Cindy Carrillo

Cindy Carrillo was the Founder and CEO of Work Options Group from 1986 until 2009, when she sold the business to a major competitor. Work Options Group successfully developed, marketed and administered a new employee benefit: Providing temporary care to the family members of employees that was highly subsidized by their employer, allowing the employee to meet their work responsibilities when they had a breakdown in their child or elder care. The benefit—called "backup care"—was sold to corporations such as Microsoft, Verizon Wireless, Prudential, Accenture and other Fortune 100 companies, resulting in the provision of services to over 1 million employees when the company sold.

Cindy's career began in politics as an aide to Senator Gary Hart and then moved into the non-profit sector as a Children and Youth Director at the Jewish Community Center in Denver. During those early years (and with her first baby born), she graduated from the University of Denver with a Masters Degree in Social Work.

Cindy has over 30 years of experience in promoting sustainable business practices and is currently teaching some of those concepts to students receiving their Certificates in Sustainable Practices at the CU Boulder Environmental Center. Passionate about being involved in the Boulder community, Cindy currently sits on the Boards of HospiceCare of Boulder & Broomfield Counties, the Boulder Community Hospital Foundation and the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship. She has two children who both graduated from CU-Boulder.