Current Board Members

Sherry Richardson, President
Sherry joined our board in 2007.  Her board service includes chairing our Board Development Committee and serving on the Fundraising Committee.  In addition to her board service at Groundwire, Sherry has been very active as a community volunteer, having served as a Site Council Member for the Issaquah School District Alternative School Executive Committee; a PTA Legislative Representative on school levy campaigns; a Community Advisory Board member for Friends of Youth; and as a member of the Education, Development and Capital Campaign committees of the Open Window School. In her professional life, Sherry has worked at Intel and Microsoft where she evangelized products, systems and strategies to third party companies and clients. She has a BS in computer science from Florida Central University and is currently steering two teenagers toward young adulthood.

Steve Muran, Vice President
Steve is originally from the greater Chicago area and spent ten years on the East Coast before making his home in Seattle in 1998. After working overseas with the MBA Enterprise Corps as a business consultant in Poland, he returned to the U.S. and spent the next eight years providing strategic planning, process excellence, technology, and organization transformation solutions to Fortune 500 companies across a variety of industries. Steve is currently the Director of Demand Generation and CRM for Cardiac Science, a medical device company.  Previously, Steve was First Vice President at JP Morgan Chase where he built a CRM strategy and managed a nationally recognized cross-enterprise Direct Marketing/CRM program. Steve graduated with an MBA in finance from the University of North Carolina, and also holds a BA in history and a MA in international relations from the University of Chicago. Steve has been an active member of Social Venture Partners where he has served on various grant committees.

Cameron Curtis, Treasurer
Cameron is originally from Southern Oregon and has lived in Seattle since 1996, when he and his future spouse returned to the U.S. from a stint in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic.  Cameron is a Services Solutions Executive at IBM and is responsible for providing IBM's corporate clients with the same kinds of IT and business transformation services that Groundwire provides to the environmental movement.  A certified Senior Project Manager, Cameron has a degree in international relations and business from the University of Redlands in Southern California.

Anne Green, Secretary
Anne is a partner of the Giving Practice, a consulting service of Philanthropy Northwest. Philanthropy Northwest is a thirty-year-old nonprofit membership organization of almost two hundred corporations, foundations and other organizations that make grants to nonprofits in the five Northwest states of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Montana and Washington. She has been consulting for more than seven years and has worked with corporate and private foundations to design national programs that meet their organizational goals and create positive results in their target communities. Anne has extensive experience developing communications strategies that help to influence national policy. Some of her clients have included the AOL Time Warner Foundation, Grantmakers in the Arts, the Packard Foundation, the Paul Allen Family Foundation, and Safeco Insurance. Most recently she has been serving as Acting Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, managing its support of the charitable sector.

Dan Crouse, Immediate Past President
Dan is "of counsel" with the intellectual property law firm of Lee & Hayes.  Dan is also an active volunteer, whose recent activities include board service with the University of Iowa’s Law School Foundation and The Mountaineers Foundation, membership on Iowa State University’s College of Engineering Advisory Council, pro bono legal work for several global health organizations, and varying levels of participation in Seattle-based philanthropic groups. Dan’s professional career in Seattle included stints as Deputy General Counsel at Microsoft Corporation and as a partner in Christensen O’Connor Johnson Kindness PLLC.

Lars Johansson
After a combined sixteen years at Microsoft, Lars now invests in and actively works with early stage CleanTech companies. He is a board member of Northwest Energy Angels, an angel group working to create a vibrant CleanTech industry in the Northwest. While at Microsoft, he was responsible for the Enterprise business in the Nordic countries when he moved from Sweden to Redmond to lead the development of the company’s first volume licensing programs.  Most recently he was responsible for the worldwide System Builder Channel. In addition to Groundwire, Lars is also an active supporter of Climate Solutions and a long-time partner with Social Venture Partners, where he has served on the Environmental Grants Committee.

Eli Lamb
Eli has been active in the arenas of sustainable business, energy efficiency, and renewable energy in the Portland area for a number of years. He has expertise in project management, public speaking, writing, strategy, policy analysis, and IT. Through his management consulting work, Eli is pursuing his interest in mitigating global warming. After a long career in the technology sector (Bell Labs, AT&T International, Sun and Intel), Eli built the Social Venture Partners Portland organization, served on nonprofit boards, managed investments with a focus on investing in early-stage green companies, and lobbied the Oregon legislature to include a carbon-based tax as part of a comprehensive reform package. Eli lives in Portland, Oregon, where Groundwire has had an office for many years.

Steve Sundquist
Steve is a community leader and volunteer in Seattle.  Formerly the Managing Director of National Accounts and the Chief Information Officer at Russell Investment Group, he is currently putting these skills to work in the non-profit community.  In addition to his work at Groundwire, he is a Director of the Seattle School Board, a lead partner with Social Venture Partners, a Director on the Board of Climate Solutions, and Moderator at Fauntleroy Church, UCC.

Todd Vogel
Todd has a rich history as a community volunteer. As the executive director of the International Sustainability Institute, he led a study of public spaces in Seattle and is now applying those techniques to low-income neighborhoods. He was founder and director of New Urban Learning Advisers, a Seattle-based nonprofit helping groups work together, and was a co-founder and director of the Trinity Institute for Urban Learning and Action, a conference helping more than forty schools and community groups from around the country improve their civic engagement programs. He served on the faculty of Trinity College in Hartford, CT, and between 2000-2002, was director of the American Studies program. Todd is a partner with Social Venture Partners, has served as board president of Bikeworks, and was the vice president of Allied Arts of Seattle. He has published two books about American culture, and is currently writing The Food On Your Table, a book examining class in America through the stories of individual workers worldwide whose labor created a meal in a Seattle restaurant.

Past Board Members

Groundwire would also like to express its gratitude to past members of its board of directors:

Jeff Allen

Kathy Becker

Paul Brainerd

Jeremy Carl

Steve Clagett

Joan Crooks

Tim Greyhavens

Andrew Himes

Tony Jewett

Rick Johnson

David Jones

Jonathan King

Valerie Logan

Catherine Ludgate

Matt Price

Mike Sato

Sylvia Ward Schultz

Kate Smallwood

Marc Smiley

Aron Thompson

Anne Tillery

Sam Tucker

Lindy Walsh

Tim Wood