About Us

Katie Singer joined the Telluride Medical Center Foundation as Campaign Director in June of 2023 after 16 years of fundraising, event planning, public relations, marketing, and donor management at the Telluride Foundation. Katie enjoys supporting and enhancing our community where she is raising her 17-year-old daughter and 13-year-old son and is excited to join the TMCF team. Singer currently serves on the Telluride Youth Soccer Board, volunteers, and supports many local nonprofits. Prior to the Telluride Foundation, Singer was the Public Relations and Communications Manager at Telluride Ski and Golf Resort and served in guest service management roles at the Franz Klammer Lodge. Katie moved to Telluride in 1999 after graduating from Michigan State University and fell in love with the mountains and the spirit of the community. In her spare time, Katie loves spending time with her family, rafting, snowboarding, playing tennis, and traveling.

Clifford was born and raised in Charlotte, NC, and moved to Telluride in 2008 to follow his love of the outdoors. He opened Latitude Insurance in 2009. When not in the office, you’ll find him with his daughters Easley & Camilla and often skiing, hiking, mountain biking, or fishing.

Clifford joined the TMCF board in 2015 and took over as president in January of 2023. He is passionate about our community and is working hard to help build a new facility built here in Telluride.

Banks Brown is fortunate to be a long time Telluride resident with a history of serving in leadership positions for numerous local organizations. Currently the chair of the Mountain Village DRB and member of the Telluride Regional Airport Authority, he is also past president of the Telluride R-1 School District Board, the Aldasoro Homeowners Company and the Telluride Association of Realtors. He has worked collaboratively with all regional governments developing strategies to benefit all involved.

He’s loved raising three kids in Telluride and values the sense of community and belonging that they’ve been shown.

Jeff has over 20 years of experience in healthcare leadership experience within Inpatient, Outpatient, Imaging, ASC's and Post Acute Care. He completed a Masters in Healthcare Administration as well as a Bachelor of Science in Business, both from the University of Minnesota. Jeff has strong operations skills as well as, business and program development success, including leading the development and growth of a number of healthcare facilities. Jeff has been coming to Telluride for several years and enjoys time with his daughters skiing, mountain biking, and hiking.

Dr. Diana Koelliker is Medical Director of Emergency & Trauma Services, Telluride EMS Director and Founding Member of Telluride Women Give. Dr. Koelliker has been with Telluride Regional Medical Center since 2005. She earned her medical degree at the Medical College of Georgia and completed her residency at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Dr. Koelliker is board certified in emergency medicine.

A native of South Florida, Jena has been a part-time Telluride resident since 2008.  She quickly fell in love with the town and its warm sense of community and has steadily increased her time and engagement with Telluride over the years.  She has consistently supported the Telluride Fire Protection District and the Telluride Medical Center during her time in Telluride.  Now with more time available, Jena can devote the time required to serve the community on the Board of TMCF.

Jena earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Duke University and her Juris Doctorate from University of Florida College of Law. She began her 30-year legal career as a commercial litigator, managing litigation matters at trial and on appeal in the areas of real estate, construction defects, personal property tax, partnership and shareholder disputes, and other commercial contract disputes. She then served as in-house counsel for ADT Security Services, where she participated in dozens of mergers and acquisitions, the national dealer program, and property acquisitions and leasing. Jena then returned to private practice as a transactional lawyer, specializing in commercial real estate, including construction loans, complex purchases of commercial property, and corporate transactions.  From 2005 through 2021, Jena proudly served as Vice President and General Counsel to Atlass Hardware Corp. (a company founded by her husband, Robert).  During her tenure at Atlass Hardware Corp., Jena also owned a private alternative dispute resolution company and a law firm.

While Jena has volunteered and supported various organizations in the South Florida region, namely The Greater Miami Jewish Federation, Make-a-Wish Foundation and JAFCO, since retiring from the practice of law in 2022, she has been looking for an organization that fuels her passion for community involvement and aligns with her interest to better the community in which she lives. TMCF meets all these criteria, and she looks forward to devoting her time to the mission of the TMCF. Jena lives part-time in Telluride with her husband, Robert, and their dog, Wilson, where she enjoys skiing, hiking and mountain life.

