Stacie has been in the affordable housing community since 1993 and brings more than two decades of experience serving as the Vice President of the Ross Management Group, one of the nation’s leading affordable housing property management firms. Her experience includes a 15-year term on the Board of Directors of Affordable Housing Management Association, including two years as President of the Board.  Stacie is an alumni of the Denver’s Community Leadership Foundation. During the pandemic, residents at Delwest’s properties were facing adversity of sending their children to school online. Some residents could not afford computers or even internet. Stacie and her team came up with the solution to have Educational families so that teachers could go to the properties every day to manage children’s online educational needs including purchasing computers and paying for internet. The next goal for Stacie is to provide low or no cost child care in their affordable housing developments.  

Stacie is in charge of supervising all management staff while maintaining their building assets at Delwest Management. 

Mike Kopp is the President and CEO of Colorado Concern, an alliance of top business executives with a mission of enhancing the Centennial State’s business climate. Mike Kopp’s leadership experiences include service as a hotshot firefighter who battled wildfires in the west, an Army paratrooper who earned the Ranger tab and served in the Gulf War, a leader in ministry and as a member of the Colorado state senate. Mike owned his own consulting practice and served as Corporate Affairs Manager in the state’s largest electric cooperative. He has served on several nonprofit boards in the community. Mike is a runner and endurance athlete. So far his favorite races have been the Leadville Trail 100 mountain bike race, the St. George half – Ironman and the Phoenix marathon. He plans to compete in the full ironman in Cozumel. He and his wife Shannon and their kids Meghan, Allie and Soren live in Golden. Their son Ethan serves in the Army infantry.

Marc has been serving clients in the private wealth management industry since leaving public accounting in 1991 and is currently, Senior Vice President and Financial Advisor for RBC Wealth Management. Prior to RBC, he was Family Wealth Director, Senior Vice President, Senior Portfolio Manager and Financial Advisor at Morgan Stanley for over 9 years; and then Senior Vice President for almost 18 years at Wells Fargo. Marc has a background in law, JD from William Mitchell College of Law, accounting (CPA), and business (MBA from Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management).

When Marc is not busy earning the title of trusted advisor to his client base who seek to fulfill their true intent for advancing purpose and legacy, you can find him engaged in any one of several outdoor activities, enjoying all that Colorado has to offer. Marc is the single father of two daughters. His oldest, Gabrielle, graduated from the University of Richmond this spring and is living in Raleigh, N.C., and his youngest, Sophia, is heading back to college this fall after recovering from her fourth and final shoulder surgery in less than 5 years. Marc is also a professionally certified tennis racquet stringer. Having strung thousands of racquets while his daughter was pursuing her passion on the tennis courts, he created Last Second Stringing, a purely philanthropic endeavor and donates all funds collected to a foundation that runs a school for children in Uganda.

Marc participates on EPIC’s Policy and Initiatives committees and his expertise and input is highly valued.

With 40 years of executive leadership in medical device and health care services, David Perez serves as an independent board member and advisor to several corporations and non-profit organizations. His expertise encompasses growing highly regulated global businesses organically through R&D and innovation and inorganically through M&A, leading within a variety of foreign, public and private equity ownership structures, strategic planning, culture and talent development, succession planning, enterprise risk management, operations, compliance, and corporate governance.

Perez retired from his leadership role at Terumo BCT in March 2019 following a comprehensive 2-year succession and transition plan. During his more than 18 years serving as president and CEO, Terumo BCT grew from $160M in global revenue to $1B as an innovation driven biomedical company focused on unlocking the potential of blood and cell-based therapies in the blood banking, transfusion medicine and cell therapy/regenerative medicine sectors.

Beginning with COBE BCT in 1999, through Gambro BCT, CaridianBCT, and then Terumo BCT, Perez guided the company through several foreign ownership structures, leveraging his extensive experience leading complex, multinational businesses and diverse, cross-cultural organizations. Under his tenure, the company grew from a single manufacturing and R&D site to employing over 7000 associates at five regional headquarters, five R&D centers and six manufacturing plants located in the U.S., Ireland, Belgium, Japan, Vietnam and India. His strategic vision took the organization from two business units, focused on two product platforms, into global leadership positions in five business areas and 12 product categories serving customers and patients in 130 countries, with 70% of the company revenue coming from international customers.

As CEO of CaridianBCT, under the private equity ownership of EQT and Investor AB, Perez and his global team increased company value by 85% over 4.5 years, resulting in a $2.6B exit to Terumo Corporation (4543.T. Nikkei) in June 2011. Perez continued to lead the company for 8 more years, also serving on the Terumo Corporation Board of Directors until June 2019, where he was one of fewer than 300 non-Japanese board members of all publicly traded companies in Japan.

Sue E. Renner directs a consortium of private foundations representing three generations of the David and Laura Merage family in Greenwood Village, Colorado. The Merage Foundations invest in, and take risks with, innovative social entrepreneurs to achieve significant community impact in the United States and Israel. In addition to overseeing grantmaking and operations, Sue is spearheading the development of the Foundations’ Early Learning Ventures initiative to increase the stability and productivity of Colorado’s ECE sector through market-based interventions.

Prior to joining the Merage organization in 2006, Sue was the Executive Director of Early Childhood Connections, a non-profit corporation providing early intervention supports and services to over 1,000 infants and toddlers and their families each year in the Denver-metro region. Sue also worked as a Senior Program Manger with the Colorado Office of Resource and Referral Agencies where she was responsible for launching Colorado’s T.E.A.C.H. program, a public-private venture to provide early care and education professionals with college scholarships.

Sue’s experience includes volunteer leadership roles with several community development, family support and early care and education organizations. In her tenure as President of the Arapahoe County Early Childhood Council she established several new initiatives including the Developmental Surveillance Project, a successful venture to engage pediatricians and parents in the early identification of developmental delays. Ms. Renner received her BS in Human Development from California Polytechnic University, and her MS in Child and Family Development from Colorado State University.

Ms. Schwartz has been with BuildStrong Education (formerly the Foundation for Educational Excellence) since 2008. Before moving to Colorado in October of 2007, Ms. Schwartz lived and worked in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with her M.A. degree in Social Research Methodology, from the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies in June 2007. While in graduate school, Ms. Schwartz consulted with First 5 LA, the Los Angeles County Proposition 10 Commission, with their School Readiness Initiative which administered $134 million to 42 diverse communities within the county. Before attending graduate school, Ms. Schwartz spent three years as the School Readiness Program Director with a non-profit agency serving a densely populated Hispanic neighborhood in the Los Angeles metro area. Ms. Schwartz began her career in education and the non-profit field as an AmeriCorps*VISTA volunteer in 1997.

In total, Ms. Schwartz has twenty years of experience working with various educational and family-support programs. Her work has centered on the goal of increasing student outcomes in low-income, low-performing schools through collaborative, family support and public-private partnerships.

Ms. Schwartz was a founding board member of the Lyons Valley Preschool which opened soon after the devastating floods of September 2013. She is also a founding board member of Steps to Success a non-profit created in 2016 with the mission to sustain youth violence prevention work in the Montbello neighborhood of Denver.