The Board

Staunton is co-founder and CEO of MBHE Holdings LLC, a diversified holding company. Prior to creating MBHE, Staunton led all acquisitions, development, capital formation, and growth initiatives as EVP and a Director of Sage Hospitality Resources, a national hotel investment, management and development company. Staunton has significant experience in building asset based operating companies, real estate related service companies, and hospitality focused platforms. Staunton has served on numerous corporate and non-profit boards over the past 25 years. He spends his free time mostly outdoors enjoying fly fishing, hunting, skiing, hiking, snow shoeing and chopping wood.

Tom is a passionate outdoorsman, skier, fly fisherman, Iron Man Triathlete, Race Across America 4-man team winner, and endurance athlete. Tom is President of The Gart Companies and is a board member of Gart Properties, First Western Trust Bank, and Work World. In addition, he is a board member of National Jewish Health, where he was formerly the Board Chair. Tom was formerly on the board of The Colorado Nature Conservancy, Beth Nehamah Hospice, Colorado Succeeds, and Shalom Park. He is a member of The World Presidents Organization (WPO) and was a YPO member for 20 years. Tom graduated from Stanford University with honors in 1980 where he was Student Body Co-President. He received an MBA from Harvard University Graduate School of Business in 1984. He is married to Marjorie Gart and has three married children, four grandchildren, and two labs.

Scott moved to Eagle in 2000 and spent the first 42 evenings in Eagle fishing the caddis hatch on Brush Creek.  He would have done 43 evenings but his wife of 37 years had him tap the breaks and spend some time with his family.  Scott is the President of Scott S. Turnipseed, Architecture and Construction Inc., a company that specializes in high end residential design and construction and has been building houses in the Vail Valley since 1995.  Scott currently is the Mayor of Eagle and has served on the Eagle Planning Commission, the Eagle Town Council, or Mayor since 2005.  Beating all odds Scott graduated in four years in 1982 from the University of Colorado, Boulder with a Bachelor of Environmental Design.  Scott has served on many local boards and feels strongly that what makes the Vail Valley great are all the people that give back to the community.  If you don’t find him sketching houses in his office, or sitting in board meetings you will find him surfing in Mexico, riding his mountain bike in Eagle, pretending to swing the golf club well, and of course on rivers around Eagle trying to convince a trout that his barbless hooked caddis is a real one.