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steve katich

Steve Katich

Board Member

An attorney by trade, Steve has spent his career in communications, public policy and government relations. Since the 1970’s, he has worked with business, political and non-profit leaders to do his best to help the state of Colorado.

In 1974, he traveled Colorado with then State Representative Dick Lamm and his wife Dottie, helping him to be elected Governor. In 1983, he successfully worked to elect Federico Pena as Denver’s first Latino mayor. After his election, Federico asked Steve to head Denver’s effort to bring Major League Baseball to Colorado. Katich was able to do so as executive director of the Denver Baseball Commission.

Steve then became a partner at GBSM, a communications, marketing and public affairs consulting firm.  At GBSM, he provided strategic counsel to those who successfully worked to build Denver International Airport, E-470, the Colorado Convention Center and numerous other projects to improve the State.

Katich then served as president of the Denver Public Schools Foundation, where he worked to help raise money and advocate for Denver students both inside and outside the classroom. Most recently, he spent more than a decade serving as the senior manager of government relations and business development for JE Dunn, one of the largest construction companies in the United States. There he worked to advocate for DEI policies to bring women and POC into the industry.

Katich currently serves on the board of Metropolitan State University of Denver’s President’s Community Cabinet. He is also a member of the Colorado Consular Corps, serving as Honorary Consul for the Republic of Serbia. He is a member of the Colorado Forum, a non-partisan organization that for more than 40 years has worked to address the major policy issues in the State. Previously, Katich has served on the boards of the Downtown Denver Partnership, the Denver Botanic Gardens, the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame and the Colorado AIDS Project.

Katich graduated from the University of Denver with Honors and then the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. He is married to Ellen Jaskol, an award-winning professional photographer who won two Pulitzer Prizes at the Rocky Mountain News. She is now President of Ellen Jaskol Photography. He has two grown daughters, Alexandra and Helen Katich. Alexandra is a successful attorney in Colorado, while Helen works in Washington D.C. in the office of Senator John Hickenlooper.