JB Holston is the CEO of the Greater Washington Partnership and was the dean of the University of Denver’s Daniel Felix Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science from July 2015 until August 2020. Prior to becoming Dean he was the founding Executive Director for the Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network and founding CEO for NewsGator/Sitrion. JB’s impact on the business, policy, and technology sectors in Colorado have been numerious, including is with at the State’s response to Covid 19. In 2014, the Colorado Technology Association awarded JB the Bob Newman Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the technology industry in Colorado.

JB Holston is the CEO of the Greater Washington Partnership and was the dean of the University of Denver’s Daniel Felix Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science from July 2015 until August 2020. Prior to becoming Dean he was the founding Executive Director for the Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network and founding CEO for NewsGator/Sitrion. JB’s impact on the business, policy, and technology sectors in Colorado have been numerious, including is with at the State’s response to Covid 19. In 2014, the Colorado Technology Association awarded JB the Bob Newman Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the technology industry in Colorado.

Links to things we talk about:

• JB Holston on LinkedIn
• Greater Washington Partnership

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Phil Weiser, Colorado Attorney General, was sworn in as the State’s 39th Attorney General on January 8, 2019. As the state’s chief legal officer, Attorney General Weiser is committed to protecting the people of Colorado and building an innovative and collaborative organization that will address a range of statewide challenges, from addressing the opioid epidemic to reforming our criminal justice system to protecting our land, air, and water.

Attorney General Weiser has dedicated his life to the law, justice, and public service. Before running for office, Weiser served as the Hatfield Professor of Law and Dean of the University of Colorado Law School, where he founded the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship and co-chaired the Colorado Innovation Council.

Weiser served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice and as Senior Advisor for Technology and Innovation in the Obama Administration’s National Economic Council. He served on President Obama’s Transition Team, overseeing the Federal Trade Commission and previously served in President Bill Clinton’s Department of Justice as senior counsel to the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division, advising on telecommunications matters.

Before his appointment at the Justice Department, Weiser served as a law clerk to Justices Byron R. White and Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the United States Supreme Court and to Judge David Ebel at the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, Colorado.

The son and grandson of Holocaust survivors, Weiser is deeply committed to the American Dream and ensuring opportunity for all Coloradans. Weiser lives in Denver with his wife, Dr. Heidi Wald, and their two children.

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• Phil Weiser on LinkedIn
• Colorado Attorney General page

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Pattie Money brings over 25 years of People leadership experience, working with executives and leaders at all organizational levels. Her work is focused on driving exceptional organizational performance while helping those within the organization achieve their fullest potential. She currently serves as the interim Chief People Office at Twilio and was the Chief People Officer at SendGrid until their successful acquisition by Twilio, where she was responsible for the companies greatest asset, their people. She has been responsible for building and implementing the People strategies and programs required to support ambitious growth and an evolving organization while preserving and enhancing an award winning culture.

Prior to joining SendGrid, Pattie served as Chief People Officer at TubeMogul, a publicly traded global ad tech company in the Bay area and Senior Vice President of Human Resources for Mercury Payment Systems, a payment technology company. Prior to Mercury, she lead the People function for Monotype, a publicly traded font and font technology company headquartered in Boston, leading through multiple stages of growth including a successful IPO and global expansion.

Pattie holds a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from University of Memphis and a Master of Science in Human Resource Development Degree from Villanova University.

Links to things we talk about:

• Pattie Money on LinkedIn
• Twilio
• https://twilio.org

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Pattie Money brings over 25 years of People leadership experience, working with executives and leaders at all organizational levels. Her work is focused on driving exceptional organizational performance while helping those within the organization achieve their fullest potential. She currently serves as the interim Chief People Office at Twilio and was the Chief People Officer at SendGrid until their successful acquisition by Twilio, where she was responsible for the companies greatest asset, their people. She has been responsible for building and implementing the People strategies and programs required to support ambitious growth and an evolving organization while preserving and enhancing an award winning culture.

Prior to joining SendGrid, Pattie served as Chief People Officer at TubeMogul, a publicly traded global ad tech company in the Bay area and Senior Vice President of Human Resources for Mercury Payment Systems, a payment technology company. Prior to Mercury, she lead the People function for Monotype, a publicly traded font and font technology company headquartered in Boston, leading through multiple stages of growth including a successful IPO and global expansion.

Pattie holds a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from University of Memphis and a Master of Science in Human Resource Development Degree from Villanova University.

