Work and Save Board and Staff

Chair Lynn Hoffman

Lynn Hoffman’s career includes law, real estate development, investment banking, wealth management, and private equity consulting. She retired after two decades as a Director of Boston Private Financial Holdings. As a private investor and entrepreneur in Boston, she syndicated investment partnerships, acquired and developed historic real estate, and served as CEO and General Partner of related companies. Lynn was an investment banker with Paine Webber specializing in structured financings and take-over defense.

Ms. Hoffman was a member of the New Mexico State Investment Council (SIC) and its Investment Committee, and chaired the Governance Committee. She presently serves as a member of the Investment Committee of the Santa Fe Community Foundation. Previous community involvement includes the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Babson College, New England Conservatory of Music, and Harvard Community Health Plan. She established Endowment for Children in Crisis.

Ms. Hoffman earned her Juris Doctorate from Boston University School of Law and her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Pitzer College in California.

Vice Chair DeAnza Valencia

DeAnza Valencia is the Advocacy Director for AARP New Mexico. She is a licensed New Mexico attorney and engagement strategist with over 20 years of experience working in public policy, communications, and community affairs.

Ms. Valencia is the past president of the New Mexico State Bar Association’s Elder Law Section and the Committee on Women and the Legal Profession. She also serves on a number of non-profit boards including the Friends of the Montessori Foundation. She is deeply committed to creating and advancing effective policy solutions to help New Mexico’s most vulnerable adults.

Ms. Valencia holds two undergraduate degrees from New Mexico State University, a master’s degree from the School of Justice & Social Inquiry at Arizona State University, and is a graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Law.

Connor Browne, CFA

Connor Browne is an investor who currently leads the New Mexico Recovery Fund, L.P., a state-backed emergency lending program run by Sun Mountain Capital. He moved to Santa Fe in 2001 and worked at Thornburg Investment Management until early 2020. He was a portfolio manager on a number of equity funds and strategies while at Thornburg. he has a BA in Economics from Princeton University and is a CFA charterholder.

Mr. Browne has supported many non-profit organizations in New Mexico, especially Big Brothers Big Sisters Mountain Region, where he volunteered as a big brother and served as Board President; and Reading Quest, where he currently serves as Board Chair.

Mr. Browne and his wife, Christina, an emergency room physician at the University of New Mexico, are particularly focused on helping to create better opportunities for at-risk youth. They have four daughters and can’t imagine a better place to raise their family.

Cindy Bryan

Cindy Bryan is a forward-thinking small business consultant with a demonstrated history of partnering with businesses to find unique solutions that blend familiar tasks with the speed and convenience of modern technology. During her nearly 30 years of experience in public accounting, she has partnered and led a full range of accounting, tax, consulting, audit, and client accounting services.

Ms. Bryan’s passion is serving a client base of oil & gas industry support services companies, working interest owners, small operators, and a wide range of local businesses to meet their goals. She is the immediate past chair of the Hobbs Chamber of Commerce Executive Committee. She uses this industry knowledge in her client and internal training. In addition to training on taxation, accounting, and auditing, she holds general leadership classes for a number of professional associations and business executives, including the Economic Development Corporation of Lea County, chambers of commerce, and local boards of realtors. She has also written articles for various trade publications.

Ms. Bryan’s audit experience includes local governmental agencies, particularly school districts and municipalities. She has provided the technical review of the financial statements for government entities, banks, hospitals, nonprofits, construction contractors, and SEC registrants. She has also performed desk reviews of financial statements of governmental entities for the New Mexico Office of the State Auditor.

Carter Bundy

Carter Bundy has been with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Political Action Department for almost 20 years, 19 in New Mexico. He is currently AFSCME International’s Political Action Representative for New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada, and has been involved in retirement security policy and legislation since 2004. Previously he was a State Director on the Gore 2000 campaign and a lawyer in New York City handling pro bono worker rights cases and commercial litigation.

Mr. Bundy served on the Retirement Income Security Task Force that provided recommendations to the legislature, culminating in passage of House Bill 44, the New Mexico Work and Save Act.

Mr. Bundy graduated from the University of Virginia (home of the reigning NCAA men’s basketball champions) and Berkeley Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Santa Fe with his wife, 10-year-old boy, and dog.

Melissa Coleman

Melissa Coleman assumed ownership and management of La Puerta Originals, Inc., in January 2004 and is the President and CEO. Ms. Coleman held various management positions with the predecessor company, La Puerta Architectural Antiques, from 2000 to 2004. Prior to that she was managing partner of Chance Companies, LLC, an investment and real estate holding company.

Ms. Coleman’s professional career includes Director of Campaign and Development for the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Director of Development for the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, New York; and Campaign and Communications Manager for United Ways in New York, Chicago, and Memphis.

Ms. Coleman holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Memphis, Tennessee. Her community involvement includes Foundation Board Member for the Institute of American Indian Art, Board President of the Santa Fe Waldorf School, and membership in other non-profit organizations in the Santa Fe community. She is the mother of Chance and Story and wife to Scott.

Eric C. Quintana

Eric Quintana is the CEO of Performance Maintenance, Inc. (PMI) in Española. He and his wife, Celina Urquilla, founded PMI in 1994. The company’s 10,000-square-foot headquarters—soon to be 17,000 square feet—includes a retail warehouse and distribution center and employs 160 employees. PMI provides services regionally and sells supplies across the continental United States. Through its green solution system, PMI uses environmentally certified products, utilizes and sells recycled paper products, and operates equipment with less environmental impact. PMI has developed and distributes its own line of Green-It environmentally safe products.

Mr. Quintana earned an Associate of Applied Science degree in Machine Tool Technology at Northern New Mexico Community College. Under his leadership PMI has received the Entrepreneurial Success Award from the New Mexico Small Business Development Center, the HUBZone Small Business of the Year Award from the U.S. Department of Energy, Business of the Year from the Española Valley Chamber of Commerce. PMI is a successful graduate of the U.S Small Business Administration’s 8(a) program.

Eric and Celina Quintana have two sons, Eric Jr. and Daven, who work alongside their parents and will lead PMI into the future.

T. Spencer Wright

T. Spencer Wright is a retiree from the State of New Mexico. At the State he was an investment professional, managing the state’s general funds and also a portion of the teacher’s pension plan (New Mexico Educational Retirement Board/ERB). He has an extensive background in municipal finance, advising state and local governments about fiscal matters and debt issuance. He served as a legislative analyst for the New Mexico Senate.

Mr. Wright has volunteered on a number of boards and served as the board chairperson for the Vermont Higher Education Investment Plan (Vermont’s 529 Plan). He is currently the board chair for Alta Mira Specialized Family Services in Albuquerque and is the Treasurer of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) First (Santa Fe) and the NM CASA Association (statewide). He volunteers for TaxHelp New Mexico in Santa Fe. Formerly, he was Board Treasurer for Assistance Dogs of the West and for the Vermont Student Loan Assistance Corporation (VSAC).

Isaiah Zemke

Isaiah Zemke is a Business Agent who works for the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail & Transportation Workers Local 49. He represents its members in a collective bargaining agreement and is their lobbyist at the New Mexico Legislature. He believes in helping New Mexicans create a better future for themselves and their families.

Mr. Zemke has recently negotiated collective bargaining agreements with employers and passed first-in-the-nation Fire Life Safety legislation that requires routine inspections of smoke/fire dampers in Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) mechanical duct systems.

Mr. Zemke has served as a trustee on multi-employer plans and has 20 years of experience in the construction industry in the state of New Mexico.