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Adam Swiecki

Founder,  

Adam Swiecki founded Swiecki Enterprises in 2003 after serving as an Army Officer and financier. Focused on the action sport market, he has built leading ecommerce businesses in skate (SkateboardsEtc.com), surf (SurfboardsEtc.com), and snow (SkiGogglesEtc.com). The quintessential bootstrapper, Adam avoided startup costs by learning to program a website, partnering with drop shippers, and housing inventory in his basement. After years, he is out of the basement, expanding his multi-million dollar ecommerce footprint, and still growing using free cash flow. Adam holds a BS from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an MBA from Georgetown University.

• Outsourcing, Partners and Suppliers on 07/20/2010
• Startup Research on 05/11/2010
• Revenues, Costs and Profits on 06/08/2010

Adeo Ressi

CEO, TheFunded.com  

Adeo Ressi is Founding Member of TheFunded.com, an online community of 12,000 CEOs to research, rate, and review funding sources worldwide. Adeo also runs the Founder Institute, a mentoring program that helps entrepreneurs launch hundreds of world-class companies each year. The Institute is the eight start-up that Adeo has founded or built, four of which were acquired and three of which are still operating.

• Vision and Values on 05/04/2010

Austin Veith

CEO, UsingMiles  

Austin Veith, Founder/CEO, UsingMiles.com and UsedTunes.com. Austin has founded 5 companies through his career in varying industries from traditional retail to e commerce. He is currently the founder and CEO of UsingmIles.com which builds applications that manage, search, and book frequent flyer travel through a "first of its' kind" online aggregator. He is also the Founder and CEO of uMedia, Inc. which builds applications that create secondary markets for used digital content. Austin attended The University of Colorado at Boulder where he studied for triple bachelors in Finance, Marketing, and Political Science.

• Intellectual Property on 07/13/2010

Bob Ogdon

CEO,  

Bob Ogdon is an executive technologies and business professional with over 31 years of experience in the multimedia market. His background includes expertise in multimedia, telecommunications and computer-based high technology companies. Ogdon founded and served as CEO of four companies, the latest being the email marketing company Swiftpage. Prior to Swiftpage, Ogdon founded MSHOW.com, a leading web interactive broadcasting company he sold to Intercall Conferencing in 2002. Prior to MSHOW.com, Ogdon founded Mammoth Micro Productions, a pioneer in CD-ROM multimedia tools, technology and publishing that he sold to the Washington Post Company in 1995. Prior to Mammoth Micro Productions, he founded Action Graphics, a game design and software development company. Ogdon was selected as the winner of the 2005 award for “Outstanding Contribution to the Community” by the Colorado Software and Internet Association. Ogdon served as the 2008 Board Chair for the Colorado Software and Internet Association.

• Vision and Values on 05/04/2010

Bob Rosin

Executive Vice President, Qik Inc  

Bob is EVP responsible for Corporate Development, Business Development, and Sales at mobile video provider Qik, Inc. With users growing from 600,000 in January 2010 to 2.7 million in June, Qik is one of the fastest-growing services in history. Qik has partnerships with Nokia, Samsung, LG, HTC, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, Vodafone, and other mobile device manufacturers and mobile operators. Qik's technology will be embedded in over 70 million mobile devices within the next near. Qik is backed by leading investors including Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Marc Benioff, Camp Ventures, and Quest Venture Partners. Prior to Qik, Bob built two companies from scratch and raised over $117M in venture capital from Sequoia, Atlas, Azure, Paladin, AsiaTech, Motorola, Wasserstein, Marc Andreessen, Nicholas Negroponte, Ron Conway, and other investors. Bob was previously SVP Sales and Marketing, OQO, developer of the first pocketable PC, and brought the company from zero to over $25M in annual revenue. Previously, Bob was Founder and President of Bang Networks, a pioneer in realtime messaging on the public Internet. Previously, Bob worked at Sony Corp. in Tokyo and Silicon Valley, where he incubated Navio (now Liberate Technologies) and led Sony's involvement with WebTV Networks, Inc. (acquired by Microsoft). Bob received his MBA from Harvard Business School where he won the Dubilier Prize for Entrepreneurship, and received his BA from Cornell University Magna Cum Laude with three majors. Bob received Red Herring Top 100 for two companies, is first author on 9 granted US patents, has a Black Belt in Aikido, is fluent in Japanese, and is an avid underwater photographer.

