Linda Bernier
Co-President
Linda Bernier joined the Wharton Club of Colorado at the end of 2023 and is excited to help reignite the organization as its co-president. She is a passionate healthcare industry leader with over 25 years of experience in technology and business services organizations leading marketing, strategy, product management, business development and consulting teams. She specializes in executing go-to-market programs and strategic initiatives that drive corporate growth and create great companies. Linda is currently the chief growth officer for SmartTRAK, a market intelligence company for the MedTech industry.
Linda has worn many hats including the CEO of a healthtech start-up as well as senior marketing, strategy and product roles for a range of companies including SKYGEN, Welltok (now Virgin Pulse), Oracle, Premera Blue Cross and Deloitte. She has also worked as a fractional CMO and adviser for multiple high growth healthcare technology and business services companies ranging from start-ups to the Fortune 1000.
She is a graduate of Wharton’s MBA program with concentration in Health Care Management and Marketing.
Bill Keener (WG'05)
Co-President
Bill joined the Wharton Club of Colorado board in 2023. He has spent more than 25 years in the oil and gas industry as both an engineer and a commercial expert, most recently as president and founder of Commodities Optimization Group. Bill moved to Colorado in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and never looked back. He’s an avid hiker, snowboarder and IPA aficionado.
Bill has a chemical engineering degree from the University of Florida and longs for the days when the Gators were relevant. He has an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Kenton Epard (WG'06)
Secretary/VP of Communications
Kenton Epard is the founder of The Nexus Initiative, a boutique executive coaching and business advisory practice built on real-world operating experience whose mission is developing emotionally intelligent and mentally agile leaders and teams. He has been a successful entrepreneur and has worked in many types of businesses, ranging from fast-paced technology startups in Silicon Valley to Fortune 500 companies and family-owned businesses to school and church boards. Kenton has been involved in rapid growth, successful exits, challenging turnarounds, difficult company wind-downs, sudden leadership departures, and many more.
He holds a BS in electrical engineering from Kansas State University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, he's a certified Executive Coach and Genos Emotional Intelligence practitioner.
Krishna Kantheti
VP of Membership
Dan Petty (WG'22)
VP of Website
Dan joined the Wharton Club of Colorado board in 2023. He is the director of audience strategy for ProPublica, a U.S.-based non-profit, independent investigative news organization. He leads the organization’s audience team, whose focus is to help the organization's journalism reach wide, loyal and diverse audiences. He was previously director of audience development at MediaNews Group — the parent company of publications including The Denver Post, San Jose Mercury News and Boston Herald — where he worked on editorial strategy, operations and business development and helped build the company’s digital subscription business. Before that, he spent seven years at the Post in a variety of production and editing roles. Since 2017, he has worked with the International Center for Journalists and the U.S. State Department on consulting projects with news organizations in Kazakhstan and Sri Lanka. He received a bachelor of science in biology and journalism from the University of Richmond and an MBA with honors from the Wharton School.
Greta Stockdale (WG'20)
VP of Social and Professional Events