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BANKING
• Bank of Utah, based in Ogden, has named Justin Shaw and Wendy Medley as branch managers. Both will help clients explore financial options and connect them with lending, business and specialty banking solutions, as well as lead efforts to enhance the branches’ customer experience and support continued growth and community engagement. Shaw is manager of the Redwood branch. Fluent in Spanish, he will also help expand access to banking services for Spanish-speaking community members. His promotion follows his time as a mortgage loan officer with the bank. Shaw began his banking career at Pinnacle Bank in New Mexico, where he spent five years in roles ranging from personal banker to loan officer assistant. After relocating to Utah, he helped launch D.L. Evans Bank’s Logan branch as an operations supervisor. He later served as the sole mortgage loan originator at Ascent Credit Union. Shaw earned a bachelor’s degree from Southern Utah University. Medley is manager of the Price branch. She has more than 20 years of experience in the financial and title services industries. Medley spent more than two decades with Professional Title Services and has an additional five years of experience in commercial insurance.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
• The Economic Development Corporation of Utah has appointed Jon Hawkins as a strategic advisor. He will help support community development, advise cities on Olympic readiness initiatives, and foster economic development opportunities throughout Utah. Hawkins’ experience in Olympic readiness includes consulting, governance and advocacy. He serves on the boards of the Utah Sports Commission, the Olympic Legacy Foundation and the USA Climbing Foundation, and he also chairs the legislative Olympic Coordinating Committee. In those roles, Hawkins has helped shape projects, policy and conversations around major events, stakeholder priorities and the broader impact of sport.
TRANSPORTATION
• Dibble, an Arizona-based company providing services for the airport industry, has hired Travis Biggs as project manager, airport development lead in its Airport Development Business Unit. Biggs will serve as Dibble’s primary representative in Utah, leading the launch and growth of the firm’s new Orem office and providing airport design and construction phase services. Among his duties, he will support airport sponsors with capital program planning, FAA and state grant strategies, airport administration and compliance, and stakeholder engagement, while coordinating technical resources inside and outside Utah to deliver complex projects. Based in Heber City, Biggs has more than a decade of hands-on airport management, capital program leadership and public safety experience. Since 2016, he has served as airport manager for Heber Valley Airport. Biggs also serves as president of the Utah Airport Operators Association, chairs the Utah Valley University Aviation Industry Advisory Board, participates in the Electrification of Utah Airports initiative, and is engaged with the Alliance for Financially Sustainable Airports. He has taught aviation and airport management courses to both high school and Utah Valley University students. He began his career in public safety and business operations, working as a firefighter/EMT with the Higgins Fire Department in California and as an owner/manager of a flooring business. He has also worked in security roles, including armed security at Temple Square in Salt Lake City. His education includes earning a Master of Public Administration degree from Brigham Young University and a bachelor’s degree in aviation management from Utah Valley University.