About
Board of Directors
Colorado Product Foundation’s Board of Directors aren’t product management experts – nor do we pretend to be – we’re simply a community of successful Product professionals that are rooted in, invested in and passionate about the Colorado tech community and the organization’s vision and mission.
Adam Tornes
President & Treasurer
Adam is currently a Staff Product Manager at SeatGeek and is a Founder of Colorado Product and its predecessor, the Boulder Product Meetup. He has a strong history of building groundbreaking products supporting 10x enterprise business growth and/or successful startup exits. Prior to SeatGeek, Adam held numerous Product leadership roles across SwingU (as CPO), Twitter, Gnip (acq. Twitter), and OneRiot (acq. WalmartLabs). Outside of the hectic world of Product, Adam enjoys a round of golf, chasing his son around, and a good cocktail (sometimes all at the same time).
Aaron Duke
Secretary
Aaron Duke is a product leader with 20+ years of diverse experience within product management, design and development. Aaron has worked at local Denver start-ups Blinker, CirrusMD, Pomp Beauty and Nymbl Science, and over the COVID era started his own Product consultancy practice focusing on early stage Founding teams. He enjoys community building, gravitates to the healthcare, health & wellness industries and is happy to chat with you about your career or business idea.
Allegra Clark
Director
Allegra is a Principal Product Manager with Lumena and Offline Studios, partnering with early-stage startups and incubators to find product market fit and validate new technical prototypes. She is an avid backpacker, whiteboard-diagram enthusiast, and loves a good podcast or video game. She has been a director with Colorado Product since 2018, and leads the events and curriculum programs and produces the annual Colorado Product Salary Survey.
Holly Vezina
Director
Holly Vezina is a Founder at TheNEXT, a neighborhood barter platform. She has over 15 years of experience building and supporting high performing development teams. Products she and her teams have built are used today in many Fortune 100 companies. She has worked with startups for most of her career and has scaled global products/product teams. She advises and provides fractional product leadership to companies on the side. Holly is a Colorado native and outdoor enthusiast who when she isn’t helping to solve complex customer/user puzzles, can be found skiing or hiking with her 2 kids.
Skye Bacus
Director
Skye Bacus is a product manager at Stripe, where she spends her time conducting user research, diving into product metrics, and collaborating with her team to continuously improve the Stripe platform. As a product leader, she enjoys honing her product management craft and sharing that craft with others. In her free time, you’ll find her running, climbing, and skiing near Lakewood, CO.
Ben Golden
Director
Ben has been building software for 15+ years and is a Principal Product Manager @ Contentful, he studied computer science at CU Boulder, and has worked as a software engineer, an engineering manager, and in customer success in addition to product management. The majority of his career, 9 years, was spent growing with Boulder born SendGrid from a small startup (~20 ppl) to IPO and beyond. Outside of work, Ben loves to raft, camp, hike, bike, and frisbee w/ his wife Sara, daughter Molly, and son Finn.
Anna Jay
Director
Anna is a Senior Product Manager at Campminder. She started her career as a camera assistant for Netflix, The CW, and Disney, before launching a product to solve a constant camera department problem before finding her way into official Product roles. Outside of the office she cares deeply about connecting community and creating environments where Product members can learn and grow together. Anna also enjoys street photography, running, making hot sauce, and collecting house plants.