Brian Augenthaler | Keating, Bucklin & McCormack Brian Augenthaler is an attorney with Keating, Bucklin & McCormack, Inc., P.S. His practice includes governmental and outdoor recreation defense litigation, including law enforcement, employment, land use, road design, and ski accident matters. Representative clients include cities throughout Washington State, the University of Wash- ington, Harborview Medical Center, and ski areas. baugenthaler@kbmlawyers.com Charles Beckinsale | PRINOTH Charles Beckinsale is the director of the Stomping Grounds Proj- ects, which offers high performance ski and snowboard sessions focused on slopestyle, big air, and pipe. He spent the last 18 years operating snowcats and terrain-park building in Australia, the U.S., Canada, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, China, and Japan. His career began at Thredbo Resort in Australia, where he served on park crew before moving into the park manager position for 12 years. During that time, he spent back-to-back seasons between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres in a snowcat as a free groomer at Squaw Valley [Palisades Tahoe] in California as well. He later moved on to build parks at Whistler Blackcomb, B.C., and eventually took on the park manager and youth marketing role at Perisher Resort, Austra- lia, for six years prior to launching the Stomping Grounds Projects in 2016. charles@stompinggroundsprojects.com Michael L. Bettera | Effective Edge Michael Bettera is the owner of Effective Edge, formed four years ago from SPT. For the past three decades, he has worked closely with resort partners across the U.S. to keep them current with industry trends, support terrain park risk management, and create new, inno- vative projects such as the Red Bull Cubed Pipe, Burton Progression Parks, Burton U.S. Open, and X Games. He specializes in developing signature resort projects and programs, including the Peace Park for Powdr Corp., The Streets at Seven Springs, global Burton Stash parks, and LVL Up Academy, an e-learning company focused on re- sort risk management training. He has worked with more than 80 re- sorts around the globe, is a former head coach at Waterville Valley, N.H., and has served as a judge at numerous events, including the Burton U.S. Open. His career in the resort industry started in 1988 as one of the early snowboard instructors and a member of PSIA-AASI. mike@effectiveedge.com Nick Boggs | PRINOTH Nick Boggs began his snowsports career in his home state of West Virginia at Snowshoe Mountain Resort. In 2012, Nick moved to Colorado and joined the terrain park team at Keystone Resort, which was regularly ranked a top 5 park in the country. Leading up to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Keystone’s parks were the training grounds for bronze medalist Mark McMorris. Throughout his career, Nick worked closely with a number of athletes including
Torstein Horgmo, Red Gerard, and Halldor Hellgason. After almost 10 years at Keystone, Nick returned to the East Coast and joined the PRINOTH team as a demo operator. Today, with almost 20 years of operator experience, he supports resorts across the North, South- east, and Midwest. Since 2021, Nick has been a course builder for the FIS World Cup event at Killington, Vt. Parker Bohon | The Blade Dive Having found snowboarding in the Southeast in the Appalachian mountains, during high school, Parker Bohon became infatuated with the idea of traveling west. Combining his passion for action sports and living that lifestyle, Bohon cut his teeth within iconic ter- rain park programs such as June Mountain, Calif., Park City, Utah, and Thredbo, Australia, laying the foundation for leadership oppor- tunities, overseeing terrain park and progression programs at Mt. Bachelor, Ore., and Woodward Copper, Colo. As the creator and host of The Blade Dive Podcast, Bohon is diving into the idea of a cultural revamp and advocation for the industry and its people. Parker is currently the risk manager at Mt. Bachelor. parkerbohon@gmail.com Benjamin Botelho | MountainGuard Ben Botelho is a claims and loss control specialist with Mountain- Guard. He joined the team in August 2020, and his responsibilities include managing casualty and property claims and providing loss control services for ski resorts in the Northeast U.S. and Eastern Canada. Prior to joining MountainGuard, Ben was a private prac- tice attorney in the area of environmental law. When not working or skiing, Ben is usually out riding his bike, or hiking and camping with his wife and daughter. benjamin.botelho@amwins.com Chloe Butel | Timberline Chloe Butel came from skiing the French Alps at a young age to riding the Sierras of California as an adolescent. After earning a degree in ag- ricultural physiology, she moved to Lake Tahoe to eventually become a park operator for Sierra-at-Tahoe. Chloe has worked for Northstar Terrain Parks as well as Timberline Freestyle in the summers between seasons. As a four-year operator, she is an advocate for the sustain- ability of the industry and the people that work to make it what it is. chloebutel@gmail.com Jeremy Cooper | Boyne Resorts Jeremy Cooper is an accomplished terrain park builder and designer. He has worked with resorts across the country and internationally, from Mammoth Mountain, Calif., to Falls Creek, Australia. Currently, he is VP of mountain sports development for Boyne Resorts. There, he oversees terrain parks, MTB parks, and adventure activities, and facilitates mountain operations-related capital improvement proj- ects across Boyne’s properties. jeremy.cooper@boyneresorts.com
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