Jim
Dean's Advisory Board

Marketing ’79 CU Boulder 

MBA, University of Oregon 

CEO, Obvius Holdings, LLC - Obvius Holdings LLC is a leading energy solutions provider.

Bio: After graduating from Leeds School of Business in 1979, Jim spent 10 years working for Honeywell. In 1990, he co- founded his first company, Veris Industries, in Oregon. He sold the company to Schneider Electric in 1999 and started his second company, Obvius Holdings in 2001 and sold it to Leviton in 2011. Both companies were focused on energy conservation and monitoring technologies for the commercial and government sectors. Since retiring in 2013, Jim has enjoyed traveling the world pursuing my lifelong interest in wildlife photography and served on advisory boards in the colleges of Engineering and Arts and Sciences. Jim and his wife Sandy have endowments in engineering and A&S focused on scholarships for underrepresented and fist generation students.