Idaho Technology Council Hall of Fame - 2012

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Table of Contents About ITC Hall of Fame .............................................................. 6Thank you ................................................................................ 6About Idaho Innovation Awards ................................................... 7Brad Feld, Keynote Speaker ........................................................ 8Richard Raimondi, Hall of Fame Master of Ceremonies..................... 9Jason Prince, Master of Ceremonies .............................................. 9Hall of Fame Inductee ~ Dr. Forrest Bird ....................................... 10Hall of Fame Inductee ~ Bob Lokken ........................................... 12Innovation Finalist Profiles .......................................................... 14About the ITC ......................................................................... 18ITC Executive Committee ........................................................... 18IITC Advantages...................................................................... 19TC Board of Trustees ................................................................ 21Benefits of ITC Membership ....................................................... 22ITC Gold Industry Investors ........................................................ 22ITC Silver Industry Investors ........................................................ 23ITC Bronze Industry Investors ...................................................... 23

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WELCOME!Welcome to the Idaho Technology Council Hall of Fame Celebration, featuring the Idaho Innovation Awards Presented by Stoel Rives and Kickstand. This event recognizes exceptional innovation and the spirit of entrepreneurship.

The innovations developed by Dr. Forrest Bird and Bob Lokken, this year’s Hall of Fame inductees, have distinguished them in making an impact not just in Idaho, but throughout the world. It’s accurate to say that millions of lives have been saved through the innovative genius of Dr. Forrest Bird and that millions of dollars in cost savings have been realized by businesses from the technology-based analytics of Bob Lokken.

The 12 Idaho Innovation Awards’ finalists represent a great diversity of products, companies, and individuals who have used Idaho ingenuity to create lasting impressions in the bioscience, medical device, and technology sectors. This year’s finalists hold great promise for the future of their respective industries and for the state of Idaho.

Innovation is the fuel that drives a knowledge-based economy. On behalf of the Idaho Technology Council, Stoel Rives and Kickstand, and all of those who support these organizations, congratulations to our honorees. The support and recognition of Idaho’s innovators will create a brighter future for the tech industry and the state of Idaho.


The Idaho Technology Councilis dedicated to fostering the growth of technology companies in the state of Idaho, primarily in the areas of information technology, agriscience, and energy. The ITC provides a valuable forum for industry, research, educators, investors, and government throughout the state. It also advocates for creating a strong technology ecosystem and a high quality, high paid workforce.

The Idaho Technology Council Hall of Fame Gala is a celebration of the innovation and accomplishments of Idaho’s most outstanding leaders in high technology.

Hall of Fame Inductees:

2010 – Ray Smelek2010 – Dick Hackborn2011 – Steve Hodges2011 – Jack Lemley2012 – Forrest Bird 2012 – Bob Lokken

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About Idaho Innovation AwardsThe Idaho Innovation Awards is the state’s premier innovation awards program. Now in its seventh year, the program is designed to recognize innovative products, companies, and professionals. The Idaho Innovation Awards was founded by Stoel Rives LLP, a full-service, U.S. business law firm, with the intent to heighten awareness of the level and sophistication of innovation occurring around the state. Today, the program is organized through a partnership between Stoel Rives, Kickstand and the Idaho Technology Council.

Nominees in the Idaho Innovation Awards program undergo a strict evaluation process by their peers from Idaho’s business, technology and academic communities. This evaluation process results in awards which reflect the esteem of Idaho leaders within the individual innovation areas.

Nominations are accepted into four categories: •CommercializedInnovationoftheYear •Early-StageInnovationoftheYear

•InnovativeCompanyoftheYear •InnovatoroftheYear

Past honorees have come from innovative organizations, such as Keynetics, Idaho National Laboratory,BookLamp.org, Micron, AMI Semiconductor, Balihoo, IVUS Energy Innovations and Healthwise.

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Keynote SpeakerBrad FeldBrad has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures, a company that helped launch and operate software companies. Brad is also a co-founder of TechStars.

Brad currently serves on the board of directors of BigDoor, Cheezburger,Fitbit, FullContact, Gnip, Maker-Bot,MobileDay,ModularRobotics,Oblong,Orbotix,SEOMoz,StandingCloud,andYeswareforFoundryGroup. Previously, Brad was an executive at AmeriData Technologies after it acquired Feld Technologies, a firm he founded in 1987 that specialized in custom software applications.