Links to things we talk about:

• Pattie Money on LinkedIn
• Twilio
• Twilio.org

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Jarret Winkelman is the founder and CEO of Incident Response Technologies. He previously worked for a number of public safety organizations in Colorado, and through that experience saw a need to modernize the processes used to pre-plan and manage emergency responses. Incident Response Technologies solves that need with the Rhodium Incident Management platform.

Historically, public safety agencies have used binders of paper to store response plans and whiteboards to track their resources during incidents. Rhodium digitalizes that process on an easy-to-use interface that is accessible from almost any web-enabled device. Rhodium can be used daily for local incident management but can also be scaled to support large events with multiple agencies. Customers have deployed Rhodium to manage events and incidents ranging from the Boston Marathon and major hurricanes, to events right here in Colorado including Colorado Rapids and CSU Football games.

Links to things we talk about:

• Jarret Winkelman on LinkedIn
• Incident Response Technologies, Inc.
• Chris Maloney, founder of emergency dispatch giant is latest IRT investor

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Kent Dickson is the co-founder and CEO of Yonomi, the IoT company creating a more connected smart home. Yonomi builds smart home solutions for people and companies to connect devices, integrate multiple platforms, and Bring the Home to Life(TM).

Kent’s background includes serving as General Manager of GridMachine, a massive scale Grid Computing-as-a-Service operated as a business unit of Sentient AI. Prior to that Kent was CTO at Tendril where he led product development and strategy for a first of its kind Cloud platform for the Internet of Things with a focus on residential energy management use cases.

Kent also spent 9 years at BEA Systems leading the teams for several market defining products in the WebLogic and AquaLogic lines. Kent has spent 10 years working on the Smart Home frontier, partnering with leading device makers, voice assistants, AI innovators, and service providers. Kent holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering and an MBA from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Links to things we talk about:

• Kent Dickson on LinkedIn
• Yonomi Website
• Yonomi on Instagram

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Adam is CEO and co-founder of Village. As a parent of 4 kids, he saw the problems that social media causes kids and committed to building a safer and healthier alternative. Previously Adam has been a leader in tech companies ranging from pre-revenue to pre-IPO, including a $1.9 billion exit with Mercury Payments in Durango. He started his career in investment banking where he helped companies with capital raising, IPOs and M&A.

Links to things we talk about:

• Adam Ahern on LinkedIn
• Village Social
• Mercury Payments Sold to Vantiv

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Paul Foley is a Colorado native and huge tech startup enthusiast. He co-founded and sold a tech startup Augur to BounceX, and has since turned his attention to investing and venture capital. He has created a new investment model, SmartCapital Colorado, which is a portfolio of 25 fast-growth Colorado companies.

Colorado is one of the most innovative states in America. We have one of the highest concentration of entrepreneurs and technology companies in the nation. But in order to keep growing, these companies need capital. Capital is the lifeblood of any early stage business, however, according to Pitchbook, we’re not even in the top 10 when it comes to receiving Venture capital funding, although we have a multitude of investment opportunities in early-stage companies.

The team at Smart Capital is here to change this.

From an Investors Perspective, early-stage companies can be one of the highest returning asset classes out there.

But historically, the opportunity to invest in fast-growing companies has been reserved for Venture Capital Funds or wealthy Angels. Early investors in Facebook, Uber, and SnapChat made millions of dollars based on their relatively low initial investment.

Early stage investing is risky though. Many investors believe that the best strategy is to invest in around twenty-five companies to ensure diversification. They know that a number of those companies won’t make it, a few will prosper but not make it big, but that of those 25 companies, one will hit it big and return 10x the investment.

The founders of SmartCapital Colorado want to enable more people to invest and share in the rewards.

With Smart Capital, now you have investment access to some of the fastest growing companies in our state.

They have built a portfolio of 25 fast-growth companies, with some pretty clever criteria.

To be included in the portfolio, the company must have: Strong ties to Colorado, have revenue and trajectory to grow revenue with additional funding, have an identifiable market size that the company can expand into, and backed by other reputable VC’s or accelerators.

Invest with as little as $30,000, which is the approximate equivalent of $1,200 per company. You are immediately diversified amongst a variety of promising and fast-growing companies.

You won’t find access like this anywhere else.

Investors can invest in the portfolio between now and June 30th, 2019.

Links to things we talk about:

• Paul Foley on LinkedIn
• SmartCapital