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
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
Gary L. Crocker, Crocker Ventures/Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, president of CV LLC and chairman of Merrimack
Nicole Toomey Davis, Governor's Office of Economic Development Centers of Excellence director and Enclavix president and CEO
Ed Donakey, LDS Church senior product manager of strategic relations
James Dreyfous, UV Partners partner
Adam Edmunds, Allegiance Inc. president and CEO
James Endicott, Exact Wave (formerly Veevix) Distriba president and CEO
Brett Error, Omniture chief technology officer and executive vice president of products
Bjorn Espenes, Infopia Inc. president and CEO
Robert Frankenberg, NetVentures CEO
JD Gardner, Monarch Partners general partner
Darin Gilson, Banyan Ventures partner
Alan E. Hall, MarketStar Corp./Grow Utah Ventures founder and chairman
Mike Hall, Senforce president and CEO
Christopher C. Harrington, Omniture Inc. president of global sales and client services
Matthew Hawkins, Technology Division of Henry Schein Inc. vice president and general manager
Ron Heinz, Helius chairman and CEO
Josh James, Omniture CEO
Steve Jones, Auction Trust Network president and CEO
Kimberley Jones, Verite Inc. CEO
Jeff Kearl, LogoWorks chief marketing officer
Gary Kennedy, RemedyMD Inc. president, CEO and chairman
Blake Kirby, Inovar Inc. president and CEO
Fred Lampropoulos, Merit Medical Systems Inc. chairman and CEO
Bruce K. Law, Sprout Marketing president and founder
Darren Lee, NextPage president and CEO
Scott C. Lemon, Agilix Labs Inc. technical evangelist/strategist
Michael Levinthal, individual investor/former managing director of Mayfield Fund
Ransom Love, Genealogical Society of Utah director strategic relationships
Drew Major, Movie Networks founder
Ty D. Mattingly, independent consultant
Darl McBride, The SCO Group Inc. president and CEO
David B. McGinn, Agilix Labs Inc. chief operating officer
Scott McKinley, Neumont University chief executive officer
Peter D. Meldrum, Myriad Genetics Inc. president and CEO
Glen Mella, Control4 chief marketing officer
Craig Miller, LDS Church director of member needs
W. Tim Miller, Echelon Biosciences Inc. president
Clarke Miyasaki, LogoWorks, vice president of business development
Blake Modersitzki, Utah Ventures general partner
Ryan Money, HireVue CEO
David Moon, EsNet Ltd. general partner
Shawn Nelson, LoveSac Alternative Furniture Co. CEO
Jan Newman, Altiris vice president of business development
Tom Ngo, NextPage CTO
Leslie Norris, Snapp Norris Group PR president and managing partner
Eric Olafson, Tomax Corp. CEO
Michael Paul, LineaGen Research Corp. chief operating officer and president
Brad Pelo, NextPage chairman
John Pestana, Omniture Inc. co-founder and executive vice president
Ben Peterson, Spark Networks
Gregory Peterson, GH Peterson Holdings managing partner
Glenn Prestwich, University of Utah presidential professor of medicinal chemistry
Michael Proper, DirectPointe Inc. president and CEO
Dallan Quass, LDS Church, contractor
Amy Rees Lewis, Mediconnect CEO
John Richards, BYU Center for Entrepreneurship associate director
Larry Rigby, Zars Pharma Inc. vice chairman
Bryce Roberts, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures co-founder and managing general partner
Eric Ruff, QuickKutz president, CEO and founder
Rich Running, LDS Church manager of product management
Kevin Santiago, Cymphonix CEO
Chuck Sharp, Sharp Analytics Inc. CEO
Craig Sherman, Gaia Interactive CEO
Dersek Smith, Oakley Networks CEO
Eric Smith, Control4 CTO
Anthony Soohoo, Yahoo Inc. vice president
Jim Sorenson, Sorenson Media CEO
Tom Stockham, MyFamily.com president and CEO
Jack Sunderlage, ContentWatch Inc. president and CEO
Benoy Tamang, Digital Media Publishing Group president and CEO
Cindi Tetro, NextPage vice president of marketing
Daren Thayne, MyFamily.com CTO and senior vice president of development
Mikko Valimaki, Blue Coat Systems Inc. vice president
Jay Verkler, LDS Church managing director of family and church history
Doug Waddoups, Batteries and Bands
Brett Walker, VitalSmarts chief marketing officer
Brad Walters, MaxStream Inc. chairman, CEO and president
Will West, Control4 CEO
Phillip Windley, BYU computer science associate professor
Michael Wolfgramm, MyFamily.com Inc. vice president of development
Ralph Yarro, ThinkAtomic Inc. president and CEO