Our Board of Directors

Steve Boyd is Principal at BMG Consulting, providing brand, strategy, and talent acquisition services to small businesses, specializing in the bicycle industry. A lifelong cyclist, he raced BMX growing up in Pittsburgh and later enjoyed triathlons, cross-country, and downhill mountain bike racing. Lucky enough to work in the bicycle business, he was previously Chief Operating Officer at Dahon North America, the global leader in folding bicycles, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at American Bicycle Group, owners of the Litespeed, Merlin, and Quintana Roo brands, and Director of Sales for Giant Bicycle, Inc. Steve began his career at Lawee, Inc., the Long Beach headquartered former owner of the Univega brand. He lives in the city of Lakewood where he enjoys riding with his wife and three children. Steve received his MBA from Pepperdine University’s renowned Presidential and Key Executive Program in Malibu, CA and a BA in History from the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, VA.

Greg Laemmle has been a daily bike commuter since 2008, joining the board of LACBC in January, 2010. He is President of Laemmle Theatres, LLC, a family owned business that has been exhibiting art and foreign films in Los Angeles since 1938. Before joining LACBC,Greg served on the boards of Film Independent and the Brandeis-Bardin Institute. He also serves as Treasurer of the Laemmle Theatres Charitable Foundation, a private family foundation that was founded in 2000. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Greg lives in West LA with his wife, Nancy Tishkoff Laemmle, and their three children.

Scott joined the board in 2008 and currently holds the office of secretary. He practices law at Crowell & Moring, LLP. He earned his Juris Doctorate and Masters of Business Taxation from the University of Southern California in 1987 and a Bachelors of Science in Accounting from Loyola Marymount University in 1984. He participates in endurance sports, including ironman distance triathlons. He lives in La Crescenta with his wife and four children and commutes regularly by bicycle to his office in Downtown Los Angeles.

In 1981, Ted Rogers walked into a Louisiana bike shop and fell in love with a shiny blue bike. Thirty years and a few hundred thousand miles later, he’s still passionate about cycling.

In between, he’s pedaled his way from Florida sands and Louisiana bayous to the Colorado high country and mean streets of Southern California. He lives on the Westside with his wife and four-year-old rescue corgi, and works as a senior freelance copywriter and strategic marketing consultant; he also writes a popular blog about biking in Los Angeles.

Ted sees his efforts with the LACBC as a chance to help make the city’s streets safer for everyone, and leave this world a little better than he found it. And yes, he still has that little blue bike.

April is the principal of Green Octopus Consulting and created the nation’s first Bike-Friendly Business District program for the City of Long Beach. She helped launch similar efforts in San Diego, Oakville, and several other cities and is asked to speak around the U.S. and Canada on Bike-Friendly Business Districts and The Business Case for Bicycling. Her goal is to increase the number of people who choose a bike, in place of a car, for transportation. She holds an MBA in Sustainable Management and has been a car-free bike commuter most of her life. In addition to zipping around Long Beach and Los Angeles on her single speed, she and her daughter ride around on their “bike limo” – the fancy name they gave their tandem.

Kevin Hopps has been a bike rider since he was three. Unfortunately, his first outing on his tricycle resulted in losing a front tooth when he plunged head first off a sidewalk curb. Fortunately, a new tooth soon filled the gap in his smile and he continued to cycle. After becoming a member of LACBC in 2010, he found himself wanting to become more involved, and in 2012 he jumped at the chance to join LACBC’s Bike Ambassador program. He is a writer (mostly of TV animation, although he has dabbled in sit-coms and comic books over the years). A San Fernando Valley native and a graduate of California State University Northridge, Kevin continues to live in the Valley with his dreams of making Los Angeles a better place to bicycle and with his four little adorable bikes.

Herbie Huff became a transportation planner because she had some questions about bicycling. A few years ago, she couldn't afford gas, and she was using her bike and the Metro system to get everywhere she needed to go, from Redondo Beach to Eagle Rock to Claremont to Pico-Union. She wondered: who controlled the streets? Why were they often so unpleasant to ride on? How could she get them changed?

She joined LACBC and began to find some of the answers to these questions. She worked on the first-ever LA Bike Count in 2009, and got involved with advocacy with the City of Los Angeles and the MTA. Excited by the complexities she started to glimpse, she then went to UCLA for a Master's in Urban Planning. She got to learn about the underlying economic and political forces that shape the transportation system, and she got to see those forces in action as an intern at Alta Planning+Design. (She also got to make a rad video about her commute to school). She now works as a consultant in bicycle and pedestrian planning, and gets to advise decision makers on how to make their communities nicer places to bike and walk.

She is so stoked to be part of an organization that's doing crucial work in her native and always-favorite city, Los Angeles.

As a youth with a gift for athletics, Lynn loved cycling and had no opportunities for youth cycling team participation conveniently accessible for her. She continued to ride but played other sports more available in her local park system, never forgetting her first choice of bike racing. As a lifetime cyclist, she joined various national cycling associations with the intent to bring opportunities to young cyclists that were never afforded to her. Those opportunities include advocacy for and accessibility to the cycling culture, participation in family and group rides, and safety training. Currently she is a Race Official with U.S A. Cycling, the Chief Financial Officer of the Bahati Foundation, and a member of the National Brotherhood of Cyclists. Also, she is the Women's Manager of Major Motion Development Youth Race Team, Board Member of the Ladera Heights Civic Association, and past president of the Los Angeles Velodrome Racing Association. She is a paralegal with the firm of Reback, McAndrews, Kjar, Warford, Stockalper & Moore LLP which specializes in defense litigation. She is a graduate of Illinois Institute of Technology, has two adult children who are active participants in their own sports, and is effervescently recruiting individuals to adopt the cycling culture for health and fitness.

Lourdes Lopez has over 15 years experience in Marketing, Community Outreach, Business Development, Project Management, and Charitable Giving in both the public and private sector. Her passion is to promote positive economic and social change, through education, research, and business activities. She earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California with a dual emphasis in International Marketing and Information Systems and an MBA from Pepperdine University, Graziadio School of Business and Management.

Trent Strong currently works as a software engineer for OkCupid Labs, a distinct outfit spun off from OkCupid that uses data science and machine learning technology to bridge gaps between people and ideas. Since moving to Los Angeles after leaving his physics PhD, he has worked in a variety of software companies small and large, and he's biked to every job he's held!  Trent is excited to be on the board for several reasons, including using technology to connect riders together and with the resources and initiatives of LACBC, as well as the opportunity to share his own personal experience and inspiration as an urban cyclist in Los Angeles.

Carrie is a visual artist who lives in the valley and works out of her studio in Boyle Heights just east of the 4th Street Bridge. She spent most of her childhood on a yellow Schwinn. Since she returned from an artist residency in the Netherlands several years ago, where biking is basic to transportation, riding has increasingly become a regular part of her routine. She has participated in LA River Rides and the first AMAZING CicLavia with fellow Angelenos. Carrie has served as a board member of Foundation for Art Resources (FAR) and Side Street Projects, docented for The William O. Douglas Outdoor Classroom (WODOC) in Franklin Canyon and worked as an arts educator in several schools and cultural arts institutions in Los Angeles. Carrie looks forward to working with LACBC to further awareness and participation in cycling throughout the Los Angeles community.