Theresa Foxley
Economic Development Corporation of Utah
A Utah native, Theresa Foxley is passionate about promoting the Beehive State. She has served as the Economic Development Corporation of Utah’s president and CEO since 2017 and has helped usher in a new era that is highly focused on internal team culture, driving stakeholder value and economic development preparedness.
A "recovering" attorney and self-described “deal junkie,” Foxley has enjoyed being part of Team Utah’s efforts to attract dozens of companies on expansion and relocation projects representing various industries throughout the state, including Goldman Sachs, Vista Outdoor, Stadler Rail and Facebook.
Prior to joining EDCUtah, Foxley was a senior leader at the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development. Earlier in her career, she represented a diverse set of clients in private legal practice on a multitude of general corporate and financial matters.
Foxely lives in Salt Lake City with her husband and son. They love spending time outdoors together with their Bernese Mountain dog.
Mikelle Moore
Intermountain Healthcare
Mikelle Moore has been a part of Intermountain Healthcare’s leadership team for over 20 years. In April 2017, she was named senior vice president and chief community health officer. In this role, Moore leads system-wide prevention and community health improvement efforts in support of Intermountain’s mission of helping people live the healthiest lives possible. Prior to this role, she served as vice president of community benefit. She also serves as president of the Intermountain Community Care Foundation and Intermountain Accountable Care board of managers.
Previously, Moore served as the administrator of Intermountain’s LDS Hospital from 2004 to 2011. She joined Intermountain as an administrative fellow in 1998 after working in a provider-owned health plan and at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona.
Moore earned her master of business administration and master of health services administration degrees from Arizona State University and her bachelor of physiology degree from the University of Arizona.
Moore is a certified fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. She is active in numerous community organizations, and currently serves on the boards of Shelter the Homeless, United Way of Salt Lake and Envision Utah. She also serves on a number of advisory boards and councils throughout the community, including the State of Utah’s Health Disparities advisory council, the Governor’s Youth Suicide Prevention Taskforce, and the Salt Lake City Homeless Commission.
Moore enjoys the alignment of her work and personal values, being active in the natural beauty of Utah and traveling with her husband and children.
Melanie Vartabedian
Ballard Spahr LLP
Melanie Vartabedian is a partner with the Salt Lake City law firm Ballard Spahr LLP. She focuses on complex commercial litigation matters, including commercial contract and real estate disputes, securities litigation and intellectual property litigation.
Vartabedian has litigated cases in state and federal courts across the country, and also has experience representing clients in arbitrations and government investigations. She represents real estate developers and private and public companies in business disputes relating to land- use decisions and she defends mortgage lenders and servicers in financial services disputes, including foreclosure-related lawsuits.
Vartabedian also has extensive experience with and involvement in Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) receiverships. She has prosecuted fraudulent transfer actions on behalf of the receiver in SEC receiverships and has defended numerous clients sued by receivers.
She has been recognized by the Utah State Bar and Utah Legal Services for her pro bono work, which includes assisting immigrants who are the victims of serious crimes and have cooperated with authorities in the prosecution of the perpetrator to obtain legal status in order to reside and work in the United States. She has represented Guatemalan human trafficking victims and acted as lead attorney negotiated a favorable settlement for a disabled couple who lost their home to a predatory real estate company.
Vartabedian is a volunteer with the Violence Against Women Act and helps victims of domestic violence obtain naturalization. She served a clerkship with Judith Billings, presiding judge of the Utah Court of Appeals.
Jennifer Williams
Dental Select
Jennifer Williams has spent the past six years working for Dental Select in Sandy and was recently named chief brand ambassador. Prior to her recent promotion she worked in other capacities with the company, including product development manager and chief experience officer. In her new role, she oversees distribution channel relationships to help drive awareness of the Dental Select brand and technology, specifically, the ways the company is modernizing dental insurance for this new experience economy.
During Williams’ professional career, she has held a variety of educational, technical, financial and real estate positions. These include a stint as a special education teacher in Bakersfield, California, and on the island of Oahu in Hawaii; as a healthcare information system consultant in Boston and San Francisco; and as a real estate investor in the Bay Area.
An Illinois native, Williams is a graduate of Rockford University in the state where she earned both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in education. She also earned a graduate certificate in financial planning at the University of California, Berkeley.
Christie Tribe
Junior Achievement of Utah
Christy Tribe is the president and CEO for Junior Achievement of Utah. She spent the first 10 years of her career in the corporate world in various roles, including managing art production at FranklinCovey and as a senior interactive project manager at Dahlin Smith White Advertising.
Tribe has worked as a development officer in the nonprofit arena over the past 15 years for a number of organizations, including the Oquirrh Institute and the University of Utah College of Nursing. Most recently, she has spent 15 years with Junior Achievement of Utah where she is passionate about helping students reach their full potential with JA’s proactive approach to breaking the poverty cycle.
Tribe loves learning about people and their communities with the goal of impacting both for good. She graduated from the University of Utah with a B.S. in family and consumer studies and minored in political science. She is a graduate of the Salt Lake Chamber’s Leadership Utah program. She currently serves on the advisory council for the Women Tech Council, on the executive board of Silicon Slopes, is a member of UCFEE and is a sustaining member of the Junior League of Salt Lake.
Tribe and her husband, Craig, enjoy spending time with their three children and their yellow Lab, Feller.