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2010 VIA Board of Directors

Tim Ott

Chairman

 Timothy M. Ott, a resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico, retired from his Naval career as a Commander in 2000, and is now the owner of ISBS LLC, a property development company. His Naval Service included Commanding Officer of Naval Recruiting District Albuquerque, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Chief of Environment, Safety and Health, Defense Nuclear Field Command, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Deputy Director of Operations, Joint Task Force East, NAS Key West, Florida and Deputy Director of Intelligence, Foreign Liaison, Chief of Naval Operations, Washington, D.C. ISBS LLC is a property development company that builds and leases office buildings to the State of New Mexico and the U.S. Government. The company currently has 45 facilities in service. Mr. Ott also is the principal in Ruidoso Title Company and Lincoln County Abstract Company, in Ruidoso, New Mexico. Mr. Ott currently serves on the Board of Directors for Valley Improvement Association, a non-profit community service organization, Belen Sand and Gravel Company, 3M IMTEC Corporation, and was a former board member of the St. Joseph Hospital Foundation. Mr. Ott received a B.S. degree in Psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado and received his M.S. degree in Strategic Intelligence from the Defense Intelligence College, Defense Intelligence Agency, Washington, D.C.. He is a native of Rio Communities, his family having moved to Rio Grande Estates in 1961.

GERALD E. ARNDT

Vice-Chairman

 Gerald E. Arndt, a certified planner and licensed architect, is a principal in Development Planning Services, Inc., a real estate development and public works planning and management form based in Denver, CO. Arndt holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture and a master’s in city and regional planning from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He worked in the Chicago office of Mies van der Rohe as a supervising architect and project administrator; as a project manager for DeLeuw Cather and Company in both Sydney, Australia, and Denver; and for Urban Investment & Development company in Denver, before starting Development Planning Services.

KAREN ZAMORA

Secretary

 Karen is a graduate of the American Institute of Banking and Western States School of Banking, she has worked in that field for twenty years. This former Valencia County resident has been a VIA member since the early 1970’s. She is past president of the Greater Belen Chamber of Commerce, past director /treasurer of the Valencia County Historical Society and a director of the Belen Rotary Club. She is currently residing in Colorado pursuing an entrepreneurial opportunity.

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ROBERT J. DAVEY

CEO / President

 Bob Davey is president and Chief Executive Officer of VIA and treasurer of the Rio Grande Utility Corporation, the VIA subsidiary that provides water and wastewater treatment service to Rio Communities. He has served on VIA’s Board of Directors since 1984, and as a member of the Valencia County Economic Development Corporation and its predecessor organization since 1978. He has been on the staff of VIA since 1976. Other organization affiliations include the Advisory Board, UNM-Valencia Small Business Development Center, Development Board, UNM-Valencia Campus, Central Area Workforce Investment Board (Executive Committee and Chair, Planning Committee) and a member of the Steering Committee, Valencia County Comprehensive Plan. He is a graduate of Fordham University and the University of New Mexico’s Anderson Graduate School of Management.

ANTOINETTE SEDILLO-LOPEZ

 Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, a native of Valencia County, is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at the University of NM School of Law. A graduate of UNM and of the UCLA School of Law, she has taught civil procedure, election law, ethics, domestic and international family law and land use regulation. She has directed and served on the faculty of institutes in Mexico and the US on such subjects as family law, free trade and labor regulation. And, she oversees clinics in law practice, access to justice, natural resources and community lawyering. Professor Lopez lives with her husband and three children in Albuquerque.

JAMES H. FOLEY

James H. Foley, this year’s nominee for Director, brings more than 35 years of banking and financial experience to VIA’s Board. A graduate of Eastern New Mexico University and the Southwest Graduate School of Banking, Foley served as President, CEO and Chairman of the Board for both First National Bank of Belen and its parent, American Republic Bancshares, Inc., until 1995. Under his leadership, First National grew to become the eighth largest bank in the state. Since 1995, Foley has served as Chairman of the Community Advisory Board for Wells Fargo Bank of Belen. He serves on a host of church, community and business association boards. Among his civic awards, he has been named Citizen of the Year in Belen, received the Community Leadership Award from the New Mexico Easter Seal Society, the Humanitarian Award from the New Mexico Bankers’ Association, the Rio Abajo Award from the Valencia County Historical Society and the Banking Leadership Award from the Western States School of Banking. He and his wife Mary Kay live in Belen. Their son Jamie lives in California with his wife and children; their daughter Jennifer lives and works in New York City.

 

  
 

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