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Chris Shapard
Executive Director
Chris Shapard recently served as interim director of the Colorado Bioscience Association. Shapard originally joined the bioscience group in January 2006 as director of marketing and communications.
Before joining the bioscience association, Shapard was director of emerging technologies for the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT). Her experience organizing advanced technology industries includes producing the Colorado bioscience and emerging technology e-newsletter, helping to organize the Colorado nanotech group, assisting the Colorado Photonics Industry Association in organizational development and helping to draft legislation to support Colorado's emerging industries.
Prior to this role within OEDIT, Shapard was the deputy director for international inward investment as part of the state's International Trade Office. In that capacity, she promoted Colorado for foreign investment and helped to organize overseas trade missions and trade shows. She successfully helped arrange former Governor Owens' trade missions to England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Japan, Mexico and Germany.
Shapard holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in spanish and political science from Grove City College in Western Pennsylvania.