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COMMUNICATIONS
• AT&T has appointed Matthew Langer as director of sales for its Utah operations. He will be responsible for the operation and performance of Utah sales and distribution. Langer leads a team of 150 employees in more than 50 locations. Langer joined AT&T 17 years ago and has served in numerous positions, most recently as an area retail sales manager in Phoenix. He is a veteran and Marine who was stationed in California and deployed overseas.
DIRECT SALES
• Young Living Essential Oils, Lehi, has promoted Lauren Walker to chief supply officer. Walker leads the “sourcing pillar” that governs how the company obtains its products. Walker has three decades of experience with international companies, including working for Xerox as an engineer; 10 years for Procter & Gamble in supply chain, manufacturing/technical operations and quality; seven years for Johnson & Johnson as a plant manager and program manager of its Oral Care franchise; and for Amway as vice president of manufacturing.
ECONOMIC INDICATORS
• Utah County leads all of Utah in being the best market for homebuyers, according to rankings compiled by financial technology company SmartAsset. Its third annual study compared average rent and home prices in counties across to the U.S. to determine where buying makes the most sense. In Utah County, the average monthly mortgage payment is $901, while average monthly rent is $1,248 and the average home price is $316,715. Following Utah County in the rankings were Morgan, Salt Lake, Davis, Uintah, Grand, Weber, Tooele, San Juan and Emery. Details are at https://smartasset.com/mortgage/rent-vs-buy#Utah.
EDUCATION/TRAINING
• More than 120 traders from around the world processed more than $848 million in currency trades during the four-day Apiary Fund Traders Summit in Salt Lake City. Using active trading accounts given by Apiary Fund for the summit, traders began live trading each morning, shared trading strategies and developed new techniques from professional instructors and risk managers. As a group, the accounts of all traders were 65 percent to 70 percent profitable. Apiary Fund, Orem, is a private company that develops traders.
EXPANSIONS
• USANA Health Sciences, Salt Lake City, has announced it will expand in four European countries beginning in the middle of 2018: Romania, Germany, Italy and Spain. The company said the actions will increase its global footprint from 20 to 24 markets worldwide.
• Property Management Inc., Lehi, has announced that Arrico Realty and Property Management, located in the Tampa, Florida, area, has joined the PMI real estate network and is changing its name to PMI Arrico Realty & Property Management (PMI Arrico). PMI Arrico has two offices in the Tampa area and manages more than 250 properties and has two offices in the Tampa area. With the conversion of his business to a PMI franchise, Paul Arrington, principal broker and owner of PMI Arrico, becomes the regional mentor for PMI’s Florida region. After serving more than 20 years in the United States Air Force, Arrington built his career as a real estate agent and broker. In early 2008 he opened Arrico Real Estate and Property Management.
INVESTMENT
• Artemis Health, Salt Lake City, has received $16 million in Series B funding. The investment was led by F-Prime Capital, with participation from previous investors Maverick Ventures and Kickstart Seed Fund. Artemis offers a benefit optimization data platform for employers. It has raised $26 million to date, and the funding will fuel the company’s expansion through investments in thought leadership, product research and development, and executive hires.
LAW
• Cordell & Cordell has hired associate attorney Jacob E. Smith in its Clearfield office and associate attorney Jason Fuller in its Midvale office. Smith previously primarily practiced family law, but also practiced adoption, bankruptcy, criminal defense, business formation, corporate litigation, water rights, and mass torts. Fuller practiced family law and general litigation. Cordell & Cordell has more than 250 attorneys working in more than 95 offices across the United States.
NONPROFITS
• Braden Johnson has been nominated to serve on the board of directors of Needs Beyond Medicine. He also will assist as the corporate secretary. Needs Beyond Medicine is a nonprofit organization with the mission of decreasing the burden of cancer by increasing awareness, education and relief to cancer patients. Johnson is an attorney in the Salt Lake City office of Snell & Wilmer. His practice focuses on commercial finance, real estate acquisitions and banking law. His education includes a B.A.in political science from Brigham Young University.
