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BANKING
• Bank of Utah, based in Ogden, has appointed David Pierce as senior vice president, foreign exchange manager, and named Spencer Pack as vice president, relationship manager. Pierce will lead the bank’s currency trading, risk management and international treasury strategies. He has more than 38 years of experience in corporate finance, foreign exchange and strategic consulting. He most recently served as the founder and CEO of FinnSavvy Consulting, where he advised organizations on treasury operations, liquidity strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and financial leadership development. He previously spent more than two decades at GPS Capital Markets as director of strategic initiatives and managing director of global hedging products and quantitative risk. Earlier in his career, Pierce held leadership positions at Wells Fargo, KeyBank and First Security Bank, where he specialized in foreign exchange trading and corporate risk management. Pierce also is the author of Managing Foreign Exchange Risk and The Invisible Hedge. He regularly appears as a foreign exchange expert on CNBC and has been featured in various publications. Pierce earned a bachelor’s degree in business marketing from Utah State University. Pack has more than 20 years of banking and business development experience, with expertise in commercial lending and relationship management. Pack has held various roles in the banking industry, including personal banker, branch manager, business banking officer, business development officer, commercial loan officer and relationship manager. He most recently served as a vice president, commercial loan officer, at D.L. Evans Bank and as a vice president, acquisition relationship manager, at JPMorgan Chase. He also previously worked as a business development officer at Bank of the West. In addition to his banking career, Pack has more than 20 years of business-to-business sales experience. Pack earned an associate degree in business administration and management from Ensign College.
• Sunwest Bank, based in Sandy, has named Kari Coover as senior vice president and Colorado regional president. Coover will lead Sunwest’s Colorado expansion strategy, overseeing market development, talent acquisition and relationship growth across the region. She will focus on deepening partnerships with entrepreneurs, privately held businesses, and family-owned enterprises while accelerating Sunwest’s presence in key Colorado markets. Coover has more than 20 years of finance and commercial banking experience, most recently serving as senior vice president at UMB Bank in Denver. Previously, she held leadership roles including commercial lending officer at Elevations and vice president of commercial lending at First Citizens Bank. Founded in 1969, Sunwest Bank is a privately held commercial bank with more than $4 billion in assets.
HEALTH CARE
• Recursion, a Salt Lake City-based techbio company, has hired Dr. Vicki Goodman as chief medical officer. She succeeds Dr. David Mauro, who will be transitioning from his role after approximately three years. Goodman’s experience spans executive roles in biotech and large pharma, with particular expertise in oncology, as well as experience in clinical practice and as an FDA reviewer. She has more than two decades of experience in oncology drug development and medical leadership, most recently serving as chief medical officer of Mural Oncology. Previously, she was executive vice president of product development and medical affairs and chief medical officer at Exelixis. She has held senior oncology leadership roles at Merck, where she served as vice president of clinical research and therapeutic area head of late-stage oncology, and at Bristol Myers Squibb she was a member of the oncology senior leadership team and led cross-functional development for Opdivo and Yervoy in melanoma and genitourinary cancers. Earlier in her career at GlaxoSmithKline, Goodman led development of dabrafenib from early clinical expansion through regulatory approval, and contributed to the advancement of multiple oncology assets entering clinical development.
OUTDOOR PRODUCTS
• Salomon North America, an Ogden-based mountain sports lifestyle brand offering footwear, apparel and winter sports equipment, has appointed Laura Stauth as senior vice president of sales. Stauth will oversee Salomon’s North American soft goods sales organization. Stauth joins from VF Corp-owned Vans, where she most recently served as vice president of sales, leading the Americas wholesale strategy.
REAL ESTATE
• Tri Pointe Homes Utah, based in Salt Lake City, has appointed Claire Larson as vice president of community experience. Larson will focus on elevating the homebuyer journey across Tri Pointe’s Utah communities, including in Holladay, West Jordan, Orem and Heber City. Larson has more than 30 years of experience in the homebuilding industry. Her background includes working with both local and national builders. Larson is also an active industry leader and served as president of the Salt Lake Board of Realtors in 2025.
