Leadership Team

Brandon Potthoff

Chapter President

Brandon Potthoff currently serves as Chapter President and previously served as Sponsorship Chair for the Rocky Mountain NIRI Chapter. He joined Ball Corporation in 2013, a global supplier of aluminum packaging for beverage, personal care, and household products customers, as well as aerospace and other technologies and services for the U.S. government. Brandon has held multiple positions at Ball, including corporate real estate and global treasury roles and currently serves as Director, Investor Relations. Brandon holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Finance degree from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Louis Baltimore

Immediate Past President and Programs Co-Chair

Louis Baltimore joined NIRI in 2017 and currently serves as Immediate Past President of the Rocky Mountain NIRI Chapter. Louis is the VP of Investor Relations at Heliogen (NYSE: HLGN), a renewable energy technology company. Louis has held various investor relations and corporate finance roles in the oil and gas industry before joining Heliogen. Louis moved to Denver from the East Coast in 2011 to do equity research covering E&P stocks for Macquarie Capital. After graduating from business school, he worked for a small private E&P where he successfully secured a $300 million private equity commitment for a project in Ohio’s Utica Shale. Louis earned a BA in Economics from Wesleyan University and holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Jonathan Beigle

Secretary

Jonathan Beigle, CFA® currently serves as Secretary and Logistics Chair for the Rocky Mountain NIRI Chapter. Jonathan is President and CEO of Ridgeline Royalties, a royalty company focused on providing financing to battery metal producers. Prior to founding Ridgeline, Jonathan was a part of Newmont Corporation’s award-winning IR program.
While Jonathan was at Newmont, IR Magazine named Newmont “Best in Sector: Materials” in 2020. In addition, Institutional Investor magazine named Newmont as the #1 IR Team in metals and mining in 2020. Jonathan is also a member of National Investor Relations Institute’s 2020 “40 Under 40” class. Prior to Newmont, Jonathan spent 11 years at Manning & Napier Advisors, an institutional investment firm with ~$50 billion in assets under management based in Rochester, NY. Jonathan has a Masters of Mining Engineering & Management from the South Dakota School of Mines and a bachelor’s degree in Business from Liberty University. Jonathan is also a CFA® charter holder.

Benjamin Treseder

Treasurer

Benjamin Treseder joined NIRI in 2019 and currently serves as Treasurer, having previously served as Programming Co-Chair for the Rocky Mountain NIRI Chapter. Benjamin has been in a role supporting businesses for 9+ years. Over the course of his career, Ben has helped companies manage solutions for Document & Print Management, Human Relations, and Investor Relations. Ben is currently an Account Manager for Broadridge Financial Services, representing Corporate Issuers on tasks relating to Annual & Special Meetings, Corporate Actions, and Shareholder Communication. He enjoys the outdoors, has 2 dogs, and races a vintage Formula-V race car.

Heathe Cooper

Vice President - Membership

Heathe Cooper has been an active member of NIRI since 1998. She is currently serving her eleventh term as Vice President and Membership Chair for the Rocky Mountain Chapter and has previously served the Chapter as Sponsorship Chair and a Golden Summit Committee lead. Heathe has three decades of experience in the graphic design industry and is currently a Director at Watermark, a Denver-based boutique marketing communications agency. Prior to joining Watermark, she spent two decades at Curran & Connors, establishing the Rocky Mountain region as Regional Manager after a successful stint in the Company's NY headquarters. Residing in Longmont, Colorado, Heathe has served nine years on the Board of Directors of The Longmont Humane Society. She enjoys riding her motorcycle and daily dog play dates with her fellow pet-obsessed friends.

