Benjamin Wilmhoff

Boulder Valley 40 Under Forty

Whether he’s riding a bicycle with his family or developing new wireless technologies, Ben Wilmhoff is a man in motion.

“In March 2014, I became the luckiest man in Boulder by encountering an opportunity to build a technology company with an investment from a Colorado investor,” Wilmhoff said. “My team and I had been part of another company funded by this investor until the end of 2013. We spun off on our own and became BluFlux.”

The Louisville-based wireless product development company has the only authorized test facility for mobile cellular devices in the Rocky Mountain region. Google selected BluFlux to build a key piece of a wearable radar that recognizes human hand gestures as inputs to mobile devices.

BluFlux eases the pain of bringing connected products to market through RF, electromagnetic and antenna design for wireless products, Wilmhoff said. “We are reinvesting those revenues into a wireless product of our own, designed to keep firefighters safe when they enter a building and lose visual contact with their commander.”

Wilmhoff donates to Book Trust, which inspires a passion for reading and learning in children who would not otherwise have access to a quality collection of books.

Before founding BluFlux, Wilmhoff was an RF development group lead at 1OAK Technologies in Fort Collins and an RF engineer at First RF Corp. and Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., both in Boulder.

He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Dayton in Ohio and a master’s from Michigan State University.

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