On April 16th, our all volunteer board will be meeting to plan the year, welcome new board members and create new working groups.

Before I announce the new board members, please comment below on ideas and thoughts that you would like us to consider as we plan for 2009 and 2010. Following the meeting, I will post our notes, decisions and actions items here.

EFCO members and friends please also consider following, chatting and sending suggestions/ideas to us as a Fan on Facebook

The board members continuing from 2008 include:

• Brad Feld - Past CEO 2007-2008 Foundry Group


• Ryan Martens - Current CEO 2009-2010 Rally Software Development


• Joshua Forman - Symplified


• Karyn German - Newsgator


• Mike Platt - Cooley Godward Kronish


• Bill Roberts - William Roberts Law


• Our support Team from Community Foundation Serving Boulder County




• Josie Heath


• Debbie Gaffney


• Alana Solimeo


• Chris Barge


• Bill Flag - EFCO Liason

Leaving the board after two great years of service where we saw EFCO go from one company to 20+ and have four of those firms contribute over $100,000 back to our local community foundations and charities. Gentlemen, thank you for your service;

• Kyle Leffkoff - Boulder Ventures
• Tim Connor - Sequel Ventures
• JB Holson - Newsgator

I am proud to announce that we are adding four new members to our board for 2009:

• Tom Keller - (former CEO of Intense Debate - an EFCO member company)


• Kirk Holland - Vista Ventures


• Frank Amaroso - Silicon Valley Bank


• Seth Levine - Foundry Group

Please send us comments, hopes and wishes before our planning meeting.