Awards – Nov. 22, 2013

Boulder-based Ajubeo LLC, a provider of virtual data centers and cloud infrastructure-as-a-service, received the 2013 XaaS of the Year award from the Communications Technology Professionals and The Indus Entrepreneurs. The award is given to the firm that best represents the Colorado spirit of innovation, growth and drive in technology delivered “as-a-service” and is poised to make a near-term impact on the industry.

Heather Games with Re/Max Alliance Boulder received the Re/Max Executive Club Award that honors highly successful real estate agents nationwide within the RE/MAX network. Games has been working in the real estate industry for more than 10 years and has experience in the Boulder and surrounding areas.

Nonprofit Thistle Communities and for-profit developer Allison Management received the 2013 Jack Kemp Workforce Housing Models of Excellence Award from the Urban Land Institute. They won for Yarmouth Way, a mixed-income residential development in the southern end of the Holiday Neighborhood in Boulder. It has 25 single-family units on 1.82 acres — located in a city with one of the highest housing costs per capita in the United States. Yarmouth Way offers three- and four-bedroom family-oriented workforce units in a city where most permanently affordable units are only one- or two-bedrooms. Ten of the townhomes and single-family homes at Yarmouth Way are affordable to families earning between 69 percent to 109 percent of the area median income.

Law firm Cooley LLP was named Law Firm of the Year for Technology and Venture Capital by U.S. News – Best Lawyers. Cooley is based in Palo Alto, California, and has an office in Broomfield that serves emerging technology and high-growth companies, venture funds and investment banks.

Lisa Calkins, chief executive of Boulder-based Amadeus Consulting Inc., won the Bronze Stevie Award in the Mentor or Coach of the Year category in the 10th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business. Calkins was recognized for her mentorship efforts in the workplace and community involvement centered on female-focused professional development and leadership. Spending more than 30 percent of her time mentoring her employees, she was honored for her dedication to coaching fellow women in business who desire to grow professionally, especially within the technology sector.

The Boulder-based Outdoor Industry Association’s Sustainability Working Group received the 2013 Green Supply Chain Award from Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine. The award recognizes companies making green or sustainability a core part of their supply chain strategy.

University of Colorado-Boulder physics professor Steven Pollock was named a 2013 U.S. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. The U.S. Professor of the Year award recognizes the most outstanding undergraduate instructors in the country. Pollock, who was honored in the category of doctoral and research universities, was chosen from a field of more than 350 nominees from across the country. Pollock is the second CU-Boulder faculty member to win a national Professor of the Year award. Nobel laureate Carl Wieman, also a physics professor, was honored with the designation in 2004.

The city of Boulder received a Pinnacle Award and a Members’ Choice Award for its web redesign and its commitment to using technology to promote transparency, collaboration and effective governance from the National Association of Government Web Professions.

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