John D. Temte
Chair & Co-Founder
In 2013, John accepted Governor Mead’s call to action to Chair both the Jackson Hole Technology Partnership and the Annual Wyoming Global Technology Summit.
A serial entrepreneur, John hails from startups, venture capital (tech) and private equity (energy). John, Jack Selby and Governor Matt Mead founded the Wyoming Global Technology Summit and the Jackson Hole Global Technology Partnership to serve as assets to help diversify Wyoming's economy.
John’s leadership was instrumental in the tremendous success of the inaugural 2013 Summit and the ongoing success of the annual Summits.
Jack Selby
Vice-Chair & Co-Founder
In 2013, Jack accepted Gov. Mead’s call to action to help guide the Jackson Hole Technology Partnership and co-chair the Wyoming Global Technology Summits.
Jack, part of the founding PayPal team, hails from entrepreneurship, venture capital and motion pictures. Jack is one of the co- founders of the Jackson Hole Global Technology Summit.
Jack was instrumental in the tremendous success of the inaugural 2014 Summit and the ongoing success of the annual Summits.
MaTt Mead
Former Governor of Wyoming & Co-Founder Emeritus
“Where you find one blade of grass, leave two.”
“It is my hope that the Summit will continue to bring people from all over the world to create, innovate and utilize their technology in the state of Wyoming and beyond.”
Determined to see Wyoming’s economy thrive by solving problems inherent to rural peoples, Matt turned to John Temte and Jack Selby. They founded the Jackson Hole Technology Partnership -- a global nonprofit tasked to find cutting edge technologies relevant to rural people and accelerate their accessibility globally – and began recruiting dedicated volunteers and welcoming generous donors.
Over the years, Matt, the Jackson Hole Technology Partnership and Wyoming legislators carefully laid the foundation for a prosperous high tech economy to take root in Wyoming and give young graduates, entrepreneurs and startups a new chance to build solid careers, exciting lives and happy families in Wyoming.
That foundation is quietly attracting substantial high-tech companies and startups to Wyoming, as never before.
David Siminoff
Board Member
David has been an active investor in technology companies over four decades, having played a meaningful role in the advent of “The Dot-Com Era”. With early investments in both public and private rounds in Yahoo, AOL, Netflix, and many other companies.
JOSH MCFARLAND
Board Member
Josh is a partner at Greylock, where since 2017 he has led the firm's investments in several industry-defining companies including Coinbase, PayJoy and Wisetack. Prior to this, he co-founded TellApart, a company that applied AI to the field of marketing, and grew it to over $150M in annual revenue as CEO. TellApart was acquired by Twitter for more than $500M – the largest deal in the company’s history. He then served as Twitter’s VP of Product and oversaw all of the company’s revenue-generating lines. The son of a coal miner, Josh grew up in Gillette, Wyoming and arrived in Silicon Valley to begin working at startups as an intern while attending Stanford, where he was a Mayfield Fellow and earned his Economic degree with Distinction.
Scott Nolan
Board Member
Scott is a Partner at Founders Fund where he joined the team in 2011. Scott works with engineering-driven startups in energy, aerospace, infrastructure, manufacturing and biotechnology. He focuses on mission-driven founders rearchitecting their industries.
Prior to Founders Fund, Scott was an early employee at SpaceX where he helped develop the original Falcon and Dragon propulsion systems and multiple Dragon capsule subsystems. After SpaceX, Scott worked at Bain & Company with its private equity clients, co-founded a consumer internet company built on the Facebook Connect API, and earned an MBA at Stanford University.
Josh GrubaugH
Board member
Josh is a Co-Founding Partner at WYO VC. He has over 20 years of experience as an investor, financer, operator, asset manager and business development executive with extensive experience in infrastructure, power, renewables and carbon strategy.
Josh previously led North American infrastructure investing for Hanwha Asset Management, launched Apple’s global decarbonization fund at Deutsche Asset Management, led Eastern US solar development and government contracting and supported Canadian solar development and module manufacturing at Recurrent Energy, and held various roles at InterGen with key accomplishments including helping manage the internal sell-side process for the sale of InterGen, helping lead a multi-billion dollar company debt restructuring and refinancing, and managing global strategy and planning for a power generation portfolio that at its peak was 22 gigawatts.
Josh also serves on the R&D Advisory Board for the NSF CO-WY Climate Resilience Engine.
Eric Scott
Board Member
Eric Scott is an early stage investor and startup advisor, focusing on highly regulated industries such as healthcare, defense, energy and food. He is currently a senior advisor at 8VC and co-founder of Harbor Health, a Central Texas based health system.
BRAD SELBY
Board Member
Brad has spent two decades in product and business leadership for technology startups, predominantly in the Silicon Valley.
Presently, he is advisor to and seed investor in early-stage startups and works with established companies on new product & market development.
ADVISORS
DR. ALLEN GEE
Board Member & Director of the JHTP Healthcare Initiative
Allen L. Gee, MD, PhD, FAAN is a practicing Neurologist in Cody, WY working for his companies Frontier NeuroHealth and Wyoming Neurologic Associates. He has been a Health Information Technology consultant for over a decade and advocates for using technology to bridge the geographic barriers to healthcare. Dr. Gee received the Athena Health Vision Award in 2014. He has been actively involved in Wyoming health information exchange initiatives under Governors Freudenthal and Mead.
Dr. Gee has been instrumental in the creation of the NeuroHealth and Intergrated Neurology section of the American Academy of Neurology. He is a graduate and advisor for the AAN Palatucci Advocacy Leadership Forum and currently speaks at the Academy meetings on the topic of Leadership and Health Information Technology. He served on the AAN Government Relations Committee for 6 years and current serves on the AAN Practice Committee.
The “Healing Space” clinic in Cody was designed and built by Dr. Gee and combines the foundational drivers of neurohealth services and technology to improve efficiencies of process and patient care.
CINDY DELANEY
Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
Cindy serves as CPA for the Jackson Hole Technology Partnership, having founded Delaney CPA in 2010 after hailing from 18 years of notable success in specialized tax consulting and compliance for non-profit organizations, businesses, individuals and trusts. Cindy began with Deloitte & Touche as a senior tax manager and advised start-up technology clients, as well as large public companies, for over a decade. Delaney CPA now serves substantial clients throughout the United States, in both rural communities and metropolitan cores.
The Board was thrilled when Cindy agreed to serve as the JHTP’s CPA as we move onto the global stage to identify and accelerate access to new generation technologies for the rural populations of the world.