Dennis Murphree
Dennis Murphree is President and CEO of Murphree Venture Partners and brings over 25 years in direct entrepreneurial investment and operating experience to the team, having raised in excess of $1 billion in capital for over 100 entrepreneurial and venture capital investments during that period. From 1971 until 1986, Mr. Murphree was managing partner in a series of partnerships that developed, acquired or formed real estate, financial services or restaurant related companies. In 1985, Mr. Murphree was the eleventh largest real estate developer in the United States with offices in 12 cities throughout the sunbelt. During this same period, Mr. Murphree and his partners acquired or formed 11 commercial banks throughout Texas and Colorado and invested in seven restaurants, including Café Annie in Houston, Café Express and County Line. He was educated at Southern Methodist University (B.A. 1969) and The Wharton School (M.B.A. 1971). He is also on the faculty of the Jones Graduate School at Rice University.
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Thomas J. Stephenson
Thomas J. Stephenson joined Murphree in November 1997 after serving as the Director of Education and Research for the Austin Technology Incubator ("ATI"), a world-recognized leader in fostering the development of high-technology startup companies. Mr. Stephenson is a general partner of various Murphree venture funds, and brings a combination of technical and business knowledge from his experience with start-up technology companies as a senior executive at ATI. During his tenure at ATI, from 1994 to 1997, Mr. Stephenson prepared entrepreneurs for raising angel and venture capital, evaluated businesses for entry into the incubator and provided business consulting to ATI companies. In addition to conducting due diligence on over 500 business opportunities for the program's five to eight client company slots each year, he provided assistance to the companies in selection of key staff, raising funds and developing business relationships.
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Elliott Bouillion
Elliott Bouillion joined Murphree as a Venture Partner in July 2000 and runs the Boulder, Colorado office. He is an experienced operational officer who has managed both product development and sales and marketing, beginning with his own company, Phoenix Computer Graphics, Inc., a manufacturer of advanced interactive high-resolution raster display controllers. After the successful sale of Phoenix Computer Graphics to Zendex Corporation in 1984, he joined the founding management team of Landmark Graphics Corporation, a leading supplier of interactive computer-aided exploration systems. As Vice President of Operations, and later as Vice President of Geocomputing Technologies and Services, Mr. Bouillion helped lead that company through successful product launch, international expansion, IPO and subsequent acquisition by Halliburton Company. After relocating to Boulder, Colorado in 1996, Mr. Bouillion began private investing, and served as interim CEO of Avalon Imaging, Inc. in Denver. Mr. Bouillion has been active as an investor, advisor and interim manager for several early-stage technology companies, providing consultation in the areas of strategic business planning, marketing, development and project implementation. He has been on the board of directors of several small to mid-size growth companies.
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Jim Kenyon
Jim Kenyon has 30 years of banking experience, beginning with the First National Bank of Denver. More than half that time was spent as President and CEO of banks in Denver and Pueblo, Colorado and Great Falls, Montana. Mr. Kenyon has significant experience in commercial lending including loans in the $3 to $5 million dollar range. The largest bank he presided over was Pueblo Bank & Trust, with combined assets of $300 million. Those banks consistently were high performing banks in their markets, both in terms of growth and earnings. Since 1990, he has run his own company providing management consulting and receiver services. At the request of Well Fargo Bank Arizona, he served as a receiver in a $10 million receivership involving a food processing plant. Mr. Kenyon founded Check Express, a retail financial services company in the Denver market. After five years, and establishing two locations, he sold that business to a national competitor on the strength of the business model he had created. He has consulted to start-up and well-established companies in Colorado and surrounding states. He is an experienced angel investor, having made such investments for more than 10 years. Mr. Kenyon has presided over a number of civic organizations, most recently having just completed two terms as Chairman of the State of Colorado Economic Development Commission.
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David Jansen
David Jansen has founded several successful technology companies during his career. He is currently founder and CEO of BuCu Technologies, Inc. in Boulder, Colorado, which is developing next-generation fiber-optic data transmission systems and products. His first company, Destiny Systems, Inc. developed wireless networking products for the health, wellness and fitness industries. He has worked for Hughes Aircraft Company and Kaman Sciences Corporation developing new technologies and products. His technical areas of expertise include electrical, wireless, optical and software systems with a unique vision evaluating technology and opportunities. He has been actively involved in several mergers and acquisitions, performing valuation analysis, deal structuring and post-investment strategic planning. Mr. Jansen has also headed new business development on an international scale, created and managed international sales organizations, developed marketing plans and negotiated and implemented several strategic alliances and joint ventures. Mr. Jansen holds a B.S.E.E. from the University of Arizona with an optical engineering minor, and has completed coursework from the Stanford Business School Executive Program series.
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Ben Sparks
Ben Sparks is a partner of Sparks Willson Borges Brandt & Johnson, P.C., a Colorado Springs, Colorado law firm with a significant corporate finance practice. Mr. Sparks joined the firm in 1994. He has guided numerous clients from start-up through venture financing and liquidity. From 1989 to 1994, he practiced with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in their Palo Alto, California office. Mr. Sparks' firm, Sparks Willson, is a leading technology law firm in Colorado Springs, and Mr. Sparks has worked on dozens of technology transactions - from licensing deals to venture financings to merger and acquisition work. In total, these transactions represent over $100 million in value. Among his firm's clients are Team Share, Inc., e-Business Technology, Inc., Think Service, Inc. and NeoCore, Inc. Mr. Sparks is an 1985 Magna Cum Laude graduate of Harvard University, and earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1989, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Virginia Journal of International Law. Mr. Sparks was also a 1985 Rotary Scholar.
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Pat Long
Mr. Long, 52, is one of the founders and partners of The Beta Capital Group LLC, which is a private capital group consisting largely of former CEO's of major corporations. Beta Capital and its seven partners are engaged in a wide range of investments and investment activities. Mr. Long is also the founding partner of the Texas office of Patton Boggs LLP. He received his J.D. in 1975 from the University of Texas, and a B.B.A. in economics and accounting in 1972 from Southern Methodist University.

Mr. Long currently serves on the board of directors of Lobo Petroleum, Inc. and Alexander & Long, Inc., and previously served on the board of directors of the Oil, Gas & Mineral Law Section of the Dallas Bar Association, the Panhandle Natural Gas Society, and Cimarron Transmission Company. He is an active member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, the American Arbitration Association and the Texas Bar Foundation. Mr. Long served as the Chairman of the District 13 Grievance Committee of the Texas Bar Association from 1985 through 1986.