Our Leadership
Orchestra Artistic & Operational Personnel


Our Board
The Arapahoe Philharmonic Board of Directors is made up of both musicians and community members committed to artistic excellence and community outreach. We have a wonderful organization and its growth and success for over 65 years has been remarkable. The board serves the important purpose of ensuring that the orchestra is financially stable so that it can be free to do what it does best.


Key Career Positions:
Information Handling Services/IHS Group/IHS:
- Manager/Senior Manager/Director, Compensation, Benefits, and HR Records and Systems
- SeniorDirector, Human Resources Special Projects: SAP HR selection and global implementation–Senior Director, Global Learning and Development
Rocky Mountain HealthCare Corporation:
- Manager, Benefits and Employee Relations
- Manager, Compensation and Benefits
First Interstate Bank of Englewood:
- Vice President, Human Resources
United California Bank:
- Manager, Affirmative Action and Unemployment Compensation
- Vice President and Manager, Compensation and Benefits Administration
Education:
- BA University of California Santa Cruz –History
- MS University of Oregon –Industrial and Labor Relations
- Managerial Policy Institute –University of Southern California
In her spare time, Beth enjoys travel,walking/hiking, gardening, photography, baking, knitting, reading mysteries or whatever her book club sends her way, serving on her church?s Resource Management and Landscape Renewal committees, handbells, cooking with her son, and her favorite, grandparenting!




Before that he was Chief Product & Marketing Officer Denver Mattress. Before Denver Mattress, Laston worked for four years as Senior Vice President of Marketing & Product Americas at Western Union. In this role Laston lead all Marketing activities for Western Union U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and the rest of Latin America. Before this role, Laston was VP of Insights & Innovation at Sara Lee North America. In that role Laston oversaw consumer insights, analytics, and platform innovation. His team drove external focus, support the business units with the voice of the consumer and deep analytics, while developing the next innovation platforms across all Sara Lee brands.
He started his professional career in Puerto Rico P&G Marketing Department, and then was promoted to Brand Manager in P&G Central America based in Guatemala. He was later transferred to Mexico and then back to Puerto Rico. In 2000 Laston became the Marketing Director of Charmin & Puffs in North America based in Cincinnati. In this job Laston developed innovative and holistic marketing strategies for Charmin North America including: The Charmin State Fair Program, the Charmin “potty Pollooza” mobile restroom tour, and the first P&G commercial aired in the Superbowl (a Commercial for Charmin).
Laston Charriez has a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing from Purdue University, Cum Laude, and a Master’s in Business Administration from Purdue University.
- Chief Product & Marketing Officer Denver Mattress?
- January 2016- December 2016 Denver, Colorado?
- SVP Marketing & Product Americas Western Union??
- November 2011- December 2015 Denver, Colorado
- VP of Innovation and Consumer & Shopper Activation at Sara Lee
- September 2009- October 2011 Chicago, Illinois
- North America Marketing Capabilities Director?
- August 2005- August? 2009 Cincinnati, Ohio?
- Marketing Director, North America Charmin & Puffs
- August 2000- July 2005 Cincinnati, Ohio
- Marketing Director, Latin America Tissue & Towel
- July 1999 ? August 2000 Caracas, Venezuela
- Marketing Director/Manager, MBDO Paper & Food /Beverages
- January 1996 – June 1999 San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Marketing Manager Mexico, Central America & Puerto Rico
- July 1987 – December 1995 Mexico City, Guatemala & San Juan
- A seasoned senior marketing executive with more than 25 years leading Procter & Gamble globally, in North America, and in Latin America, and leading businesses for Sara Lee, Western Union, and Denver Mattress.
- Led businesses from $1 to $2B.?
- Fully bilingual (English/Spanish)
- Here in Denver and do not have to relocate.?
- Over 15+ years of senior level marketing leadership role with a global consumer product, and service business. ?
- Master?s degree (MBA from Purdue University)
- Demonstrated ability to hire, mentor and lead a team of A players.
- Experience with digital market/lead generation techniques including email, social media, chat, SEM/SEO and blogs.
- A thought leader for big brand efforts to convey important brand attributes, for example created the Charmin Bear Campaign, the longest lasting currently airing P&G Campaign
- Tremendous results-driven with strong ability to analyze quantitative data to determine effectiveness, ROI, forecasting- as reflected by doubling the Charmin Business from $1B to $2B
- Obtaining the largest expansion of Distribution for Western Union by launching to all Walgreens in the U.S.A. via converting the Photo Kiosks into WU Kiosks?
- Lead Digital innovation strategy, planning & implementation for Sara Lee whole company ($4.5B) across iMedia, eCommerce, eCRM, SEM and site; new Digital agency structure and processes.
- An All-Star net-worker and public speaker with over 3600 people connected on LinkedIn and a Social Media Maven
- Launched Sleep Animalzzz, Denver Mattress first venture into the Bed In A Box business. Developed a breakthrough Web & digital only mattress algorithm that helps consumers select a customized mattress after only a 7 questions quiz






Zator joined the Arapahoe Philharmonic in 2010, was named principal trumpet in 2013, and has served on the board of directors since 2016. In addition to the AP, he has performed with the Aurora Symphony; dance bands Tunisia, Soul School and Thumpin’; international touring gospel bands House of Should and At the Table with Dr. Martin Luther King; and Latin ensembles Mood Express and Conjunto Colores, among others. Anthony is also an active band leader of the Otone Brass Band, a NOLA funk group, and AZQ, a modern jazz quartet that debuted his original CD, Birth of a Rose, in 2010. In addition to regularly performing, Anthony teaches group trumpet at the middle and high school level, directs a jazz combo, teaches music theory and music business along with private lessons at Denver School of the Arts, an affiliation he has had since 2009. To seek balance, Anthony practices martial arts, specifically Kempo, a passion he believes directly effects musical intuition.