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Board of Directors

The RSCVA is governed by a 13-member board of directors representing a variety of business and community groups in Washoe County. The groups represented include: gaming, general business, financial industry, air service and motel industries. The cities of Reno and Sparks and Incline Village are also represented as well as the Washoe County Commission.
Lynn Atcheson is the air service representative on the Board. 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. Atchison 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. E-mail: Lynn Atcheson
 
 
Frank Baldwin of the Circus Circus Reno represents the gaming industry. He serves on the Finance/Human Resources committee. Frank Baldwin has been the Vice President and General Manager at Circus Circus Hotel Casino Reno, an MGM Mirage property, since March 2003. He has served on the RSCVA Board since 2004. Baldwin is in charge of the northern Nevada property, which features 1,572 rooms and a 65,000 square foot gaming floor. Prior to coming to Reno, he served in the position of Director of Casino Operations for the Luxor Hotel/Casino in Las Vegas, NV.

Liza Cartlidge Liza Cartlidge vice president and general manager of Harrah's Reno, represents the gaming industry and serves on the Marketing and Sales Committee.
Cartlidge began her tenure with Harrah's in 1984, when she joined Harrah's Atlantic City in the finance department. From 1993 to 1998 she held the position of vice president of finance at Harrah's Las Vegas, and then served in a divisional capacity as vice president of finance for Nevada. In 1999, she returned to Atlantic City and served as vice president of finance and administration, and then vice president of gaming at Showboat, where she spearheaded the integration of the property into the Harrah's organization. A Nevada Resort Association board member and advisory board member for the University of Nevada, Reno's College of Business Administration, Cartlidge also participates in the Nevada A.S.C.E.N.T. Hometown Mentor Program as a mentor to Hug High School students. Cartlidge earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in accounting from Trenton State College. In 2002 she graduated from the respected Leadership New Jersey Program and additionally has completed the Strategic Marketing Management executive development program at Stanford University as well as Harrah's Excellence in Leadership Program.
Email: Liza Cartlidge
 
Jim DeVolld Jim DeVolld represents the banking industry and serves on the Finance 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.
E-mail: Jim DeVolld
 
 
 
 
 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.
E-mail: Dwight Dortch

 
 
 
 
 
 
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.
E-mail: John Farahi
 


 
 
 
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.
E-mail: David Humke
 
Howard A. 'Hal' Lenox, Jr. Howard A. "Hal" Lenox, Jr. is president of AT&T Nevada and represents general business. In his position at AT&T Nevada, he is responsible for legislative, regulatory and external affairs activities in Nevada. During his 30-year tenure in the telecommunications industry, he has held a variety of positions in legislative, public, and external affairs, sales leadership and management, strategic planning and sales channel planning. Additionally, Mr. Lenox served as a member of the adjunct faculty at the San Diego Community College District department of business and taught in San Diego State University’s telecommunications program. He graduated with distinction from the University of Redlands with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and earned a Master of Business Administration degree from San Diego State University.

An active member of the Reno-Tahoe community, Mr. Lenox sits on the boards of the Nevada Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada (EDAWN), the Nevada Taxpayers Association, the Nevada Opera, the Truckee Meadows Community College Foundation, the United Way of Northern Nevada and the Sierra, and the University of Nevada, Reno Foundation.
E-mail: Howard Lenox

 
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.
E-mail: Mark Pardue
 
 
 
 
Roberta Ross represents the motel industry.  
Roberta Ross 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 finance 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.
E-mail: Roberta Ross
 
 
Phil Salerno is the past Chairman of the RSCVA board and represents the City of Sparks and is 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 and Nevada Distribution Services, both 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.
E-mail: Phil Salerno

Bonnie Weber -- information coming soon!
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. Bonnie shares a sign and banner business with her husband.
E-mail: Bonnie Weber

Sharon Zadra represents the City of Reno and is the board chair and chair of the marketing committee. 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.
E-mail: Sharon Zadra
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