Catherine Raney Norman is a four-time Olympian who has served as an active voice for athletes with roles across all facets of Olympic and Paralympic sport. Born in Nashville, Tenn., she grew up in the Milwaukee, Wis. suburb of Elm Grove, finding her passion as a long track speed skater. She competed for Team USA at the 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010 Olympics with her best finish a fourth in the team pursuit in 2010 at Vancouver. She holds six U.S. all round titles and 3 American records, of which all still stand today. She was inducted into the U.S. Speed Skating Hall of Fame in 2018. Raney Norman’s career as a speed skater was built around the opportunity she had at training facilities, including the Pettit National Ice Center in West Allis, Wis. and the Olympic Oval in Kearns, Utah. After attending speed skating camps for many years in Utah and discovering the state’s great crossover training assets, she moved full time to Salt Lake City in 2006. Since her retirement as an athlete after the 2010 Olympics, Raney-Norman has dedicated her career to furthering opportunities for athletes in sport. She was selected by her athlete peers across both summer and winter sports to serve as a member of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee’s Athletes’ Advisory Council, rising to vice chair. Her leadership was focused on direct athlete support, elite athlete health insurance, athlete career and education, World Anti Doping Agency Code review and SafeSport. She was a key athlete member of the Salt Lake City Olympic Exploratory Committee and has co-chaired the Athletes’ Advisory Committee for the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games since its inception with Paralympian Chris Waddell. She has also served on the board of the Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation (formerly known as the Utah Athletic Foundation), and currently serves as vice-chair. Her career has touched on a host of national governing bodies including U.S. Speed Skating, U.S. Ski & Snowboard, U.S. Biathlon, United States Association for Blind Athletes, and USA Climbing, supporting them to achieve their philanthropic goals through formulation of fundraising plans, board relations and donor activation. She has also worked in international games preparation for the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee. She has stayed connected at a grassroots level, coaching kids in the Park City Speed Skating Club program. Raney Norman graduated from the University of Utah with a bachelor of arts in communications. She also earned an executive certificate in Olympic sport leadership from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She also holds a certified fundraising executive (CFRE) certificate from CFRE International. She is presently the principal at Sixth Ring Consulting, advising clients on philanthropy, special events and sport programming. She is married to Marc Norman, who serves as the CEO of USA Climbing. They are parents of a young boy and live in Salt Lake City.

Jennifer Wesselhoff is the President & CEO of the Park City Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Bureau.  She has served in the position since October 2020. The Park City Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Bureau is responsible for the marketing and management of Utah’s preeminent luxury tourism destination, driving revenues in excess of $1 billion annually.  Park City is home to the Sundance Film Festival, the nation’s largest independent film event.  The town’s two ski resorts served as major event sites for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games and the Utah Olympic Park continues to attract Olympians to Park City for high-altitude training.  More than two million skiers hit the local slopes each year at both Park City Mountain, featuring the nation’s largest ski terrain, and Deer Valley Resort, consistently rated amongst the top ski resorts in North America.  In summer months, more than one million visitors flock to Park City for hiking, blue-ribbon fly-fishing, and biking on its 400-mile trail system. Prior to arriving in Park City, Jennifer was CEO/President of the Sedona Chamber of Commerce & Tourism Bureau, which she joined in 2007.  During her tenure, she led Sedona, Arizona to national recognition as a destination.  Jennifer guided the Sedona Chamber’s accreditation as a Destination Management Organization, led the development of Arizona’s first Sustainable Tourism Plan, and saw tourism grow to become Sedona's largest industry, with a $1 billion annual impact and 10,000 tourism-related jobs. Jennifer is a Certified Destination Management Executive with Destination Marketing Association International and founded Tourism Experts International, and tourism consultancy with clients from all over the world from Arizona to Saudi Arabia. Before joining the Sedona Chamber of Commerce & Tourism Bureau, Jennifer taught English in Japan and spent three years in the hospitality industry in Interlaken, Switzerland. She holds bachelor’s degrees in French and Communications from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. When Jennifer and her husband Rick are not biking, hiking, skiing, or spearing hunting lobsters, they enjoy cooking and traveling with friends.

Colin Hilton is the President & CEO of the Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating a “living legacy” of impactful sport programs and active community uses of Utah’s Olympic Legacy venues. Since 2006, Colin has guided a strategy that has resulted in the Legacy venues being 4x busier today than right after the 2002 Games. He serves on the governing board of the SLC-UT Bid Committee and is actively involved in the pursuit of the Olympic & Paralympic Games returning to Utah. Colin has spent more than 30 years actively engaged in community planning efforts related to international sporting events, youth sports & recreation, and regional economic development efforts. Originally from Western New York, Colin and his family have lived in and enjoy the mountains of Utah since 1999.

As the founder and CEO of Utah Clean Energy, Sarah Wright has dedicated the last 20 years to mitigating climate change. Sarah leads Utah Clean Energy, a non-profit, non-partisan organization committed to implementing transformative climate change solutions, improving Utahns’ lives, health, and economy now and for future generations. Through her years of work on clean energy and energy efficiency policy, utility intervention, and community programs, Sarah has built a reputation for collaborative problem solving, and is recognized as one of Utah’s foremost experts on clean energy and climate solutions. Sarah and Utah Clean Energy work from the premise that Utah can be the conservative state that leads on climate. Sarah holds a B.S. in Geology from Bradley University, and an M.S. in Public Health from the University of Utah.  

Dr. Jennifer Robinson is the chief of staff at the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute and oversees the institute’s communications, human resources, and finances. She also directs the institute’s economics and policy team. In this role she oversees research projects with the goal of providing insightful information to community leaders. Notable projects include the widely praised annual Utah Informed Booklet, the Economic Report to the Governor, and the recent Diversity in Utah Databook. As director of the economics and policy team, Dr. Robinson also oversaw the COVID-19 research agenda. She serves on the board for the Community Foundation of Utah, the University of Utah Veteran’s Day Committee, the Visit Salt Lake Board of Directors, the United Way of Salt Lake Policy Committee, and the Salt Lake Chamber’s Diversity Committee. In 2014, Governor Herbert appointed Dr. Robinson to the Utah Women in the Economy Commission, where she served until 2020. Utah Business Magazine recognized her as one of 30 Women to Watch in 2017. In 2021, she received the Ethics in Education Award from the Daniel’s Fund and the Empathetic Global Leadership Award from the David Eccles School of Business. Dr. Robinson is the co-author of two books, “Native Vote: American Indians, the Voting Rights Act, and the Right to Vote (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and “The Rise of the West in Presidential Elections” (University of Utah 2010), and numerous book chapters and journal articles on voting rights, legal issues in higher education, and public administration. Dr. Robinson earned her B.S. in Political Science, Master of Public Administration, and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Utah, where she is an adjunct professor in the Political Science Department. In 2020, she completed the Economics for Business online program at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to her work at the University of Utah Dr. Robinson worked for the Utah House of Representatives.