Dr. Terry Boult
El Pomar Chair of Innovation and Security
Dr. Boult is the El Pomar Endowed Chair of Innovation and Security and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs . From 1994 to 2003 he was with Lehigh University, where he founded the Computer Science and Engineering department and held the position of Weissman Chair of Computer Science. He was on the faculty at Columbia University from 1986-1994. From Aug 2002 through Jan 2004, Dr. Boult was the Chief Technology Officer for Guardian Solutions Inc, helping to commercialize his research in sensor-based security systems, including developing/deploying one of the largest wireless video surveillance systems in the world.
Dr. Boult’s ongoing research projects include advanced biometrics, advanced visual security systems, design and evaluation of imaging sensors for facial recognition, evaluation of weather effects on facial recognition, and algorithms for efficient use of wireless networks. As a result of his work in advanced biometrics, Dr. Boult has founded Securics, a start-up company based in Colorado Springs. He has received funding from DARPA, ONR, the Army Night Vision Lab, Siemens, the AT&T Foundation, the Lucent Foundation, RemoteReality Inc, McQ Associates, PadCom Inc., Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance, and the Ben Franklin Foundation of Pennsylvania. Dr. Boult received an NSF Presidential Young Investigator award, and has won teaching awards at both Columbia and Lehigh. Dr. Boult has published over 120 papers and holds 4 patents, with 8 pending. He has served as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Perception (IEEE PAMI). He co-organized multiple workshops on visual surveillance and computer vision related topics, and has participated on program committees for more than two dozen IEEE and SPIE conferences and workshops on computer vision and sensor fusion, as well as an ACM program committee in software engineering.
Contact Information:
Email tboult@vast.uccs.edu
Phone: (719) 255-3510
Office: ENG 174
Dr. Larry Plummer
El Pomar Chair of Business and Entrepreneurship
Dr. Larry Plummer is the El Pomar Chair for Business & Entrepreneurship, associate professor of entrepreneurship, and director of the Center for Entrepreneurship. He is a leading expert on regional entrepreneurial dynamics, the role of entrepreneurship in local economic development, and the importance and function of various startup initiatives—including incubators and accelerators. His research appears in several top journals including Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Small Business Economics, Annals of Regional Science, and Academy of Management Journal.
His research has won awards from the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Academy of Management; and is a three-time recipient of the Ivey Research Merit Award. He is a past Research Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Economics, a fellow of the Vienna Institute for Global Studies, and serves on the editorial review boards of the four world-leading journals in entrepreneurship.
Most recently, Prof. Plummer was an associate professor of entrepreneurship at the Ivey Business School, widely considered Canada’s top business school. During his decade there, he led Ivey’s flagship entrepreneurship experience for HBA, MBA, and MSc students—the New Venture Project (NVP). NVP is an experiential program allowing students to launch new startups while working with a seasoned Entrepreneur-in-Residence. NVP has spawned a number of Canadian startups including Marlow, The Do More Company, Frate, Apricotton, and Mentum. In addition, Dr. Plummer co-designed Ivey’s MSc in Digital Management program and developed and taught courses at the MBA, HBA, MSc, and PhD levels. Prior to Ivey, Dr. Plummer was an assistant professor at University of Oklahoma and Clemson University.
Among his extracurricular efforts, Dr. Plummer also mentored and taught a number of entrepreneurs enrolled in Western University Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship’s various programs including the Western Accelerator, Propel, Medical Innovation Fellows, the online Founder’s Journey program, and more. He also provided entrepreneurship training for the TechAlliance of Southwestern Ontario. He was also the de facto voice of entrepreneurship as a faculty member with Western University’s Institute for Earth and Space Exploration.
He also led a number of executive education programs for the Ivey Academy, ranked #1 in Canada by the Financial Times. He was co-director of the Ivey Executive Program, Ivey Academy’s flagship program for senior corporate, government, and organizational leaders. He was also director of the Canadian Private Capital Investment School and the Women Venture Forward (Investment) Program, both run as a partnership between Ivey Academy and the Canadian Venture Capital Association. He also instructed in QuantumShift, Ivey’s outstanding program for high-growth entrepreneurs. He has directly worked with a number of entrepreneurs in the brewing, aerospace, medical, and government services sectors.
Prof. Plummer is a proud volunteer instructor for the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities launched by Syracuse University. Since 2007, he has shared his expertise and taught a large number of veteran-entrepreneurs at EBV programs held at SU and Florida State University. His EBV students include service men and women from most major branches of the armed services including Navy, Air Force, Army, Marines, and Coast Guard. He also instructs for SU’s Warrior Scholar Project.
In addition to his support of veteran entrepreneurs, Dr. Plummer also extends his allyship to Black, Hispanic / Latinx, Indigenous (First Nation), and LGBTQ+ peoples and entrepreneurs. To educate himself and others on the entrepreneurial challenges unique to often marginalized communities, Dr. Plummer continues to write teaching cases and conduct research on LGBTQ+ and First Nation entrepreneurs.
Dr. Plummer completed his PhD in strategy and entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado – Boulder in 2007. He holds a B.S. in communications for the S.I. Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University and an M.A. in science and technology public policy from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University.
Born in Mexico City, Prof. Plummer’s ability with the Spanish language should be better than it is—which he aims to remedy during his time in Colorado Springs. He is avid about military, space, science, and aviation history; he earned his pilot’s license at the age of 17 and is a volunteer with the Canadian Harvards Aircraft Association. Prior to life as an academic, Dr. Plummer worked in international consulting (including efforts to help entrepreneurial ventures expand to Asia), at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and as a freelancer on several TV shows including Unsolved Mysteries. He and his family are happy to be back in their adopted home state of Colorado!
Contact Information:
Email lplumme3@uccs.edu
Phone: (719) 255-3136
Office: DH 353
Carrie Olson
EPIIC Program Assistant
Carrie Olson is the Program Assistant for EPIIC. Carrie started with the University of Colorado in January 2012 on the Boulder campus. She moved to UCCS and started with EPIIC in August 2016.
Email: colson4@uccs.edu
Phone: (719) 255-3631
Office: OCSE A318
Luke Doster
EPIIC Program & Outreach Manager
Luke Doster is the Program & Outreach Manger for EPIIC. Luke has participated in many EPIIC programs both as a student and now as staff. During his time at UCCS Luke had multiple startups in The Garage at UCCS, a startup incubator on campus. After working closely with Dr. Duening Luke began an internship at the Colorado Springs Venture Attractor. Upon graduating from UCCS Luke began working with a cutting-edge Virtual Reality startup in Colorado Springs. When a position opened up within EPIIC Luke was brought on board as the Program and Outreach Administrator.
Email: ldoster@uccs.edu
Phone: (719) 255-3686
Office: OCSE A316