Board of Directors
Meet the Board Members
Patti Boxeth – Chair
Patti spent 40+ years in the financial services industry, primarily with trusts and estates as Senior Vice President and as a retail stock broker in Washington, D.C. and the Metropolitan Virginia area. She became involved in philanthropy because she deeply cares about the quality of life for all people. She feels TTCF understands our community needs and more importantly, has the vision necessary to build a better place for all people who live, work and visit the beautiful Tahoe region.
Paquita Bath
Paquita is the founder of Aligning Visions LLC, a consulting firm dedicated to conservation planning, facilitation, and capacity building services for mission-driven organizations throughout the Americas. She has lived with her family in Truckee since 2002 and is blessed with many friends and opportunities to get engaged on behalf of the Sierra and our local communities.
Douglas Dale
Douglas Dale has been a successful business owner in Lake Tahoe for over 33 years. He first opened Wolfdale’s in Homewood, California in March of 1978 with his brother, his sister and her husband. In August of 1981 Douglas married Kathleen Foster and they became the sole proprietors of Wolfdale’s in July of 1983. Douglas and Kathleen incorporated as Wolfdale’s Cuisine Unique Inc. in the fall of 1986, and relocated the restaurant six miles north of Homewood to its current site in Tahoe City’s oldest and most historic building. WOLFDALE’S and Douglas Dale have received much acclaim from food critics nationally and have been the recipients of many awards.
Douglas became a very involved member of the community while raising their two children, Justin and Christine, in Tahoe City. As an assistant coach to his son’s high school football team at both the junior varsity and varsity levels, he soon became head coach to the junior varsity team. With such involvement in North Tahoe High School’s sporting teams he founded the North Tahoe Booster Club in 2003 and was on the board for five years.
Douglas then became a board member on the Tahoe City Downtown Association (TCDA) from 2008- 2011. For 15 years he has hosted the Abalone Dinner at Wolfdale’s to raise money for numerous organizations. He most recently headed-up the TCDA Farm-to-Table Dinner on Commons Beach to keep the Famers Market in Tahoe City for years to come.
Douglas is a 5th degree black belt in Aikido and has taught in Tahoe City for 20 years. Since 1990 he has hosted a three-day Memorial Day weekend Aikido seminar in Lake Tahoe for over 150 students and 12 guest instructors, which now attracts Aikido students worldwide.
Douglas and Kathleen Dale have been actively involved in this community donating to many charitable organizations since 1978.
Theresa May Duggan
Theresa May has lived on the North Shore since 1977. She ran a successful special events planning company, A Catered Affair, for 12 years. After working for non-profit organizations such as the Sierra Business Council and North Tahoe Business Association, she now works as a consultant. During her 33 years on the North Shore, she has volunteered her time and talents to the community including serving on local boards and councils or organizations that include: North Tahoe Regional Advisory Council, North Lake Tahoe Resort Association, La Comunidad Unidad and Kings Beach Friends of the Library. She is passionate about Tahoe and works to make it livable, workable, walkable and a great place to be.
Richard George
Dick is the Chairman of TTCF’s Investment Committee and has a long history in the financial world. He earned his BA and MBA at UC Berkeley and spent 29 years at Citibank, including 15 years in overseas assignments. Today he is a principal in a consulting firm that provides expert witness support to law firms in bank litigation cases. He also is a lecturer in finance at UC Berkeley’s Haas Graduate School of Business. He has had a home in the Tahoe area since 1987 and became a full time resident in 2000. His philanthropic interests encompass all of TTCF’s four program areas and one of his personal interests is in seeing TTCF move to “the next level” of asset strength, becoming a $100 million foundation. He states, “I enjoy helping to enable the good intentions of our generous donors through the good work of TTCF’s board and dedicated staff.”
Steve Gross – Chair Elect
Steve is Chair-elect, member of the Executive Commitee and chair of the CEO Search Committee. He’s also served on the Grants and Investment Committees. He keeps ties as an advisor to the KidZone, where he was a founding board member and served on the board for many years. Steve is the managing shareholder of the Truckee based Porter Simon law firm, where he focuses his practice on representing local government entities. When he’s not in the office, you can find Steve with his wife Terrina, en elementary school teacher in Truckee, and daughter Lexie. However, he’s frequently been spotted on the river trying to tighten his line.
