KC Veio is a finance law specialist and partner in Kline Alvarado Veio. KC and his wife, Kristina, are chairing the Saturday Booklover’s Ball for Denver Public Library.
Q: Two experiences, decades apart, changed your life. What were they?
A: To help finance my college years at CU-Boulder, I spent a summer on Kodiak Island, Alaska, where I was night watchman in charge of safety for a salmon cannery. I was given two pieces of equipment to help me make sure the cannery didn’t go up in flames: a 1950s-era Schwinn bike and an antique watch clock that weighed about 15 pounds that I had to wear around my neck as I pedaled from station to station in this old, wooden building that had been built in the 1900s by the Chinese and was very prone to fire, thanks to all the fuel lines that ran through it. That experience helped convince a scrawny 19-year-old from Colorado that he needed to buckle down in law school and make something of himself.
Q: And the other experience?
A: About a month after a heart-to-heart with my mom about how frustrated I was becoming with regard to dating – I’d told her I didn’t think I’d ever find the right woman here in Denver – I was having lunch at The Palm with some friends when this very striking, well- dressed woman walked in to have lunch with a group of her friends. She had great style, grace and poise.
Q: Then what happened?
A: On my way out the door I asked the general manager if he knew who she was. He said he did, and then added: “As a matter of fact, she was asking about you.” With that, I turned right around, walked over to her table and introduced myself. We dated for a little over three years and then got married in February 2005.