Brian Levin

Chairman of the Herd,  

Brian is “Chairman of the Herd” of the Performance Enhancing Meat Snacks Company, and the jerk behind Perky Jerky Brian is a serial entrepreneur who started and sold 2 technology companies before he found his destiny to bring perky jerky to the world. Mr. Levin was also CEO and co-founder of Useful Networks, a mobile technology company creating Location Based Services for mobile consumers. Useful Networks was acquired by Liberty Media in 2007 Prior to Useful Networks, Brian was co-founder and CEO of Mobliss, a wireless media and marketing company based in Seattle, Washington, USA. He worked with consumer brands, media, entertainment companies, and wireless carriers to create valuable wireless properties to engage consumers. Mobliss is best known for fueling the text messaging revolution by building the SMS voting services for American Idol, and providing mobile services for Coca-Cola, Yahoo, ESPN, Nike, Fox, and more

• Marketing and Sales on 07/27/2010

Bruce Dines

VP&MD, Liberty Global Ventures  

Bruce brings over 20 years of technology and telecommunications experience to Liberty Global Ventures. Over half of those years have been spent in earlier stage environments, where Bruce has founded companies and led businesses from concept and model development, through the capital formation, revenue generation and team building phases, ultimately realizing successful exits on 3 different companies. The other half of his career has been spent in mid-size and large corporations, where he has either served as President or Division President, including comCables as President, Northstar Exchange as COO (sold to Construction Software Technologies in 2007), EHPT as President (sold to Ericsson in 2002), and Ericsson Mobile Communications as Division President.

• Product and Service Development on 05/25/2010
• Presentation and Publicity on 08/10/2010

Bryan Thatcher

CEO, Locker Blogger  

Bryan Thatcher is CEO of Empressr, a leading Web application that allows users to create, manage and share rich-media presentations. As CEO and Founder of Fusebox, Bryan applies his mind for innovation to some of the most revered brands in finance, media, and pharmaceuticals—Discover Financial Services, JPMorgan Chase, MTV, CNN, ESPN and Pfizer—helping them increase profits and stay relevant in an ever-changing world of marketing opportunities.

• Naming and Branding on 05/18/2010

Dan Daugherty

Founder & CEO, Rent Marketer  

Dan Daugherty is CEO and Founder of rental search engine rentbits.com. His experience includes four years with Google during which time he spent in various management positions including running the operations team for the Mountain States Region. He helped to grow the region from $1 million in annual sales to over $100 million within four years. He is also active in commercial and residential real estate investing in Colorado and received his business degree in International Business from Ohio Wesleyan University.

• Vision and Values on 05/04/2010
• Product and Service Development on 05/25/2010
• Outsourcing, Partners and Suppliers on 07/20/2010

David O'Brien

CEO, Business Catapult  

Dave O’Brien is the CEO of Business Catapult a SaaS company that builds communities of entrepreneurs and investors. Dave has over 20 years of Senior Management experience as the COO and CFO roles in two successful startups and exits, as well as Senior Operational management positions for four fortune 500 companies, including GE and Tandem Computers. Recently Dave was the COO/CFO for P2 Energy Solutions, a privately held $100M SaaS and outsourcing Services Company based in Denver. Dave is also on the Board of the CU Bard Center for Entrepreneurship where he has contributed for the last five years, including 2 1/2 years where he was the Entrepreneur in Residence. He is also on the Advisory Board to Metro State’s Center for Innovation. Dave has MBA in Finance and Strategy from the University of Michigan, and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University.Dave also participates as a board advisor to several local software companies and as a board advisor to other non-profits.

