Chuck Aikens

Tymoo

Tymoo is a digital marketing collective that empowers brand managers, marketing teams, and freelancers with the strategy, processes, and tools to accelerate growth.

Founder

Tidal Wave Content

Experience the Power of Tidal Wave in Your Content Strategy. Tidal Wave Content is a “done with you” content marketing training and coaching program for brand marketers, marketing agencies, and entreprenuers.

Deciphering Digital

Webcast focused on deciphering complex digital marketing strategies in a simplified and conceptual manner that allows for confident execution of tactics to be deployed in ‘real life’ and with ‘real brands’.

Host

Volume Nine

Volume 9, Inc is a local Denver Digital Marketing Agency that is passionate about leveraging search, content, and social media to drive traffic, generate leads, and make connections that impact our clients’ businesses.

Founded in 2006, Volume 9 continues to develop as an Internet marketing firm. We evolve our products and services to deliver results and contribute to the bottom-line success of each of its clients.

Entrepreneurs'​ Organization

EO is the only global network exclusively for entrepreneurs. EO helps leading entrepreneurs learn and grow through peer-to-peer learning, once-in-a-lifetime experiences, and connections to experts.

Since 1987, EO has been transforming the lives of the entrepreneurs who transform the world. As the global thought leader on entrepreneurship, EO plays an integral role in businesses, industries and the lives of leading entrepreneurs everywhere.

https://www.eonetwork.org

Member

With over two decades of experience in content development and online marketing, I help brands harness the power of AI to create authentic, engaging content that resonates with their target audience and delivers on their brand promise.

At Tidal Wave Content, we've pioneered a unique method that seamlessly integrates AI throughout the content creation process. From initial insights and research to writing and optimization, our approach enhances human creativity and intelligence, resulting in impactful content at scale.

Our Content Manager Online platform enables marketing teams to produce high-quality, brand-aligned content efficiently.  This innovative tool, coupled with our strategic framework and proven process, empower brands to:

- Establish themselves as industry experts
- Optimize content for search visibility and social media engagement
- Create meaningful connections with their audience
- Drive brand awareness and business growth
- Increase traffic, generate more sales, and grow revenue.

I'm committed to equipping brand managers, marketing teams, and entrepreneurs with cutting-edge strategies, processes, and tools to accelerate their content marketing efforts. By responsibly leveraging AI, we create authentic conversations that truly impact our clients' businesses.

Let's connect if you want to explore how AI assistance and SEO best practices can revolutionize your content marketing strategy while maintaining your unique brand voice.

Another great AI Pioneers Club meeting.  Thanks to everyone for being part of our small community.   Looking forward to our next gathering in early December!

Marketing consultant and AI forward tinkerer helping brands leverage a proven process to #cocreate people first, helpful content to get found everywhere by their target audience.

Another great AI Pioneers Club meet up in Denver last Thursday... Thanks to our featured guest and new member Robert Reich, who shared his wealth of experience and expertise in ML and AI ... we talked about the future or #ColoradoTech in the age of AI 

Do you think Colorado is setup to win in the age of AI or is the state over exposed to a bigger impact with 30% of Colorado's workforce in management positions. - Let us know in the comments!

Elevate Packaging, Inc.

ELEVATE PACKAGING is a Leader in Circular Compostable Packaging systems, enabling companies of every size seeking Zero-Waste, plastic-free solutions to meet their sustainability goals and reduce their carbon footprint.

We make sustainability easy and simple.

Visit ElevatePackaging.com to find the widest range of compostable products (bags, pouches, labels, shipping supplies, food service supplies) shipped within 24 hours, with No Minimums!
Get fully custom and full color printed compostable solutions with speedy expert service.

Elevate enables your sustainability success with a frictionless on-ramp to sustainability leadership.
For 25 years, we're the #1 trusted expert and leading source for circular compostable packaging solutions for natural, organic, and sustainable brands.

President and Founder

US Composting Council

Collaborating with stakeholders to accelerate composting infrastructure.  Believing that compost manufacturing and compost utilization are central to creating healthy soils, clean air and water, a stable climate, and a sustainable society.

Founding Member, Corporate Compost Leadership Council 

UL Solutions

SaaS sustainability data management solutions for global businesses. Architected efficient and effective process workflows to manage and analyze sustainable business operations in centralized cloud database. UL purchased CR360 in 2016.

Senior Business Development Manager

Artelys

Fully responsible for all business functions, business development and strategy.  Developed growth within domestic and international markets and built new markets for KNITRO software, a world-class non-linear mathematical optimization algorithm for advanced optimization software programs. Ziena was purchased by Artelys.