In addition to his investing efforts, Brad has been active with several non-profit organizations and cur-rently is chair of the National Center for Women & Information Technology, co-chair of Startup Colorado, and on the boards of Startup Weekend and the Application Developers Alliance. Brad is a nationally recognized speaker on the topics of venture capital investing and entrepreneurship and writes the widely read blogs Feld Thoughts andAsk the VC.

NotablecompaniesthatBradhasinvestedinand/orsatontheboardsofincludeAbuzz(acq.NYT),Anyday.com(acq.PALM),CriticalPath(CPTH),Cyanea(acq.IBM),DanteGroup(acq.WEBM),DataPower(acq.IBM),FeedBurner(acq.byGOOG),FeldGroup(acq.byEDS),Gist(acq.RIM),Harmonix(acq.VIA),NetGenesis(IPO),ServiceMagic(acq.IACI),ServiceMetrics(acq.EXDS),andZynga(ZNGA).

Brad holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Management Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Brad is also an avid art collector and long-distance runner. He has completed 22 marathons as part of his mission to run a marathon in each of the 50 states.

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BRAD FELDMANAGING DIRECTOR OF FOUNDRY GROUP


RICHARD RAIMONDICHAIRMAN OF ITC

Master of Ceremonies Richard Louis Raimondi, Chairman, ITCRich was born and raised in Sacramento, California. He graduated from Stanford University in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and in 1979 earned an MBA in Finance at the University of Oregon.

He was hired by Hewlett-Packard in Boise, Idaho, as a Financial Analyst in 1979. Over a nearly 30 year career, he held several positions in Finance, Marketing and General Management in Boise, the Bay Area and Barcelona, Spain. He retired in November 2008 after 16 years as a Vice President/Senior Vice President in several businesses inside HP, most recently as the VP/GM of North America Graphic Arts Business, a part of the Imaging and Printing Group, where he was responsible for this over $1 billion business for HP. He specifically was responsible for all the go-to-market functions including sales, mar-keting, business development, services & solutions and customer experience.

He has served on several boards in the Boise community – United Way, Boise City Arts Commission, Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce - and is currently serving on the boards of St. Luke’s Regional MedicalCenter,TreasureValleyYMCA,VisionfortheValley(Chairman),TreyMcIntyreProjectandtheIdahoTechnologyCouncil(Chairman).HealsoservedasaDistinguishedExecutive-in-ResidenceatBoise State University in the College of Business and Economics.

Starting July 1,2010, he became the president of Bishop Kelly High School, a Catholic high school in Boise, Idaho. Rich and his wife of 33 years, Georgiann, have three children – Matthew, who attends IESE International MBA program in Barcelona, Spain; Megan, who is a social worker in Cleveland, Ohio, and, Emily, a sophomore at Santa Clara University.

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Master of CeremoniesJason PrinceJason Prince is an attorney with Stoel Rives LLP. His practice focuses on the domestic and international sale of goods and services, providing clients with representation in complex business disputes and counseling that minimizes the risk of such disputes arising. He represents businesses of various sizes in contract disputes and class actions in federal and state courts, as well as in negotiations, mediations and arbitrations. Jason also counsels multinational and exporting businesses on compliance with the U.S.ForeignCorruptPracticesAct(“FCPA”)andU.S.exportcontrolregulations.

Additionally, he advises exporting businesses on international commercial agreements involving distrib-utors and sales representatives throughout Asia, Canada, Europe, Latin America and Oceania. Jason is the Chair of the Idaho District Export Council, a member of the board with Kickstand.

Jason is the Chair of the Idaho District Export Council and a former member of the Kickstand Board of Directors. Prior to joining Stoel Rives, Jason served as a law clerk to Judge Susan H. Black of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, a deputy press secretary to Japanese House of Representatives member Nobuteru Ishihara in Tokyo, Japan, and a legislative correspondent to U.S. Senator Mike Crapo. Jason earned his J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School, his M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge, and his B.A. from Davidson College. He is also a proud graduate of Borah High School.


For some people, innovating comes as naturally as breathing. Never has that been truer than with legendary physician-inventor Dr. Forrest Bird, the inventor of the first highly reliable, low-cost, mass-produced respirator in the world. Known as the Father of the Respiratory Industry, Bird pioneered key advances in the medical field that have saved millions of lives worldwide.

Because of the worldwide impact of his inventions, Bird has received prestigious honors for innovation, including the Lifetime Scientific Achievement Award and being inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. In 2008, Bird also received the Presidential

Citizens Medal from President George W. Bush, which is the second highest civilian award in the United States. In 2009, Bird received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Barrack Obama, which is the nation’s highest honor for technological achievement. But despite these impressive achievements, Bird retains a remarkable sense of

humility and strong desire to use his knowledge to benefit the next generation of inventors.