David Cohen

CEO, Infotility  

With over 26 years of experience building emerging companies, David A. Cohen, CEO. Mr. Cohen is now CEO and co-founder of Infotility. He has specialized in the areas of renewable energy, telecommunications, and software. He has co-founded three start-up companies . He has developed, launched, and commercialized over 20 energy-related software products, and is nationally renowned for his pioneering work in distributed energy communications and SmartGrid control applications. Founder of Grid7 LLC, he advises start-up companies and investors in distributed energy and smart grid technology. David is currently leading the development of the SmartGrid industry’s first, next-generation, intelligent agent-based software infrastructure for large-scale electric grid control applications such as Microgrids, distribution network control, and demand response automation. He pioneered a real-time publish/subscribe software platform for automating demand response and real-time information tracking of metered data implemented at companies like BP, Sempra, Bank of America and the Stanford Linear Accelerator. The GridAgents software platform is being deployed and tested by companies like Verizon Con Edison and PG&E. The GridAgents platform was seed funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity program. Prior to co-founding Infotility, David was VP of the Distributed Energy Products Division of Silicon Energy. David was a founding team member at Silicon Energy where he led business development and marketing. David helped the organization grow to 250+ employees, raise over $40 million in venture capital, file for IPO, and merge Silicon Energy with Itron for $71 million. Prior to Silicon Energy, David was a principal with ICF Information Technology, and consultant with ICF Resources in Washington, D.C. which sold for $25M. David is also a founding member of the GridWise Architecture Council (GWAC). Cohen received his M.S. Engineering and his BA in Environmental Studies from the University of Colorado with a focus on Computer Science, Energy Analysis, GIS, and Artificial Intelligence.

Derek Scruggs

VP Sales & Business Development, SurveyGizmo  

Derek is a Partner & the VP of Business Development at SurveyGizmo. Prior to joining SurveyGizmo, he was founder of the late, lamented Enthusiast Group, a network of user-generated content sites focusing on adventure sports. He has founded or co-founded numerous companies and worked in the Internet & software industries for 15 years. A graduate of Northwestern University, Derek now lives in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. Derek is so fabulously successful, witty, charming and just plain good-looking that he’s allowed to write his own bio.

Drew Massey

Chief Maniac, maniaTV  

Massey originally trademarked the name maniaTV in 1998, launched the company in 2004 with major charter advertisers Dodge, Norelco and U.S. Navy, secured blue-chip Venture Capital investment, and successfully grew the company from zero revenue to over $500,000 per month before retiring to Chairman in 2007. ManiaTV was launched as the world’s first live Internet TV network on Labor Day 2004 with a non-stop 24/7 hosted MTV-style broadcast. Then in 2006 Massey and Tom Green launched the first live celebrity Internet talk show with Tom Green Live—which was live and interactive every weeknight from Tom Green’s living room. Over 150 episodes aired with celebrity guests like Tony Hawk, Pam Anderson, Brooke Shields, Val Kilmer, Bob Saget and more. A year later Massey and Dave Navarro launched another Live show from the Dragon Fly club in Hollywood. In the Spring of 2009, Massey bought back maniaTV and refocused the company on the live Internet TV roots he pioneered. Leveraging his expertise in live broadcasts, high quality original and premium Internet programming, celebrity talent relationships and a track record of working with over 200 leading marketers, Massey is building the leading Internet TV network, focused exclusively on network-quality live celebrity TV shows. And joining Massey’s new board of directors is former NBC Entertainment Chief Warren Littlefield and advertising executive David Verklin, whom Advertising Age describes as “perhaps the only visionary left in advertising”. Prior to maniaTV, Massey launched national men’s magazine POV which was named Adweek’s 1997 “Startup of the Year” and Adweek’s 1998 “Hot Up & Comer”.