PHILANTHROPY
• O.C. Tanner has appointed Selma Mlikota to the newly created position of manager of One Refugee Careers. Mlikota, once a refugee, will coach and train budding young professionals who have gone through One Refugee’s Refugee Education Initiative program. She will also develop a community of employers at the CEO level to prepare organizations throughout Utah to hire refugees. O.C. Tanner has announced it will support One Refugee, which helps young adult refugees in Utah make a successful transition from the university environment to full-time employment. One Refugee builds upon The Refugee Education Initiative, which was created in January 2014 and has graduated 101 students from its program and currently supports 190 students throughout higher education institutions in Utah. The One Refugee Careers Initiative will match refugees with potential employers from a network of organizations across the state and in a number of industries.
RECOGNITIONS
• Mike Kirby has been named in the fourth annual Commercial Integrators’ “40 Influencers Under 40” list. Kirby is sales and marketing manager at Gencomm Inc. Honorees are primarily young, talented people nominated by someone else in the industry; either a co-worker, friend, former colleague, or someone simply impressed by the accomplishments they saw or heard about. Kirby obtained his CTS and MBA while serving in the AV/technology industry and also serves on the board of directors for United Way of Salt Lake and a variety of committees and roles, including BOMA Utah, Salt Lake Chamber, Sandy Area Chamber of Commerce, ENG Utah, Utah Manufacturer’s Association and PSNI.
• Clay Partain, director of sports market sales at Visit Salt Lake, has been named an industry leader if Connect Sports magazine’s “Game Changers” feature in its fall 2017 issue. Connect Sports is a national B2B magazine that provides resources and ideas to professionals and planners in the sports tourism industry. Peers in the sports events world nominated Partain. Nominations were received from across the country, then reviewed and evaluated by the Connect Sports staff based on references, industry involvement and other resources.
• Health Catalyst, Salt Lake City, leads the healthcare analytics market in product capabilities, according to the recently released “Chilmark 2017 Healthcare Analytics Market Trends Report.” The report, compiled by Chilmark Research, is a review of 17 top analytics vendors. In addition to Health Catalyst’s top marks in product capabilities, Chilmark assigned Health Catalyst and two other companies its highest overall grade, reflecting market-leading performance in four categories: product capabilities, product innovation, current market execution, and alignment of the company’s vision with future market needs.
TECHNOLOGY/LIFE SCIENCES
• Verisys Corp., South Jordan, has hired Joe Montler as senior vice president of sales and Valerie Mondelli as chief revenue officer. Montler has 25 years of experience in healthcare technology. He previously led sales, marketing, strategy, data business development and data sales at McKesson and also worked at Misys, Delta Health and Shared Medical Systems. Mondelli has 15 years of experience with McKesson, leading the sales and marketing functions at RelayHealth. She also worked at Eli Lilly & Co. and then held management positions at Derivion and CheckFree Corp.
• DigiCert, Lehi, has hired Mike Ahmadi as global director of IoT (Internet of Things) security. He will help build DigiCert IoT security solutions for critical infrastructure markets, including healthcare, transportation, industrial and smart city. He is a member of the technical steering committee for the ISA Security Compliance Institute (ISCI); chairman of the Cybersecurity Assurance Testing Task Force under the Society for Automotive Engineering (SAE); and an active member of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Industrial Control Systems Joint Working Group, as part of the advisory board for the U.S. Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force.
• Ivanti, Salt Lake City, has hired Gwendolyn Smith as executive vice president of customer success and professional services. Smith has more than 20 years of experience in customer development, training and support. Most recently, she served as vice president of services and support for Instructure.
TRANSPORTATION
• Blue Beacon Truck Wash has been named Jorge Cantos as general manager of the company’s Salt Lake City location, located near Exit 17 of Highway 101. Cantos previously was a general manager trainee at Blue Beacon of Fort Pierce, Florida.
• Insurance Auto Auctions Inc., based in Illinois, has expanded facilities in six states, including Utah. IAA Salt Lake City is located at 1800 S. 1100 W., Ogden. It has auctions at 9 a.m. every Thursday.