Barry Curtiss-Lusher

Community Leader

Barry Curtiss-Lusher is the co-founder, Chair and former CEO of energy company Nexus BSP. A member of the Rose Medical Center Board at the time of the hospital’s sale in the mid-1990s, Barry was involved with the formation of Rose Community Foundation in 1995, assisted in creating the first iteration of a professional advisors’ council and served on the Foundation’s first Jewish Life Committee. He is a current member of the Foundation’s Philanthropic Services Committee and Investment Committee and is a longtime donor-advised fundholder and Legacy Circle member at Rose Community Foundation. Barry has been actively involved with the Anti-Defamation League since 1982, both locally in the ADL Mountain States Region and nationally, including service as ADL National Chair from 2012-2015. He has also served on the board of the Staenberg-Loup Jewish Community Center and as board chair of Colorado Public Radio and Rose Medical Center. Barry received a BA from Yale University and a law degree from the University of Michigan Law School.