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BANKING
• Mountain America Credit Union, based in Sandy, has appointed Rob Brough as senior vice president and chief marketing officer. Brough succeeds Sharon Cook, who recently retired after more than 15 years at the credit union. Brough has nearly 30 years of experience in marketing, communications and community involvement, most recently serving as executive vice president of corporate marketing and communications at Zions Bank, where he led marketing, branding, digital strategy and community outreach across a 10-state region. Mountain America has more than 100 branches across a multi-state region, and more than 50,000 ATMs.
DIRECT SALES
• Nu Skin Enterprises, a Provo-based beauty and wellness products company, has appointed James Winett to its board of directors. He was elected by shareholders at the annual shareholder meeting for the company. Winett is a managing member of SIZE Advisory Group, a business advisory firm he co-founded in 2020. At SIZE, he provides consulting services to companies ranging from early-stage startups to large enterprises. Prior to SIZE, Winett was a consultant at other firms that he founded, including DPAA Group Inc., where he served as a managing member from 2014 to 2023. Winett began his career at Price Waterhouse LLP, where he served in both the audit and assurance group and the corporate recovery and business turnaround services group.
LAW
• Spencer Fane LLP has hired Brent R. Baker as a partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice group and hired Alex Baker as an associate in that practice group at the firm’s Salt Lake City office. Brent Baker is a former senior special counsel to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He represents a variety of clients, including global companies, board committees, executives and registered entities before the SEC, U.S. Department of Justice, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and other federal and state securities and commerce agencies. He recently served as chair and commissioner of the Utah State Securities Commission, among other community and industry involvements. Alex Baker has experience managing SEC investigations and securities-related litigation. He concentrates his practice on complex commercial litigation and white-collar criminal and regulatory matters, and he has represented clients in the digital asset space, including cryptocurrency, as well as litigating disputes on behalf of social media influencers and other online personalities. Both Brent and Alex Baker earned bachelor’s degrees at the University of Utah.
TECHNOLOGY
• Pluralsight, a Draper-based technology workforce development company, has named Mathew Ellis as chief financial officer. He will oversee all aspects of Pluralsight’s financial, accounting and strategy functions. Mathew has over 15 years of financial experience, most recently serving as CFO for Accel Entertainment, overseeing areas like financial reporting, treasury, accounting practices and investor relations. He also acted as Accel Entertainment’s senior vice president, responsible for financial planning and analysis as well as mergers and acquisitions strategy, and vice president of operational strategy. He also served as vice president of financial planning and analysis for Transworlds Systems Inc. and spent over two years with Deloitte as an audit senior.
