People On The Move

Mountain America Credit Union has hired Irwin Laroza to the SBA lending team. Laroza has experience in banking and real estate. His career began in 2003 as an analyst in commercial real estate, specializing in SBA 504 loans. He also served as a relationsh ...

Recursion, a Salt Lake Citybased clinical-stage techbio company, has appointed Najat Khan as chief research and development officer and chief commercial officer. She also will join Recursion’s board of directors. Khan’s experience in the pharmaceutical an ...

The Utah Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Initiative has named Scott Stephenson as senior advisor. He will provide technical support for the UAMMI EDA Tech Hub grant, which is focused on growing Utah and Idaho’s critical materials ecosystem. Stephenso ...

Big-D Cos., a Salt Lake City-based contractor, has promoted Laura Shivers as vice president of marketing and business development. She will work to further align marketing and business strategies to foster a culture of creativity and collaboration across ...

ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, has appointed Dr. Dan Albertson as president of the newly formed University Business Unit. ARUP, which grew out of the University of Utah Hospital laboratories, has provided laboratory testing for the U Hospital, Huntsma ...

Salt Lake City’s Department of Economic Development has announced Atim A. Enyenihi as the department’s new technology and innovation strategic advisor. She will support the implementation of Mayor Erin Mendenhall’s Healthcare Innovation Blueprint, a colla ...

Beyond Inc., the Midvale-based parent company of Overstock, Bed Bath & Beyond, Zulily and other brands for homeowners and renters, has promoted Carlisha Robinson to chief customer officer. She will be responsible for all product management and user ex ...

KeyBank has rehired Chad Blackburn as the Key Family Wealth Investment consultant for the Rocky Mountain region. He will deliver investment expertise and customized solutions to Key’s Idaho, Colorado and Utah ultra-high net worth clients and their familie ...

NACM Business Credit Services, based in Murray, has named Lisa L. Keller as president of the association. NACM Business Credit Services is an affiliate of the National Association of Credit Management and is an advocate for business credit and financial m ...

The Bountiful Davis Art Center has hired Sarina Villareal Ehrgott as executive director. Ehrgott has over a decade of experience in not-for-profit cultural leadership, strategic branding, marketing, partnership development and community engagement. Ehrgot ...

Powered by MRP, a Park City-based company offering aesthetics devices, has appointed Jonathan Nielsen as an independent director to its board of directors. Nielsen’s experience includes leading technologyenabled businesses to scale. Most recently, he serv ...

The World Trade Association of Utah has named Melanie Cox, CEO of Backcountry.com LLC, as International Woman of the Year. The honor was presented at the association’s recent Women in International Business Conference at the Zions Bancorporation Technolog ...

Sunwest Bank, based in Sandy, has hired Greg Melidonian as executive vice president and managing director of commercial deposits and payments. He will provide leadership and strategic oversight for the bank’s payments and liquidity platforms, including on ...

UMB Bank has hired Cathy Keen as senior vice president, private banker, in Salt Lake City. She is responsible for creating customized banking solutions for high-net-worth clients. Keen has more than 30 years of experience in the financial services industr ...

Lodging Dynamics Hospitality Group, a Provo-based hotel management company, has appointed Kathleen Bates as vice president of operations. Bates has more than 25 years of experience in the hospitality industry, including spending a significant portion of h ...

AJC Architects, based in Salt Lake City, has named Dijana Alickovic Rambo as principal architect. Prior to joining the company in 2016, Rambo worked at Prescott- Muir Architects, also in Salt Lake City, from 2011-16. She earned an undergraduate degree in ...

Maria Mamaril has been promoted to Assistant Vice President in the special district group at Piper Sandler, specializing in special district and tax increment financings. She works with clients at all stages of the development cycle to structure financing ...

Aly Blossom has been promoted to Assistant Vice President in the special district group at Piper Sandler, specializing in special district and tax increment financings. She works with clients at all phases of the development cycle, ranging from early stag ...

Seek Labs, a Salt Lake City-based company developing molecular diagnostic systems and novel gene therapies, has appointed Alison O’Mahony as vice president of pharmaceutical development. She will spearhead the pharmaceutical research division, leading str ...