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CIO Colorado Council Directory

Below is the current listing of CIO Colorado Council Members.  You can sort this list by council member number, by their last name or by the city they reside.

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  •   Karl Dakin
  •   Principal - Karl Dakin, LLC
  •   CEO - DaVinci Quest
  •   City: Centennial
  •   Website: http://www.karldakin.com/
  •   Karl Dakin is a business startup veteran with 30 years of experience as a consultant, advisor, legal counsel, expert witness, investor, principal investigator, educator, officer and director to a large number of private businesses, educational organizations, professional associations and government agencies. Mr. Dakin has served as an executive in many leadership positions, professional associations and government agencies. Working with cutting edge technology and programs for commercialization of innovation, Mr. Dakin has brought to bear his own creative and communication talents. He has shared knowledge gained through these experiences through extensive writing, speaking and instruction.
  • Innovation Initiatives Managed:
    Legislative Affairs
    Education Reforms
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  •   Mike Schmidt
  •   CEO - Ensemble Ventures, LLC
  •   Chairman - Colorado Springs Entrepreneurs Group
  •   City: Colorado Springs
  •   Website: http://www.ensembleventuresinc.com/
  •   Mike Schmidt, a Colorado native, is a technology-savvy, business development, marketing and sales professional, with over 30 years of experience in a wide variety of start-up companies around the world. Mr. Schmidt has developed an integrated series of technology adaptation and marketing/sales skill sets that have been applied in a number of world-wide entrepreneurial ventures in the US, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

    Mr. Schmidt’s technology and start-up experiences span such diverse fields of semiconductor fabrication and process building design, digital satellite and FM subcarrier data broadcasting, industrial data acquisition and control, industrial microcomputers, software development, satellite internet, broadband telecommunications services, fixed terrestrial wireless technology and services, muni broadband wireless, web-development and e-commerce, and internet media and entertainment technology and services.

    Mr. Schmidt is the CEO and Founder of Ensemble Ventures, LLC which is a small business development company that is developing a unique "Venture Ventilator" in Colorado Springs to support start-up and seed-stage business ventures. He is also the Chairman of the Colorado Springs Entrepreneurs Group that is developing a number of support services and programs supporting local entrepreneurial culture and technology product and service development in the alternate energy, healthcare and internet cloud and software markets.

    Colorado Springs Entrepreneurs Group:
    http://www.colospgsbiz.org
  • Innovation Initiatives Managed:
    Capital & Finance
    Innovation & Entrepreneurship
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  •   Ron Yeager
  •   President, Davinci Quest
  •   Alliance Partner, DigitalMasterwork
  •   City: Parker
  •   Website: http://www.digitalmasterwork.com
  •   Ron a principal in several business ventures. He has 20 years of leadership in businesses of all sizes. Ron has Fortune 50 management experience as an Operations Executive at UPS. Additional 8+ years experience in multiple entrepreneurial environments, serving as an executive for small start-ups with unbroken record of success in business conception and implementation, capital raise at multiple levels, management of large projects, training and mentoring management, acquisition of worldwide patent rights, and optimizing business processes using traditional and non-traditional methodologies.

    Served as COO of the first profitable Application Service Provider in the world. As a C-level executive Ron has established numerous long term C-Level business relationships in multiple industries with vendors, suppliers, and created business partnerships and alliances at that level.
  • Innovation Initiatives Managed:
    Innovation
    Mentoring
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  •   Steve Baker
  •   Director, International Wellness Resorts
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  •   City: Littleton
  •   Website: http://www.pushingwater.com/
  •   Steve is a small business advocate and author, a Senior Fellow at the DaVinci Institute. He is currently engaged in launching a medical tourism company linking the United States and Belize. With core strengths in new business development and strategic marketing, Mr. Baker is a startup veteran with 30 years experience as a founder of successful businesses and a business advisor. He has helped grow startup companies from conception to millions of dollars in revenues in many diverse industries, has developed new products and designed the strategic sales and marketing campaigns to catapult the programs to bottom line success. He previously was co-founder of a medical device company and has experience in RF energy treatment of migraine headache pain. Mr. Baker was also a co-founder of an international travel company. The company completed a successful initial public stock offering (IPO) and reached revenues of $500 million in the first year.
  • Innovation Initiatives Managed:
    International Business
    Tourism
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  •   Sally Bay Cornwell
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  •   Sally has long served as a Champion for small business development. She has been a facilitator for technology commercialization, served as an Appointee for two Governors, where she coordinated technology implementation programs and state technology policy. She has managed many high level committees, such as a governor’s Science and Technology Advisory Committee, National Governor’s Association Committees, and as a member of the Technology Council of the Southern Growth Policies’ Board. She has the ability to communicate with wide ranges of types of people in business and government.

