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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Colorado based Founder operating in the Software space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
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Katherine Wells
Founder, CEO of Serenity Engage
Katherine Wells is the Founder and CEO at Serenity Engage.
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About CodeBaby, Mavericks, Serenity Engage: Serenity Engage is a HIPAA-compliant messaging app platform for senior care.
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Mario Ciabarra
Founder & CEO of Quantum Metric
In 2015, Mario founded Quantum Metric to help organizations align with a single version of customer-defined and quantified truth. Previously founding and exiting an APM startup which solved where enterprise applications could be improved, Mario saw the natural next step was expanding organizational alignment around the entire product lifecycle.
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About Quantum Metric: Quantum Metric is a continuous product design platform that helps organizations build better products faster.
Caroline Creidenberg
CEO & Founder of Wedfuly
A graduate of computer science from the University of Denver, Caroline discovered the wedding world from the tech side (or lack thereof). In her early days, you could find Caroline barefoot, riding her pink two-wheeler down High Drive in Kansas City. At the time, you certainly would not have found her dreaming of weddings or white dresses. Caroline’s passion for being a boss and taking on any challenge head-on is what led her to Wedfuly. She saw the white space that the largely male-dominated tech sector did not, and now online weddings have become her passion. These days, you can find Caroline mountain biking off rocks (shoes and helmet on) and skiing down moguls in Colorado. And, from time to time, dreaming of weddings and white dresses.
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About Wedfuly: Wedfuly is making professional wedding planning accessible to all budgets and couples by bringing real, professional planners online.
Kaspars Dancis
Co-Founder & CEO of Whimsical
Kaspars Dancis is the Co-Founder & CEO at Whimsical.
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About Whimsical: Whimsical is a software company that develops tools for workplace collaboration.
Steve Schoeffel
Co-Founder of Whimsical
Steve Schoeffel is the co-founder of Whimsical. Prior to co-founding Whimsical, Steve served as a product designer at FullContact Inc. and designer at Viget Labs. He holds a B.A. degree in English, visual arts, and film at Duke University.
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About Whimsical: Whimsical is a software company that develops tools for workplace collaboration.
David Boskovic
Founder & CEO of Flatfile
David Boskovic is the founder and CEO at Flatfile.
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About Flatfile: Flatfile is the premier data onboarding platform for businesses. Built for your customer, Flatfile is already trusted by hundreds of teams.
Jenn Knight
Co-Founder & CTO of AgentSync
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About AgentSync: AgentSync is a Producer Management Platform used for broker onboarding, licensing, and compliance requirements.
Chad Burmeister
Founder & CEO of ScaleX.ai
Chad Burmeister is Founder & CEO of ScaleX.ai and BDR.ai (a ScaleX Company). The thing Chas is most passionate about – inside sales! Chad was the founding Chapter President of the Silicon Valley AA-ISP Chapter, and has volunteered over the past seven years to help advance the profession of Inside Sales to the next level of professionalism and performance. Chad was voted Top 25 Most Influential Inside Sales Professional by the AA-ISP 10 years in a row (2010 – 2019). Others describe Chad as high energy, high integrity and has an extremely high ability to execute. Chad is an author of three books including SalesHack – The Original 25 Sales Hacks, SalesHack 2, and ScaleX.ai – Multi-Channel Sales Acceleration powered by artificial intelligence.
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About BDR.ai, ScaleX.ai: Sales Acceleration as a Service, Powered by Artificial Intelligence
Andre Durand
Founder & CEO of Ping Identity
CEO Ping Identity NYSE:PING.
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About Identiverse, Ping Identity: Ping Identity provides cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations.
James Yonan
Founder & CTO of OpenVPN
James Yonan founded the OpenVPN project in 2002, and has since then established OpenVPN as an award-winning offering in the Open Source security space. Prior to founding the OpenVPN project, he played a key role at Northfield Trading LP as the architect of TSE, a platform for rigorously evaluating the statistical fitness of financial trading models. James Yonan was a lead developer at Mark Williams Company, an early pioneer in the effort to create C language and Unix tools for the original IBM PC. James Yonan studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
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About OpenVPN: OpenVPN Technologies provides premier VPN security software and web-scale VPN service based on open source innovation.
David Cohen
Founder and CEO of Taekion
David A. Cohen is founder and Chairman of Taekion, a blockchain-based Cybersecurity company. He is internationally renowned for his pioneering work on Smart Systems Software platforms. In 2012, David was named as one of the Top 100 Movers and Shakers in the SmartGrid by Greentech Media. David was the founder and CEO of Infotility where he pioneered “the Grid Edge” and unlocked a multi-billion dollar SmartGrid market. David is founding Member Emeritus of the GridWise Architecture Council (GWAC) which was instrumental in launching the vision for the SmartGrid industry. He wrote The Electrinet: A Communications Architecture for a Competitive Electric Power Industry. On June 13th, 2017, David was a member of the IOTA Foundation and the IOTA Token Cryptocurrency launch which broke all previous records by reaching a $1.7 Billion market cap on the first day of trading on the international exchange, Bitfinex as reported by Forbes. He also is advisor to several Cryptocurrency blockchain ventures (Wireline.io, FarmaTrust, Money Token, WePower, Patron, BandZ) and others. He is an Executive Advisor and early member of Hedera Hashgraph David has 24 years of management, software platform development, and business development experience for emerging energy technology companies. He has specialized in the areas of Decentralized Software Systems. David founded four start-up companies and has a track record in building, scaling, and selling innovative and profitable ventures. He has completed numerous joint ventures and partnerships in the US, Europe, Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Australia, India, and Asia-Pac. David has developed and commercialized over 20 enterprise software products. He is an expert on decentralized software and control systems including AI-Based Analytics, Transactive Energy, Machine Learning, Embedded Systems, Internet of Things (IoT), Peer-to-Peer (P2P), and Blockchain technology. David has presented at venues such as REFF Wall Street, MIT, TEDx, Singularity University, and other global conference venues.
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About Taekion: Blockchain-based Cybersecurity Software
Tiger Shen
Co-Founder of Welcome
Tiger Shen is a Co-Founder at Welcome.
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About Welcome: Welcome creates jaw-dropping virtual events.
