Prior to joining Honoring Our Veterans as Executive Director in 2015, Sandy has been involved with several non-profit organizations in Jackson Hole.  She is on the Board of Directors of the Skating Club of Jackson Hole and involved with our local and regional Boy Scouts, even elected Den Leader of the Year for the Rocky Mountain Region.  Most recently she has been the Office Manager for one of our local Internal Medicine specialists, who recently retired, allowing Sandy to take over as Executive Director of H.O.V. following Sandra Budak’s retirement for medical reasons.

Rich Sugden M.D. first moved to Jackson Hole in 1947. Rich went to college at Stanford, Medical School at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, and entered the Navy as a flight surgeon in 1970. He was the flight surgeon at the Naval Air Test Center and Test Pilot School at Patuxent River MD. Rich moved to Jackson in 1975, where he has practiced Family Medicine since. He started the Teton County EMS program, Jackson Hole Air Ambulance, and Teton Aviation Center which operates the general aviation business in Driggs, ID, just over the Tetons from Jackson. He has restored and flies numerous ex-military aircraft in airshows around the country. His military service, and interest in helping our wounded veterans re-enter civilian life, drew him to working with Honoring Our Veterans.

Richard V. Spencer was the 76th Secretary of the Navy. He was sworn into the office on August 3rd, 2017. Prior to that he was Managing Director of Fall Creek Management LLC which focuses on value enhancement of private companies through capital investment and advice.

He is former Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE:ICE) the leading electronic commodity futures exchange. He served in that capacity from November 2001 through January 2008. While at ICE he was responsible for the transition of the company from private to public, including recruiting the Board, the initial public offering and the subsequent three secondary offerings, financial reporting, strategy development and implementation, and human resources. Prior to that Richard was the President of Crossroads Investment Management LLC a leading venture capital and private equity fund-of-funds investment firm. He joined Crossroads in 1998 after working on Wall Street for 16 years (Goldman Sachs, DLJ, Merrill Lynch). During that period his responsibilities centered on investment banking services focusing on strategic advisory services and capital markets underwriting.

Mr. Spencer graduated from Rollins College in 1976 with a Bachelors of Arts degree in economics. Upon graduation from Rollins Richard joined the U.S. Marine Corps and served in the fleet until 1981. Mr. Spencer was a member of the board of directors of the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, Global Atlantic Financial Group, The Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, Teton County Search & Rescue Foundation, VeteransCampaign, ENGAGEcx, and StarPound Technologies, Inc. Mr. Spencer has two grown children is a resident of Wyoming and presently lives in Washington DC.

Born in Berkeley, California in 1939 and graduated from the University of the Pacific in 1961 with a BS in geology. Traveled to Alaska and worked as a gunsmith and guide. Proudly served in the US Coast Guard, based in Alameda California. Joined the family homebuilding business and built over 1000 custom luxury homes in the San Francisco Bay area. We also developed over a dozen high end residential projects and diversified into building office buildings, warehouse, storage facilities, retail, and commercial projects. We own and manage these projects today.

Very involved in community activities: president of Rotary, YMCA, local and regional homebuilders Association’s. Builder association leader ship continued through state and the National Association of Home Builders.  President and spokesperson for the nations homebuilders (staff of 430 including 145 lobbyists) during an election year (1996) and it was a great honor and lots of fun.

Dorie and I built our home in Wilson, Wyoming in 1979 and moved here full-time in 2005. We are the proud parents 4 children and 11 grandchildren. We love the valley and enjoy all of the many outdoor activities; fishing, hunting, biking, hiking,time on the river, and flying a small back country airplane. We love sharing the valley with our family, or many friends, and particularly the Veterans that HOV brings to the valley.