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BANKING
• Zions Bancorporation, Salt Lake City, has promoted Kenneth Collins and Randy Stewart to serve as executive vice presidents and members of the Executive Management Committee. Collins is director of business technology, with responsibility for engineering, support and quality assurance of deposit, lending, payments and digital services systems. He joined Zions in 2002 as the ACH operations manager and has served in numerous roles in the Enterprise Technology and Operations division. He received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Utah State University. Stewart is managing director and president of Zions Bancorporation’s Enterprise Mortgage Division, where he oversees all mortgage sales production, operations and first-line compliance/risk functions. Stewart's career at Zions began in 2011 as an executive vice president of subsidiary Amegy Mortgage in Texas.
• America First Credit Union, Riverdale, has selected Rachel Draper as the new service center manager of the Washington Fields Lin’s branch, 2928 E. Mall Drive, St. George. Draper began her career at America First in March 2013, where she served at the Salem branch for more than five years. In February 2015, she was promoted to the service center lead teller. Draper has experience in accounts, consumer loans, home equities, business accounts and more.
CONTESTS
• Nominations are being accepted until Sept. 14 for the first-ever “Win the ‘W’” awards, sponsored by the Weber State University John B. Goddard School of Business & Economics. The award program will recognize local businesses for excellence in a number of areas: supply chain management, best marketing campaign, new business (entrepreneurship) and management (company culture). Nominations can be made at winthew.org. Students from the Goddard School will develop judging criteria and will select finalists and winners. One winner will be selected from each category. Finalists will be recognized and winners announced at Jan. 25 award ceremony.
EDUCATION/TRAINING
• The Northern Utah Academy for Math, Engineering & Science (NUAMES) will expand to educate 200 additional students in grades 10-12 on Weber State University’s Ogden campus. The expansion begins with the fall semester. NUAMES has partnered with Weber State for more than 10 years to provide early college education to 750 students on the WSU Davis campus in Layton. NUAMES North, as the Ogden location will be known, will make its home primarily in WSU’s Lind Lecture Hall. Eventually, the charter school will be housed in the Noorda Engineering & Technology building, which will be built to replace the Technical Education Building. NUAMES will contribute $7.5 million toward construction. More than half of NUAMES’ students go on to attend Weber State, and more than half of the seniors earn a WSU associate’s degree upon high school graduation.
• The Miller Business Resource Center at Salt Lake Community College has hired Deb Bilbao as the coordinator of the Global Business Center and outreach manager for the Goldman Sachs “10,000 Small Businesses” program at SLCC. She will recruit and manage the Executive Certificate for Global Business Management program, recruit and perform outreach for Goldman Sachs “10,000 Small Businesses,” and manage the Refugee Youth and Adult Leadership programs. Bilbao most recently served as the business consultant at the Women’s Business Center of Utah. She also was a math teacher and math department head for five years at Monticello Academy in West Valley City.
EXPANSIONS
• Go Solar Group, a Salt Lake City-based solar panels provider, has expanded into the residential solar market in San Antonio, Texas. Founded in 2009, the company initially provided solar power to orphanages in Africa. It since has scaled its efforts statewide in Salt Lake City; Reno, Nevada; and now San Antonio.
GOVERNMENT
• The Utah State Tax Commission has designated Scott W. Smith as its interim executive director. The executive director position had been held by Barry C. Conover, who retired after 45 years at the agency. Smith is a 32-year veteran of the agency and has served as the deputy executive director since 2011. Prior to that, Smith worked as the deputy director of the Tax Commission Auditing Division. A certified public accountant, Smith is an accounting graduate of Brigham Young University.
NONPROFITS
• The National Ability Center (NAC), Park City, has announced that Gail Barille, chief executive director, has transitioned out of that role to pursue new opportunities. She had been in the position for eight years. Kevin Stickelman has been appointed by the company board as interim CEO. Stickelman joined the organization two years ago and is its former chief operating officer. He has more than 20 years of ski industry and outdoor recreation management experience. He majored in engineering at two universities, one being the University of Utah, before transitioning into mountain resort management. The NAC provides adaptive recreation and outdoor adventures for individuals and families of differing abilities facing physical, cognitive and developmental challenges and supports competitive athletes.
REAL ESTATE
• The Automobile Association building at 888 S. University Park Blvd., Clearfield, has been sold by 888 Associates LLC to Clearfield 888. Financial terms were not disclosed. The 129,949-square-foot Class A office building is on 11.32 acres. It has a two-story north wing and three-story south wing. It was built during 1999-2001 and was fully renovated from 2014-2016. Vectra Management Group (VMG) and CBRE represented 888 Associates, a VMG-sponsored company that acquired the property in November 2015. VMG also represented Clearfield 888, a real estate holding company owned by Philadelphia attorney and real estate investor Victor F. Keen. VMG also secured the financing for the transaction from Key Bank’s Salt Lake City commercial banking division. Clearfield 888 retained VMG for property and asset management services.
• Maxx Properties, based in New York, has completed its acquisition of Cobble Creek Apartments, a 361-unit apartment community in Holladay. The company said it plans to modernize Cobble Creek, which was developed in 1974. Plans call for improvements to the clubhouse, all common areas and full-unit renovations. The property sits on 18 acres.
SERVICES
• Century Park Associates has named Rick Roedel as executive director of Highland Grove, an assisted living and independent living campus at 3750 Highland Drive, Salt Lake City. Roedel has eight years of experience in senior living, serving as an administrator and regional associate in the Pacific Northwest and Colorado. He previously was involved in home building.
SPORTS
• Alpine Country Club, Highland, has begun an enhancement project that includes renovation and modernization of golf course bunkers, new cart paths, and enlarging and improving the existing practice range and putting green. John Fought Design is overseeing the project, while Duininck Golf is the primary contractor responsible for the construction of the project. Course enhancements began in mid-July and are expected to be completed this fall.