Austin McInerny, President

Austin is a professional land-use planner and natural resource management mediator by training and currently works for the Center for Collaborative Policy. With a long history of both mountain bike and cyclocross racing, Austin continues to coach the Berkeley High School Mountain Bike Club and has also managed the USA Cycling Western Regional Development Camp in the past. In addition to assisting the NorCal League in many ways, Austin serves on the Board of Directors of the Bay Area Ridge Trail Council.

Mark Kintz, Treasurer

Mark is a CPA in public practice in Monterey, and has served on a number of non-profit boards including Velo Club Monterey, and the Monterey Off-Road Cycling Association. He is an IMBA trained trail builder and a USCF certified coach with a racing background in cycling, running, and triathlon. He and his wife Patricia share head-coach duties for the Calvary Christian High and Monterey Bay Kingfishers (homeschool) teams. They live in Marina (Monterey County) next to Ft Ord and its nearby East Garrison and Sea Otter Classic trails. Their daughter Teresa and son Nick (both in college) were League racers, and now younger sister Katy is keeping their League-family tradition going, continuous since 2003.

Carol Eber, Secretary

Carol has a strong background in the education field. She was a high school teacher for 18 years and an administator for 18 years; holding such positions as Principal of Sir Francis Drake High School, Director of Instruction at Tamalpais High School District, and Assistant Principal at Petaluma High School. She has served as President of Marin County Athletic League, was a member of North Coast Section Board of Managers, and is a member of Petaluma Wheelmen and Twin Valley Aquatics as well as the City of Petaluma Aquatics Advisory Board. When Carol is not busying herself in one of these many roles of civic particpation, or volunteering at a League event, you will likely find her pedaling around the Sonoma countryside with her husband Andy.

Elayna Caldwell

Elayna has been involved in the cycling industry for over 10 years. She raced mountain bikes for many years in both cross-country and downhill disciplines. A supporter of mountain bike advocacy, Elayna would like to help the league foster and grow its mountain bike advocacy efforts. Her paying job is the Marketing Manager at FOX Racing Shox, and as such she sponsors and supports mountain bike racing and racers from the World Cup to slopestyle to juniors.

David Curtis

With over 25 years of brand consulting experience, Dave Curtis has managed billion-dollar brands for many fortune 500 companies. For the past 5 years, Curtis was a founding partner in Healthy Handfuls Organic Snacks for Kids, until its sale in 2008. Dave is currently working with Calera Corporation, which hopes to reverse global warming and ocean acidification by sequestering CO2 in concrete mixed from powerplant exhaust and seawater. Dave and his wife of 20 years, Tina-Lise, live in San Rafael with their three active teen-age boys. Curtis shares coaching duties with Brooks Herrick for the San Rafael Bulldogs MTB Team, through which they hope to foster positive life lessons such as persistence, self-reliance and responsibility, as well as good nutrition and respect for the environment. Curtis holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Art & Design from Cal Poly.

Otis Guy

Otis has been a lifelong cyclist since he first rode a 20” Schwinn with no training wheels in 1958. He started racing road bikes on 1970 and helped start Velo Club Tamalpais in the early 1970’s. Later on with Joe Breeze, Marc Vendetti, Charlie Kelly and Gary Fisher was instrumental in bringing the joys of mountain biking to the world. He is the only person to race in Repack (the first mountain bike race which has won), the first National Mountain Bike Championships in 1983 and the first World Mountain Bike Championships in 1990. He has been building bicycle frames for over 27 years and had his own racing team for many years. In 1993 Otis was inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame. Otis joins the board in support of high school mountain biking with his experience as mountain bike racer, frame builder, parent and Firefighter/ Paramedic.

Adam Waskow

Adam has worked for Guide Dogs for The Blind in Marin County for the last 19 years. He works with both the clients and the dogs in his supervisory role, overseeing the training and client curriculum. An avid cyclist for many years, Adam is also an Associate Coach at Whole Athlete Performance Center in San Anselmo. He is a USA Cycling Coach and holds the level 2 certification. Adam has been in the coaching industry for the last 10 years and has worked with athletes of all levels, from National Champions and world class competitors to the weekend rider. Adam helped found the Whole Athlete Junior Development Team and he has been an active volunteer for NorCal over the last several years.

Alexander Price

Alexander Price was elected to the board in July of 2010. Born in New Zealand, he moved to Bay Area in the early 80s, where he lived on the Peninsula and Marin and commuted by bike to High School via the trails on Mt Tam. Alexander graduated and returned to Marin from the University of Arizona with a BS in Management Information Systems (MIS) and a minor in Film and Sound Design.

Professionally Alexander is a technology leader and enjoys solving problems and helping others. Currently he works for CMI as the Director of Professional Services. He has also worked for several leading entertainment, technology, and financial companies including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of New Zealand, Mighty River Power, Industrial Light and Magic, IBM, and Hambrecht and Quist. He also runs Irwin Holmes Inc, a technology consulting company for individuals and small businesses in the Bay Area. He became engaged with the league 5 years ago and founded the Branson High School mountain bike team where he spent 4 years as the teams head coach. Alexander also serves on the Board of Directors for the Marin County Bicycle Coalition (www.marinbike.org). Alexander is a father, cyclist, businessman, and sailor. When not in the office you can find him on his Mtn bike somewhere in Marin. Find out more about Alexander on his website.

Jim Winne

Jim Winne has been involved in competitive cycling since he got his Cat 4 road racing license in 1988, and is a lifelong lover of all things speed; Competing in alpine ski racing, sports car racing, and cross country mountain bike racing. His racing career often takes a back seat to raising a family, enjoying time with his wife Kathleen, and working at his career as a Project Manager in the engineering construction field. Jim is the founding Director of the Woodcreek High School Cycling team, and is the Father of two children who share his passion for bike racing.