"Brent"
MR. BRENT CUTCLIFFE
Co-Founder & COO
Mr. Cutcliffe is the Co-Founder and COO of New Iridium. His background is shaped by 10+ years in C-suite roles and experience with high-growth startups and leading business consulting firms such as Arthur Andersen (Accenture), Price Waterhouse and Computer Sciences Corporation.
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Prior to New Iridium Mr. Cutcliffe was co-founder and CIO of Qwinix Technologies, a software services startup launched in 2012. He helped grow the company to over 100 staff with offices in Denver, India and Costa Rica. After its initial round of seed funding in 2015, Qwinix and was named to the Denver Business Journal list of fastest growing private companies each year since 2016.
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Before that Mr. Cutcliffe led business development from 2010-2011 at FutureDash, a home energy monitoring startup based in California. There he developed distribution relationships with device manufacturers, broadband service providers and electric utilities. From 2003-2009 he was CIO then COO of Metrolist, the largest multiple listing service in the Rocky Mountain region. While there he was nominated for Chief Technology Executive of the Year by the Colorado Technology Association in 2007.
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Mr. Cutcliffe is active in the startup community mentoring emerging entrepreneurs and high-growth startups. During 2014-2015 he helped run One Million Cups, a Kauffman Foundation program for entrepreneur education.