Staff and Board

Governing Board Members

Ari Stern, MD President & Medical Director Berkeley, CA USA Doctor of Emergency Medicine	Bob Doak, DVM Vice President Albuquerque, NM, USA Doctor of Veterinary Medicine	Scott MacLennan Founder & Executive Director Nepal Program Director Albuquerque, NM, USA
Dorothy Kammerer-Doak, MD Board Member Albuquerque, NM, USA Doctor of OB/GYN	Trond B. Jensen Board Member Alaska, USA	Dan Mazur Expedition Organizer Summit Climb Mount Everest Foundation
Phillip Heinegg Medical Doctor New York, USA	David Diaz Web Developer Santa Fe, NM, USA	Mike Anderson General Contractor Alaska, USA
Amanda Padoan, JD Attorney at Law Barcelona, Spain	Jon Reed Airline Pilot California, USA

Main Office Staff, Albuquerque, NM, USA

Scott MacLennan

Founder / Executive Director

Email: mtnfund@mountainfund.org

Scott has working in Nepal and Peru for nearly a decade. He is the recipient of the Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal and the founder of The Mountain Fund. 

Sunita Subedi-MacLennan

Director of Volunteer Programs

Email: mountainvolunteer@me.com

Sunita has been directing the volunteer program in Nepal for The Mountain Fund since it's inception. The program continues to grow in popularity each year.

 

 

Snigdha Sharma Regmi 

Administrative Assistant

Email: info@mountainfund.org

Snigdha is the official go-to person at The Mountain Fund for a variety of matters including web updates, bookkeeping, filing and donor recognition programs.

 

Nepal Staff

The volunteer house girls. 

Namuna, Saru, Nabina and Shanti keep the volunteer house in Nepal running. 

To contact the house in Nepal call 977-9841060257

Email: Nepal@mountainfund.org

 

Rabindra Singh Baniya

 Volunteer Program & Chepang Village Program

chepang@mountainfund.org

     

 

Other Regional Staff

Yure Chavez 

Peru Program Director

Yure was born in Cusco, Peru, where he went to University for 5 years to be licensed in tourism. An introspective guy with a great sense of humor, he speaks Quechua (local language), Spanish, French, and English. Yure has guided adventure, ecotourism, bird watching and conventional tours for almost 10 years. Yure is very involved in Andean Anthropological Studies (costumes, traditions and social customs) and is also interested in the animal world of the Andes and the rain forest. Yure's wife, Brenda, is our Homestay Manager in Peru. She is also in charge of our micro finance program, Aynikuy.