BOARD OF DIRECTORS

With an award-winning architecture firm in Aspen since 1981, Charles Cunniffe, FAIA, is a champion of thoughtful community-based design, educational opportunities, the arts and human welfare.

Charles and his firm have donated pro-bono design services to countless non-profits, and consistently give back to the community; earning the AIA Colorado Community Service by an Architect Award in 2011. CCA has also earned AIA Colorado West Firm of the Year, Mentor of the Year, and has been on OUTSIDE Magazine’s 100 ‘Best Places to Work’ in the US for four consecutive years.

Charles is currently the elected Pitkin County Representative on the Board of Trustees of Colorado Mountain College, is a Founding Board Member and Chairman of Governance of Jazz Aspen/Snowmass, served as President Elect and President of the American Institute of Architects Colorado West from 2013 through 2017, is a member of the Aspen Art Museum, the Urban Land Institute’s Small Scale Development Council, Rocky Mountain Institute’s National Solutions Council, Aspen Institute’s Society of Fellows, Aspen Science Center, the Aspen Rotary World Service Committee, and the Aspen Elks Lodge #224.

Charles Cunniffe Architects (CCA) has garnered national recognition, appearing in the Wall Street Journal, Architectural Digest Veranda, LUXE, Modern Luxury, and Architect Magazine amongst others. CCA has received numerous American Institute of Architects design awards and has earned Mountain Living Magazine’s ‘Home of the Year’ four times.

Alan Fletcher, one of this country’s most accomplished music administrators and respected composers, was born in 1956 in Riverside, New Jersey, and earned his baccalaureate at Princeton University (1978) and his master’s degree (1979) and doctorate (1983) at Juilliard. He studied composition with Roger Sessions, Milton Babbitt, Edward T. Cone, and Paul Lansky and piano with Jacob Lateiner and Robert Helps. In 1985, Fletcher was appointed to the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music, teaching composition and theory and serving successively during his 16-year tenure at the school as Dean, Provost and Senior Vice President. From 2011 to 2006, he was Professor of Music and Head of the School of Music at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, after which he assumed his current position as President and CEO of the Aspen Music Festival and School. Fletcher has lectured nationally and internationally on music and music administration, served on many boards, panels, juries, seminars and committees, and contributed articles and op-ed pieces to Symphony magazine, Gramophone magazine, Wall Street Journal, Sonus: Journal of Global Music, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Baltimore Sun, The Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, Chronicle of Higher Education, and many others. Fletcher has won numerous composing awards and received commissions from the National Dance Institute, the Pittsburgh Symphony (2008 and 2011), Nashua Symphony, National Gallery of Art, Boston Celebrity Series, Duquesne University, New York Camerata, and other noted ensembles, organizations, and soloists. He chaired the 1997 Salzburg Seminar Music for a New Millenium: The Classical Genre in Contemporary Society.

Jill Kosdrosky, Senior Vice President at Bank of America, was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  She received her first telescope at age 8, and has been seeking clear skies ever since.  After obtaining her BS in Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, she joined Deloitte Consulting in an IT management role.  She then moved to Delaware and later to England as program manager of Bank of America’s European credit card portfolio acquisitions.  She obtained her Six Sigma LEAN Black Belt certification, and currently serves as BofA’s location strategist for the mortgage servicing division, working out of her home in Basalt, CO.  She lives with her husband, Mike, and mutt, Grizzly.  Jill enjoys hiking, cooking, watching Steelers football, growing vegetables, and studying all things in the sky, from airplanes to clouds to planets.  She prides herself on planning all of her errand routes in a series of right-hand turns.

William “Bill” Turner is chair of the board of directors and a member of the executive committee. Bill spent 35 years as a management consultant, working with large financial institutions on issues of strategy, corporate governance, and operational effectiveness. While at McKinsey, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, and A.T. Kearney, he assisted clients in 25 countries and resided overseas for more than a dozen years in London, Seoul, and Hong Kong. He led strategy and financial services consulting practices in the U.S., the United Kingdom, the Middle East, across Europe, and in Greater China. Prior to consulting, Bill led the corporate banking business for Chemical Bank, now JPMorgan Chase, in five mid-western states, managing relationships with large corporations and banks, and structuring and negotiating complex credit transactions. Eons ago, he graduated from Brown University with a degree in economics and then earned an MBA in finance from Columbia. Bill’s family has been coming to Aspen and Snowmass since the mid-1980’s, and Bill, wife Paula, and their dog Lola have lived in Snowmass Village for 15 years. Bill recently rolled off the board of Aspen Public Radio, where he was Chair for several years, and he serves on the board of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation in New York.  Science – especially physics – has played an important role in Bill’s life.  Brownian motion has kept him traveling around most of his life.  From early on he accepted Einstein’s attributed comment that the most powerful force in the universe is compound interest.  And, Bill views the world with lots of Fresnel rings, now that he has multi-focal intraocular lenses.

Dr. Ruckenstein is a co-founder of the Aspen Science Center and a past President of the Aspen Center for Physics. He holds a B.S. from Harvard College and a Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell. He is trained as a theoretical condensed matter physicist and is known for his work in strongly correlated quantum systems. He later redirected his interests towards biology-driven research. He was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, and a Humboldt Foundation Senior Prize. Dr. Ruckenstein is Professor of Physics  and former Associate Provost & Vice President for Research at Boston University. He is also Interim Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research at Lancaster University.