Gamble builds on Callan’s 63-year real estate legacy

Editor’s note: BizWest is profiling inductees into the Boulder County Business Hall of Fame Class of 2026. 

BOULDER — Becky Callan Gamble and her father, the late Dean Callan, are among nine individuals to be inducted into the Boulder County Business Hall of Fame.

The hall’s Class of 2026 will be honored Sept. 30 at the Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oleg Ave. in Boulder. Doors will open at 4:30 p.m.

Other inductees include Gerry Agnes, Sally and Sandy Bracken, Rene and Maria Cervantes, Rich Lopez and Denis Nock. 

Few names are more synonymous with Boulder’s commercial real estate landscape than Dean Callan, who founded Dean Callan & Co. in 1963 with a community-first approach that became the firm’s defining characteristic for more than six decades.

His daughter Becky, a former All-America collegiate tennis player and touring professional,  joined the company in 1992 and has served as CEO, guiding a team of brokers with more than 150 years of collective experience in tenant and landlord representation across the Front Range.

Dean Callan served on several boards, including Boulder Community Hospital, Colorado National Bank and Frasier Meadows Manor. Becky Callan Gamble served on the initial advisory boards of the Boulder Center for Sport Medicine and the Boulder Economic Council.  In addition, Becky and her husband, Bruce, were integral to the Leadership Program for student-athletes at The University of Colorado, where the Gamble Steps Program was implemented to design comprehensive career and life skills to help seniors transition out of competitive athletics.

Both Callan and Gamble served terms as president of the CU Buff Club.

The inductees’ contributions span commercial real estate, financial services, immigrant entrepreneurship, civic leadership, higher education and community investment.

Dean Callan died in 2011 at age 89.

Any current or former business leader with demonstrated ties to Boulder County is eligible. Nominees should have a record of business excellence, community engagement and ethical leadership that has had a measurable impact on the region.

Ticket and sponsorship information for the Sept. 30 ceremony is available at halloffamebiz.com. Sponsorships support both the event and the organization’s broader mission, including its student scholarship program.

The Boulder County Business Hall of Fame, a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1992, has inducted more than 200 business leaders who represent the highest standards of business ethics, innovation and community commitment in Boulder County. Profiles of all alumni classes are available at halloffamebiz.com/alumni.

The organization also provides scholarships to Boulder County high school students who wish to attend CU Boulder’s Leeds School of Business and to students at Front Range Community College. A memorial scholarship has been established by the Boulder County Business Hall of Fame to honor Jacob T. “Jake” Puzio III, a longtime board member of the organization and one of the region’s most respected banking leaders who died April 27 in Boulder at age 79.

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