New Legatus board members

Three new members bring a diverse range of talent and experience to the board . . .

The Legatus Board of Governors welcomed three new members at its Sept. 17 meeting in Bonita Springs, Fla. The new members represent a wide range of experience and business leadership.

Lynne Alpar

Lynne Alpar has worked as the CFO of Carlson Capital in Dallas, Texas, for the past 16 years. She manages the accounting, operations, taxation and reporting functions of the firm’s investment funds. Alpar is a certified public accountant and a founding board member for Capital For Kids, an organization that supports underprivileged children in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. She and her husband Alan are also founding members of Legatus’ Fort Worth Chapter, where she serves as treasurer.

“The friendships we’ve made and the monthly chapter events have enriched us in our faith,” she said. “I hope that my years of accounting knowledge and experience will be a resource for John Hunt and his staff as they continue to manage the financial aspects of providing a meaningful Legatus experience to the many chapters they serve.”

Tom Peterson

Tom Peterson has over 25 years of experience as an award-winning and record-setting national corporate advertising executive and entrepreneur. While on a retreat in 1997, he had a profound reversion experience in his Catholic faith. Soon afterward, he founded Catholics Come Home and VirtueMedia, educational not-for- profit apostolates dedicated to promoting Catholic evangelization and the sanctity of human life.

“It will be exciting for me to collaborate with so many great minds on the Legatus Board,” he said. “Legatus provides a place for likeminded, passionate Catholics to build up each other and the Body of Christ — and share their commitment to the faith and Catholic business principles. And we do all these things with our spouses in a family environment.”

Peterson and his wife Patricia are members of Legatus’ Atlanta Chapter.

Fred Weiss

Fred Weiss is the president and CEO of The Weiss Company, a commercial real estate development firm. He is on the board of regents at Seattle University and the Washington Policy Center. He’s a past trustee of the Downtown Seattle Association. Weiss and his wife Martha are members of Legatus’ Seattle Chapter, where he serves as the chapter’s treasurer.

“Legatus has the power and prestige to change America’s perception of the sanctity of life,” he said. “We can become a clarion voice of reason to bring America gently back to her moral beginnings. But before this can be accomplished, Legatus must continue its vigorous growth.”