Severson is founder of the Colorado Young Professionals, which has a presence in Fort Collins, Denver, Colorado Springs, and Pueblo. Additional affiliates in Boulder, Summit County, Grand Junction, and Castle Rock are scheduled to launch in January 2010.

Severson started his first Young Professionals group, the Winona Young Professionals (MN), after spending a summer traveling to The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, and Malta. He was inspired by the sense of community among the people he met and sought to emulate it in his home town. Severson ran Winona YPs for two years while handling marketing, advertising, and PR for a chain of family businesses in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Severson lived in Las Vegas and worked in Composites (automotive and cycling-based applications) before settling in Colorado Springs, where he sold real estate ads for the Gazette and founded the Colorado Spring Young Professionals.

Severson is on the Colorado Springs Economic Development Marketing Committee and heads up the Sub-Committee on Social Media. He is also the founder of Sevolutions, a solution store that offers Social Media solutions, iPhone apps, new technology application/training, and general "new box" solutions for ad agency clients and interested companies.

He can be found on LinkedIn and ASmallWorld.