Founding Advisory Council
To nominate an exceptional data management professional, or express interest yourself, for the Utah DAMA Chapter’s founding advisory council please contact john.weeks@gmail.com
- Michelle Hardwick, Utah DAMA President, Director of Engineering, External Data & Analytics, Entrata
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellekolbe/ - John Kerley-Weeks, Utah DAMA Co-Founder, Chair Analytics Skill Development / Data Architect, Intermountain Healthcare / SelectHealth
http://linkedin.com/in/johnbweeks/
john.weeks@gmail.com
435-757-7677 - Greg Nelson, AVP Analytics Services, Intermountain Healthcare
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregorysnelson/ - Nick Baguley, VP Data Science, Finicity
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickbaguley/ - Pat Wright, organizer Big Mountain Data & Dev Conference, the heart of Utah data, analytics and development
https://www.linkedin.com/in/patwright/ - Bryan Wise, Chief Data Officer, Halosight / Salesforce
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryanwise/ - Ken Knapton, Chief Information Officer, Merrick Bank
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenknapton/ - Carter Rees, Director of Analytics & Data Science, Podium
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cjphd/ - Jake Bingham, Director of Business Intelligence, OC Tanner
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobtbingham/ - Jeff Baird, Data and Analytics Director, Byte
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffabaird/ - Jeremy Morris, Manager Data Science, Domo
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremydmorris/ - Marissa Saunders, Director of Data Science, Recursion Pharmaceuticals
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marissasaunders/ - Matt Davies, VP of Platform Architecture, Finicity
https://www.linkedin.com/in/4mattdavies/
- Shannon Prince, President DAMA Rocky Mountain Chapter (Denver)
- Peter Vieveen, DAMA International, VP Chapter Services
- Frank Kadwell, DAMA International, VP Membership

Requests of the Founding Advisory Board
- Attend and provide feedback on three founding meetings in Q1 2021
- Orientation meeting (one hour) with DAMA Intl VP of Chapter Services, Peter Vieveen.
- Advisory meeting (one hour) with RMC (Denver DAMA) President Shannon Prince
- Mission Statement and Planning meeting (two hour)
- Provide guiding input toward the initial mission of the Utah DAMA Chapter
- Identify topics of active interest to the community
- Share feedback regarding your 2021 data management needs and challenges
- Assist with the organization of at least one meeting during the founding year.

Steps to establish Utah DAMA Chapter
- Connect with local Chamber of Commerce to create awareness
- Review Advisory Council Document Bundle (below)
- Declare Mission Statement (typically educate, train, and/or community events)
- Select Founding Board of Directors
- File as a 501(c)(6) non-profit, member based organization
- Sign DAMA Code of Ethics
- Be Good, Privacy, Non-profit, Vendor-Neutral, Vendor Sponsors OK, Don’t defame DAMA
Advisory Council Document Bundle
Board of Directors Documents
Considerations for the Board
Expenses
- $500 Filing for non-profit
- DAMA International annual fee
- Meeting: Site, Food, Teleconference/Recording?
- Paid Presenters?
- Online Content/Tools
- Conference?
Revenue
- Membership: Free, Tiered, or Fixed Fee
- Sponsors: Common among many Chapters in exchange for unobtrusive or short presentations
Board of Director Roles
Rocky Mountain has the following roles:
- President
- VP Programs
- VP Finance
- VP Technology
- VP Membership
- VP Communications
- VP Administrative Services
- Education Advisor
Other Organizations included
- VP Online Content
- VP Outreach/Marketing
- VP Logistics
- VP Messaging
- VP Compliance – 501(c)(6) filing
- VP Sponsorship
- VP Content Management
- VP Presenter Relations
- VP Administration
- VP Education
- Past President
- Chairman
- Secretary
- Advisor
Proposed Agenda January 20th, 2021
- Start Recording (John Kerley-Weeks)
- Meet & Greet – Everyone, in order listed at https://damautah.org/advisory-board/
- DAMA Introduction – 15 minutes (Peter Vieveen)
- High-level forming process (Peter Vieveen)
- Current status (John Kerley-Weeks)
- Questions about the forming process (Peter Vieveen)
- AOB – Any Other Business – (Everyone)
- Optional: (John Kerley-Weeks)
- Interest in Specific Board Positions
- Mission Statement Discussion
- Web Site Access Review
- Preferred email address for Advisory Council scheduling
- Preferred public information: photo, LinkedIn, Contact Information
- Schedule February Meeting – after 3pm in February (John Kerley-Weeks)
Topics will be moved to February teleconference meeting with
Shannon Prince, President, Rocky Mountain Chapter or discussed
individually offline to ensure meeting completes by 9:55am