Friday, September 9, 2016
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Entrepreneurs Unplugged: Dan Caruso, Chairman and CEO, Zayo Group
Dan Caruso is Chairman and CEO of Zayo Group. As an angel investor, Dan helped found Envysion, where he served as Chairman from 2006 to 2013. Dan is a former Board Member of GTS Central Europe and Director of New Global Telecom.
Between 2004 and 2006, Dan was the President and CEO of ICG Communications. Backed by Columbia Capital and MC Partners, he led the private buyout of ICG in 2004. In 2006, ICG was sold to Level 3 for $170M, resulting in a total distribution to the buyout group and management team of over $225M and a return on investment of 25x.
As one of the founding executives of Level 3 Communications, Dan was responsible for Level 3's engineering, construction, and operations organizations. Between 2001 and 2003, most of Level 3's lines of business and marketing functions fell under his jurisdiction. Earlier, Dan was part of the MFS Communications senior management team. He began his career at Illinois Bell/Ameritech.
In 2014, Dan was named to the Global Telecoms Business Power 100. In 2013, he was awarded the Bob Newman Lifetime Achievement Award by the Colorado Technology Association. In 2011, Ernst & Young named Dan one of the three national finalists for the Entrepreneur of the Year in Media, Entertainment and Communications, and the Denver Post named him one of Eleven Colorado Business People to Watch. The Boulder Chamber of Commerce honored Dan with the 2010 Esprit Award. In 2009, Ernst & Young honored him as the Entrepreneur of the Year in Rocky Mountain Region Emerging Company Category.
Dan is an active supporter of the University of Colorado – Boulder. He co-teaches Entrepreneurship and the Private Equity Process in the Leeds MBA Program. He is on the Entrepreneurship Initiative Advisory Board of Silicon Flatirons, a center for law, technology, and entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado, as well as board member of StartUp Colorado. He is actively involved in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences as a frequent guest lecturer and supporter of the Engineering Management and Entrepreneurship program.
Friday, February 19, 2016
Entrepreneurs Unplugged: Beneath The Ink! & Parkifi
Sherisse Hawkins, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Beneath The Ink
Sherisse Hawkins is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Beneath the Ink. Beneath The Ink provides a lightweight documentation tool that enables beautifully designed, interactive and responsive content to be created quickly and easily. These are known as Pagedips. Pagedips are most often used to bolster training effectiveness & decrease implementation time, increase customer engagement & heighten retention, condense technical document length and more. Sherisse is the former VP of software development at Time Warner cable. She has an engineering background with expertise in product development and managing high tech teams and developing innovative products.
Ryan Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Parkifi
Ryan is the Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Parkifi. He was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA and is an avid skier, golfer, traveler and entrepreneur. Ryan's favorite hobby is solving problems with technology… like parking! Fun facts about Ryan: he lived in Switzerland for a year in high school and has had his appendix removed twice. He is a computer engineer by trade, and an entrepreneur by passion. He has worked for Fortune 500 companies and startups, but his heart is in the startup world where he plans to remain. He has 10 years of experience in scalable software engineering solutions. Most recently he worked at SendGrid which he left early in 2014 to found Parkifi.
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Replica Labs presents at Boulder Startup Meetup
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Silicon Flatirons Entrepreneurs Unplugged Part 1 - June 22, 2010
Panelists:
Dan Caruso
Dan is President and CEO of the Zayo Group and chairman of Envysion
Jim Anderson
Jim is Vice President, Corporate Development for Qwest Communications
Mike Rouleau
Mike serves as Senior Vice President - Business Development and Strategy, and has been with tw telecom since November 1999
Jack Waters
Jack joined Level 3 Communications in 1997 and is president of Global Network Services and chief technology officer with responsibility for global network architecture, engineering, and operations
Art Zeile
Art is CEO of Hosting.com, a managed server hosting company that is the platform for an industry consolidation strategy backed by Wachovia Capital Partners
Grant van Rooyen
Grant has over 12 years operating experience in the communications, Internet and video distribution industries. Grant is currently CEO of IX Investments, LLC
Moderator:
Don Detampel
Don has over two decades of senior executive experience within Internet infrastructure, telecommunications and web technology companies. Currently Don serves as the Executive Chairman at New Global Telecom, the largest wholesale provider of VoIP services in the United States which was recently sold to Comcast
Silicon Flatirons Entrepreneurs Unplugged Part 2 - June 22, 2010
Panelists:
Dan Caruso
Dan is President and CEO of the Zayo Group and chairman of Envysion
Jim Anderson
Jim is Vice President, Corporate Development for Qwest Communications
Mike Rouleau
Mike serves as Senior Vice President - Business Development and Strategy, and has been with tw telecom since November 1999
Jack Waters
Jack joined Level 3 Communications in 1997 and is president of Global Network Services and chief technology officer with responsibility for global network architecture, engineering, and operations
Art Zeile
Art is CEO of Hosting.com, a managed server hosting company that is the platform for an industry consolidation strategy backed by Wachovia Capital Partners
Grant van Rooyen
Grant has over 12 years operating experience in the communications, Internet and video distribution industries. Grant is currently CEO of IX Investments, LLC
Moderator:
Don Detampel
Don has over two decades of senior executive experience within Internet infrastructure, telecommunications and web technology companies. Currently Don serves as the Executive Chairman at New Global Telecom, the largest wholesale provider of VoIP services in the United States which was recently sold to Comcast
Silicon Flatirons Entrepreneurs Unplugged Part 3 - June 22, 2010
Panelists:
Dan Caruso
Dan is President and CEO of the Zayo Group and chairman of Envysion
Jim Anderson
Jim is Vice President, Corporate Development for Qwest Communications
Mike Rouleau
Mike serves as Senior Vice President - Business Development and Strategy, and has been with tw telecom since November 1999
Jack Waters
Jack joined Level 3 Communications in 1997 and is president of Global Network Services and chief technology officer with responsibility for global network architecture, engineering, and operations
Art Zeile
Art is CEO of Hosting.com, a managed server hosting company that is the platform for an industry consolidation strategy backed by Wachovia Capital Partners
Grant van Rooyen
Grant has over 12 years operating experience in the communications, Internet and video distribution industries. Grant is currently CEO of IX Investments, LLC
Moderator:
Don Detampel
Don has over two decades of senior executive experience within Internet infrastructure, telecommunications and web technology companies. Currently Don serves as the Executive Chairman at New Global Telecom, the largest wholesale provider of VoIP services in the United States which was recently sold to Comcast
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