• Fundraising on 08/17/2010
• Startup Legal and Incorporation on 06/29/2010

Duncan McCall

Co-Founder & CEO,  

Duncan McCall - currently Co-Founder & CEO, Place IQ. This is a pre launch startup working on next generation location intelligence. Some of Duncan’s previous experience includes: - Founder and CEO of PublicEarth, a venture funded consumer internet company, focused in the geoweb / local space. - VP of Systems and Technology for Organic to Go, a retail startup that expanded rapidly to become a national business. - VP of Client Services for VES, an RFID startup - GM and CEO of IS Solutions, a Silicon Valley based system integrator. Duncan has a background spanning technology and business. His interest and passion in applying technology solutions in the business and consumer world has led him to work and live in Europe, Asia, Australia and North America.

• Graduation on 08/24/2010
• Hiring, Firing and Cofounders on 06/15/2010

Jake Nickell

Founder, Threadless  

Jake Nickell is a gigantic brain on an unassuming body. Threadless's young and fearless entrepreneurial leader uses his quick-firing noggin to come up with new ventures, encourage nutty employee ideas, and tinker with countless side projects (no really, he’s lost count). He also continues to keep up his geek cred through a love for programming. When he’s not working, he’s busy hanging out with his wife Shondi, his daughter Arli, and their son Dash in their Colorado home.

• Naming and Branding on 05/18/2010

Jeff Herman

CEO, HotShoo, Inc.  

Jeff Herman is CEO of HotShoo.com, a stock photography site focused on the underserved market of designers and architects of the built environment. Previously he was CEO of Fuser.com and VP Product at Webroot Software. He holds both a BSBA and MBA from the University of Florida.

• Startup Research on 05/11/2010

Jen Shelby

CMO, BettyConfidential  

Are you ready to Betty? Jen Shelby is the CMO at BettyConfidential.com. Launched in March 2008, BettyConfidential.com is recognized as one of the fastest growing women's Web sites with original content. BettyConfidential offers an interactive presentation of content, social networking, and advice in a "roomful of women" setting, targeted to women ages 18-39. Prior to Betty, Jen was the Managing Director at Astia, an international not-for-profit organization that delivers strategically defined programs to women led companies and entrepreneurs in high-growth markets, by providing access to capital, mentoring, and leadership development.

Jim Franklin

VP and GM, Oracle  

James Franklin is the VP and General Manager of the Crystal Ball Global Business Unit and the VP for Enterprise Performance Management for Oracle Corporation. Previously Jim was the CEO of Decisioneering, Inc., CFO at Vericept Corporation and was a founder of webfamilies.com. Jim has a BBA in accounting and a JD/MBA all from the College of William and Mary. Jim is a past president and current board member of the Rockies Venture Club. Jim has also served as a mentor for Boulder Techstars and has invested in early stage startups.

• Hiring, Firing and Cofounders on 06/15/2010
• Startup Legal and Incorporation on 06/29/2010
• Graduation on 08/24/2010
• Revenues, Costs and Profits on 06/08/2010

John Kanarowski

President,  

Co-Founder and President of Zerista, Inc. Zerista provides a mobile community platform, which allows users to create mobile web apps for any group, club, association, business or event. Before Zerista, John was in in senior business development and sales roles at Merced Systems and Siebel Systems. Previously, he led marketing, business development, and strategic partnerships at iDeal International, an ecommerce company that he helped launch and grow to more than half a million users in less than 24 months. John has degrees from Harvard Business School, Univ. of California, Berkeley, and Dartmouth College.

