The very first angel investment I made after I sold my first company was in a company called NetGenesis. Will Herman and I were the initial seed investors; I was chairman of the company for the first couple of years. Eric Richard was one of the co-founders and one of the technical brains behind the company. Eric stayed actively involved with company for much longer than I did – through the IPO and then the ultimate sale to SPSS. ...
Now – that’s a mission statement. I’m on the board of the Colorado Conservation Trust and we had a board meeting last week. CCT is one of the best organized non-profits I’ve ever had the privilege to be involved with and is unambiguous about its goal. The mission statement says it all – “Conserve 2,000,000 Acres in the Next Decade – Let’s Get Going.” I’ve lived in Colorado for 10 years. Part of the magic of this place is the mountains, the open space, and the wide stretches of undeveloped land. Boulder benefits greatly from the city and county’s forward thinking conservation attitude from many years ago, resulting in a magnificent city in an environmentally protected setting. None of this was by accident and I’ve tried to do my part in the last decade to help locally. ...
I’m on the board of the Colorado Conservation Trust . I think it’s currently the most impactful environmental conservation based organization in Colorado – I am so enthusiastic about it that I merged a non-profit environmental organization that I helped start – the Front Range Alliance – into CCT last year and joined the CCT board. CCT is continuing the mission of the Front Range Alliance with the Front Range Mountain Backdrop initiative . ...