Kevin Allen

Kevin Allen is the Managing Member of 5280 Partners, LLC, a Denver-based venture capital firm specializing in early-stage technology and communications industry investing. Mr. Allen has served as a Director of numerous early-stage companies and currently serves as a Director of CustomerLink Systems, an outsourced marketing services provider.

From 1996 through 2000, Mr. Allen was an executive officer of Rifkin & Associates, Inc., a privately held owner and operator of US-based cable television systems. He ultimately served as Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. As CEO, Mr. Allen was responsible for overseeing all business activities of Rifkin & Associates, including all corporate development activities. In addition, Mr. Allen directed all of Rifkin & Associates’ capital formation and merger and acquisition efforts, raised well over $1 billion of debt and equity capital, and negotiated the terms of ten separate acquisitions of cable television system groups involving over 250,000 customers.

Before joining Rifkin & Associates, Mr. Allen spent eight years as an investment banker for BT Securities Corporation (an affiliate of Bankers Trust Company) and Prudential-Bache Capital Funding. Mr. Allen’s investment banking clients included communications satellite owners and operators; international wireless communications services providers; and several cable television system operators, including Rifkin & Associates, Inc.

Mr. Allen received his Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, his Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado. Mr. Allen serves as a Director and a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of Colorado UpLIFT, a Denver-based charitable organization serving at-risk youth in the Denver community.