People On The Move

Rizepoint, a Salt Lake City-based quality management software company, has named Derek Beckstead as vice president of finance. Beckstead has more than 20 years’ experience in finance and operations management, with expertise in streamlining business ...

Kestra Private Wealth Services LLC, a registered investment advisor subsidiary of Kestra Financial Inc., recently welcomed Elevated Private Wealth Advisors, a wealth management practice whose financial professionals manage approximately $325 million in to ...

Kevin Schwartz, a resident of Park City and CEO and a founding partner of private equity firm Paine Schwartz Partners, recently joined the seven-member board council for national nonprofit Hope for the Warriors, which is dedicated to restoring a sense of ...

Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, has appointed Tracy Onega as senior director of population sciences and professor of population sciences at the University of Utah. A cancer epidemiologist and health services researcher, Onega’s research focuses ...

Deer Valley Resort has hired Rob Sogard as director of skier services. Sogard succeeds John Guay, who retired in July. Sogard has spent much of his life in the ski industry. He grew up playing and working in his family’s ski-shop in Illinois and started t ...

Nature’s Sunshine Products Inc., a Lehi-based manufacturer of nutritional and personal care products, has appointed Heidi Wissmiller to its board of directors. Wissmiller also will serve on the company’s Audit and Risk Management committees. Wissmiller ha ...

Young Living, a Lehi-based essential oils company, has promoted Prasad Gankanda to executive vice president of global sales. He has over 10 years of experience in directing global business operations, including expanding Young Living into new markets sinc ...

The board of directors of Garff Enterprises Inc., Salt Lake City, has named Katharine B. Garff as chair, filling the position long held by her husband, Robert, who died in March. Katharine Garff is a board member of Garff Enterprises Inc., a director of t ...

Myriad Genetics Inc., a Salt Lake City-based company focused on molecular diagnostics and precision medicine, has announced the election of Dr. Daniel M. Skovronsky to its board of directors. Skovronsky also was appointed to the Research and Product Innov ...

Friendemic, a Salt Lake City-based company specializing in digital communication and reputation management tools for automotive brands, retail-level dealer groups and individual dealerships, has hired Denise Chudy as chief growth officer and appointed her ...

Galileo, a Salt Lake City-based payments platform company, has hired Amit Jhawar as a special advisor. Jhawar recently joined Accel as a venture partner, advising Accel’s portfolio companies and helping make new investments. He spent the previous nin ...

Ovation Up Inc., an Orem-based company focused on a guest feedback tool for restaurants and retailers, has appointed Kelly MacPherson to its advisory board. MacPherson has 30 years of experience in the restaurant and retail space, including serving as chi ...

Uncharted Supply Co., an emergency preparedness company, has hired Todd Ballard as acting chief marketing officer and Mike Dufner as chief financial officer, and expanded its Park City headquarters. Ballard most recently spent nearly a decade serving in m ...

The Utah Farm Bureau Federation has promoted Spencer Gibbons to chief operating officer. Gibbons will assume day-to-day management over operations and have a direct management function with staff. He spent the past 17 years as the northern regional manage ...

Armstrong Teasdale has hired attorney Kristin Baughman as a member of the firm’s Financial and Real Estate Services practice group in Salt Lake City. Baughman has more than a decade of experience in commercial litigation and appeals. Her practice includes ...

VIA Motors International Inc., Orem, has appointed Thierry Caussat as chief technical officer. Caussat had been serving as the company’s vice president of software and systems engineering since mid-2016. Caussat has more than 30 years of automotive experi ...

Newpoint: Safeer named managing director of Salt Lake City Office SALT LAKE CITY – Newpoint Advisors Corporation, a financial consulting firm dedicated to improving troubled and underperforming businesses, today announced that David Safeer, a cash flow co ...

Sera Prognostics Inc., a Salt Lake City-based company focused on improving maternal and neonatal health through innovative precision biomarker approaches, has appointed Dr. Thomas J. Garite as vice president of clinical sciences. Garite will work closely ...

Bank of Utah, Ogden, has hired Amy Renner Hendricks as digital content writer for the corporate information technology team. Hendricks will write and edit content for the bank’s website and assist the corporate marketing team with the bank’s annual report ...

Listen Technologies Corp., a Bluffdale-based provider of wireless listening solutions, has promoted Sam Nord to vice president of global sales. He works with the company’s partners to sell the company’s audio and content solutions to their customer bases ...