Step into the inaugural Company Spotlight Catalog by BEN Colorado. This marks the beginning of our yearly exploration into cutting-edge consumer experiences. Discover innovation in our 2023 catalog below, setting the stage for an exciting tradition!
Read MoreBrad has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987. Prior to co-founding Foundry, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures. Brad is also a co-founder of Techstars and the Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network. Brad is a writer and speaker on the topics of venture capital investing and entrepreneurship. He’s written a number of books as part of the Startup Revolution series and writes the blog Feld Thoughts.
We held an exclusive interview with Brad Feld on the release of his new book, Startup Boards: A Field Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Board of Directors. Authors Brad Feld, Matt Blumberg, and Mahendra Ramsinghani provide seasoned advice and guidance to CEOs, board members, investors, and anyone aspiring to serve on a board. This comprehensive book covers a wide range of topics with relevant tips, tactics, and best practices.
Read MoreAngela Healy is the CEO and Co-Owner of AvenueWest Managed Corporate Housing. Angela has a strong record of leadership in real estate investment, real estate management and franchise ownership, business development, and commercial banking with more than 25 years of industry experience. She is the co-owner of multiple AvenueWest Managed Corporate Housing Franchises and AvenueWest Global Franchise, LLC. She guides the real estate franchise’s strategies for growth and ensures that AvenueWest’s core philosophy of investor-centric decision making is reflected throughout the company.
Read MoreDr. Heather Underwood joined EvoEndo in 2019 after completing the Stanford Biodesign Fellowship for medical device innovation. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Colorado Boulder's ATLAS Institute where she developed and implemented clinical decision support systems for midwives and nurses in Kenya, receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Grant and a Gates Grand Challenges Grant to support her research.
Read MoreWe are thrilled to welcome Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management as BEN Colorado's newest Marketplace Partner. Our partners are individuals and organizations that support the sustainability of Colorado's scale-up ecosystem through their generous contributions and time. The Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management partnership will bring three of its team members who have worked together for over a decade serving entrepreneurs into the BEN Network. We look forward to having Chris Halstedt, Evan Boff, and Joe Murt included in upcoming BEN Colorado programming.
Read MoreChris Romer is the CEO of one of the fastest-growing companies in ClimateTech, Project Canary, who just closed $111 million in Series B funding from top climate tech and SaaS-focused investors. His history of public service, economics, and leadership in energy have all combined for his role at this Public Benefit Corporation focused on altering the course of climate change. His background in energy, education, policymaking, B-Corp capital formation, and entrepreneurship is instrumental in achieving Project Canary’s mission-driven growth goals and customer service objectives.
Read MoreJanine has spent the past 15 years passionately pursuing the art and science of successful grab-and-go retail for commercial real estate operators and developers. She has worked with 1,000's of hotels and CREs to bring incremental revenue opportunities to lobbies and common areas with Impulsify’s proprietary self-service technology and data-driven retail design.
When she is not leading Impulsify’s growth and innovation efforts, she is also Co-Owner of Platte Street Mercantile – a self-service convenience store that serves the Platte Street community in Denver and functions as a lab on product strategy and end-user insights for Impulsify’s self-service technology.
Read MoreIn keeping with our multi-layered focus on diversity and inclusion, we were pleased to interview Helen Young Hayes, BEN Colorado Board Member, Founder/CEO of Activate Workforce Solutions, and Author of Colorado Inclusive Economy (CIE), and CIE’s new CEO, Luella Chavez D’Angelo. Helen and Luella updated us on how Colorado Inclusive Economy is proving effective one year in and the imperative for the continuation of diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
Read MoreDENVER — The Denver ScaleUp Network (DenSUN), a program developed by Denver Economic Development & Opportunity (DEDO), along with partners Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network (BEN Colorado) and Colorado Thought Leaders Forum, is celebrating five years of success supporting Denver’s startup community. The DenSUN is an intensive six-month training program for selected local startups looking to achieve their next level of strategic growth.
Read MoreDoug Chapiewsky is leading Kanso Software through a reinvention of a 25-year-old company into a modern sustainable going forward entity. As CEO and President, he oversees the company’s ongoing efforts to expand the Kanso platform into new markets. Prior to joining the company in 2012, Doug founded a telecommunications software company that was sold to a publicly-traded Israeli firm. He started his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories and held a variety of engineering and management positions.
