We are a non-profit established in 1998 with the mission of providing networking and educational programs to the business leaders of our local software community. Our volunteer Board of Directors is comprised of distinguished business leaders of the local software community. They are a great resource to us as a sounding board, for new ideas, and for governance matters. We promise the best local programs you'll find about the business of software. Our members have been kind enough to tell us that repeatedly!
Richard Bass - President/Executive Director
Principle, Executive Software
Connections
Richard Bass is the founder of the Boulder and Denver Software Clubs. In the past 10 years, he has grown the clubs to over one hundred fifty members. Richard also runs Executive Software Connections, a referral networking and recruiting business that focuses on both business (e.g. finance and marketing) and technical placements in the software industry.
Jim Anderson - Treasurer
CPA, CMA, Principal, Outlook Consulting Services
Jim provides interim CFO services for businesses of all shapes, sizes and colors. He has worked with many local technology companies. Jim is a former Senior Controller at Texas Instruments.
Christie Deluca - Secretary
Marketing Director, Flatiron Corp.
Keith Mountain
Retired CEO, Spatial Corp.
Keith was in charge of all Spatial's day-to-day operations. Before coming to Spatial, Keith founded Mountain Associates, a management consulting firm focused on developing and managing business opportunities for startup companies and growth-oriented international corporate subsidiaries. Prior to Mountain Associates, Keith worked in executive and management positions in marketing and sales with Computervision, Prime, Autographix, Agfa Corporation and Eastman Kodak.
Yvonne Lynott
Partner, Lynott & Associates
Yvonne launched Lynott and Associates in 1986 to advocate on behalf of emerging technology innovators, assuring recognition for their achievements. She has a unique perspective on the evolution and growth of the technology industry, having been part of it since the late '70s. As a seasoned communications specialist, Yvonne has helped startups and established companies to craft their business stories in context of their respective markets.
Paul Cardosi
CFO, Spatial Corp.
Paul Cardosi joined Spatial in November, 2007 as Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer responsible for all aspects of finance, accounting, legal, corporate development, information technology and facilities. Before coming to Spatial, Paul worked at consulting firm vcfo Inc. as interim CFO at several Colorado based venture capital backed software companies. Prior to vcfo, Paul was CFO and co-founder of CreekPath Systems an enterprise storage software company that was successfully acquired by Opsware (OPSW) in 2006. Prior to CreekPath, Paul worked in international executive and management positions in finance, accounting and operations at Exabyte, Hewlett Packard and Apricot Computers
Jim Wilson
Sr. Audit Manager, Ernst & Young, LLP
Jim has thirteen years of experience serving clients in the software and technology industries. He has worked with a broad range of clients from small early stage to large publicly traded companies. Jim has significant experience with revenue recognition, equity compensation, and research & development issues. Jim also serves as the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year Director.
Kirk Holland
Partner, Vista Ventures
Kirk has broad operating experience in business development, sales and marketing, engineering, and operations with companies such as Procter & Gamble and Sprint Corporation. He was also an investment banker in U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray's Internet and Enterprise Software Group, where he was involved in equity offerings and mergers and acquisitions. Most recently, Kirk was a Vice President at Internet.com Venture Funds, where he led several software and information technology investments.
Zach Nies
VP Engineering, Rally Software
Zach brings close to 20 years of engineering and product development experience to Rally's innovative products. Prior to joining Rally, Zach served as Principal Architect and Director of Systems Architecture for Level 3 Communications and founded a small start up which was quickly acquired by the publicly traded Creo, Inc., now a division of Kodak. He also served as Chief Software Architect at Quark, where he provided the overarching technological vision for the company. Zach's product vision has won numerous industry awards, including Jolt Product Excellence awards, Seybold HotPicks and the prized MacWorld Best of Show. Zach has served on standards bodies such as the W3C's HTML working group and currently serves on the board of directors for Agile Denver.
Jason Haislmaier
Partner, Holme, Roberts & Owen, LLP
Jason represents emerging and established companies in technology and intellectual property transactions, with an emphasis on developing strategies for protecting, managing, and commercializing technology and intellectual property assets. Jason has worked with clients to structure and negotiate hundreds of unique transactions involving the development and commercialization of technology and intellectual property assets.
Charles A. Schwab Sr.
Special Counsel, Technology Transactions, Cooley LLP
Charles' practice focuses on technology and intellectual property related transactions, including software licensing, distribution arrangements, product development, technology transfer agreements, electronic commerce, outsourcing, and strategic relationships. He has represented clients ranging from start-ups to large public companies, including software developers and distributors, alternative and clean energy companies, hardware and communications companies and other technology companies.
Joseph Treat
President, Crystalline Software, Inc.
Joseph has over seventeen years of experience in the software development industry. Treat has extensive experience with programming language theory and practice, the design and effective use of distributed systems and objected-oriented analysis, modeling, and development. He has over six years of successful experience in leading small, highly focused software development teams using flexible, customer-driven project management techniques.
David Bruhwiler
VP Accelerator Technology, Tech-X Corp.
David has fifteen years of experience in the development of high-performance Fortran and C/C++ codes for the design and simulation of particle accelerators, free-electron lasers (FEL) and other beam and plasma devices. David joined Tech-X Corporation in the Fall of 1997, where his work has focused on the development of particle-in-cell (PIC) codes for simulating high-power RF devices and advanced concepts for plasma-based particle acceleration, with emphasis on parallel computing techniques, graphical user interfaces (GUI) and 3-D visualization.
Rob Nagler
President, Bivio Software, Inc. and Technical
Director, KidCommute
Rob has written extensively about software at Via Rob and in his book Extreme Perl. Rob holds a BS in Computer Engineering from UC San Diego and an MS in Computer Engineering from Stanford University.
Chris Jeffers
CEO, netFactor Corporation
As CEO and Founder of netFactor Corporation, Chris brings to bear extensive leadership experience in business management, marketing, operations, and planning. Chris has served in Senior Management and Marketing roles across Business to Business, (B2B) and Business to Consumer (B2C) sectors. Chris provides a business vision and execution for netFactor's marketplace leadership in deploying products that are driving Internet marketing efficiencies. Prior to netFactor, he has held positions with Level (3) Communications, an Internet 100 Company; Digital Reliance, Inc. – a B2B provider of SaaS software for corporate telecommunications; and with TeleCommunications Inc., (TCI), the largest cable television provider in the world as head of US field sales and marketing (acquired by AT&T/Comcast). He has an MBA from Cal State, and lives in the foothills of the Rockies outside of Denver, CO with his family and two golden retrievers.
Frank Mendicino III
Partner, Access Venture Partners
Frank co-founded Access Venture Partners in 1999. Access is a seed and early stage, high technology venture capital fund. Frank has been a venture capitalist for 18 years successfully investing in, and helping to grow exciting businesses. Through his work with early stage companies, Frank has built a large network of deal referral sources and value added resources for portfolio companies. Frank was a founding board member of The Contra Costa County Incubator in San Francisco. He is a former board member of the Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association. Frank has a deep understanding of product development and sales and marketing processes which allows him to help entrepreneurial management teams accelerate the growth of the companies in which Access Venture Partners invests.