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About Tara Dunn
Tara Dunn brings heart and humanity to the table to help you confront challenges. With three decades as a business leader, and as a multi-time entrepreneur and a practicing attorney of nearly 20 years, she knows what it takes to accomplish big goals. She helps you and your team discover how to prioritize connection and build capacity – and apply these expanded skills to top-tier client service and delivery.
- Graduate degree in counseling psychology
- Three decades of combined experience in building, understanding, and advising companies, including collaborating to launch and build Denver’s Great Divide Brewing Company
- Nearly 20 years of corporate law practice including a decade in Am Law 100/Big Law, as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of NYSE-listed international technology company, and as founder of boutique corporate firm, HighMark Law
- Advises start-ups to Fortune 100 companies in mergers and acquisitions, private placements, capital markets transactions, credit financings, public company matters, corporate governance, public offerings, as outside general counsel, and in director and liability issues – cited by the Delaware Supreme Court in 2006: In re the Walt Disney Derivative Litigation
Career ADVISOR
Credentials
- JD, University of Denver, Order of St. Ives, Denver University Law Review
- MA, Counseling Psychology, University of Colorado Denver
- BA, Psychology, University of Colorado Boulder
- Colorado SuperLawyer, 2020-Present; Rising Star, 2009, 2013-2015
- Leadership Denver Class of 2009
- Women’s Leadership Foundation Corporate BoardBound Graduate
Community Leadership
- 2021-Present Shift Events (formerly Team Evergreen Cycling) – Chair, Board of Directors; Chair, Governance Committee
- Past Board Service – Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation – Board of Directors; Chair, 2017-2018; Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce – Board of Directors Rocky Mountain MicroFinance Institute – Board of Directors
- Colorado Brewers Guild – Co-Founder; Board of Directors; President
Outside the Office
- Proud mother of adult twins
- Lifelong learner and athlete
- Avid gravel and road cyclist; national collegiate championship teams – women’s team trial, and overall road team titles
