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Utah's top 104 venture entrepreneurs chosen by vSpring

Published: Monday, May 15, 2006 8:52 p.m. MDT
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Salt Lake-based vSpring Capital recently announced its 2006 list of the vSpring Capital Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs, also known as the v100.

The v100 was conceived by vSpring as a tool to recognize the region's outstanding entrepreneurs and to support and promote partnering and collaboration among Utah's top entrepreneurs. Each year, the company asks members of the state's business community to nominate people with ties to Utah who are most likely to lead a successful startup venture in the next five to seven years in the information technology or biotech industries in a chief executive or chief technical officer role.

After nominations are submitted, nominees are invited to participate in a confidential online survey to vote for the top 10 individuals they feel would most likely meet the selection criteria. Those nominees who garner the most votes from their peers are then elected into the v100.

The 104 people who made the cut for the v100 for 2006 are:

• Bill Aho, chief executive officer of ClearPlay Inc.

• Curt Allen, Agilix Labs Inc. CEO

• Paul Allen, Infobase Ventures CEO

• Will Allred, Firepoll CEO

• Dallin Anderson, Montigen Pharmaceuticals Inc. president and CEO

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• Bob Barnes, Vacation Rentals Online CEO

• Coleman Barney, Cogito Inc. president and CEO

• Grant Beckmann, WiLife Inc. chief operating officer

• Ragula Bhaskar, FatPipe Networks president and CEO

• Brent Bishop, ContentWatch Inc. chairman

• Brock Blake, FundingUniverse.com CEO

• Paul Brockbank, Enhance Interactive Inc. CEO

• Fraser Bullock, Sorenson Capital managing director

• Greg Butterfield, Altiris president and CEO

• Patrick Byrne, Overstock.com president and chairman

• David Carter, S5 Wireless Inc. president and CEO

• Edwin Catmull, Pixar Animation Studios president and founder

• Steve Christensen, Broadweave Networks CEO

• Gavin Christensen, Kellogg School of Management MBA candidate

• Brad Christensen, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints manager of product managers

• Carine Clark, Altiris vice president of marketing

• Josh Coates, Mozy.com/Berkeley Data Systems Inc. founder and CEO

• Gregory Critchfield, Myriad Genetics Labs president

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