JACKSON HOLE, WYO – The Community Foundation of Jackson Hole welcomed five new members to its board of directors last week. Betty Andrikopoulos, John Lummis, Julie O’Halloran, Ted Staryk, and David Vela were all named to the Foundation board.
Community Foundation president Katharine Conover said, “We feel extremely fortunate that these vibrant, talented individuals have chosen to invest their time and energy to help the Foundation enrich the community. Each of them is a leader in their field, and we could not be happier to have them join our committed, hardworking Board.”
New board members
Betty Andrikopoulos is a partner at the Willow Street Group & Willow Street Trust Company of WY, where she leads the firm’s business development activities and manages key client relationships.
Andrikopoulos has lived in Jackson since 2001. She chairs the Health and Human Services subcommittee of the Community Foundation’s Competitive Grants Committee and was previously VP of the Latino Resource Center’s board of directors. Andrikopoulos is fluent in Spanish.
A native of Miami and a daughter of Cuban immigrants, Andrikopoulos earned a BS in finance from the University of Florida and an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School.
John Lummis serves as an advisor to investors and companies in the insurance sector, and is also active as an investor. Lummis has served in various executive roles, including as CEO of AQR Re, COO and CFO of Renaissance Re, vice president of Business Development at USF&G, and on the board of various public and private companies.
Lummis began his career in the corporate practice of Shearman & Sterling, a law firm. He has also been active with various not-for-profit organizations, including the Investment Committee of the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, and the boards of the Teton Literacy Center and the Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum.
Julie O’Halloran is a partner at the Jackson law firm Geittmann Larson Swift, LLP where she practices family law.
She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and earned a law degree from Marquette University. O’Halloran enjoyed a successful law practice in Wisconsin for 26 years where she served as chairperson of numerous law-based organizations.
For more than 17 years, O’Halloran has also been recognized by Wisconsin Super Lawyers and Mountain States Super Lawyers as well as The Best Lawyers in America. In 2015, Julie and her husband Hugh moved to Jackson fulltime where they enjoy the valley’s abundant natural resources and participate in a variety of nonprofit organizations.
Ted Staryk is the president of C-Note Management, and the owner of Snake River Brewery.
A graduate of the University of Minnesota, Staryk worked for the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers for six years. He’s also been a member of the McKnight Foundation’s board of directors since 2004 where he has served as treasurer and currently chairs McKnight’s Impact Investing Committee.
Staryk is active in the nonprofit community in Jackson and serves on a number of boards. He and his wife Noa, a fourth-generation McKnight board member and small business owner, have called Jackson home with their two children since 2006.
David Vela is the superintendent of Grand Teton National Park.
He is a graduate of Texas A&M University, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in recreation and parks. He also graduated from the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Program.
Previously, Vela served as associate director for Workforce, Relevancy and Inclusion in the National Park Service’s Washington headquarters and oversaw national programs including Human Resources and the Office of Relevancy, Diversity & Inclusion. Before his time in Washington, Vela served four years as director of the National Park Service’s Southeast Region, where he oversaw 66 national park sites in nine states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
Vela began his NPS career in 1981 as a cooperative education student at San Antonio Missions National Historical Park in Texas and later became a permanent park ranger there.
David and his wife Melissa have two children, Christina and Anthony, and six grandchildren.
