Staff – Board Of Directors

Greg is an active outdoorsman and has been a supporter of the Continental Divide Trail for well over a decade. He has been active as a volunteer by building trail and by advocating for the Trail and the CDTC. He is a CDTC charter member and served on the original Advisory Committee to develop the CDTC’s vision, values and organizational pillars. Greg joined the CDTC Board of Directors in December 2016. He has a background in problem solving, consensus-building, and navigating thorny circumstances in his outdoor and professional careers.

Greg is a product manager and analyst by profession, working with customers and other stakeholders and technical experts to solve problems and improve processes through the use of technology. Additionally, he develops long-term product strategies and implements them using near-term incremental achievements.

A native Coloradan with ties to Wyoming and New Mexico, Greg is dedicated to completing and promoting the CDT as a 3100-mile sanctuary for those who seek wild places.

Dean is a New York native who moved to Colorado in 1990 to pursue an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado, ultimately completing his studies there with an MS in Construction Engineering and Management.

Professionally, Dean has spent his career in real estate development and construction. He has been instrumental in the developments at many ski resort related projects including Keystone’s River Run Village, Copper Mountain and the Village at Winter Park. In 2008 he started his own real estate investment company focusing on residential in-fill developments. Dean is also active in the Colorado startup community as both an investor and mentor to entrepreneurs.

Growing up in New York near the Appalachian Trail and being actively involved in scouts created a love for the outdoors that has continued to play an important role in his life. While in college Dean worked summers as a trip leader taking teens on backpacking, canoeing and cycling trips throughout the Northeast. He has also travelled extensively by bicycle across North America (cross country twice) as well as many destinations around the world including Europe, Australia and New Zealand. More recently, Dean has completed thru-hikes of the John Muir Trail, the Appalachian Trail, the Pacific Crest Trail and the Colorado Trail.

His previous board experience includes participation with the Urban Land Institute, the Denver Art Museum and YMCA Camp Jewell.

Currently living in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Arthur’s love for long-distance trails began on the A.T. as a Boy Scout while growing up in Virginia, and has continued throughout his adult life while residing in West Virginia, North Carolina, and Colorado. A life-long hiker, Arthur has been an active Appalachian Trail volunteer for more than 46 years. He served on the board of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy for 24 years, including 18 years as ATC treasurer. He continues to serve as a member of the ATC Audit Committee In 2011 he became the 54th person, in ATC’s 95-year history, to be named an ATC Honorary Member, the Appalachian Trail Conservancy’s highest award.

Professionally, Arthur worked in higher education finance for 32 years, serving as chief financial officer of 2 universities. Additionally, he served 4 years on the board of the National Association of College and University Business Officers. Following early retirement from the University of North Carolina at Asheville, he was recognized as Vice Chancellor Emeritus for Financial Affairs.

Previously, Arthur served a short period on the board of the Continental Divide Trail Alliance prior to its close. In March 2018, he joined the CDTC board and looks forward to using his knowledge, experiences and skills to advance the CDTC and CDT.

Brett Bruyere is a faculty member and conservation social scientist at Colorado State University. Over the years his teaching and research has focused on conservation education, collaboration and partnerships, and conservation leadership. He has published 50+ publications in academic journals and received several teaching, mentoring and outreach awards. Several of his graduate students have worked with CDT on topics related to CDTC’s Gateway Communities program.

An avid trail runner living in Colorado, Brett has covered thousands of miles of trails in the state, including segments of the CDT in the northern part of the state. He has served up trail magic to many CDT thru hikers over the years and provided rides for hikers headed into towns to resupply.  Brett also co-founded a non-profit focused on empowerment of women and youth in Kenya, and has served on several boards related to conservation, science and education.

Naomi thru-hiked the CDT in 2012. While she doesn’t have a “favorite trail,” she says that if she could only hike one more trail, it would be the CDT. Thru-hiking inspired her to leave her corporate career to pursue her passion for the outdoors. She’s a co-founder of Treeline Review, a website dedicated to making the outdoors accessible to everyone while also reducing consumption. As an actuary, she brings decades of private sector experience in project management, budget and financial projections, and long-term business vision, strategy, and goals. As a website owner, she brings 7 years of search optimization (SEO) experience and content management. She currently resides in Washington state.

Joe Jessepe is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe and has spent his entire life on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. He attended college at Flathead Valley Community College, University of Montana, and was a member of the first cohort of the Native Americans in Natural Resources at Humboldt State University at Arcata, California and majored in Natural Resource Conservation. Joe has served on the Board of Directors of: The Glacier Natural History Association, Opportunities Incorporated, and the Cook Scholarship for St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire.

