Foundation Leadership

Board of Directors
The University of Northern Colorado Foundation is governed by volunteer Board of Directors. The Board appoints the Foundation’s president and chief executive officer who manages the professional staff of the Foundation and Alumni Association.

Senior Staff

Virgil Scott, CFRE, President/CEO
Scott was appointed president of the University of Northern Colorado Foundation in May 2006 after a national search. Prior to joining the Foundation, Scott served as the president and CEO of the Fort Hays State University Endowment Association in Hays, Kan. At Fort Hays State, Scott provided leadership for the Centennial Campaign, a $36 million comprehensive capital campaign that surpassed the original goal of $30 million. He also headed the efforts to raise $5.6 million for the Robbins Alumni and Endowment Center, which will serve FHSU’s 38,000 alumni. During Scott’s tenure the association’s assets grew from $15 million to $42 million while $31 million was distributed to the university for scholarships and programming.

Prior to joining Fort Hays State in 1994, Scott was a marketing and advertising executive with 12 years of advertising agency and media sales experience, primarily in the Topeka, Kan. market. He graduated from Fort Hays State with a degree in Communication in 1981 and received Certified Fundraising Executive certification in 2004. Scott’s wife, Diane, received her PhD in College Student Personnel Administration from the University of Northern Colorado in 1995. An active volunteer, Scott recently served as Vice Chair of the Kansas Area United Methodist Foundation and as a member of the State of Kansas Crime Victims' Grant Review Board. Also, Scott has served on the CASE District VI Conference Planning Committee the past 3 years.

Zona Felderman, CFO
Zona Felderman, Vice President for Business and Finance/CFO.  An alumna of the Monfort College of Business at the University of Northern Colorado, Felderman has been with the UNC Foundation for eighteen years. She has extensive background in working in non-profit organizations.  Her husband, Harold, is also an alumnus of UNC and they have two sons and three beautiful granddaughters.

Michael Johnson, Vice President of Development
Prior to joining the Foundation/Alumni Association in September 2004, Johnson was the director of Alumni Relations at his alma mater, Northwest Missouri State University. Known as an enthusiastic program builder, Johnson has served on the CASE-VI conference planning team chairing the moderators and alumni track, and was recently nominated to the CASE National Alumni Commission board of directors. His passion is family and his harem of three daughters: Michaela, Chloe and Annika. Johnson's wife, Kenna Johnson, is co-director the Women's Resource Center and Stryker Leadership Institute at the University of Northern Colorado.

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