Chancellor of the CU Anschutz Medical Campus since 2012, Don Elliman boasts a successful track record in business, government and higher education.

A longtime executive in publishing, Elliman worked at Time Warner for 32 years, retiring as an executive vice president of Time Inc. Other positions he held include publisher of People magazine and president of Sports Illustrated.

After Time Warner, Elliman served for four years as CEO of Ascent Sports and then Kroenke Sports Enterprises, overseeing all activities of the Pepsi Center, the Denver Nuggets and the Colorado Avalanche.

He then served four years in Colorado state government, the first two as executive director of the Office of Economic Development and International Trade, and the final two as chief operating officer for Colorado.

Prior to becoming chancellor, Elliman was executive director of the University of Colorado School of Medicine’s Charles C. Gates Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Biology, now the Gates Institute.

Elliman became interim chancellor for the University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus in 2012 and chancellor in 2013. He assumed responsibility exclusively for the CU Anschutz Medical Campus in 2014.

Chancellor Elliman has served as chair of the Children’s Hospital Colorado Board of Directors and co-chair of the campaign to raise funds for the new hospital. He continues on that board as well as the boards of the Fitzsimons Innovation Community, UCHealth, University of Colorado Hospital Authority Board, Colorado Prevention Center, Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome, the Gates Institute, the Western Stock Show Association and the Higher Learning Commission.