• CBRE Group Inc., a Texas-based commercial real estate services and investment firm, has hired Brandon Rawlins and Vicente Cantua for its Salt Lake City office. Rawlins joins CBRE as a senior vice president in the firm’s industrial services line. He has more than 20 years of commercial real estate experience and most recently served as the principal broker for JLL’s Boise office. During his career, Rawlins has overseen retail, office, industrial and multifamily developments and has advised clients on site selection, strategy and portfolio planning. Rawlins began his commercial real estate career in 2002 with Smoot Commercial Brokers in Davis County, where he served as executive vice president and principal broker overseeing the commercial division. He later joined NAI West Commercial Real Estate. Rawlins was recruited by JLL in 2012 to help establish the firm’s Utah presence and has since advised clients on site selection, strategy and portfolio planning. Cantua joins CBRE as a vice president, specializing in private capital multifamily sales. He brings experience across Arizona and Utah. Cantua previously ranked among the top producers in Cushman & Wakefield’s Salt Lake City office and relocated to Utah in 2019 to expand his capital markets practice.
SERVICES
• Rasa Legal, a Salt Lake City-based legal technology company making it simple and affordable for eligible people to clear their criminal records, has announced that Frank Monestere has joined its board of directors. He will advise on scaling operations and technology as the company expands nationwide. Monestere previously served as president and COO of LegalZoom, where he helped scale the company’s legal services platform. Rasa’s lawyers provide criminal record sealing and expungement services in Pennsylvania, Utah and Arizona. Rasa Legal has helped more than 26,000 people learn what is on their criminal record and determine eligibility for sealing and expungement under state law. To date, over 5,000 records have been successfully cleared since the platform launched in late 2022.
TECHNOLOGY
• Strider Technologies Inc., a Salt Lake City-based provider of strategic intelligence, has hired Trevor Neiman as country manager for Canada and international associate general counsel. Neiman will lead Strider’s Canadian strategy to continue driving market growth, strategic partnerships and client engagement, as well as support Strider’s global legal and regulatory work, including the advancement of economic security initiatives. Nieman joins Strider from the Business Council of Canada, where he served as vice president of policy and general counsel, working closely with senior business executives and government leaders on issues at the intersection of business, geopolitics and national security. Before that, he worked as a technology and regulatory lawyer at a leading international law firm. While completing his law degree, he served as a legal advisor to a Canadian senator and to a bi-national regulatory agency. Before becoming a lawyer, Trevor worked in public policy in the Ontario Public Service and as an advisor for the Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships.
• Limble, a Lehi-based company offering a maintenance and asset management platform, has appointed Jason Penkethman as chief product and technology officer. He will oversee the company’s product and engineering teams, focusing on accelerating innovation, enhancing the customer experience, and advancing the capabilities of the Limble platform. Penkethman has extensive experience building and scaling global product and engineering organizations. Most recently, he served as CPTO at Simpro Group, where he led global engineering and guided the evolution of the company’s product portfolio. He held similar roles at Qlik and Solera.
• Block Reign Inc., an Orem-based company specializing in SaaS products that seamlessly integrate with Web3 blockchain technology, has appointed Cory Clinton as chief technology officer. Clinton will lead the company’s technology strategy as Block Reign expands its infrastructure, products and enterprise integrations built around the Gnodi blockchain. Clinton has experience in software engineering, platform architecture and scalable infrastructure. He has led engineering teams building distributed systems, cloud-based platforms and secure enterprise software, with a focus on modernizing technology stacks and delivering high-performance systems that support large-scale applications.
• Listen Technologies, a Bluffdale-based provider of advanced wireless listening solutions, and Ampetronic, a United Kingdom-based producer of hearing loop systems, have named Chris Linford as vice president of human resources. Linford has been a consultant to Ampetronic/Listen Technologies for the past 11 months as the two brands have aligned leadership, resources and over 65 years of combined experience under Allvida, a group of accessibility-focused companies. In her role as vice president of HR, Linford will help shape the culture at Ampetronic/Listen Technologies as she oversees talent acquisition, employee experience, performance management, compliance, learning and development, and total rewards. Linford is an experienced senior HR executive and people leader, with expertise in HR operations, succession planning, organizational development, and diversity and inclusion. Linford previously held senior HR and chief people officer roles at organizations across the financial services industry.