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ACCOUNTING
• Tanner LLC, Salt Lake City, has promoted Dan Griffiths to partner of strategy and leadership. Griffiths has 12 years of experience serving private companies, municipalities and family-owned businesses in leadership development, business strategy and succession planning. He also facilitates more than 75 board and executive team off-site retreats around the country each year. He has been with Tanner for more than four years. Griffiths earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accountancy from Brigham Young University.
ASSOCIATIONS
• Jim Higgins has been accepted into the Forbes Technology Council, an invitation-only community of CIOs, CTOs and technology executives. Higgins is chief executive officer and founder of Solutionreach, a Lehi-based provider of patient relationship management solutions. The council is a network of successful peers who get access to exclusive benefits and resources, including the opportunity to submit thought leadership articles and short tips on industry-related topics for publishing on Forbes.com.
DIRECT SALES
• USANA Health Sciences Inc., Salt Lake City, has appointed J. Scott Nixon to the company’s board of directors. He joins the board as an independent director and has experience in accounting, finance and corporate strategy. Nixon retired in 2015 as a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he spent more than 31 years in various roles, including office managing partner and engagement partner over public and private companies in many industries. Nixon serves on several boards of directors, including: ProLung Inc., Deseret Trust Co., the Utah State University Board of Trustees, and two other nonprofit boards. He earned both bachelor of arts and master of accounting degrees from Utah State University.
GOVERNMENT
• Bill Wyatt has been selected by Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski to be executive director of the Salt Lake City Department of Airports. The department oversees three airports —Salt Lake City International Airport, South Valley Regional Airport in West Jordan, and Tooele Valley Airport in Erda. Wyatt will manage operations that include more than 500 employees, 1,000 contracts and an annual budget of $367 million. Wyatt has experience in both the public and private sectors, including as chief executive officer of the Port of Portland in Oregon. He also has worked as chief of staff to Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, as president of the Oregon Business Council, and as executive director of the Association for Portland Progress.
MANUFACTURING
• Dynatronics Corp., Cottonwood Heights, has announced it will consolidate its distribution facility in Livermore, California, into its Cottonwood Heights location, which will become the company’s primary distribution center for the western United States. The lease on the Livermore facility expires in December. The company manufactures, markets and distributes therapeutic devices, medical and athletic training treatment tables, rehabilitation equipment, institutional cabinetry, orthopedic soft goods and specialty patient care products and supplies.
NONPROFITS
• The USANA True Health Foundation (THF), created by USANA Health Sciences, has promoted Brian Paul to president. Paul has been with USANA for more than 12 years, most recently serving as the nonprofit foundation’s executive director of communications. The foundation has raised over $13 million since its inception in 2012.
• AARP Foundation is seeking volunteers to provide free tax assistance and preparation for taxpayers with low to moderate income. The foundation’s Tax-Aide program is in its 50th year. This year, nearly 35,000 volunteers at over 5,000 sites provided 2.5 million people with free tax help. In Utah, more than 123 AARP Foundation Tax-Aide volunteers helped more than more than 7,000 people file their federal and state returns. The program is offered at approximately 30 sites in Utah including senior centers, libraries and other locations. Tax volunteers must complete a tax preparation workshop from the Internal Revenue Service prior to working with taxpayers. Training begins next month. There is also a need for grass-roots leadership onsite greeters, and those who can provide language assistance in Spanish. Details are at www.aarp.org/taxaide or 1 (888) AARPNOW (1-888-227-7669).
REAL ESTATE
• Candlelight Homes has announced plans to build homes this winter in Steely Terrace, a new community in West Valley City off 2100 South between interstates 15 and 215. HOA Management will provide full-yard maintenance and winter snow removal, and the community will have an onsite playground. Details are at www.candlelighthomes.com/steely-terrace.
RESTAURANTS
• Tropical Smoothie Café has signed a franchise development agreement with area developer Cody Sommer, who operates six locations in Utah and will be opening four new cafes in Draper, Springville, Herriman and American Fork over the next year. Sommer is president of Mystere Holdings LLC and owner of Nevada-based civil engineering company Syntech. He opened Utah’s first Tropical Smoothie Cafe in 2013 in St. George and established exclusive rights to develop a total of 25 cafes throughout the state by 2022. Tropical Smoothie Café, now 20 years old, has more than 600 locations nationwide.
• Craft-casual sandwich shop Even Stevens has announced it will open a restaurant in Cottonwood Heights. The company has a socially conscious model: For every sandwich sold, it donates a sandwich to local nonprofits in need. So far, it has donated more than 1 million sandwiches in only two and a half years. The Cottonwood Heights location will be the company’s 17th restaurant. It has locations in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho and Utah, with more to be in Texas and Washington.
RURAL UTAH
• The Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) board, at its October meeting, endorsed three Rural Fast Track grants, each for $50,000. T&M Manufacturing, Tremonton, will use the grant to help it buy a tube-bending machine to increase efficiency and expand capability in handrail processing. The $187,000 project is expected to result in the creation of three full-time positions. Ironman Metal Salvage, Duchesne, will use its grant to help in the purchase of a shear machine and excavator to help the company grow and specialize as well as increase efficiency in salvaging scrap metal. The $250,000 project is expected to result in one new full-time position. Steele Fine Art, Helper, was endorsed for a grant to help the company buy a building to expand its services. One new full-time position is expected to result from the $145,000 project.
SERVICES
• Stork, a Fluor company, has opened a new industrial maintenance service center at 1905 S. Fremont Drive, Salt Lake City. The center will hire 60 technicians and provide specialty services and industrial plant services in a 150-mile radius. Fluor is a publicly traded engineering, construction, fabrication, maintenance and operations company.
• Lingotek, a Lehi-based translation services provider, has appointed Matt Smith as chief technology officer. Smith has more than 20 years of experience in computer science, data mining and social capital, including most recently serving as the company’s director of integrations. He joined Lingotek in 2012 as a principal engineer. Smith has served as adjunct faculty for Brigham Young University, teaching and mentoring students in computer science at the BYU Salt Lake Center. Smith has BS and MS degrees and a Ph.D. in computer science from BYU.
TECHNOLOGY/LIFE SCIENCES
• Instructure Inc., Salt Lake City, has announced that Marc Maloy has resigned as executive vice president of worldwide sales. He will remain with the company through Nov. 6.