USEA Convention Program

15 Brian Murray At Large (2020-2022) Brian Murray is a lifelong horseman who competed in hunters, jumpers, and equitation as a junior, and hunters and jumpers as an adult. He has managed numerous recognized horse shows and has been a USEF recognized judge for over 40 years with "R" status in hunters, jumpers, and equitation. Brian is currently a board member of the USEA Foundation, a member of the USEA Development Committee, and a member of two event horse syndicates, with one prospect competing at the Novice Level and one horse competing at the four/five-star level. Brian graduated with a B.S. from Villanova University and a MBA with honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is certified as a chartered financial analyst and is the President of the investment bank, B.V. Murray & Co., Inc. in addition to being an investor, board member, and acting chief financial officer of Medality Medical LLC. John Marshall At Large (2020-2022) John Marshall was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Phoenix. He graduated in 1974 from Arizona State University with a B.S. in Business. John started selling houses in Modesto, California in 1976 and moved into Commercial Real Estate in 1979. He worked for Coldwell Banker Commercial Real Estate (later known as CB Richard Ellis) in Fresno from 1982 until 2001 when he started John Marshall Commercial Real Estate which he operated until 2013. John has always been interested in horses. In the 1950s John's parents took him and his brother to ride the ponies at Kiddieland by the L.A. airport and then in the 1960s they took him to Weldon's Stables in Phoenix's Papago Park. He was about 54 when he started taking English riding lessons (which he initially thought were "sissy"). Later he was talked into volunteering to time show jumping at Ram Tap which was his first introduction to three-day eventing. He rode in his first horse trial there in 2007. Ram Tap, (now known as Fresno County Horse Park), is the second oldest continuously operating eventing facility in the U.S. having opened in 1957. In 2012 Bill Burton, the longtime organizer, announced that he was going to close it. A large number of people started a "Save Ram Tap" movement and John took it over to keep it open. John is on the USEA Membership committee and is the Organizer's Representative for Area VI. In 2017 John was presented the Andrew H. Popiel Memorial Trophy as USEA Organizer of the Year. I N C O M I N G B O A R D M E M B E R S

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