Roberto Ortiz
CEO and Co-Founder of Welcome
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About Welcome: Welcome creates jaw-dropping virtual events.
Jonathan Sawyer
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of Xetawave
Jonathan Sawyer is the Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer/Chief Technology Officer at Xetawave. Jonathan has pushed the limits over a period of three decades in the design and development of new and innovative, industry-changing wireless technologies. He is renowned in his approach for always thinking out of the box and questioning conventional wisdom. Prior to XetaWave, Jonathan co-founded FreeWave Technologies in 1993. In addition to his responsibilities as CTO, he co-managed FreeWave. Jonathan designed the very first FHSS products which employed modulation, hopping speeds and over-the-air protocols which are still considered state of the art to this day. In his 17 years at FreeWave, he designed every radio and grew the company culminating with an investment by TA Associates of $113M in 2007. During the 3 years following the acquisition, Jonathan worked to expand the management and technical team of FreeWave to ensure its continued scalability and growth from its entrepreneurial roots. Prior to FreeWave, in 1986 and as co-founder of Inovonics, Jonathan developed a unique narrow pulse wireless technology to enable low power, unlicensed devices to achieve a range of miles versus feet, a first within the industry. This technology is still in use today. In 2005, Inovonics was sold to Roper Industries for over $45 million. In the late 1980s, while director of hardware engineering for Clinicom, Jonathan pioneered the first WIFI type network at 900 MHz for use in handheld computers within a hospital environment. Jonathan’s 900 MHz technology produced an aggregate bandwidth of over 15MB and extended the range of this technology to allow a single access point to provide wireless coverage across multiple floors within a hospital. During this time, he developed much of the Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS) technologies and protocols used today. Jonathan received several patents for his work.
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About Xetawave: XetaWave is a wireless network equipment company providing data-centric wireless radios for communication networks.
Greg Lutze
Co-Founder & Chief Experience Officer of VSCO
Greg Lutze is the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of VSCO, a community for expression. VSCO has been named Apple’s “App of the Year,” Google Play’s “Best Apps of 2015” and Fast Company’s “Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Social Media.” Before co-founding VSCO, Lutze worked as Creative Director for various agencies, with work being recognized by The Grammy Awards, Taschen, Communication Arts, Print Magazine and Graphic Design USA
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About VSCO: VSCO is a creative channel that builds creative tools, spaces, and connections driven by self-expression.
Michael Bauer
Founder, CEO and Principal Consultant of Brilliant Arc
Michael Bauer is the founder, CEO and principal consultant for Brilliant Arc. Working with companies such as MapQuest, Dex, Joltid (progenitor of Skype), Jabber, and European Directories since 1993, Michael and his teams built the first online mapping system, created one of the first online shopping systems, sold some of the first online advertising, built one of the first content management systems, and created some of the earliest online directories.
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About Brilliant Arc: Brilliant Arc is a knowledge-based software developer transforming data into knowledge to solve its users’ business problems.
Andrew Myers
Founder & CEO of RippleMatch
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About RippleMatch: RippleMatch is a platform for early career hiring that helps build diverse teams and hire the right talent virtually.
Paul Allen
Co-Founder & COO of Ordermark
Paul Allen, Chief Strategy Officer Paul Allen is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with over 25 years experience working across sales, marketing and product development with teams at Intel, Motorola, Adobe, Quicken Loans, the State of Connecticut and dozens of technology startups. He has been a founder, investor, and board member of numerous venture backed technology companies and led two tech startup accelerators, including one backed by Dan Gilbert, founder and chairman of Quicken Loans. Paul is active in the venture community and sits on the Colorado Governor’s Advanced Industry Grant Committee and is a board member of Startup Colorado and UNLV’s Technology Assessment Committee. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from UCLA.
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About Bizdom, Ordermark, Tribe of Angels: Nextbite is an online ordering management system for restaurants.
Keegan Peterson
Founder & CEO of Wurk
Keegan has a passion for helping organizations (large and small) improve the quality and quantity of their workforce by utilizing technology solutions. In particular, he love building strategies around attracting and retaining millennial workforces and consumers. Our world is evolving every day! How can your businesses evolve at a rate fast enough to maintain your competitive advantages? He states, “If we aren’t challenging our businesses with this question everyday, we will soon become irrelevant in our marketplace.” He is considered a thought-leader in the areas of: Highly Regulated Workforce management, Business analytics, Hiring software, Hiring processes, Learning tools, Employee training, Employee scheduling, Enterprise Sales
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About Wurk: Wurk is a provider of cannabis software and services to manage HR, time keeping, payroll, and scheduling.
Justin Custer
Founder & CEO of ChatLingual
Justin Custer is CEO & Founder at ChatLingual.
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About ChatLingual, University of Colorado Boulder: ChatLingual empowers every Advisor to be your Best Advisor
Ashmer Aslam
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Cured
Ashmer is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Cured. Prior to Cured, Ashmer was a Principal Enterprise Architect at Salesforce where he focused on driving cloud architecture in healthcare and life sciences as well as product innovation across the platform. Ashmer was a strategy and management consultant responsible for leading major Fortune 50 client engagements in the healthcare, life sciences, financial services and public sector verticals at Accenture. He began his career at Epic Systems, where he was a clinical application director and one of the first members of the Oncology application implementation team. Ashmer graduated from Northwestern University with a dual BA in Economics and Neurobiology.
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About Cured: a digital marketing & crm platform, built for healthcare organizations
Matt Talbot
Co-Founder & CEO of GoSpotCheck
Matt leads Strategy, Finance, and Innovation and has a BS from Bucknell. He is a former corporate finance leader at Johnson & Johnson.
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About GoSpotCheck: GoSpotCheck develops web and mobile apps that help employees gather real-time retail intelligence information from the field.
Samantha Holloway
Co-Founder & Chief Sales Officer of GoSpotCheck
Sam leads Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success. She is a former retail entrepreneur with graduate degrees in business and psychology from the University of Denver.
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About GoSpotCheck: GoSpotCheck develops web and mobile apps that help employees gather real-time retail intelligence information from the field.
Joey Alfano
Co-Founder & CPO of GoSpotCheck
Joey leads Product and has a BS from Bucknell and an International MBA from the University of Denver. He is an expert in global IT consulting, ERP, and big data.
