Howard Janzen
Howard Janzen has served as CEO and Chairman for several communications and energy companies. He was the CEO of Cool Planet Energy Systems, which CNBC ranked as a “Top 25 Disruptor of 2014” alongside SpaceX and Uber. He served as CEO of Boston based One Communications, the nation’s largest privately held telecom service provider for businesses. He served as President of Sprint Business Solutions, leading a $12 billion global operation and as President of Sprint’s Global Markets Group responsible for an $8 billion long distance business. Janzen served as President, CEO and Chairman of Williams Communications Group where he led the company in completing a nearly $7 billion fiber optic network and completed the largest IPO in the telecom industry at that time with peak market capitalization of $30 billion. He has been involved as a board member or CEO of 13 startup businesses.
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Mr. Janzen currently serves on the Boards of Bye Aerospace and CAA, the Corporate Aircraft Association. He has previously served on four public company boards and numerous not for profit boards. He serves as Vice Chairman of the Colorado School of Mines Foundation and Chairman of the Dallas based Cancer Prevention Initiative. Janzen is a Commissioner and Chairman Emeritus for GIIC, the Global Information Infrastructure Commission and past Chairman and current member of the advisory board for Denver University’s Graduate School of Professional Psychology. He is a Trustee for Scouting Colorado. Janzen is a past Chairman of the TBM Owners and Pilots Association and a current board member of the TBMOPA Foundation.
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Janzen earned Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in metallurgical engineering from The Colorado School of Mines and is a licensed Professional Engineer. He completed the Harvard Business School PMD Program for Management Development. He is an active commercial, multi-engine, instrument rated pilot with over 9,600 hours of flying time who has flown his airplane around the world and to 72 countries.
