Updates on El Paso County from an El Paso County Commissioner

Mar 20, 2020

Stan VanderWerf - Meeting via Zoom, so tune in

THIS PROGRAM WILL BE PRESENTED VIA ZOOM. CHECK YOUR EMAIL FOR INSTRUCTIONS.

The show must go on! Stan is an El Paso County Commissioner representing District 3 since January 2017 (3 years). He is Chair of the Pikes Peak Workforce Center and Chair of the Community Justice Coordinating Council and serves on over a dozen other boards. Stan VanderWerf is Founder, President, and CEO of CEM-Tek, Inc., a 3-D printing company focused on industrial and consumer product rapid prototyping and low rate production. CEM-Tek provides its clients 3-D printing, computer aided design, part scanning (for re-production), and other 3-D printing services. Stan is also Founder, President and CEO of Advanced Capitol LLC, an aerospace defense consulting firm headquartered in Colorado Springs.

Stan has held a wide variety of program director positions in the space, aircraft, electronics, and avionics industries. As a former senior US Air Force officer, he ran the Air Force’s electronic warfare and avionics programs from 2008 to 2011, a portfolio of 750 systems, over a million products in the field, a budget in excess of $1 billion a year, and 380 employees. Products included sensors, jammers, GPS guidance systems, navigation/display boxes, and numerous classified programs. Stan was formerly the Chief of Strategic Analysis for NORAD-NORTHCOM, program director for the AF’s C-130E/H programs, and Executive Officer to Special Operations Command’s Acquisition Executive.

Stan is an avid mountain climber, skier, and private pilot with instrument and commercial ratings. His most recent successful expedition was Denali in 2012. Stan has spoken to our club once before on drones.