Lynn Atcheson

Lynn Atcheson is the air service representative on the Board. She serves as the chairperson of the Marketing and Sales committee.  Through her community leadership and professional achievements, she has contributed to the health and vitality of the Truckee Meadows and Washoe County. A native Nevadan born in White Pine County, she has spent most of her life in Reno and Washoe County. Currently the president of her own communication, research and planning consultancy, Atcheson previously served as the Vice President of Marketing and Communications for Washoe Heath System (now Renown Health) for more than 10 years. She has been a trustee of the Reno Tahoe Airport Authority since 2003 and has also contributed her time and talents to a wide variety of community organizations. Atcheson was instrumental in establishing the Nevada Women’s Fund, serving as the organization’s founding president, and led the creation of Truckee Meadows Tomorrow. She is a graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno.

Glenn Carano

Glenn Carano has served as Director of Marketing at the Silver Legacy since the Resort Casino’s opening in July 1995.   Before joining the Silver Legacy, Carano served as Director of Marketing at the Eldorado Hotel/Casino for eight years.  Carano has stayed an active leader within the Gaming and Tourism Industry.  In 1995 he served a four-year term as Board Member of the Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority and Chairman of the Marketing Committee.  He has recently been appointed again as a Board Member beginning in 2009.  Mr. Carano has also been a Board Member with the Airport Authority in Reno for 8 years and served 6 years as Commissioner with the Nevada Athletic Commission.

Glenn’s main focus and proudest accomplishment are his three daughters, Kasey, Gina and Christi.  He also enjoys bike riding, golf and skiing.

Jim DeVolld

Jim DeVolld represents the banking industry and serves as the chairman on the Finance/Human Resources committee. A native Nevadan, DeVolld has more than 30 years of banking and lending experience and is currently president of First Independent Bank. Joining First Independent Bank in 1999 shortly after its formation, DeVolld's previous experience includes 23 years with Pioneer Citizens Bank. Contributing to a number of community organizations, DeVolld is the Boys and Girls Club of Truckee Meadows board chairman, a member of the membership committee for Renown Health Systems and a board member and past chairman of the Athletic Association of the University of Nevada. A graduate of the National School of Real Estate Finance in Madison, Wis., DeVolld is also in his final year at the Pacific Coast Banking School. 

Dwight Dortch

Dwight Dortch is the Reno Council Member for Ward 4 and represents the City of Reno on the RSCVA board. Dwight was elected to the Ward 4 seat in November 2002 and is a graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno, and is in the financial services business. Dortch is the past Chairman of the City Planning Commission and also served the citizens of Reno on the Board of Adjustment and Financial Advisory Board prior to being elected to the City Council.

John Farahi

John Farahi has been the Co-Chairman of the Board, CEO and COO of Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc. (holding co. for the Atlantis) since its inception, and (since June 1993) of Golden Road (of which he was President, Director and General Manager from 1973 to June 1993). Mr. Farahi is also a partner in Farahi Investment Company (engaged in real estate investment/development). John Farahi served on the Washoe County Airport Authority as a Trustee from July 1997 until June 2005. A former member of the Nevada Commission on Tourism and presently a Board Member of the Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors' Authority, John Farahi holds a political science degree from the California State University, Hayward. 

David Humke

David Humke holds the Washoe County Commission District 4 seat, serving as the Washoe County Commissioner for District 2 (south Washoe County) and works as a Project Attorney at the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges in Reno, Nevada. From 1983 to 2002 he served as a State Assemblyman for district 26. Humke is a Governor's appointee to the Nevada Commission on Aging, the Nevada Juvenile Justice Commission and the Nevada Indigent Accident Fund. In Washoe County, Humke serves on the Regional Transportation Commission (currently Vice Chair), District Board of Health, Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority, Flood Control Coordinating Project, Washoe County School District Oversight committee and the Washoe County Criminal Justice Advisory Committee. Humke also is a member of Reno South Rotary and is Vice Chair of For Kids Advisory Committee which is advisory to the For Kids Foundation.

Mark Pardue

Mark Pardue is the Incline Village/Crystal Bay representative. He is the general manager at the Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort, Spa and Casino in Incline Village. Before joining the Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe in mid-2006, Pardue served as general manager at the Hyatt Regency Wind Watch in Hauppauge, New York on Long Island as well as The Stanhope Park Hyatt New York in Manhattan. Pardue has worked at nine Hyatt properties throughout his career in a variety of roles in the human resources and rooms divisions.

Active in the hospitality industry, Pardue is Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Incline Village/Crystal Bay Visitors Bureau, is a member of the Incline Village Rotary Club and is involved with the South Lake Tahoe Youth Hockey Organization. Prior to moving to Incline Village, Pardue served on the board of directors for the Long Island Convention and Visitors Bureau. He is a graduate of Appalachian State University. 

Roberta Ross

Roberta Ross represents the motel industry. She is the owner and operator of the Ross Manor Residential Hotel & Apartments and represents the Northern Nevada Motel Association as a member of RSCVA’s board and facilities committee. Prior to moving to Nevada in 1985, she was an assistant transportation engineer for California Department of Transportation and has also worked at the California State Lands Commission and the Department of Housing & Community Development in Federal Housing & Economic Development Programs.  In addition to her role as president of the Northern Nevada Motel Association, Ross is a board member of the Downtown Improvement Association, sits on the advisory board of the Nevada Small Business Development Center @ UNR and contributes her skills and time to a number of other community organizations. Ross attended Fresno State majoring in surveying and photogrametry. 

Phil Salerno

Phil Salerno is the past chairman of the RSCVA board and represents the City of Sparks and presides as the chairman on the Facilities committee. He was elected to the Sparks City Council in 1995 for a four-year term and ran unopposed for a second four-year term in 1999. He has lived in Sparks for 40 years and is a native of the Truckee Meadows. Mr. Salerno is the owner of Nevada Forms & Printing Company, in Sparks. He is a member of the Washoe County District Board of Health and an alternate to the Regional Planning Governing Board. He has also served on the Sparks Disabled Advisory Committee and is past Chairman of the Sparks Redevelopment Agency. 

Tim Tretton

Tim Tretton began his career at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe in 1978 in the Slot Department.  He has held the positions of Slot Shift Manager, Beverage Manager and Slot Performance Manager.  In 1996, Tim was promoted to the position of Director of Casino Operations for Bill’s Casino at Lake Tahoe.  From 2002 to 2006, Tim held the position of General Manager for Bill’s Casino.

With over twenty-six years of gaming experience, Tim was name the Director of Casino Operations at Harrah’s Reno in 2006.  And most recently, he was promoted to the position of Director of Operations for the entire property in Reno.

Bonnie Weber

Bonnie Weber is one of two Washoe County Commission representatives on the board of directors. She is currently serving her second term as Washoe County Commissioner, representing District 5 where she has lived as a resident for over 24 years. District 5 represents the largest physical district in the county, incorporating portions of Reno and Sparks, as well as Mogul/Verdi on the west, Sun Valley on the east, the North Valleys to the California border, and Gerlach to the Oregon border. An active member of the Reno-Tahoe community, Weber has served on the Stead Neighborhood Advisory Board, the Reno Commission on the Status of Women, Habitat for Humanity, and many offices within the Republican Party. Mrs. Weber shares a sign and banner business with her husband. 

Sharon Zadra

Sharon Zadra represents the City of Reno and is the board chair. Ms. Zadra was elected to the Reno City Council in November 2002. She is a small business owner with 15 years of experience in economic development/diversification planning and analysis and has more than 25 years of senior management experience in business planning, development and marketing. Ms. Zadra earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Nevada, Reno.