Board of Directors

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Wayne Anderson (ex officio)
CEO | Leadership Science Institute
Mr. Anderson is the senior international Executive Leadership Coach, CEO and Founder of the Leadership Science Institute, LLC. He is a Certified Master Coach (CMC). He is a senior executive with equal blend of technical, business, managerial and public sector skills developed during experience with several “Fortune 500” companies and local municipalities.  He is also Certified in Applied Neuroscience. He has extensive experience in helping his international executive clients to be successful.  He helps them expand and grow their careers and/or businesses through skills assessments, coaching and training. In addition, he helps them to train and develop their professional staffs. He possesses the unique ability to help his clients attract, retain, and motivate outstanding management...
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Shelli Brunswick
Chief Operating Officer | Space Foundation
Executive & Operational Leadership Strategy | Innovation | Technology Relationship Building | Marketing High Profile Recognition & Network   Examples of Board Experience: Manufacturer’s Edge | Executive Committee – Chair World Business Angeles Investment Forum (WBAF) Global Women Leaders Committee (GWLC), Board of Directors, Co-Chair AeroAI Global Solutions | Board Member   Shelli Brunswick is a transformative leader whose visionary prowess and strategic acumen have sculpted a distinguished 35-year career within the global space ecosystem. Her multifaceted expertise in leadership, strategic foresight, and advocacy underscores a relentless commitment to driving technology innovation and fostering entrepreneurship. From her esteemed tenure in the U.S. Air Force as a leader in space acquisition, program management, and congressional liaison,...
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Tom Bugnitz
Retired CEO | Manufacturer's Edge
Tom Bugnitz has over 35 years of broad experience in strategic planning, operations and financial oversight. Most recently, Tom served as the Chief Executive Officer for Manufacturer’s Edge for nearly a decade and recently retired in November of 2021. Prior to Manufacturer’s Edge, Tom was a senior executive for Coolerado, a manufacturer of cutting-edge green air-conditioning systems that grew from five to 60+ employees during his tenure. As founder and president of the Beta Group, Inc., Tom advised corporate and government clients across the globe for over 25 years in business strategy development, cross-organizational team building, and management process and organizational redesign. Tom also co-authored a widely-adopted book on business strategy and capital planning for...
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Jay Dokter
President/CEO/Entrepreneur
Jay Dokter is a business executive and serial entrepreneur who has been a leader in many successful start-ups and fast-growing companies. Jay’s passion is business strategy, modeling, start-ups, accelerated business growth, collaboration, and job creation for northern and greater Colorado. Jay has over 35 years experience within markets and industries such as electronics, manufacturing, semiconductors, software, commercial property, higher and continuing education, food service, entertainment, and retail distribution. Jay is presently the President/CEO of Vergent Products; Jay and the Executive Team acquired the company in January 2019. Vergent Products is an end-to-end full-service contract manufacturer that designs and builds products for medical, aerospace, defense, instrumentation, and industrial control customers. Jay is also a General Partner...
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Drew Kramer
Manager, State & Local Public Affairs, Tallgrass
As Manager, State & Local Public Affairs for Tallgrass, Drew Kramer assists the innovative energy infrastructure company in securing regulator approval and stakeholder endorsement of its pipeline projects and other initiatives. Drew develops and maintains productive working relationships with industry and business groups, chambers of commerce, economic development organizations, agricultural associations, labor advocates and others with an interest in ensuring rural communities have access to economic vitality and affordable, reliable energy. Prior to Tallgrass, Drew spent 14 years working in those same rural communities on behalf of the wholesale power supplier Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association and its rural electric cooperative members. He came to Tri-State after nearly 10 years in a senior position at...
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Dan Luzietti
CFO | Hercules Industries
Dan Luzietti is an experienced, innovative senior accounting and finance executive with more than 25 years of progressive leadership experience. He’s currently the CFO at Hercules Industries, Inc., a 100% employee-owned steel fabricator and wholesale distributor in the HVAC industry. Dan graduated from the University of Notre Dame earning a Bachelor of Business Administration while majoring in both accounting and economics in 2000. He also earned an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in 2007. In his twelve years at Hercules Industries, the company has more than doubled its size in both employees and revenue. He has built operational and financial infrastructures to facilitate growth, increase productivity, and improve profitability while ensuring sound...
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Kathay Rennels (ex officio)
Vice President for Engagement | Colorado State University
Kathay Rennels works to advance collaborative networks across the state and create economic development opportunities. She has significant experience fostering public and private partnerships in regional and rural workforce development, with particular attention to Larimer and Weld Counties. Rennels previously served three terms as a Larimer County Commissioner and is now leading the Food and Agriculture Key Industry Network for the State of Colorado. Rennels helped initiate the “Value Chain of Colorado Agriculture” study, released in February 2013, and co-authored the November 2014 follow-up study, “The Emergence of an Innovation Cluster in the Agricultural Value Chain along Colorado’s Front Range.” She also currently serves on the Northern Colorado Economic Development Council, Community Foundation of Northern...
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Dan Salvetti (ex officio)
Semiconductor Industry Manager | OEDIT
Dan oversees the State’s strategic response to the once-in-a-generation opportunity that is the CHIPS Act. In this pursuit, he seeks to bring technical, living-wage jobs to the people of Colorado through the expansion of a thriving, globally competitive semiconductor and advanced industries ecosystem. His role is expansive. He acts as a subject matter expert by advising business and government leaders on the semiconductor industry and federal funding opportunities in CHIPS, along with IRA and IIJA. He acts as a business development specialist by demonstrating the value of operations in Colorado to companies seeking expansion. And he acts as a program manager by developing and maintaining programs to support the growth of the semiconductor industry, with...
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Mike Sneddon
President | SG Aerospace & Gas
Since 2008, SG Aerospace & Gas has been pushing the boundaries of quality and innovation. We are a precision manufacturer of application-specific products that support the Aerospace, Oil & Gas, and Industrial markets. SG Aerospace & Gas was originally named Wren Industries. Mike And Shannon Sneddon purchased Wren Industries in 2008 then renamed to SG Aerospace & Gas in 2020. The primary goal was to establish our company into a precision Aerospace manufacturer with an emphasis on short turn and short run production. Within the last 14 years, we have worked to gain an expertise within this scope and have developed our processes to keep current with technology. In 2019 we were named Colorado’s Aerospace...
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Mary Stevenson
Co-owner & Director of Marketing, HR and Finance | Deltech Furnaces
Professional Summary Co-owner and Director of Marketing, HR, and Finance with 35 years of progressively greater responsibilities for industrial furnace sales, troubleshooting, human resources management, advertising, budgeting, planning, and overall management functions. University of Colorado at Denver B.A., English Literature University of Colorado at Boulder, Ph.D., Philosophy (AOS: Ethics) Employment Summary Human Resources Manager, Platte Valley Hospital Adjunct and Visiting Assistant Professor, Metropolitan State University, University of Colorado at Denver, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Corporate President, Deltech, Inc. (present) Owner/Manager, Deltech Kiln and Furnace Design, LLC (present) Professional Affiliations Member of the American Ceramic Society Manufacturing Division Member of the American Ceramic Society Energy Materials and Systems Division Board member and past Chair,...