• Startup Research on 05/11/2010

John Raeder

CEO, Raeder Venture Management  

John Raeder, CEO-Raeder Venture Management. 25 Year Software and Technology Veteran. Built IQNavigator into a global, market-leading SaaS services procurment and spend management leader with 235 staff, $100M in contract backlog, and a $40M profitable revenue runrate in 2009. Sold IQNavigator in 2008 to a Private Equity firm for $140M. Through Raeder Venture Fund, I have invested in 20+ technology companies in Colorado between 1999-2010 and served on 9 company Boards.Currently serving on The University of Colorado Board of Trustees; The CU Technology Transfer Office; and Chairman of the John Lynch Foundation.

• Intellectual Property on 07/13/2010
• Startup Legal and Incorporation on 06/29/2010

Jon Nordmark

Founder, CEO, Wambo, (eBags)  

After presenting a number of potential internet start-ups to potential co-founders, Jon and a small team founded eBags.com in 1998. He remained CEO until spring 2008. From 2000 through 2007, eBags' CAGR was 33%. As a "drop ship" and "customer voice" pioneer, eBags sold 9.4 million bags and collected 1.4 million product reviews from customers during Jon's CEO tenure. In 1998 and 1999, eBags raised $30 million from Technology Crossover Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Amerindo and many high net worth individuals. eBags became profitable in 2001, having never done a "down round" of funding despite the dot bomb, terrorist attacks (which stalled luggage sales) and the 2000-1 recession. In 2009, Jon founded Wambo which starts 100% digital companies capable of operating with extremely small staffs. It also helps other entrepreneurs keep their dreams alive. While none of the new websites are live yet, Jon's team is working on UsingMiles.com, TrekShare.com and about six other promising ventures. In 2003, Jon was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for the Rocky Mountain Region. In 2009, Colorado Software and Internet Association gave him the Lifetime Achievement Award for dedication to Colorado's technical community. Multichannel Merchant Association awarded eBags.com the USA's best retail website in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008. Jon graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Colorado Business School.

• Fundraising on 08/17/2010

Kimbal Musk

CEO, OneRiot, Medium, (Zip2)  

Kimbal Musk is CEO of Medium, Inc, an internet software company based in Boulder, CO, and OneRiot, a real-time search engine. Prior to Medium, Kimbal has been involved in many young businesses. Kimbal Musk and his brother, Elon, started their first company, Zip2, an early content management company for the Internet, 1995. It was the first company to bring vector-based maps and door-to-door directions to the Internet, and built the online content management systems behind over 100 media companies, including The New York Times. Zip2 was sold for $307 Million in cash in 1999, one of the largest transactions of its kind in the Internet Industry. His prior and current board seats, in addition to Tesla, are Medium, Inc., Everdream Corp., BlackBook Media, SpaceX Corp., and ProgressNow.org. Kimbal also owns The Kitchen, in Boulder, CO, one of "America's Top Restaurants" as per Zagat, Gourmet, and the James Beard Foundation. Kimbal has served as an Adjunct Professor at New York University, and is a graduate of Queen's Business School in Canada, and the French Culinary Institute in New York City.

• Intellectual Property on 07/13/2010

Luke Beatty

Vice President & General Manager, Yahoo!  

Luke is a Vice President and General Manager at Yahoo! Associated Content, which he founded in 2005, was acquired by Yahoo! 2010. Associated Content is known as the web’s first crowd sourced media platform. Prior to founding Associated Content, Luke was the VP of Business Development at WAND, a leading developer of media search and advertising taxonomies technologies. Luke is recognized for his expertise in social media collection and distribution platforms, online advertising models and digital media trends. In 2007, Luke was selected as one of the Business Journal's "40 under 40." Among other advisory roles, he serves on the board of directors of Publish2, a next-generation platform for journalists. Luke is an avid fly fisherman, youth lacrosse coach and sits on the Board of Directors for the Denver Sports Commission. He holds a bachelor's degree from Connecticut College and a master's degree from Harvard University.

• Hiring, Firing and Cofounders on 06/15/2010
• Fundraising on 08/17/2010

Manny Ladis

Director of Sales, ViaWest, Inc.  

