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Archana Puri

Galileo, a Salt Lake City-based company focused on card issuing and digital banking, has appointed Archana (Archie) Puri as chief product officer. He is responsible for developing, maintaining and executing new products in Galileo’s pipeline, as well as e ...

Christina Davis

The Utah Department of Workforce Services has named Christina Davis as the communication director. Davis has been a part of the department’s Communication Division for five years and has served as a strategic communication manager and public information o ...

Ned Stringham

Inside Real Estate, a Draper-based independently owned real estate software company and a technology partner to agents, teams and brokerages, has created a Home Ownership Division. It is dedicated to empowering residential real estate brokerages and their ...

Mark Robinson

Steward Health Care, a Dallas-based private, for-profit, physician-led healthcare network, has named Mark Robinson as chief operating officer for the western region, consisting of Utah and Arizona. Robinson has 21 years of healthcare experience overseeing ...

Kathy Robles

Bank of Utah, Ogden, has promoted Kathy Robles to senior vice president of mortgage operations. Robles will be responsible for all mortgage operations bank-wide, including loan servicing, shipping/post-closing and processing. Robles has worked for Bank of ...

Robert Reid

Impartner, a South Jordan-based channel management technology company, has appointed Robert Reid to its board of directors. Reid is chairman of mid-market solutions for Sage. He previously was CEO of Intaact (which was acquired by Sage), LucidEra, UpShot ...

Bryan McGowan

Advice Media, a Park City-based provider of software-based marketing solutions for medical, dental and law practices, has promoted Bryan McGowan to chief operating officer, in addition to his responsibilities as chief financial officer. McGowan has worked ...

Mark Gelder

Elevar Therapeutics Inc., a Salt Lake City-based biopharmaceutical company, has promoted Dr. Mark Gelder to chief medical officer. He will oversee the company's clinical development, medical affairs, regulatory affairs and preclinical teams. Gelder joined ...

Trevor Peterson

Tanner LLC, a Salt Lake City-based public accounting firm, has promoted Trevor Peterson to audit and transaction advisory partner. Peterson joined Tanner in 2008 and has worked as an audit manager and most recently senior audit manager. He received his ba ...

Jacob Muklewicz

Parsons Behle & Latimer has added Jacob T. Muklewicz as shareholder in the Salt Lake City office. Part of the firm’s Employment and Labor practice team, he counsels and advises large multinational corporations, local businesses, individual investors and p ...

Sui Lang Panoke

Zions Bank has named Sui Lang L. Panoke as senior vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion. She is responsible for directing a strategic vision and comprehensive DEI strategy, and delivering a plan of action to promote diversity, equity and inclu ...

Whitaker B. Irvin Jr.

Whitaker B. Irvin Jr., president and CEO of Q Hydrogen Commercialization, Park City, has been accepted as a member of the Forbes Business Council. Forbes has recognized Irvin as an entrepreneur with a wide range of experience in industries including finan ...

Jim Sorenson

The Economic Innovation Group (EIG), a Washington, D.C.-based bipartisan public policy organization, has added James “Jim” Lee Sorenson to its board of directors. Sorenson is founder and chairman of the Sorenson Impact Center at the University of Utah. He ...

Adam Stevenson

Malouf, a Logan-based producer of furniture and bedding, has hired Adam Stevenson to lead tradeshow design efforts and increase focus on customers’ experience with products in stores. Stevenson spent the past six years with Cariloha, designing retail spac ...

Holly Richardson

The Deseret News has hired Holly Richardson as editor of Utah Policy Daily. LaVarr Webb, founder and former publisher, will continue to be part of the team and a contributor. The Deseret News acquired the Utah Policy newsletter as part of its local and na ...

Kerry Nelson

BlueWind Medical, a medical device company developing minimally invasive neurostimulation devices and with a main office in Park City, has appointed Kerry Nelson to its board of directors. Nelson is a medical device investor and fund manager who has launc ...

Samuel Simmons

Axiom Medical LLC, a Houston-based company focused on occupational health services for employers and developer of the innovative CheckIn2Work app, has added Samuel (Sam) Simmons as vice president of operations, based in Salt Lake City. Simmons will be res ...

Ling Zang

Ling Zang, a University of Utah materials science and engineering professor, has been elected as the newest fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. Zang’s research into nanomaterials and chemical sensors has created better technologies to detect expl ...

Rosanne Simpson

The South Valley Chamber has hired Rosanne Simpson as director of business development and strategic partnerships. Simpson has more than 30 years of sales, marketing and events experience. She has served on several boards, including the American Marketing ...

Jefferson Burton

Zions Bank, Salt Lake City, has hired retired Army Maj. Gen. Jefferson S. Burton, an adjutant general, as senior program administrator. He will assist in outreach to the military community in addition to other duties, including aiding in community reinves ...