Recent Articles from Lynn Bronikowski
Executive Edge: Nicole Singleton
Nicole Singleton last spring was named president and CEO of the Colorado Black Chamber of Commerce, heading up an organization that represents 300 companies and 1,000 individuals.
Executive edge: Don Elliman
Don Elliman has dined with royalty, walked the Oscars’ red carpet, attended countless sporting events including the Olympics and been on stage with 22 supermodels. But on a fall day in downtown Denver, the chancellor of the University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus gets a charge out of...
Executive edge: Linda Arneson
When Linda Arneson started her career at Delta Dental, she worked out of the basement of a two-bedroom apartment in central Denver. At age 18, she would painstakingly file paperwork as a temp worker in an effort to gain business experience. In 1972, the graduate of Aurora’s Hinkley High School was...
Executive edge: Richard Martinez
Richard Martinez grew up in Pueblo, the son of a steel worker who witnessed first-hand the ups and downs of the steel industry – long layoffs, strikes and several injuries to his father. "Even after being injured he’d continue to return to work, and work very hard," said Martinez, president and CE...
Executive edge: Amy Burkett
For Amy Burkett, principal of Denver-based Burkett Design, the chance of a lifetime began with a voice mail from a world away. The American University of Afghanistan was awarded $5 million to build the International Center for Afghan Women’s Economic Development and in a national search was pursuing Burkett, as a women-owned firm, to do […]
Executive edge: Pat Hamill
Every morning Pat Hamill rises at 4 and heads to the gym. He puts in more than a full day’s work at his homebuilding business while also helping various nonprofits and serving on the board of trustees of the University of Denver, his alma mater. "I’ll kick back and rest when I’m dead," says the pr...
Executive edge: Christine Riordan
When Christine Riordan four years ago took the helm as dean of the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver, the school was not ranked on BusinessWeek’s prestigious list of the top business schools. Today, the school ranks 57th among 3,600 business schools nationwide and 13,000 worldwide. And Riordan is a rarity among […]
Executive edge: Vic Ahmed
Tucked in the Denver Tech Center is Innovation Pavilion, an energetic place where ideas are born. Its founder, Vic Ahmed, hopes the next Google, Facebook or Groupon will strike within. "This incubator has been a four-year journey for me," said Ahmed, who opened the doors on his 80,000-square-foot...
Executive edge: John Kelley
John Kelley beams when he reads an email about a 15-year-old boy whose behavioral problems turned around after he underwent a brain scan at Denver-based CereScan Corp., where the former chief executive officer at McData Corp. is CEO. "It’s satisfying to know we have had a positive impact on the li...
Executive edge: Wendy Mitchell
Ten years ago, shortly after Wendy Mitchell was named president and chief executive of the Aurora Economic Development Council, she took a risk – asking businesspeople what they thought of Aurora. "Our study came out to say that people thought Aurora was not a good place to do business, that Auror...
Executive edge: Greg Anton
Growing up in Massachusetts, Greg Anton would take a 30-second ride on a ski lift to zip down a 300-vertical-foot run at Blue Hills ski area. He would read about Colorado in ski magazines and dream of someday skiing here. So when it came time to go to college he set his sights on the University of...
Tax time 2012
With tax season right around the corner we turned to Jack Allgood, tax partner at Anton Collins Mitchell LLP for advice on tax issues in 2012. Q. Considering the state of the U.S. Treasury and the government’s projected deficit spending, has the IRS stepped up the audit process? A. Yes, clearly the IRS has increased […]