Sophie Goldschmidt, President and CEO

Sophie Goldschmidt has held numerous leadership, commercial and marketing roles with several of the world’s most well-known and prestigious organizations. She comes to U.S. Ski & Snowboard most recently as CEO of the World Surf League (WSL). She has also held executive positions at the National Basketball Association (NBA), the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), the Rugby Football Union (RFU), Chime Sports Marketing (CSM), the PGA European Tour and Adidas. She brings to U.S. Ski & Snowboard a unique experience of working closely with athletes across multiple sports from grassroots to the elite level, with a track record of positively transforming organizations from a business standpoint. Sophie has been at the forefront of globalizing and innovating sports, media, and entertainment properties throughout her career. She has also been honored as one of Forbes Most Powerful Women in Sport, AdWeek’s Most Powerful Women in Sport, Sports Business Journal's Forty under Forty, Leaders in Sport Under 40 Award, Marketing Week’s Vision Award and Sport360 Most Influential Women in Sport.

Brooke McAffee, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer

Brooke McAffee is the Chief Financial and Administrative Officer at U.S. Ski & Snowboard (USSS), leading a number of departments including the financial, accounting, legal, board governance, membership and IT operations. McAffee is a CPA, graduated Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and holds an Executive Certificate in Olympic Sport Leadership from Northwestern University. With over 20 years of experience in finance and accounting across various sectors she has successfully managed and improved the financial stability of numerous organizations, growing annual budgets, implementing new revenue streams, improving cash flow, audit, compliance, risk management and strategic planning. Prior to USSS, McAffee was the CFO for Sundance Institute with offices in Park City, Los Angeles, and New York. She also previously worked for Neilson Elggren and Arthur Anderson, LLC where her specialties were audit, forensic, and investigatory accounting for both public and private companies.

A native of southern California, McAffee is a lifelong skier and athlete. She played division one soccer at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and has completed two Leadville 100 mountain bike races. In addition to her own athletic endeavors, she has provided support to her sister, Amber Neben, a three-time Olympian and world champion road cyclist. She and her husband Clint live in Park City where they are raising their son and daughter.

435.647.2002 I brooke.mcaffee@usskiandsnowboard.org

 Anouk Patty, Chief of Sport

Anouk Patty has a long and distinguished career at several blue-chip corporations. She was Head of Strategic Partnerships at HP, Inc. focused on 3D scanning and 3D printing partnerships, particularly in the footwear and sports categories. Prior to that, she led HP’s partnerships in the gaming space. Anouk spent time at Intuit where she was the GM of Quicken and Quickbooks for the Mac business. Her foundational professional experience was developed at both Bain & Company in San Francisco and J.P. Morgan in New York City and Melbourne, Australia. Anouk is on the board of Park City-based POWDR, the parent company of Woodward, Copper Mountain, and Killington Resort and previously sat on the board of Green Mountain Valley School. She competed on the U.S. Alpine Ski Team in the 1980s and raced for Dartmouth College, where she was a three-time All-American and won the NCAA Skiing Championship in 1988. She has her MBA from Harvard Business School, an executive education certificate in leadership in innovation from Stanford Business School, and a B.A in Economics from Dartmouth College. Anouk continues to love the outdoors and on any given day can be found skiing, playing golf, mountain biking or trail running.
435.647.9090 I anouk.patty@usskiandsnowboard.org

Guy Slattery, Chief Marketing Officer

Guy Slattery comes to U.S. Ski & Snowboard with extensive successes in entertainment marketing and content development. Guy was formerly the CMO at VICE Media where he built and led the team that launched the Emmy award-winning television network VICELAND. While at VICE he also drove growth and innovation through the development and marketing of the VICE brand portfolio (VICE.com, VICE News, VICE TV, VICE Studios, Refinery 29, Virtue, Pulse Films) across all platforms and lines of business, including advertising and design, brand positioning and identity, branded content, consumer research and insights. Before joining VICE, he was Executive Vice President of Marketing at A+E Networks, responsible for all marketing, creative and brand strategy for A&E and HISTORY during a period that saw both networks grow to become among the top five entertainment networks in cable. Guy is responsible for all aspects of U.S. Ski & Snowboard's brand development and communications.

Trisha Worthington, Chief Revenue and Philanthropic Officer

Trisha Worthington rejoined U.S. Ski & Snowboard in 2014 to oversee fundraising to support athletic programs through the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Team Foundation. She previously headed fundraising for the Foundation from 1995-2007, increasing its annual fund to $5 million and spearheading its $60 million Legacy Fund endowment, a portion of which funded U.S. Ski & Snowboard's Center of Excellence. Worthington served as executive director of the Park City Community Foundation since its inception in 2007. Her leadership of the Park City Community Foundation resulted in an investment of over $5 million into the community through grant programs and initiatives, including raising nearly $1 million in a single day of giving. She grew the foundation from its start to assets of more than $7 million. Worthington and her husband Trace, an Olympian and highly-decorated freestyle skier, live in Park City where they are raising two daughters.
435.647.2075 I trisha.worthington@usskiandsnowboard.org

Alison Pitt, General Counsel

A Utah native, Alison Pitt is a corporate attorney with substantial in-house legal experience focusing on corporate governance, intellectual property, contract drafting and negotiation, litigation management, as well as federal regulation. Prior to joining U.S. Ski & Snowboard, Alison was Vice President, Compliance and Deputy General Counsel at Nutraceutical Corporation where she spent more than seventeen years advising the executive and operations teams on federal and state regulatory compliance, and all facets of international and domestic corporate affairs, including mergers and acquisitions. Additionally, her corporate governance experience includes complex entity structure/registrations and drafting securities law compliance reports for NYSE and NASDAQ listed companies. Alison is the immediate past president and a board member of the Association of Corporate Counsel, Mountain West Chapter. Alison holds a Juris doctorate, master of business administration and a bachelor of science in accounting—all from the University of Utah. Alison is an avid long-distance runner, fly fisherman, and lifelong telemark skier, and volunteered thirteen years as an alpine ski patroller for Park City Mountain Resort. She lives in Park City with her spouse and son.
435-647-2004 I alison.pitt@usskiandsnowboard.org

Mark Schneider, Senior Vice President, IT

Mark Schneider brings a huge wealth of technology experience to U.S. Ski & Snowboard. His most recent post was Chief Technology Officer with Zipscene, the Cincinnati, Ohio based company specializing in understanding and predicting consumer-dining behavior through deep learning and artificial intelligence on the Amazon (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).  Additionally, he served as Chief Information Officer with Red Bull USA for six years and was an integral part of the incredible growth the company enjoyed in the U.S. market from 2007 through 2013.   Mark sees numerous opportunities to integrate technology even more deeply with the athletes and fans of U.S. Ski & Snowboard, both in the live and broadcast arenas. He also sees technology as a way for athletes to increase their performance levels even further. 
435.647.2010 I mark.schneider@usskiandsnowboard.org