FORT COLLINS - The Chief Operating Officer of PerfectWave Technologies will speak at Colorado State University's College of Business as part of the Great Entrepreneur Speaker Series on Sept. 30.

Max Gelwix, who also serves as vice president of PerfectWave, will speak at 11 a.m. at Rockwell Hall, Room 119 on the Colorado State campus. Gelwix has spent eight years as the Chief Operating Officer of publicly held businesses with an international scope of operations and revenues approximating a quarter of a billion dollars.

PerfectWave is a business dedicated to advancing the science of speech signal processing for tactical military environments and homeland security. Their products combine proprietary technology with technical know-how to achieve performance and focus on three specific applications of speech signal processing: speech quality enhancement; speech recognition; and, speech authentication.

For 25 years, Gelwix has been in corporate management for companies within the technology, biotechnology, insurance, building and aviation industries. He also has provided risk management and brokerage services to companies with national and international operations and has been licensed by 32 states to practice insurance risk management and provide brokerage services.

Gelwix will speak about how he became an entrepreneur, provide tips about how to be successful in the business world and discuss how he became involved in technology-based businesses.
Gelwix is a 1972 graduate of Colorado State's College of Business.

The event is open to the public, but seating is limited. For more information please contact Hunt Lambert at (970) 491-6876 or Tim McCune at (970) 491-6378.