About

Colorado Technology Ventures, LLC

Chartered in 2009, CTV helps teams grow their businesses and investors improve their returns.

Eben Johnson

Experienced across markets, industries, business functions, and cultures.

    • Awarded USCA Best of Boulder Excellence in Sales and Marketing
    • Awarded UTC Best Practices for Global Voice of the Customer Product Development Process
    • Awarded Mentor of the Year, University of Colorado, Boulder—wide variety of ventures, industries, & markets
    • Commendation Malcolm Baldrige Quality Committee for Excellence in Operations & Procurement
    • Led corporate marketing and commercial team for a new engine program—first to approach leading customer, now in production
    • Conceived, researched, and recommended creation of new information services business unit—now in production
    • Conceived, researched, planned, and recommended creation of new Emissions Solutions business unit—now in production
    • Start-up success, won 1st production contract and closed funding—now in production and successfully exited via strategic acquisition
    • Reduced lead times & order fulfillment from six weeks to same-day shipping
    • Reduced direct material spend 30%, reduced lead times 50%, nearly eliminated incoming quality rejects

Formerly, Instructor, University of Colorado, Boulder

Engineering Management Program, College of Engineering and Applied Science

Graduate and undergraduate courses:

    • Marketing
    • New Product Development and Design
    • Intrapreneurship
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Mentor and program participant—CatalyzeCU

Languages & International

  • Have worked with companies from around the world; comfortable with cultures
  • Expat experience: Europe 15+ years
  • Fluent in English; formerly fluent in French; very rusty in Dutch and German; formerly tourist-level Japanese

Positions

    • CEO and Founder, QZetta, Inc.
    • Instructor, College of Engineering and Applied Science; University of Colorado, Boulder
    • CEO, Thomas Engine Company
    • Global Director of Sales & Marketing, VAIREX International
    • VP Global Sales & Marketing, Raybestos Corporation
    • Director, Light-Duty Automotive Markets, Cummins Engine Company

Education

    • MBA,Product Development & Alternative Energy; UC Davis
    • BS, Industrial Management; Carnegie Mellon University

Patents & publications

  • Transportable Marketing Content Overlaid on Digital Media – PCT/US18/37797
  • Contributing writer and editor to several graduate and undergraduate cost accounting textbooks including Cost Accounting by Deakin & Maher, 4th ed., Irwin, Boston, 1993

Current or Former Associations

    • Rockies Venture Club
    • Innosphere
    • American Marketing Association (AMA)
    • SAGE
    • American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS)
    • Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM)
    • Owner & founder Hybrid Truck and Bus Group (>2500 members)