The Board of Governors
The Board of Governors consists of 13 members, nine of which are voting members. The remaining members represent the component universities of the Colorado State University System with one faculty member and one student leader from each campus.
Douglas L. Jones
Chairman of the Board
Committee Assignments: Evaluation
Term expires: December 31, 2009
Holds a B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Texas in Austin. He is President and Owner of The Jones Realty Group, a commercial real estate investment-services group focusing on development, brokerage and asset management. His professional background includes banking and service as a member of staff for the U.S. Senate in Washington, D.C. In addition to serving as Vice Chairman of CSU, he is the Past Chairman of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and the Denver Botanic Gardens and past Vice Chairman of the Colorado Tourism Office Board of Directors. He serves on the boards of the Denver Area Council for the Boy Scouts of America, Wells Fargo Bank Community Board, the National Western Stock Show Association, the Rose Community Foundation, the Central City Opera Board and the St. Joseph Hospital Foundation.
Joe Blake
Vice Chair
Committee Assignments: Audit, Finance, Real Estate and Evaluation
Term expires: December 31, 2010
Joe Blake is president and chief executive officer of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce. Blake was appointed by Governor Bill Owens to serve on the Board of Governors for Colorado State University. In 2005 Joe co-chaired the statewide Yes on C & D campaign, the Colorado Economic Recovery Act which restored critical funding to Colorado’s health care and education services and transportation infrastructure. Governor Bill Ritter recently appointed Joe to serve on the Transportation Finance and Implementation Commission. He previously chaired the Colorado Transportation Commission and Colorado Housing and Finance Authority. Blake also serves on the board of directors for the Denver Public Schools Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Metro Denver Sports Commission and is an emeritus board member of the Denver Zoo.
Bonifacio A. Cosyleon
Voting Member
Committee Assignments: Audit, Real Estate and Evaluation
Term expires: December 31, 2010
Bonifacio Cosyleon is president of Byerly and Cosyleon Inc. in Pueblo. He is a longtime member of the Greater Pueblo Chamber of Commerce and the Pueblo Economic Development Corp. He has been an instrumental player in the Colorado Contractors Association's outreach to minority businesses. He is the recipient of the Colorado Department of Transportation Emerging Small Business Award and the Construction Pioneer award from CCA. Cosyleon is a graduate of Southern Colorado State College, which is now CSU-Pueblo.
Phyllis "Diane" Evans
Treasurer
Committee Assignments: Evaluation and Finance
Term expires: December 31, 2008
Vice President with Land Title Guarantee Company since 1981. Her past professional and community experience include Past President of the Land Title Association of Colorado, chair of the Board of Land Commissioners, State of Colorado, president of the Castle Rock Chamber of Commerce, founder and chair of the Castle Rock Economic Development Council. She currently serves on the Board of the American Land Title Association. She and her husband Roger, operate a small cow/calf operation in Kiowa, Colo.
Tom Farley
Voting Member
Committee Assignments: Finance
Term expires:
December 31, 2011
Tom Farley, a former state Representative in Pueblo from 1967-1975, is an attorney and senior partner in Petersen & Fonda in Pueblo who specializes in education and health care law. While in the state Legislature, he served as House Minority Leader. He is a past member and president of the CSU System Board of Governors and the board for Fort Lewis College, once known collectively as the State Board of Agriculture.
He also has served as Community Advisory Director for the Wells Fargo Bank of Pueblo and on boards of the Colorado Forum, Public Service Co. of Colorado, Health Net, Inc., and Colorado Public Radio. He has been a commissioner for the Colorado Division of Wildlife and served as a trustee for the Great Outdoors Colorado Trust Fund and the Catholic Diocese of Pueblo Foundation. He is currently a regent at Santa Clara University.
Among Farley’s many honors are membership in the Pueblo Hall of Fame and Distinguished Service Awards from the University of Colorado and the then-University of Southern Colorado (now CSU-Pueblo). Sierra Club awarded him the honor of “Foremost Among Fifty” in 1978. He is a graduate of Santa Clara University and the University of Colorado School of Law
Patrick Grant
Voting Member
Committee Assignments: Audit, Finance and Evalution
Term expires: December 31, 2009
Graduated with a B.A. from Colgate University, MBA from University of Denver, and a law degree from Drake University. A former Colorado legislator, he is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Western Stock Show Association in Denver.
Ed Haselden
Secretary
Committee Assignments: Real Estate and Evaluation
Term expires: December 31, 2009
Holds degrees in Architectural Engineering and in Business Finance from the University of Colorado. As President and CEO of Haselden Construction in Denver, Colo., he is responsible for strategic direction, growth, and leadership development and indirectly responsible for the company's business development, preconstruction and financial management functions. He serves on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors for Mile High United Way as well as the Boy Scouts of America Mile High Council and the Douglas County Catholic Schools Corporation Board of Trustees. He is also a Board Member of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, serves on the Denver Metro Economic Development Corporation Executive Committee and the U.S. Bank of Board Advisors.
Patrick McConathy
Voting Member
Committee Assignments: Finance
Term expires:
December 31, 2011
Patrick McConathy is a rancher from McCoy, Colorado. McConathy has spent most of his career in the oil and gas industry. He began working as a petroleum landman for the Placid Oil Co. in Shreveport, La., before starting McConathy Production Co., which operated wells in Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Wyoming. He later purchased additional wells in those states under the name Phoenix Oil and Gas. In 2000, Phoenix Oil and Gas, Yarmony Creek Oil and Gas, and partner Castle Peak Resources began acquiring and operating oil and gas properties in California.
McConathy's numerous community activities in McCoy, and nearby Vail, include serving as member and chairman of the Vail Mountain School Board of Trustees and in the Leadership Circle of U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar. In Louisiana, he served as chairman of United Way for northwest Louisiana and chairman of Congressman Buddy Roemer's successful campaign for governor in 1987. McConathy received a Bachelors in political science from Louisiana State University in 1975.
Marguerite Salazar
Voting Member
Committee Assignments: Audit and Evaluation
Term expires: December 31, 2008
Graduated with a B.A. and M.A. from Adams State College. She is the President/CEO of Valley-Wide Health Systems, Inc., a Community Health Center providing primary and dental health care services to over 55,000 residents of the San Luis, Lower and Upper Arkansas Valleys on the eastern slope and in Durango and Mancos on the western slope of Colorado. One of the largest rural health care centers in the United States, Valley-Wide is recognized for exceptional outcomes in prenatal and adolescent health care outreach programs.
A recipient of the Latin American Research and Service Agency (LARASA) Bernie Valdez Award for Excellence in Health and a Livingston Fellow with the Bonfil-Stanton Foundation, Marguerite has grown the company into a $32 million corporation. Ms. Salazar has been appointed twice by Governor Bill Owens to serve on the state Medical Services Board that promulgates rules for the state’s Medicaid program. She also served on the Children’s Health Plan Plus (CHP+) policy Board since its inception. She serves as a Trustee for the Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation, is a Board member for the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities and Chair’s the Colorado Community Health Network. She sits on numerous health care association boards and commissions and also serves as a consultant for the Bureau of Primary Health Care under the Department of Health and Human Services in the areas of Governance and Administration.