Steering Committee
For Employers, By Employers
The Tech Talent Partnership brings together leaders who are committed to employer-led career pathways. Our partners are creating more diverse workplaces while improving ROI through new talent solutions. By leveraging collective experiences and expertise, our employer partners are defining more reliable and scalable solutions for their current and future talent needs.
Partners
Our 2026 Goals
340+
job placements that result in family-sustaining wages
150
projected hires from SteerCo
40+
participating employers in the Tech Talent Partnership
Mission
Collectively create integrated pathways to support diverse learners through scalable, stackable working and learning experiences to improve economic mobility in Colorado.
SteerCo Leads
As the SteerCo Lead, Helen Young Hayes brought together the founding partners of TTP with decades of leadership building teams in information technology.
Helen Young Hayes
ActivateWork
CEO & Founder
SteerCo Lead
Josh Blair
Kanso Software
Senior Software Developer
Engineering
Pattie Maikish
Janus Henderson
Global Head of Infrastructure Client Services
IT Support
Dean Weiner
Eviden
Chief Operating Officer
Cybersecurity
Brett Armstrong
Denver Health
Manager, IT Help Desk
Kristen Baller
DISH
Head of Talent Acquisition, Talent Channels, Programs and Delivery
Nick Banta
Trimble
VP - CISO
Ryan Buerger
FirstBank
Managing Director, Infrastructure and Operations
Virgina (Ginny) Cevasco
Booz Allen Hamilton
Senior Vice President
Binh Diep
Slalom
General Manager
Huy Doan
Terumo BCT
Manager Talent Acquisition
Paul Farnsworth
DHI
Chief Technology Officer
Charles Fedorko
Sage
Director of IT Security
Randall Fritzsche
Denver Health
Enterprise Chief Information Security Officer
Rory Geisler
Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology
Sr Manager, Talent Acquisition
Peter Hancock
Professional Employment Group of Colorado
President
Eliza Harding
Western Union
Senior Information Security Analyst
Kathryn Harris
ActivateWork
COO/President
Sarah Herzog
Ardent Mills
Senior Director of Strategy & Collaboration
Hannah Kaplan
Bank of America
SVP - Information Security, Global Tech & Ops
Paul Kay
Western Union
Chief Information Security Officer
Sam Kumar
Cyber Sainik
Founder & CEO
Richard Macnamee
MSU
Director, The Cybersecurity Center
Chetan Makam
Terumo
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Global Blood Solutions
Lisa Mason
Pinnocal Assurance
Human Resources Associate Vice President
Andrea McCabe
Slalom
Director, Talent Acquisition
Dolores Mears
Hensel Phelps
Chief Information Officer
Brittany Morris-Saunders
Colorado Technology Association
President and CEO
Bob Nogueira
Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology
Chief People Officer
Holly Rollins
Booz Allen Hamilton
Vice President of Aerospace Cybersecurity
Matt Schwartz
Sage
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Chuck Scully
Denver Health
Chief Information Officer
Meredith Smiley
Wells Fargo
Executive Director, Talent and Learning
Mark Tapy
CareerWise Colorado
Interim President
Janani Vasudevon
Twilio Flex
Head of Engineering
Robin Veit
Ardent Mills
Director, IT & Cloud Infrastructure
Jennifer Wageman
Kanso
COO & CFO
Chris Watkins
Craig Hospital
Director of Information Technology
Alexandra West
Slalom
Impact & ESG Director