Welcome Our New Board Member Charlie Kettering III
Charlie is currently the President of Ridgeleigh Mangement Company, a Family Office based in Wilmington, DE. He has been the President of the Kettering Family Foundation since 1983 and has held similar positions with the Chuck Kettering Memorial Foundation and C. F. Kettering, Inc., a family investment company.
Charlie has been a member of the Board of Managers of the United States Air Force Museum Foundation, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio, (9 years) member of Board of Trustees of Kettering University, Flint, Michigan (26 years) serving terms has board and investment committee chair, He has also been a trustee and investment committee member of the University of Colorado Foundation, Boulder, Colorado (20 years) and St. Anne’s Episcopal School, Denver, Colorado, (9 years).
Other experiences include working as a Private Bank Officer at First Interstate Bank of Denver (now Wells Fargo), a partner of a sporting goods retail store, high school business teacher and United States Tennis Association Junior Davis Cup coach and coach of the Cherry Creek High School Boy’s Tennis team.
Charlie graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Charlie’s family has been visiting Steamboat since 1966 when they purchased a unit at Mt. Werner Lodge, where he is currently the HOA president. Growing up he participated in local rodeo events, hiked, camped and has watched Steamboat grow and develop. He developed the Running Bear Subdivision just south of the ski mountain and has volunteered as a couch at the Rare Air Tennis camp, the junior tennis program and was an original member the youth advisory committee. He also served on the investment committee of the Yampa Valley Community Foundation (16 years) and volunteered with Junior Achievement in Steamboat Springs, Colorado (2 years).
Charlie’s wife, Lisa, has been associated with the Yampa Valley Medical Center since 2015 serving as it’s Chief Medical Officer and more recently Board Chair. She is a Hospitalist having founded a large Hospitalist group at St Joseph Hospital in Denver where she also served as the CMO for three years.
Charlie and Lisa are looking forward to “more Steamboat, less Denver” in the coming years.
