Our Board

Amy Gayhart
President
(469) 450-9594
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Amy Gayhart graduated from Howard Payne University with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Art, Communications and Education. During her time at Howard Payne she served as the marketing intern for the University and was responsible for the University marketing materials and yearbook. She was a member of Delta Chi Rho, and served as an officer for 3 years, and as president of the sorority her senior year. After college Amy worked for several years in advertising and administration as an art buyer. In 2003 Amy left the corporate world to stay home and care for her special needs child, Mabry. She continued to explore creative outlets buy running her own painted mural and photography business.

Amy’s daughter Mabry had years of extensive therapy and finally found her true love which was horses. Not knowing anything about horses, other than her daughter’s love for them, in 2012 she began serving on the board of Blue Sky Therapeutic Riding & Respite. She quickly fell in love with therapeutic riding and was given a desire to do more for the special needs population. With the daunting realization that her daughter would one day age out of the public-school system she was determined to create a program where special needs adults could be in community while being able to live 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 respite program for special needs adults, where Amy teaches art, gardening, cooking along with job and life skills for special needs adults.

Amy is married to John Gayhart 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.

Susan Pennau
(940)440-2688
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Susan Pennau has been involved with horses her entire life and has been blessed to show some really amazing horses. It started at a young age with her siblings’ horses at local shows. Susan then became involved with the AQHA (American Quarter Horse Association) and APHA (American Paint Horse Association) showing at their major horse shows. Susan’s daughter, Jill, followed in her footsteps with her love of horses and showing as well. Jill and her husband are both horse trainers residing in Texas.

Once grandchildren were part of the story, Susan traveled with the family to all the horse shows. Not only to take care of the grand-kids while their parents trained, but Susan also showed in different classes. You could say horse shows were just part of life. Susan was blessed to have pretty good success with the hard work and dedication of the whole family.

Now that her grandchildren have grown up Susan does not travel as before. She decided she wanted to give back because she was so grateful for the years she had experienced with horses. Susan has always known about therapeutic riding and heard about Blue Sky in Aubrey where she decided to become part of their family and become a volunteer!

Here are a few of her accomplishments: 2003 APHA 3 Time World Champion, 2003 and 2004 Congress Champion, 2003 Select All Around Congress Champion. 2003 AQHA Select World Show 2 Time World Champion, 2006 AQHA Select World Champion, 2010 Top Ten in the World at The AQHA Select World, 2011 3rd in the World at the AQHA Select World, 2016 3rd in the World at the AQHA Select World.

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.