BOARD MEMBERS

The Board for Intermountain Electronics consists of five members with equally diverse backgrounds as the Leadership Team.  With experience in Mining, Electrical Maintenance and Engineering, Geology, Business, Finance, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Education, and Management, the Board provides Intermountain Electronics with valuable direction and advice.

• John Houston
• Samuel Quigley
• Robert Houston
• Dr. Cynthia Furse
• Dr. Gerald J. Day

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John Houston

As the son of a local businessman and a school teacher, John is a true native of Price, Utah. After graduating from Carbon High School in 1971, John went on to graduate from Provo Technical College (Utah Valley University) in Provo, Utah in 1973. Returning to Price, he worked for an electrical contractor as an electrician. John then moved on to the mining industry, working for Arco Coal Company from 1975 to 1981 as an electrician and then Maintenance Manager. His next job was with Utah Power and Light’s Mining Division (Emery Mining) from 1981 to 1990, working as an electrical technician and then as General Manager of Electrical Maintenance. From his experience, John saw the need for repair services and technology support for the coal mining industry in the western United States. John started Intermountain Electronics in 1985 doing electrical component repairs. With the help of his wife Jeri, the business began to grow and expand beyond repair services. The growing customer base dictated the expansion into providing power equipment manufacturing and technological support. From its meager beginnings in one small building, John has been able to assemble a team of industry experts that have built Intermountain Electronics into one of the fastest growing independently owned companies in the United States, with more than ninety employees. Intermountain Electronics now provides engineering and design services along with equipment manufacturing and distribution to companies around the world from seven locations across the United States.

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Samuel Quigley

Sam earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Geology at the University of Utah in 1970. He is currently a Licensed Professional Geologist in the State of Utah. He has worked 35 years in the mining industry including 29 years with ANDALEX Resources, Inc. acting as the General Manager of Western Operations from 1977 to 1995 and Vice President of Operations from 1996 until his retirement in 2006. ANDALEX produced 30% of Utah’s competitive coal production and led the US coal mining industry in productivity and safety for many years under Sam’s supervision.

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Robert Houston

Robert attended Utah State University where he earned a Degree in Business in 1970. He was accepted into the Mountain Bell management development program and began a career that spanned 36 years with the company and its successors. He transferred from Salt Lake City to Denver in 1979 as District Manager in the Residence Marketing Group. He worked in a lead planning role to consolidate the Directory Divisions of Mountain Bell, Northwestern Bell and Pacific Northwest Bell into a separate subsidiary of U.S. West. Robert became CFO of the Directory Division upon the Qwest acquisition of U.S. West. He managed the carve-out of Qwest Dex as it was spun off and sold to two private equity companies. As Vice President of Finance, he assumed a leadership role in taking Dex Media public through an Initial Public Offering. Robert was responsible for all forecasting, budgeting, resource allocation, strategic planning and internal reporting of the $1.7 billion company. Robert retired in 2006. He is currently living in Castle Pines Village, Colorado with his wife Linda. Linda, also a graduate of Utah State University, has managed a successful career in residential real estate spanning 25 years. Their daughter, Heather, lives in Longmont, Colorado and son, John, lives in Superior, Colorado. Both are graduates of the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Dr. Cynthia Furse

Dr. Furse (PhD 1994 Univ. of Utah) was recently appointed Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah where she is an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She serves as the Director of the newly-endowed Richard and Moonyeen Anderson Wireless Research and Education Center. This Center brings together industry (mostly local) and the university in a diverse array of wireless projects that include wireless medicine, satellite communication, geophysical imaging, and advanced sensing systems. She is also the director of the Center of Excellence for Smart Sensors, the Center for Self-Organizing and Intelligent Systems (robotics and autonomous vehicles), and “Nano-Satellite” projects in association with the Space Dynamics Laboratory at Utah State University. Dr. Furse teaches electromagnetics, wireless communication, computational electromagnetics, microwave engineering, antenna design, and engineering project design (“Junior Design”). Dr. Furse also enjoys working with young students, particularly women and minorities in engineering, and routinely volunteers in Utah's K-12 schools as an engineering mentor, science educator, and engineering career guidance counselor and is the faculty advisor for USU Society of Women Engineers. She has been an NSF CISE Graduate Fellow, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Graduate Fellow, and President's Scholar at the University of Utah.

Dr. Furse lives with a violinmaker husband, two kids, a dog, cat, three rats, and some goldfish in a log cabin they built themselves on a trout stream in a mountain canyon. She especially likes to camp, hike, ice skate, and cross country ski. She plays bluegrass fiddle and is the violist in the Summit Creek Quartet (made up of engineers and mathematicians), oil paints, quilts, sews, and does historical needlecrafts.

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Dr. Gerald J. Day

Dr. Day earned an undergraduate degree in management with minors in Spanish, finance and economics at Brigham Young University. He earned his master's degree in business administration from the University of Illinois and a doctorate in business administration from Indiana University. He began his career at Georgia Tech in 1971 as an assistant professor of organizational behavior in the College of Management. In 1976, he was appointed Associate Dean of the School of Management at Georgia Tech. After a leave of absence to serve as mission president for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Vina del Mar, Chile, Day was named acting dean from 1982 until 1985, when he became permanent dean of the school. In 1989, he moved from Georgia to Utah to serve as president of Snow College in Ephraim, Utah. In 2001 Jerry returned to the private sector as President and Chief Operating Officer of a Utah – based multinational art and crafts manufacturing and sales company, Stampin’Up! Inc. Jerry and his wife LuAnn are now semi – retired and live in West Jordan, Utah. They have three children and numerous grand children.

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