Director

University of Illinois Chicago

Lectured on International Strategic Planning.  This program was focused toward professional in global organizations and was a joint collaboration with Bradley University.

Adjunct Instructor

Precision Software

Led teams at mid-sized client sites to customize, integrate and implement Global Trade Management Software within Client's ERP supply chain and logistics system.  Improved existing international supply chain processes to create seamless and efficient exports and imports for our global business clients.

Senior Project Manager

Loyola University Chicago

Lecturer on JAVA Programming to undergraduate students.

W.W. Grainger, Inc.

► International strategic planning (China and Latin American markets)
► Corporate strategy development with key executives of the company's business units
► Competitive research and analysis for C-level decision making
► Developed innovative technologies applications using emerging technologies  (mobile e-commerce network design, RFID, network architecture, genetic algorithms, neural networks).
► Managed concurrent projects and initiatives
► Business process design, documentation, and implementation
► Technology Innovation and Conceptual Modeling

Strategy and Business Development Manager

► Managed an application development team to support company's systems for this $50M business
► Re-organized technology group and a $1M+ technology budget to strategically retool business for next generation technology capabilities.
► Led team to design, implement and train IT department on ISO9000 quality processes to improve efficiencies.

Technology Manager, PCA

Northern Trust Bank

► Software Applications Programmer using COBOL, PL/1, JCL, IMS, VSAM, FOCUS Relational Database for CRM application.

Programmer

🌎 On a Mission to Eliminate 1 BILLION Pounds of Plastic Annually! 👉 Let’s connect today!

I'm dedicated to eliminating BILLIONS of pounds of plastic by making circular compostable packaging a reality for every brand.  We've made circular compostable packaging solutions easily accessible, and help brands get them effectively composted, powering sustainability impact to drive brand value and financial success.

With 25 years at the helm of Elevate Packaging, I have pioneered and led the charge in providing world leading, reliable, high-quality compostable packaging solutions for the leading sustainable brands.

Our mission is to make it easy for your business to seamlessly move beyond traditional plastics to circular compostable packaging, making sustainability an easy choice and a big win for your business.

Leveraging my deep expertise in strategy, technology, and business innovation, I've identified and developed market leading solutions to reduce packaging waste, introducing industry-first compostable products and enabling circular packaging systems.

As a speaker, investor, and a key contributor to sustainability councils, I strive to lead by example in both my professional and personal life and promoting a healthier planet for future generations.

Let's make a difference together!

Rich Cohen

This statement rings so true:
➡️“An economy built on plastic is an economy built on financial risk.”

The debate isn’t whether we CAN recycle disposable #plastics.
Decades of data show we have failed to date and still unable to recycle all plastics reliably at scale without incurring massive downstream costs.

Plastic is a liability.⚠️

Plastic drives expenses at every stage: waste management, contamination, EPR fees, regulatory risk, and long-term environmental harm. 
#Microplastics as a serious human health issue is likely the next significant costly liability for plastics.

👍🏽Compostable, circular materials turn waste into value.
🚫Plastic turns waste into cost.

The choice isn’t plastic vs. compostable.
It’s liability vs. circular value.

#businessstrategy #plasticpollution

Europe is fighting over cheap plastic imports when the real crisis sits at the heart of the material itself.

INEOS has warned that “time is running out” for Europe’s chemical industry. Brussels is drowning in anti-dumping cases. Politicians are scrambling to protect an industry crushed by high energy costs, collapsing demand and a wave of cheaper plastics from abroad.

Noise that masks a deep systemic failure. An economy that depends on plastic is an economy built on financial risk. 

Investors know this already. In 2025, the chemicals sector has become one of the most downgraded globally, with credit agencies flagging weak demand, overcapacity and collapsing margins. Ineos is just one example: its debt has swollen to nearly €12 billion, and ratings agencies have pushed it deeper into junk territory as bond values fall.

And the litigation risk hovering over the entire plastics value chain is only accelerating. Independent analysts project more than 20 billion dollars in plastic-related liabilities this decade, with no sign of the curve slowing.
 
So while we point fingers at “cheap imports”, the real story is a material whose economics no longer stack up. 
Plastic carries rising financial risk, rising legal exposure and rising harm to the people who bear its pollution. Almost 80 percent of the global population now live in areas where plastic waste has exceeded their waste management capacity.

We keep treating this as a trade problem. It feels more like a reality check. 

Maybe this is the moment to shift the conversation. Europe can protect its future by cutting its dependence on a material that drags down our health and our economy. Or we can keep giving in to Big Plastic’s propaganda that puts every one of our futures at risk.

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