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DIRECT SALES
• DoTerra, Pleasant Grove, has appointed Missy W. Larsen as senior director of government relations and corporate partnerships. She comes to the company after having served as chief of staff to Utah Attorney General Sean. D. Reyes and the Utah attorney general’s office. She is the founder of public relations agency Intrepid and MWL Communications and co-founder of the Utah Refugee Connection. Larsen also has served in many business, nonprofit and government roles.
EXPANSIONS
• InsideSales.com, a Salt Lake City-based sales acceleration software company, has announced an expansion of enterprise SaaS technology in Europe and Asia Pacific (APAC). The introduction of the Predictive Playbooks pod in Singapore will allow APAC-based companies to sync with their customer relationship management (CRM) solution and place international calls at near-zero latency and high quality, the company said.
• LifeVantage Corp., Salt Lake City, has expanded into Europe by opening for business in Germany. Available products include Protandim Nrf2 Synergizer and the complete TrueScience Anti-Aging Skin Care Regimen.
INSURANCE
• The Buckner Co., Salt Lake City, has hired Lance Butler as senior vice president over Colorado. Butler has more than 25 years of experience in large commercial accounts and his experience includes managing sales teams.
MEDIA/MARKETING
• BYUtv, Provo, has appointed Andra Johnson Duke as director of content and Ian Puente as director of operations and strategy. Duke most recently was vice president of unscripted production at BBC Worldwide productions in Los Angeles. She also has worked in producer roles at GRB Entertainment, BYU Broadcasting and Kaleidoscope Pictures. Duke graduated from Brigham Young University. Puente previously was the senior vice president of business and legal affairs at EPIX. His career also includes stints with Samuel Goldwyn Films and Sony Pictures Classics. Puente’s education includes graduating from BYU.
• Jive Communications Inc., Orem, has hired Pablo Gargiulo as its first-ever chief revenue officer. Gargiulo has more than 25 years of experience as a sales, operations and marketing executive. He previously was chief customer officer and president of global sales and services at Imagine Communications.
PHILANTHROPY
• Several Utah companies have been contributing to relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. Incorporate Massage, Salt Lake City, has offered free chair messages to support Hurricane Harvey relief volunteers and first responders and to provide income for local massage therapists who are now out of work, as part of its “Hands Healing Houston” program. Most of the company’s 23 Houston-based employees were displaced from their homes and lacked money after the hurricane made landfall. The company raised over $1,500 internally to distribute to six Houston employees in need. Incorporate Massage also contacted Houston businesses that remain open, offering discounted rates for corporate massage so the company can raise money to fund its free massage events and also pay their therapists and provide them work. Under Current Bar, Salt Lake City, will donate $1 from each sale of the “Harvey Wallbanger” cocktail during September to Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. Several bars in Texas are raising funds for the Mayor of Houston Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund. The fund is managed by a 501(c)3 non-profit, the Greater Houston Community Foundation.
• The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards is looking for Utah’s top youth volunteers of the year. Two Utah honorees will receive $1,000, a medallion and an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C., and advance to contention for national honors. The online application deadline is Nov. 7. Students in grades 5-12 are eligible to apply if they have made meaningful contributions to their communities through volunteer service within the past 12 months. The application is available at http://spirit.prudential.com and www.nassp.org/spirit. The awards program is sponsored by Prudential Financial Inc. in partnership with the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP).
REAL ESTATE
• The Taylorsville Gateway Shopping Center, 4700 S. 4000 W., Taylorsville, has been sold. It consists of several buildings that were sold to different investors and users. The former 127,000-square-foot RC Willey structure was sold to Standard Plumbing Supply. The new Starbucks and the existing Burger King were both sold to separate investors. A new pad on 4700 South was sold to Popeye’s Chicken. Mountain West Commercial Real Estate announced the sale; Scott Brady represented the seller.
• PPC Real Estate Brokerage has hired () who focuses on office, industrial and land transactions in his primary market in the northern regions of Utah. Prior to commercial real estate, () specialized in the logistics industry, brokering freight. He began his professional career as an estimator and account specialist in the commercial mechanical industry. His education includes a bachelor of science degree in communications/public relations from Weber State University.
• Mountain West Commercial Real Estate, Salt Lake City, has hired Chad Christensen as director of research and GIS. He gathers, manages and analyzes real estate market information in Mountain West’s proprietary software. He previously used GIS to provide mapping, research and media tools for Staubach Retail West, Velocity Retail and The Woodmont Co. Christensen graduated from Brigham Young University.
