Board of Directors
Kurt Schliemann
President
Kurt is a managing partner and head of community engagement at Painted Porch Advisors. In this role, he drives the activation, growth, and engagement of the Painted Porch community. He loves connecting with people, freely exchanging ideas, and quickly getting to the heart of the matter.
Kurt grew up in the Boston area and studied English literature at Harvard University. He started his career in New York City, first in marketing and then strategic consulting for financial services firms like American Express. He went on to spend the bulk of his career developing and leading sales organizations in the fintech and institutional investment space, most recently with JP Morgan. He loved the camaraderie and pace he experienced in the worlds of sales and finance, but oftentimes found that the relationships he formed were too transactional, standing in the way of genuine connection. So, he decided to seek more.
Following a three-year stint in the world of communications and PR consulting, Kurt joined his close friends James and Brian to help grow Painted Porch’s mission and reach. He was driven by the aspirational vision of the company and its truly transformational approach to helping people.
Kurt lives in Austin, Texas, but loves spending much of his “free time” in Truckee, California. In either location, Kurt can be found on the golf course with his wife, Kat, or hiking and biking through the wilderness and catching bugs and lizards with his children, Theo and Josie.
Tanja Powers
Vice President
Tanja Powers joins the Gateway board with over 30 years in life sciences, focused on sales, marketing, and patient access. She is known for her empowering and collaborative leadership style, strategic thought process, and pragmatic approach. Most recently, she was vice president of ophthalmology for Genentech, responsible for a portfolio with nearly $2 billion in annual sales. Recently, she stepped away to focus on executive coaching and her passions in the nonprofit space.
Tanja has led large organizations, significant change initiatives, product launches, and commercialization strategies. She is passionate about creating, growing, and supporting high-functioning teams and is known for her empowering approach and ability to collaborate across complex organizations.
Tanja holds an undergraduate degree in journalism, an MBA, and is a Hudson-certified leadership coach and an active member of SV2. She loves to read, write, travel, and hike and spends as much time as possible outdoors. A resident of Oakland, California, and the proud mom of two young adults, Alex and Katee, you can find Tanja exploring restaurants and independent bookstores in the Bay Area. She’s thrilled to be a member of the Gateway board because she’s experienced firsthand the healing power of the outdoors on her own mental health and that of her children.
Robert H. Hambrecht
Treasurer
Bob Hambrecht is a partner at Allotrope Partners, a merchant bank primarily focused on making and nurturing small direct investments in development platforms and projects in the low-carbon and resource efficiency space. He is presently deeply involved in developing solutions that promote sustainable forest management and address California’s forest fire crisis. Bob has been deeply involved in the emerging Cleantech business community as an investor and investment banker for many years. Over the years, he has served on the boards of directors of a number of public and private companies as well as a number of environmental nonprofit organizations. He is presently on the board and holds the post of treasurer of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, an organization that provides technical and political support for smart transportation policies in cities around the world. Bob has a Master of Public Affairs from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science from University of California, Berkeley. He lives on Donner Summit with his wife, three children, and their dog.
Brad Waugh
Secretary
Brad Waugh is a practicing lawyer with over 25 years of experience in litigation and IP law. He has served for over a decade as associate general counsel at Intel, where he leads litigation teams responsible for resolving legal disputes throughout the world. Brad joined Intel from Cooley LLP, where he spent several years as an IP litigator. He holds degrees in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech and Rice University, and a law degree from Stanford. Brad and his wife live in Silicon Valley, where they raised three children. He is passionate about youth mental health and is excited about Gateway’s mission to harness the power of nature for healing and wellness.
Felicity Beallo
Board Member
Originally from South America, Felicity Beallo studied philosophy at University of Buenos Aires. She and her family have been in Truckee for many decades. Under the many hats she has worn throughout the past 10 years, Felicity has been part of the Sierra Community House (Formerly North Tahoe Family Resource Center) mission since 2015 and has been involved in many different prevention and education programs. She has served ever since in a variety of roles including volunteer, community navigator, family advocate, community educator, and program coordinator director.