Manny has over sixteen years of hands-on experience in the highly competitive technology sector. As the Director of Sales for Denver-based ViaWest, Inc. Manny Ladis has played an instrumental role in the company’s growth and success, seeing it grow from a start-up ISP to now the privately held colocation and managed services provider in North America. Directly responsible for many of the high-end client accounts, such as IHS, State of Colorado and eBags. Manny has brought in roughly 30% of the organization’s organic sales growth in his decade long tenure. An active advocate of technology growth in the Denver market, Manny also volunteers and participates in many local roundtables, mentorships, and events with local organizations like CSIA.

marc braunstein

President, ShopAtHome.com  

Marc Braunstein is CEO and Co-Founder (along with wife Claudia) of Belcaro Group, Inc., a 23 year old direct response company that has evolved from the largest paper based catalog of catalogs into the largest coupon site on the web (ShopAtHome.com). ShopAtHome.com offers more than 100,000 online coupons at more than 20,000 merchants. In 2009 alone, nearly 31 million people shopped through ShopAtHome.com, saving money through the use of coupons and earning millions of dollars in Cash Back rewards. In his spare time, Marc enjoys the great Colorado outdoors, gardening and producing his own music. He holds a BA in Biochemistry from the University of Rochester, and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

• Startup Research on 05/11/2010

Matt Galligan

CEO, SocialThing, SimpleGeo  

Matt Galligan, 25, is the CEO and Co-Founder of SimpleGeo, based out of Boulder, CO that provides comprehensive solutions to enable location-based services in mobile, web and desktop applications. He previously founded Socialthing, a company that was chosen to be part of the inaugural year of TechStars. Socialthing.com went into private beta in March, 2008 at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. The company was acquired five months later by AOL. His background is in graphic design and user experience, working for MonsterCommerce (acquired by Network Solutions), based out of St. Louis, MO. He got his start in the internet and design while working for a disaster restoration company out of Illinois before he turned 16. Matt currently resides in Boulder, CO and is an active member of the startup community there.

• Naming and Branding on 05/18/2010

Matt Frary

Founder, SmarterChaos.com  

Matt Frary is CEO and Founder of SmarterChaos.com. Matt is a also a Founder of one of the top 30 online Ad Networks in the US called ROIRocket.com, and a frequent speaker and influencer in the Affiliate Marketing and Online Marketing arena. Matt has an MBA from #1 International Business School in the world, Thunderbird Graduate School, an education in marketing and business from the University of Colorado, with a strong focus in Russian and Brand Marketing and Finance. Matt enjoys working with start ups to realize their positive ROI quickly and is a passionate and serial entrepreneur.

• Marketing and Sales on 07/27/2010

Matthew Mandell

Founder & CEO, CityCentric.com, Store4Summer.com  

Matt is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of several companies, and currently operates CityCentric.com, a services scheduling portal; and Store4Summer.com, a summer storage company. Matt has directed strategy of a $2.5B procurement company and consults for government and private companies. Matt recently sold DCSnacks.com, a food delivery company as well as Store4Summer.com (Store4Summer unexpectedly came back). Matt's companies have been widely covered in national and local news outlets. He currently serves as a board member of the DC chapter of Entrepreneurs' Organization as well as a national entrepreneurship learning program.

• Vision and Values on 05/04/2010
• Revenues, Costs and Profits on 06/08/2010

Michael Tracy

CEO, Tracy Broadcasting  

GSM Pioneer – Tracy built the first GSM PCS network in the Rocky Mountain region, which currently operates in BTA 411 and was one of the founding members of GSM North America. Mr. Tracy has over 30 years of broadcasting and communications experience and is President of Tracy Broadcasting Corporation, which he founded in 1976. In 1982, Mr. Tracy formed Western Total Communications (Telemetrix Inc.), which provides PCS mobile telephone services. Mr. Tracy holds several patents and has extensive experience working on and implementing technical projects with Ericsson, Unisys, Tecore, UT-Starcom and Syniverse and is a Private and Commercial Pilot.

