How Denver Summit FC Built an Entire Technology Environment in Eight Weeks

Denver Summit Football Club — The National Women’s Soccer League’s newest professional club and the league’s 16th franchise. Startup-stage sports organization scaling across a downtown headquarters, a temporary stadium and training campus, a dedicated performance center, and a permanent stadium in development | Partnered with Executech from the ground up

The Challenge: Stand Up an Entire IT Environment, Then Scale It Fast

IT services for sports organizations have to solve a problem most providers never face. The business, the building, and the team all get built at the same time. Launching a professional club is not only about building a roster and selling tickets. It is about standing up an entire business at speed, while making sure technology stays invisible when it is working and gets answered immediately when it is not.

Denver Summit FC was hiring, signing leases, and building facilities at the same time. Every one of those moves carried a technology dependency, and none of them could wait.

Leadership needed to:

• Enable laptops and end-user setups that work on day one for a workforce growing week over week
• Stand up a network that scales quickly, covering internet, wired, and wireless
• Implement phone systems and collaboration tools for a team that was distributed before it had an office
• Establish professional-grade cybersecurity foundations from the first device forward
• Deliver conference room technology that supports fast-moving communications with the league, ownership, and partners
• Provide reliable, responsive support so downtime never becomes the story

At the same time, the club was managing four parallel capital projects, each with its own technology implications and its own timeline:

• A new headquarters in downtown Denver
• A temporary stadium and training fields in Centennial
• A dedicated player performance center
• A permanent stadium at Santa Fe Yards

“You might think about Denver Summit as just another sports franchise or an upcoming football club, and of course we are, but we’re just a startup when it comes down to it. We have the same kinds of concerns and needs as any other organization facing what we are, starting.” — Emily Burr, Chief of Staff, Denver Summit FC

Why Executech: Consultative Support for an Organization That Has to Move Fast

Denver Summit FC ran a deliberate, structured RFP process, grounded in accountability to ownership and to the Denver community. The club was not looking for a vendor to take orders and execute. It was looking for expertise, guidance, and candid dialogue. A strategic technology partner who could advise on what makes sense right now while planning for what comes next.

“We really chose Executech because they are not only an IT provider, but they’re truly a thought partner in all that we need to succeed.” — Emily Burr, Chief of Staff

That distinction shaped the engagement. Executech was in the room for decisions most IT providers never see, including the evaluation of the headquarters space itself.

What Executech Delivered

Enabling rapid hiring and day-to-day operations

• Built an environment designed to feel seamless and effortless for new hires
• Standardized device provisioning so headcount growth did not create IT debt
• Delivered responsive support with clear escalation paths when issues surfaced
• Established security foundations early, rather than retrofitting them after the fact

A headquarters buildout in a historic downtown building

Denver Summit FC secured a late-1800s building in downtown Denver. Turning a historic structure into a modern professional headquarters is a different problem than fitting out a standard office suite, and it required planning well beyond wireless coverage.

• Network planning and deployment suited to the constraints of a historic building
• Conference room technology decisions, tested and iterated rather than specified once
• Close coordination across trades and vendors to get the space operational quickly
• Input during the space evaluation itself, before the lease was signed

“Executech was a key part of securing our office space and talking about our space with us and how it could be true headquarters for us.” — Emily Burr, Chief of Staff

Delivering under a compressed timeline

From securing the space to moving in, the club had roughly six to eight weeks. That window ran through the holiday season, when shipping tightens, vendor availability thins, and scheduling gets harder rather than easier. Executech coordinated contingencies, reorders, and reconfigurations to protect the move date without compromising the build.

“We did make it hard for you, in a good way, because it was a short timeline. I think we ended up having about six, eight weeks once we were finally ready and had secured the space.” — Emily Burr, Chief of Staff

Planning across four facilities at once

• Worked across a headquarters, a training campus, a performance center, and a permanent stadium, each on a different clock
• Kept standards consistent so decisions made for one facility would not have to be unwound at the next
• Advised on current needs while planning for the technology the club will need at full scale

“I have nothing but real admiration for Executech and your thinking and thought process and willingness to work with us on what we needed in the space, from conference rooms to networking to bringing in the latest technology.” — Emily Burr, Chief of Staff

Outcomes

• Growth without IT drag — the club scaled its front office rapidly with technology that kept pace rather than becoming the bottleneck
• A working headquarters in a challenging building — modern network, collaboration, and conference room technology delivered inside a late-1800s downtown structure
• A compressed move executed with minimal disruption — six to eight weeks, across a holiday season, without losing the date
• A support experience built for speed — fast response with clear escalation when something needs to move up
• A partnership grounded in candid dialogue — honest recommendations on what makes sense now and what should wait

“I think from a day-to-day perspective, Executech has made our life smooth, and I am forever grateful for that.” — Emily Burr, Chief of Staff