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About GoSpotCheck: GoSpotCheck develops web and mobile apps that help employees gather real-time retail intelligence information from the field.
Christian Vanek
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of SurveyGizmo
Christian Vanek is co-founder and chief executive officer of SurveyGizmo. As CEO, Mr. Vanek is principal of the data collection industry’s leading survey software company. He helps such businesses as FedEx, IBM, Microsoft, Bloomberg Television, GE, and ESPN overcome the challenges they face with organizational ad hoc research. He continues to provide solutions for companies to collect, centralize, and distribute data as a means of reaching informed business decisions. His strategic vision for the company is to establish SurveyGizmo’s rightful place as the leader in the survey software industry and drive the industry forward. SurveyGizmo, a 100% bootstrapped company, is proudly celebrating 10 years of service and over $13 Million in revenue. Under Mr. Vanek’s leadership, in 2016, SurveyGizmo was named Editor’s Choice for PC Magazine, and voted #1 in survey software satisfaction for the G2 Crowd’s Fall Grid Report. Prior to SurveyGizmo, Mr. Vanek first became interested in building software in 1995 during his year of service for AmeriCorps. While working in the homeless shelter there, he noticed a need for greater efficiency and built a software package to help manage clothing and service distribution. In 1997, Mr. Vanek joined the Digital Consulting Institute, automating processes for their in-house travel agency and marketing teams. He worked closely with the marketers there and developed a content management system for the company. In 1999, Mr. Vanek left DCI and began work on his own marketing automation software company, but the platform was ahead of its time and market. In 2002, Mr. Vanek started his consulting company, CVanek Studios, where he created and sold a co-registration brokerage software package. In 2005, after consulting for many marketers and market researchers who felt there was a large gap in the survey software industry, Mr. Vanek proceeded with working on what would become SurveyGizmo. He launched the company in 2006 with his business partner Scott McDaniel. Mr. Vanek is known for his perseverance, grit, immense creativity, and sense of humor. His consistent choice to invest in employee benefits while maintaining SurveyGizmo’s success reminds everyone that you can accomplish your business’s goals and still be a fantastic and ethical employer.
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About Alchemer, SurveyGizmo: SurveyGizmo is a powerful, online survey platform that empowers business professionals to make informed decisions.
Christopher Lindblad
Founder and Chief Architect of MarkLogic
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About MarkLogic: MarkLogic Data Hub is a highly differentiated data platform that eliminates friction at every step of the data integration process.
Rich Weborg
Co-Founder of OneReach.ai
Rich Weborg is Co-Founder at OneReach.
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About OneReach.ai: A low-code/no-code platform for building AI & bots – a suite of tools for creating automated conversations & tasks.
David Brown
Founder and Chief Automator of WhenThen
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About WhenThen: WhenThen allows you to create and automate your payment flows.
Ryan Margoles
Co-Founder & CTO of Notion
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About Notion: Notion is a smart self-monitoring system that empowers home-owners to be proactive in protecting their spaces, people, and possessions.
Brett Jurgens
Co-Founder, CEO of Notion
Brett Jurgens Co-Founded Loop Labs, Inc. in 2014 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Brett Jurgens served as Director of Operations at Breakthrough Products, Inc. He learned to focus his eye and energy for details in the Private Placements Group at investment bank Piper Jaffray where he helped raise $20-$100 million for private companies in the consumer products, healthcare, technology, energy, clean tech, and finance industries.He serves as a Director of Loop Labs, Inc. Brett Jurgens is logistics liberator, warehousing warrior, and master of all things manufacturing.
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About Notion: Notion is a smart self-monitoring system that empowers home-owners to be proactive in protecting their spaces, people, and possessions.
Wayne Smith
Founder & President of Vertex Innovations
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About Active Oversight, Vertex Innovations: Vertex Innovations offers communication services.
Carl Savitz
Co-Founder of Beam
Carl Savitz is the Co-Founder at Beam.
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About Beam: Beam offers software and a network of professionals to help clients with the design and plan of home renovation projects.
Tanner McGraw
Chief Strategy Officer & Founder of Apto
Tanner is the founder of Apto and a commercial real estate veteran with a decade of brokerage experience. Before Apto, Tanner served as Vice President of Healthcare Advisory Services at Transwestern and as a Senior Associate at Marcus & Millichap.
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About Apto, BlueSuit, Techstars: Apto is a web-based broker software for managing contacts, properties, listings, and deals.
Yair Adato
Co-Founder and CTO of Bria
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About Bria, Trax: Bria is a Computer Software company.
Pamela Norton
Founder of Borsetta
Pamela Norton is an American entrepreneur and visionary who believes business and social impact are interdependent. She currently is the Founder & CEO of Borsetta, an AI hardware and software company which creates “intelligent assets” that enable secure, frictionless, and decentralized commerce at the edge. Pamela is a disruptive innovator, cheerful futurist, and optimistic dot connector. Her life has been a series of inspiring and “consistently serendipitous” successes characterized by early-stage recognition of revolutionary technology such as synthetic skin, online travel, mobile access on-the-go, activate brands, mood marketing and trusted assets. She has compiled her learnings in an upcoming book called “Our Lives, Business and Future on The Edge” where Pamela presents fundamental technology and cultural changes such as the People Sharing Economy, Sustainable Fractional Assets, Trusted Custodians, Sovereign Micro-Chipset & Sensor Privacy Control, and a principle she is formulating with thought leaders known as the Edge Economy. Borsetta’s patent-pending technology integrates physical real-world assets with micro-chip technology, AI, machine learning, DLT/blockchain, and cognitive trust wallets to create secure frictionless commerce….the Edge Economy. As the world moves toward Industry 4.0 (or the Next Generation Internet of Things), which is hyper-connectivity and embedded intelligence, the line between the physical and digital world becomes increasingly blurred. Pamela is a sought-after speaker and advocates for decentralized economic solutions characterized by sustainability, social impact and funding models that empower the disenfranchised. Pamela holds a BS degree in International Business from Regis University and International Relations from Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan.
