Letter From the President

Hi Cool Women –

In these days of #metoo, it can still be amazingly isolating to be a female leader in technology and business, but the Coolest Women in Tech provide a caring and uplifting community of exceptional and successful women leaders supporting each other.

Our monthly networking meetings are the 3rd Wednesday or Thursday of each month. Check out the website for our next few meetings and save the date. You don't want to miss the opportunity to meet the amazing members.

Our Profit Matters monthly events support our mission to help the women tech entrepreneurs in our community. We’re hosting some innovative women entrepreneurs at our monthly events and helping them work through their biggest business challenge. The events are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month. If you know of a female entrepreneur who would appreciate this type of insight and support, please connect us so we can talk to her about being one of our upcoming Profit Matters speakers.

In our mission to reach back to help foster the next generation of cool women in tech, we have set aside two of our meetings this year so that our members can invite a tech woman who is on her way to being one of the coolest women in tech. We also will continue to have at least one meeting to support and meet with the local university female engineering students.

The success of coolest women depends on diversity in our membership and we continue to seek the coolest corporate women in tech. If you know a fabulously cool director or above woman working in a technology company, please invite her to be your guest at an upcoming meeting. If you can’t be there, just let me know and I’ll personally introduce her around at the meeting.

I'm so excited about how the organization continues to expand our impact on the Denver business and academic community. I am so proud of the supportive community we have built over the past eleven years. Thank you to each of you who continue to make CWWK such a unique organization.

With love,

Wendy Bohling

President, CWWK

Leadership

Wendy Hall Bohling

Board Member, Co-founder

Wendy Bohling is an author, speaker and trainer who inspires women to excel in business by embracing the very things they’ve been hiding – things that could be their greatest strengths. She found early career success in the technical world at Bell Labs, but for Wendy, the opportunity to move to sales, with her outgoing personality, Southern charm, and gift of storytelling – was like coming home. With 30 years of proven results in engineering and corporate sales in the telecom and healthcare industries, Wendy now embraces her whole self, including her “sass” and versatility, to help women leap to their next level of greatness. She insists, and excels at demonstrating, that by working together we can increase the number of women executives and eliminate the gender wage gap. Wendy has a passion and gift for helping companies attract and retain great female talent.

Julie Artigliere-Cavalier

Board Member

Julie is the founder and president of Center for Vocal Health, Inc. She has over twenty-five years of experience as a healthcare and education professional in various capacities: multi-disciplinary team member and leader, medical field instructor, graduate-level instructor, speech pathology services in hospital, university, public school settings. In addition, she also worked in operations at a local health food start-up.

She served as a member of the Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center Shared Leadership Council and Chair of the Unit Practice Council. She also received the Monarch Award for outstanding customer-centered service.

She has volunteered in the community and at school organizations:

Board of Trustees; Chair, Admissions/Retention Committee, Holy Family High School
Former Executive Director, Rocky Mountain Chapter, Huntington’s Disease Society of America. Wrote the Family Service Coordinator Grant to fund the Center for Excellence in Denver, one of five national centers for the diagnosis and treatment of Huntington’s disease
Former President and Vice President of the Tiger Parent Organization, Holy Family High School

She is married with two children, one a mechanical engineer and the other a PGA (Professional Golf Association) professional. She enjoys golf, hiking and biking.

Kathy Keating

Board Member

Kathy Keating is co-founder and CTO of Apostrophe, an intelligent health benefits platform. Apostrophe enables self-insured employers to spend less on top-quality healthcare for their employees by bringing simplicity, transparency and love back into their health plans.

With more than 25 years of experience to the field of software engineering she has led several engineering teams successfully from startup conception through rapid growth. Apostrophe, a Techstars Boulder 2017 alum, is her second founder role.

Kathy has dedicated her career to leveraging technology to solve some of the most complex business and social challenges facing us. Her early software development with companies like Monster, Fidelity and Digital Equipment produced several complex, large-scale software platforms that many of us still interact with on a daily basis today.

She is known for cultivating healthy, happy, and diverse teams that deliver stellar results. Kathy is active in the local Colorado startup community. She is an active mentor in the local Techstars programs, and she coaches several entrepreneurs and technologists. Together we can achieve so much more.

Margaret A. Burd

Board Member, Co-founder

Margaret Burd is a recognized leader in building and growing organizations that are constantly improving, acquiring skills, and implementing new and best-in-class development practices. Ms. Burd founded and is the former President & CEO of Magpie Software, a software development services company.

She was previously Director of Engineering at Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, leading development for mobile internet and other telecommunications applications. She was responsible for managing customer contracts and relationships while running an organization with an $18M annual budget, up to 100 people at multiple (including international) sites, and as many as 10 simultaneous projects. Earlier Margaret gained over 15 years of experience in software development at AT&T and Lucent Bell Laboratories as a developer, project manager, and technical manager. While at Bell Labs she was an inventor on two patents.

She has a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Kansas and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Missouri State University.

Liz Coker

Board Member

Liz Coker is a 30+ year veteran of high-tech marketing, sales, operations, and management with deep knowledge in the areas of go-to-market channels, privacy, and the mobile Web. She is the COO of 5o9 Inc. (dba 3PHealth) where she is working to help make healthcare more accessible and affordable. Prior to co-founding 3PHealth, Liz spent eight years helping early stage technology businesses develop and execute their go-to-market strategies in her roles as President of Aspenwood Consulting, and Vice President of Marketing and Consulting Services for Tactical Marketing Ventures. While at the distributor, Access Graphics, Liz led a $250 million products division, regularly exceeding GP and net income goals. She successfully brought to market and managed the market-leading Jumbo product line for Hewlett-Packard’s CMS division, and served in national account sales, operations, and marketing roles during her 10-year tenure with distributor Merisel, where she launched hundreds of technology products and companies into the channel, including, Intuit, Toshiba, Lotus, Compaq and Microsoft.

Liz has been actively involved with CWWK for eight years – focusing her attention towards the Opportunity Knocks jobs and Profit Matters entrepreneurship programs. She currently serves as the Inclusivity co-chair for Prime Health Colorado and working on the state’s health innovation roadmap project. She is also active in the CU Boulder Professional Mentorship Program and Silicon Flatirons organizations, and has worked with The Leadership Investment, The Women’s Council (CU/Deming Center), and was a delegate for the 2013 Biennial of the Americas. Liz has 4 patents to her credit, and is a data privacy advocate and speaker.

Renata Colitti

Board Member

Throughout her career Renata has led large software engineering and multidisciplinary teams through the lifecycle for products and services in the telecommunications and networking industries. She has mentored and coached many leaders and engineers in career advancement nationwide and matured programs into major company initiatives.

Renata is most proud of her ability to create effective organizations built on teamwork, loyalty, respect, motivation, and consistently delivering on aggressive goals. The teams she has led work on highly complex technical projects spread across multiple work locations, with an emphasis in communications, data center and storage technologies. She is the inventor on two patents and one of the earliest members of CWWK.

Outside of work, she enjoys anything with her daughters, traveling, skiing, yoga, volunteering for Children’s Hospital, National Disabled Sports Program at Winter Park and Chautauqua Concerts and films in the summer. She is an active member of NCWIT Work Force Alliance and the Affinity Group Alliance. Renata is also one of the founding members of CWWK.