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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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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