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About Borsetta: Borsetta’s TitleChain software maximizes security and transparency for physical & digital asset ownership
Mat Vogels
Co-Founder and CEO of Zestful
Mat Vogels is a founder and CEO at Zestful, a platform that helps companies change the way they think about employee perks and rewards.
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About Zestful: Zestful is a platform for companies to reward their team with the products and services they care about most.
Brian Soby
CTO and Co-Founder of AppOmni
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About AppOmni: AppOmni is a SaaS security management solution that enables security and IT teams to secure applications used by their employees.
Brad Younge
Co-Founder & CTO of SkyKick
Prior to SkyKick, Younge was at Statera –a business and technology consulting firm— for 10 years, holding a number of technical and leadership roles consulting to many of the largest companies in Denver, CO. Younge also helped to launch Statera’s SharePoint practice at the release of SharePoint 2007 and opened an expansion office in Dallas in ‘08. Before Statera, Younge was involved with two tech startups in the late 90s, gaining technology leadership experience as the 3rd employee at drugstore.com, followed by becoming a technical architect at CriticalArc Technologies. Younge holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and a BS in EE from Cornell University.
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About SkyKick: SkyKick provides a cloud management SaaS platform for IT providers.
Jack Morrison
Co-Founder & CEO of Scythe Robotics
Jack Morrison is the Co-Founder & CEO at Scythe Robotics.
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About Scythe Robotics: Scythe Robotics is a robotics company that provides autonomous technology for maintaining off-road environments.
Isaac Roberts
Co-Founder & COO of Scythe Robotics
Isaac Roberts is the Co-Founder & COO at Scythe Robotics.
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About Scythe Robotics: Scythe Robotics is a robotics company that provides autonomous technology for maintaining off-road environments.
Mark Geene
CEO & Co-Founder of Cloud Elements
Mark Geene brings more than 20 years of experience in consulting, sales and product management to his role as CEO and co-founder of Cloud Elements (founded in 2012). A serial entrepreneur, in the past six years Mark has been the CEO of two startups (Cloud Elements and ChannelInsight). Prior to this, he held executive positions at IBM, Oracle, Tenfold Corporation and Dorado Software. Today Mark is a recognized figure in the startup community as a mentor and speaker at industry and trade events including Startup Week, Colorado Technology Association, Lean Startup and Cloud Foundry. Mark holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Software Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
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About Cloud Elements: Cloud Elements is a developer of an API integration platform used to integrate and manage digital products and applications.
Gary Gaessler
Co-Founder, API Market Evangelist of Cloud Elements
Gary is a sales leader focused on early stage software & Internet ventures. Previously VP of Sales of StreamStep an enterprise software application release process startup, acquired by BMC Software in 2011. Responsible for the go-to-market sales strategy & revenue execution, Gartner selected StreamStep as the “Cool Release Management” vendor 2011. Gary has a passion mentoring startups on lean sales strategies and is a top rated Founders Institute mentor. He has presented & mentored at Founders Institute chapters in Denver, Chicago, Puerto Rico, Tel Aviv, Bogota and Paris. He also mentors youth entrepreneurs and Denver inner city college students on finding jobs in the tech industry. Gary is an adjunct faculty instructor at the University of Denver, Information & Technology program. Gary Also co-founded VoIPReview.com, acquired in 2008, the most popular web site in the world for VoIP comparisons and reviews with over 8 million visitors shopping for VoIP services. Gary has more than 20 years of experience in sales & marketing leadership positions including BMC Software, Sprint, High Speed Access, Trillion & e-Globe. Gary holds a Master of Telecommunications from the University of Denver.
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About Cloud Elements: Cloud Elements is a developer of an API integration platform used to integrate and manage digital products and applications.
Stuart Kennedy
Co-Founder of Cresicor
Stuart Kennedy is the Co-Founder of Cresicor.
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About Cresicor: Cresicor is a trade promotion management for built for the consumer-packaged goods industry.
Nikki McNeil
Co-Founder and SVP of Customer Success TPM Software of Cresicor
Nikki McNeil is the Co-Founder and SVP of Customer Success TPM Software at Cresicor.
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About Cresicor: Cresicor is a trade promotion management for built for the consumer-packaged goods industry.
Sean McCreanor
Co-Founder & CEO of Assignar
Sean McCreanor is the CEO at Assignar.
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About Assignar: Assignar is a SaaS platform that helps construction contractors run their operations by improving productivity, efficiency and safety.
Ben Crookston
CEO & Founder of TrainHeroic
Ben Crookston is the Founder and CEO of Train Heroic. Prior to finding his home in the tech world, Ben ordered the Sampler off the career menu, teaching, coaching, and writing. He has an incredible family, and back squats 500 pounds A2G. When not training Heroic, Ben enjoys cooking, hiking, and AMRAPing premium television. He is a lucky dude that cherishes the privilege of providing coaches and athletes of all levels the tools they need to win in the gym.
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About TrainHeroic: The performance training platform that helps coaches and athletes win in the gym.
John Street
CEO, Chairman & Founder of Pax8
John Street is an award-winning entrepreneur in the telecommunications and Internet messaging industries who has built three businesses that garnered Inc. 500 status.Prior to founding Pax8 in 2012, he built MX Logic into the world’s largest independent provider of cloud-based email and web security. That company was acquired by McAfee, Inc., in 2009. John served as Chairman and CEO of USA.NET, Inc., and successfully raised over $100 million in private equity financing. At its peak, USA.NET managed more than 33 million mailboxes on behalf of its customers, including American Express, Palm, Netscape, Register.com and Goodyear. John also served as Chairman and CEO of Telephone Express, a provider of long distance services, and grew the company from startup to over $80 million in annual sales before selling it in 1997. This sale resulted in a payback to the original investment partners in excess of 1,200 times their original investment over a nine-year period. John has served on several boards and has been involved in a wide variety of other startups, ranging from fulfillment services to direct sales and marketing ventures. He has also served on many civic boards and as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines. A longtime supporter of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra, John was executive producer for “Jumpin’ Jazz Kids – A Swinging Jungle Tale”, which was nominated for a 2013 Grammy Award in the Best Children’s Album category. John has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Notre Dame and is a CPA.
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About Pax8: Pax8 is a cloud commerce marketplace focused on the delivery of cloud-based solutions to a global network of channel partners.
