Ignite Talks with Dave Curry

159 South Lincoln Street,Spokane WA 99201

17 June, 2021

Description

Ignite Talks with serial entrepreneur Dave Curry Join us for Ignite Talks with Dave Curry, serial entrepreneur, on Thursday, June 17th at the Steam Plant rooftop! Cocktails and networking begin at 5:30pm, the program starts at 6:00 pm and we will conclude at 7:00 pm after questions and conversation. Dave Curry is a successful, Spokane-based entrepreneur having founded, taken public, and successfully exited three companies. Dave has over 30 years of combined telecommunications and energy software industry experience. Dave is currently Chairman of NextWatts and CarbonQuest, clean energy technology companies. Prior to starting NextWatts in 2015, he was co-founder (2008) and CEO of Demand Energy Networks, an energy software control systems company which was acquired by Enel, a global energy company in 2017. From 2001 to 2008 Dave was President and CEO of World Wide Packets, a point-to-point ethernet switch vendor whose customers included Comcast, Clearwire and AT&T. World Wide Packets was acquired by Ciena in 2006. Before World Wide Packets, Dave co-founded Architel, a telecom OSS vendor to Verizon, Cable & Wireless, British Telecom, NYNEX and GTE that was take public in 1998 and subsequently acquired by Nortel in 2000. In 1996, Dave was selected Canadian Entrepreneur on the Year for his leadership at Architel. Ignite Talks enlightens entrepreneurs through a series of interviews featuring successful entrepreneurs, guest speakers and institutional investors sharing their investment criteria and commentary on current market conditions. Ignite Talks are sponsored by Lee & Hayes. Find Ignite's program schedule at ignitenorthwest.com.