Panelists eye 2009 business cautiously

Editor’s note: The Northern Colorado Business Report convened its annual Economic Roundtable on Dec. 4 at American Eagle Distributing Inc. in Loveland. Participants this year included:

• Mark Bower, senior vice president, CFO and chief operating officer, Home State Bank, Loveland;

• Doug Dohn, founder and president, Dohn Construction Inc. in Fort Collins;

• Brad Florin, founder and president, Acartus Inc., a Fort Collins software company, and organizer of NoCo Angels, a private investment network;

• Stephen Koontz, associate professor, Colorado State University Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics;

• Terri Shields, commercial real estate broker at Everitt MacMillan Commercial LLC in Fort Collins;

• Mark…