Jamie received his BA from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, his MBA from National University in San Diego, California, and is a graduate from the Acton MBA in Entrepreneurship program in Austin, Texas, where he is currently a Master Teacher. It was through the Acton program that he and Carter Higley first met and realized that they shared similar life-long interests. He helped Carter launch a very similar program in Houston, Texas called LEAD. Jamie is a long time entrepreneur and has conceived and succeeded in several business projects. Example include a restaurant and bar in Nashville, Tennessee; a non-profit foundation that supports a wide variety of charities, scholarships and non-profit programs across the country, and numerous real estate projects in Texas, California and Colorado. Jamie has a passion for the outdoors that stems from his own outdoor learning experiences growing up. Jamie has envisioned providing similar outdoor learning opportunities to those less fortunate for several years. The Acton MBA program inspired Jamie to make that vision a reality.

Rusty is a native Austinite who is a graduate of Austin High School and Virginia Military Institute. He works in the medical device industry for a company that focuses on helping people with diabetes receive their medication easily and painlessly. For fun, Rusty likes to spend as much time as possible outdoors with his dogs Pearl and Heck. Being a part of the Explore team is important to him because he firmly believes that there is no substitute for experience in life, and Explore Austin provides the opportunity for Explorers to gain experiences that will benefit them for a lifetime.

As a founder, Sarah Queen has served on the board of Explore Austin since its inception. She has over seven years of experience working with a variety of nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Currently, she is a partner with J. Hughes Consulting. Sarah Queen joined J. Hughes Consulting in August of 2008 after serving as the first Executive Director of Explore Austin. Previously, Ms. Queen has served as an attorney and consultant to Public Strategies, Inc. and as a corporate and securities attorney for Andrews Kurth, LLP in Houston and Austin. Ms. Queen has worked as a volunteer to raise money for numerous non-profit organizations, including the Literacy Coalition of Central Texas, Austin Children’s Museum, Communities In Schools, Seton Community Clinics, American Cancer Society and Wonders & Worries. Ms. Queen currently serves on the board of trustees of St. Andrew’s Episcopal School and the Elizabeth Ann Seton Board. She is a former board member of Wonders & Worries and Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic. Ms. Queen earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of Virginia and a law degree at the University of Texas.

A graduate of Washington & Lee University and the University of Texas @ Austin School of Law, Pat joined Wells Fargo in 1998 when Wells Fargo acquired his private trust and investment company, Founders Trust Company. Now a Senior Vice President and Senior Regional Manager, Pat is managing director of and responsible for The Private Bank and the Wealth Management Group in Austin. Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Pat was a practicing attorney in Austin for 15 years and the President and founder of Founders Trust Company. Pat has over 25 years experience in the , financial services industry. In addition to his involvement with Explore Austin, Pat’s professional affiliations include the State Bar of Texas, the Ronald McDonald House of Central Texas (Board of Directors/Finance Committee), Dell Children’s Hospital of Central Texas Foundation (Board of Trustees/Finance Committee), KMFA 89.5 Classical Music (Board of Trustees/Past President/Chair of Endowment Committee/Finance Committee), Helping Hand Home (Advisory Director/Finance Committee), Knights of the Symphony, Southwestern University at Georgetown (Board of Visitors), The Nature Conservancy (Austin Development Board – Chair and State Board of Directors), Colorado River Foundation (Board of Directors/Past President/Endowment Trustee), Hospice of Austin Foundation (Board of Trustees), and Austin Museum of Arts (Board of Directors/Development Committee Chair).

Jen Ohlson is the Executive Director of All About Health where she leads the organization’s efforts to connect and strengthen the community’s collaborative mission to effect real change in the health in our youth and communities. Jen’s experience spans a number of functional areas, including hands on executive management experience as the owner of Pathway Productions since 1995 and managing director of UT’s Event Sales and Services Department in 2006-2007. In high school, Jen was honored as the most lettered athlete in Colorado history, with fifteen letters in five sports and multiple All-American and All-State honors. She was named the USA Today “Colorado Athlete of the Year” her senior year, all while posting a 3.9 GPA. Jen went on to letter in both soccer and track for four years at George Mason University and was nationally ranked as the ECAC Champion in the heptathlon. After graduation Jen started her own production company that developed a sports program focused on highlighting the “local heroes.” The program grew to become the highest-rated local sports show in the Washington DC, Virginia and Maryland areas. After selling the show to FOX, Jen catapulted her talents to top TV markets as a sports reporter and anchor in Washington DC and Dallas. She moved to Austin in 2002 to work as a sports reporter, where she was once again able to focus her passion on spotlighting the local community and the city’s overall wellness. Working at KXAN 36, FOXSW and hosting athletic programs for the University of Texas, in 2006 she was contracted by UT to collaborate with 5 separate divisions of the athletic department to develop and implement a comprehensive sales and marketing strategy to improve attendance and atmosphere at UT sporting events.

Jen’s story-telling ability, community associations and most of all, passion for overall health and wellness helped her complete her most recent project, Every Town Needs a Trail. As an in-demand public speaker, Jen’s message provides a powerful, inspirational call for health and fitness awareness, citizen and political leadership and involvement, expansion and preservation of open space and a vision of a better life for all who seek it. Her influence is also felt serving on the advisory boards for Helping Hand Home for Children, Texas Trail Tamers and The Trail Foundation.

Coalter is a certified public accountant and personal financial specialist providing tax planning and compliance services for corporate, partnership, fiduciary and individual clients. Estate and trust administration, business and family succession guidance and personal financial planning are additional services provided. He is a native of Austin, graduating from the University of Texas. He has contributed to his profession through leadership positions on the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy, National Association of State Boards of Accountancy and as a member of the Professional Ethics Executive Committee of the AICPA. Coalter has also lectured at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business. He has also contributed his efforts on behalf of a number of state and local charitable organizations including the Texas Healthy Kids Corporation, State Bar of Texas, Greater East Austin Youth League, American Cancer Society and, most importantly, as President, Treasurer and Executive Director for the West Austin Youth Association.

Derek is Partner and Managing Director of Stream Realty Partners Tenant Representation group. Derek specializes in interim, long-range and budgetary desires of corporate tenant’s facility requirements. Derek’s primary objective is office and industrial tenant representation with a focus of lease, purchase, build-to-suit and buy-leasebacks on behalf of his clients.

Prior to a career in commercial real estate, Derek developed a background in Public Policy working both in Texas and Washington D.C. Derek served as a political appointee to the Administration of President George H. W. Bush. During this period he served in the International Trade Administration of the Department of Commerce, the Presidential Advance Team as well as the Republican National Committee. Once back in Texas, Derek became the Executive Director of the National Council of Contractors Association (NCCA). Derek was the Legislative Liaison for the association’s objective to provide proactive alternatives to traditional affirmative action programs, as well as organizing and implementing a construction contractor technical assistance program.

Derek cherishes an excellent upbringing in Paris, Texas. He enjoys a good game of golf, hunting and fishing with friends, peaceful time on the spring-fed water of the Texas Hill Country and quality time with his family. Derek is the proud husband of Julie and father of Henry and Frances. Derek is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and, in addition to Explore Austin and several other professional associations, has served his community as a member of the Children’s Council of the Children’s Medical Center Foundation of Central Texas, Seton Forum, Youth Sports Coach & Committee Member of the West Austin Youth Association (WAYA), RISE School of Austin – Sportsman’s Club, Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo “Buyer’s Group” and Good Shepherd Episcopal Church.