Bird was born in Stoughton, Massachusetts. Growing up, he had the chance to meet two famous innovators that impacted the course of his life, Henry Ford and Orville Wright. Henry Ford often attended his father’s annual clam bakes and observed Bird’s efforts in repairing his neighbor’s tractors using Ford parts. Bird said that Ford’s desire to constantly innovate new solutions was a lesson he carried into his adult life.

Bird’s father, a World War I pilot, introduced his son to Orville Wright. Bird remembers saying at the time that he didn’t believe he could ever measure up to the man responsible for making mechanical flight a reality. How could he have known then that someday, in his own way, he would make just as much of a global impact as his hero Orville Wright?

Dr. Forrest BirdPioneering Physician-Inventorby Malcolm Hong, ITC Project Manager

In part because of his meeting with Orville Wright, Bird became a pilot at an early age and the lessons he learned from aviation helped inspire his greatest inventions. At the age of 14, Bird took his first solo flight. When he entered the Army Air Corps at the age of 21, he had 2,800 hours of flight time, which was remarkable considering that the average enlistee joined with 150 hours of flight time.

During World War II, Bird delivered aircraft from factories to the front lines and realized the similarities between air flowing over a plane’s wings and air flowing through a human lung. Although it seems a simple concept, because of the complexity of the human lung, Bird needed specialized training to launch his ideas. The military sent Bird to medical school, where he gained the education needed to take his ideas from concepts into viable products.

One of the inventions Bird pioneered during his career in the military was the pressure suit regulator, which played a critical role during the war effort. At the time of the war, planes were capable of flying to higher altitudes than a pilot could withstand. Bird recognized how he could apply his studies in developing a solution for this physiological limitation.

After building a successful prototype, Bird’s pressure suit regulator device was mass produced for the military within months. Because of this invention, America and its allies gained a tactical advantage over their enemies. Implementing this technology allowed Allied pilots to fly higher than their enemies and gain an advantage in aerial dogfights by withstanding greater g-forces through their specialized

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Building on the success of the Bird Mark 7 respirator, Bird created a ventilator specially designed for infants, nicknamed the “Babybird.” This remarkable device was responsible for reducing infant mortality caused by respirator problems from 70% to less than 10%.


equipment. The success of Bird’s pressure suit regulator set the stage for Bird’s breakthrough in the medical industry—the Bird Mark 7 respirator, the first highly reliable, low-cost, mass-produced respirator in the world.

At the time Bird was developing his device, people with respiratory problems had few options. The most serious patients were forced to use devices known as iron lungs, which were bulky, primitive, and expensive. During the 1930’s, the cost of an iron lung was the same as the average price of a home. Bird believed there was a better solution and doggedly pursued his vision of creating a small, affordable device that could automatically help people breathe.

After attending medical school and completing his residencies in 1955, Bird tested his prototype respirator by traveling to medical schools and treating the most seriously ill patients where known therapies had failed. Although Bird’s early device wasn’t always successful, each trial case allowed him to improve upon his original design. Because of Bird’s innovative genius and persistence, he was able to successfully introduce his Bird Mark 7 respirator in the late 1950’s. The device was so effective that the Air Force actually produced a training film about it, complete with a Hollywood score.

For the next few years, Bird traveled around the world training medical personnel in using his new invention. Bird flew a specially

modified plane that allowed him greater accessibility to visit remote locations and was a tireless advocate in helping the medical industry see the value of the Bird Mark 7 respirator. Following World War II, Bird had delegations of medical personnel from other countries visit his clinic to receive specialized training.

Although some doctors were initially skeptical about Bird’s bold new invention, over time, the respirator became standard use throughout the entire world.

Building on the success of the Bird Mark 7 respirator, Bird created a ventilator specially designed for infants, nicknamed the “Babybird.” This remarkable device was responsible for reducing infant mortality caused by respirator problems from 70% to less than 10%. To this day, Bird still receives unsolicited letters from parents whose children have been saved through his respirator devices.

The success of Bird’s invention also paved the way to develop a

critical advancement in treating wounded soldiers on the battlefield. Before Bird’s respirator devices, the military had no way to treat critically injured soldiers who needed respiratory care in transit, because the available equipment was far too large and bulky to include in an aircraft. After Bird pioneered his small, affordable respirator device, it became standard procedure to include this equipment in medivac aircraft. This became a lifesaving measure responsible for sharply reducing the fatality rate of wounded soldiers who needed respiratory care.

