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Colorado Springs-based Cherwell Software to be sold to Utah company
Colorado Springs-based Cherwell Software will be acquired by Salt Lake City information technology security company Ivanti in a deal backed by two private equity investment firms, Ivanti announced Tuesday. Affiliates of Clearlake Capital Group and TA Associates are financing the deal; terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Cherwell CEO Sam Gilliland said the deal…
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Venture capital funding bypasses Colorado Springs in 2020
Venture capital funding bypassed Colorado Springs in 2020, even as such financing hit a 20-year high in Colorado and a record nationwide, according to a report. The dearth of money for local startups last year was the first time such companies failed to land venture capital funding since 2007, according to the MoneyTree Report from…
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Loss of U.S. Space Command a ‘missed opportunity’ for Colorado Springs; what next?
John Suthers has plenty of economic development wins as mayor — a massive Amazon distribution center and Southwest Airlines expanding to Colorado Springs to name two — but he called the loss of the U.S. Space Command to Huntsville, Ala., his biggest setback. “We haven’t had a whole lot of economic development bad news, but…
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George Paton’s journey to Denver started in a Chicago basement: From a friend’s couch to Broncos GM
George Paton showed up at Thomas Bonds’ Chicago doorstep with only an hour’s notice. Paton, 28 at the time, had just accepted a low-level scouting job with the Bears and had flown in from Los Angeles looking for a couch to crash on. Bonds’ brother, Jimmy, was a friend of Paton’s going back to their…
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Minnesota’s George Paton is Denver Broncos’ new GM: ‘I feel like this team is a sleeping giant’
Minnesota Vikings Vice President of Player Personnel/Assistant General Manager George Paton is the Denver Broncos’ new general manager, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported Wednesday and the Broncos later confirmed. Paton agreed to a six-year deal with the Broncos. Paton, 51, was considered one of the Broncos’ top candidates when President of Football Operations John Elway announced…
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Colorado Springs Movers & Shakers
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Cindy Pratt has been named chief financial officer of Peak Vista Community Health Centers in Colorado Springs. She spent the last 6½ years as chief financial officer of the Pueblo Community Health Center. She also…
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Colorado Springs Movers & Shakers
Cindy Pratt has been named chief financial officer of Peak Vista Community Health Centers in Colorado Springs. She spent the last 6½ years as chief financial officer of the Pueblo Community Health Center. She also worked as director of finance and accounting for Verisma Systems in Pueblo and as Northern California controller for Securitas Security…
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Pikes Peak region mourns several notable deaths in 2019
A rugged cowboy who also was known as the Marlboro Man, a revered Tuskegee Airman and fighter pilot, the co-founder of a signature tourist attraction and a longtime policeman who climbed through the ranks to become chief of police were among prominent residents of the Pikes Peak region who died in 2019. They include: Phillip…
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Colorado Springs missile defenders go two-for-two in interceptor test
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Score a pair of holes-in-one for the 100th Missile Defense Brigade in Colorado Springs, which hit an intercontinental ballistic missile target with a pair of interceptors last week in the fullest test of its system…