Richard "Rich" tenBraak

Name & Position

Richard tenBraak, Senior Director

How long have you lived in the Vail Valley? Where did you move from?

Originally an East Coaster having grown up in northern New Jersey, Rich tenBraak has worked up and down the East Coast in Atlantic City, New York City, New Hampshire, Vermont, Nantucket and Boca Raton. Rich moved to Vail in 2001 and has thoroughly enjoyed his seven years in the Vail Valley. Previously residing in Edwards, Rich moved into a beautiful home in Wildridge a little over a year ago.

What do you like about the Vail Valley? How does the Valley enhance your interests?

I like just about everything in the Vail Valley, the diversity of activities that ensure a fabulous overall life style. That’s a life style of balance between work and play situated in an amazing environment. The Vail Valley is a place where many people will save all year just to spend a week’s vacation here, as for me I live that vacation 52 weeks a year.

My interests include skiing which I get about 40 plus days a year in and during the other seasons I golf, motorcycle (both street and dirt) camp and drink wine that I make. When I first arrived I heard the saying, “Locals come for the winter but stay for the summer”. It only took me a few months to understand how true that is. Vail is a world class ski area, hands down. That so often over shadows all the other opportunities and variety of offering that the Vail area has the rest of the year.

Give a brief synopsis of a typical day at work.

I’m not sure there is a typical day at work for me! I generally arrive early; around 8:00 AM to tend to e-mails, voice mails, phone calls, staff meetings and overall organization needs. In such a rapidly developing company every time you have one project wrapped up it seems like three more come along to take its place. I generally take my leave about 6:30 PM thinking about all the work that still needs to be accomplished tomorrow….I guess that’s a form of job security!!