The CU-Boulder Deming Center for Entrepreneurship has appointed four new members to its advisory board. The accomplished business leaders are Arlyn Dozeman, Robert Gill, Michael Leeds and Peter Van Genderen.
Dozeman is a partner in Ernst & Young's Colorado Technology Group. He has more than 25 years experience serving a wide variety of clients in assurance, tax and consulting capacities and has worked with a large number of emerging fast-growth companies. He received his bachelor's degree from Calvin College and his MBA from Western Michigan University.
Gill is a principal at The Topaz Group, a consulting company that provides services for corporations and investors. He previously worked as chairman, president and CEO of MobileForce Technologies Inc. Gill has 43 years of experience in public company management, new business and product development, acquisitions and divestitures and sales growth management. He received his master's degree in engineering from Purdue University and his MBA from Pepperdine University.
Leeds, a member of the Leeds family for whom the Leeds School of Business is named, is the former president and CEO of CMP Media Inc. During his 11 years as the leader of the company, CMP grew from $100 million in annual revenues to nearly $500 million. He earned his bachelor's degree in business administration from CU-Boulder.
Van Genderen is a general partner at Stolberg Equity Partners, a private equity company in Denver that manages $170 million of committed capital. Van Genderen also serves on the board of directors of the Colorado Venture Capital
Association. He earned his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and his MBA from CU-Boulder.
The Deming Center is a joint program of the Leeds School of Business and the College of Engineering and Applied Science.
"The Leeds School relies heavily on advice and interaction with professional business people to assure our curriculum, research and student services keep pace with current best business practices," said Steven Manaster, dean of the Leeds School of Business. "The Deming Center board members integrate their familiarity of CU with outside business perspectives providing an ideal combination for great leadership. I enthusiastically welcome the new board members to this continuing tradition of success."
"I extend my heartiest welcome to our four new members of the center's advisory board," said Roop L. Majahan, interim dean of CU-Boulder's College of Engineering and Applied Science. "They are proven business leaders with impressive credentials in technology and entrepreneurship. I look forward to working with them to continue bringing outstanding educational programs to our students."
The 35-member advisory board consists of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists or service providers active in startup and fast-growth companies or consultants and researchers who are involved with entrepreneurship organizations. The board serves as a communication forum between the entrepreneurial business community, the Leeds School of Business and the College of Engineering and Applied Science; generates ideas for growth and direction of the Deming Center; provides expertise in entrepreneurship, venture capital financing, business operations and entrepreneurship research; and provides a source of professional contacts and job opportunities for entrepreneurship students.
CU-Boulder's entrepreneurship program is ranked 16th in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. The center recently established a year-round MBA consulting company, Entrepreneurial Solutions, and hosts one of the nation's most successful MBA Entrepreneurship Summer Internship programs, now in its seventh year of operations.
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