    After leaving her position of Vice President for Technology Transfer at the Institute for Technology Development when it closed, she has run her own independent contracting business. Her company’s emphasis is helping small businesses with marketing, sales, and employee benefits that have no direct cost to the business.
  • Innovation Initiatives Managed:
    Small Business Development
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  •   Windham E. Loopesko
  •   W. E. Loopesko & Associates, Inc.
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  •   City: Denver
  •   Website: http://www.loopesko.com/
  •   Windham Loopesko, has been assisting American and European businesses in setting up overseas operations since 1983. He runs W.E. Loopesko and Associates, Inc., a Denver-based firm that creates and implements international joint ventures, licenses and distribution agreements.

    In his more than 25 years of international business activity, Mr. Loopesko has worked with over 200 businesses in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy and Poland. During that time he has spent an average of 3 months per year in Europe.

    Current activities (October 2010) include working with the Polish government in Warsaw to organize trade missions between the United States and Poland, setting up an alternative energy company to be based in Katowice, Poland, international coaching and assisting a Polish non-governmental public sector company in its business development activities. Prior to beginning his international business development activity, Mr. Loopesko worked as head of mergers and acquisitions for the Bern-based division of a Swiss multinational. He has also practiced corporate law for six years both in private practice and with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

    Mr. Loopesko has a law degree from Harvard University, an MBA from the University of Chicago and a Troisieme License from L'Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), as well as an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College (Phi Beta Kappa).

    Mr. Loopesko, his wife and three children have both French and American citizenship. He is bi-lingual in French, fluent in German, conversational in Polish and Spanish and has reading ability in Italian and Portuguese.
  • Innovation Initiatives Managed:
    International Business
    Import/Export Logistics
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  •   Robert G. Vidal, MPA
  •   PersonaSys
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  •   City: Denver
  •   Website: http://www.personasys.com/
  •   Bob Vidal is a multi-sector business executive called to solve complex business problems through the effective application of business best practices and human capital solutions. He has held senior leadership positions in the public and private sectors, working with government, public education, publicly held, privately owned, venture backed startups and Fortune 100 companies.

    An executive with experience and understanding of HR in the global community, Bob brings a wealth of leadership to multicultural environments, and possesses a keen understanding of global diversity and deployment of HR best practices in the U.S, Canada, Europe, and Australia.

    Mr. Vidal’s experience expands through a wide range of industries, including business process outsourcing, software development, and colocation and hosting services, telecommunications, capital and venture investment firms, retail real estate development, and manufacturing.

    Under his leadership, Employer Services Group was awarded the Top 50 Minority Owned Businesses in Colorado by ColoradoBiz Magazine, was recipient of the Top 11 Denver Business Journal Professional Services Organization, and has won numerous awards, including the Better Business Bureau Gold Star Award for impeccable service.

    Mr. Vidal earned a BA in Political Science and a Masters of Public Administration from the University of Colorado.

    LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/bvidal
  • Innovation Initiatives Managed:
    Labor
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  •   Thomas Frey
  •   DaVinci Institute
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  •   City: Denver
  •   Website: http://www.davinciinstitute.com
  •   Thomas Frey is the Executive Director and Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute and currently Google’s top rated futurist speaker. At the Institute, he has developed original research studies, enabling him to speak on unusual topics, translating trends into unique opportunities.

    Tom continually pushes the envelope of understanding, creating fascinating images of the world to come. His talks on futurist topics have captivated people ranging from high level of government officials to executives in Fortune 500 companies including NASA, IBM, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Unilever, GE, Blackmont Capital, Lucent Technologies, First Data, Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Qwest, Allied Signal, Hunter Douglas, Direct TV, Capital One, National Association of Federal Credit Unions, STAMATS, Bell Canada, American Chemical Society, Times of India, Leaders in Dubai, and many more.

    Because of his work inspiring inventors and other revolutionary thinkers, the Boulder Daily Camera has referred to him as the "Father of Invention". The Denver Post and Seattle Post Intelligencer have referred to him as the "Dean of Futurists".

    Before launching the DaVinci Institute, Tom spent 15 years at IBM as an engineer and designer where he received over 270 awards, more than any other IBM engineer.

    To stay in touch with Tom’s latest thoughts and predictions, you can find more information at DaVinci Papers, FuturistSpeaker.com, or at the DaVinci Quest Website listed above.
  • Innovation Initiatives Managed:
    Education
    Future
 
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