Jon Nordmark
Co-Founder & CEO of Iterate.ai
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About Iterate.ai: AI-Powered Innovation Software Ecosystem for Large Enterprises
Jon Rossi
Founder of MODERN
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About MODERN, My Dealer Service: MODERN provides web-based communication software connecting services to customers.
Andrew Fischer
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Choozle
Andrew Fischer co-founded Choozle, Inc. in 2012 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Andrew Fischer headed sales and business development for a startup called Passenger.
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About Choozle: Choozle is an independent and self-service digital advertising software platform.
Jeffrey Finch
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Choozle
Jeffrey Finch is a Co-Founder of Choozle.
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About Choozle, Flare Pistol Media: Choozle is an independent and self-service digital advertising software platform.
Eric Olden
Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Strata Identity
Eric Olden is the Executive Chairman & Founder of Symplified. Eric is a widely respected thought leader in identity management. He is also the visionary behind Symplified’s strategy to secure the cloud. Eric was the chief designer of the SinglePoint platform, Symplified’s identity services and The Trust Cloud on Amazon. His vision is to enable ubiquitous identity that enables all organizations, from the Fortune 500 to small or mid-sized businesses, to realize the potential of the cloud. Symplified was founded on the belief that in order to reach cloud-scale, identity must be made simple and be delivered as a utility service, and Eric has relentlessly pursued that goal since starting the company in 2007. Eric’s career in identity management began in 1995 when he founded Securant Technologies in San Francisco. Securant scaled from two guys and an idea to nearly 300 employees and hundreds of enterprise customers before its $140 million acquisition by RSA. As CTO of Securant, Eric pioneered the market for Web Access Management and User Provisioning with the industry leading ClearTrust product. A staunch believer in standards, Eric co-authored AuthXML with Darren Platt and negotiated its combination with Netegrity’s S2ML to create Oasis’ SAML standard. Eric has been published in several technical journals and is a regular speaker at industry events. He was awarded US Patent #6,460,141 for his pioneering designs for web identity. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.
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About Brite Content, Strata Identity: Strata Identity helps companies using multiple clouds manage identity and security policies across the different cloud services.
Topher Marie
Co-Founder & CTO of Strata Identity
Topher Marie is Chief Technical Officer at JumpCloud.
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About Strata Identity: Strata Identity helps companies using multiple clouds manage identity and security policies across the different cloud services.
Brett Goldberg
Founder of Spex
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About Backbone PLM, Moonshot Group, Truth + Media: Property Inspection Platform for Insurance Carriers and Claims Service Providers.
David Cockrel
Founder and Chief Product Officer of Spex
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About Spex: Property Inspection Platform for Insurance Carriers and Claims Service Providers.
Shawn Owen
Founder & CEO of Equa
Owen is a serial entrepreneur with experience in management and ownership of enterprise operations with a passion for systems development, business operations, product delivery, and client service. Shawn became involved with blockchain technology through his advocacy of bitcoin in early 2011. He frequently speaks and writes on Blockchain technology and digital currencies.
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About Equa: Equa is an immutable governance platform that scales organizations from formation to day-to-day governance.
Clark Woodward
CEO, Founder of RedZone
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About RedZone: RedZone provides solutions for real-time disaster monitoring, collaborative mapping, and smart hazard assessments.
Steve Coast
Founder of OpenStreetMap
Steve Coast is the founder of OpenStreetMap, a global wikipedia of maps. Steve has founded companies, run a successful kickstarter project and worked at two-man development houses right up to a stint at Microsoft. Steve lives in Denver and works for Telenav where he helps get OpenStreeMap in to the hands of consumers.
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About OpenStreetMap, TomTom: OpenStreetMap is an editable map of the world that is free to use under an open license.
Caleb Avery
CEO and Founder of Tilled
With experience in the payments industry for over a decade, Caleb Avery was often asked to help software companies who were looking to monetize their payments. Unable to find a solution that didn’t require his clients to compromise on either technology, user experience, or economics, he decided that he needed his own solution.
That led him to build Tilled and create PayFac-as-a-Service.
Caleb first started working in the payments industry while in college, co-founding a credit card processing independent sales organization, or ISO, with a few of his friends. Beginning with very traditional credit card processing customers including restaurants, salons, liquor stores and other brick and mortar businesses, Merchant Services Done Right later expanded into processing services for e-commerce businesses, software companies and now operates in 22+ states across the country.
Over the years, he also consulted for larger software companies processing anywhere from $100 million to over a billion in annual payments volume. These clients needed a payments expert to help them negotiate agreements, develop new pricing models, and maximize their revenue from credit card processing.
It was working with these businesses that he realized software companies who were looking to optimize their integrated payment processing solution were really looking for two key things. One, an instant digital sign-up experience for their customers. And two, to maximize the revenue they could earn.
Tilled’s revolutionary PayFac-as-a-Service platform allows software companies to enjoy all of the benefits of becoming a PayFac without any of the upfront investment or ongoing overheads, all while capturing the lion’s share of the economics.
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About Tilled: Tilled was created to empower software vendors, marketplaces, and SAAS companies to start generating revenue from accepting credit cards.
With our suite of powerful financial tools and industry leading revenue sharing programs, Tilled will power the financial backend of the next generation of marketplaces, SAAS companies, and integrated software vendors allowing them to focus on their core product, not payments.
We enable these companies to enjoy all the benefits of a fully registered payment facilitator program without the upfront cost, hassle, or liability. Welcome to Payfac-as-a-service. Plug in our easy to implement APIs and start making revenue from credit card processing today.
For far too long options like Stripe and Braintree have had a monopoly on the market, and have charged far too much for their services.
For B2B software companies looking for a better option that provides all of the benefits with none of the hassle, it’s time to Get Tilled and experience Payfac-as-a-Service.
Kelly Bianucci
Co-Founder & CEO of Impresa
Kelly is an experienced entrepreneur who has been involved in building new ventures across several industries. She most recently founded and led Discover Capital, a private equity firm which focused on investing in the self-service technology sector. Prior to that she worked directly for the Governor of Colorado to launch the Colorado Innovation Network as its appointed Executive Director. She has extensive experience developing and executing marketing, growth and innovation strategies for early-stage startups as well as Fortune 50 corporations. Kelly holds board, advisory, and investor roles for 10+ startups and non-profit organizations. She has a Kellogg MBA and a NYU Stern BS in Economics and Marketing.
