Term ends: Dec. 31, 2027
Andy Wirth is a business executive with global experience and has founded and served as the Chief Executive Officer at a variety of companies within various industries and business sectors. Wirth’s experience crosses from the private sector to non-governmental and nonprofit organizations. On a global scale, he has led the development and led ventures and programs in the Peoples Republic of China and, while residing in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, served as a senior executive leader for two different organizations.
Andy is an active philanthropist and has served on over twenty civic, quasi-civic, and non-profit boards of directors serving causes from members of the military, environment, youth development, economic development, adaptive athletes, and more. Wirth served as the CEO of Squaw Valley Ski Holdings and was involved in the development of the Alterra Mountain Company until his retirement in 2017. Prior to that role, Wirth served as the EVP & CMO of Vancouver, Canada-based Intrawest ULC and had responsibility for 11 major ski resorts in North America, including Copper Mountain, Winter Park, and Steamboat in Colorado as well as 19 hospitality properties in North America and Europe. Wirth’s background in commercial airline service/airport management had him leading regulatory and legislative matters with the US Customs & Border Patrol and the Federal Aviation Administration and has been deeply involved in state regulatory and legislative matters in Nevada, California, and Colorado.
After his retirement in 2017, Wirth established several start-up companies, including M Bar W Enterprises and the Peak Ski Company, with his friend and business partner Bode Miller and is currently building a company that will provide best-in-class mountain and winter combat and sustainment training programs for members of the US special warfare community. In late 2024, along with his friend and acclaimed country music artist, Joe Nichols, Wirth co-founded The Impossible Foundation, a nonprofit endowment organization established to combat high rates of suicide in the special warfare community.
Appointed to the Board of Governors of the Colorado State University System in 2025, Wirth has a strong record of community service and civic leadership as shown through his extensive community and non-profit service and is the recipient of a host of non-profit and community leadership awards. Wirth holds a degree in Natural Resource Management from Colorado State University, studied abroad at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and completed various executive education programs at Stanford University.
The son of a US Air Force Fighter Pilot, Wirth was born at Ramstein Air Force Base, West Germany, and currently resides in southwestern Montana. His wife Kristin is a senior executive leader at the Professional Association of Dive Instructors, (PADI), the world’s leading training and certification organization for scuba diving. Andy and Kristin have four children. Wirth is a horseman and competes in reined cow horse events, and is an alpine and Nordic skier, mountaineer, skydiver, trail runner, and scuba diver.