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Calli Forsyth

World Trade Center Utah has hired Calli Forsyth as director of business outreach and community engagement for its northern region. As the prior business development manager at the Utah Department of Agriculture & Food, Forsyth organized trade missions ...

Alan Rindlisbacher

Alan D. Rindlisbacher, director of community strategy for the Economic Development Corporation of Utah, has retired, ending a 40-year private-sector business and economic development career. Rindlisbacher joined EDCUtah in 2019 after serving for 22 years ...

Jenny Wilson

Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson has joined the inaugural cohort of the National Association of Counties’ Familiar Faces Leadership Network. The organization is committed to improving life outcomes for high-needs residents with complex behavioral healt ...

Monica Gayden-Sadr

ChamberWest has named Monica Gayden-Sadr as director of business development and events. She has a background in sales, being employed in the hotel industry for much of her professional career, most recently as the dual director of sales at the TownePlace ...

Robert Schmidt

Robert Schmidt, president of PEG Development, recently became chair for the Utah District Council of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Utah. As chair, Schmidt will guide the efforts of a 20-person Advisory Board and a 15-person Management Committee that runs ...

Erin Goodsell

Weave, a Lehi-based company offering a customer communication platform for small business, has hired Erin Goodsell as chief legal officer. Goodsell most recently was director and associate general counsel at Qualtrics for nearly six years. Before that, sh ...

Jason Boren

Ballard Spahr has named litigation partner Jason D. Boren as office managing partner for its Salt Lake City location. Boren is an experienced litigator at both the trial and appellate levels. His litigation practice focuses on complex civil and business l ...

Dr. Ryan Jackson

The Utah Health Policy Project, a nonprofit organization advancing sustainable healthcare solutions for underserved Utahns through better access, education and public policy, has announced Dr. Ryan Jackson as its new “Take Care Utah” director. Jackson tra ...

Greta Hepworth

The Economic Development Corporation of Utah has hired Greta Hepworth as events manager, a role that supports EDCUtah’s investor events, trade shows and partner activities. Hepworth’s professional experience ranges from events to producing photo shoots. S ...

Manal Hall

Dentons Durham Jones Pinegar has hired Manal Hall as a partner in the franchising and distribution practice in Lehi. Hall advises clients on a wide variety of issues, including all phases of the franchise registration process in the U.S. registration stat ...

Abby Osborne

Abby Osborne recently was sworn-in as a member of the Utah Inland Port Authority board. UIPA is a multimodal logistics agency with a regional approach to increase utilization and expand access for commerce throughout Utah. Osborne is the board’s fifth vot ...

Rob Rueckert

LiveView Technologies, a Salt Lake City-based company focused on intelligent safety and security ecosystems, has raised $50 million in Series B funding in collaboration with growth investment firm Sorenson Capital. Also participating in the round were The ...

Zac Efron

Kodiak, a Park City-based brand known for breakfast and snacking products, has hired actor/producer Zac Efron as its first chief brand officer. He will be involved in new product innovations, brand strategy, national brand campaigns, and Kodiak’s giving-b ...

Hoang Nguyen

ULI Utah, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and education organization, has named Hoang Nguyen as chair of its new Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee. She is the managing partner of Sapa Investments (including Sapa Gastronomy Group, Sapa Investments ...

Cory Pinegar

The Parkinson Foundation has appointed Cory Pinegar as president and board member of the newly formed Rocky Mountain Chapter Board of Advisors. Pinegard, whose father was diagnosed with the disease in 2016, will work to raise awareness of the disease as w ...

Brittany Westover

JP Morgan Chase Commercial Banking has named Brittany Westover as Intermountain Region manager for middle market banking and specialized industries. Based in Salt Lake City, she leads teams of commercial bankers focused on serving the financial needs of m ...

Jeff Jensen

Blackrock Neurotech, a Salt Lake City-based company focused on brain-computer interface technology, has hired Jeff C. Jensen as the company’s first chief technology officer. Jensen is a computer scientist, roboticist, and electrical engineer. He has more ...

Mark Danielson

Nexstar Media Inc., based in Texas, has named Mark Danielson to lead KTVX-TV, KUCW-TV, MTVX-TV and ABC4.com in Salt Lake City. Danielson worked in a variety of news, sales and production positions in Salt Lake City early in his career, including at KTVX-T ...

Travis Betenson

LCA Bancorporation, a Park City-based, Utah-chartered industrial bank, and parent company Lease Corporation of America, have named Travis Betenson as chief financial officer. Betenson will lead finance, accounting and treasury management functions for bot ...

Natalie Kaddas

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Small Business Council has appointed Natalie Kaddas as its new chair. Kaddas is CEO of Kaddas Enterprises, a Salt Lake City-based thermoplastic manufacturing business serving energy, transportation and aerospace customers. K ...