Kathleen Lavine | Denver Business Journal
Welcome to CEO-ville. The 27 th floor penthouse that oversees the world sits just to the south of City Park and has views from Pike's Peak to Wyoming - which frame the entire Front Range and downtown Denver. This is the perfect, wow-worthy retreat for Don and Linda Childears, both 64, Denver's quintessential power couple. He's CEO/President of the Colorado Bankers Association. She's CEO/President of the Daniels Fund. He represents the banks of Colorado, currently in the throws of murky marijuana legislation. She's in charge of the $1 billion-plus bankroll at the Daniels Fund and oversees the awards of $60 million-a-year to scholarships and non-profits. He was born and raised in the small Colorado town of Saguache (the most misspelled and mispronounced berg in the state). She was four-months-old when her family moved to Denver from Iowa. So they are Coloradans to their bones. He went to the University of Denver for law, University of Colorado for banking, Colorado State University for marketing. She went to the University of Colorado, but found the hippie culture of the sixties confusing. She dropped out - and learned her first trade and love through the banking industry itself. She went on to work with the late cable pioneer and philanthropist Bill Daniels. He worked in D.C. for a congressman before settling into the Colorado banking business in 1975, becoming CEO/president of the association in 1980. She ended her 30-year banking run as president of the Young Americans Bank since it opened in 1987. She moved to the foundation in 2005. We sit in their book-lined study, which has a TV, some comfy chairs and, oh yes, that view. Bill Husted, former Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News columnist, interviews newsmakers for the Denver Business Journal. Contact Bill at 303-949-3675 or hustedbill@gmail.com.
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