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CCVF Executive Board
Officers and Directors
Joseph E. Nida, Chairman & Executive Director
David A. Uhler, CFO
Executive Board Members
Jim Andelman
Art Baer
Michael D. Bekins
Chuck Bischof
Dennis J. Cagan
Jeff Carmody
Erin Chrislock
Randy Churchill
J. Douglas Crawford
Karen Crawford
David Cremin
John Dilts
John Glanville
Peter Godinez
Bill Grant
James R. Haslem
Terry Horsmon
Peter Iannone
George Issac
L. Robert Johnson
Marlene King
Jerry E. Knotts
Ronald R. Macleod
Tariq Mufti
Matthew Pigeon
Jonathan Richter
Christy Ross
Edward Savage
Peter G. Sutherland
Taycor Tatman
Mark Turk
John Wilczak
George R. Wolverton
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Dennis Cagan
Santa Barbara Technology Group, Founder,Chairman & CEO.
Dennis Cagan has been in the high technology industry as an active and successful entrepreneur for over 37 years, having founded or co-founded fourteen different companies.
Dennis has been an investor, professional board member (39 boards) and consultant for over 24 years. He is the founder, Chairman and CEO of the Santa Barbara Technology Group, LLC. Dennis is a nationally recognized authority on information technology, including: Internet, software, hardware, and communications, in the disciplines of strategy, sales, marketing, services, and distribution channels. He has authored dozens of articles and has spoken widely at industry conferences and to paying corporate audiences such as Microsoft.
Santa Barbara Technology Group, LLC is a private investment and consulting firm engaged primarily in working with, and investing in early-stage technology companies. The firm has become an important connection for any high-tech start-up on the California Central Coast. They provide world-class management assistance, strategic guidance, and valuable connections for entrepreneurs. They provide young companies access to financing and operational and technological infrastructure.
As the founder, Chairman and CEO of SBTG, Dennis oversees all activities including monitoring portfolio investments, consulting to early-stage technology companies, and selecting new investments, contributing his experience, vision and insights to the management teams of all portfolio companies. Dennis has been an active and successful entrepreneur in the computer-based high technology industry for over 37 years. He is a nationally recognized authority on software, hardware, communications, and internet technology in the disciplines of strategy, sales, marketing, services, and distribution channels. He has long been regarded as an active entrepreneur within the industry having founded or co-founded 14 companies.
In 1979 Dennis was the keynote speaker at the first COMDEX Show, in Las Vegas. Since 1981 Dennis has served as a management consultant. Over the past nine years he has focused entirely on Internet, software and services. The companies he has been on the Board and very involved with have been some of Santa Barbara’s most successful technology enterprises including Wavefront Technologies (then Alias/Wavefront - NASDAQ, acquired by Silicon Graphics), Software.com (NASDAQ, merged with Phone.com, now OpenWave: OPWV), Somera Communications (SMRA, founding investor only), Supply Solution, and Commission Junction (acquired by VLCK). Some of Cagan's latest companies include Bargain Network, InQ, InTouch Health, Blue Casa Communications and Nutricate.
Dennis was also on the board of a number of other public technology companies including The David Jamison Carlyle Corp. (he was the founder), ISOCOR (NASDAQ, acquired by Critical Path: CPTH), MessageMedia, Inc. (NASDAQ, acquired by DoubleClick: DCLK, he was the interim CEO), Great Bear Technologies (NASDAQ), StarPress (NASDAQ) and Sanctuary Woods Multimedia (NASDAQ).
Dennis is currently on the Boards of Directors of Acorn Technologies, Inc (co-founder and former Chairman), Pacific Palisades; Bargain Network, Inc., Santa Barbara; InTouch Healthcare, Inc., Santa Barbara; InQ, Inc., Agoura Hills, CA; Unified Dispatch, Inc., Arcadia, CA.; California Coast Venture Forum, and several other non-profit organizations. He is a member of UCSB's Lancaster Society, Santa Barbara City College President's Council, Santa Barbara County's United Way CEO Club, and belongs to United Way’s Alexis de Tocqueville Society (Membres de la Societe).
Dennis, 59 years old, is a native Californian, and attended the University of California at Los Angeles where he majored in economics. He has an honorable discharge from the USMC. Dennis and his wife Angelia live in downtown Santa Barbara.
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