To this day, Bird still actively innovates and develops new solutions to pressing medical problems. Bird holds numerous patents and is the founder of Percussionarie Corporation located in Sandpoint, Idaho, where he has lived for more than 40 years. Bird oversees a staff of 50 and spends his days writing, lecturing, and innovating. Although Bird often travels the world to lend his expertise, he will always consider Idaho his home. Some of the recent challenges Bird has worked on include developing solutions to care for patients with chronic lung disease, such as Cystic Fibrosis.

Bird and his wife Pamela are the owners of the Bird Aviation Museum and Invention Center in Sagle, Idaho, alongside stunning Lake Pend Oreille, where a team of more than 60 volunteers educates visitors about aviators and innovators who helped create modern technology. His business also plays an instrumental part in hosting their region’s annual Camp Invention, a national program intended to foster creativity and problem solving skills in young students. This program also gives students the chance to meet top inventors and innovators in their own backyard. Bird makes himself accessible to students and prospective inventors and is always willing to share lessons learned with the next generation of young innovators.

When asked about the lessons he learned as an inventor, Bird emphasizes following your passions and having the personal tenacity needed to take a project to its completion. Ultimately, Bird encourages inventors to have the courage to pursue new ideas, because after all, as he put it, “Orville Wright never had a pilot’s license.”

Bird remembers saying at the time that he didn’t believe he could ever measure up to the man responsible for making mechanical flight a reality. How could he have known then that someday, in his own way, he would make just as much of a global impact as his hero Orville Wright?


ProClarity Corp. was founded, existing business intelligence solutions were primarily developed and used by IT professionals. Lokken’s team recognized the value of creating a new way to analyze and present information that was easily understood by business leaders. Their end goal was to empower business leaders to answer their own questions, rather than turning to IT professionals to run convoluted and lengthy reports.

ProClarity’s new approach to software analytics was well received by the industry. To date, ProClarity Corp. has won more than 40 industry awards for analytic and performance management technologies. Because of ProClarity’s success, the company attracted the attention of industry giant Microsoft, who partnered with ProClarity for years before approaching it with an acquisition offer. Lokken was open to negotiations—but the deal-breaker was under the condition that Microsoft merge ProClarity’s employees into their organization and keep the company headquarters located in Boise. Microsoft agreed to Lokken’s terms and today, the business intelligence software created by Lokken’s team are some of the key features of Microsoft Business Intelligence platform.

After the acquisition, Bob Lokken worked as Microsoft’s Senior Director of Business Intelligence Product Management Group. For a few years, Lokken played a critical role in helping Microsoft deploy ProClarity’s technologies as part of an integrated, strategic asset within the company. While Lokken worked for Microsoft, he saw new opportunities on the horizon. Ever the quintessential entrepreneur, Lokken left Microsoft to pursue an opportunity that he developed into a new software company—WhiteCloud Analytics.

Similar to ProClarity Corp., WhiteCloud Analytics was developed to provide intuitive, streamlined business intelligence solutions. Unlike ProClarity, WhiteCloud Analytics’ purpose was to specifically provide decision support and performance management for healthcare systems, a very specific industry that Lokken was already familiar with. Some of ProClarity’s best success stories were from the healthcare industry—in fact, the largest ProClarity customer was the

Jeff Rutherford, Chief Operating Officer of WhiteCloud Analytics, has always remembered what Bob Lokken told him about lessons business leaders could learn from Ferdinand Magellan’s first circumnavigation around the world. It was a conversation that Rutherford found meaningful, since it applied to how their company was implementing bold new ideas into the marketplace.

In some ways similar to Magellan, Bob Lokken set sail in previously uncharted waters when he began pioneering advances in the software analytics industry. And just like how Europe was forever changed by Magellan’s fateful expedition, Lokken’s journey in developing new data technologies has forever changed the software analytics industry.

The secret for his success can be summed up in his approach toovercomingobstacles.ClayYoung,oneofLokken’scolleagues,explained, “He looks at every problem as an opportunity to go reinvent the solution. Bob jumps in the sandbox with that problem and says, ‘How can I solve that problem better than last month, last year, five years ago, ten years ago?’ What do I know that’s different? What tools do I have that allow me to make a better solution now than what I have ever done before?”

