Burton A Deines

Burton A Deines serves as a Clinical Professor of Management in the College of Business at Colorado State University. His teaching responsibilities include:

• Management Fundamentals
• Entrepreneurship
• Human Resource Management

He is deeply passionate about entrepreneurship education and mentorship.

Deines earned his educational degrees from Colorado State University:

• B.S.B.A. in Marketing
• M.S.B.A. in Management

His research and academic interests focus on:

• Family Businesses
• Startup Ideation
• Change Management
• Organizational Development

With over 20 years of business experience, including 12 years as a manager and six years in entrepreneurial ventures, Deines brings practical insights to his teaching. He actively advises student and alumni startups and has facilitated business model development for more than 60 technology companies through the FastTrac Program at Rocky Mountain Innosphere. Currently, he coordinates the Seat Belt Studies for the Colorado State Department of Transportation via the Institute for Transportation Management.

Deines also serves on the board of advisors for one startup company and continues to support several ventures through funding stages.