Welcome New Partners

(From the March 2004 Newsletter)

SVPP warmly welcomes these additions to our community of Partners:

Jon Ulsh
Jon has worked as an executive in health care development both in Oregon and California. Currently he is vice president for development at Oregon Health & Science University and president of the OHSU Foundation, where he's overseeing a $300 million private fund-raising campaign -- the largest such campaign in Oregon history. Jon is a member of numerous civic and philanthropic organizations.

Valerie Ilsley and Bruce Murray
Val and Bruce both enjoyed careers as real estate bankers, providing financing and other services to real estate developers of all types of commercial and residential projects. After living in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Miami, they retired to Portland in 2002. A son, daughter-in-law, and twin grandchildren also live in Portland. Interests include hiking, soccer (for Bruce), and urban activities generally.

Julie and Bill Young
Julie's background is as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. A longtime Portland resident, she volunteers with several social service organizations, and for civic and political causes, relating especially to children and families, education and health care. Bill is retired from hospice social work. He is a former Mayor of Lake Oswego and has served on a number of nonprofit boards. His interests include boating, working with frail seniors, and supporting a sustainable environment.

Bill and Julie have six children betwen them (including SVP Partner Sara Bernard), and four grandchildren.

Bill and Anne Lazar
Bill Lazar is President of The Lazar Foundation, a charitable foundation focused on environmental protection and the preservation of Biological Diversity in the Pacific Northwest. He also serves as a national trustee of the Alaska Conservation Foundation, and on the board of Catlin Gabel School.

Anne Lazar is a veterinarian and owns the Oswego Veterinary
Hospital in Lake Oswego.

Bill and Anne have three children. Her hobbies are reading, baking, and running; his are reading, cooking, gardening, and spending time in wild places.

Les and Martha Soltesz
Les is an operations manager at Intel, where he has worked for over 20 years. Martha retired from teaching after 22 years, working in a bilingual setting. She now works for Multnomah County as an on-call Spanish-English medical interpreter.

Les and Martha's interests are traveling, exercising, reading, theater, lectures, tennis, and family gatherings. They have two grown children.

Sara Allan and Clive Cook
Sara Allan and Clive Cook are Canadian transplants to Portland; they were raised in Ontario and Alberta, respectively. In her business career Sara was most recently a managing director with iFormation Group, a private equity and business development firm. She is now a stay at home mother to twins, Max and Sadie.

Clive is currently the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Elematics, Inc. a telecom networm management software provider. In their leisure time Sara and Clive enjoy skiing, climbing, reading, wine, and travel.