Islands of Data - connected, working together
1699_ 3/30/15 - As the C-Level @ A Mile High Live Auction begins, we are talking with Mark Geene, Founder & CEO of Cloud Elements. Since our last visit with Mark, a lot has happened. Mark tells us they've raised their first round of venture capital, added about 30 people to their company and moved into a new space down near Coors Field, in the building called Industry - we're growing like crazy, and about a few hundred customers later. We are making it easier to make all the cloud services and applications that companies use, to work together. The Internet of Things is just a huge opportunity we're engaging in, where everything from street lamps to toothbrushes to appliances have APIs - but they don't work together. We help them all work together. And we help developers build applications and move data from all those devices and much more easily than they can do writing them individually.
RELATED LINKS: Cloud Elements || INDUSTRY || Economy Builders || KEYWORDS: Mark Geene, Cloud-Elements, API, Application Programming Interfaces, Startups, S&B services, venture capital, cloud services, Internet of Things, Entrepreneurs, , bytes=2565750
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Business transformation teams focus
1701_ 3/30/15 - Evan Eakin is Red Robin Gourmet Burgers vice president of information technology. As part of that, "we're interested in driving change at Red Robin. I certainly own the technology part of that. Friends and colleagues in our Business Transformation Group focus on program management. And then also in our Operations Services arm, which in our business is about driving change in our restaurants. We have 400 corporate restaurants, across about 44 states in the U.S. and Canada, with about 28,000 team members that we've got to be able to reach. I can do that through technology but often that's not good enough if I don't have the change enablement and the change management. That's really what our three teams focus on, business transformation at Red Robin." Larry asked how long it takes to drive these changes through an organization like this. "Depending on the type of change" says Evan, "if you've got a large software package…"
RELATED LINKS: Red Robin Gourmet Burgers || CTA Events || Colorado Technology Assoc || Software Channel || KEYWORDS: Evan Eakin, Red Robin, IT, Driving Change, technology, business transformation, program management, operations services, change enablement, change management, bytes=4292339
LISTEN TO: Evan Eakin, Vice President, Information Technology, Red Robin Gourmet Burgers

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It's a lot more like dating than going to a bank
1695_ 3/23/15 - Back in 2007 he founded Filterbox, a Techstars success story. Today Ari Newman is a partner at Techstars Ventures... "It's been amazing to see how Techstars has grown and evolved and delivered value around the world. And it's great to be part of the team here." Interesting, looking back, Larry took Brad Feld's recommendation to interview David Cohen and David Brown, Techstars cofounders, before they actually launched. Brad naturally recognized the potential, and the rest is history. Now Ari tells us, he is a partner in Techstars Ventures, which is a seed and Series A venture fund and so, "I spend my time talking to entrepreneurs, looking at business and investment opportunities, and helping companies every day. I am essentially a VC. So, we help the companies by giving them capital, we often take board seats or act as advisors. and the truth is we try to be helpful to every Techstars company whether..."
Listen for more from Ari...
RELATED LINKS: Techstars || Techstars Ventures || Economy Builders || Venture Capital || Foundry Group || KEYWORDS: Ari Newman, Techstars Ventures, VC, Angel Investor, Brad Feld, David Cohen, David Brown, Entrepreneurs, Filterbox, Capital, Techstars, bytes=3974272
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34th Boulder Distinguished Citizen Recognition Dinner
1697_ 3/23/15 - RELATED Boy Scouts of America: Longs Peak Council

CIO, Helping homeless pets… One Vet at a time
1700_ 3/30/15 - Here at C-Level @ A Mile High, we met, Teri Angel Burley, officially representing Budget Management Institute where she is a volunteer teaching others how to be project managers. Teri helps with the certification program - and she also helps veterans to become project managers as well as being acclimated back to civilian life . Teri, also a veteran said, "I try to keep busy in my off-time, and I'm all about giving back time. I like to volunteer and I'm on lots of boards, and I look forward to getting further involved with C-Level" Teri is the new CIO at Envision Radiology. On a personal level Teri loves to create jewelry and, she does dog rescue. So she creates jewelry to sell [Angel Arms Jewelry] and 100% of those proceeds go to 'Pets for Vets'. Teri takes in special needs dogs, dogs that are disabled, and rehabs them either for being adopted or going to a vet. If a dog has too many medical needs, Teri keeps them. The jewelry sold is to either sponsor veterans or a pet that can be matched with a veteran for PTSD. So, that's what she does for fun, "Helping homeless pets… One Vet and one Pet at a time."
RELATED LINKS: Angel Arms Jewelry || Envision Radiology || Budget Management Institute || Pets for Vets || KEYWORDS: Teri Angel Burley, Volunteering, U.S. Veterans, Pets for Vets, Homeless Pets, Angel Arms Jewelry, Budget Management Institute, bytes=3352349
LISTEN TO: Teri Angel Burley, CIO & Veteran

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The Biggest Technology Event in Colorado
1694_ 3/23/15 - Arriving early to interview some of the business and technology 'celebrities', we found Steven Foster, Chairman of the CTA organization, smartly attired in his 'Cowboy Tux'. Larry asked him about the size and growth of the event. Steven said, "We used to laugh and say, how big can C-Level get. Now it's become the biggest event in the state. and it's not just a technology event. It's the biggest business event for those leaders in the State of Colorado that are driving innovation and technology. And quite frankly, the business and economy of Colorado." Steven Foster is also the Chief Operating Officer for GTRI, "...a $350M infrastructure company founded by a couple of guys here in town about 15 years ago and I've been blessed to be on their board of directors and now running the company for the two founders." Larry asked Steven about the future, given the difficulties we've been through in the past decade. The challenge? "It's always the same challenge..." Listen for more...
RELATED LINKS: Colorado Technology Assoc || C-Level @ A Mile High || STRIDE || Global Technology Resources, Inc. || Software Channel || KEYWORDS: Steven Foster, Colorado Technology Assoc, CTA, C-Level @ A Mile High, Software, Chief Operating Officer, GTRI, STRIDE, Anschutz Center, Technology Community, Healthcare Industry, Health IT Industry, bytes=4066641
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