Public Servant · Business Executive · Speaker & Philanthropist
Tracie Crites
Tracie Crites is an American politician and business executive. She is the Mayor of Frederick, Colorado, first elected in April 2020 in a six-candidate race and re-elected unopposed in 2024. She is Frederick’s first twice-elected woman mayor. Her current term runs through November 2028.
Crites describes the role as public service rather than politics, and she has served Frederick in appointed and elected civic roles continuously since 2016.
Civic Leadership
Crites leads the Town of Frederick, a growing Statutory Town in Weld County on Colorado’s Front Range, part of the Carbon Valley region alongside Firestone and Dacono. The municipality of more than 18,000 residents operates on an $85 million annual budget with 187 employees and more than 400 volunteers, and Crites chairs its Board of Trustees, whose six trustees are elected at large.
During her tenure, Frederick partnered with the Colorado Governor’s office on Agilent Technologies’ $725 million biomedical manufacturing campus expansion, one of the largest economic investments in Northern Colorado. The town also secured the Silverstone Marketplace retail development anchored by a King Soopers Marketplace, launched the Carbon Valley and Mead Victim Services Program with local police departments, and acquired Frederick’s historic 1947 championship gymnasium as a downtown home for youth sports and recreation.
Polco, a civic engagement platform that benchmarks resident sentiment across more than 100 U.S. cities, awarded the town its national “Voice of the People” honor for transparency and community engagement during her administration.
Business Career
Mayor
Frederick, Colorado 2020-2028
Business Executive
15+ year career in the IT channel
Philanthropist
Lifelong nonprofit advocate
Crites built a 15-year career in the IT channel, the ecosystem of managed service providers, technology vendors, and distributors that delivers software and services to businesses. At Breach Secure Now, a cybersecurity awareness training company serving MSPs, she was Vice President of Sales & Marketing from 2020 and Chief Channel Officer from 2023 until September 2025; the company grew to more than 4,000 MSP partners worldwide during that period..
Earlier, as Director of Business Development and fractional CMO at CorKat Data Solutions, a Colorado cloud services firm, she launched the CorKat Private Cloud marketplace and led joint campaigns with VMware, Veeam, Sophos, and Microsoft that earned Mercury 100 recognition among Northern Colorado’s fastest-growing companies five consecutive years. CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Crites to its Channel Chiefs list four times and its Power 100 Women of the Channel list twice, and Channel Program named her Global Marketer of the Year in 2024. In September 2025 she founded SALT Strategies, a brand and go-to-market advisory firm for IT channel vendors and MSPs.
Philanthropy and Advocacy
Crites is a lifelong nonprofit advocate. At 15 she raised $10,000 for the March of Dimes through school-wide fundraisers in Montana and was named its Advocate of the Year. At Carroll College she founded the school’s March of Dimes collegiate chapter and was selected as Montana’s sole collegiate delegate to Washington, D.C., where she lobbied for expanded prenatal care policy. She later secured a $1 million capital grant that launched the Seniors Resource Center’s building campaign, produced the Larimer Humane Society’s annual fundraising gala for several years and was named its Volunteer of the Year, and produced fundraising events for Project Sanctuary, a Colorado nonprofit serving military families transitioning from combat to civilian life.
Crites co-chairs the National ZIP Code Advocacy Coalition, a nationwide coalition of municipalities addressing outdated postal boundaries that affect businesses, emergency services, and tax revenue; its advocacy has produced legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
Background
Crites was born and raised in Montana and graduated in 2007 from Carroll College in Helena, Montana, with a bachelor’s degree in mass communication and sociology. She moved to Colorado after graduation and settled in Frederick. Her civic service began in 2016, when Frederick’s sitting mayor appointed her to the Frederick Urban Renewal Authority; she served as a director of the Carbon Valley Parks and Recreation District board from 2016 to 2018 and its president from 2017 to 2018 and as a Town of Frederick Trustee from 2018 to 2020 before her election as Mayor. Crites chairs the board of Upstate Colorado Economic Development, a regional economic development organization serving Weld County, and serves on the Highway 52 Coalition.
Tracie and Rhett Crites live in Frederick with their three children.
Speaking & Media
Crites has delivered more than 100 keynote and public speaking engagements and appears regularly on regional television, radio, and industry podcasts.
Frederick, Colorado — ICMA Feature
International City/County Management Association · October 2023 · ICMA profiles the Town of Frederick’s approach to local government leadership.
From Channel Champion to Town Mayor
IT Nation Community Spotlight · October 2025 · Crites discusses leading in the MSP channel while serving as Mayor of Frederick, Colorado.
I love our community of kind, hard-working people.
Tracie Crites, Mayor of Frederick, Colorado
More About Tracie Crites
Her full civic record, business career, nonprofit work, and appearances
Community & Nonprofit Work
Crites has raised and directed funds for the March of Dimes, the Seniors Resource Center, the Larimer Humane Society, and Project Sanctuary, and co-chairs the National ZIP Code Advocacy Coalition.
Her civic service in Frederick began with an appointment to the Frederick Urban Renewal Authority in 2016.
Honors & Recognition
In the News
First-ever affordable housing project opens in Frederick
Denver7 covers the grand opening of Brigit’s Village, a 40-unit intergenerational affordable housing community, with Mayor Tracie Crites on the future of the Carbon Valley.
Frederick joins Intrepid Fiber’s open-access broadband expansion
The Town of Frederick partners with Intrepid Fiber Networks to bring open-access fiber broadband to residents and businesses.
King Soopers Marketplace opens at Silverstone in Frederick
The Carbon Valley’s largest King Soopers Marketplace opens at the Silverstone Marketplace development, anchoring years of retail planning for the Town of Frederick.
Agilent selects Frederick for $725 million life sciences expansion
The State of Colorado announces Agilent Technologies’ selection of Frederick for a $725 million expansion creating more than 160 life science jobs, with Mayor Tracie Crites on the Town’s economic development priorities.
In the Community
Everything is better in Frederick.