Read MoreA seasoned entrepreneur with 20+ years of high-growth experience within digital media and enterprise software (SaaS), Andrew co-founded Choozle, a middle-market end-to-end digital marketing platform, in the fall of 2012. Prior to Choozle, Andrew co-founded and built the RGM Alliance, a premium-focused online advertising network that reaches over 120M consumers in the US, and scaled the business to $10M in annual revenues within 3 years. Prior to that, he led the development of business development and sales teams at Passenger, a leader in providing consumer insights for A-tier brands through closed communities, and also held sales and strategy leadership roles at InterActiveCorp. Andrew holds a BA in Economics from Vanderbilt (cum laude), and an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Business.
Read MoreTracey Campbell is the Chief Executive Officer of BRIDGE Healthcare Partners, LLC, a shared/management service organization, providing comprehensive Information Technology, Security and Compliance, Revenue Cycle Management, and Electronic Health Record services to mission-based organizations across the United States. Tracey has significant leadership expertise in transforming organizational strategy, growth, and value in the healthcare technology and service industry. She has held executive positions in both for-profit and non-profit companies, with a passion for growing start-up organizations serving a community purpose. Tracey thrives on engaging diverse leadership, business development, and operational excellence with her teams to drive growth and innovation.
Read MoreCully is an energy entrepreneur with a passion for innovative environmental solutions. As the Co-Founder and President of Crusoe Energy Systems, he has led the creation of a new category of energy and environmental service called Digital Flare Mitigation. Digital Flare Mitigation converts wasted or flared natural gas into high-powered computing by deploying modular, mobile, gas-powered data centers directly in the oilfield, and reduces flaring by millions of cubic feet per day.
Read MoreScott Tibbitts was the founder and CEO of Starsys Research, a global leader in spacecraft mechanism design with 150 employees, and a record of 3,000 mechanisms flown on 300 spacecraft with zero failures. Starsys was acquired by Sierra Nevada Corporation in 2008. Prior, Scott was the Founder and Vice-Chair of eSpace, the Center for Space Entrepreneurship, a congressionally funded aerospace incubator supporting the creation and development of entrepreneurial space companies.
Read MoreWe were pleased to host a virtual fireside chat featuring Helen Young Hayes [BEN Colorado Board Member, and Founder & CEO of Activate Workforce Solutions] to discuss the imperative for diversity and inclusion in the workplace. To keep the conversation alive, we asked Helen to answer a few outstanding questions.
Read MorePrior to joining SyncHR as its CEO, Pam spent 15+ years in consulting, first as a Partner at Andersen Business Consulting leading the PeopleSoft practice and then as a Managing Director at BearingPoint where she led various global Oracle and PeopleSoft solutions. Since joining SyncHR in its very early stage, Pam has led all aspects of bringing the product to market and continuing to scale the business, including raising several rounds of financing. The SyncHR team has a distributed workforce of 75+ employees with offices in Denver, CO (headquarters), Oakland, CA, and Sofia, Bulgaria.
Read MoreMark Frank is the CEO and Co-Founder of SonderMind, a growth company that is focused on making mental health services more accessible and accepted for everyone. Currently, SonderMind sits at 110 employees but is growing quickly.
Read MoreMs. Callender-Potters has a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Management from Claremont McKenna College and an MBA from Wharton, the University of Pennsylvania. One of the co-founders of the company, Heather has over 25 years of active investment experience including Private Equity fund management and international investment (BCEE; Enterprise Investors) across multiple jurisdictions and has managed individual investments and financial investor consortiums, ranging from $1 million to an excess of $100 million. She has also held board positions with several companies across a variety of industries ranging from auto-parts to systems integration, publishing, and light-manufacturing.
Read MoreIn an effort to best serve the Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network, we are asking various members to share their stories as they led their company through a former economic downturn. Throughout her tenure as CEO of tw telecom, Larissa Herda navigated two major economic downturns which forced her to make incredibly challenging and transformative business decisions. These decisions allowed tw telecom not only to endure, but to grow and thrive. We spoke with Larissa about her experience with a mass layoff, maintaining viability in an unpredictable market, and the power of vulnerability.
Read MoreIn an effort to best serve our Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network Members, we are asking various leaders to share their experience in former economic downturns and challenging times that affected their business. For our first COVID-19 CEO spotlight we interviewed Greg Greenwood, who serves as CEO/ED Emeritus and Board Member for the Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network.
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