Leading the Way

Born and raised in Colorado, Alex Austin graduated from Metropolitan State University with a B.S. in Business Management. He has since worked in the Banking industry for 12 years, with a primary focus on Cash/Treasury Management. In his free time, Alex enjoys hiking, traveling internationally, and spending time with family and friends. He currently sits on the Board of Directors for Shaka Franklin Foundation for Youth, a non-profit focusing on suicide prevention for inner city youth and scholarships for students living with mental health issues.

Dr. Antonia Chiesa is an Associate Professor in Pediatrics-Child Abuse and Neglect for the Kempe Center, the Director of Healthcare Services at Kempe, and Director of the Kempe Child Protection Team. She completed her residency and a fellowship at University of Colorado (Children’s Hospital Colorado) and has been on faculty at Kempe since 2007. She is board certified in both General Pediatrics and in Child Abuse Pediatrics and serves on multiple hospital and community committees.

Dr. Chiesa is a long-time member of the Child Protection Team, which provides services including comprehensive medical evaluations, family and child evaluation for suspected maltreatment, family support, emergency department consultations and expert testimony in juvenile and criminal courts. In addition, she is the director of the Child Abuse Response and Evaluation (CARE) Network, which provides health care and behavioral health providers across Colorado. Dr. Chiesa also helped develop the largest and most comprehensive multidisciplinary follow-up clinic for patients with abusive head trauma.

EVP & Chief Human Resources Officer at Empower Retirement

Sruta is a thought leader and established executive in Telecomm, Media and Entertainment industry, focused on Audio and Video categories, who is adept at taking businesses from concept to scale, creating and establishing sustainable growth.  She is a major influencer and creative thinker in growth, partnerships and distribution areas, is constantly sought out for counsel by digital and media companies, and has been awarded numerous leadership awards in the space and industry.

She started her career as an engineer, and worked her way to providing expertise in areas of strategy and operational execution to drive ecommerce and digitization of fortune 500 companies in CPG, Fintech, Media and Entertainment.  In the last decade, she worked at Dish, leading their Dish’s International Business line, Local and International content acquisitions, and their Fintech partnerships and operations.  She went on to help launch SlingTVand paved the way for innovative distribution and platform partnerships, technologies and operational practices across networks, customer experience, risk management functions, and drove strategic initiatives for the company. She currently is a senior executive at SiriusXM Holdings Inc, responsible for Growth of Streaming Distribution and Acquisitions across the house of brands, and has focused on establishing SXM as a formidable service outside the car in a short 24 months.

Sruta has an engineering degree from Case Western Reserve University, and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University. Shecares deeply about women in tech and increasing opportunities to all women.  She is currently a Board Member for SocietyofWomencoders.org. In addition to her day job at SiriusXM, Sruta is also an executive advisor to SiriusXM Cares, Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality efforts, and in the past played a key role in DISH Women’s Network.   

Craig Wilson has 30 years of experience in the practice of law, with extensive experience in healthcare and corporate law.   He earned a B.S. in Business and Political Science from William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri and a J.D. from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, Illinois.

Mr. Wilson is currently the general counsel of Healthedge Software, Inc., a healthcare technology firm based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Marc Bonora, JD, MBA
General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer

An accomplished legal, healthcare and business leader, Bonora plays a critical role in shepherding Ingenovis’ vision by ensuring corporate compliance, protecting and defending the company legally, and sharing his experience at large, complex organizations to help guide business and legal decisions. He brings more than 20 years of experience in healthcare staffing and labor law to the role, including leadership experience in corporate strategy and governance expertise and a passion for ensuring diversity and inclusion and protecting civil rights.

Ingenovis’ first general counsel, Bonora designed and led the development of the organization’s corporate compliance function and developed an efficient system for managing all legal matters for the organization, from the simple to the complex. He also uses his experience and training to help the underserved, from volunteering with the 9/11 Commission to stopping human trafficking in Tennessee.

He holds an executive MBA from the University of Colorado Denver Business School, a law degree from New York University School of Law, and a bachelor’s degree from La Salle University in Philadelphia. He currently serves on the board of directors at SungateKids. Bonora’s previous experience includes legal roles with Envision Healthcare, Vail Resorts and the U.S. Department of Justice.

Dave Esler serves as an Executive Advisor to Valtruis, focused on human capital strategy at all stages of the investment horizon. Dave brings more than 30 years of Human Resource leadership experience to this role.
Prior to joining the Valtruis team, Dave served as Chief Administrative and Chief Human Resources Officer with Nashville based Envision Healthcare. While with Envision, Dave was at the center of a transformative period of M&A activity that brought together a highly diverse group of healthcare services businesses to offer a unique value proposition to clinicians, health systems and payors.
Prior to joining Envision, Dave served for eight years as Chief Human Resources Officer for Illinois based US Foods supporting 26,000 employees.
Dave holds a master’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, completed the Human Resource Executive Program at the University of Michigan and has been designated a Certified Employee Benefits Specialist (CEBS) by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans.

Emma works as a Finance & Accounting Associate in real estate private equity. Originally from Kansas City (go Chiefs!), she went to CU Boulder for her Bachelor’s and Master’s and now lives in Golden with her husband Nick, dog, and cat. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, skiing, playing guitar, taking her pup Blue on mountain adventures, and live music.

Director of Mental Health at Cherry Creek School District

Principal Trial Attorney at Fiedler Trial Lawyers

CEO at Healthier Colorado

Of Counsel at SK&S Law Group

Learning & Development Program Leader at Datavant

Controller at Graystone Technology