About Us

June L. Bouscaren graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and worked as an electrical engineer and software developer for 8 years at HP before attending law school. After graduating from Suffolk University in Boston, MA with a Juris Doctor, she began her legal career at Amp Incorporated where her practice focused on creation, acquisition, retention, protection and licensing all forms of intellectual property. After moving to Colorado in 1999, June started and operated a private law practice before joining Agilent Technologies, Inc. as in-house counsel in 2004, transitioning to Keysight Technologies, Inc. when it split off from Agilent in 2014. She is licensed to practice law in the states of Delaware, Pennsylvania and Colorado as well as before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and is currently employed by Keysight as Managing Counsel. June’s daughter graduated from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Broadcast Journalism and is currently a free lance journalist living in Istanbul. June’s son is a iOS software developer for Reddit living in Chicago.

After graduating from the University of Colorado, Vance embarked on a 35-year career working for HP, and various other high-tech companies in technical and managerial roles in R&D, Marketing, and Finance.  His corporate accomplishments included two international assignments, and the awarding of 5 patents. Vance changed gears in 2011, transitioning to developing a financial blogging / consulting business.

His blog,  , has logged over 3 million visits, and his twitter account, @6_figure_invest has over 15 thousand followers.  Vance covers a wide range of topics, including investor psychology, Exchange Traded Funds, volatility as an asset class, and various derivative strategies. Vance is a Senior Consultant for Invest in Vol, as well on being on their advisory board.  Vance has been quoted in multiple online publications, including Bloomberg, Reuters, and The Wall Street Journal.

Laura wears many hats: mother, physician, and professor. She commutes to work at the University of North Carolina where she teaches medical students and residents, and provides medical care for underserved patients in a rural emergency department where she is the Medical Director. Laura is the child of a military family, and graduated from high school at Jakarta International School, in Jakarta, Indonesia, where her father was assigned to the American Embassy. She then attended Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, majoring in Psychology and completing her pre-med requirements, all while working off-campus 40 hours per week. Upon graduation, she deferred medical school for a year to accept the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship which supported her as she studied traditional medicine in Indonesia and China. Her world travel slowed down a bit as she headed to medical school in North Carolina and completed her Family Medicine residency in South Bend, IN. She was in private practice there for 5 years while her husband, Chris Peterson, completed post-doctoral research in Mathematics at Notre Dame. In 1999, she and her family settled down in Fort Collins, CO and her husband joined the faculty at Colorado State University. Along the way, she has helped to launch her first 4 children, as well as their Indonesian exchange student, into their college careers at Stanford, Duke, Yale, The University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and The University of North Carolina in Asheville. She has one child remaining in high school, and is beginning to prepare for an empty nest. Her eldest son is married and works in banking in Seattle, and her second son just began graduate studies in Mathematics at The University of Michigan. Laura and her husband enjoyed their own educational sabbatical last year, spending a semester in Bali, Indonesia where their two youngest children attended The Green School and the entire family became certified scuba divers.

Linda has a degree in electrical engineering and has spent the majority of her career building new businesses and driving strategy within a Fortune 100 company.  She is a startup coach, helping entrepreneurs build their dream businesses and her passion is understanding the customer and giving them meaningful products, services, and innovation. Linda has two US patents in her name in digital imaging.

Linda has two daughters in the bioscience space – both are graduates of CU Boulder in Molecular Biology.  They are both pursuing advanced degrees — one is a recent PhD graduate in Computational Biology at Princeton and the other is a fellow at the NIH in clinical research. Linda stays active with students by tutoring in math & guest speaking on marketing and career topics at the secondary and college level.

Bob earned his master’s in planning from Harvard, and his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth where he was also an all-conference football player. Prior to retirement, he operated his own firm in Ft. Collins, providing land-use planning services (clients include the Kickapoo Indians and the City of Ft. Collins). Bob was also the regional planning director on the Island of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. Fluent in Spanish, he worked almost five years in Central America, both as a Peace Corps volunteer and a watershed management professional. He also lead bicycle tours for three years in Costa Rica. His community involvement ranges from Spanish tutor to board member for Bas Bleu Theatre. Bob has published his poetry in Good Day (illustrated by Gale Whitman), and in Scribbles and Coddles with his own illustrations. He has economic thoughts as an e-book: Economics of Abundance: The Bob Komives Conjectures. The breadth of his work, including autobiographical vignettes (“Autobiographical Sketches”) can be accessed on his home page.

Mary Pat McCurdie has a wide-ranging background: chemical engineering, entrepreneurship, ballet, and not-for-profit organizations. She worked as a chemical engineer (Orbital/ATK, Ball Aerospace, CSU Graduate Research Associate, HP/Agilent Technologies) from 1983–2002, when she purchased “The Dance Closet,” a small dancewear boutique near CSU in Fort Collins. In 2005, she grew the store’s lines to include yoga and fitness wear, changed the name, and relocated to Old Town Fort Collins.

Mary Pat performed with Canyon Concert Ballet (1987-2009), dancing and mentoring many young dancers as they grew into young adulthood. She served on the Board of Directors of Canyon Concert Ballet from 2005–2011, acting as Treasurer, Vice-President, and President. From 2011-2017 she served on the local board of Book Trust, a national not-for-profit supporting early childhood literacy through providing choice and ownership of books to children in low-income communities. In 2019 she joined the board of the Fort Collins Symphony association where she currently is Treasurer.

She recently started a charitable foundation, Arts Without End, to provide internships to teens and young adults studying the classical performing arts. The interns will have the opportunity to learn about non-profit arts organization management; the goal being to create more adults in communities who volunteer, attend performances, and provide financial support to their local arts organizations.

She and her husband have one son who graduated from Westminster College in 2013. He recently completed a Project Management Professional Certification.