A new consulting firm opened its doors—most of them figurative—on Oct 19. Critigen, a firm with four area offices and a largely virtual workforce, will provide high-tech consulting on critical infrastructure issues. The company was formerly a department of CH2M Hill, a consulting firm working under a wider umbrella of issues.
Critigen’s mission, according to its website, is to “develop technology-based approaches for those who deliver essential services that affect human life.” The company will do so by engaging with government and private sector entities, including Seattle City Light to seek solar energy solutions, and Microsoft to help develop stimulus funding tracking software, according to an article in the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce.
Critigen has 25 employees in Washington, and offices in Seattle, Bellevue, Bellingham and Tacoma. The company employs 700 people globally, and its headquarters are located in Denver. The name Critigen is a portmanteau of the terms “critical infrastructure,” and “genesis.”
