Bob Newman Lifetime Achievement Award winner J.B. Holston
A heartfelt congratulations to my new friend, J.B. Holston who was awarded last week the prestigious Bob Newman Lifetime Achievement Award by the Colorado Technology Association. It is not the first time he has been on the podium at CTA, as they awarded him Technology Executive of the Year in 2010. I have been lucky enough to get to know J.B. through the Blackstone Network, where he is the Executive Director but his achievements and contributions to our entrepreneurial community go well beyond that effort.
J.B. has a quarter century of success as a leader and entrepreneur in a number of thriving organizations, and is active in a range of civic initiatives around innovation, open government, entrepreneurship, impact investing, and microfinance in our state.
J.B. Holston - Executive Director Blackstone Entrepreneurial Network of Colorado
J.B. served as founding CEO for NewsGator (now Sitrion) from 2004 through 2012 and before that he led a broad range of for-profit and not-for-profit enterprises including President of Ziff Davis International, where he was a member of the executive team that completed the successful LBO of the company with Forstmann, Little and subsequent sale to Softbank. He also launched Yahoo! Europe as a joint venture between ZD and Yahoo! and even held senior executive positions at NBC and GE after starting his career in Boston with BCG. He continues to serve as Chairman of the Board of Sitrion, and is on the Board of the Colorado Innovation Network, Accion, and a whole host of other organizations.
Last but far from least, his leadership at BEN Colorado has gotten the group off to an incredible start and we are very lucky to have him in the position. Congrats J.B. for your recent extremely well deserved recognition and thanks for all you do for our entrepreneurial ecosystem!
