‘Fund of funds’ a top priority as Baumunk takes over CBSA

July 16, 2010
Denver Business Journal

Holli Baumunk took over as president and CEO of the Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA) on July 12. She already was familiar with the state’s biotech drug and medical device companies from working as vice president of the Metro Denver Economic Development Corp.

People on the move

June 23, 2010
Denver Post

COLORADO BIOSCIENCE ASSOCIATION: Appointed Holli Baumunk as president and chief executive. Baumunk has been vice president of the Metro Denver Economic Development Corp. for the past seven years.

Baumunk, Metro Denver EDC exec, named CEO of Colorado BioScience Association

June 22, 2010
Denver Business Journal

Holli Baumunk, vice president of the Metro Denver Economic Development Corp. for the last seven years, has been named president and CEO of the Colorado BioScience Association, effective July 12.

Lack of venture capital stymies Colorado startups

June 13, 2010
Denver Post

"'There isn't enough capital coming in to fund all of the good deals,' said Denise Brown, interim executive director of the Colorado BioScience Association. 'Our whole pipeline of innovation is going to be stymied unless we come up with a new model.'

The problem is national, even global, in scope. But it's being felt acutely in Colorado's biosciences community of mostly small companies served by a dwindling handful of local venture-capital firms.

To a degree, it's a symptom of the success the state has had in fostering the 18,000-employee bioscience sector in Colorado, Brown said. High-quality research and innovation are in ample supply; it's the financing that's lagging."

Colorado BioScience Association names 9 to board

April 21, 2010
Denver Business Journal

The Colorado BioScience Association appointed nine new board members at its annual meeting Tuesday...

Bioscience gets boost from grants

April 9, 2010
Denver Business Journal

“The name of the game is to get as clear-cut a technology as possible,” said Denise Brown, executive director of the Colorado BioScience Association.