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Council of Founders & Friends

ATLAS is fortunate to have a terrific Council of Founders and Friends composed of leaders from academia, industry, non-profit organizations, and the community. These outstanding people have supported the institute over its development and continue to be strong advocates for ATLAS and its ongoing evolution.

• Susie Armstrong — Senior Vice President of Engineering, Qualcomm
• Donna Auguste—  Auguste Research Group
• John Bacus — Former Senior Director of Design, Trimble Platform
• John K. Bennett – InWorks, University of Colorado Denver
• Kathie Broyles – Broyles Consulting
• Chris Byrne — Former VP, Legal/IP, and Venture Partner at Samsung Electronics
• Richard L. Byyny, M.D. – (ATLAS co-founder); Executive Director, Health Policy Center, University of Colorado Hospital; Former CU-Boulder Chancellor
• Alison Derbenwick Miller — Vice President, Oracle for Research
• Karen Diener – President and CEO, KD Geospatial Solutions LLC
• Herbert Fenster –  Senior Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP (retired)
• Polly Fields 
• Gerhard Fischer – Professor of Computer Science Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder (emeritus)
• Donna Flynn, VP global talent, Steelcase
• Richard Foy – Principal Partner, Communication Arts, Inc.
• Beth Galetti – Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Amazon
• Idit Harel – CEO and Founder at Globaloria
• Mazdak Hashemi - (former) Vice President of Engineering at Twitter
• Per Karlsson — Director, Media Technology Research at Ericsson & Head of Ericsson Research in Silicon Valley
• Kim Koro – President, Qualcomm Government Technologies
• Mark Koro – Vice President, Government Affairs, Qualcomm
• Kyle Kuczun — Startup Coach
• Lindsay Lanning – Vice President, Customers for Life, Salesforce.com
• Clayton Lewis – Professor of Computer Science, CU-Boulder
• Patricia Limerick – Professor of History, CU-Boulder
• Taylor Lorenz — Columnist at the Washington Post
• Krista Marks – Co-Founder, CEO, Woot Math; Former Vice President, Disney Online; Former CEO, Co-Founder, Kerpoof
• Margaret Minsky — √Visiting Professor, Interactive Media Arts, NYU-Shanghai
• Mike Moniz – President and CEO, Circadence Managing director, Paladin Capital Group
• Ram Narayanswamy — President, Teaq Innovations
• Lisa Neal-Graves — Board Member, Rocky Mountain Public Broadcast Media; Board Member, Crisis Center (JD18); Advisor Blackstone Entrepreneurial Network
• Natalie Nunez – Graphic Designer at BTI - Bicycle Technologies International
• Elfred Anthony Pinkard – President, Wilberforce University
• Jane Prey – former program director, National Science Foundation
• Doug Price – Chairman and CEO at CSBO Holdings, Inc.
• Becky Roser – former Board Member
• Chris Roser – Managing Partner, Roser Ventures, L.L.C.
• Lucy Sanders – Director, National Center for Women and Information Technology
• Bobby Schnabel – (ATLAS co-founder);  Executive Director and CEO of the Association for Computing Machinery
• Eric Schweikardt — CEO, Modular Robotics
• Nathan Seidle — Founder, SparkFun Electronics
• Rob Sherwood — Principal Director, Strategy Integration at The Aerospace Corporation
• Diane Sieber – Associate Professor • Faculty Director, Global Engineering RAP, Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ
• Suzanne Stoller — Executive Advisor • Industry Mentor
• Jill Tietjen – President and CEO, Technically Speaking, Inc.
• Jackson Tilley — Associate Director of Communications at Noom
• James Williams III – Dean of Libraries (retired), University of Colorado at Boulder
• Phil Weiser – Attorney General, State of Colorado
• John Winsor – General Partner, Winsor Communications
• Tish Winsor – former Board Member
• Lauren Jones Young - former Board Chair, Principal, LJYoung Consultants
• André Zachery — Artistic Director, Renegade Performance Group
• Norah Zuniga Shaw —Professor, Director of Dance and Technology, The Ohio State University