Jason was born in Brooklyn, NY, to a working class family and moved quite frequently between the east and west coasts after his parents divorced at the age of eight. He is a first generation college graduate and attended Brandeis University where he received a B.A. in Philosophy. He started his first business at the age of 21 years old manufacturing skylights, but by the age of 24 had enrolled in Columbia University at night to attain a pre-med degree to pursue a career in Neurosurgery. At the age of 27 he sold his business, paid off his college debt, and enrolled in Brown Medical school where he eventually graduated with a focus on reconstructive surgery. Unfortunately, committing to doing the same profession for the rest of his life was too unnerving a decision to make and Jason pivoted again towards entrepreneurial ventures. In the past 20 years, Jason has built 5 companies in widely disparate sectors but all with a focus on building world class teams whose mission is to create products that have a positive impact. In 2017, Jason, his wife Hannah, and their two boys, Caleb and Maddox, sold or donated all of their worldly possessions and moved onto a sailboat in the Mediterranean where they lived for 18 months traveling from Gibraltar to Croatia and everywhere in between. Jason and his family now live in Telluride, CO, where he loves snowboarding, fly-fishing, hiking, and rock climbing with his family and friends.

For the last several years, Sissy has worked alongside her husband at Freeport McMoRan, doing social projects in the communities in which they mine. She’s had a specific focus on social impact in underprivileged communities. This includes helping to build water and sewage treatment plants for the city of Arequipa, Peru, to provide clean drinking water and disposal of sewage for the community. She also worked with the Archdiocese in Peru to restore La Recoleta Arequipa, preserving books dating to the Spanish Inquisition and providing crucial upgrades to its historical library, as well as assisted the DreamBuilders organization in their efforts to help women grow businesses and become financially independent in both Peru and Chile. 

Since moving to Santa Fe, Sissy has worked with a small group of volunteers to improve community healthcare in New Mexico. After about a year of collaboration with UNM Health Science Center, Medicaid, NM Department of Health, and several community leaders throughout the state, UNMHSC has placed our concept and design at the forefront of their “ask” from the legislature in its next session. From here, the ideas will be implemented in several communities on a pilot basis, and throughout the state in the near future. 

Previously, Sissy worked in both her own, private law practice and for a couple of large corporations in Human Resources, with a specialty of employee benefits. She has designed, administered and worked on the compliance side for health and welfare benefits, as well as retirement benefits. Sissy spent the last few years of her career at Vanguard, working as a Relationship Manager with its larger retirement plans ($500 million and above).

Sissy lives in Santa Fe, NM, with her husband of thirteen years, and two Golden Retrievers, Sugar and Roscoe. Hiking, swimming, fishing, and a love of cooking occupy her free time.

Robert End has had a long and successful career as a private equity professional.  Following close to 30 years working full time as a private equity investment professional, Bob transitioned to corporate board work and advisory work.  His last full-time position was as Partner with Transportation Resource Partners, an investment fund affiliated with Roger Penske.  Prior to that, Bob served as Head of North America for Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity, a $5 billion proprietary private equity fund.  He spent 10 years as a founding partner of Stonington Partners, a spin off vehicle from Merrill Lynch Capital Partners where he had served as a Managing Director.  Over his career Bob was responsible for investing in and overseeing 15 private equity acquisitions.  He has served on 20 corporate boards, including several public companies.

Bob graduated from Dartmouth College with an AB degree in 1977 and an MBA from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth in 1982.  He is an avid snow skier, water skier, road biker and in general likes to keep moving.  He was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin which explains his passion for the Green Bay Packers. While Telluride is his primary residence, he spends the summers on Lake George in upstate New York. He especially likes spending time with his wife of 45 years Trisha, their 3 kids, spouses and 5 grandkids.

Hannah Max joined the Telluride Medical Center fundraising team as grant writer in February 2024, following two years of work as a Medical Assistant at TRMC, continuing to work directly with patients while building out the grant program for both the Medical Center and Foundation. Hannah previously worked for Newlab where she managed corporate innovation projects product and worked on successful grants and RFPs for the NYCEDC and the Department of Defense, and AppliedXL where she led product management for an AI Startup focused on clinical trials data. Hannah also serves on the board of the San Miguel Resource Center and holds an alternate seat on the Town of Telluride Ethics Commission. In her free time Hannah enjoys snowboarding, hiking, trail running, and spending as much time as possible outdoors with her dog.