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ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT
• Jóhann Jacobs has been named director of development at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) at the University of Utah. Jacobs has more than 30 years of experience in nonprofit management and fundraising, including 17 years as chief executive officer of Ballet West. He also held positions with the Salt Lake Arts Council, Sundance Institute/Film Festival and Oregon Ballet Theatre before taking the top job at Ballet West in 1997. Jacobs also teaches in the Westminster College MBA program.
• In The Event and The Depot have entered into a partnership. The two have spent years developing their own brands and have occasionally collaborated on past productions. Kasie Rolon, a professional event coordinator from In The Event, now works on property with The Depot to assist in planning private and corporate events. Rolon will work in tandem with United Concerts to ensure that events held at The Depot are maintained with professionalism and expertise. Along with the direct partnership with The Depot, In The Event also is coordinating with the team at United Concerts.
ASSOCIATIONS
• NACM Business Credit Services, Salt Lake City, has named Shane Inglesby, of Geneva Rock Products Inc., as the chairperson of its board of directors. Other new board officers are Tyler Steenblik, Young Electric Sign Co., vice chairperson; and Erik Wright, Spectrum Engineers Inc., treasurer. Newly elected board members are DeAnna Leahy, Sunroc Corp.; Susan Archibeque, Nicholas & Co.; and Rebecca Mullins, Ferguson Enterprises. NACM Business Credit Services is an affiliate of the National Association of Credit Management (NACM) and is an advocate for business credit and financial management professionals.
CONSTRUCTION
• Calder Richards has hired Jeffery Lundgreen, expanding the firm’s structural engineering resources. Lundgreen has three years of experience. He will complete his master’s in engineering from Utah State University this spring.
• Curtis Miner Architecture, Pleasant Grove, has promoted Jay Taggartto principal architect and Dallas Nelson to project architect. Taggart previously was an associate with CMA for eight years. He graduated from the University of Utah. Nelson has more than nine years of experience. He holds a master’s of architecture degree from the University of Utah.
CONTESTS
• The Vista Outdoor Concept to Company Contest ’16 is underway. The contest is organized and hosted by Vista Outdoor and Grow Utahand focuses on new outdoor recreation products or services in the fields of hiking, biking, camping, hunting, fishing, firearms, snow sports, paddlesports, watersports or other outdoor recreation sports. A total of $30,000 in cash and services will be awarded. The application deadline is June 5. Eight finalists will be selected by about June 13. Final judging day and awards are set for June 22. Details are at http://concepttocompany.org/outdoor16.
CORPORATE
• Questar Corp., Salt Lake City, announced that its board of directors has approved a 22-cent quarterly common stock cash dividend. The dividend is payable June 20 to shareholders of record June 3. The amount is the same as the previous quarter. It is the company’s 286th consecutive dividend.
• Zions Bancorporation, Salt Lake City, has begun three separate cash tender offers to purchase up to $120 million aggregate liquidation preference of certain outstanding preferred stock and depositary shares. It is conducting the offers for each series of securities through a procedure commonly called a modified “Dutch auction.”Goldman, Sachs & Co. and UBS Securities LLC are acting as dealer managers for the offers.
EDUCATION/TRAINING
• The Utah Aerospace Pathways (UAP) program has expanded into the Iron County School District. Gov. Gary Herbert made the announcement at an event in Cedar City last week, along with representatives fromMSC Aerospace,Iron County School District, Southwest Applied Technology Center (SWATC) and Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED). The UAP pilot programwas announced in the Granite and Davis school districts in September. Iron County School District in Cedar City will expand the program to its students beginning in the 2016-2017 school year, allowing them to graduate high school with a certificate in aerospace manufacturing, preparing them for careers in aerospace manufacturing and qualifying them for job interviews at MSC Aerospace. The Iron County program will focus on metal manufacturing, as opposed to composite manufacturing of the northern aerospace industry partners.
GOVERNMENT
• Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams has selected Emma E. Houston to lead the Mayor’s Office of Diversity Affairs. Houston has served as a member of the Council on Diversity Affairs — a group managed by the Mayor’s Office of Diversity Affairs — since 2013. She also serves on several other community boards, including the Huntsman Cancer Foundation and the National Council on Aging. Previously, Houston was the chair of the Governor’s Office of Ethnic Affairs. Houston has a bachelor’s degree in business management and a master’s degree in business administration, both from the University of Phoenix. Houston succeeds Rebecca Sanchez, who retired in March.