Lokken’s keen ability to develop innovative solutions to problems has served him well throughout his career. In his roles as a Business

Unit Manager and Research and Development Manager for Extended Systems, Lokken was responsible for coming up with solutions to meet pressing high tech challenges. The lessons he learned helped Lokken establish a successful business that set a new standard for the

software analytics industry, ProClarity Corporation.

When Lokken founded ProClarity Corp. in 1995 with a team of colleagues from Extended Systems, that team focused on a specific purpose: To create a streamlined and user-friendly approach to meet company’s business intelligence needs. At the time

Bob LokkenSoftware Analytics Visionaryby Malcolm Hong, ITC Project Manager

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Just like how Europe was forever changed by Magellan’s fateful expedition, Lokken’s journey in developing new data technologies has forever changed the software analytics industry.


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The concept of WhiteCloud Analytics was first conceived in 2008, during the height of the worst economic downturn in decades. But although other people only saw liabilities, Lokken saw opportunities. When Lokken developed the concept of WhiteCloud Analytics, he recognized how industry trends had created the “perfect storm” of opportunity. The rising cost of healthcare had created an urgent need to drive innovation into this critical market. With the weak economy, investors were also eager to find entrepreneurs who could apply profitable solutions to some of the most pressing societal problems.

Because Lokken had already established himself with a successful track record at ProClarity and Microsoft, investors were interested in Lokken’s proposal—and when he pitched his idea, investors knew they had a winner. After raising capital and attracting experienced professionals, WhiteCloud Analytics was launched in Boise, Idaho, in mid-2009. Within months after launch, WhiteCloud Analytics established consulting relationships and partnerships with several hospitals across the country and developed several prototype solutions.

Today, WhiteCloud Analytics is the leading innovator of methodologies and analytic technologies that eliminate key

information delivery gaps in healthcare systems. Through this technology, the company has empowered hospitals with the information needed to save millions of dollars and significantly transform their quality of care and patient satisfaction. This is made possible through providing

an intuitive way for healthcare leaders to see their data and drive decisions that optimize performance. Because WhiteCloud Analytics is setting a new standard in the industry, its technology, Acute Foundations, is a finalist for this year’s Idaho Innovation Awards.

A large part of Lokken’s success can be attributed to his leadership style and his commitment to create an environment where the best ideas win. He does this through encouraging people to be relentlessly curious and explore new opportunities, which in large part was responsible for inspiring his team to create new data analytics technologies. Lokken also encourages his team to constantly challenge each other’s ideas to find the best possible solution. Because of Lokken’s personal drive and refusal to accept the status quo, it is little surprise that he has invested considerable energy in strengthening Idaho’s community.

Lokken is the Chairman of the Education Alliance of Idaho, the Vice Chair of the Idaho Business for Education, and serves on the boards of several of other nonprofits. Lokken and his company, WhiteCloud Analytics, helped co-found the Idaho TechnologyCouncil(ITC),anonprofitlaunchedin2009toprovidea collaborative effort to strengthen Idaho’s technology industry. “Invention and innovation are at the heart of what Idaho is, but unless we collaborate with the entire technology ecosystem, from research and education, to business-friendly incentives to talent recruitment, we won’t realize the growth we need to create a sustainable industry here,” Lokken said.

Lokken’s expertise has been a valuable asset for the Idaho Technology Council and he currently serves on the ITC’s Executive Committee. Lokken was reluctant to be inducted into the ITC’s Hall of Fame, but the insistence of ITC members won the day.

Colleagues and friends remark that Lokken strongly believes in Idaho’s potential and is forward-looking in his approach in his efforts to build a stronger community. Jeff Rutherford, one of his longtime colleagues, said, “He’s done great things for a lot of us in Idaho around technology, but I think you could put Bob in any industry and he would create havoc by pushing people to think differently about what they’re doing…Bob is very much about action.”

The concept of WhiteCloud Analytics was first conceived in 2008, during the height of the worst economic downturn in decades. But although other people only saw liabilities, Lokken saw opportunities.


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Vaccine to Prevents Staph and MRSA Infection in Humans and Dairy Cows by Boise State UniversityDr. Juliette Tinker, Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Boise State University, has invented a vaccine that prevents antibiotic-resistant staph and MRSA infections in humans and animals. These infections are a strain ofStaphylococcusaureus(S.aureus).Thisvaccinepreventsantibiotic-resistantS. aureus by activating an enhanced immune response to the Staphylococcus protein. This patented vaccine can be delivered without needles through the nose, mouth or skin. The vaccine can increase safety, decrease cost and improve overall access to disease prevention.

