About Us

Jens Jensen is a litigation attorney with Welborn Sullivan Meck & Tooley, P.C. Prior to coming to Colorado for law school, Jens worked at the Embassy of Denmark in London. He also holds a B.A. in Economics and Politics and an M.A. in Political Theory from the University of Manchester in England. Jens chose to move from London to Colorado because of the outdoor opportunities available here. He is excited that he now gets to share all that Colorado has to offer with both his wife and his two young boys, the oldest of which is about to start in the Jeffco school system. Showing his children the value of giving back to the community is one of the many reasons why Jens wants to contribute to the continued success of the foundation and the Outdoor Lab program.

ALEX B. CAMPBELL V joined Enduring Resources, LLC, in 2004 as an owner and Vice President of Land and Business Development. Alex has had a distinguished career in the area of land acquisition and divestiture in the energy industry since 1980. He has had impressive success with lease and land acquisition in several of the key shale plays in the Continental US. Alex earned an MBA, a BS in Business and a BA in History at Colorado State University. He is active in many energy industry associations and programs including the AAPL, DAPL, HAPL, RMMLF, WAPL, and the UAPL. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Western Energy Alliance (formerly IPAMS). Alex is a strong advocate of education in the energy field. He serves on the Board of Directors at the Business School and as a guest professor in the Professional Land Management Degree Program at Mesa State College in Grand Junction, CO. In addition, he serves as an Advisory Board Member to the Masters in Energy Land Management at Colorado State University. Alex is an active philanthropist sitting on the board of directors for both the Outdoor Lab Foundation and the MaxFund Animal Shelter.

As a Denver resident of 27 years and member of the West Highland’s Community, Rod Wagner has been instrumental in helping change the face of the Highland’s through his and his partners aggressive acquisition the past 12-15 years of commercial real estate properties. Rod and his partners have repositioned a number of historical buildings, through restoration and improvements to attract a more refined level of tenants to better meet the needs and wants, of the local community. As a partner in Larimer Associates and City Street Retail, Rod’s role is multi-faceted. With a broad background in real estate and restaurant management and operations, Rod is responsible in part for managing the design criteria for properties that are acquired, to assure that redevelopment opportunities that the company participates in, align with both the neighborhoods in which they are located, as well as the goals of the company. Rod has built many valued relationships throughout the building department, works directly with engineering and planning, which provides a liaison between the company and various governmental agencies.

Rod worked directly with the design team at Denver Union Station to assure timely completion of the project. Rod took on the project management of the three (3) third party tenant build-outs, as well as the oversight and management of construction for the company run Acme Burger and Brats, Pigtrain Coffee and Milkbox Creamery.

Josh Timon has been a board member of the Outdoor Lab Foundation since 2013 and Chairman since 2015. As a Jefferson County grad, OELS student and two-time High School Counselor, this program has been woven into Josh’s fabric for many years. Josh is passionate about getting our younger generations into nature. He is a firm believer in “saving our children from Nature-Deficit Disorder” a term coined by Richard Louv in the book Last Child in the Woods. As an avid outdoorsman himself, Josh enjoys gardening, hunting, camping and moonlights as a river guide for Boundary Expeditions in the summers on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River. When he is not enjoying the outdoors he stays busy coaching his daughter's competitive basketball team, Altitude Basketball Club, running the Ralston Valley High School Booster Club and his day job consists of helping companies with their cyber risk management as the West coast Channel Manager for RiskSense.

My husband Rick and I own a automotive repair shop in Wheat Ridge (Merkl's Automotive) and we have two kids who are Jeffco graduates. I have worked for Friendship Bridge, a nonprofit that provides microcredit loans and additional programs to women in rural Guatemala, for seven years and in non-profit for 30 years. Both myself and my children were fortunate to have experienced Outdoor Lab and it is an honor to be serving on this board to help preserve this fantastic place for generations to come.

