Bob Archibald, Co-President

Bob has more than twenty-five years experience as a business executive and entrepreneur. He founded and headed two companies and served on the executive teams of two others. His formal training is in the social and behavioral sciences. It led him to become a consultant and advisor to business executives where he served as a facilitator, advisor and coach to executives and management teams in large and small companies. Early in his career, Bob served on the faculties of Psychology, Management and Marketing at Ohio State University and as Director of Counseling and Consultation Services on campus. Bob holds a Ph.D. from the University of Utah and is a licensed Psychologist.

Mary Ellen Navas, Co-President

Mary Ellen has more than twenty-five years of direct organizational experience in large corporations, small businesses and government institutions. As both a senior manager and as a consultant, she has initiated and led market development, organizational change projects and run profit centers. For 25 years, Mary Ellen served as a Senior Manager with AT&T where she led a variety of teams and departments responsible for product development, product management and marketing. Mary Ellen earned her BA at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia and completed course work toward a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.

Michael Cowley, Board Treasurer

Mike Cowley is a Salt Lake County businessman and member of the e2 business community, dedicated to a sustainable environment. In addition to running his own publishing company, Mike has dedicated much of his time to protecting the environment. Mike has been involved with the environmental movement since the 1970s and was a charter board member of the Utah Wilderness Association. Mike became involved with Families Against Incinerator Risk, HEAL Utah’s precursor organization, in 1999, and is a founding board member of HEAL Utah.

Jeff Clay

Jeff has had a long and diverse career spanning advertising/public relations, petroleum chemistry, and information technology. From 1995 to 2008 he developed the IT department for a local pharmaceutical company and led multi-national software implementations as a project manager. Currently he splits his time between his landscape/travel photography business, a portrait/event photography partnership, and also acts as an Internet/IT consultant for small non-profit and for-profit businesses. He began working as a volunteer for HEAL Utah and is now the newest member of the Board of Directors.

Sue Corth

Sue Corth has been working as an Educational Audiologist for 20 years for the Jordan School District in Utah. She has been involved in several organizations, both as a volunteer and a board member. The last board she sat on was Art Access, an organization promoting art experiences for individuals with disabilities. She has been working with HEAL Utah for several years, first as a volunteer and currently as a board member. She is the proud mother of two children.

Edwin Firmage, Jr.

Mr. Firmage makes his living as an outdoor photographer in Salt Lake City, Utah. From 1989 to 1999, he served as a marketing director and product manager for high-tech companies in Utah and Silicon Valley. He studied classics at Princeton and holds an M.A. in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology from U.C. Berkeley, where he was a Mellon Fellow. From 1986–1989, he was a Rotary Foundation scholar at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Mr. Firmage is the author and publisher of Red Rock Yellow Stone, an award-winning combination of photographs of the American West and haiku from Japan, and Simple Gifts, a collection of western landscape photographs and essays developed for and featured at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City.