mt. Rose-Ski Tahoe, ever since. Notably, she is the niece of Breckenridge Ski Resort, Colorado, Nevada, has a new Alan Dershowitz, the well-known Har- is celebrating 30 years of snowboarding creative director, Billy vard Law School professor, author, and at the resort this season. In the 1984-85 Jesberg. Jesberg brings political commentator. season, Breckenridge became one of the considerable experience first major ski resorts in the country to in design, social media, Billy Jesberg Holiday Valley, New allow snowboarding—and a year later and web development to the position, York, has hired Michael hosted one of the initial major snowboard having worked with Mammoth Moun- Nenno as its new terrain competitions in the industry. The resort tain, California; Billboard Magazine; and park and events manager. has an Olympic-sized, 22-foot superpipe ShortStack. Nenno has worked with and four terrain parks creating a park the Holiday Valley Snow Michael Nenno progression system for beginners and Spencer Weimar is Sports Team and has been involved with intermediates. the new director of sales, the alpine racing programs for more than marketing, and reserva- 20 years. Wildcat Mountain, New Hampshire, tions for Mt. Bachelor, is undergoing the largest snowmaking Oregon. Weimar spent Vail Resorts has appointed Bill Rock, upgrade in the resort’s history with a the last seven years work- Spencer Weimar chief operating officer of Northstar $2 million capital improvement project ing in the lodging, central reservations, California Resort since 2010, as the new that will fund more than 9 miles of new group sales, and marketing departments COO of Park City Mountain Resort and snowmaking pipe, more than 150 new at Whitefish Mountain Resort, Mon- Canyons Resort, Utah. high-output/high-efficiency HKD and tana. He is on the board of directors of Rock, who has nearly 20 years of Snow Logic snowguns, and other state-of- the Central Reservations Association of experience in area management, will the-art facilities. Destination Resorts. report to Blaise Carrig, president of Vail Resorts’ mountain division. Crested Butte, Colorado, is install- Andrew Barfield is the Taking the reins as general manager ing a Magic Carpet lift for its tubing ® new snowsports director at Northstar is Beth Howard, who has hill at the base area’s Adventure Park at Snowbasin Resort, been Vail Resorts’ vice president of moun- this season and is also working with Utah. Previously he was tain dining and clubs—overseeing more the U.S. Forest Service to identify new the snowsports supervi- than 100 restaurants and eight private areas for glade skiing. In addition, the sor and training manager Andrew Barfield mountain and golf clubs—since 2010. resort has added 10 new snow bikes to at Steamboat Resort, Colorado, for nine Howard began working at Beaver Creek its rental fleet and a new slopeside ski years. Barfield has various certifications in 1985 as a college intern. storage system. with PSIA, and has been an examiner and divisional clinic leader for PSIA’s North- Paul Gray, a 28-year Windham Mountain Resort, west and Rocky Mountain Divisions. veteran of China Peak New York, is investing $4.2 million in Mountain Resort, capital improvements—in addition to Rana Dershowitz is the California, has been the $7.1 million it invested in 2013— new general counsel and promoted to director including a new trail in the bowl between vice president of Aspen of operations for the Paul Gray the west and east peaks, renovation of the Skiing Company. resort. Armed with considerable experi- base lodge restaurant and bar, a new spa Most recently Dershowitz ence either working in or managing most and yoga center, an expanded children’s served as general counsel Rana Dershowitz departments relating to resort operations learning center, a new lift-served moun- for the U.S. Olympic Committee, where over the course of his career, Gray will tain bike park, new snowmaking infra- she has worked since 2007. She began at oversee all outside mountain operations, structure, two new PistenBully groomers, the USOC as deputy general counsel and plus construction, facilities, and utilities and continued improvements to the rose to the position of general counsel, in his new position. resort’s golf course. g 66 | NSAA Journal | EARLY WINTER 2014 w w w. n s a a . o rg NSAA Early Winter 2014 prepressed v5b.indd 66 10/29/14 6:09 PM