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About Impresa: Impresa is an alternative lender focused on providing financing for digital kiosks and automated retail technology.
Den Bianucci
Co-Founder & Chief Solutions Officer of Impresa
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About Impresa: Impresa is an alternative lender focused on providing financing for digital kiosks and automated retail technology.
Anna Zervos
Co-Founder and CEO of Pao App
Anna Zervos is the Co-Founder and CEO of Pao App.
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About Pao App: Pao (say “pow”) is a mobile application service that helps you find hidden and share the world’s hidden gems.
SARA ZERVOS
Co-Founder of Pao App
Sara Zervos is the Co-Founder and The Pao App.
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About Pao App: Pao (say “pow”) is a mobile application service that helps you find hidden and share the world’s hidden gems.
Ed Hallen
Co-Founder and CEO of Team Engine
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About Klaviyo, Team Engine: Team Engine is a team management software platform that helps blue-collar work more efficiently.
Conor McCluskey
Co-Founder & CEO of BombBomb
Conor has more than 15 years of experience in sales, marketing and entrepreneurship. He co-founded a service company in the multi-family housing industry and grew its annual revenue from $50K to $1.7M. In just 4 years, he took a set of outdoor advertising accounts and grew revenue 660%. He is also an owner in a vineyard and winery called Proper Wines in Walla Walla, Washington where Proper was recently named Best New Winery by Seattle Mag. In addition, his passion and purpose is raising money for the development of small businesses and communities in Kenya.
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About BombBomb, Proper Wines: BombBomb software is helping to build better business relationships with video messaging.
Darin Dawson
President, Co-Founder & Chief Operations Officer of BombBomb
Darin Dawson is the President, Co-Founder & Chief Operations Officer
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About BombBomb: BombBomb software is helping to build better business relationships with video messaging.
Jacob Zax
Founder and CEO of MusiQuest
Jacob Zax is Founder and CEO @ Edify.
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About MusiQuest: MusiQuest is a developer of a musical application designed to help people discover their passion for music
Nathan Shinn
Founder & CSO of BillingPlatform
Nathan Shinn, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of BillingPlatform, is known for his tireless work ethic and innovative vision ensuring the success of his company, clients and employees. With his passionate, hands-on approach to management and strategy, BillingPlatform has grown exponentially under his leadership. As a go-to leader and trusted advisor he has sought out a dynamic team of people who strive to meet the same level of performance, fostering loyalty, innovation and collaborative problem solving. As an engineer with over 20 years of experience in high-volume, enterprise information systems, he is closely involved in the technical evolution of the platform. Nathan is unfaltering in his determination to provide a state of the art unparalleled service to companies in every industry across the globe. Nathan earned his degree in Computer Information Systems from the Colorado State University, graduating Summa Cum Laude. In the following years, he gained a reputation as one of the industry’s leading authorities on high-volume software systems, Enterprise Billing and Cloud technology. Entrepreneur of several successful companies in the last 28 years he has continued to succeed with the same passion and motivation throughout his career. Nathan is enthusiastic about his love of innovation, renewable energy, art, Family and Friends…helping to create a world where integrity is not just a word but a way of life!
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About BillingPlatform: BillingPlatform provides a cloud-based platform that simplifies complex billing, automating quote-to-cash processes.
Leonid Solomonik
Founder & CTO of BillingPlatform
Leonid Solomonik joined BillingPlatform as CTO / CO-Founder in 2011.
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About BillingPlatform: BillingPlatform provides a cloud-based platform that simplifies complex billing, automating quote-to-cash processes.
Ryan Mathisen
CEO and Co-Founder of GloveBox
Ryan Mathisen currently works as Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of GloveBox.
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About GloveBox: GloveBox is a self-service platform for clients to manage their insurance documentation and transaction processes with ease.
Roddy Richards
Founder & CEO of WestLink
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About EVENTSA, RescueID, Inc., Uru Sports, WestLink: Software development
Hume Miller
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of PaySchools
Hume Miller serves as the Chief Executive Officer of PaySchools at i3 Verticals, LLC. Prior to starting up PaySchools, Miller held a sales position for Retail Data Systems with a focus on restaurant point-of-sale. With a long history of POS experience, he also founded a restaurant consulting enterprise. Miller graduated from Regis College with a double major in finance/economics and business.
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About PaySchools: PaySchools is dedicated to providing best-in-class school management software to solve common school district pain points.
Timothy Pfeifer
EVP, General Counsel and Founder of Cherwell Software
As a Cherwell co-founder, Timothy Pfeifer brings exceptional leadership to the Cherwell team. Prior to Cherwell, Timothy served as a Senior Attorney for First Data Corporation, and as Vice President & General Counselfor FrontRange Solutions® (formerly Bendata, Inc. and GoldMine Software Corporation). Timothy earned a J.D. degree from the University of Washington, School of Law, graduating as a member of the Order of the Coif; a management degree from Pepperdine University, graduating magna cum laude; and has attended an executive education program through Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
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About Cherwell Software: Cherwell improves service experiences across the entire organization through integrated, adaptable technology.
Kevin Schaff
Co-Founder of Rho AI
Kevin Schaff is the Mentor – Yale Entreprenuership Institute at Yale School of Management.
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About Rho AI, Twyst, Yale School of Management (SOM): Rho AI builds customized data science products and services to solve real-world problems.
Peter Flanagan
Founder and President of Ubiterra
Peter is the founder and CEO of Ubiterra, and the visionary for the company’s flagship product UbiSeis, a breakthrough innovation in seismic data management using cloud-based technology. Mr. Flanagan is a founder of two successful seismic software companies, Parallel Geosciences, and Reflection Software, home of SeisVision. More recently he co-founded Transzap, home of the cloud-based Oildex software and transaction processing service for the oil and gas industry. Major oil and gas companies around the globe utilize the software and services provided by each of these companies. Peter started his career as a geophysicist at BP Amoco in 1983. He holds an MS degree in geophysics from University of Arizona.
