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Brief Biographies of Award Recipients
 Stuart
Evey
was born in Havre, Montana, and from a very young age developed
an insatiable thirst for sports, both as a participant and as a
fan. He attended the University of Washington, where he was a
member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and graduated in 1958,
following serving in the Army in Berlin, Germany. Evey began
his career with Getty Oil Company, starting at the bottom and
working his way up to VP of world wide non-oil operations, a
position the he held after 26 years of service. His rise was
accelerated due to his close relationship with George Getty, who
was his mentor during this time. Evey’s responsibilities at
Getty included commercial real estate, lumber and plywood mills
in the U.S. and Africa, agribusiness holdings in California, and
hotel and resort holdings in the U.S. and Mexico. In 1979, Evey
was approached by an entrepreneur with a vision for launching a
total sports network cable television network. Evey was
intrigued with the plan and decided to recommend an investment
in this new industry to Getty management. Following Getty’s
investment in the launch of ESPN, Evey became the founding
chairman and his vision and business sense helped make ESPN in
to what many have said is the most successful story in
broadcasting history. Not only did he direct and oversee the
growth of ESPN, he also negotiated the sale to ABC Television in
1984 for nearly $300 million. Evey has served on the boards of
many companies including Cyan, Mitsubishi Oil Company, GO
Energy, Louisiana Gaming Company Vadium Technology, and H.F.
Ahmanson and Co. Evey has written a book about the early days
of ESPN , called “ Creating an Empire”. He currently lives in
Spokane with his wife, Mary, and serves as a business
development consultant and guest speaker.
 Warren
Miller
was born and raised in Hollywood, California. Miller’s passion
for skiing began at age 13 when he spent his first day on the
slopes. Today, at age 82, Miller is recognized “worldwide as the
most radical sports filmmaker of our time”, “the king of sports
movie makers”, and was recently credited in an ESPN program as
being responsible for the athletic film genre. Miller began his
filmmaking career with modest resources, namely a $100
investment in an 8mm camera. His first film, “Deep and Light”,
was produced on a $500 budget and Miller himself travelled from
city to city and resort to resort to show and narrate the film.
As his films grew in popularity so too did the number of
locations at which he showed and personally narrated his film.
One year Miller tracked his travels and counted staying in 210
motels and hotels and having showed and personally narrated a
film in over 130 cities and resorts. By 1989 Miller had
produced more than 350 films, including 100 ski films and 150
marketing films. Miller is also an accomplished author and
cartoonist, having published his work in several books including
The Navy goes to college, Are My Skis on Straight?,
Nice Try George, and Wine, Women, Warren, and Skis.
His most recent book, Freedom Found: How old would you be if
didn’t know when you were born? will be published in the
fall of 2007. Miller continues to be very active in the ski
community, serving as the Honorary Director of Skiing at the
Yellowstone Club in Montana, writing the “Warren’s World” column
for every issue of Ski Magazine, and publishing his “Ski
Bums/Warren’s World” column in newspapers across the nation. In
addition to being a member of the Ski Hall of Fame, Miller has
received ten CINE Golden Eagle Awards, eight Industry Film
Producers Association (IFPA) Awards, the Distinguished
Documentary Achievement Award, and the US Ski Writers
Association’s Gold Quill Award. Miller has also been involved
with many philanthropic activities including the Warren Miller
Freedom Foundation, an organization that teaches ethical
principles of business and entrepreneurship to young people.
 William
M. Allen was born on September 1, 1900 in
Lolo, Montana, earned a Bachelor of Arts from
the University of Montana and a Bachelor of
Laws from Harvard University. Allen began his
career with a Seattle, Washington law firm and
provided legal services for Boeing Airplane
Company. Acquiring interest in aircraft
development and manufacturing, Allen was
elected to the Board of Directors in 1931,
served as Boeing's legal counsel, and helped
make decisions that led to the 4-engine B-17
"Flying Fortress" bomber, and the model 314
Flying Boat that made the first commercial
transatlantic flight in 1939. On September 5,
1945 he was named President and CEO of Boeing,
a position he held for 23 years. He was
instrumental in leading Boeing to develop the
707, 727, and 737 jetliners. Allen is
largely credited with ushering in the era of
commercial jet air travel after World War II.
The company also became involved in military
contracts (i.e., the Minuteman) and NASA
projects (i.e., the Lunar Orbiter). Reflecting
his illustrious career, Fortune Magazine named
him the second-greatest CEO of all time. His
numerous awards include: 1958 National Society
of Industrial Relations Industrialist of the
Year, 1968 the Congressional Medal of Honor
Society of the United States Distinguished
Citizens Award, 1969 National Aeronautics and
Space Administration Special Group Achievement
Award for contributions to the Apollo
Moon-landing program, 1969 National
Aeronautics Association Wright Brothers
Memorial Trophy, 1971 National Aeronautics
Association Elder Statesman of Aviation Award,
1973 American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Guggenheim Medal, and in 1975 was named to
Fortune Magazine's Business Hall of Fame. He
served on the University of Montana Foundation
Board of Trustees and was named to the Order
of the Grizzly for outstanding achievement by
an alumnus of the University of Montana.
