Leadership

Mueller

Erick Mueller

Executive Director • Adjunct Professor
Deming Center for Entrepreneurship • Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Operations
Entrepreneurship
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Brad Werner

Assistant Teaching Professor • Faculty Director of New Venture Launch • JRN Faculty Scholar • Faculty Director for the Entrepreneurship Certificate
Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Operations • Deming Center for Entrepreneurship
Brad Werner is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Operations Division at the Leeds School of Business. He is an experienced entrepreneur and co-founder focused on impact. Brad has an active career specializing in the energy, technology, real estate, aviation, and hospitality sectors. He sits on the Board of Directors of several companies and actively consults early and midgrowth ventures. Brad has also been dedicated to reducing...
Jeffrey York

Jeffrey G. York

Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives • Faculty Director of the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship • Professor • Dean’s Faculty Fellow
Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Operations • Deming Center for Entrepreneurship
Environmental Entrepreneurship, Institutional Theory, Identity Theory, Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Staff

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Betsy Klein

Associate Director of Operations
Deming Center for Entrepreneurship
Betsy Klein joined the Deming Center in February 2022, and manages the Center's graduate student co-curricular entrepreneurship programming. She has over eight years of experience in higher education, focusing on executive education and entrepreneurial leadership program development at Stanford University. She has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee. Betsy loves spending her free time hiking the Flatirons and biking to local breweries.
Sharon Montini

Sharon Montini

Program Coordinator
Deming Center for Entrepreneurship
Sharon Montini is the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship’s s newest Program Coordinator but has been employed in this position in the past so she knows the ropes! Working to serve students with achieving their Certificate in Entrepreneurial Studies and seeing them realize their goals and dreams is near and dear to her heart. She also worked for the CU Real Estate Center for four years prior to joining the Deming...

Student Employees

Paige Heck

Paige Heck

Marketing Intern
Deming Center for Entrepreneurship
Paige Heck joined the Deming team in October 2023 as a marketing intern, managing social media. She is a Sophomore at the Leeds School of Business and is exploring options and learning about all the different emphasis. Paige has a background in social media marketing with Triple Crown Sports and The Loveland Opera Theatre . She has a passion for marketing, bringing together a community and bringing delight to peoples...
Emily Iliff

Emily Iliff

Marketing Intern
Deming Center for Entrepreneurship
Emily Iliff joined the team in October 2023 as a Marketing intern, and also serves as Editor-in-Chief of The Entrepreneurship Pulse. Recently, she has taken on the role of Marketing Director for the Creative Distillation Podcast, as she brings her strategic insights to marketing, social media management, and content creation across multiple platforms. As a Senior at CU Â鶹ӰԺ, she’s studying Advertising Strategy in the College of Media, Communication, and...

Former Student Employees

Jesse Burns

Jesse Burns

Communications Coordinator - Fall 2023
Deming Center for Entrepreneurship
Jesse Burns joined the Deming team in September 2023 as the communications coordinator for the Creative Distillation Research Podcast . He is a senior in the Leeds School of Business pursuing his Bachelor of Science in Business Management, specifically international business and entrepreneurship. He grew up in a small mountain town in Colorado and is an avid outdoorsman. Jesse has worked within many aspects of the restaurant and retail industries,...
Eloise Popiel

Eloise Popiel

Communications Coordinator - Spring 2023
Deming Center for Entrepreneurship
Eloise Popiel joined the Deming team in January 2023 as the Communications Coordinator for the Creative Distillation Research podcast . She is currently a senior at the Leeds School of Business pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurship. Eloise is a dog lover, podcast enthusiast, and has a passion for entrepreneurship. She has worked a variety of jobs throughout college to stay busy from nannying to bartending, or running various...