Board of Directors
Maura McCarthy | President: RDNO Liaison
Maura and her husband Harry moved to Silver Star 11 years ago, after deciding to relocate their family from Ontario. Maura had worked for 18 years as a high school teacher, but teaching jobs were hard to come by when they moved to BC, so she went back to university and earned a post-graduate degree in Inclusive Education. She then worked for the Vernon School District, and still teaches occasionally as an on-call teacher. Maura also volunteers at Nexus BC, driving senior citizens to appointments.
Maura and Harry are also Alpine and Nordic ski instructors, and enjoy sharing their love of skiing with all levels of skiers. They believe they “hit the jackpot” when they moved here, minutes away from all the trails that Silver Star and Sovereign Lake have to offer.
Maura joined the Silver Star Property Owner’s Association in 2018, and has been active in issues related to Community Safety. She is the Block Watch Captain at Silver Star, and is the board liaison for the Fire Smart sub-committee.
Mike Waberski | Chair, Utility Services Committee
Mike spent most of his career as a BC Land Surveyor in Fort St John as the CEO of a Survey/Engineering firm and an Environmental Consulting Company specializing in servicing the Oil and Gas Industry. He retired and moved to Coldstream in 2005 and commuted to Silver Star to ski until 2013, when he and Susan built their winter home in Alpine Meadows.
Mike brings a broad experience in board work having chaired the BC Oil and Gas Commission Advisory Committee, sat on the Engineers and Geoscientists of BC Council for close to a decade and spent a similar time as a three-term member of the BC Land Title and Survey Authority Board of Directors where he served as the chair of the Audit and Finance Committee and then chaired the HR Committee. Mike was also elected to the Board of the Association of BC Land Surveyors for two terms.
Mike has been on the SSPOA Board since 2016 and has served as President since 2019. During his term on the SSPOA Board he has been active on the Utility Services Committee, focused on the Natural Gas and Wastewater files.
Sheryl Bolton | Treasurer
Sheryl and her husband Byron have owned their home at Silver Star since 2004, when not at Silver Star they live in the Vernon area. Together they have raised four children now aged 26 to 31 years.
Prior to starting a family Sheryl was involved in the Insurance Industry in Kamloops and then Vernon. Since starting a family Sheryl’s focus has been on the children, in addition providing support to Byron in the family business. Over the past 34 years Sheryl has been involved with several different volunteer boards beginning in 1991 with the North Okanagan Livestock Association as Secretary Treasurer, then on to school council board member and treasurer; coordinating the volunteers for the 2012 BC Winter Games; costume and fundraising committee for the Lights of Broadway Musical Theatre Group; and Treasurer of the St. James Catholic Women's League.
In 2013 Sheryl became a Director of the Silver Star Property Owners Association, and in 2015 the Treasurer which is the position held to date.
Loreen Ruault | Secretary: Newsletter, Membership
Loreen spent the majority of her career self-employed in resort development in Fairmont Hot Springs and in Hawaii. In semi-retirement she obtained her strata management licence as well as her broker’s licence and worked in that field until full retirement in 2012. Loreen moved to Silver Star in 2004, and has lived on the mountain with her partner, Bob McDonell for the winter seasons ever since.
Managing a handful of stratas on the mountain enabled Loreen to become familiar with the resort, but more importantly, the community. She has been on the board of the SSPOA since 2013, and as well as taking on the role of Secretary in many of those years, has been heavily involved with Member Engagement. While keeping the website up to date, all the newsletters and communications with homeowners has also been Loreen’s responsibility.
Lindsay Brennan | Director: Newsletter, Membership
Lindsay Brennan owns and operates Silver Star Stays. Silver Star Stays is a personalized reservation services company that manages over 130 properties right here on Silver Star Mountain. She lives right here, locally with her family and enjoys Silver Star Mountain in both the winter and summer seasons.
Lindsay also sits on Destination Silver Star’s Board of Directors and the Creekside Strata Council.
Lindsay graduated with a journalism degree from Thompson Rivers University.
