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Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
Skills
Education
- Dakota High School
Work Experience
Governor of North Dakota
2016
The great state of North Dakota gained statehood in 1889. Doug Burgum serves as North Dakota's 33rd governor.
Member, Board of Directors
2003
The Arthur Companies enables customers to prosper by providing superior products, services and markets while benefiting the communities it serves and safeguarding the environment. It operates diverse agribusinesses, including grain elevators, a birdseed company and a wholesale fertilizer company. This family business was founded in Arthur, North Dakota in 1906.
2014 - 2016
Member, Board of Directors
2014 - 2016
Based in Bainbridge Island, Washington, Avalara is the leading cloud-based sales tax and compliance automation technology provider. Avalara pioneered a web-based compliance platform for sales tax automation nearly a decade ago and now provides a complete set of transactional tax compliance services for businesses of all sizes. Today, its SaaS solution integrates into numerous ERP systems, accounting packages, ecommerce shopping carts, Point of Sale systems and mobile payment platforms. In 2013, Avalara was again acknowledged as one of the fastest growing companies in North America via its inclusion on Deloitte’s 2013 Technology Fast 500. Avalara earned this recognition by growing fiscal year revenue over 400 percent from 2008 to 2012.
2012 - 2016
Chairman of the Board
2012 - 2016
Atlassian is a leading provider of collaboration, development, and issue tracking software for teams. With over 50,000 global customers (including 85 of the Fortune 100), we’re advancing the power of collaboration with products including JIRA, Confluence, HipChat, and Bitbucket. Driven by honest values, an amazing culture, and consistent revenue growth, we’re out to unleash the potential of every team. Atlassian is a frequent honoree of best places to work rankings, including a number one ranking in 2014 and 2015 in Best Places to Work in Australia by Great Place to Work®.
Advisory Board
2012 - 2016
The Jeffrey S. Raikes School is passionate about innovation and the power of innovative minds to change the world. Through a honors curriculum that integrates Computer Science and Management, Raikes School trains top students in a process for innovation that will catapult them and the teams they lead to the forefront of tomorrow’s next big thing. The program produces graduates with high technical proficiency as well as a strong sense of the business problems and organizational needs that information systems are intended to serve. Raikes School is recognized for producing graduates who understand the multiple levels of new information systems, and who become the technology sector’s innovators, product developers, entrepreneurs, chief information officers, and CEOs.
2011 - 2016
Executive Chairman, Board of Directors
2011 - 2016
Intelligent InSites helps transform healthcare with real-time operational intelligence that improves care, enhances the human experience, and increases efficiency. Through its open, real-time technology platform, Intelligent InSites automatically collects and processes data from multiple data sources such as EHRs, financial systems, building systems, sensory and real-time location systems (RTLS), mobility solutions, and other healthcare IT solutions, and then provides actionable intelligence to achieve cost savings, operational excellence, and better care. Using the enterprise-wide architecture of the InSites platform, healthcare systems can leverage all legacy, current, and future data sources to optimize their technology investments across the entire organization, and have the flexibility to meet changing organizational, regulatory, and compliance needs. Modern Healthcare has included Intelligent Insites in its Best Places to Work in Healthcare list multiple times: number 1 in 2009 and 2010; number 17 in 2012; and number 10 in 2014.
2008 - 2016
Co-Founder
2008 - 2016
Arthur Ventures provides Partnership Capital to exceptional entrepreneurs on their journey to market leadership. Based in Fargo, ND Arthur Ventures invests in ambitious, mission-driven software companies located anywhere outside of Silicon Valley.
2007 - 2016
Founder
2007 - 2016
Kilbourne Group is a catalyst of inspiration and action for vibrant downtown communities, because vibrant downtowns create smart, healthy cities. The team delivers on this vision through historic renovation, mixed-use infill projects, and creating places and experiences for people. Kilbourne Group is guided by its core values of respect for the past, gratitude for the present, and inspiration for the future.
2010 - 2015
Investor & Member, Board of Directors
2010 - 2015
Loyalty Builders delivers predictive customer analytics as a software service that many companies have used to generate significant uplift in email, print, online, and catalog marketing campaigns. Their automated analytics process uses transaction history to predict future likelihood of every customer to purchase every product, and calculates precise loyalty scores, with proven accuracy. Longbow, the company’s SaaS tool for marketers, makes it easy to target groups of any granularity – down to each individual customer – with the most relevant up-sell, cross-sell, and win-back offers and messages. Loyalty Builders’ proven, proprietary analytics and unique approach is the fast, easy way to maximize the lifetime value of existing customers. www.loyaltybuilders.com
2010 - 2015
Member, National Advisory Board
2010 - 2015
Positive Coaching Alliance is a national non-profit developing “Better Athletes, Better People” by working to provide all youth and high school athletes a positive, character-building youth sports experience.