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Innovative Company of the Year Finalists


Les Cullen, President, CastleRock Building Products, Inc.Les Cullen has been innovating products and companies since he was 19 years old. While working for a company experiencing blowing sand that was clogging latches, Cullen fixed the problem by putting a square peg into a round hole. The company still uses his design today. Ready for a new challenge, Cullen moved on to innovate the first fireplace insert, which led to a profitable business lasting 18 years. Jumping industries yet again, Cullen moved on to the RV industry where he redesigned the original 40-year-old Hehr RV window to reduce the number of components and labor. He later designed the first insulated RV window with an innovative silicone foam spacer. His latest brainstorm: laminating cultured stone and brick to an insulated, interlocking panel. Cullen has the ability to augment and improve most anything he becomes involved in. His motto is “irreducible simplicity.”

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Norris Krueger, Founder, Entrepreneurship Northwest

Norris Krueger, Founder of Entrepreneurship Northwest, has gained a global reputation as a highly innovative “go-to” expert regarding growing entrepreneurial economies and designing/delivering teaching and training programs to advance entrepreneurial thinking. A speaker and author on entrepreneurship, Krueger travels the world lecturing to students, organizations and communities on how to develop cutting-edge entrepreneurial training. He is credited with having an entrepreneurial mindset, making him a very popular and sought-after consultant for young industrialists (many from Inc.500firms)bothnationallyandabroad.

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Jessica Rolph, COO/Founding Partner, HAPPYBABYPassionate about the fusion of business and social responsibility, Jessica Rolph has long dreamed of creating a business venture that positively impacts peoples’ lives. In 2006, her dream came true as shehelpedlaunchHAPPYBABY,apremiumorganicbrandoffoodforinfantsandchildrenofallages.Her leadership and commitment to socially responsible businesses and ventures is apparent through notonlyhercontributiontoHAPPYBABY,butalsointhebusinesscommunity.SheisamemberoftheFull Circle Fund, a Bay Area philanthropic organization; a trustee for RSF Social Finance, an institution that lends to socially responsible ventures; and a board member for Create Common Good, which provides training and employment to refugees and those in need in Boise.

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Innovator of the Year Finalists


www.idahotechcouncil.org

MISSIONThe ITC is dedicated to fostering the development of technology companies in Idaho, primarily in the areas of information technology, agriscience, and energy.

PURPOSEThe ITC provides a valuable forum for industry, research, educators, investors, and government throughout the state. It also advocates for creating a strong technology ecosystem and a high quality, high paid workforce.

OBJECTIVESWe will focus our efforts on:

•Advocacy:Spearheadinnovative policies that spur the growth and adoption of technology in Idaho.

•Education:Strengthenthe research capabilities from state, federal and private sources through the commercialization of intellectual property.

•AlignmentandAwareness:Buildcollaboration and awareness for resources related to funding, starting, running and managing companies and recognize their success.

AcceleratingYourBusinessInIdaho’sInnovationEcosystem

Over the past decade there have been many organizations involved in supporting or driving innovation in Idaho, but never one that involves the entire ecosystem. The ITC is based on successful statewide innovation councils across the country, particularly in those states with perceived geographic isolation such as Utah, Oregon and Iowa.

The benefits of an Idaho-based organization that can serve as a singular, authoritative voice for technology companies are two-fold. First, the ITC can better influence government, business and community leaders to provide needed resources with a broad-based representative effort. In addition, the ITC will be able to foster knowledge transfers and information flows of importance to the entire technology ecosystem of technology companies, especially those without the necessary resources.

• The innovation industries contribute 18.4 percent of Idaho’s $45 billion Gross Domestic Product (GDP),or$8.4billion.Source:IdahoDepartmentof Commerce

• There is no single organization dedicated to developing the entire technology ecosystem in Idaho – from research to technology commercialization to industry advocacy to capital to talent recruitment to government incentives.

• The ITC is a member-driven, non-governmental organization with a board of trustees representing the full spectrum of technology companies doing business in Idaho.

The ITC will focus on three innovation sectors with greatest impact and potential to Idaho: information technology(traditionalhardwareandsoftware),agriscience(landandgrowingsciences),andenergy (alternative sources and optimization of currenttechnology).Beyondfocusingongrowingthe assets of Idaho – natural resources, access to engineering, research, business and technical education and the strength of existing technology companies – the ITC will create an innovation umbrella to foster communication.

The ITC will outline a multi-year technology road map to demonstrate how resources work together in Idaho with clear, deliverable, and measurable results. Three key strategic areas will be the growth of the technology sector, building a quality workforce, and identifying/addressing funding gaps.

