KidsTek Board of Directors
Executive Committee
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Doug Robinson, Chairman
Managing Director, The Wallach Co. McDonald Investments
Doug Robinson joined The Wallach Company as a Partner in June 1999. He brings 13 years of technology-focused investment banking experience to the firm. Previously, he was Managing Director of Corporate Finance at Hanifen, Imhoff Inc.; a Principal and Vice President at Hambrecht & Quist, Inc.; and an Analyst at Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc.
In the past 18 months, The Wallach Company merged with McDonald Investments, the investment banking subsidiary of Key Bank, and Robinson became a Managing Director of McDonald. Robinson has extensive experience in private placements of debt and equity, mergers and acquisitions, and public offerings for information technology software and services firms.
Robinson is also actively involved in the community. He has served as a Board Member of the CSIA for 4 years and is currently the President and a founder of the Colorado Technology Community Foundation (CTCF). Robinson also serves as an Executive Board Member of the Denver Area Counsel of the Boy Scouts of America, coaches a YMCA basketball team and teaches a youth Sunday school class. Robinson received an MBA in Finance from Columbia Graduate School of Business.
Richard Liner, Secretary
President and CEO, LinerGroup, Inc.
Richard Liner is the founder of LinerGroup, Inc., an Information Technology (IT) Recruiting and Consulting company, established in 1999 to provide innovative IT recruiting and consulting solutions to high growth companies. Prior to creating LinerGroup, Liner was VP of the IT Staffing Division of Inteliant, where he was involved in the integration of IT consulting acquisitions throughout the western US. He began his IT career in Denver in 1978 as a consulting Programmer/Analyst, and in 1982 opened the Denver office of Leardata, which was acquired by Ajilon in 1990. Liner managed the Western Region of Ajilon until 1997.
Liner's involvement in non-profit organizations began in 1994 when he became a founding director of the Colorado Software and Internet Association (CSIA). He served as Chairperson of the CSIA in 1998, and currently chairs the Workforce Committee of the CSIA, which was the driving force behind the formation of the Colorado Technology Community Foundation (CTCF). As a founding director and officer of the CTCF, Liner donates a substantial amount of his time in the development of the CTCF, including the successful search and placement of the new Director of Technology Programs for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver. This position is being funded by a grant from the CTCF. Liner is also active in the Colorado Technical Recruiters Network, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing support and advancement of Technical Recruiting needs in the front range of Colorado.
Liner holds a BS degree, Cum Laude, in Computer Science from Union College, and lives in southeast Denver with his wife, Jane, and 11-year-old daughter, Andrea.
Edward M. Messman, Treasurer
Ed Messman was most recently the manager for the Colorado Technology & Life Sciences group for Comerica Bank. The group covered the Rocky Mountain region including Colorado, Utah, Montana and New Mexico. Messman started with the Southern California office of Imperial Bank (acquired by Comerica Bank in 2001) in 1994 where he built and maintained a portfolio of emerging growth venture backed companies.
Messman moved to Boulder, Colorado in 1997 and helped start the Colorado office for Imperial Bank in 1998. Since that time, Messman has developed the Banks presence in the Colorado and Utah technology markets and currently manages a $50 million portfolio. Prior to his role at Imperial Bank, Messman was employed in Walt Disney's finance group focusing on operational finance for Theme Park Operations.
Messman received a B.S. in International Finance with an emphasis in Latin American studies from Grand Canyon University. He holds a graduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Colorado at Boulder where he focused on entrepreneurship and finance. He currently lives in Louisville, Colorado with his wife and three children.