Clark, Neeleman and Wilson join GOED board for four-year terms

The Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) board has three new members.

Carine Clark, Dr. Steve Neeleman and Ted Wilson recently had their appointments confirmed by the Utah Senate and will be sworn in at the board’s next meeting June 8.

“The newly appointed board members are well respected in their industries and the community,” said Val Hale, GOED’s executive director. “Their leadership, experience and community involvement in diverse areas of our state will serve us well.”

The new board members replace Josh Romney, Jake Boyer and Sam Granato and will begin a four-year term ending in 2021. In addition to the new appointments, board members Margo Jacobs, Mel Lavitt and Peter Mouskondis were reappointed for another term.

Clark serves on the executive board of Silicon Slopes. She has decades of experience building successful software companies and most recently was CEO of MaritCX and Allegiance Software and CMO of Symantec. She has been inducted into the Utah Technology Council Hall of Fame, was named 2016 EY Entrepreneur of the Year for the Utah Region and 2015 CEO of the Year by Utah Business magazine. She was ranked by ExecRank as No. 47 of all CMOs worldwide in 2012.

Clark spends much of her spare time as an advocate for cancer research, working with newly diagnosed patients and mentoring young people. In 2012, she was diagnosed with a rare form of ovarian cancer. She underwent 18 months of treatment and is nearly five years clear from her toughest chemotherapy.

Neeleman is a general surgeon and founder and vice chairman of HealthEquity. He founded the company in 2002. He is the co-author of The Complete HSA Guidebook — How to Make Health Savings Accounts Work for You, in its fifth edition.

Neeleman also is a practicing general and trauma surgeon for Intermountain Healthcare at American Fork Hospital and Utah Valley Regional Medical Center.

He was appointed by Gov. Gary Herbert to serve as a board member of HIP Utah, Utah’s high-risk insurance pool. He also serves on the Council for Affordable Health Insurance HSA Working Group, and on America’s Health Insurance Plans’ HSA Leadership Council.

Prior to his medical training, Neeleman worked as the general airport manager for Morris Air (later acquired by Southwest Airlines), based in Salt Lake City.

Wilson is a former executive director of the Utah Clean Air Partnership (UCAIR) and a former mayor of Salt Lake City. His career includes serving in the Utah Army National Guard from 1957-63, as an instructor at the Leysin American School in Switzerland for one year, as an economics teacher at Skyline High School for seven years, as a mountaineering park ranger in Grand Teton National Park during the summers of 1966-69, as chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Wayne Owens starting in March 1973, as director of the Department of Social Services in Salt Lake County starting in April 1975, as mayor of Salt Lake City from 1975-85, and as director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah.

Wilson ran for the U.S. Senate in 1982 and Utah governor in 1988. Recent activities include serving as director of the Utah Rivers Council from 2008-10, as senior environmental advisor to Herbert from 2010-2011, and as government affairs director of the Talisker Co. from 2011-13.