Economy & Economic Development August 9, 2016 9:36:49 pm

Tech CEOs: Talent tough to come by despite NoCo being ‘on the map’

Participants in Tuesday’s CEO Roundtable on technology in Northern Colorado included, from left to right, Russ Henninger, Hub International; Mike Freeman, CEO, Innosphere; Kent Bejcek, president/CEO, Squarei Technologies Inc.; Jon Thompson, partner, Blue Margin; Chris Otto, EKS&H; Brent Peterson, EKS&H; Rick Gardner, director, EWI Colorado; Scott Warner, vice president of sales, Connecting Point; Jim Sampson, Hub International; Scott Kunze, president/CEO, DataSplice LLC; Kelly Peters, executive director, The Warehouse Business Accelerator; Matt Morgan, CEO, Paradigm Research Optics; Bob Vomaske, CEO, Vista Solutions Corp.; Ken Salazar, president/CEO, SilverEdge. (Joshua Lindenstein/BizWest)

By Joshua Lindenstein

FORT COLLINS — Go to just about any city in America, and tech firms will lament the availability of tech workers at their disposal. But certain areas — think Silicon Valley, Boston, Austin, Denver/Boulder — at least have some tech-hub cachet attached to their names to help get them on potential hires’ radar.

Despite a general feeling that Fort Collins “is on the map” as a rising center for tech itself, several local tech leaders gathered Tuesday said they often have to do some extra selling to land top talent in Northern Colorado in such a competitive hiring landscape.

“If you look…

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