R. Thayer Tutt, Jr. is Vice Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of El Pomar Foundation and also serves as President & CEO of Garden City Company.

He is on the investment committee for Geological Society of America, finance committee of National Recreation Foundation, finance and investment committees of Pikes Peak Community Foundation, and investment committee of Fund for American Studies.

Tutt serves on the following nonprofit foundation boards: Care and Share of Colorado Foundation (Board Chair), Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College Foundation (Board President), Colorado Springs Philharmonic Foundation (Board Chair), and Pikes Peak or Bust Foundation.

He is also on the Board of Directors for Broadmoor World Arena (Board Chair), Children’s Hospital Colorado, Colorado College, Southern Colorado Children’s Hospital, UMB Bank of Colorado, and United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum. In 2009, he received the Business Citizen of the Year Award from the Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce.

Tutt is a graduate of Princeton University with a bachelor’s degree in geological and geophysical sciences, and earned his master’s degree from Duke University in business administration.