Howard Janzen is the President and Chief Executive Officer for Janzen Ventures, Inc. He has served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of several communications and energy companies. He was the Executive Chairman of Cool Planet Energy Systems, a company CNBC ranked as a “Top 25 Disruptor of 2014” alongside SpaceX and Uber, from December 2016 until January 2019, and previously served as its President and as Chief Executive Officer since May 2012. Mr. Janzen has served as Chief Executive Officer for One Communications, as President of Sprint Business Solutions, as President of Sprint’s Global Markets Group, and as President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Williams Communications Group. Mr. Janzen also served in a number of leadership roles in Williams’ energy and natural gas pipeline businesses.

In addition to his service as Chairman of the CPI Board of Trustees, Mr. Janzen serves on the Board of Directors of GTT, Sonus Networks, Vocera Communications, Bye Aerospace, the Colorado School of Mines Foundation, and on the Governor’s Science and Technology Council for the State of Oklahoma. He is a Commissioner and Chairman Emeritus for GIIC, the Global Information Infrastructure Commission. Mr. Janzen is a graduate from the Colorado School of Mines.