LAW
• Parr Brown Gee & Loveless, Salt Lake City, has selected Terry E. Welch as president of the firm. Each April, the firm’s management succession plan identifies a new, qualified attorney to serve as president. Welch has served as firm secretary for the past year. He is a member of the firm’s litigation group, specializing in intellectual property, patent, trademark and complex commercial litigation. He also leads the firm’s tragic, personal injury and wrongful death practice.
PHILANTHROPY
• The Utah Jazz and six partners teamed up this season on an array of outreach programs. Nearly $300,000 in charitable donations was distributed to a variety of schools, nonprofit organizations and residents to enhance the lives of youth and families. The partners were AAA, CenturyLink, Cypress Credit Union, Your Local Ford Stores, Mountain America Credit Union and Western Governors University.
REAL ESTATE
• Woodside Homes has appointed Brian Kartchner as president of the Utah division. He will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of land development and homebuilding for the division. The Utah division has more than 35 employees and will close on more than 200 homes in Utah this year. Kartchner has worked for Woodside Homes for a number of years and was previously the senior vice president of land and operations. Prior to joining Woodside, Kartchner worked for Centex Homes in various roles, including field manager, new community manager and land project manager. Kartchner holds a B.S. degree in finance from the University of Utah and an MBA from Brigham Young University.
• New Penn Financial has hired Landon Moser as a regional manager, leading the national lender’s new branches in Salt Lake City and Las Vegas. A veteran of the Marine Corps, Moser has been in the mortgage industry for more than 19 years, spending 10 of those years running his own mortgage brokerage.
• North American Title has hired Tom Harper as sales manager at its newly opened Salt Lake City commercial office. Harper most recently handled agency relations for the Utah title insurance operation of a large, national financial services company. Previously, Harper served for over nine years as manager of training, education and outreach for the Utah Department of Commerce. His prior positions include serving as director of public affairs and government relations for the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED); as transition manager for the Utah gubernatorial transition team and campaign in 2003 and 2004; and as a political consultant for national, state and county-level campaigns. He also served on the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games and worked for three seasons as the on-field announcer for the Salt Lake Stingers baseball team. He is a graduate of Brigham Young University and holds a master’s in public administration from the University of Utah.
• Metro National Title, Salt Lake City, has hired Marlisa Bouckas a commercial escrow officer in its Commercial Settlement Division. Bouck has 29 years of title and escrow experience. She began her title and escrow career with Metro National Title in 1992.
• Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage has opened a Park City brokerage office at 1153 Center Drive, G-200. The team consists of agents Marny Schlopy; her husband, Kent Schlopy; their son, Erik Schlopy; and their son-in-law, Kevin Crockett. Previously, they were independent agents at Summit Sotheby’s International Real Estate. In addition to the agents, also moving to Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage will be Wendy Martin, director of client relations; Lana Harris, vice president of sales; Linda Howard, director of operations; and Tyler Smith, director of marketing. Marny Schlopy began her real estate career in Park City in 1992 and was joined by Kent in 2001, Kevin in 2002, and Erik in 2014. Erik Schlopy was a member of the U.S. Ski Team, a World Cup ski racer, a three-time Olympian and a bronze medalist at the World Championships.
• The Salt Lake office of CBRE has announced the sale of Landmark II, an industrial building in Salt Lake City’s Landmark Industrial Park. Tom Dischmann and Craig Thomas represented the seller, Alaska Consolidated LLC, in the transaction. Constructed in 1997, Landmark II is a 213,333-square-foot, concrete building that was 80 percent occupied at the time of the sale.
RECOGNITIONS
• Clearfield is ranked seventh and Midvale is 16th in a listing of “Top 20 Best Small Cities to Start a Business,” created by personal finance website WalletHub. The company’s analysts compared 1,268 small-sized cities across 15 metrics, with data sets such as “average growth in number of small businesses,” “prevalence of investors,” “office-space affordability” and “corporate taxes.” Topping the list was Holland, Michigan. Other Utah cities in the study are No. 21, Murray; 24, Taylorsville; 28,Sandy; 30, Springville; 33, Ogden; 38, Tooele; 44, St. George; 47, Holladay; 48, Bountiful; 54,South Jordan; 102, Cottonwood Heights; 106, Layton; 115, Roy; 130, Riverton; 132, Draper; 170, Orem; 180, Logan; 193, American Fork; 236, Spanish Fork; 299, Kaysville; 324, Cedar City; 348, Lehi; and 357, Pleasant Grove. Details of the study are at https://wallethub.com/edu/best-small-cities-to-start-a-business/20180/.
