Board of Directors

Komathi Stem

Komathi is an entrepreneurial systems thinker focused on sparking an ecosystem change that accelerates research through greater collaboration across the healthcare ecosystem. She is currently the founder and CEO of monARC Bionetworks, a healthcare data collection and analytics company.

Dez Stone Menendez

Dez has been the Director of Innovation at Colorado College since September 2016. She began working as a serial entrepreneur at age 23, and the orienting principle of her work is to empower people to lead larger and more creative lives. She is the founder and owner of the Possibility Room, which began as a startup incubator in Seattle, focused on executing new businesses and expanding existing businesses.

Jeff Jonas, Ph.D.

Jeff is an eight-time Emmy award winner and an influential leader in the sports media industry for the past 25 years. Currently, the managing director of global business development for Intel Sports. In his position, he has led partnerships with the NBA, the NFL, the PGA Tour, MLB, Turner Sports, and more.

Sarah England, Ph.D.

Sarah K. England, Ph.D. is the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Medicine and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Washington University. Dr. England has authored many research and review articles and has reviewed for multiple journals and serves on review committees for multiple funding agencies including the NIH, March of Dimes, American Heart Association, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She was a 2005-06 Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow and worked in the office of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Ed Tepper

Ed is an accomplished, hands-on operations and financial management executive. He has over 30 years of leadership experience, developing and leading top performing teams across multiple industries. Most of his career has been devoted to growing entrepreneurial and mid-market businesses. He was instrumental in the restructuring and restoration of profitability for two domestic and global manufacturing and distribution businesses.

 

At CoPeace, Ed has established a proven set of operating processes and a focused approach to problem solving. He conceptualized the framework for CoPeace’s VIBE (Valuation of Impact Brand Equity), a proprietary tool designed to place a relative-value score on an athlete’s positive impact on society. The VIBE^TM tool is part of CoPeace Sport, a wholly-owned subsidiary designed to leverage sport’s unique ability to do good.

Ed co-founded an advanced digital media services company serving an elite clientele, including HBO, Showtime, A&E, and academy-award-winning filmmakers. He also was co-founder and CFO of an Emmy-winning team recognized for bringing revolutionary enhancements to live sports broadcasts, including American football’s yellow first-down line and baseball’s pitch zone. Previously, he was COO of Sterling Ventures, an investment arm of a prominent New York real estate firm that also owned the New York Mets baseball team (2002-2020). Early in his career he was an economist for Merrill Lynch and The Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

 

Ed earned his M.B.A. in finance from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and holds a B.A. in economics from Washington University in St. Louis where he was a 3-year letterman on the men’s tennis team.

 

Ed has served as a judge for the Penn-Wharton Startup Challenge since 2004. He also sits on the Board of Directors of the Tepper Family Foundation and Chester-Mendham Little League. Ed is a proud father of three, a youth baseball and soccer coach, and resides in the New York metro area.

Brad Tompkins

Brad is the CFO for a Boulder-based company called, Furniture For Life. He is also an entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of working in distribution, manufacturing, and technology. In addition to being a business owner, Brad is a managing partner with small enterprise and board of directors experience. Brad has strong business development skills including accounting, analytics, systems development, customer service, strategic planning, and finance.

Meg Masten

Meg brings a diverse background to the CoPeace leadership team, centered around serving people, solving problems, managing multi-disciplinary teams, and "gluing" all the pieces together.

 

Meg has been with CoPeace from Day One, helping chief executive officer Craig Jonas, successfully launch CoPeace. She was the point person in helping CoPeace achieve Certified B Corp. and Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) status.

Prior to CoPeace, Meg served in a variety of leadership roles in the sports and healthcare industries. During this time, she became an expert on equity, socioeconomic factors, costs, and public policy within the public healthcare system. She also founded Daisy Power, LLC, which provided workshops for moms and their young daughters, promoting self-esteem and positive body image, in addition to nutrition and fitness education. As a volunteer, she spends a lot of her time informing, engaging and organizing the community on public education issues.

 

Meg completed her undergraduate studies at Marquette University. She currently lives in Colorado with her husband and golden retriever and is the proud mother of two.