We need a go-to organization to provide advocacy and resources that understands the complex nature of technology”

– Peter Gombert, Founder and CEO, Balihoo

Idaho Technology Council


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Boise State University congratulates all Idaho Innovation

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DR. JULIETTE TINKERBoise State assistant professor of biological

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ITC ADVANTAGES

Leadership from the private sector The Idaho Technology Council is well represented by both established and growing Idaho companies who understand what our industry needs to be successful. The ITC seeks to improve the innovation ecosystem by fostering the growth of Idaho tech companies. Strong leadership from the private sector helps the ITC focus its efforts strategically and align its efforts with key stakeholders to create maximum impact.

Strong partnerships with Idaho public officials

The ITC meets each quarter with the Governor to create alignment between the private and public sectors and work together to build a stronger knowledge-based economy. The ITC also works with other public officials on a federal, state, and local level to create alignment and synergy.

Focused approach towards growingIdaho’s tech industries

The ITC is organized around industry clusters, which are defined as geographic or segmented concentrations of interconnected companies and institutions in a specific field. These clusters provide efficient ways to grow and strengthen interconnected companies and institutions. The ITC’s Software Alliance cluster and Energy Consortium cluster helps accelerate industry growth and create new opportunities in both the private and public sector. The ITC is also in the process of launching a new cluster focused on Life Sciences and Agriculture.

Idaho’s voice for technology

• TheITCcultivatesstrongrelationshipswithmediatocreateawareness of Idaho’s tech sector and alignment in our tech community.

• ITCisaregularcontributingauthorforTechCocktail,anationalmedia company. This relationship creates national coverage of Idaho companies and Idaho innovations.

• TheSoftwarePulse,awebsitespaceintendedtopromoteIdaho’sthriving tech community, also helps share Idaho tech success stories with a worldwide audience.


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ITC ADVANTAGESBuilding Idaho’s tech community • TheITCplayedaninstrumentalroleinthecreationandimplementation

of IGEM, Idaho’s first technology focused legislation. IGEM stands for the Idaho Global Entrepreneurial Mission, which seeks to grow ideas and businesses. Primarily, IGEM is an economic engine which will grow ideas and businesses around specific identified industry segments that will potentially create or answer global opportunity.

• TheITCalsosupportsinitiativessuchastheSoftwareAlliance’sCSExtras program, which exists to increase the quantity and quality of Idaho software developers. This program helps mentor young software professionals in development and prepares them to meet the needs of Idaho companies.

• TheITCisintheprocessofdevelopingacomprehensiveplantorecruitsoftware opportunities in Idaho. The goals of this recruitment plan are to attract a broad spectrum of software developers to Idaho, create awareness of software opportunities n Idaho, and assist employers in filling software job openings.

Signature events• ITC’sHallofFameeventcombinedwiththeIdahoInnovationAwardshas

galvanized Idaho’s business community and inspired Idaho entrepreneurs and innovators. One of the largest business events in Idaho, the Hall of Fame helps create awareness of home grown success stories as we recognize Idaho’s top entrepreneurs and innovations.

• develop.idahoistheITCSoftwareAlliance’sannualeventfocusedon growing a stronger, more vibrant software community in Idaho. develop.idaho 2012 had almost 400 technology professionals in attendance.

• IdahoResearchSymposium,organizedbytheCenterforAdvancedEnergyStudies(CAES)andtheITC’sEnergyConsortium,isanannualevent that showcases emerging opportunities and success stories in Idaho’s energy sector.

• P2PCEOSeriesgivesmatureCEO’stheopportunitytodiscussindustrytrends and form a strong group to develop and grow the innovative ecosystem in Idaho.

National Affiliations• BIO-BiotechnologyIndustryOrganization

• TECNA-TechnologyCouncilsofNorthAmerica

• CompTIA-theComputingTechnologyIndustryAssociation

• TheIdahoTechnologyCouncil’saffiliationwithBIO,TECNA,andCompTIA associates our organization with some of the most prominent and recognized technology organizations in the country. Our affiliation with these organizations helps us stay connected to national technology issues and ensure that Idaho companies can quickly adapt to national industry trends.