RETAIL
• CVS Health has announced that CVS Pharmacy locations in Target stores are open in Utah. They are in the Ogden-Clearfield, Provo-Orem, Salt Lake City and St. George metropolitan areas. CVS Pharmacy also operates 11 free-standing stores in Utah and plans to have 13 locations within Target stores in Utah by year-end. In December 2015, CVS Health acquired all Target pharmacies and retail clinics across 47 states. In addition, a CVS Pharmacy will be included in all new Target stores that offer pharmacy services, and Target clinic locations will be rebranded as MinuteClinic over the next few months.
• WinCo Foods has announced a new location in the center of South Salt Lake, at 2100 South and State Street. The majority employee-owned supermarket has more than 100 locations and 15,000 employees in eight states. WinCo has locations in Midvale, Orem, West Valley, Clinton, Ogden and Layton (under construction).
• Larry H. Miller Sports & Entertainment, Salt Lake City, has promoted Darren Squires to president of Fanzz Sports Stores. He is responsible for the sports apparel and merchandise retailer, which has 120 stores in 22 states. Squires joined the LHM Group in 2014, serving at Fanzz as vice president of planning and distribution. He moved into the general manager position last spring with the restructuring of Larry H. Miller Sports & Entertainment. Squires has extensive experience in finance, supply chain management and marketing analytics for specialty and e-commerce retailers. He previously worked as the director of merchandise analytics at Overstock.com from 2012-14 and as the vice president of planning and operations at Making Memories from 2008-12. He began his retail career at Payless Shoes before joining Abercrombie & Fitch. He earned his bachelor’s degree in finance from Brigham Young University.
SCHOLARSHIPS
• Western Governors University (WGU) and the Utah Jazz have provided four Utah students with a full year of tuition. Awarded during halftime of the Jazz-Los Angeles Clippers game, the scholarships will allow the students to attend WGU — an online, nonprofit university — tuition-free for one year. The recipients are Tia Wesche of Taylorsville, Melissa Tuttle of West Jordan, Jamin Pace of Lehi,and Joshua Cornia of West Valley City.
• Price Real Estate, CCIM Utah and the University of Utah Masters of Real Estate Development (MRED) collaborated to establish the inaugural scholarship category at this year’s Utah CCIM Excellence Awards, in an effort to support continued education within the commercial real estate industry. The Utah CCIM Excellence Awards recognizes and honors commercial real estate’s premier professionals for their contributions to the economy and community. Revenue made from the Excellence Awards will be allocated for scholarships, with Price Real Estate matching. Recipients of $3,000 scholarships are Elena Barlow and Ryan N. Davis. Scholarship finalists ($1,000) are Randy L. Benglan and Michelle Doong.
SERVICES
• FirstMile, Salt Lake City, has appointed Scott Riddle as operating group president. Riddle’s experience includes both operations and sales. Prior to joining FirstMile, Riddle helped to build supply chain companies.
• Protiviti has promoted Reed Belliston, Andrew Jones and Rob Rosenlund from managers to senior managers in the global consulting firm’s Salt Lake City office. Belliston and Jones will serve in the firm’s Internal Audit and Financial Advisory practice. Rosenlund will serve in the firm’s IT Consulting practice.
SPORTS
• Local entrepreneurs and mother-and-son team Laurie and Josh Snelson will be opening a new i9 Sports franchise in Lehi. It will offer soccer, basketball, flag football and T-ball for kids ages 3-14. Laurie Snelson previously was a manager at a family practice office in Texas and Josh Snelson worked for i9 Sports for two years. They plan to purchase an additional i9 territory to expand their business in Utah once their league is operating.
TECHNOLOGY/LIFE SCIENCES
• Bask Technology Inc., Lehi, has hired Phil Fraher as chief financial officer and promoted Zane Bennett to senior vice president of sales and services. Fraher has two decades of senior leadership experience within technology companies, including venture capital, M&A and international business expansion. Before joining Bask, he served as CEO, COO and CFO for Houston-based FuelQuest; president and CEO of Visual Numerics Inc.; COO and CFO of Brightmail Inc.; and held other financial management positions at Cahners Business Information Electronic Media Division, Pilot Software and Dun & Bradstreet. He also served as an executive-in-residence at the Houston Technology Center. Bennett previously served as the senior director of solution services for Dealertrack Technologies. He received his B.S. in information systems and his MBA from Brigham Young University.