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Board of Directors

Lynne S. Marcus, Acting President/Vice President
Lynne S. Marcus is president of Marcus + Company, a marketing and communications firm that creates effective marketing programs - including newsletters and awards and recognition programs and events - to help clients get more visibility and recognition for their products and services.  Since 1996, Marcus + Company has published the Marketing with Honors directory, the most complete online database of awards competitions.  In addition, the company has created and managed numerous awards competitions for associations and corporations.  In 2006, she became a Constant Contact Business Partner to help companies benefit from email marketing campaigns.
In 2007, Marcus won the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) Northern New Mexico Kudo Award for Rookie of the Year and serves as chair of the NAWBO-NNM public relations committee.  She has served on the boards of the Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange (MITX, formerly MIMC), the Business Marketing Association, Boston Chapter, The Second Step, and the American Technion Society and has held the position of lecturer at the Boston University College of Communications graduate school.  She received her MBA with honors from Boston University and her BA from Goucher College.  She recently relocated to Albuquerque from Boston MA.

Billie Weatherly, Secretary
Billie Weatherly is a senior manager with the Supply Chain Integration Group, Sandia National Labs She has responsibility for: Sandia’s small business programs; procurement policy, Supply Chain quality and ISO; and Supply Chain business operations.  Weatherly has also served at the senior manager level over Sandia’s Logistics Organization and Sandia’s Controller Operations Organization.  Weatherly has been employed by Sandia National Labs for 32 years and has served in many organizations across the company’s Integrated Enabling Services Strategic Management Unit.

Weatherly graduated with honors in 1991 from College of Santa Fe with a BA/BA and then received an MBA in 1994, also from College of Santa Fe.  Billie is very active in programs that support local/regional small businesses. She chairs Sandia’s Supplier Community Advisory Council and works closely with local business development organizations, e.g. the New Mexico 8a Association and Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce.  Billie has served on the board of directors of the Albuquerque Chapter of the National Contract Management Association (NCMA) and is active in the Albuquerque Chapter of Institute of Supply Management (ISM).  She has attained the designation of lifetime Certified Purchasing Manager (CPM). She has also received National Property Management Association (NPMA) certifications: Certified Personal Property Specialist (CPPS) and Certified Personal Property Administrator (CPPA).  She has one grown daughter and two grandchildren.  She is a native New Mexican.  She resides in Albuquerque and enjoys spending weekends in Santa Fe and touring New Mexico on a motorcycle.

James Hartogensis, Treasurer
James Hartogensis is a licensed CPA and senior business assurances manager for Moss Adams LLP, a regional CPA firm headquartered in Seattle, WA.  Hartogensis has 15 years accounting experience and works primarily in the areas of nonprofit organizations, governmental agencies and employee benefit plans.  He is married with 3 sons and a granddaughter.  He joined the Life Options Academy board in May 2007 and was elected treasurer in July 2007.  He is very interested in helping Life Options Academy grow into an agency that can help deliver the continuum of care that teen moms so desperately need.

Majdah Al-Quhtani, Director
Majdah began her investment career with T. Rowe Price in 1995 after earning her degree in Economics from the University of New Mexico. Originally from Portland, Oregon, Majdah has made Albuquerque her home since 2000.  She now owns and operates her own financial advising practice, providing investment advice to individuals, as well as corporations and non-profits.  While not in the office, Majdah enjoys performing and teaching dance. Otherwise, you can find her playing with her houseful of pets.

Sara Baca, Director
Sara Baca earned an Associate’s Degree in Human Services and holds Child Development Associate credentials.  She has 30 years of varied experience working with individuals from birth through senior citizens.  Baca has worked for the Office of Senior Affairs, UNM Children’s Psychiatric Hospital, Catholic Social Services, First Choice Community Healthcare, New Mexico Health Education Coalition, Albuquerque Family Health Center, and Bernalillo Mental Health Center.  Baca currently works for the City of Albuquerque as an Early Head Start Family Development Specialist.

