2012 Board of Directors
GREG SHELTON: CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
Greg Shelton is Product Manager with DFW Hospital Council. His career has focused on getting cost saving and life saving technologies into non-profit and community healthcare facilities around the country. He has served Habitat for Humanity and a homeless assistance project and is currently serving on the Mayor’s Complete Count Committee to help insure that the 2010 Census gets the most accurate count from the city of Dallas. Greg leads the Design Team for the Friends of the Santa Fe Trail.
Greg has resided in Lakewood since 2001 and enjoys golf, hiking, biking and anything outside. He is intensely interested in healthy sustainable communities and the economics and sociology behind a community’s success or failure. Greg is a frequent user of the White Rock Trail network for recreation and is excited about its continued expansion with the Santa Fe Trail. “I see the Santa Fe Trail as not only a great outdoor resource for me to enjoy but as a source of pride and community for all of East Dallas.”
CHRIS ANGAROLA: PAST CHAIRMAN
Chris Angarola is a Vice President with Wells Fargo Bank working in the commercial banking group as a Relationship Manager. Chris grew up in Dallas and attended St. Mark’s School of Texas graduating in 1989. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Southern Methodist University. Chris is an active participant in the Dallas community serving on the Friends of Fair Park Board of Directors and Friends of Santa Fe Trail Board of Directors. Chris is married and has two young children that both attend school at Lakewood Elementary.
SUSAN COX:
Susan is a Partner at Jones Day. She practices in the area of general real estate law, with an emphasis on real estate finance, acquisitions, and dispositions of real estate and nonperforming loan portfolios, international investments, and mortgage-backed securities. She also has been involved in a number of real estate transactions in Europe and Asia. She attended Austin College in Sherman and the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and the University of Texas Law School.
PETER DONCASTER:
Peter is an Architect with Gensler. He was Project Architect for the recently completed the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing & Visual Arts. He earned Bachelor of Architecture and Masters of Architecture degrees from Tulane University and a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design degree from Columbia University. Peter is leading the Design Team coordination effort for the Board of the Friends of the Santa Fe Trail.
A resident of the Hollywood Santa Monica Neighborhood, Peter is the a former President of the Hollywood Santa Monica Neighborhood Association. He lives three blocks from the Santa Fe Trail.
KEN MAXWELL:
Ken is Creative Director and Senior Vice President of Weber Shandwick’s Visual Communications practice in the Southwest region. Weber Shandwick is one of the leading public relations companies in the world. Based in the Dallas office and with over 25 years experience, Ken’s expertise ranges from strategic brand development, corporate identity to digital and interactive design and marketing. His award-winning work includes branding and creative communications initiatives for clients such as Verizon Wireless, American Airlines, ExxonMobil, Computer Associates, DaikinAC, Bank of America and Mastercard.
As Creative Director, he oversees and manages all creative product developed by Viscom, the visual communications group and the related digital and interactive teams. He has extensive background in corporate and product naming, branding, brand launches, collateral development, advertising integration, online marketing, Web development and interactive and digital campaigns. He has relative experience in various industries, but specializes in financial services, technology, hospitality, healthcare, non-profit foundations and real estate.
Ken is President of the Exposition Park Association and active in several arts groups in Deep Ellum and Dallas.
JAY PRITCHARD:
Brand Public Affairs at The Richards Group. Jay has been a fixture in both Texas government and political circles for a decade. Jay began his political career in the State Legislature in both the State House and State Senate and went on to work as a political consultant on numerous campaigns across the State of Texas. In the last several years he has been at the forefront of many of largest and most important campaigns and projects in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Jay has played critical roles in help shaping issue debates throughout the state including the Wright Amendment, the Dallas and Fort Worth Trinity River Projects, the Dallas Convention Center Hotel and North Texas’ attempt to buy water from the State of Oklahoma.
Jay received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University and currently serves on the Friends of Fair Park Board. He and his wife Katy, live in the M Streets with their son Link and dogs Owen and McKenzie.
MATT RAY:
Matt is a Partner at Jones Day. He practices in the area of labor and employment law, with an emphasis on litigation involving wage and hour and discrimination claims. He graduated with an accounting degree from Texas Tech University in 1988 and SMU Law School in 1993. An active cyclist, Matt has completed the Hotter-n-Hell 100 four times and looks forward to riding the Santa Fe Trail along with the other trails in the White Rock Trail network . Matt completed Leadership Dallas in 2010 and also volunteers with Rainbow Days, an organization that works with children in high risk situation.
MONTY WATSON:
Monty Watson is principal of The Watson Firm, a real estate focused law firm. Monty previously served as Chief Operating Officer of Rockpoint Finance, a real estate private equity fund; General Counsel of Terrabrook, one of the country's largest land developers; and as a lawyer in private, public and in-house practice.
Monty is actively involved with the Urban Land Institute (and was selected to be on its national Community Development Council) and chairs the ULI North Texas Community Development Council. He lives in east Dallas with his wife, an artist, and two children who attend the local public schools. Monty co-founded Friends of the Santa Fe Trail in 2007 and, as a runner and biker, uses it on a regular basis.TRENT MCBRIDE:
Trent McBride is Principal, Destination Merchandising for Travelocity. Originally from Washington, D.C., Trent and his wife are residents of Lakewood Hills and look forward to helping continue the development of the Santa Fe Trail. He graduated from University of Texas at Austin in 1998 and since then has lived all over East Dallas. He uses the trail for both walking and biking.