Felicity currently dedicates her time to Sierra Community House as the community engagement manager, overseeing the Promotora and parenting programs and family engagement activities. As a certified trainer and bilingual facilitator of the Stanford Self-Management Resource Center programs, among others, such as mental health peer support, mediation, and Gallup Strengths coaching, she is passionate about serving our community in every capacity. Responsible for direct supervision and the programmatic success of parenting, early learning, and Promotora classes and workshops, Felicity manages Sierra Community House's Promotora and parenting programs with special emphasis in Latino outreach and staff development.
She is a 2021 recipient of the Chris Ballin award in recognition for her work advocating for cultural competency, equality, and social justice in the Truckee/Tahoe community.
Felicity lives in the Northstar area and has two children, Max and Sophie. In her free time, she enjoys skiing with her children and husband during the winter months and paddle-boarding and sailing during the summer. She is also a highly dedicated yogi.
Lisa Ryan
Board Member
Lisa Ryan is based in the Bay Area and has 25-plus years of human resource, talent management, and operations experience across multiple industries. Until mid-2023, Lisa was the chief people officer at Lyell Immunopharma, leading a team of 10. Lisa joined Lyell as one of its first 20 employees, built the people function from inception, and participated in all aspects of building the company, including a successful IPO in 2021, advancement of clinical development to Phase 1, and growth to an employee base of ~300 Lyellites across three sites in California and Washington.
Prior to Lyell, Lisa spent 10 years with Genentech and held roles of increasing responsibility in US Commercial, Global Technical Operations, and Global Product Development. Lisa’s global roles included leading HR teams in a matrixed structure with team members in Europe, Asia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. She played a leadership role in several large transformation efforts, led global annual compensation processes, was a team member for the US HR five-year strategy, and was on integration teams for two significant acquisitions: Roche/Genentech and Roch/Intermune.
Before joining Genentech, Lisa was a vice president/group director of talent operations at Digitas, a digital and direct-advertising agency headquartered in Boston, and part of the Publicis group, with responsibility for talent operations in Boston, Chicago, and Detroit and support for the London and Atlanta offices.
Early in her career, Lisa was employed by Greater Boston YMCA as a program director for after-school and summer camp programs serving school-aged youth from 6 to 14 years. For six summers, Lisa was the director of Adventure Camp, an active program for 10- to 14-year-olds focused on outdoor adventures including hiking, ropes courses, canoeing, swimming, and various field trips around the Boston area.
In the last year, Lisa has pursued an executive coaching certification, started coaching individual clients, began consulting work with a boutique talent management firm, ideated a women’s career transition community, and accepted a board role with us here at Gateway Mountain Center. Lisa received her B.A. in psychology from Boston College and holds an MBA from Suffolk University.
Mark Servis, MD
Board Member
Mark Servis, MD, is vice dean of medical education at the UC Davis School of Medicine, with responsibility for all undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education. He is also a professor of clinical psychiatry and vice chair of education in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He has occupied the Roy Brophy Endowed Chair for 12 years. Mark has won several national awards for his teaching and mentoring, has served in a variety of leadership roles at the National Board of Medical Examiners, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training, and American Association of Medical Colleges, and has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on medical education and in the field of psychosomatic medicine.
Lisa VanDerlofske
Board Member
Lisa VanDerlofske is the director of operations for Professional Sports Representation Inc., an agency that represents NFL coaches and management. She is responsible for managing all aspects of the PSR business and ensuring the company operations run effectively and efficiently. Lisa grew up in the California Bay Area and received her Bachelor of Science in botany and Master of Business Administration from San Francisco State University. She recently relocated to Reno, Nevada, to be close to family.
After receiving her Master of Business Administration, Lisa joined Hewlett Packard, where she gained invaluable experience across a broad set of functions including finance, strategy, program management, and operations during her 18-year tenure. She has led large programs, such as launching HP’s eCommerce website, splitting HP’s America sales operations into two companies (HPE/HPI), and merging a storage company acquisition into Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Lisa has also held leadership positions with a marketing technology startup, where she built the Small/Medium Customer Success team and a customer facing support organization from scratch, in addition to a networking and security firm, where she designed and led the top company strategic program to expand business into an adjacent market. Lisa is passionate about giving back and has most recently held volunteer positions for the Domestic Violence Resource Center and StartUpNV, an organization that helps build Nevada’s startup ecosystem.