Former Exabyte president buys into adventure travel

The Eye loves a booster rally, so it happily took a long lunch to attend University of Colorado President Elizabeth Hoffman’s business briefing sponsored by Exabyte at the Millennium Hotel. It scanned the room of celebrities for pleasant luncheon company and settled on a space at an Exabyte table between Chairman Juan Rodriguez and Bill Marriner, former president.

Marriner, it turns out, is having more fun than the rest of the table combined. Last September he bought Boulder-based adventure travel company The World Outdoors. ?After 24 years in the high-tech business I was ready for new directions and…