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Colorado Innovation Summit - The Team

Gary Lundquist Program Chairman Colorado Innovation Summit President Market Engineering	Gary Lundquist - President, Market Engineering Innovation begins with ideas and succeeds when those ideas have been put to work in the real world. "Ideas" are often stated in features and functions, yet innovations are so much more than that. Product innovation visions also consider customers to serve, needs to meet, benefits to deliver, uniqueness for preference, perceptions to manage, and mission as commitment to customers. Name and slogan complete the identity. Business visions add durable goals, near-term objectives, integrated strategies, and culture. Lundquist's "strategic pre-planning" builds innovation visions. His proven methods accelerate wealth creation by accelerating development of products, services, processes, strategies, businesses, and business models. He is a Ph.D. scientist who evolved from science to business management to corporate marketing. He innovated a software business in the 80's and helped grow it to the INC 500 and worldwide dominance of its market niche. With that company sold, he has served clients from start-up to Fortune 50 and has helped launch products ranging in price from $100 to $500,000,000. Author of Technology and the Agents of Change and Marketing for Survival, he works with innovators and innovation management to focus development, gain investment, and satisfy customers at a profit.
Thomas Frey Executive Director The DaVinci Institute	Thomas Frey is one of the nations leading experts on the process of launching new businesses and new technologies. As the Executive Director of the DaVinci Institute he has helped dozens of inventors and entrepreneurs work through the process to launch their products. Tom is also an internationally recognized futurist, author, and public speaker. His specialty is the future of technology and its impact on business and society. He is a 15-year veteran of IBM where he received more awards than any other engineer - over 270. His leading edge presentations have captivated people throughout the business world, including NASA, IBM, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Lucent Technologies, Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Allied Signal, Hunter Douglas, Direct TV, and many more. Tom is the author of "Inventions of Impact" and has written numerous articles on a wide range of futurist topics. He has also been a contributing writer for The Futurist Magazine and is the producer of the Impact Lab emerging technology online magazine. During the past 17 years, Tom has launched 17 different businesses.
Deb Hellman Vice President Controller Event Planner The DaVinci Institute	Deb Hellman is the Controller and Project Scheduler for the DaVinci Institute. Her friendly demeanor and attention to detail makes the project work flow very smooth and efficient. Before coming to the Institute, Deb launched her own bookkeeping business, AccountWorx, and spent 25 years as the office manager and bookkeeper for a number of key companies in California and Arizona.
Walter Wong Silver Sponsor Program	Walter Wong has twenty plus years in the data storage business and has held positions in R&D, operations, engineering, and engineering management. He holds 13 patents with 8 others pending. Walter commits time to the community. He is on the advisory board for two start up companies, and supports the CTEK Longmont Committee with a focus on deal flow. Walter is a member of the Mechanical Engineering Advisory Board for Colorado State University and a member of Colorado Center for Information Storage.
Mary Wilson Callahan Media Relations	Mary Wilson Callahan is Co-Founder and Principal of Silver Streak Partners LLC, a Boulder-based company that helps expanding innovation-driven companies keep product development performance ahead of the curve. She specializes in facilitating the organizational and leadership changes essential as growing businesses move to the next level. Her experience, spanning 30 years in corporate, field, consulting, academic, and economic development settings, has been guided by the principle that change management provides maximum value when focused on continual learning and building high performance teams. She earned a BA at Stanford University, an MBA at Babson College, and a Ph.D. in Adult Education and Organization Development at the University of Georgia.
Jim Leonard Colorado Innovation Clearinghouse	Jim Leonard is a champion for competitive Colorado companies by encouraging enterprise and innovation. Currently, he is a project manager and adjunct instructor at the University of Colorado at Denver Mechanical Engineering Department. He is working with the ME Dept and the College of Business to develop an executive/professional-level education program in innovation and new product development. The program development is funded by a grant from the Colorado Institute of Technology [CIT]. Prior to joining the UCD ME Dept, he held positions in the Colorado Advanced Technology Institute and the Colorado Community College System and as an evangelist for manufacturing competitiveness. At the Adolph Coors Company he managed the Competitive Intelligence Department, was an engineering supervisor, and senior project engineer. At Ford he was a design engineer, a manufacturing engineer, and a project engineer.

 

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