Downtown Boulder’s Chip to ship back to California for new challenge

BOULDER — After nearly four years — encompassing the entirety of an unprecedented global pandemic and its aftermath — in the leadership seat at the Downtown Boulder Partnership, Chip (yes, just Chip) is leaving the organization in July for a new opportunity in California.

Chip, a Colorado Springs native who adopted the one-name moniker decades ago, joined downtown Boulder in the fall of 2019 from a similar role in Santa Cruz, California. He took over from the group’s longtime leader Sean Maher, who left to lead Boulder-based market research firm RRC Associates.