Liz Claiborne and Art Ortenberg
turned a $225,000 investment into an apparel
empire. Founded in 1976, their company, Liz
Claiborne, Inc., was turning a profit in less
than one year. Within 11 years, Liz Claiborne
Inc. became one of the youngest companies in
American business to make the Fortune 500,
going public in 1981 in one of the most
successful IPO’s in Merrill Lynch history.
With a total commitment to staying close to
the customer, constant innovation to produce
and deliver the highest quality product, and
very hard work, Liz Claiborne has been called
“a case history for success.”
Liz was the first woman CEO and Chairperson of
a Fortune 500 company, was named the fashion
industry’s first Entrepreneurial Woman of the
Year in 1980, and in that same year she was on
Forbes Magazine List of 800 Most Powerful
Business People. Liz was awarded an Honorary
Doctor of Fine Arts from the prestigious Rhode
Island School of Design.
Art Ortenberg has served on the Library of
Congress’ Trust Fund Board. He, together with
his wife, founded the Art Ortenberg/Liz
Claiborne Foundation, an organization devoted
to conservation of nature and the amelioration
of human distress. They received the Montana
Historical Society’s Trustees Award in 2003.
They have had a place in Montana for more than
15 years. For a complete transcript of Liz
Harris' opening remarks about Liz Claiborne
and Art Ortenberg,
please click here.
 Thomas
Siebel was born in
Chicago, Illinois and attended the University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where he
earned Bachelor of Arts in History, Master
of Business Administration, and Master of
Science in Computer Science degrees. Early
in his career he worked for
Oracle Corporation, where
CEO
Lawrence Ellison
identified him as a rising star in the
organization and quickly promoted him into
the company's upper ranks. While in the
upper ranks Siebel
developed a program that streamlined
communication within Oracle's sales with
impressive results. However, Oracle
executives failed to see the market
potential for the program and as a result
Siebel took a leave of absence from Oracle
in 1990 and never returned. In 1991
Siebel was hired as CEO of Cayenne Systems, a
small, privately owned multimedia software
company that was renamed Gain Technology and
sold by Siebel to Sybase, for $110 million in
1992. In 1993 Siebel founded
Siebel Systems
with Patricia House, a former Oracle marketer.
Siebel provided much of the company's seed
money, but he accepted start-up investments
from a few close associates, including the
brokerage mogul Charles Schwab. Siebel
Systems went public in June 1996 and in
September 2005
Oracle Corporation agreed to
buy Siebel Systems, a deal valued at $5.85
billion. Tom Siebel has been widely
recognized by industry experts and peers for
his accomplishments. His awards include:
2003 CRM Magazine CRM Hall of Fame, 2003
Master Entrepreneur of the Year (Northern
California Ernst & Young ), 2002 David Packard
Award - Business Executives for National
Security, 2002 IndustryWeek Magazine CEO of
the Year, 1999-2002 BusinessWeek Top 25
Managers in Global Business, 2001 University
of Illinois Presidential Award and Medallion,
and several others. Meanwhile, Siebel Systems
received the following awards: 2003 Fortune
Magazine America's Most Admired Companies, 2002
Fortune Magazine "Top 20 of 100
Fastest-Growing Companies" for the fourth
consecutive year, 2002 Red Herring Magazine's
100 Most Important Companies in the World, and
several others. Siebel has also found
the time to author or co-author three books.
He also serves as a role model for existing
and future entrepreneurs through his
philanthropic activities. Here in Montana he
has made significant contributions to
The
Museum of the Rockies,
The Siebel Nature Education Center, the
Dearborn Ranch Scholarship Program, and the
widely acclaimed
Montana
Meth Project. Clearly Siebel possesses the
attributes that the MADE organization had in
mind when it developed this award.
Dennis R. Washington is the founder of
the Washington Companies. Raised in Missoula,
Montana, Mr. Washington founded Washington
Construction in 1964 which, by 1969, was the
largest construction firm in Montana.
Initially working with Forest Service projects
and highway construction, the company entered
into dam building and mining. In 1986 he
acquired Anaconda’s copper and molybdenum mine
at Butte from Arco. Later that same year,
Washington acquired Burlington Northern’s
southern Montana rail system for $160 million
which became the Montana Rail Link. Success
in these areas propelled the company into
other transportation businesses including
railroads, marine services and coastal
shipping. Washington acquired Canada’s
Seaspan International in 1996. Washington’s
construction companies merged in 1996 with
Boise-based Morrison Knudsen Corporation, a
global construction and engineering company.
That company became the Washington Group
International. The company has six operating
divisions: Infrastructure, Mining,
Industrial/Process, Defense, Energy and
Environment and Power. For 2003, the
company’s stock price increased 113% with over
$2.5 billion in operating revenues and is
traded on the NASDAQ exchange. Mr. Washington
is listed in the Forbes 400. For a
complete transcript of Liz Harris' opening
remarks about Dennis Washington,
please click here.
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