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Who are the current Club Officers?
How Many Members are There? How Do I Become a Member? How Often Does the Club Meet? What is Provided at Meetings? What are the Financial Commitments? What are the Time Commitments? What Committees Does the Club Have? Does the Club Support Other 20-30 Clubs? Do the Club Have Social Events with other 20-30 Clubs? What Charities Does the Club Support? How Does an Individual or a Business Become a Sponsor?
Current Club Officers
Barry Lutz: President
blutz@ghf.netInvestment Banker- Greene Holcomb & Fisher
Barry Lutz has more than a decade of experience in mergers and acquisitions, private equity and management consulting. Prior to joining Greene Holcomb & Fisher, a national boutique investment banking firm, Barry was an associate with UBS Investment Bank and Credit Suisse, respectively. Barry also served four years as an enlisted member of the United States Air Force and is a graduate of the USAF Officer Training School. Barry is a graduate of the University of Arizona (BS), cum laude, and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (MBA), with honors. He also holds diplomas in advanced Spanish studies from the University of Madrid and ESADE Business School.
Kurt Merschman: Immediate Past President/Foundation President
kmerschman@ssd.comAttorney- Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, L.L.P.
Kurt D. Merschman focuses his practice on corporate and securities transactions. He has experience with general corporate and securities representation of public and private companies, including entrepreneurial ventures, growing businesses and large companies. Mr. Merschman appeared among the Phoenix Business Journal’s "Forty Under 40" honorees in 2004 and was selected as one of the bizAZ’s "Up & Comers" in 2005.
He previously worked in both the US Senate and the British House if Commons.
Active in the greater Phoenix community, Mr. Merschman serves as the president of the Scottsdale Active 20/30 Foundation, immediate past president of the Scottsdale Active 20/30 Club and president of Scottsdale Leadership, Inc., of which he is a graduate of Class XVII. Mr. Merschman was selected as the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s Top Man for its class of AZ’s Finest in 2003 and has served on the executive committee for the AZ’s Finest for the 2004 - 2008 programs. He was appointed by the Scottsdale City Council to the Skysong (formerly the ASU Scottsdale Center for Technology and Innovation) Oversight Commission as well as the Scottsdale Town Hall presented by Arizona Town Hall in 2006. Mr. Merschman was the founding chairman of the executive council for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Central and Southern Arizona.
Baron Bruno: Second Vice President, Events
baronpbruno@gmail.comHendricks & Partners, Inc.
An Arizona native and University of Arizona graduate, Baron Bruno has been an active member of the Scottsdale Active 20-30 since 2004. He has served for two years on our FLY AWAY Committee, as well as acting as the organizer of our 2005 Holiday Party. Baron is employed currently as a commercial real estate multi-family associate with Hendricks & Partners in their national headquarters in Phoenix, specializing in brokering apartments, student, senior and low-income housing. Prior to his tenure in real estate, Baron was a mortgage-backed bond trader in New Your City with Prudential Securities and an institutional equity (stock) salesman for Cantor Fitzgerald & Co in New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Outside his job and Scottsdale Active 20/30 commitments Baron enjoys: traveling, photography, music, entertaining, stock trading, and film (he acted in and produced the feature film "Haiku Tunnel" which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2000.)
Jason Heetland: Secretary
jheet40@hotmail.comSphinx Date Ranch & Southwest Market
Jason L. Heetland was born in Edina, Minnesota, but moved to the Valley when he was only 2 years old, in 1978. He’s been a nearly-native Phoenician since then. Jason grew up in a close-knit South Scottsdale neighborhood and attended Coronado High School. Throughout high school and college, Jason worked for his parents, Rick Heetland and Penny Heetland, in the family business; Sphinx Date Ranch After graduating from high school, Jason attended Arizona State University. During college, Jason also began what would be a long career with Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale, moving from a part-time employee to a full-time program coordinator and, finally, branch manager in just a few years. He also met his wife while working at the Club. Jason graduated from ASU in 2000 with a degree in Communication and History. Passionate about the community in which he has grown up and has chosen to make his home, Jason has always chosen to give his free time back to the community. He is a graduate of Scottsdale Leadership (Class 17), a member of the Scottsdale Active 20-30 club and a board member for the ALS Association – Arizona. Shortly after Jason’s father was diagnosed in 2002 with ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, Jason left his job as a marketing consultant with Gannett to help run the family business and care for his father. After his father’s death in May 2005, Jason purchased the business and now runs the Sphinx Date Ranch and Southwest Market, 3039 N. Scottsdale Road. He lives with his wife and 2 daughters in Scottsdale.
How Many Members are There?
The club has an established cap of 50 members.
How Do I Become a Member?
We are consistently recruiting new members and we encourage interested parties to contact our Vice President of Membership for more information on how to become a member.
How Often Does the Club Meet?
The club has one formal meeting once a month, typically the first Thursday of the month. Our fundraising events impact our schedule, and we meet more often immediately prior to them. We attempt to set our calendar far in advance to help our membership schedule their busy lives. Despite our best efforts, though, meeting locations and dates may change, and additional meetings, including committee meetings, may be scheduled or the formal meeting may occasionally be dropped.What is Provided at Meetings?
Food is always served during our formal meetings, but beverages are charged separately. Informal meetings often include food, but not the sit-down dinner service provided at formal meetings. Informal meetings usually have the club picking up the tab for beverages, but within reason. Informal meetings are often, well informal. At these informal meetings, in addition to club business, members have been know to find themselves enjoying a barbecue or a baseball game or being involved in a billiards tournament, games of chance, pool parties, a night at the races, and even night golf. All work and no play make Jack a dull boy!
What are the Financial Commitments?
The Club has annual dues which are set the by Club's Board of Directors each year and National dues as well. Local and national dues are payable in July and each member is also expected to meet fundraising goals with regard to events throughout the year.What are the Time Commitments?
The Club expects all members to attend not less than 75% of all formal and informal meetings. In addition, all of our members are expected to attend all major events. Members appoint to committees are also expected to participate in all related meetings.
What Committees Does the Club Have?
The executive committee, comprised of our elected officers and immediate past president, handles the running of the Club. We also have a membership committee of seven members, all of whom are elected to consider new applicants and to set and maintain the standards for continued membership. Each event usually requires a separate committee to handle logistics issues and new members are expected to serve on committee during their first year of membership.Does the Club Support Other 20-30 Clubs?
No. We don't even like them. Ok. That's not true, but it made you wonder. Actually, we have great relationships with the other 20-30 clubs because of our support of them. The gentlemen of the Phoenix 20-30 club and of the Glendale 20-30 club and the women of the Valley of the Sun 20-30 club all host excellent events which our members enjoy attending. Combined, the other 20-30 clubs in Phoenix raise hundreds of thousands of dollars annually for worthwhile, child-oriented charities. Who wouldn't support their good deeds? Oftentimes, our members volunteer for these events, donate money towards their charities, and offer names of potential new members for their clubs.
Do the Club Have Social Events with other 20-30 Clubs?
The Club regularly meets with members of other clubs for happy hours, competitions and holiday parties. A number of our members also choose to attend the National and International conventions held each year, where they often forge strong friendships with other 20-30 club members, promoting club visitations and inter-club support.What Charities Does the Club Support?
See our list of Charities.
How Does an Individual or a Business Become a Sponsor?
It could not be more simple or more rewarding. To join our community conscious and generous sponsors simply Contact Us; See our list of Sponsors.
