George W. Burch '59

Mr. Burch is a serial entrepreneur and private equity fund manager, technologist and inventor of software solutions. Technology developed under his direction in the database fields of Data Quality and Target Marketing is currently used by hundreds of companies, including many of the worlds Fortune 2000 companies. He currently is active as the CEO a Boulder based data quality software provider and is the patent holder and chairman of a new startup database company engaged in managing keyword search and advertising placement. Mr. Burch has won governmental awards and citations for technology innovations in processing intelligence data and is a recognized product supplier to the Department of Defense. Since 9/11 Mr. Burch has worked to bring modern information systems technologies to bear on the War on Terrorism. Mr. Burch was awarded the Military Operations Research Society prize for his development of intelligence technology during the Vietnamese war and in September 2002 Mr. Burch was awarded the Senatorial Medal of Freedom.