Member Directory

Ann Stewart Zachwieja is co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Intuist AI. She brings more than 20 years of experience in product management, marketing, demand generation, and sales and marketing automation, and has built cross-functional teams at organizations from startups to enterprises.

Benjamin Kepner is the founder and CEO of Global Social Media Marketing, a Denver-based marketing and AI-consulting agency he started in 2018. He leads paid social, SEO, GA4, and AI-systems work for clients including Otterbox, Coca-Cola, and the NFL.

Founder of Out of Office, the first AI-powered platform built specifically for experiential marketing teams. Over a decade producing high-stakes events for brands like adidas, Uber, Google, Apple, Amazon, and Mattel. Built an end-to-end system for planning and executing experiential campaigns with AI-generated concepts, smart vendor matching, and streamlined workflows. Launching May 2025.

Charity Corkey is a Denver-based marketing communications strategist with a focus on growth marketing, direct mail, and cross-functional partnerships. Her LinkedIn headline cites more than $100M in revenue impact delivered across Fortune 500 and enterprise clients.

Director of Generative AI leading enterprise-level initiatives, Founder of Small Business Automations AI LLC, and Prompt Engineer. MIT No-Code AI/ML graduate with published work at Stanford, Berkeley, and Los Alamos. Specializes in no-code AI solutions, automation strategies, and helping businesses streamline operations to focus on growth rather than repetitive tasks.

Cody McDonald is a product management executive at SCRAM Systems focused on 0-to-1 product development and AI strategy. She co-organizes ProductTank Denver, a community for product professionals, and has spoken at events including the Boulder Founders Summit.

Strategic force in executive leadership merging marketing foundation with operational command in tech startups. Pioneered AI-driven marketing strategies at Origin AI and Aizon. Expertise in operational frameworks, product portfolios, and revenue operations. Track record includes 10x lead generation increase and 6x pipeline growth. Global experience across Asia, South America, and Europe with focus on scalable technology operations.

Building the future at the Brain Wave Collective. Dynamic AI/ML partner delivering cost-effective AI Automation solutions. 15+ years experience working with hundreds of globally distributed diverse teams across various industries. Specializes in innovative AI & ML approaches, strategic guidance, tailored training, and extensive technical expertise. Simplifies complex concepts for all skill levels and backgrounds.

Daniel Vilk is a co-founder at CreativeLaunch, a Boulder-based creative-ad platform for ecommerce brands. He focuses on growth and has helped scale the company's ad-creative tools to dozens of D2C brands.

David Donges is the founder and owner of InnovateBPO, bringing more than 13 years of leadership experience in business process outsourcing, customer success, and enterprise operations. He helps organizations achieve scalable growth through intelligent automation, vendor strategy, and creative process design, and is based in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Multidisciplinary creative working at the crossroads of experiential, AI, digital, film and social. Believes curiosity is her greatest tool, keeping her process playful, adaptive and deeply human while creating work that feels intimate yet resonates on a greater scale. Collaborates globally with talented teams and mentors.

Eli Wood leads Black Flag Design, a Denver creative-technology studio that builds AI systems and design-forward software. He grew up installing water wells in South Texas before moving into design strategy, previously running design-sprint programs for Fortune 500 clients at Designit.

Founder and CEO of Cora, a continuous conversion intelligence platform that watches a brand's website and delivers prioritized, implementation-ready fixes instead of another dashboard. Entrepreneurial product leader with a track record of taking products from zero to one. Self-taught builder who develops software through a custom AI-assisted pipeline.

Jacob Haugen is a senior lead software engineer in Boulder who leads platform infrastructure teams. He can speak to data architecture and how engineering organizations scale their systems.

Founder of AI Marketing Forum, helping organizational leaders, marketing professionals, entrepreneurs, coaches, and agency owners use AI to increase company and career value. Former marketing agency owner (18 years), executive coach, and bestselling author. Developed Mutual Intelligence framework delivered through community-based model with courses, workshops, and AI consulting.

Jen Hanson is a Boulder, Colorado-based product leader focused on AI-driven product development, currently serving as VP of Product Development at Dubsado. She has spoken publicly on AI's local impact, including at the Cool/Scary AI Impact Forum in Denver.

Career spent designing and executing strategies that bring innovative products, campaigns, and communities to life for world-class brands. Led innovation teams at agencies and scaled startups, focusing on AI implications for team collaboration, creation, and business reimagining. Recently joined Addition as Senior AI Product Manager to push boundaries of GenAI-powered experiences.

I'm a community builder in the front range, early member of RMAIG , AI Builders, etc. I founded an SF based AI agent company in 2024. I built and am running https://bout-buddy.com/ using AI--for the fencing community. I am a builder and pioneer first, created H90AI project and several other side projects.

Ken Fricklas is a longtime Colorado technologist and entrepreneur working as founding partner of Turaco Strategy, a lean AI-adoption consultancy, and as a member of MLCommons. He is a former senior manager at Google Search and teaches AI curriculum as a faculty member at the University of Denver.

Turns agency chaos into clarity and clarity into growth. Helps marketers and agency founders build growth engines with sharp positioning, scalable marketing systems, and AI-powered execution. Deep experience in brand marketing, PR, and communications across agencies and in-house teams. Specializes in AI-Enhanced Marketing Ops, Sales Innovation, and Digital Transformation for agencies ready to scale systematically.

