Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson has appointed Kelly Colopy as human services director for the county. Colopy returns to Utah after serving as the director of the City of Long Beach D e p a r t m e n t of Health and Human Services since 2013. From 2005 ...
MX Technologies Inc., a Lehi-based company focused on open finance, has named Michael Whitacre as chief commercial officer. He will oversee the company’s sales, revenue and customer success organizations. Whitacre has more than 30 years of experience lead ...
FireFly Automatix Inc., a Salt Lake City-based company that manufactures autonomous, hybrid and electric equipment for the turfgrass sector, has appointed Liz Hocker to its board of directors. Hocker is a former Nasdaq managing director in the S o u t h w ...
Mountain West Commercial Real Estate, a Salt Lake City-based commercial real estate firm, has added Kris Mortensen to lead its multi-family division. Mortensen specializes in multifamily and student housing properties throughout Utah and has represented o ...
Powered by MRP, a Park City-based aesthetics device company, has hired Kate Heath as chief sales officer. Health has more than 16 years of e x p e r i e n c e in aesthetics, most recently serving as senior director at Candela Medical, where she oversaw cl ...
RevRoad, a Provo-based venture services firm, has appointed Jenney Rees as chief operating officer. Rees has experience in both the public and private sectors. In the public sector, she served as an executive director in the Utah governor’s cabinet, leadi ...
American Battery Factory Inc., an American Fork-based battery manufacturer developing the first network of lithium iron phosphate battery cell gigafactories in the United States, has hired Jun Liu as chief scientist to lead and support all aspects of ABF’ ...
Salt Lake Community College has named Bob Whittaker as executive director of development and the SLCC Foundation. His more than 20 years of experience includes growing gift revenue, engaging internal and external stakeholders as partners, establishing met ...
The Utah Farm Bureau has named Jaron Hansen of Emery County as Eastern Regional manager. Hansen will cover Carbon, Daggett, Duchesne, Emery, Grand, Sanpete, San Juan, Sevier and Uintah counties. Hansen grew up in Elmo and worked on his family’s sheep and ...
Ben Johnson is SVP Relationship Manager in Utah Commercial Banking at UMB. In this role, he focuses on fostering new relationships as well as growing existing relationships by taking the lead on new credit requests, developing treasury management strategi ...
Powered by MRP, a Park City-based aesthetics device company, has appointed Brian Krzeminski as chief technology officer. Krzeminski has more than 25 years of experience in retail systems, payments platforms, web and mobile applications, and B2B ventures. ...
Utah State Sen. Wayne Harper has been named president-elect of the National Conference of State Legislatures, a bipartisan organization serving the nation’s 7,386 state lawmakers and more than 30,000 l e g i s l a t i v e staff. Harper, the organization’s ...
RizePoint, a Salt Lake City-based company offering quality management software, has promoted Paul Damaren to chief revenue officer. He will lead RizePoint’s global revenue strategy and oversee the company’s sales and marketing initiatives. D a m a r e n p ...
Salt Lake's Downtown Alliance has presented Caryn Bradshaw, managing director of Sports Salt Lake, with the Vasilios Priskos Honor Award for extraordinary contributions to downtown’s vitality, safety and livability. It was presented at Downtown Alliance’s ...
Sutherland Institute, a nonpartisan policy and educational think tank, has added Beth Akers as a feature contributor to the Sutherland podcast “Defending Ideas.” Akers is an economist and a senior fellow for the A m e r i c a n E n t e r p r i s e Institu ...
Patrick Hearst joins Cresa as a Senior Advisor. He has eight years of tenant advisory experience working with local companies to support both office and industrial transactions, advising on site selection, occupancy planning, lease negotiation, financial ...
Veteran commercial real estate executive, Michael Chappell has been promoted to Principal. Chappell has more than 30 years of expertise in commercial real estate, encompassing leasing, development, management, acquisitions, and dispositions. With an excep ...
The David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah has appointed Jen Brown as chair of the Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy. Brown succeeds Matthew Higgins, who served in this role from July 2020 through June 2023. Brown’s threeyea ...
WebBank, a Salt Lake City-based industrial bank, has announced that Jason Lloyd, its president and CEO, has joined the Utah Bankers Association board of directors. Since its inception in 1997, WebBank has originated and funded over $175 billion in consume ...
Bank of Utah, Ogden, has hired Becky Anderson as a mortgage loan officer at its Ogden main branch. Anderson began her career in the mortgage industry in the late 1980s. Her experience also includes opening a daycare center. Driven by an entrepreneurial sp ...
