INTERMOUNTAIN PEOPLE

Thomas R. Schilling, Chief Executive Officer
tschill@intermountainca.com

A co-founder of InterMountain Corporate Affairs, Tom has more than 20 years experience in public affairs and community and media relations. Despite his responsibilities as CEO, he is diligently accessible to clients, providing strategic counsel as well as message development and media training expertise.

Tom has served clients as diverse as StorageTek and the Colorado Elk Breeders Association but is best known for his extensive involvement in important and often controversial transportation projects throughout the region.  He manages or has managed public, media and community relations for such major projects as the I-70 Mountain Corridor Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement and Major Investment Study for the Colorado Department of Transportation; the South I-25 Corridor/US 85 Expansion Environmental Impact Statement Project; Berthoud Pass; Northwest Parkway; and “Going to the Sun Road” Environmental Assessment in Glacier National Park.

Active in the community, Tom serves on the board of Urban Peak Denver, Colorado's only licensed shelter for homeless and runaway youth. Additionally, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper recently appointed Tom to the Denver Board of Human Services, and Colorado Governor Bill Owens appointed him to the board of trustees of Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado's only public liberal arts and sciences institution (see www.fortlewis.edu/board_trustees/members/thomas_schilling.asp). He also volunteers as a Big Brother.

Tom graduated in 1975 from the University of Oregon School of Journalism and is a member of the Public Relations Society of America.  Before founding InterMountain, he worked as a business reporter for the Chicago Tribune and Rocky Mountain News, and also served as director of communications for the Colorado Office of Economic Development under former Governor Roy Romer.