FirstBank ‘Walks the Walk’ in Empowering Women
Not only does FirstBank have women in leadership, but it is equipping its employees with the right tools and resources to progress their careers.
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Colorado Women Together lifts up female entrepreneurs
The Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce, The Dames, The Women of Denver, WoMAN (Women of Mergers & Acquisitions Network) and Extraordinary Women Connect have banded together to help female entrepreneurs.
The Women to Watch of 5Star Bank
The SVP and manager of business credit and SVP of commercial banking at 5Star Bank are playing a vital role in Colorado and local economies.
Colorado's 2020 Women to Watch
Women in business represent CEOs, startup founders, strategists and irreplaceable employees who not only are instrumental in their own organization’s success, but they set a precedent of possibilities for the next generation of women in business.
Emergenetics International makes leadership changes
Dr. Browning founded Emergenetics International in 1985 and had served as its Chief Executive Officer for more than 35 years. Now, she's assuming the new role of founder and board chair.
Josh Freed is leading the work-from-home transformation
About 40% of U.S. employees now work away from a company office, and Proximity is at the front end of the transformation. Proximity is poised to grow even more as various property owners and businesses launch coworking initiatives.
Mario Ciabarra's latest venture is improving the internet
After starting three successful startups, Mario Ciabarra launched Quantum Metric in 2015. The company helps brands create better digital products faster by aligning their teams.
Karen Hertz is taking the gluten out of beer
Karen Hertz launched Holidaily Brewing Co. in Golden in early 2016 to craft gluten-free beers with millet and buckwheat instead of barley and wheat.
Entrepreneurs create new path for backcountry skiing education
Jeff Woodward and Erik Lambert co-founded Bluebird Backcountry to create a better way to learn how to backcountry ski by creating a ski area without chairlifts. Here's what is next for the duo.
Entrepreneur of 2020: Katica Roy
With a cutting-edge software platform that helps large organizations achieve gender equity, Katica Roy has upended the conversation by focusing on economics.
Alex Cranberg marks 20 years as champion for school choice
Alongside his entrepreneurial interests as the founder and chairman of Aspect Energy LLC, Alex Cranberg is the co-founder of ACE Scholarships, now in its 20th year and operating in eight states.
Albus Brooks and Alan Salazar to serve as co-chairs of Denver's Long Term Recovery Committee
The LTRC will be composed of executive city departments and agencies, as well as appropriate outside organizations, and will be responsible for overseeing and advising the mayor on coordinated strategies for whole community recovery actions related to COVID-19 within the City and County of Denver.
Crestone Capital Names Five New Shareholders
Crestone Capital, an independent firm wealth management firm, recently named Executive Directors Taylor Gitcho, Eliza Leach, Emily Mears, Norma Plache and Lindsay Searer as its new shareholders.
Local tattoo artist drums up new business amid COVID-19 closures
When Gov. Polis issued the order closing all personal service businesses on March 19, Nate Stephens and the other seven artists at Marion Street were left without their main source of income. So, Stephens began to grow a side business selling t-shirts for charity. Here is his story of innovation and resilience.
6 Questions with Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame Inductee Marianne Neifert
In each of her many titles, Marianne Neifert, MD, MTS, has dedicated herself to improving maternal-child health by doggedly providing education to health professionals, implementing model lactation services, helping re-establish breastfeeding as a community norm and advancing the nascent discipline of breastfeeding medicine.
6 Questions with Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame Inductee Gale Norton
As the Colorado Attorney General she helped negotiate a $206 billion national tobacco settlement; won a court victory against the federal government to clean up the hazardous waste at Rocky Flats and the Rocky Mountain Arsenal. As US Interior Secretary she resolved a 70-year water dispute between Colorado and California; and much more.
Building the brand that is Jennifer Kupcho
The 22-year old golfer, Jennifer Kupcho, shares her journey from Westminster's Ranch Country Club to playing in 19 professional tournaments on the LPGA Tour, in which she made more money than all but 38 players. And now, she's gearing up to play in 26 tournaments.
6 Questions with Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame Inductee Velveta Golightly-Howell
Throughout her career, working at the local, state, regional and federal levels, Howell has become a role model for other African American women and girls. Currently, she serves as one of twelve appointees to the Robert Wood Johnson-funded Colorado Healthcare Reform Executive Steering Committee and Turning Point Initiative.
6 Questions with Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame Inductee Katherine Archuleta
Read the conversation below between ColoradoBiz and Archuleta as she shares knowledge and advice from her career, detailing her journey into politics and the movement that defined her career.
Kate Bailey applies journalistic lessons to entrepreneurial pursuits
Kate Bailey launched her career as a reporter-editor at two ColoradoBiz sister publications. Like many in the media industry, she went to the “dark side” in the fall of 2013, entrepreneurially evolving her journalistic skills to craft her own public relations firm, largely serving luxury and lifestyle brands, including multiple Inc. 500 companies.
6 questions with bankruptcy lawyer Kevin Neiman on COVID-19 preparations
Neiman answers questions on the short- and long-term economic impacts of coronavirus on the state; how businesses can protect themselves from bankruptcy; and the options available to Colorado companies to protect their long-term profit.
Top Techies Jessica Rusin and Bijal Shah bring innovation to tuition
As one of the first companies in the tuition-payments space, Guild Education is paving its own way forward with a diverse team of employees, unique technology, partnerships and more.
Top Techie Regina Ocwieja looks to eliminate the paper problem
Documents are fundamental to business operations, but physical pages are growing obsolete and can result in inefficiencies and risks. This is the foundational element behind Conga, a venture-backed company that looks to increase organizational productivity in the digital era.
Top Techie Ashlee Collins balances innovation and stability in the digital era
Its newest product, Pass serves as an ecosystem for serving up consumable inventory from a variety of sources to a subscription consumer in a digestible and personalized interface.