Michael Kranitz

CEO, Kranitz Media Consulting  

Michael Kranitz, CEO - Kranitz Media Consulting. Michael Kranitz is a former lawyer with 11 years of practice in the field of corporate reorganization and bankruptcy. Since 1996, Kranitz has created and sold more than 10 businesses. Kranitz founded Kaango.com in 2005 and sold 80% of it to Hearst Corporation and MediaNews Group in 2007. In 2010, Kaango was acquired by Atex Corporation. Kranitz has been a featured speaker in the auto, finance, hobby and internet industries. Kranitz was a finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2008.

• Presentation and Publicity on 08/10/2010

Mike Stemple

Founder, Trend Ventures  

I am Mike Stemple, founder/CEO of Trend Ventures. Trend is my personal incubator where I work on around 5 ideas at any given time. Some of the past companies I have created included; Odojo (social media monitoring of teens for parents), sold in 2010; Original Wraps (Powers all the personalization for Ford, Mini-Cooper, GM, Kia, BMW, etc...) , sold in 2009; Skinit (largest consumer personalization company in the world. ~$40/M a year in revenue, 5th year in business), sold in 2007; and nReach (White-label infrastructure for mobile content ecommerce. Customers included, Best Buy, Radioshack, MAXIM/Blender/STUFF/Tiger Beat/Bop magazine's, Sobe Beverages, Americas Next Top Model...) , sold in 2004. I have recently been appointed by Colorado's Governor to The Colorado Governors Council for Physical Fitness, I am a sponsored athlete, an ex semi-famous artist, and a proud veteran of the US Army Medical Corp.

• Outsourcing, Partners and Suppliers on 07/20/2010
• Marketing and Sales on 07/27/2010

Perry Evans

CEO, Closely, Inc., (MapQuest, Jabber, Local Matters)  

Perry Evans is CEO of a new (pre-launch) start-up called Closely, Inc., focused on the real-time social media industry. Mr. Evans has led the formation and early-mid-stage development of MapQuest, Jabber and Local Matters over the past dozen years. He is active on the Board of the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at Colorado University and was 2006 Ernst & Young Software Entrepreneur of the Year for the Rocky Mountain region. Mr. Evans received his MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto, Canada.

• Fundraising on 08/17/2010

Peter Bryant

CEO, TransTech USA LLC  

Peter Bryant is currently CEO of TransTech USA a corporate strategy firm and founding Partner of software solutions company Executuive Simulations. Peter is an executive business strategist with more than 30 years of experience developing and driving high growth strategies for companies in the US, Asia Pacific and Europe. He has advised executive teams at a range of enterprises, from emerging tech businesses through to Global Fortune 500 companies. He has expertise in a broad range of sectors including technology, energy and CPG. Prior to founding these companies Peter spent 25 years in the technology industry including the following roles CEO of Clear Technology, President InfoNow, VP North America Mincom; COO Computer Associates Asia Pacific and Director Business Applications Asia Pacific for GEISCo (SI). Mr. Bryant holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Administration from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand and is an alumnus of the Kellogg School of Management. Peter is also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Chartered Accountant of the NZ Institute of Chartered Accountants. He is a Senior Advisor to the investment bank Q Advisors, is a Senior Fellow of The Kellogg Innovation Network part of the leading Kellogg Business School and is an active mentor for CTEK and CleanLaunch. He also holds numerous board positions including Syft Technologoes, TribeVibe and Zoomani plus a directorship at a nonprofit for under privileged children. He has a broad range of interests including energy policy, innovation, foreign policy, welfare of underpriviliged children (active with Kempe Foundation) and most of all his wife and two young daughters.

