Our Board

Amy Gayhart
President
(469) 450-9594
[email protected]

Amy has a bachelor’s degree in art communications from Howard Payne University. Amy served as the marketing intern for Howard Payne for 3 years and found a love for telling stories through marketing and media. As a member of Delta Chi Rho sorority, she served as an officer for 3 years, including president her senior year. After college, Amy worked in advertising and administration. In 2003 Amy left the corporate world to stay home and care for her special needs daughter, Mabry. She continued to explore creative outlets by running her own painted mural and photography business.

Amy’s daughter Mabry had years of extensive therapy before finding her true love which was horses. That love brought them to Blue Sky where Amy started serving on the Board of Directors in 2012. Serving and volunteering at Blue Sky sparked a desire to do more for the special needs community. With the daunting realization that her daughter, Mabry, would soon age out of the public school system she was determined to create a program where special needs adults could be in community while living out their purpose. So, in addition to therapeutic horseback riding, Amy and her faithful volunteers at Blue Sky created the PURPOSE Program, which is a day program for special needs adults.

Amy is married to John, and they live in Prosper, Texas with their three children Mabry, Jack, and Slater.

Duane Sutton
(972) 672-3509
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Duane Sutton is a U.S. Air Force Veteran, Honorable Discharge 1985. He currently serves as Vice President, Field Operations, for Screen-SPE USA.

Duane has been married to Connie for over 30 years. After meeting and marrying in Midland, Texas they lived in Plano, Austin, and Flower Mound before moving to Pilot Point in 2001. Duane and Connie have 2 sons, Jerrad (JD) 28 and Cody 25. JD is a rider at Blue Sky.

Duane has worked in the Semiconductor Industry for over 32 years beginning with Texas Instruments in 1985. In 1995 he joined SCREEN SPE USA, LLC, a Japan based equipment manufacturing company. During his 22 years with SCREEN SPE he has held executive management positions in Sales, Engineering, Logistics, and Service. He’s had the opportunity to directly support new business development across the US as well as Europe, China, Israel, and Ireland.

His hobbies include spending time with family and friends, travel, boating, and horses.

Kim Groff

Kim Groff is native to the Dallas area and graduated from the University of North Texas with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. She has worked in nonprofit accounting over 30 years.

Kim is committed to volunteering in her local community. For eight years, she served as a Board Member and President of Little Elm Box 620 Support Co, a citizen support group to the Little Elm Fire Department. Since 2015, she has served as Co-Leader of Lovepacs Little Elm, whose mission is to engage the community to feed children in need.

She and her husband Tom have been married for over 25 years, residing in Little Elm, Texas, for almost all of that time. They have two sons, Ryan and Preston. Ryan is a Blue Sky rider, who fell in love with the people and the place the first time they visited in 2018. Since then, Blue Sky has been a consistent part of their lives.