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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 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.
Top Techie Paul Kurklis is connecting locals and travelers
What sets Savvy Amigo's technology apart, aside from its ski town headquarters, is the unique level of engagement, accountability and transparency provided in a peer-to-peer environment.
Top Techie Kevin Ness is building new tools for biologists
The technology upon which Inscripta was founded was developed at the University of Colorado-Boulder, which has led to a collaborative partnership between the two entities. Together, they're building entirely new capabilities for scientists around the world.
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.
Business and the Arts Make Great Bedfellows
Being known as a business that supports the arts has emerged as a smart strategy to set companies apart from their competitors.
Good Company: East West Partners
Christmas Eve 2018 marked East West Partners’ 20th anniversary since dipping a toe into the Denver market. It was that day two decades ago when Mark Smith and Harry Frampton made a bet and signed a contract to buy a 25-acre parcel in Riverfront Park.
Top Techie Basit Mustafa Streamlines the Legal Process
Basit Mustafa is a former IBM executive, a sponsored ultra-runner and an ice climber with a “concrete allergy,” so naturally he moved to Telluride five years ago and started a business. After serving as a board member for the Colorado ACLU, he began asking himself how he could use software to make the life of a litigator a little better.
John Lilley, Top Techie, Strives to Give Ski Resort Guests a Five-Star Experience
“The ski industry is this old, monolithic thing,” says John Lilley, formerly on the tech team at Vail Resorts. “It’s very easy to get $7 million to put in a lift.”
Top Techie Katica Roy Envisions Equal Opportunity
Driven by the idea of a romanticized world in which men and women could possess genuine equal opportunity, Katica Roy launched Pipeline Equity in April 2017 as a place “where companies and communities thrive because everyone has the opportunity to make an impact.”
Stephanie Maxwell Simplifies Staffing for the Hospitality Industry
Sirvo was born in 2015, the result of founder Stephanie Maxwell’s time in the hospitality industry and the need she recognized for restaurants, retail and hotels to attract and hire talent.
Sarah Tuneberg Changes how we Respond to Emergencies
Colorado native Sarah Tuneberg dedicated more than a decade to emergency response management, from Hurricane Katrina to the Waldo Canyon Fire. During that time, she saw the response system as broken and ripe for innovation.