RECOGNITIONS
• ClearOne, Salt Lake City, has receive a 2017 Frost & Sullivan Award for “Converged Audio and Video Conferencing Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership.” The recognition stems from Frost & Sullivan's ongoing analysis of the unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) market, which cited ClearOne’s diverse video collaboration product and services portfolio for its ability to cater to businesses of varying sizes, industries, and technology requirements with a high degree of customization.
• England Logistics, Salt Lake City, has made the list of “50 Best Companies to Sell For,” compiled by Selling Power magazine. The publication’s research team evaluated applications that focused on three broad categories: compensation and benefits; hiring, sales training and sales enablement; and customer retention.
• Neumont College of Computer Science, Salt Lake City, has announced the winners of its most recent Project Showcase. The event highlights students’ technology creations. “Gemetary” by Justin Furtado earned the Audience Choice Award. Additional award winners include “Lost Light,” the runner-up in the gaming category by Kyle St. Amant, and winner Shawn McCuistion for “System Failure. The non-gaming category ended in a tie between “Wine & Dine” by Sohpie Wargo and “Hearth” by Mary Schultz, Ben Goff and Ryan Stead.
RESTAURANTS
• The 15th annual Downtown Dine O’Round, presented by Nicholas & Co., began Sept. 15 and continues until Oct. 1. More than 45 local restaurants are offering diners the opportunity to sample two-item lunches for $5 or $10 or three-item dinners for $15, $25 or $35 during a two-week span that includes three full weekends. Some restaurants will choose to put one of their staples on the Dine O’Round menu, while others may change the choice daily or weekly. New participants this year are White Horse, Fat Jack’s Burger Emporium, Rib and Chop House, Lake Effect, Carnegie’s and HSL. The Downtown Alliance coordinates the event each fall. Details are at www.dineoround.com.
RETAIL
• ATS, Salt Lake City, has hired Ronald M. Anderson as executive vice president of safety solutions. Anderson has 28 years of experience in industrial sales and most recently was president of Headwaters Roofing. He also was president of the Metals USA Roofing Division (MUSA) when the division was acquired by Headwaters. He joined MUSA in 2003 as sales manager for Gerard Roofing Technologies, was promoted to vice president of sales in 2006 and then division president in 2008. His education includes studying at Utah Valley State College and the University of Phoenix.
• U-Haul Company of Utah Inc. has announced that Magna Auto and Tire Center, 8120 W. 3500 S., Magna, is now offering U-Haul products and services. It will offer U-Haul trucks, trailers, towing equipment, moving supplies and in-store pick-up for boxes.
RURAL UTAH
• The Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) board, at its September meeting, endorsed a Rural Fast Track grant for PDM Professionals, based in Tridell in Uintah County. The $50,000 grant will help the company buy a trailer and a hydro-excavation truck to enable the company to expand its services. The $315,893 project is expected to result in the creation of two full-time positions.
SERVICES
• Ancestry Inc., Lehi, has appointed Sriram Thiagarajan as senior vice president and chief information officer and has added three people to its Product and Technology team: David Sanchez, Niraj Nagrani and Leila Pourhashemi. Thiagarajan has more than 20 years of leadership experience in global technology organizations. He joins Ancestry from Infoblox, where he was senior vice president and chief information officer. Prior roles include head of global IT at Twitter, vice president of IT at Yahoo, and leadership roles at Verisign and Ernst & Young. Sanchez joins the company as vice president of DNA product. He previously was head of product for Alexa at Amazon Lab126. Prior to Amazon, he was vice president of product and partnerships at Education Elements and director of strategic marketing at Jawbone, in addition to senior roles at Tellme Networks (now Microsoft) and Accenture. Nagrani is senior vice president of platform, having previously been global head of platforms for cloud, data, analytics, frameworks, products and engineering at American Express. Nagrani also was vice president of engineering and product at SnapLogic and general manager of Microsoft Azure Cloud and O365 Engineering at Microsoft, in addition to senior executive product and engineering leadership roles at Oracle, Interwoven and Cap Gemini. Pourhashemi is vice president of business operations and previously was head of business operations and program management for the Information Security division of Intuit. Earlier in her career, she was head of product operations at eBay and senior director of enterprise transformation at PayPal, in addition to senior roles at LeapFrog, Nuance Communications and Sun Microsystems.
TECHNOLOGY/LIFE SCIENCES
• Fortem Technologies, Salt Lake City, has hired Marty Smuin as chief strategy officer and head of development. Smiun has nearly three decades of executive leadership experience in technology enterprises. He previously served as chief executive officer of Adaptive Computing, president of Aircom International Inc., and in executive positions at Bytemobile Inc., Openwave Systems, Access Global, Access Systems, I-drive, USA Inc. and Comcast/QVC Inc.