The BMW MOA Foundation has a Board of Directors and an Executive Board. The members of the Executive Board are also members of the Board of Directors. There are also advisors and volunteers who provide advice to the Board, which also relies upon and is grateful for the help of the Executive Staff of the BMW MOA.
Executive Board
- Don Braasch President
- Michael Kilgore Vice President
- Bruce Sanders Secretary/Treasurer
Board of Directors
Don Braasch (President)
Don Braasch, #9049, is a lifetime member of the BMW MOA. He is an Ambassador, a founding member of two charter clubs (Dinky Dozen #84 and Knights of the Roundel #333) and an MSF RiderCoach. He is retired from a career in manufacturing and quality consulting, but stays busy as an adjunct lecturer at Illinois State University. Don and his wife, Sandy, reside in Hudson, Illinois. His current fleet of BMWs includes a K1200RS and three airheads. In 2010 Don was named a Key Volunteer by the BMW MOA.
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Michael Kilgore (Vice President)
Michael has over 25 years of nonprofit organizational development experience. He has served as a Board Member, COO, Financial Director, Executive Director and Presenter / Ambassador for several national and international nonprofit organizations with annual outreaches to over 1 million people and annual budgets that exceeded 16 million. As a specialist in process improvement strategies, donor relations, and financial stewardship, Michael possesses a unique blend of business experience, mission growth wisdom and human resource savvy. Michael’s business experience continues to be primarily in educational and human service organizations.
Michael and his wife, Keren, both members of the BMW Motorcycle Club of Colorado, live in Denver. Michael has served its members as Vice President and Keren as the club newsletter editor. Michael rides a K1200 GT and Keren a R1200 CLC. They have motored extensively across the United States and Canada. Their business and personal travels have taken them to Cuba, England, Russia, Scotland and Uganda.
Bruce Sanders (Secretary / Treasurer)
Bruce's day job is a facility design engineer for Qwest Communications. He & his wife Miranda joined the MOA in 2004. They appeared in the Nov 2006 Issue of ON when they found the real value of the Anonymous Book & successfully nominated Deb & Charlie Parsons for a Helping Hands. Bruce became active in the BMW Motorcycle Club of Colorado in 2006 as Secretary & was nominated / elected / re-elected President in 2007 & 2008. He likely served you a cup of coffee in Johnson City, or he may have judged your K-Bike if you entered in the ride-in bike show. He was asked to take a role on the BMW MOA Foundation board in June of 2009 and was later nominated Secretary / Treasurer where he serves today.
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Randy Boris
Randy has been riding BMW motorcycles since 1985. He is proud to be an Airhead, among other things. He has assisted in the reconstruction/restoration of the Toaster tank and R90S raffle bikes that benefitted the Foundation and the Garth Eppley Memorial Music Scholarship. Randy was appointed a Foundation Director in the spring 2010, where he continues to serve when he's not working long hours at a nuclear plant in NE Wisconsin.
Karol Patzer
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Karol has been a BMW MOA member for 25 years, as well as an Ambassador. She served 2 terms on the BMW MOA board of directors, and has held several offices in her local BMW club. She has chaired local and National Rallies and has been the BMW MOA National Charity Chair for 18 years. She was a principal rider on 2 of the Pony Express Rides benefiting Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Research. When she’s not riding her R1200GS in an Long Distance event, she’s visiting dealers in her role as Gerbing’s Heated Clothing Regional Sales Mgr.
Karol was one of the original trustees of the Foundation during it’s very early years.
Deb Lower
Deb has been a BMW MOA member since the late 70s and became an Ambassador in the mid 80s. She served on the BMW MOA Board of Directors as President, Secretary, Vice-President and elected as Treasurer over a 14 year period. During the development of the initial Foundation structure, Deb was a Trustee and helped recruit the 99 other members, served as an advisor while on the BMW MOA Board and served one previous term as a Foundation Board member after leaving the MOA Board in 2009. She has a Ph.D. in sociology from University of Iowa and has worked as a consultant in the health and human services financial management arena for close to 20 years. Clients enjoy seeing her ride in to project sites or to conferences from Colorado or other starting points on her R1200GS.
Eric M. Simon
Eric M. Simon has been a lawyer representing health care clients in business and regulatory matters since 1987. He is regularly listed in the Best Lawyers in America in his specialty of health care law. Eric was chairman of the board of Neighborhood Family Practice, a Federally-Qualified Health Center, and organized several fundraising rides for that Clinic with the BMW Motorcycle Owners of Cleveland. Eric is past president of the BMW Motorcycle Owners of Cleveland, and was chairman and volunteer committee member of the March of Dimes Ride for Babies in Cleveland, Ohio for several years. Eric was a trustee of the BMW MOA Foundation when it was originally established. Eric presently rides an R1200RT, and also rides his Buell XB9SX when not in a BMW state of mind.
Greg Cocks
Greg is an engineering geologist by training and early experience, but now works mainly in the field of scientific data analysis, data management, etc for the S.M. Stoller Corporation. He is the membership chair and active member of the Colorado Beemers, and owns a couple of BMWs (1200GS and a ’68 R50/2) as well as a KTM (450EXC) for blatting around Colorado’s amazing off-pavement terrain in places that he thinks might bend the GS (based on experience!) Originally from New Zealand, now a US citizen, he loves 'tiki touring' on his bike/s around the US and Canada with any excuse, the blue roads, meeting people, diners, blue plate specials, food with lots of bacon (aka nature’s miracle), coffee into those oh-so-familiar brown dappled mugs, and of course every sort of pie must be tried…