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About Ubiterra: Ubiterra develops cloud-based technologies to manage data needs of the oil and gas industry.
Kyle Sherman
Founder, Chairman & CEO of Flowhub
Kyle Sherman is the Founder and CEO of Flowhub. A legalization advocate and entrepreneur, Kyle continually defines the company vision, strategy, and growth as Flowhub innovates the way cannabis retailers manage complex compliance mandates, supply chain data, sales transactions, and reporting.
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About Flowhub: Flowhub is a cannabis retail management platform for modern dispensaries.
Raphael Crawford-Marks
Founder and CEO of Bonusly
Raphael Crawford-Marks is the Founder and CEO of Bonusly, an enterprise platform that helps companies create a high-performance, high-engagement workplace. He is passionate about building products that help people connect with their work and each other in meaningful ways. Prior to founding Bonusly, Raphael was an early employee at several startups, a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras, and an instructor for Year Up. Raphael dropped out of high school to work as a software engineer in the mid-nineties, but did eventually earn his BA in Cognitive Science from Hampshire College, where he wrote his senior thesis on Artificial Intelligence.
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About Bonusly: Leading SaaS platform for employee recognition, rewards, and engagement.
Bob Hampe
Founder & President/CEO of Actall Corporation
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About Actall Corporation, Rakana Technologies, USA Hockey: Actall provides Real-Time Location (RTLS), sensing services, and specializes in complex and difficult RF environments.
Andrew Garst
Co-Founder of Inscripta
Andrew Garst is a Co-Founder at Inscripta, Inc.
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About Inscripta: Inscripta is a life science technology company that develops digital genome engineering solutions.
Eddie Satterly
Co-Founder and CEO of DataNexus
Highly Motivated, Creative, and Versatile Executive with Comprehensive Experience in Information Technology Organizations. Committed to the Highest Levels of Professional Excellence including Life Long Learning and Building Productive Relationships with Colleagues and Clients. Leading large globally distributed teams of developers, product managers and architects. Distinctive Executive Qualifications: Considered a Thought Leader in the Big Data, Cloud & Security space and known for public presentations and lectures at Universities. Business-minded leader with a unique blend of technical knowledge, management expertise, corporate vision and the effective use of IT solutions to maximize business potential. Create and build key performance metrics, enable profitable growth, and push for operational excellence within the organizations he work with. Unique ability to comprehend complex business environments and drill down to specific requirements, issues and develop solutions based on cutting edge technical solutions. Managed $MM P&L, large globally diverse teams, technical and business cross-functional projects. Strong manager, leader, and team-player who can quickly adapt to, be accepted by, and interrelate with all levels from staff to C-level.
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About DataNexus: Data Nexus Open Source Software transparently handles configuration, data modeling, and routing of the data to the proper data store.
Scott Shilling
CEO, Co-Founder of mTusker
Scott Shilling has had a long and successful career in Information Technology. Initially, Scott was trained in the technical side of the IT industry, while also learning the management and leadership skills required for this intense field from EDS. Scott then spent 16 years with Perot Systems: honing his craft, moving from Technical Team Leader to Project Manager to Account Manager, even Sales. While at Perot Systems, Scott pioneered much of the offshore development best practices for Perot Systems which have been widely adopted across the industry. After Perot Systems, he took an ownership position in E5systems, which was subsequently purchased by Lionbridge. Since 2014, Scott has teamed up with his son and co-founder, Brad to create what has become WorkWeb. 32 years of experience is now zoned in on the development of the WorkWeb platform- Scott considers WorkWeb his best career achievement.
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About mTusker, WorkWeb: mTusker offers businesses with a software program that enables them to manage sales, data, and production.
Don Brown
Founder, Secondary Services of Optimal Blue
Bringing more than 20 years of business and legal experience to Optimal Blue Secondary Services, Don has focused on the mortgage industry since 2000. Don originally founded Secondary Interactive, and pioneered their risk management practice with a vision for leveraging technology to make mortgage and business processes more efficient and more profitable. Optimal Blue acquired Secondary Interactive in 2008, and in October 2013, Secondary Interactive’s name was changed to Optimal Blue Secondary Services, completing the alignment of the two brands. Don received a B.A. from Northwestern University and a J.D. from the University of Colorado School of Law. He is active in the community having served on the City Council for the City of Louisville, the Board of Directors for the Denver Regional Council of Governments, the Board of Directors for the YMCA of Boulder Valley and is past Chair of the Alumni Board for the University of Colorado School of Law. He is frequent speaker at industry events on topics relating to secondary marketing, risk management, best execution and loan commitments.
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About Optimal Blue: Optimal Blue is a provider of secondary market solutions and actionable data services.
Devon Tivona
Co-Founder and CEO of Pana
CEO & Co-founder at Native
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About Pana, Tivona & Haug: Pana is a computer software company that specializes in mobile, online travel, and mobile commerce.
Sarnen Steinbarth
Founder & CEO of TurboTenant
Sarnen Steinbarth is the Founder & CEO at TurboTenant.
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About Blue River Property Management, Focorent.com, Forbes Real Estate Council, Montana Property Education, TurboTenant: TurboTenant is a landlord and tenant software for online vacancy marketing, tenant screening, online rent payments, and rental applications.
Alex Raymond
Founder and CEO of Kapta
Alex Raymond is the founder and CEO at Kapta, an enterprise key account management platform.
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About Kapta: Kapta is a platform that provides key account management and consulting services.
Ben Blasko
Founder, CTO of Kapta
Ben Blasko is the founder at Kapta, an enterprise key account management platform.
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About Kapta: Kapta is a platform that provides key account management and consulting services.
Debra Mignola
Founder & CEO of DivorceHelp123
Founder & CEO at DivorceHelp123
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About DivorceHelp123: DivorceHelp123 helps Family Law firms easily collect Client data with Client App and create state-specific Court documents and reports
Jeff Mathews
Founder / CTO of Copper Labs
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About Copper Labs: Copper’s patented data solution provides utilities with real-time grid intelligence without the need for extensive (and expensive) overhauls
John Corbett
Co-Founder & CEO of aWhere
John Corbett is the Co-Founder & CEO at aWhere
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About aWhere: Awhere is a developer of a weather software that analyzes data and provides insights to help farmers plan their farming activities better.
