I was honored to be selected, for the third consecutive year, as a member of the v|100 by my friends and colleagues in and around Utah.  It's a great group and shows that Utah's management depth is increasing.  This year the list of individuals nominated as potential v|100 members was much longer than in past years (those nominated then vote for the final candidates) which says that the pool of Utah entrepreneurial talent continues to grow!

The 2006 Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs
   Bill Aho, ClearPlay Inc., CEO
   Curt Allen, Agilix Labs Inc., CEO
   Paul Allen, Infobase Ventures, CEO
   Will Allred, Firepoll, CEO
   Dallin Anderson, Montigen Pharmaceuticals Inc., president and CEO
   Bob Barnes, Vacation Rentals Online, CEO
   Coleman Barney, Cogito Inc., president and CEO
   Grant Beckmann, WiLife, Inc., chief operating officer
   Ragula Bhaskar, FatPipe Networks, president and CEO
   Brent Bishop, ContentWatch Inc., chairman
   Brock Blake, FundingUniverse.com, CEO
   Paul Brockbank, Enhance Interactive Inc., CEO
   Fraser Bullock, Sorenson Capital, managing director
   Greg Butterfield, Altiris, president and CEO
   Patrick Byrne, Overstock.com, president and chairman
   David Carter, S5 Wireless Inc., president and CEO
   Edwin Catmull, Pixar Animation Studios, president and founder
   Steve Christensen, Broadweave Networks, CEO
   Gavin Christensen, Kellogg School of Management, MBA candidate
   Brad Christensen, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, manager of product managers
   Carine Clark, Altiris, vice president of marketing
   Josh Coates, Mozy.com/Berkeley Data Systems Inc., founder, CEO
   Gregory Critchfield, Myriad Genetics Labs, president
   Gary L. Crocker, Crocker Ventures/Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, president of CV LLC, chairman of Merrimack
   Nicole Toomey Davis,  GOED- Centers of Excellence, director  and Enclavix, president/CEO
   Ed Donakey, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, senior product manager of strategic relations
   James Dreyfous, UV Partners, partner
   Adam Edmunds, Allegiance Inc., president/CEO
   James Endicott, Exact Wave (formerly Veevix), Distriba, president and CEO
   Brett Error, Omniture, CTO/EVP Products
   Bjorn Espenes, Infopia Inc., president and CEO
   Robert Frankenberg , NetVentures, CEO
   JD Gardner, Monarch Partners, general partner
   Darin Gilson, Banyan Ventures, partner
   Alan E. Hall, MarketStar Corporation/Grow Utah Ventures, founder and chairman
   Mike Hall, Senforce, president and CEO
   Christopher C. Harrington, Omniture Inc., president, Global Sales & Client Services
   Matthew Hawkins, Technology Division, Henry Schein Inc., vice president and general manager
   Ron Heinz, Helius, chairman and CEO
   Josh James, Omniture, CEO
   Steve Jones, Auction Trust Network, president and CEO
   Kimberley Jones, Vérité Inc., CEO
   Jeff Kearl, Logoworks, chief marketing officer
   Gary Kennedy, RemedyMD Inc., president, CEO and chairman
   Blake Kirby, Inovar Inc., president/CEO
   Fred Lampropoulos, Merit Medical Systems Inc., chairman and CEO
   Bruce K. Law, Sprout Marketing, president and founder
   Darren Lee, NextPage, president and CEO
   Scott C. Lemon, Agilix Labs Inc., technical evangelist/strategist
   Michael Levinthal, individual investor/former MD, Mayfield Fund
   Ransom Love, Genealogical Society of Utah, director strategic relationships
   Drew Major, Movie Networks, founder
   Ty D. Mattingly, Independent Consultant
   Darl McBride, The SCO Group Inc., president and CEO
   David B. McGinn, Agilix Labs Inc., chief operating officer
   Scott McKinley, Neumont University, chief executive officer
   Peter D. Meldrum, Myriad Genetics Inc., president and CEO
   Glen Mella, Control4 , chief marketing officer
   Craig Miller, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, director member needs
   W. Tim Miller, Echelon Biosciences Inc., president
   Clarke Miyasaki, LogoWorks, vice president business development
   Blake Modersitzki, Utah Ventures, general partner
   Ryan Money, HireVue, CEO
   David Moon, EsNet, Ltd., general partner
   Shawn Nelson, LoveSac Alternative Furniture Co.
   Jan Newman, Altiris, vice president of Business Development
   Tom Ngo, NextPage, CTO
   Leslie Norris, Snapp Norris Group PR, president and managing partner
   Eric Olafson, Tomax Corporation, CEO
   Michael Paul, LineaGen Research Corporation, COO and president
   Brad Pelo, NextPage, chairman of the board
   John Pestana, Omniture, Inc., co-founder, executive vice president
   Ben Peterson, Spark Networks
   Gregory Peterson, GH Peterson Holdings, managing partner
   Glenn Prestwich, University of Utah, presidential professor of medicinal chemistry
   Michael Proper, DirectPointe, Inc., president and CEO
   Dallan Quass, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, contractor
   Amy Rees Lewis, Mediconnect, CEO
   John Richards, BYU Center for Entrepreneurship, associate director
   Larry Rigby, ZARS Pharma, Inc., vice chairman
   Bryce Roberts, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, co-founder and managing general partner
   Eric Ruff, QuickKutz, president, CEO, founder
   Rich Running, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, manager, product management
   Kevin Santiago, Cymphonix, CEO
   Chuck Sharp, Sharp Analytics Inc., CEO
   Craig Sherman, Gaia Interactive, CEO
   Derek Smith, Oakley Networks, CEO
   Eric Smith, Control4, CTO
   Anthony Soohoo, Yahoo! Inc., vice president
   Jim Sorenson, Sorenson Media, CEO
   Tom Stockham, MyFamily.com, president and CEO
   Jack Sunderlage, ContentWatch, Inc., president and CEO
   Benoy Tamang, Digital Media Publishing Group, president and CEO
   Cindi Tetro, NextPage, vice president marketing
   Daren Thayne, MyFamily.com, CTO and SVP of development
   Mikko Valimaki, Blue Coat Systems Inc., vice president
   Jay Verkler, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, managing director of Family & Church History
   Doug Waddoups, Batteries and Bands
   Brett Walker, VitalSmarts, chief marketing officer
   Brad Walters, MaxStream Inc., chairman, CEO and president
   Will West, Control4, CEO
   Phillip Windley, BYU Computer Science, associate professor
   Michael Wolfgramm, MyFamily.com Inc., vice president of development
   Ralph Yarro, ThinkAtomic Inc., president and CEO

About The v|100

Each year, members of the Utah business community are asked by vSpring to nominate individuals with ties to the state of Utah who are most likely to lead a successful startup venture in the next five to seven years in the IT (information technology) or biotech industries in a chief executive or chief technical officer role.  vSpring's press release is here.