Vance Brown

Vance Brown has a passion for building teams that exhibit high moral character, that care for employees and the customer, and that achieve long-term success and profitability. From 1996 to 2000, Vance was President and CEO of GoldMine® Software Corporation (formerly Bendata, Inc. and currently FrontRange Solutions®-the makers of HEAT® Help Desk software and GoldMine® contact manager). The company was a leading, worldwide developer of software solutions for customer relationship management (CRM) and support management solutions. Under Vance’s leadership, the HEAT® product went from a rating by the Gartner Group as a “niche” player to the “market leader” in both “ability to execute” and “vision.” GoldMine® won numerous industry awards, including the coveted Inc. 500 award for multiple years and the GoldMine® product was PC Magazine Editor’s Choice 4 consecutive times. During Vance’s tenure, the company was recognized as one of the top 100 software companies in the United States.

Vance earlier served for 5 years as President and CEO of UFAB, Inc. of Research Triangle Park, N.C. Vance led this company, with its “BuildSoft” product line, from two employees and an unknown product into a multi-million dollar company rated in a national survey at the time as having the leading integrated software system for the building industry.

Vance began his career as a lawyer at one of the largest firms in North Carolina. He still is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia. Vance graduated from Wake Forest University, summa cum laude, with concentrations in Economics and Computer Science. He graduated from law school, with honors, from the University of North Carolina, finishing as a member of the Order of the Coif and the Law Review. In 1999, Vance completed a summer Executive Program at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. More recently, Vance completed a summer graduate program at Harvard.

Vance is founder of the Band of Brothers’ Ministry (www.bandofbrothers.org ) and was a founder and currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Classical Academy (www.tcad20.org ), the largest k-12 charter school in Colorado. In 2009, Vance was awarded the Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award by Wake Forest University “in recognition of his entrepreneurial spirit, creativity, achievement and social responsibility.”