Tim Beck
Founder, CEO & Chief Coach of SAASTEPS
Tim is the Founder + CEO, acting CRO of SaaSteps (CX Lead-to-Revenue Platform and Consulting Services Company) and CODEN (in stealth mode), both of which were started late-2017. With over 20+ years of experience in the start-up world, Tim has been seen as an outstanding sales expert and business mentor and believes that life is about the experiences you curate, the relationships you build, and paying the successes forward. Tim has used his expertise and connections to accelerate the growth of Selectica, Big Machines, and Apttus from the start-up stage to all [three] companies getting acquired. As Apttus being the most recent, he joined the team as an early employee (#13) and helped grow the company to over 1400 people in five years, which then sold for $1.5B. From this, Tim has built countless strategic relationships with key business leaders, has become a consulting confidant, has earned vendors’ trust and the trust of people around him. His colleagues call Tim a leader, a legend, and a great coach. As noted by the CTO of Apttus, Nathan Krishnan “Tim is one of the best solution oriented salesperson I had the pleasure of working with over my career in product engineering… I watched him master the art of enterprise selling to great effect.” Tim’s passionate belief in people and the work they do empowers him to find their best attributes and what excites them the most, to ultimately finding them a role in his companies where they will excel the furthest. This process, Tim believes, makes for the most successful teams, which great companies are built from.
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About SAASTEPS: e-Commerce, Quoting, Subscription, Billing, Invoicing, Renewals & Revenue Operations for Salesforce Customers
Gregg Heil
Founder & CEO of Encoding.com
Greggory founded Encoding.com in September 2008 and has led the team to its current position as the world’s largest and fastest video encoding cloud-based SaaS with thousands of clients and millions of encodes under its belt. Greggory leads the engineer team which developed, amongst other indutry firsts: Instant Encoding™ and Vid.ly – the Universal URL. Greggory brings over 15 years of demonstrated success in international product development and application hosting services. He began his technology career in 1996 at Silicon Valley’s first web hosting company, best.com where he productized and launched one of the industry’s first hosted e-commerce applications. In 2000, he joined Verio, Inc. as a senior product manager where he managed their international e-commerce product line. After an acquisition, he moved to Amsterdam to serve as the European Director of E-commerce for the Japanese telecom giant, NTT Communications. Most recently Greggory served as the Principal and founder of an interactive development agency, WEB11 Inc. where he has directed the development of numerous sophisticated social networks, broadband video channels, mobile applications and content management systems. Gregg studied General Science, Pre-Med at the University of Oregon from 1993-1997.
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About Encoding.com, Vidly: Encoding.com provides cloud media transcoding software to accelerate processing and optimize display on any device.
Tony Gorski
CEO and Founder of MyRounding
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About MyRounding: MyRounding software lets hospital executives, administrators, and care providers collect, measure, and monitor patient satisfaction.
David Marshall
COO and Founder of MyRounding
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About MyRounding: MyRounding software lets hospital executives, administrators, and care providers collect, measure, and monitor patient satisfaction.
David Marshall
COO and Founder of MyRounding
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About MyRounding: MyRounding software lets hospital executives, administrators, and care providers collect, measure, and monitor patient satisfaction.
Todd Litzman
President/CEO and Co-Founder of Brandwise
Todd Litzman was the co-founder of Showroom Solutions in 1998, which later merged with Brandwise. In addition to leading Brandwise, Todd is actively involved with the Gift and Home Trade Association (GHTA). Todd has more than 25 years experience in designing, developing, installing and supporting computerized point of sale, inventory management, and sales process automation systems. Prior to starting Brandwise, he was an independent consultant for Paramount Parks, Inc., and was responsible for the recommendation and implementation of ticketing, concessions, merchandising and inventory control systems for five major theme parks in the United States and one in Canada during this two year project.
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About Brandwise: Brandwise is an Application Service Provider that delivers sales solutions to suppliers and their sales organizations.
Jannetta Litzman
Co-Founder & CFO of Brandwise
Jannetta was Co-founder of Showroom Solutions in 1998 (which later merged with Brandwise). Jannetta is responsible for all financial activities including budget planning, financial reporting, strategic planning, human resources and legal. Prior to Brandwise, Jannetta founded Designer Accents, the catalyst behind Showroom Solutions. From 2001 until the sale of the business in 2009, Jannetta remained involved at a high level while taking a more active role in Brandwise, Inc. Prior to her entrepreneurial ventures, Jannetta was part of the sales team for Lucent Technologies (formerly AT&T). Jannetta currently serves on the board of Gift For Life – A partnership between the Gift, Home and Stationary industries to raise funds in support of AIDS research and education. Jannetta holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business with an emphasis on Marketing/Management from Northern State University and an MBA from the University of Denver.
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About Brandwise: Brandwise is an Application Service Provider that delivers sales solutions to suppliers and their sales organizations.
Cody Cornell
Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Swimlane
A respected authority on cyber security, Cody is responsible for the strategic direction of Swimlane and the development of its security operations management platform. His passion for open exchange of security information and deep vendor integration drives him to pursue opportunities to maximize the value his customers receive from their investments in security operations. Collaborating with industry leading technology vendors, Cody works to identify opportunities to streamline and automate security activities that speed cyber response and enable security orchestration.
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About Swimlane: Swimlane is the leader in cloud-scale, low-code security automation.
Jack Harper
President & Founder of Secure Outcomes
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About Secure Outcomes: Secure Outcomes is a Colorado-based software company developing forensic livescan fingerprinting systems.
Dan Wilson
Co-Founder and EVP of Partner Solutions of Accuvant
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About Accuvant, Liquid Mongoose: Accuvant is the leading provider of information security services and solutions serving enterprise-class organizations across North America.
Kelly Dotseth
CXO & Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Brandzooka
CXO at Visibl.
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About Brandzooka: Brandzooka is a self-service advertising platform that lets companies of any size place premium, targeted digital ads online and on CTV.
Jb Kellogg
Co-Founder, Co-CEO, COO of Madwire
COO & Co-Founder
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About Madwire: Madwire provides digital marketing software, a powerfully CRM, and highly skilled professional marketing services.