Joe is currently the President of CIRCLE, a Non-Profit Indian Education consulting group. He was also a founding member of the Badger-Two Medicine Alliance. Joe has been the driving force behind Scholars of Promise for the past 15 years, supporting students to apply to and graduate from college.  This includes serving as the advisor and mentor to a student intern which he helped obtain a position with NOAA. And, Joe serves as an Associate Judge on the Blackfeet Tribal Appellate Court.

Amy McCormick has spent her 14 plus fundraising career at the Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC) and in the land trust community and is now a fundraising and communications consultant and principal at McCormick & CO Consulting. Amy holds a Masters in Corporate and Organizational Communications from West Virginia University (WVU) and is a native West Virginian. After a number of years living in Portland, Oregon, she now lives in Astoria, remains smitten by the Pacific Northwest, especially the Oregon coast. When she’s not working, Amy can be found hiking or camping in the East Cascade Mountains or walking along the Oregon coast’s beaches and old growth forests with her partner Dan and their beloved (and terribly rotten) Shiba Inu, Moxxi.

Regan Betts has spent most of the last 20 years within the outdoor industry not only as a marketer, but as an architect of corporate advocacy groups. Most recently, at Oboz Footwear, Regan was the Brand Manager and a founding member of Oboz’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access committee. Then in the fall of 2023, she established her own marketing and copywriting business, and now also works part-time at her daughter’s elementary school as a paraprofessional. 

Regan grew up in southeastern Ohio and, after graduating from Miami University, moved westward. She immediately fell in love with the Rocky Mountains and all the skiing, riding, and hiking it had to offer while living in Steamboat Springs, CO, but it wasn’t until much later when she moved to Lyme, NH where she caught the long-distance hiking bug and spent the weekends section hiking the AT with her husband. However it wasn’t long until the Rockies beckoned her back, this time to Bozeman, MT where she currently resides with her husband, daughter, and energetic pup, Billie Rose. 

When she’s not working, Regan can be found hiking, running, skiing, knitting, or having fun with her family.

Amiththan brings years of experience in building community and organizing anchored in approaches to consensus and grassroots activism to the CDTC Board of Directors. He holds a Graduate degree and has hiked thousands of miles along distance trails world-wide. He believes that there is no trail without people.

As a student, Amiththan co-founded two successful, grassroots movements for Sri-Lankan-Canadian youth centered on post-civil-war dialogue towards inter-communal reconciliation. He conceived and orchestrated successful fundraisers, shaped their voice and communication strategies, wrote public opinion pieces and secured multi-year grants at the federal level. He is proud to have been at the ground level of The Tamil Student Volunteer Program and The Sri Lankans Without Borders not-for profits. Both of these organizations emerged at a pivotal moment for the emerging Sri Lankan-Canadian community and he takes special pride in creating a space where none existed.

As an academic he is keenly interested in ideas of kinship, belonging, and, of course the land. As a transplant to North America and a survivor of civil war his advocacy and activism are rooted in the ways in which land as a socio-political construct and lived reality underpin belonging. He also believes that the work around creating any sense of belonging is always ongoing. The Continental Divide Trail traverses millions of footsteps across a number of ancestral indigenous homelands. There are, as well, many other stakeholders in this landscape. However, he sees the CDT as not only a delineated footpath that connect these communities but also as an opportunity for creating and fostering an interconnected web of consensus and relationships, centered around the stewardship for the land.

As a member of the CDTC’s Board of Directors he hopes to build, lead and connect the trail to the people, the people to the land and each other. Amiththan welcomes the opportunity to champion initiatives that continue to distinguish the CDTC as a leader in building a trail as well as trail of communities.

Kevin Webber is a dynamic & innovative entrepreneur with backgrounds in sales, marketing, business development, and manufacturing. He is the CEO and co-founder of Colorado’s largest wine operation: Carboy Winery. Since 2016 Carboy Winery has slowly turned a state known for its beer into one that makes exciting wines, lifting the Colorado wine industry into prominence.

Kevin currently sits on both the Colorado Wine Industry Development Board as the marketing chair and the Colorado Association for Viticulture & Enology’s Board of Directors as the legislative chair. His passion is for building impactful brands that give back.

During his time at Fourpoints, Kevin was a steering committee member for the Colorado Outdoor Business Alliance (Conservation Colorado), and he worked with outdoor environmental partners including the CDTC to push conservation initiatives such as the CORE Act and more specifically protection of the Camp Hale Continental Divide Wilderness Area.

In his free time, Kevin enjoys spending time with his wife and kids in the great outdoors.