People On The Move

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Greg Butterfield

LGCY Power, Lehi, has named Greg Butterfield as chairman of the board. Butterfield has more than 25 years of strategic experience. He has served in multiple executive, board and advisory roles, including with Omniture, and as chief executive officer of so ...

Mark Watkins

Purple Innovation LLC, Alpine, has named Mark Watkins as chief financial officer. Watkins most recently served as the CFO of Traeger Pellet Grills. He previously held various positions of increasing responsibility at Nu Skin Enterprises, including vice pr ...

Mark Burghardt

Dorsey & Whitney LLP has announced that Mark Burghardt has joined the firm's Regulatory Affairs practice group and Energy and Mining and Natural Resources industry groups in Salt Lake City as a partner. Burghardt represents clients in the energy and n ...

David Lemperle

SelectHealth has named David Lemperle as vice president of sales and agent relations. He will be responsible for sales strategy and cultivating agent relationships. He will also serve as a member of the SelectHealth executive team. Lemperle has more than ...

Tyler Bloomquist

Downtown SLC has named Tyler Bloomquist as artistic director. Bloomquist has experience as a design and artist. His experience includes instructing students of the University of Utah's Multidisciplinary Design department and contributing to USUO's marketi ...

David Berkus

David "Dave" Berkus has joined the advisory board of Park City-based Lexicon Travel Technologies. Berkus is an investor in early-stage ventures, having made more than 161 investments. He currently manages six early-stage funds.

David Nau

Azova Health, Alpine, has hired David Nau as executive vice president of digital innovation. Nau has more than 25 years' experience as a pharmacist, innovator, educator and executive leader. He previously served as the founding president of Pharmacy Quali ...

Peggy Hunt

Peggy Hunt has been appointed to the Utah Securities Commission by Gov. Gary Herbert. She will serve a four-year term on the commission, which sets policy, adopts rules and adjudicates enforcement actions brought by the division. Hunt is a partner in the ...

Justin Schaper

Empiric Health, Salt Lake City, has hired Justin Schaper as chief technology officer. He will lead the design and creation of innovative software applications designed to help health systems identify variations in procedures and improve outcomes using pro ...

Kevin Murray

Kevin Murray has been elected a fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers (ACOEL). ACOEL is a professional association of lawyers who practice in the field of environmental law, with admittance by invitation only. One of three Utah members, ...

Marcus Flinders

Marcus Flinders, owner of Zippy Shell Salt Lake City and president of ZDHF Holdings LLC, has recently signed a deal to open locations in Boston, Miami, Indianapolis and Detroit. Flinders will manage the launch of each market alongside local market teams. ...

Jackie Biskupski

Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski has been selected for the 2018 class of Daniel Rose Land Use Fellows by the Rose Center for Public Leadership. Biskupski and mayors from three other cities will participate in a year-long program during which the Urba ...

Dr. Myron Wentz

After making a donation to North Central College in Napierville, Illinois, for its new science center, the center has been named for USANA Health Sciences founder Dr. Myron Wentz. The $60 million Wentz Science Center encompasses 125,000 square feet and ha ...

Clark Cahoon

The Governor's Office of Economic Development (GOED) has appointed Clark Cahoon as the life science cluster director. Cahoon will retain his role and responsibilities as fund manager for the Technology Commercialization and Innovation Program (TCIP). Caho ...

Misty Shafer

Envoy Mortgage, based in Houston, has opened a branch at 13894 S. Bangerter Parkway, Suite 200, Draper. The brand manager is Misty Shafer. She has been aided first-time home buyers and borrowers for the past 13 years, serving in loan officer and branch ma ...

Kimberly Simms

HireVue, the leading provider of video intelligence solutions that help top global companies identify the best talent, faster, has appointed Kimberly Simms as senior vice president, customer success. Leading HireVue's global customer success team, Simms i ...

Chad Christensen has joined Mountain West Commercial Real Estate as the Director of Research and GIS. He gathers, manages and analyzes real estate market information in MW's proporietary software. Chad has a strong background in GIS, providing sophisticat ...

Elizabeth Carver

The Utah Department of Workforce Services (DWS) has selected Elizabeth Carver as the new director of its Workforce Program, Policy and Training Division. Carver has been part of DWS for 19 years, most recently serving as a program manager for the departme ...

Brent R. Baker

Brent R. Baker has been elected chairman of the Utah Securities Commission. Baker is a director and shareholder at Clyde Snow & Sessions, where he is a member of the firm’s government and independent investigations and white-collar crime practic ...

Justin Parnell

McKinnon-Mulherin Inc., Salt Lake City, has promoted Justin Parnell to team leader for the Technical Writing and Sales & Business Communication divisions. Parnell joined the company in December 2015 and has worked on proposals, grants, training projec ...