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Board of Trustees*This board member also serves on ITC’s Executive Committee

Jay Larsen, ITC President & Founder* ................................ Idaho Technology CouncilRich Raimondi, ITC Chairman* ................................................President, Bishop Kelly Rich Stuppy, ITC Vice Chair* ...................... Vice Chair VP of IT Operations, KeyneticsPeter Midgley, ITC Secretary* ............................... Partner at Parsons Behle & LatimerMarcus McDonald, ITC Treasurer* ........................................... Tax Partner at DeloitteAlex Sasser ..............................................................................................Bio TrackingArchie Clemins, Founder & President* ...................................... Caribou TechnologiesBert Glandon ..................................................................................................... CWI Bob Haines .....................................................................................................Sensus Bill Canon ..................................................................................... Valmark IndustriesBill Connors .........................................................Boise Area Chamber of CommerceBob Haines .....................................................................................................SensusBob Lokken* ........................................................................... WhiteCloud AnalyticsBrian Larsen ........................................................................................ Hawley TroxellCece Gassner .........................................................................................City of BoiseCelynda Roach ...........................................................................................CableOneClayYoung* ..........................................................................................Inovus SolarDavid Alexander ....................................................................................... Ivus EnergyDamond Watkins ...................................................................................... MelaleucaDavid Alexander ....................................................................................... Ivus EnergyDoug Jones* ...................................................................Growers for BiotechnologyDoug Sayer* ....................................................................... Premier Technology, Inc.Earl Sullivan ........................................................................... Chairman of the COREGeorge Iliff ............................................................................... Colliers InternationalGeorge Mulhern* ................................................................................... CradlepointHaven Baker* ......................................................................... J.R. Simplot CompanyHomy Panahi ................................................................ PKG User Interface Solutions Jack Hand .............................................................................. POWER Engineers, Inc.Jack McIver .................................................................................. University of IdahoJeff Sayer ................................................................ Idaho Department of CommerceJim Hay .................................................................................. MWI Veterinary Supply John Grossenbacher* ........................................................ Idaho National LaboratoryJohn Laughlin .............................................................................................EnerNOCJohn Williamson ..........................................................................................KeyBankKelly Anderson* ....................................................................................... ZionsBankMark Rudin .............................................................................. Boise State UniversityMatt Rissell* ................................................................................................. TSheetsMelanie Rubocki* ................................................................................. Perkins CoieNeal Benz ................................................................................................ HealthwiseMike Reynoldson* ........................................................................................ MicronPaul Boyd ..................................................................................................Stoel RivesPeter Gombert* .............................................................................................BalihooRic Gale* .............................................................................. Gale Energy ConsultingRichard Jacobsen ..................................................................... Idaho State UniversityScott Peyron* ...................................................................Scott Peyron & AssociatesStephen Cilley ....................................................................................... Ataraxis, Inc. Steve McMaster* .............................................................. Idaho National LaboratorySteve Meyer* ...............................................................Parkwood Business PropertiesTab Roper ........................................................................................ TW Telecom Inc.Tammy DeWeerd ............................................................................. City of MeridianTim Britt .....................................................................................................SynoptekTommy Ahlquist ............................................................................Gardner CompanyVern Porter ............................................................................................ Idaho PowerVon Hansen* ...................................................................................Hewlett-Packard


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ITC GOLD INDUSTRY INVESTORSBENEFITS of ITC Membership •NewsandActionUpdates–Regularupdatesonissuesimpacting

technology in Idaho, including opportunities for advocacy.

•Peer-to-PeerForumParticipation–Ledbyindustrypeers,offervenueforsharinginsights and expertise among CEOs, CTOs, CFOs, HR and Emerging Execs.

•ParticipationinNetworkingOpportunities–Informalsessionswithpeersand potential partners and employees.

• ITCMembershipDirectory–Contactinformationtoconnectandnetworkwith influential members.

• ITCHallofFame–AnannualeventthatrecognizesindividualswithIdahoties that have made a significant impact in the technology industry.

•CEORoundtables–RegulareventsonavarietyoftopicsofinteresttoIdaho leaders.

•EducationalEvents–Eventswithindustrythought-leadersfortheeducationand corporate development of ITC members.

SPONSORSHIP LEVELS MEMBERSHIP LEVELS•GoldIndustryInvestor-$10,000 •TechnologyMembership-$99to$1,000

•SilverIndustryInvestor-$6,000 •AssociateMembership-$1,000to$5,000

•BronzeIndustryInvestor-$4,000 •TechnologyAffiliate-$1,000

•IndividualAssociateMember-$200

Interested in membership? Contact: Jay Larsen ............ ITCFounder&President•(208)422-9100,ext.119 [email protected]

Malcolm Hong ..... ITCProjectManager•(208)422-9100,ext.122 [email protected]


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