Five business leaders named USSA trustees

Five business and community leaders — Steve Hankin, Chris Heinz, Hank Holland, Lee J. Styslinger III, and Susan Swig Watkins — were named trustees of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Foundation, announced Vice President of Fundraising Janine Alfano.

PARK CITY, Utah — Five business and community leaders — Steve Hankin, Chris Heinz, Hank Holland, Lee J. Styslinger III, and Susan Swig Watkins — were named trustees of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Foundation, announced Vice President of Fundraising Janine Alfano.
    "Our board of trustees is a good cross-section of leadership from around the country and these five are great additions to the mix," said Alfano. "They’re all ski or snowboard enthusiasts and their business backgrounds will provide welcome advice for growing our team programs to provide the best athletic opportunities for our athletes.
    “We have a lot of great programs including building our Center of Excellence [a high-performance training and education center in Park City, Utah], and our board of trustees play a key roll in moving all of our funding for programs forward,” she added.  
    The five new trustees to the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Foundation are:

Steve Hankin (New York, N.Y.), president of JetDirect, the largest aircraft management company in the United States.
    Prior to joining JetDirect, Hankin was the chief marketing officer of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. and also was a partner at McKinsey & Co. Inc., the international management-consulting firm.
    Hankin holds an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and a bachelor’s from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He and his family enjoy skiing at Aspen, Colorado, and throughout Vermont.

Chris Heinz (New York, N.Y.), co-chairman of the Executive Committee and a founding managing partner of Rosemont Capital, a New York-based private equity firm.
    Before starting with Rosemont, Heinz worked with Cambridge Associates in Boston, where he focused on private equity and venture capital partnership evaluation and portfolio construction. He also was an associate and then principal at Jacobson Partners in New York, a leading private equity firm focused on small- to medium-sized companies and was a senior advisor for the John Kerry for President campaign and addressed the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
    He currently serves in a leadership position on the Investment Committee of the Heinz Family Office, on the boards and investment committees of the Heinz Endowments, the St. Paul's schools, the East Harlem School and the Carnegie Mellon School of Public Policy. Heinz received a bachelor of arts in history from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard University. He and his wife, Sasha, enjoy skiing at Sun Valley, Idaho.

Hank Holland (San Francisco, California) national director of investment planning and a principal of Bernstein Global Wealth Management.
    Holland advises many of the firm's high-net-worth private clients on investment planning, risk management, and estate and tax planning matters. Prior to joining Bernstein in 1996, he was a principal with Pacific Union Realty Finance, a real-estate investment banking firm in San Francisco and executive vice president with Mayfair Development Corp. in Dallas. Holland is active in San Francisco civic affairs and currently chairs the board for the Bay Area Discovery Museum; he also is a board member for the San Francisco Ballet.
    He attended Southern Methodist University on an honors engineering scholarship and earned a degree in civil engineering. Holland and his wife, Beth, reside in San Francisco with their three sons: Hayden, Corbin, and Fulton. The family spends most weekends at Squaw Valley, Calif., where the two oldest boys are active junior racers.

Lee J. Styslinger, III (Birmingham, Alabama) is president and chief executive officer of Altec Inc., the holding company for Altec Industries, Capital Services, National Equipment Co., Altec Worldwide, Global Rental, and Altec Ventures. Altec Industries Inc. designs, manufactures and markets equipment for the electric and telecommunications industries and has equipment in over 100 countries.
    Styslinger serves on the board of Regions Financial Corporation (RF), the National Association of Manufacturers Executive Committee, Young Presidents Organization International, Children’s Hospital, and the Altec/Styslinger Foundation. He also is a member of the Business Roundtable and the Newcomen Society of the United States and an active supporter of United Way. He was appointed by President George W. Bush to the President’s Export Council in 2006.
    A graduate of Northwestern University in 1983, Styslinger currently serves on the 1851 Society Executive Council.  He earned his MBA from Harvard University in 1988.   
    He and his wife, Kelly, reside in Birmingham with three sons: Paul, Scott and Chase.  They all enjoy skiing in Aspen.

Susan Swig Watkins (San Francisco), is a board member at The Swig Co., a privately held investment company of commercial real estate properties in major markets across the United States.
    Swig Watkins is an active member of her community having served on numerous arts, educational and environmental organizations. She is a trustee at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and a trustee of Marin Country Day School with a focus on the development and implementation of the school’s strategic and 25-year master plan. She also is actively involved with the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy.
    Swig Watkins has a bachelor of arts from the University of California at Berkeley as well as a bachelor of fine arts from Art Center College of Design. A resident of San Francisco, she and her three school-aged children, all whom play competitive sports, enjoy skiing at Sugar Bowl, Calif., and Sun Valley.