About

Ajay Bajaj has been on the Bridge of Hope Board since June 2015. Ajay is a Director with Summit Investment Management’s acquisition group where he has worked for over 7 years. Ajay has over 18 years of experience in real estate and corporate finance. Ajay’s education includes a MBA from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA and a Bachelor of Arts from Wichita State University.

Laura was one of the mentors for the first Denver BOH family in December 2015 and is still in touch with the family today. She joined the Board in August 2019 and was asked to be the Treasurer in 2020. Laura has over 40 years of accounting experience as a Controller, small business owner, and public accountant. She got her CPA 30 years ago when she moved to the Denver area from the East Coast. Currently she is a Senior Tax Manager at CBIZ, a publicly traded corporation. She has a Master’s of Taxation (University of Denver), MBA (Loyola College Baltimore) and BA (Duke University).

Marie started volunteering with Bridge of Hope in July 2014. She serves on the program committee and has had the blessing of interviewing many of the women that Bridge of Hope has been privileged to serve. In January 2019, she joined the board. Marie works in the mortgage industry. She has four adult children and four grand children. She enjoys spending time with family and friends, hiking, biking and playing pickleball.

Adele Furukawa Funk is a speaker, leader, wife, mother, grandmother, and advocate for social justice, immigrants, and the poor. She helps women hear from God using the Word of God, mentors women to have hope for the future, leads abortion recovery groups, and works to flourish the lives of the poor, disadvantaged, and under-employed through a non-profit ministry called Synergy Village that she directs. One of Adele’s recent quotes she heard and loves states ” some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful”.

Ric’s bio is forthcoming.