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Mar 30, 2022

Breaking the Bias: 3 Harsh Realities of Gender Bias in Healthcare

Here’s the reality: gender and power significantly influences healthcare. It shouldn’t, and my hope is that we continue to build a future where all that matters in healthcare is what you need. Before I continue, I want to be clear that when I say “woman” or “women” in this article, I’m referring to any and [&hellip[...]

Mar 24, 2022

Good Company: Ted Leighty

Ted Leighty has been CEO of the Colorado Association of Homebuilders (CAHB) since 2017 as well as CEO of the Homebuilders Association of Metro Denver since late 2020. The CAHB has 10 local builder associations across Colorado and a statewide membership of nearly 2,000, representing 40,000 jobs in the industry. The CAHB advocates[...]

Mar 23, 2022

CBCA Awards 12 Honorees in Business for the Arts 2022

On March 15, Colorado Business Committee for the Arts (CBCA) celebrated 12 honorees at its 2022 Business for the Arts Awards, presented by EY and PNC Bank. CBCA’s largest annual fundraiser and celebration — the Awards luncheon is the only statewide event honoring companies and individuals for their outstanding partnerships[...]

Mar 17, 2022

Snooze Partners with World Central Kitchen to Support Ukraine

Denver’s treasured breakfast eatery, Snooze, has partnered with global culinary and humanitarian group, World Central Kitchen, to support refugees and workers on the ground in Ukraine by donating restaurant sales from pancake specials in the initiative, “Pancakes for Peace.” From Thursday, March 17 through Wednesday, March[...]

Mar 16, 2022

BKD Announces Promotion, Hire for Marketing Roles

BKD is a national CPA and advisory firm that assesses not only accounting, but further risk management, technology, wealth management, and forensic and valuation services, serving nationwide and internationally. Across 14 markets in eight states, Jennifer Hallam will now take the helm as regional marketing director, and in Halla[...]

Mar 14, 2022

Top Entrepreneur: James Eberhard

It all started with a bow tie — or, more precisely, the lack of a bow tie. Serial entrepreneur James Eberhard needed one for his brother-in-law’s rehearsal dinner in August 2015. “I had left mine at home,” he remembers. “This was Brooklyn, New York. There’s got to be community sharing centers for [...]

Mar 10, 2022

Johnson Financial Group Appoints Kristin Keffeler: Chief Learning Officer

  Kristin Keffeler will help Johnson Financial Group incorporate a more holistic approach in helping clients achieve well-being beyond preserving and growing their wealth. Johnson Financial Group takes an integrated approach in finding better ways to manage wealth, tackling the complexities that often come with investment a[...]

Mar 8, 2022

Annie H. Lee, JD, Leads Colorado Access as New President and CEO

  Officially taking lead February 14, 2022, Annie H. Lee, JD, entered the role of president and CEO of Colorado Access after Marshall Thomas, MD, who recently retired and led the company for 16 years (of its near 30-year history). Lee has extensive experience working in Colorado’s Medicaid landscape, as the Executive [...]

Feb 16, 2022

Coloradoans are Playing an Important Role in the Global Energy Evolution

Energy powers the world, plain and simple. It’s what keeps our lights on, our homes warm, and provides us with so many daily necessities whether we realize it or not. When you think of the individuals who have played an important role in energy’s evolution historical figures probably come to mind: Thomas Edison, Ben Franklin[...]

Dec 28, 2021

The 2021 CEO of the Year: Mario Ciabarra

Quantum Metric grew by a dizzying 2,946% from 2018 to 2020, good for 124th on the annual Inc. 5000 list, and eclipsed 400 employees in late 2021. It emerged as a tech unicorn — a startup with a valuation of more than $1 billion — after closing on a $200 million Series B financing round in early 2021.

Dec 28, 2021

Todd Bowling’s company is a nationally recognized IT solutions provider

Solutions II specializes in managed services, IT security, business continuance, virtualization and data lifecycle management.

Dec 28, 2021

Scott Farrell leads i2 Construction’s operations in Denver

The 40-employee commercial general contractor, founded by Allan Fries in 1999, specializes in creating tenant improvements for technology, law and financial firms.