Kevin Johansen

Current

• Investor Chair at Clean Tech Open
• Founder & EVP BizDev at The BusinessCatapult.com

Past

• Chair at Angel Capital Summit
• Managing Partner at Huge Consulting
• Director at Capital Markets Group

• Founder at The Entrepreneurial Standards Forum

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Education

• Gustavus Adolphus College

Recommended

13 people have recommended Kevin

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Capital Markets

Websites

• My Company
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• My Company

Kevin Johansen’s Summary

Call me a social capitalist. I put a lot of energy into insuring the health of the communities I belong to, because if they're not in good shape it's harder on all of us. What this translates into is that I work every day to improve the business ecology, and I'd like to think that I'm talented enough and well enough connected to make a difference. So if you're a 'Keystone' provider of infrastructure, or have a new product or service that you think creates new and sustainable efficiencies for a market, I'd love to talk to you.

Kevin Johansen’s Specialties:

As the EVP BizDev of the BusinessCatapult.com, I work to create new resources for the business development ecology that utilizes 'evidence based entrepreneurship'.

As a Huge Partner I help Colorado emerging growth companies access 'accelerant' funds and to improve their operations & marketplace development strategies.

Kevin Johansen’s Experience

• Investor Chair

  Clean Tech Open

  (Capital Markets industry)

  2009 — Present (less than a year)

• Founder & EVP BizDev

  The BusinessCatapult.com

  (Capital Markets industry)

  February 2004 — Present (5 years 10 months)

  The Business Catapult (www.businesscatapult.com) is a SaaS business development platform that helps entrepreneurs & investors find the common ground so that they can work together faster & more effectively.

• Chair

  Angel Capital Summit

  (Capital Markets industry)

  August 2007 — April 2009 (1 year 9 months)

  "An Exiting Collaboration..."
  
  This year the www.AngelCapitalSummit.org happened here in Denver, CO on Nov. 21st. Over 50 organizations helped produce this year's ACS. This network generated over 235 applications. Over 120 investors and advisers helped screen these applications down to the 43 companies that presented. Well over 500 people attended. In the '07 ACS, the first money was invested 5 weeks after the event. In this year's ACS, it took 3 days.

• Managing Partner

  Huge Consulting

  (Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  October 2006 — 2009 (3 years )

  Huge Consulting helps emerging growth companies optimize their business strategies, and, where necessary, obtain investment capital to support expansion. Please contact me and ask how I might help your company.

• Director

  Capital Markets Group

  (Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  November 2004 — April 2009 (4 years 6 months)

  I was a Director for Capital Markets Group from '04 to '09. CMG is a private investment bank and equity buyout firm that specializes in services for the owners of privately held companies with annual revenues from $7-$50 million. They help with financing management buyouts, the sale of companies, corporate finance, subordinated debt, senior debt, institutional and professional equity, mezzanine financing, and financing turnarounds, workouts and restructurings.

• Founder

  The Entrepreneurial Standards Forum

  (Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  November 2004 — March 2009 (4 years 5 months)

  The Enterpreneurial Standards Forum (www.ES2F.org) was started in early 2005 as a part of the DaVinci Institute to serve as an open, non-profit, standards-making body that develops standards that help entrepreneurial ventures and investors to make better decisions. It was spun out as an independent non-profit entity in July 2005.
  
  Current projects include:
  
  * Building a directory of business plan templates available on the web.
  * Building a database that can be used by startup companies to benchmark themselves.
  * Developing tools for assessing entrepreneurial teams.
  * Developing a standard that will allow business plans to be audited in the same way as financial statements (using GAPP or ISB) and quality systems (using ISO 9000).

Kevin Johansen’s Education

• Gustavus Adolphus College

  BA , Psychology & Sociology , 1975 — 1979

  I didn't know how much fun college was until after I left...

  Activities and Societies:

  Inter and intramural sports, student council, beer, poker, girls...

Additional Information

Kevin Johansen’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Company
• My Company

Kevin Johansen’s Interests:

Anyone that's seen me knows that I'm a jock. An old one, but a jock nonetheless. On my list of poorly kept secrets, it's not generally known that I'm a science fiction buff and that I write some. I'm also a big Karen & Keenan fan, them being my wife and my son. Between the two of them I've a pretty busy home life. Add my dyslectic Wolfhound & Pug with too much self esteem and I've a fairly cool life. Other interests: Capital markets, venture capital, angel investor, angel investing, venture capitalists, investment banking, investment banker, private equity, business development, entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, entrepreneurs, sales, marketing, contract CEO, CEO, investing, basketball, football, hiking, mineseeker.com, mineseeker, speaking, public speaking, public speaker, motivational speaker.

Kevin Johansen’s Groups:

I'm on the Board of Directors for the RockiesVentureClub.org and for Blacktie-Colorado.com, and I'm a periodic advisor to IntegratedAlliances.com. I also play well with a number of other Associations locally & nationally.

•    eOffice
•    Davinci Institute
•    Earlystage.com Entrepreneurs
•    Link Silicon Valley, LLC
•    FundingUniverse.com Angel Investor & VC Network
•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    Obama for America
•    The Mineseeker Foundation & The Sole of Africa
•    U.S. Government Relations & Public Affairs
•    International Network of Social-Eco Entrepreneurs
•    Lean Six Sigma
•    Private Equity and Venture Capital Group
•    LI Socials
•    ENTREPRENEURS-GET FUNDED
•    Private Equity Investment Group
•    The 4-Hour Academy
•    ----- The Startups & Societal Ventures Network ----- Innovating more effectively
•    Semantic Web
•    Angel Investor Group
•    World Banking Forum
•    Entrepreneurial Standards Forum
•    Startup Specialists
•    Advanced Innovation Methods (AIM)
•    Startup Specialists Forum
•    Supply Chain Optimization
•    Silicon Valley Venture Community
•    Speedraft
•    CleanTech Network
•    Venture Capital Group
•    Swiss Business Club
•    Entrepreneur Association of Tokyo
•    Mobile start-ups - 7,000+ members and growing!
•    SwissNet
•    Angel Capital Summit
•    CompTIA - softwareCEO.com
•    Venture Capital – Private Equity – Funding – Investment
•    GON - Global Open Network
•    BioBeers
•    Colorado Local First
•    ForgetMeNot - Human Touch Peer Reminder Group
•    Deal Flow Source
•    Finance Club
•    Get Linked! South Denver Metro Area
•    MINDWEST Strategies
•    INSE University™

Kevin Johansen’s Honors:

These I generally run from. As a consultant I figure that if I get my name in the paper something went wrong, and the businesses I own are ALL about the customer. I'm about making things work. As to who gets credit for them, I don't usually care.

I did, however, have a few 'moments' athleticly back when I still had knees. I'd be happy to tell you about them sometime...

Kevin Johansen’s Contact Settings

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