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ASSOCIATIONS
• Members of the Association of American Cancer Institutes have elected Neli Ulrich to serve as vice president/president-elect of the AACI board of directors. Ulrich is chief scientific officer and executive director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah and Jon M. and Karen Huntsman Presidential Professor in Cancer Research in population sciences at the UofU. The AACI represents over 100 cancer centers in the United States and Canada, with a mission of accelerating advancements against cancer by educating lawmakers and promoting partnerships between cancer centers to improve the quality of cancer care. Ulrich will serve as vice president of the AACI board for two years. At the end of her term, she will assume the presidency of the organization. Ulrich is an epidemiologist whose research has had a transformative impact on the global understanding of colorectal cancer, informed prevention strategies, and shaped public health policies worldwide.
GOVERNMENT
• Gov. Spencer Cox has appointed Blake Hills as chair of the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole. Hills has served as acting board chair since outgoing chair Scott Stephenson departed the board earlier this year. Hills has served on the board since 2021 and has served as vice chairperson since April. He previously spent more than two decades as a prosecutor, including leadership roles at the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office and service in the Summit County Attorney’s Office, where he focused on cases involving victims of domestic violence and child abuse. He also teaches constitutional and statutory criminal law at the Salt Lake Community College Law Enforcement Academy. Earlier in his career, Hills clerked for the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals and worked in the Utah Attorney General’s Office. He earned a J.D. from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law and a B.S. from Weber State University. The Board of Pardons and Parole determines when and under what conditions individuals serving prison sentences may be released, and it may also grant pardons and commute or terminate sentences.
HEALTH CARE
• Halia Therapeutics, a Lehi-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, has appointed Paul Jones as chief strategy officer and general manager of international markets. In this newly created role, Jones will focus on accelerating GENMOR-AI, the company’s proprietary platform for identifying genetic modifiers of disease using artificial intelligence. Jones has over 30 years of experience in life sciences, with expertise in genomics, digital health transformation, precision medicine, and scaling innovation across the public–private health continuum. Most recently, he served as CEO of the Omics Centre of Excellence at global health company M42, headquartered in Abu Dhabi. Previous roles include global head of population genomics at Illumina; CEO of genomics enterprises at Genomics England; and senior positions at Cisco, Novartis, IMS Health and PwC.
INTERNATIONAL
• World Trade Center Utah has announced a few personnel changes. Dave Fiscus has joined WTC Utah as senior director of international programming. Fiscus has decades of global trade experience, including serving as a senior leader at the U.S. Commercial Service. Chayce Bolli is WTC Utah’s new manager of business development, helping Utah companies find their next global win. He previously was global business advisory analyst at WTC Utah, a research assistant at Brigham Young University, and a project leader and remote sales specialist at Precoa. Bolli earned a bachelor’s degree in experience design and management at BYU. Max Miller returns to the organization as a senior global business analyst, advising companies after first joining as an intern and later serving as global business analyst. He also was a senior buyer and operations manager at O.C. Tanner. Miller earned a bachelor’s degree in global supply chain management at BYU.
TECHNOLOGY
• Tyfoom, a Springville-based company offering an engagement platform for employee communication and training, has appointed Steve Davis as executive vice president. He will lead the company’s growth and customer success initiatives. Davis has extensive experience in building and leading high-performing teams. He has worked with startups and Fortune 500 companies, including a global leadership role at Accenture. He earned both a bachelor’s degree in economics and an MBA from Brigham Young University.