Tell us about your connection to Montana – both professionally and personally.

Growing up in Pasadena, CA, I had always heard of Montana but didn’t have the chance to visit it until I was a Boy Scout in the early 90’s.  It’s a long story, but the short version is that my friends and I in Troop 35 had been accused of being “overly creative” by the camp director on Catalina Island, and accordingly were asked to find another summer camp location for two years.  A family in our Troop had property in Phillipsburg, MT and they offered it up for a couple weeks to be our summer camp location for that summer. The moment that I set foot on their property, I fell in love with Montana and knew it was a unique and special place.