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Paul Jerde
Mr. Jerde has held a number of senior general management and senior financial
management positions with private and public companies in a broad variety of
industries and markets. He has also served on the boards of directors of a
number of public and private companies. His management experiences have
included early stage start-ups and emerging growth companies, later stage
established companies and companies undergoing substantial transition or
turn-arounds. The companies have spanned numerous markets including consumer,
medical (clinical systems, medical devices), telecommunications (paging systems
and network management), biotechnology, voice recognition systems for order
fulfillment and electronic commerce.
Mr. Jerde co-founded Corboy and Jerde,
LLC, an investment banking firm specializing in private transactions for emerging
growth and medium sized businesses. The firm’s clients reflected the diversity
and rapid growth profiles typified by the expanding entrepreneurially driven
sector of companies in the Rocky Mountain region. Previously, Mr. Jerde was CEO
and Chairman of Requisite Technology, Inc., an early stage electronic commerce
information services business. Requisite created proprietary state-of-the-art
“universal” cataloging processes and electronic cataloging technology that enabled
a foundation for successful e-Commerce. Prior to Requisite he served as CEO of
Cortech, Inc. a public biotechnology research firm and before that as CEO of
Mountain Medical Equipment, a public home-healthcare medical products company.
Mr. Jerde received his M.B.A. from the Business School at the University of
Colorado. He has served for several years as a member of the Advisory Board of
the Robert H. and Beverly A. Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at the Leeds
School of Business, University of Colorado-Boulder.
Frank Moyes
Frank has broad management and operations experience, particularly internationally.
For 18 years he lived in Europe where he held a variety of senior operating positions
with major companies. Frank set up and managed the acquisition and new ventures
department for Owens-Illinois in Geneva and ran one of its subsidiary companies.
Later he was President of a manufacturing company in England for General Electric
that marketed its products throughout Europe.
In 1983 Frank used venture capital to start Cambridge Computer Graphics,
a company that develops products for the graphic arts and CAD/CAM markets. Sales
were to distributors and OEM's throughout Europe and the Far East. This successful
company was subsequently sold and Frank returned to the United States in 1990.
Frank now works closely with start-up companies in Colorado providing management
advice and investment capital. Most recently he has been teaching courses in
Entrepreneurship and Operations Strategy at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
He holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
and a B.A. from Pennsylvania State University.
Joyce Colson, J.D.
With more than 25 years of experience, Joyce Colson offers her clients expertise,
perspective, high energy and a passion for great results. She brings substantial
business insight to each client, which comes from her work with many diverse
companies in varying stages of development.
Representative transactions
in the past few years have included:
Sale of software company for $140
million--represented software company foundersTexas energy company in
obtaining a temporary restraining order against Chinese national oil company on
offshore China oil propertiesInternational distribution agreements for
photonics companySale of Nation’s largest audio book rental company
Stock option plan for hybrid automotive technology company
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