Officers

Bob MacLean, Pete Welles, Lowell Sando, and Executive Director Laura Mason

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Bob MacLean

President

Economist by profession, Retired Executive VP, Human Resources Boston Scientific Corporation. Ski instructor, fly fisherman, lover of travel and the great outdoors. ATP, CFI and the proud owner of S/N #576. I got my private pilot license in 1963. Started with a Beech Sierra, moving up to a C182 RG and Barons, while dabbling in acrobatic work and a partial ownership in a Citabria.
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Pete Welles

Vice President

Entered the investment profession in 1969 and worked for thirteen years with three mutual fund companies (Fidelity, Alliance Capital and T. Rowe Price) primarily as a technology analyst before starting a ten-year partnership investing in small private and public growth companies. In 1992 started an investment advisory company with my wife, Sondra, investing in small public growth companies primarily in the health care and electronics industries focusing on a successful cash flow anlaysis technique. Been a board member of the National Aquarium in Baltimore for ten years and Chairman of the National Aquarium in DC for the past four years.
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Lowell Sando

Secretary / Treasurer

My flying adventures started with a Piper in 1995. Bought a great Cessna 182, followed by a Bonanza B36TC in 2000, whereupon I acquired my instrument rating. Purchased SN668 and took delivery in December 2005. N212PK now has almost 400 hours. We fly it single pilot some of the time, but mostly my pro-pilot and I switch seats every leg. N212PK is hangared in Salinas, CA (KSNS) and the Bonanza (now relegated mostly to chase plane status) is hangared in South County of Santa Clara (E16).
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Laura Mason

Executive Director

I grew up in Nebraska in a little town of 300 people. Yes! I had to get out! I moved to California when I was 13. Married my husband Joe in 1981, and then headed to Arizona in 1989 after the birth of my son. We bought land and built a home in the foothills of Tucson.
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2009 Convention

Our 13th Annual Convention.

POPA 2009 is scheduled for June 4-7th. Our Convention will be held in Memphis, Tennessee at the historical Peabody in downtown Memphis. Our host FBO will be Wilson Air Center.

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