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FisherBroyles, LLP, the first and world’s largest distributed law firm partnership, is pleased to announce the addition of Gregory R. Lunt as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property (IP) Practice Group. Mr. Lunt is based in the firm&rsqu ...

Ben Holzman has been named as Chief Operating Officer of MX, the leader in actionable financial data. With nearly 25 years of experience in high-tech management positions, Holzman's previous companies include Bain Capital Ventures, Iron Mountain, ObserveI ...

Paul Taylor, an attorney with Ray Quinney & Nebeker, has been elected chair of the U.S. Bar's European Patent Office (EPO) Liaison Council. For over 30 years, the council has met annually with officials of the EPO, representing U.S. users of the EPO&rsquo ...

Visit Salt Lake (VSL) recently posthumously presented its annual Tourism Achievement Award to Bob Farrington, who died in April. The award is VSL's highest honor, presented annually to honor members and community organizations for “outstanding efforts in ...

Sera Prognostics Inc., Salt Lake City, has hired Dr. Garrett K. Lam as chief medical officer. He takes over the new role Sept. 4. He will direct all clinical development activities for the company. Lam currently is a professor of obstetrics and gynecology ...

The Utah Technology Council has announced that the keynote speaker for its 2018 Hall of Fame gala will be Reed Hastings, CEO and co-founder of Netflix. The gala is scheduled for Oct. 12 at the Salt Palace Convention Center.

Sorenson Capital, Salt Lake City, has promoted Matt Marsh to managing director. He has played a foundational role in the firm's success with technology and growth equity investments since joining in 2011. He will continue to help drive the firm's growth a ...

Kathy Ricci is a new business advisor for the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program at Salt Lake Community College. Ricci previously spent 21 years as the CEO of the Utah Microenterprise Loan Fund (UMLF), a nonprofit community development financia ...

Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski has been selected as chair of the U.S. Conference of Mayors Alliance for a Sustainable Future. She has held the position of vice chair since the fall of 2016 when the alliance was created. The U.S. Conference of Mayor ...

The board of directors of the proposed Noorda College of Osteopathic Medicine (NCOM), Provo, has appointed John J. Dougherty as founding dean and chief academic officer. He will shepherd the college through the accreditation process and identify and recru ...

America First Credit Union has named Tiana Beck as service center manager of the South Jordan Harmons branch. Beck began her career at America First in 2014 as a teller at the South Jordan 10400 South branch and, for two years, she worked her way up throu ...

Momentum Indoor Climbing has promoted Christopher Healy to general manager of Momentum Lehi, a bouldering gym that offers 20,000 square feet of climbing and a training center. Healy's duties include overseeing Momentum Lehi’s business development, o ...

Biovation Labs, a Salt Lake City-based natural products and supplement contract manufacturer, has hired Ashantai Yungai as quality and compliance manager. Yungai previously was a synthetic organic chemist at Myriad Pharmaceuticals, which then became Myrex ...

The Governor's Office of Economic Development (GOED) has named Rebecca Dilg as the rural program outreach manager. Dilg’s primary tasks include outreach and support of the governor's 25k Jobs initiative, which aims to add 25,000 additional jobs in rural U ...

JJUMPP Software, Lehi, has hired Dave Bascom as head of marketing. Bascom has two decades of business experience at startup companies and marketing agencies, most recently serving two years as vice president of marketing at real estate tech startup Homie. ...

Foresight Wealth Management, a Draper-based wealth management and financial services company, has hired Chris Light as a partner and wealth advisor. Light will focus on providing private wealth management services to individuals and businesses, as well as ...

Bank of Utah, Ogden, has appointed Carlos A. Lopez as a mortgage consultant based in the bank's Orem branch. Lopez has worked as a mortgage consultant for 12 years in Arizona, Idaho and Utah. He holds a degree in international studies from Brigham Young U ...

Salt Lake Community College has hired Erika Shubin for the newly created position of director of strategic communications and public relations. SLCC added the position to the Institutional Advancement division to lead and coordinate a communications and P ...

Rhett Long has been named publisher of the Standard-Examiner in Ogden. Long is publisher of the Daily Herald in Provo. Both papers are now owned by Ogden Newspapers of Utah. Long previously was publisher and president of The Spectrum in St. George and Spe ...

Shane Ware has been promoted to chief financial officer. Ware has been with Modere for 10 years in various roles, most recently as vice president of finance for the Japan market. Prior to Modere, he worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Ware has an MBA from t ...