Salt Lake-based early-stage venture capital firm vSpring Capital has announced the 2007 class of the vSpring Capital Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs.
The list, also known as the v100, was created in 2004 by vSpring to recognize "outstanding entrepreneurs who have ties to the state of Utah."
Each year, vSpring asks members of the Utah business community to nominate people 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. Nominees who garner the most votes from their peers in this second step of the annual voting process are then elected into the v100.
The 2007 class employs more than 100,000 people and have raised a total of $3.5 billion in financing in their careers.
Kevin Rollins, former chief executive officer of Dell Inc., will address the v100 at a member luncheon June 14.
Members of the 2007 v100 class are:
Shawn Adamson, XO Communications vice president and general manager; Jayson Ahlstrom, ClassTop president; Bill Aho of ClearPlay; Rick Alden, SkullCandy chief executive officer; Curt Allen, Agilix Labs president and CEO; Paul Allen, World Vital Records CEO; Jared Allgood, ClassTop CEO; Bill Allred, Allegiance corporate sales director; Brandt Andersen, NBA D League CEO; Dallin Anderson, Serial Capital managing director; Jeremy Andrus, SkullCandy chief operating officer; Matt Asay, Alfresco vice president of business development;
Terry Bagley, Centershift president and CEO; Kirt Bailey, Celio Corp. president and CEO; Brad Baldwin, Rocky Mountain Voices co-founder and executive producer; Bob Barnes, Zonder CEO; Coleman Barney, Cogito president and CEO; Jeff Barson, Surface Medical Spas/Nimble CEO; Grant Beckmann, WiLife COO; Brian Beutler, Alianza CEO; Ragula Bhaskar, FatPipe Networks president and CEO; Brent L Bishop, ContentWatch chairman; Brett Blake, Rahster.com CEO; Jon Bresee, Backcountry.com CEO; Jack Brittain, University of Utah vice president; Phil Burns, TagJungle CEO;
Greg Butterfield, Altiris president and CEO; Patrick M. Byrne, Overstock.com chairman and president; David Carter, S5 Wireless president and CEO; Don Cash, Omniture vice president of midmarket sales; Edwin Catmull, Pixar Animation Studios president and co-founder; David Clark, Prolexys Pharmaceuticals president and CEO; Rob Clyde, Symantec vice president of technology in the office of the chief technology officer; Josh Coates, Berkeley Data Systems (Mozy) founder and CEO; Michael Colemere of Colemere Consulting; Michael Dodd Jr., Omniture senior vice president of corporate development;
William Donahoo, Cogito vice president of product management and marketing; Ed Donakey, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, manager of strategic relations; John Dunn, Banyan Ventures director; Michael Dutton, Winder Farms president; Adam Edmunds, Allegiance president and CEO; James Endicott, Exact Wave president and CEO; Brett Error, Omniture chief technology officer and executive vice president over products; Bjorn Espenes, Infopia CEO; Christian Faulconer, Public Engines COO; Ildar Fazulyanov, S5 Wireless chief financial officer; JD Gardner, Monarch Partners general partner; Lee Gibbons, Podango.com co-founder and CEO; Terry Haas, Solera Networks president and CEO; Mike Hall, Senforce Technologies president and CEO;
Jeremy Hanks, Doba CEO and co-founder; Greg Heaps, Allegiance COO; Tim Hunt, Lingotek CEO; Josh James, Omniture CEO; Kimberley Jones, Verite CEO; Jeff Kearl, Logoworks chief strategy officer; Chris Knudsen, Podango.com vice president of business development; Bruce Law, Sprout Marketing founder and president; Christopher Lee Heritage, Makers CEO; Darren Lee, NextPage CEO and president; Scott C. Lemon, mediaFORGE chief technical officer; Shawn Lindquist, Omniture chief legal officer and senior vice president; Kyle Love, Direct Controls CEO; Morgan Lynch, Logoworks CEO; Drew Major, Move Networks chairman; Ty D. Mattingly, independent consultant/investor; David B. McGinn, Agilix Labs COO; Glen Mella, Control4 president and COO; Larry Miller, Larry Miller Group CEO; Craig Miller, LDS Church director of member needs; Clarke Miyasaki, Logoworks vice president of business development; Ryan Money, HireVue CEO and founder; Shawn Nelson, LoveSac Alternative Furniture founder and chairman;
Tom Ngo, NextPage chief technical officer; John Pestana, Omniture co-founder and executive vice president; Scott Petersen, Best Vinyl CEO; Ben Peterson, MingleMatch CEO and founder; Martin Plaehn, Bungee Labs CEO; Michael Proper, DirectPointe president and CEO; Dallan Quass, Foundation for On-Line president; Amy Rees Lewis, MediConnect Global CEO; Gary Rhoads, Brigham Young University Center for Entrepreneurship director; John Richards, BYU Center for Entrepreneurship associate director; Larry Rigby, Zars pharma vice chairman;
Kevin Rollins, Dell former CEO; Rich Running of the LDS Church; Kevin Santiago, Cymphonix CEO; Eric Smith, Control4 chief technical officer; Timothy Stay, Know More Media chief innovation officer; Joshua Steimle, MWI founder and CEO; Tom Stockham Jr. of 3point5.com; Jack W. Sunderlage, ContentWatch president and CEO; Benoy Tamang, HookSell president; Cydni Tetro, NextPage vice president of marketing and products; Kent Thomas, CFO Solutions founder and managing member; Will West, Control4 CEO; Greg Whisenant, Public Engines CEO; Phillip Windley, Windley.com managing partner; Ralph Yarro, ThinkAtomic president and CEO; and Richard Zinn, BallardZinn Engineering president.