The Board

Tom Allender likes to fish, E-mtn bike, kayak, raft, paddle board, ski and golf. Now retired, he was Senior Director of Mountain Planning at Vail Resorts and worked with SE Group. Tom is the current board chair at Eagle River Watershed Council and has served as a board member of Eagle River Water & Sanitation District, Upper Eagle Regional Water Authority, Eagle Park Reservoir Company, and Clinton Ditch and Reservoir Company.

Gary Brooks is the owner of Cutthroat Consulting, LLC working on a variety of community housing projects in the Eagle River Valley. He is a past president of the Eagle River Watershed Council, a current board member of the ECO Trails Committee and sits on the Eagle County Housing and Development Authority Advisory Committee. When he’s not sitting through board meetings, you can find him flyfishing the local waters, heading off to go bird hunting with his two Springer Spaniels or working in his backyard vegetable garden with his wife Linn.

Tom is a passionate outdoorsman, skier, fly fisherman, Iron Man Triathlete, Race Across America 4-man team winner, and endurance athlete. Tom is President of The Gart Companies and is a board member of Gart Properties, First Western Trust Bank, and Work World. In addition, he is a board member of National Jewish Health, where he was formerly the Board Chair. Tom was formerly on the board of The Colorado Nature Conservancy, Beth Nehamah Hospice, Colorado Succeeds, and Shalom Park. He is a member of The World Presidents Organization (WPO) and was a YPO member for 20 years. Tom graduated from Stanford University with honors in 1980 where he was Student Body Co-President. He received an MBA from Harvard University Graduate School of Business in 1984. He is married to Marjorie Gart and has three married children, four grandchildren, and two labs.

Pete is the Watershed Health Specialist for Town of Vail and is the President of the Eagle River Coalition Board of Directors. Previously, he was Stewardship Coordinator at Walking Mountains Science Center and an Environmental Science instructor at Colorado Mountain College. Pete is a graduate of Prescott College (MA) and Bowdoin College (BA). He’s an avid rafter, kayaker, angler, hunter, backcountry skier, dog dad and lover of water in all its forms.

Staunton is co-founder and CEO of MBHE Holdings LLC, a diversified holding company. Prior to creating MBHE, Staunton led all acquisitions, development, capital formation, and growth initiatives as EVP and a Director of Sage Hospitality Resources, a national hotel investment, management and development company. Staunton has significant experience in building asset based operating companies, real estate related service companies, and hospitality focused platforms. Staunton has served on numerous corporate and non-profit boards over the past 25 years. He spends his free time mostly outdoors enjoying fly fishing, hunting, skiing, hiking, snow shoeing and chopping wood.