Our Board
William J. Palmer - Chairman
Mr. Palmer serves as a consulting CFO for Northwest based business with CFO Selections which he joined in 2005 after a 20 year career in Banking and Finance. Within the middle-market lending groups at Bank of America and US Bank he led groups that funded hundreds of companies in the Pacific Northwest. He is a proven senior level executive with strong banking, financial, accounting, and business development skills and experience across multiple industries with extensive experience in structuring financial transactions.
Mr. Palmer held executive positions as Senior Vice President (SVP) Washington Portfolio Manager, SVP and Senior Credit Products Officer, Senior Vice President and Client Manager and Assistant Vice President, Trade and Relationship Officer. As a banking officer Mr. Palmer sat on several client advisory boards and represented Bank of America in the local business community.
Bill graduated from the Pacific Coast Banking School in 1996 and holds and earned his M.B.A. from Seattle University in 1991 after graduating with a B.B.Ad. from Gonzaga University in 1984. Bill's community involvement entails chairing both the Finance and Development Committees for his church over the past eight years, and he has also served on the Board of Governors and as Treasurer of the Newport Yacht Club. Bill lives in Newcastle with his wife and five children.
Joyce Lee, CPA - Treasurer
Joyce is a principal at Clark Nuber, an award-winning CPA and consulting firm that has been serving the Northwest from Bellevue, Washington, for over five decades. As a CPA, she has served as an outsourced controller of a large not-for-profit organization, supervised financial accounting and reporting, external audits, and accounting software conversions. Joyce specializes in private and public foundations as well as complex accounting and auditing issues including endowments, planned giving, and consolidation of related entities.
She is an active member of American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants. She has served as a past board member for the WSCPA and as Secretary and Treasurer for the Humane Society for Seattle/King County.
Despite beginning piano lessons at age 3, Joyce chose to crunch numbers instead of following in her parents footsteps and becoming a classical musician. No matter—her clients, all not for profits, give her standing ovations for her insight and experience. Joyce lives in Sammamish with her husband and two children.
Betsy Koelzer - Secretary
Bill Baldwin
Bill Baldwin is the principal founder and CEO of Baldwin Resource Group, Inc.(BRG), a diversified professional service company that was established in 1998. He has held a variety of positions, but primarily has been active in the insurance industry for 30 years with a focus on commercial property and liability insurance. In addition to BRG, Bill founded and managed two successful commercial insurance brokerage agencies and has served as the President of Washington Institute for Policy Studies, a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of free enterprise and the family-friendly workplace.
Continuing his interest in public policy, Bill actively serves on boards and committees of education and public policy and on a publicly traded bank Board. In addition to his work involving enterprise risk management and insurance, Bill provides strategic advisory consulting services, Bill Baldwin is the principal founder, President and CEO of Baldwin Resource Group, Inc.(BRG), a diversified professional service company that was established in 1998. He has held a variety of positions, but primarily has been active in the insurance industry for 30 years with a focus on commercial property and liability insurance. In addition to BRG, Bill founded and managed two successful commercial insurance brokerage agencies. In addition to his work involving enterprise risk management and insurance, Bill provides strategic advisory consulting services, including business development and mergers and acquisitions for professional service firms.
He has served as the President of Washington Institute for Policy Studies, a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of free enterprise and the family-friendly workplace. Continuing his interest in public policy, Bill actively serves on boards and committees of education and public policy and on a publicly traded bank Board.
Scott Gerrapy
Mr. Garrepy currently serves as the Director of Development - International Programs for Washington State University. Prior to joining WSU he was a Principal at Newbridge Partners, a fundraising consulting firm based in Seattle, WA. Over the past decade Scott has also served as the Director of Business Development for the INTIMAN Theatre and GreaterGood.com / The Hunger Site.
He is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals where he currently serves on the board; is Treasurer and Director for the GreaterGood Foundation, and past Vice President and Director of the Spectrum Dance Theatre.
Scott is a guest speaker at University of Washington's Arts Management Certificate Program and Seattle University's Nonprofit Management. He earned his Bachelor of Arts, English Literature, University of Florida, 1987. Scott lives with his wife Jennifer in Issaquah, WA.
Sue Sander
Sue Sander, formerly the President of Shapiro and Associates, Inc.and was responsible for management and direction of the Northwest's largest environmental firm. Her educational background encompassed studies in the fields of management, financial administration, marketing, and natural resources/planning studies. Ms. Sander was also with AMEC (2005-2006) as the Area Manager and Marketing Principal. Since 2006, Ms. Sander has been the Business Development National/International Director for the Infrastructure Unit of the URS Corporation, Washington Division (formerly the Washington Group International).
Ms. Sander has often been involved in controversial or sensitive projects to ensure successful completion of a wide range of work including: environmental management services, ecological restoration, private sector developments, infrastructure/ transportation/ energy projects, and a diversity of environmental impact statements and permitting projects.
In addition, Ms. Sander has been listed in Who's Who in Finance, American Women, and Who's Who in the West. Under Ms. Sander's direction, SHAPIRO was awarded Employer of The Year by Women in Transportation Seminar, Small Business Of The Year by the City of Seattle in the consultant category, Woman-Owned Business Enterprise of The Year by King County, Sound Transit Employer of the Year. As well as, the Washington Business Person of the Year and US Business Person of the Year by the US Business Advisory Council.
Thomas L. Varga
Mr. Varga is Founder & Managing Partner of CFO Selections, a finance and accounting professional services firm headquartered in Bellevue WA. Prior to founding CFO Selections in 2002, Mr. Varga served as president of 1NService, Inc. a national alliance of network technology and security companies. He has also held COO and CFO position for Northwest Nexus and Peopleware, in Bellevue.
Mr. Varga grew up in Solon, OH, a suburb of Cleveland where he was raised by his Hungarian immigrant parents who came to the United States in 1956. He earned his Bachelor of Science Degree with high honors in Business Finance from John Carroll University in Cleveland and his MBA, also with honors, from University of Notre Dame in Southbend, IN. Tom moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1994 and lives in Issaquah with his daughter where he enjoys climbing and teaching mountaineering in his spare time.
Tom currently serves on two Boards of Directors; as director and treasurer of LOMA (Lutheran Outdoor Ministries Association) and the CFO Selections Foundation. He has formally held board responsibilities as director of Spiritwood Assisted Living Center in Issaquah and the finance committee of Seattle SCORES. Past board appointments have included director and treasurer of the Northwest Student Exchange, a non-profit international high school exchange organization and finance committee member at the Bellevue Arts Museum.