Hunter Wells

Co-Chair - Communications

Hunter Wells has over a decade of Investor Relations experience creating and executing best-in-class IR programs for numerous companies across industry sectors. Hunter joined The Hanover Insurance Group, a leading property and casualty insurer, in March 2022 as the AVP, Investor Relations. Previously, Hunter served as the Vice President, Investor Relations at Century Communities, the 9th largest national homebuilder. From 2017 to 2019, Hunter was the Manager, Investor Relations at Zayo Group Holdings, a communications infrastructure provider, where her team was awarded the “Best IR Program – Telecom” in 2017 and 2018 by Institutional Investor. Prior to her role at Zayo, Hunter was a Vice President at ICR, an integrated communications firm, where she handled IR operations for clients ranging in market cap of $500 million to $15 billion in the Consumer and Retail sectors. She presently serves as Governance Ambassador on the board of directors for the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) – Rocky Mountain Chapter and was named a “40 Under 40” honoree in 2020. Hunter graduated from Northeastern University, Magna Cum Laude, with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism in 2011.

John Rea, CFA

Vice President - Programs

John Rea, CFA, joined NIRI in 2010 and currently serves as Programs Chair. John is currently Vice President, Head of Investor Relations and Co-Head of ESG Reporting at CSGS Systems (Nasdaq: CSGS), an S&P 600 company that provides SaaS solutions primarily for the wireless, cable and telecommunications industries. In his role as Co-Head of ESG Reporting he is tasked with the oversight of CSG’s ESG program, which includes managing relationships with external ESG frameworks and ESG rating agencies.
Previously, Mr. Rea worked in the investor relations departments of Liberty Global Nasdaq: LBTYA/LBTYB/LBTYK) and Liberty Latin America (Nasdaq: LILA/LILAB/LILAK) for 10 years. Mr. Rea graduated with honors from Trinity University (San Antonio, TX) where he received a B.S. in Finance and Accounting from Trinity University (San Antonio, TX). Postgraduate, John graduated with honors from the University of Colorado – Boulder where he received an MBA with a finance concentration. Additionally, he received the CFA designation in 2014.

Miranda Villavicencio

Programs Co-Chair

Miranda Villavicencio joined Ball Corporation, a global supplier of metal packaging for beverage, personal care, and household products customers, as well as aerospace and other technologies and services for the U.S. government in 2021 as an intern and is now an investor relations analyst. Together with her undergraduate, graduate studies and her building knowledge base in the field of investor relations and her industry, she demonstrates a wide perspective and progressing leadership qualities as evident with her 2023 NIRI Class of Rising Leaders. She holds a B.A from the University of Northern Colorado in International Affairs; Global Political Economy and a Master’s from the University of Denver, Josef Korbel School of International Studies in Global Finance, Trade, and Economic Integration.

Ann Scott

Advisory Director - Sponsorship

Ann Scott has been member of NIRI since 1999 and currently serves as Director at Large, having previously served as Vice President and Sponsorship Chair for the Rocky Mountain Chapter. Ann is also a member of the NIRI Senior Roundtable. Ann Scott is Vice President, Investor Relations for Ball Corporation, a global supplier of aluminum packaging for beverage, personal care and household products customers and of aerospace and other technologies and services for the U.S. government. Ann joined Ball in 1988 and throughout her 35-year career moved into positions of increasing responsibility in the administrative, treasury and finance departments. After Ball relocated its corporate headquarters to Colorado in 1998, Ann assumed overall responsibility for the company’s investor relations program including serving on the disclosure and governance committees and as competitive intelligence liaison to the strategic planning department. Ann Scott holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business from Ball State University.

Mark Alexee

Director at Large

Mark Alexee currently serves as Director at Large, having previously served as Vice President and Treasurer for the Rocky Mountain NIRI Chapter. Mark is the Director of Commercial and Operations Strategy at Neo Performance Materials (TSX:NEO), where he guides long-term strategy including Investor Relations efforts. He has 14 years experience in investor relations (public issuer and consulting sides) and corporate finance. Prior to Neo, he advised small- and mid-cap programs at TSR Concepts, an investor relations consultancy he founded. From 2015 through 2018, he led investor relations and treasury at Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc (NYSE: CMG), where he helped navigate shareholder dialogue through a national food safety crisis, shareholder activism, and change management. Prior to Chipotle, he helped launch the inaugural IR program at Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE: MCP), and held several corporate finance and strategy roles while at Molycorp and Dish Network (NYSE: DISH). He began his career advising IR programs with FTI Consulting in Chicago, and initially joined NIRI in 2006