Bio

With family history that dates back five generations to the late 1870’s in Colorado’s agricultural and ranching communities, Douglas Price is a proud Colorado native from Montrose.

Since 2016, Price has called Citizens State Bank his professional home where he is Chairman and CEO of CSBO Holdings—the bank’s parent company. He also has twice served on the Board of the Iliff School of Theology where its mission to shape the culture in positive ways is deeply meaningful to him.

In 1977, while attending the University of Colorado, he began part-time work as a teller at FirstBank and eventually worked up the ladder to President of FirstBank of Boulder, then on to a larger market as President of the Denver operation, and eventually presiding over FirstBank Colorado.

In 1999, motivated to pursue his passion, Price left banking and collaborated with
Buell and other Colorado foundations to co-found Educare/Qualistar—a nonprofit
where he obtained a patent for a standardized rating system for child care facilities (QRIS)that was the basis for Colorado’s current licensing and is used nationally to improve the institutional care for our youngest children throughout the US.

In 2009, Price became the Chief Executive Officer for Rocky Mountain PBS (RMPBS)
and grew the income from $9 million to $17 million, with membership also rising to nearly 90,000, making RMPBS the largest membership organization in Colorado. During his tenure, Price was awarded three Emmys for projects that examined the plight of Native Americans, other disadvantaged populations and women in our culture and economy. His final project was to create the strategic vision and working with the board and his successor obtain the necessary funding to construct a new $50 million headquarters that is the foundation for the revitalization of Arapaho Square in downtown Denver.