Barry Wiebe is the Founder, President and CEO of Avout. He has over 25 years of experience in Oracle staffing, services, and software sales and has been hired by some of the largest consultancies in the world to manage Oracle business units. Barry has worked with both startups and Fortune 500 companies to build Oracle practices from the ground up, and over the course of his career has hired hundreds of Oracle experts and interviewed thousands of candidates. He has a track record of bringing start-up and under performing organizations and divisions to profitability quickly and generating exponential revenue growth.
Barry launched his career in the aerospace engineering field where he used powerful Oracle databases to work on classified projects. In the mid-1990s he was recruited by Oracle to create an Oracle Government Consulting practice in the Central U.S. region, which he grew to $20 million in 14 months. Barry was then hired by Accenture to establish their Oracle line of business, growing it to 250 people and $230 million in just three years. Prior to starting Avout, Barry was hired as Senior Vice President of Sales at TUSC, an Oracle-focused consulting firm, to turn around three years of declining revenue. In 36 months he grew sales as much as 127% quarter over quarter, doubling revenue and positioning the company for a successful acquisition by Rolta. Before that he worked as a principal officer at ResponsePoint and Lante, bolstering revenue for both companies and propelling Lante to a successful acquisition.
Barry’s Oracle dealings have involved top leaders including Larry Ellison, Safra Catz, and Mark Hurd, and he maintains an extensive network of relationships within Oracle and throughout the Oracle consulting world. Presently he is responsible for all day-to-day operations, P&L, delivery and client-facing interactions for Avout.
Barry graduated with a BS in Aerospace Engineering from Iowa State University. He is a nationally-ranked mountain bike racer and the founder of Avout Racing; www.AvoutRacing.com, a 1% for the Planet Ambassador, helping build the number of corporate members who are taking a stand for sustaining our planet, and a board member of Outdoor Lab Foundation.

Ritch moved to Arvada, Colorado from Baltimore, MD in 2014 while working for Under Armour in NCAA Sports Marketing. Prior to that, the Oregon and California native worked in product development for Nike at their world headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon.
Experienced in all aspects of marketing, licensing and sponsorships, Ritch has worked with numerous professional leagues including the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball, as well as their respective athletes.
Extremely passionate about the outdoors, Ritch loves discovering and exploring all of Colorado’s amazing getaways with his wife and their 2 children.

Brandon is an Assistant Vice President with FirstBank working in multiple trade areas in his five years with the bank and has spent the last two and a half years working in the Jefferson County area. He is a Colorado native who loves spending his time exploring, hiking and traveling.

Owen lives in Evergreen, and enjoys a short commute to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, where he serves as its Chief Financial Officer. A native of Derby in the United Kingdom, he earned a Bachelors in Economics from Lancaster University, and brings nearly thirty years of experience as a business executive, management consultant, and professional accountant gained in organizations undergoing significant change. Owen enjoys the outdoors, and takes advantage of many of the pursuits Colorado and its surroundings it has to offer. Another important pursuit, with his wife Brooks, is shepherding three children though the Jeffco school system. The Outdoor Education Laboratory program has already played a significant role for the Barwells, and Owen is honored and delighted to help the Foundation sustain and grow its level of impact for several generations of students to come.

Having lived on 2 continents, 3 countries and 10 cities, Guy learned early on the value of forming positive and mutually beneficial relationships in school, at work and life in general.
Guy is an award winning Real Estate Broker with Nostalgic Homes. He spent 18 years as a National Sales Manager for a Fortune 500 event firm and was directly involved in the production of numerous high profile events including: 1996 Atlanta Olympics, 2004 National Republican Convention and the Pope's visit to Canada. Guy lives in Wheat Ridge and currently serves as the Chairman of the Parks and Rec commission and is on the Honor Bell Foundation Executive Board.
With 2 kids gone through the Jeffco GT program, Guy knows all too well the importance of being an involved parent. PTA president and accountability chair in 3 schools, Guy is the Immediate Past President of the Jefferson County Business Education Alliance and currently serves on the Executive Boards of Jeffco Gifted & Talented Children Association and is proud to be the newest member of the Outdoor Lab Foundation Executive Board.
An avid skier and fisherman, Guy boasts about his solar power at home and sustainable lifestyle. Leaving the smallest carbon footprint on our planet, while making the biggest difference in his community.

Kathy Weiss, along with Karen Cravens started the Outdoor Lab Foundation as a 501 C3 in 2003. Last fiscal year she stepped off the board due to term limits. She is thrilled to be rejoining the board beginning in the 2018-19 fiscal year.

Kathy's love for Outdoor Lab began in 1979 when she brought her first group of 6th graders to Windy Peak. In the 1980's she became a cadre member helping to train teachers and high school leaders. As a staff developer in the District, she often substituted for the site principals, even serving as principal for Windy Peak for GT week for 3 years. In 1995, after the death of one of her mentors, Jim Jackson, she became principal at the Mt. Evans site, where she remained for 10 years. She is proud to have acquired a $300,000 grant from the Colorado Historic Society providing resources to restore all of the site historic buildings on the site. In 1997 she also started the intern program for high school and college students which is still thriving.
She is so proud of all that the Outdoor Lab Foundation has accomplished and looks forward to a bright future.