Founder and Principal of Harmonic Edge Consulting, a strategy firm focused on technology-driven transformation, innovation strategy and AI-enabled organizational initiatives. Former Director of Strategy, Research Operations and Analytics at Columbia Business School, where a 60-person data science and research organization was built and scaled. Previously Director of Corporate Strategy and Corporate Development at Alcatel-Lucent, leading global planning and growth initiatives.

Founder of Herding Wolves, helping SMEs and growth-stage tech companies align business and technology leadership through strategic analysis, mediation, and AI-driven transformation. With 25+ years as an IT and security executive, he specializes in conflict resolution, compliance, and mentoring high-performing teams. Pioneers practical AI adoption to streamline operations, reduce risk, and unlock sustainable growth.

Co-Founder & CEO of Kestrel Labs, leveraging AI for code compliance in the built world. Tackles problems that slow people down and make work harder than it needs to be. Focuses on making code compliance part of the architectural workflow, not an extra step. Background includes running consultancies, leading capital campaigns, and streamlining processes for state agencies, universities, and nonprofits.

Mathew Sweezey is a marketing strategist and author best known for The Context Marketing Revolution, which argues that marketing should center on matching a buyer's immediate needs to a brand's experience. He previously served as Director of Market Strategy at Salesforce and now works in AI product strategy at Monks.

Matt Florence is an AI engineering leader and the owner-consultant behind Prompt Works, a Colorado-based AI product studio. He is based in Conifer, Colorado, in the Denver metro area, and works at the intersection of large language models and traditional software engineering.

Maureen Keating is the founder and CEO of Swytch Station, a Boulder-based startup that connects hard-to-fill jobs with untapped talent through AI-powered career navigation. She previously led global product and marketing initiatives at Apple, Adobe, and Cisco, and served as president of Women@Apple.

Pioneering expert on brand experience, purpose-led brand growth, and conscious creativity with 20+ years working on world's biggest brands including Unilever, Diageo, Mercedes-Benz, Nike, Microsoft. Multi-award winning (Cannes Lion, ONE Show, Effie) CEO/CCO/CMO with P&L responsibilities. Agency founder of Gearwerx and School (both acquired). Author of two business books, founding member of World Experience Organization.

Heads down iterating with the world's best product teams on how latest technologies at the intersection of data science + product can enable predictable flow-state experiences. Specializes in science-based research behind flow states and proprietary LetsFlow frameworks. Offers speaking, custom workshops for Digital Product Teams, and Flow Strategy coaching. Currently writing upcoming book on ProductFlow™️.

Creator, Hyperadaptive Model and Author of Hyperadaptive: Rewiring the Enterprise to Become AI-Native. The Hyperadaptive Model gives leaders a practical, step-by-step way to integrate AI across teams at scale. Instead of dabbling in pilots, they're building lasting capabilities that keep up with AI: continuous adaptation, integrated learning, and value orientation. Hyperadaptive organizations make better, AI-augmented decisions in real time. My goal is to address the human side of AI transformation, making AI feel less like chaos, more like progress.

Melissa Whitaker is a content marketer and writer based in the Denver metro area, working across B2B and B2C content strategy. She also writes on Medium under the handle @melissa_2heads, reflecting her connection to Two Heads.

Phil Nugent is the founder and editor-in-chief of Colorado AI News, a Boulder-based publication covering AI developments across Colorado. He is also a strategic marketing professional and copywriter who works with solo and small-firm attorneys and CPAs, and co-leads subgroups within the Rocky Mountain AI Interest Group.

Phil Vilk is the founder and CEO of CreativeLaunch, a Boulder-based platform that builds persona-targeted ad creative for ecommerce brands. He writes regularly about ad-creative strategy and has grown the company to work with dozens of D2C brands.

Co-founder of Integral CPG, a consultancy that helps food and beverage teams with product innovation strategy, creation and execution. Longtime CPG industry consultant known for creating and growing brands. Brings strategy, design and execution together to turn product potential into real-world performance.

Authentic and enthusiastic product leader with a proven track record of taking products from idea stage to millions in sales. Currently in discovery mode for ML/AI opportunities. Former co-founder of B2B SaaS company, built marketing technology product from mock-up to first million in revenue in under 12 months. Led product development through acquisition and strategic growth.

Founder of TheSupply, merging talent resourcing and production. Background in digital recruiting for Ad Agencies in NY & Chicago, then Digital Producer at creative shops. Connects developers, designers, producers, and UX professionals with opportunities. Self-described hack-y creative-idea-guy, designer, and front-end developer who believes talent sourcing and producing should work closer together.

Steven Hubert is a product design and UX leader with 18 years of experience building digital products for ski resorts, non-profits, and B2C and B2B companies. He led the build of the Ikon Pass at Alterra Mountain Company and previously led product management at agencies including CP+B, Grey, and J. Walter Thompson.

Passionate about helping organizations unlock the power of AI, ensuring teams become more efficient, creative, engaged, and impactful. Focuses on practical AI solutions that deliver real business outcomes through tailored strategy, hands-on guidance, and human-centered implementation. Deep experience in product, marketing tech, and customer-centric strategy across multiple industries.