In the past years, she worked for CIBC, and though she got promoted quickly, she wanted to do work that she was passionate about. She moved to the United Way in the North Okanagan specifically in fundraising and has sat on the Investment Funding Committees evaluating applications from organizations applying for United Way funding.
Silver Star Mountain is the best place to work and play! Lindsay, her partner James, and daughter Maya love the outdoors and they get the best of all seasons on the mountain. In the summer, Lindsay spends time riding Silver Star's Mountain Bike Park and walking the beautiful hiking trails. In the Winter, Lindsay enjoys taking an afternoon break in the snow to enjoy all the fresh powder whether it be skiing and snowshoeing.
Lindsay owns a condo in Creekside which she enjoys with her family and rents out when it is not in use.
Theresa Makelki | Director: Safe Communities
Theresa was born and raised in Kelowna, BC, and moved to Vancouver to pursue post-secondary education. While she always intended to return to the Okanagan, it wasn’t until 2017 that she and her husband, Mike, purchased land and built a vacation home at Silver Star for their family and four sons.
Although snow and skiing were not initially her passion, the pandemic unexpectedly changed that. When frequent travel across the U.S. came to a halt, Theresa found herself based full-time at Silver Star for nearly two years. Since then, she has developed a deep appreciation for mountain life and now finds her greatest enjoyment shoveling the driveway and spending time being active on the hill.
Professionally, Theresa serves as Senior Vice President of Sales Operations for a large U.S.-based food manufacturer. Her career spans executive leadership roles across sales, marketing, product development, and lean manufacturing, giving her a broad and practical perspective on building high-performing organizations.
Theresa is currently in her second term on the SSPOA Board, having joined at the end of 2023. Her first formal role within the Silver Star community was as Secretary of the Silver Star FireSmart Committee, where she quickly became engaged with community members and developed a strong passion for contributing to the long-term safety and success of the area.
Mark Chapman | Director: Utility Services Committee
Mark spent most of his working life as the owner and operator of a Mechanical
Contracting firm completing numerous commercial and institutional projects
throughout British Columbia and Alberta. He served on the board of directors for
the Southern Interior Construction Associations in the mid 1990’s and was on the
Board of Directors for the Grandview condominiums at Silver Star until 2020.
Mark first started skiing at Silver Star in 1969 and has been a property owner on
the mountain since 2000. After retiring in 2019 Mark and his wife Dawn
purchased a winter home in Alpine Meadows and spend the ski season on the
mountain.
Mark joined the Board of SSOPA in 2021 and serves on the Utility Services Committee.
Marc Brule | Director
Marc has been visiting Silver Star for 10 years and lives here full time since 2022. You may have seen him volunteering at many Sovereign and Silver Star community building events such as the S2S, Beer and Cider Festival, Silver Star “Adopt a Highway” road clean up, the FireSmart chipping initiative or others.
A good part of Marc’s professional career was focussed on leading the consulting and client services groups of a successful software company in Ottawa. During these years Marc developed abilities in communication, project management, problem solving and finding win-win outcomes in times of disagreement.
Marc continues to grow and share his knowledge of Silver Star by touring people around our XC trails as a Silver Star Mountain Host. As a former board member of the Silver Star Resort Association (SSRA), and a current member of the board of the Grandview building, Marc looks forward to better understanding and enhancing our community.
Steve Hammond | Director
Steve and his family purchased their home in The Knoll at SilverStar in 2019 and spend their winters at SilverStar and summers in Muskoka, Ontario. He and his wife Susan have three grown children and are active members of the SilverStar community.
Steve is an avid, year-round mountain user who enjoys downhill skiing, Nordic skiing, fat biking, downhill mountain biking, and cross-country mountain biking. He values the unique lifestyle SilverStar offers and the strong sense of community on the mountain.
Steve spent 25 years in senior executive roles in the global software technology industry, working with global teams and complex organizations. He brings a long-term perspective and a practical, operational approach to his involvement with the Association.