Chris Jungmann, Director
Chris Jungmann and his wife Jennifer moved to New Mexico from Connecticut in 1994 to start a family.  He serves with UBS as a Financial Advisor focusing on investment risk management.  Prior to joining UBS he co-founded Northern Systems, Inc. a technology company, and also served as deputy director and CIO of the Judicial Information Division of the New Mexico Courts.  Jungmann holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering and a Master's of Business Administration in accounting.  Jungmann also holds a private pilot's license, and is a licensed radio amateur.  He and his wife have two pre-teen children.  Both he and his wife serve the community through various organizations.  She is a board member of the High Desert Dental Hygiene Association.  He is engaged with various organizations including Life Options Academy, Casa Esperanza, the Kiwanis Club, and his church.

Terri Giron-Gordon, Director
Terri has over twenty years experience as a corporate trainer and facilitator.  She is President of GenQuest, Inc., which provides business management services to government, federal contractors and private organizations. 

Terri is a skilled group facilitator and mediator.  She mediates workplace and special education disputes.  Terri has taught numerous courses including Diversity Awareness, Conflict Management, Effective Interpersonal Skills, Surviving and Thriving Workplace Change, Employment Law, Managing and Developing Human Resources, Facilitation Skills, Interviewing Techniques, Effective Presentation Skills, Documenting Discipline, and Civil Rights in the Workplace.  The civil rights training program was recognized as a semifinalist for the Western Region in the Council of State Government’s Innovations Awards Program.  The course was awarded the National Association of State Chief Administrators 1999 Outstanding Innovation Award, as well as receiving a 1999 Quality New Mexico Pinon Award.

Terri is a native New Mexican who refers to herself as a “Double Lobo.”  She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Master of Arts in Public Administration from the University of New Mexico.

Sherri L. Wells, Director
Sherri is the Business Development Director for New Mexico Moss Adams.  She builds relationships and new business opportunities for New Mexico Moss Adams.  She is a graduate of Western Michigan, University in Business Communications.  Her current community affiliations are:  Women In Philanthropy, Junior Achievement Executive Board and NM First.  Sherri is the Co-founder of Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame in New Mexico.  She has chaired Go Red for Women in 2006.  Her expertise lies in business development, networking, marketing opportunities and events, and as a trainer.

Joya Querencia, Director
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Cate Cardwell, Director
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Advisors

• Monica Armenta, Executive Director, APS Communications
• Lawrence Medina, MBA
• Bonnie Paisley, Legal Advisor
• Bill Walters, President, ABA Creative
• Jean Block, Consultant

Staff

Founders and Honorary Board Members

Elisabeth Zimmer, Founder, Honorary Board Member
Lis Zimmer earned her Bachelor of Science in Psychology at Santa Clara University in California.  Her early experience as a single mom precipitated a lifelong interest in and empathy for single parents and single teen parents in particular.  She worked for 18-years at Intel Corporation in various capacities, including two stints in Ireland helping start-up two new chip-manufacturing plants there.  She resigned from Intel in 2000.  She now spends her time on her core interest in pregnant and parenting teens by working with the Life Options Academy program, and by serving on the Marie Amadea Shelter Board of Directors.  In recognition of her founding role, she was presented the 2006 Governor’s Award for Outstanding New Mexico Women.

Edward G. Muzio, Co-Founder, Honorary Board Member
Ed Muzio is president of Group Harmonics, a leading consulting firm in applying quantitative models to organizational effectiveness.  His Cornell University engineering degree combines with over a decade’s formal training and real experience managing worldwide, multi-million dollar programs.  He began his career at Intel Corporation, where he first met Life Options Academy founder Lis Zimmer.  Among his volunteer activities, Muzio has designed and implemented a life skills training program for pregnant and parenting teens in Austin, TX, and a church leadership development program in Albuquerque, NM.  Muzio served as president of the Life Options Academy Board of Directors from June 2003 to September 2004, and then as executive director through January 2006.

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