Aurora Board of Directors Contact Info
Shelly Humphreys - President - s.a.humphreys@comcast.net
Shelly Humphreys is an Executive Consultant in the Cable & Telecommunications Industry. With more than 20 years experience in Business, Shelly has worked for Fortune 500 companies including Charter Communications, MCI, EDS, and Qwest. Her experience includes more than 10 years of working in the international arena and she has a wide breadth of experience including management, systems engineering, product line responsibility, project management, vendor management, and management consulting. Shelly holds a master's degree in telecommunications and a bachelor of business administration in management information systems. She is also an active member of Women in Cable Telecommunications, currently serving on the Rocky Mountain Chapter Board focused on Mentoring. Shelly has been involved with GVA Governance since the school opened in 2007 initially serving on the School Advisory Committee and joining the GVA Board in 2010. Shelly’s daughter attends GVA-Aurora in the Mandarin Village.
Ken Ramos - Secretary - kramos39@hotmail.com
Ken Ramos is an Enterprise Architect for a Fortune 500 company where he has been employed since 1983. Ken has spent more than five years outside of the USA working on various international projects. In fact, it was in Australia during the late 1980s that Ken first experienced the idea and benefits of the charter school concept. Ken brought those experiences back to Colorado and was a founding member of the Cherry Creek Academy - one of the original 50 charter schools in Colorado. Ken has a B.S. in Computer Science, a Masters in Basic Science with an emphasis in experimental Physics, and a M.S. in Computer Science System Engineering with an emphasis in Enterprise Architecture. Ken has been involved with GVA governance via the School Advisory Committee for the last three years and has a third grade son in the Spanish Village and a kindergartener in the Mandarin Village.
Cynthia Nesseth - Treasurer - cnesseth@q.com
Cindy Nesseth is a founding family member of Global Village Academy and serves as the GVA Board Treasurer. She works for CBIZ MHM, LLC, an accounting and consulting firm, and has over 25 years of accounting experience. She has two children attending GVA-Aurora. Her son is in the Spanish Village and her daughter is in the Mandarin Village. She has served on the Board since 2009.
Chris Coble - Active Member - cmcoble@comcast.net
Chris Coble has a diverse background of experience in real estate development, transit oriented development (T.O.D.), corporate real estate and economic development. Mr. Coble led the transit oriented development department for the Regional Transportation District (RTD) in Denver, Colorado and is considered an expert in T.O.D. In corporate real estate, Mr. Coble managed the North American real estate portfolio for StorageTek, a company since purchased by Sun MicroSystems, where he was directly responsible for over 2 million square feet of corporate occupancy valued at over $15 million. In economic development, and as an appointed official representing the Denver Mayor’s Office, Mr. Coble played a key role in Denver’s Focus Neighborhood Initiative, a municipal program set on igniting private investment in Denver’s most needed urban communities. As a commercial broker with CBRE, Mr. Coble spear-headed an urban land transaction business practice focused on transit-served properties across the Denver metro area, and worked as a landlord representative for Forest City Stapleton leasing medical office and mixed-use office space at Northfield in Denver. Mr. Coble additionally served as the Managing Member of Alliance Development Solutions (ADS) based in Denver, Colorado providing management of development projects as well as development services to a myriad of clients. Mr. Coble is currently managing the redevelopment of the Five Points Catalyst Project, a five phase commercial redevelopment adjacent to downtown Denver including the redevelopment of the historic Rossonian Hotel building, the jewel of the historic Five Points community.