About

Colorado Technology Ventures, LLC

About Eben Johnson and Colorado Technology Ventures.

Chartered in 2009, CTV helps founders and their teams and investors build their ventures.

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 Full-time Instructor at the  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)
    • VP, Boulder Writers Alliance

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