Board of Directors / Staff
Board of Directors
Michelle Barnes is a Principal at Interim Leadership Solutions and works with not for profits and small businesses delivering impactful interim assignments. Her love for the outdoors has given her the opportunity to work with organizations that focus on getting people active. Michelle has held leadership positions at Outward Bound, Outdoor Industry Association, and Tandem Computers just to name a few. Holding an MBA from UCLA and a BA from William and Mary, Michelle has held many nonprofit board positions and is thrilled to be volunteering with Paradox Sports.
Geoff O’Keeffe has spent his entire adult life working in the outdoor industry, waiting to grow up and get a real job. He has held four President positions, numerous VP and executive roles, served on four non-profit boards of directors, and operated in start-ups and mature businesses in retail, branded wholesale, internet pure play and service organizations. His alma maters include Adventure-16, Patagonia, Lowe Alpine Systems, Mountainsmith, Planetoutdoors.com, Granite Stairway Mountaineering, Black Ice, Kelty, Sierra Designs, Royal Robbins and a host of other branded businesses. He prefers his avocations of writing, photography, music, travel, language, food, history and political rabble-rousing.
Darcie Shively is a brand strategy veteran who most recently led the advertising strategy FOR Apple at the Media Arts Lab in Los Angeles. While there, she wrote the “there’s an app for that” strategy as well as launching everything from the iPhone to the first iPad and everything in between. She’s been an “indoor person” for awhile now, an “urbanista”, if you will. After one year in Boulder she’s becoming an “outdoor” one adventure at a time. Holding an International MBA from the University of South Carolina, she’s traveled the world and is thrilled to embrace the wild places Paradox Sports will take her.
Mitsu Iwasaki is the Director of Operations and Safety at Big City Mountaineers. With 15 years of experience managing and directing outdoor-based programs, he brings a wealth of program and operations experience to Paradox Sports. Principally working with non-profits (both large and small), he has focused-on and helped improve program impact, safety and risk management, and efficiency for a number of organizations. He feels exceptionally fortunate to have created opportunities to combine his passion for being active outdoors with his professional career and regularly speaks at national conferences for educators and risk managers. He holds a BA in Environmental Engineering and a masters in non-profit management.
Kay Martin has been working within the outdoor, cycling and running industries for over 20 years. Introduced to competitive sports and the outdoors at a young age, Kay is thrilled to be able to work in an industry that combines her passion for growing businesses while striving to maintain an active healthy lifestyle. Her professional experience includes executive roles with Headsweats, Outdoor Industry Association, Moving Comfort, and Pearl Izumi. She also serves as a member of the board of directors of SkirtSports in Boulder. Whenever possible, Kay can be found enjoying all the outdoor activities that living in Colorado has to offer with her friends and family.
Katie Blackett has an interesting career mix of executive leadership, professional running, and academic teaching. Katie has over 10 years of financial and management experience, in both the for-profit and non-profit sector. Katie is currently the CEO for Colorado Mountain Club, a statewide outdoor education, recreation, and conservation organization. Katie became an executive officer at the young age of 28 while at the same time managing a career as a professional runner, having run in the last two marathon Olympic Trials, and winning three national marathons. Katie also teaches business and economics at Front Range Community College.
Charlie Schaul is an avid backpacker, flycaster and skier for more than 50 years, and has hiked, fished and skied across most of the western US. He when not in the forest he has been a business owner, corporate executive and business consultant. In past lives he was a company commander in the US Army, Registered Professional Engineer, Certified Management Consultant, business columnist, and worked in the outdoor industry at the retail level. His consulting focus, for more than 30 years, has been business strategy and corporate finance. He continues to consultant with small companies in and around Boulder, CO.
Staff
Malcolm Daly is an icon in the outdoor world with 32 years of outdoor industry and non-profit experience. Known for his affability, sense of humor and to-the-point insight, Malcolm’s wide-ranging business, outdoor sports and non-profit experience provides for a lively, entertaining and educational encounter.
Malcolm is the founder of Great Trango Holdings, Inc. a leading supplier of innovative climbing equipment (Trango) and women’s activewear (Stonewear Designs). Starting the company from scratch in 1991 Daly built it into a multi-million dollar company doing business in 17 countries. During that time he started up two non-profits in the climbing world: the Access Fund, dedicated to retaining access to climbing resources and the Action Committee for Eldorado, a climber’s advocacy and liaison group specific to Eldorado Canyon State Park. Daly was an active board member of the Access Fund for thirteen years.