Todd Huckins
Todd joined the TTCF board in July, 2011. He has been in the institutional bond business for over 25 years, and is currently a Director at Stone and Youngberg, LLC, a San Francisco based investment bank. Todd was previously a Truckee Trails Foundation board member and also a volunteer with the Far West Disabled Spots Ski Program. He is currently a member of the Financial Committee for the Humane Society of Truckee Tahoe. He and his wife Carol have owned a home in Truckee since 1993 and have been full time residents since 2004, living near the Glenshire neighborhood with the pets. They enjoy cycling, skiing and hiking.
Fred Ilfeld, M.D. – Immediate Past Chair
Fred is the immediate past chair of the Board and a local psychiatrist who believes in the power of Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation to advance a broad range of philanthropic opportunities in our region. His major interests are 1) preserving the quality of Lake Tahoe, the Truckee River, and our forests and mountains, and 2) increasing opportunities for our local citizenry so they can continue to reside here.
Craig Lundin – Treasurer
Craig has been a member of the TTCF Board of Directors since July, 2009. During this time, he has served on the Grantmaking, Nature Fund, Governance and Executive Committees and is currently the Board Treasurer. He is the President and CEO of the Tree Sculpture Group, a California corporation serving the commercial landscape industry (1971-Present). He currently serves, and has served, on the boards of numerous philanthropic organizations with particular emphasis on community building and the environment. He is also involved in an ongoing project to build and sustain technical schools for youth in East Africa. Craig is the former Mayor of the City of Piedmont, CA and is a past member of the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington, D.C. He and his wife, Carol, divide time between their homes in the bay area and Squaw Valley. They have two grown sons, Cassidy and Connery.
Kathryn Rohlf – Secretary
Kathryn moved to the Sierras after 16 years in Silicon Valley and joined TTCF’s Board in July, 2010. She and her husband John wished to raise their three children in a small community where people take the time to know their neighbors and to be active in their community. She is a busy mom; when she is not driving her kids to their activities, she is an active volunteer in the local public school system. She serves on the board of Excellence in Education, as well as participating on various school and youth sports committees and is the Secretary of the TTCF Board for fiscal year 11-12. She can often been seen riding her horse, or hiking, skiing, or snowshoeing with her dogs in the Prosser Creek area.
Michael Sabarese
Mike Sabarese is a full time resident since 2001 who loves the Sierras & hopes to preserve it for the future of all. He joined the Board of Directors in July, 2008 and has served on numerous committees including Development, Grantmaking and currently serves as Chair of the Audit Committee. He’s a CPA from the bay area who wants to contribute to make Tahoe a better place for ALL levels of our community members. Mike has been involved in helping disabled people for over 20 years with Environmental Traveling Companions in San Francisco.
Gail Stephens
Gail joined the TTCF board in July, 2011 and has lived in Truckee full time for the past five years. She began her career as a teacher and then went back to school in her 40’s where she earned a PhD in Psychology and subsequently had a private practice for 15 years. Currently, her philanthropic interests center on environmental concerns and she is a board member of the Truckee River Watershed Council. Her past volunteer efforts were on children’s issues where she also provided leadership on various boards, serving as chair as well as running many fundraisers. Another passion of Gail’s is Emily’s List, of which she’s been a member for 23 years, working to elect more women in government. Married to Rick for 43 years, they have two grown daughters and love to ski, hike, snow shoe, do yoga, and travel together. While she was born in New York, she grew up in Japan and speaks five languages!
Andy Wirth
Andy Wirth joined the TTCF Board in July, 2011. He is President and CEO of Squaw Valley USA and has worked more than 25 years in the mountain resort and hospitality management industry. He came to Squaw from Vancouver based Intrawest where he served as the company’s Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. He was responsible for all marketing and sales functions for Intrawest’s ten mountain resorts across North America. Previously, Andy spent much of his career working in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, for both the Steamboat Ski Area and various multi-resort international ownership groups. In 2002, he was named Steamboat Springs Business Leader of the Year and was honored with a Global Award for the Top 25 Most Extraordinary Minds in Sales and Marketing by the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International. Locally, he also serves on the boards of The Tahoe Fund, Friends of Squaw Creek and the North Lake Tahoe Resort Association. His corporate and personal philanthropic interests include families, youth education, kids’ access to the sport of skiing, domestic animal welfare, the environment and an employee scholarship program for family members. He has a BS degree from Colorado State University and attended Edinburgh University in Scotland.