• Revenues, Costs and Profits on 06/08/2010

Sandra Hanna

Co-Founder and CEO, The Smart Cookies  

As co-founder and one of five faces of the brand known throughout North America as The Smart Cookies, Sandra plays a pivotal role in the development and execution of a PR strategy that has resulted in appearances form the five financial mavens on Oprah, The Today Show, CNN and in The New York Times. She is the author of two books; The Smart Cookies Guide to Making More Dough, and The Smart Cookie's Guide to Couple's and Money. She also developed and stared in two seasons of The Smart Cookies television series.

• Marketing and Sales on 07/27/2010

Stacey Kramer

Founder, Brandplay  

Stacey Kramer is the founder of Brandplay, a naming and brand strategy agency based in Boulder, CO. For over 15 years Stacey has helped to create compelling messaging and brand names for products and companies, working with clients ranging from Nike, Levi-Strauss, Nestlé and Coca-Cola to entrepreneurial startups including Zayo, Circadence, 6pm.com and Twist natural cleaning products. Previously, Stacey worked for Lexicon Naming in Sausalito, CA and in advertising for Chiat/Day in San Francisco and Saffer Cravit in Chicago. Client experience including working with Apple, Intel, Montgomery Ward, G. Heileman Brewing Co. and Atari. Stacey graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Communications and a BS in Economics.

• Naming and Branding on 05/18/2010

Thomas Filippini

Co-founder, Exclusive Resorts  

Tom Filippini is an experienced startup co-founder and executive with a proven ability to identify market trends and build companies from the ground up. Tom has specialized in building private equity backed businesses, most recently as co-founder of Denver-based Exclusive Resorts. Co-founded by Filippini in 2002, Exclusive Resorts is the definitive leader in the global Luxury Destination Club industry. The company now boasts more than 3,000 members and owns a real estate portfolio valued at over $1 billion. Collectively, as an investment banker and executive, Filippini has been involved in raising over $500 million in equity and debt capital for his businesses.

• Presentation and Publicity on 08/10/2010

Vane Clayton

CEO, KPA, LLC  

Vane Clayton is CEO of KPA, LLC, a profitable, private company with 150 employees providing e-commerce and compliance SaaS solutions to the auto services industry. Prior to KPA, Clayton has a strong background in growth and turn-around situations as President/CEO of 3 companies, including ZOLL Data Systems (www.zoll.com - NASDAQ), TROY Wireless (www.troygroup.com - ), and SOS Wireless Communications (co-founder and board member). Clayton has been a board member of 4 companies and currently serves as the audit chair for Ironclad (www.ironclad.com). He has a mechanical/agricultural engineering BS from Purdue and MBA from Harvard Business School. He has been a Vistage member since 2004 and was a board member of the Colorado Software and Internet Association from 2006-9.

• Intellectual Property on 07/13/2010
• Product and Service Development on 05/25/2010

Vince Jones

President & CEO, eBags  

Vince joined eBags in January 2009 as President and CEO. Prior to joining eBags, he was Vice President of Operations and Finance at Sharpcast where he led all operations for the maker of the award-winning SugarSync online storage, syncing and file sharing service. Prior to Sharpcast, Vince was the sixth employee at Walmart.com, where he was a key architect of the company's backend infrastructure. As a senior director in the company's operations group, Vince helped build the company into a leading e-commerce business. Earlier in his career, he held operations and finance roles at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and Texas Instruments. Vince received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BS from the Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas where he was named The Outstanding Graduating Senior.

• Outsourcing, Partners and Suppliers on 07/20/2010

Xavier Casanova

CEO, Liveclicker  

Xavier is a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur specialized in eCommerce, Web Analytics and Video commerce. Xavier was the founder of Web analytics innovator Fireclick in 1998 (acquired by Digital River (NASD:DRIV) in 2004, Perenety (now Wambo) and most recently, Liveclicker, the leading provider of video commerce solutions for e-retailers.