August 28, 2015

On the Job – August 2015

ADVERTISING, COMMUNICATIONS

Burbridge

David Burbridge was named director of account and production services at Fort Collins-based A-Train Marketing Communications Inc. He spent the past 17 years providing national and multinational organizations with marketing strategy and communications expertise with an emphasis on franchise marketing.

Schmidt
Hammitt
Evans

Copywriter Erik Schmidt and project managers Meghan Hammitt and Trey Evans joined Burns Marketing’s Fort Collins office. Schmidt brings experience in multichannel marketing and crafting copy across many media and platforms, as well as a background managing various publication processes. Hammitt has a knack for creating new efficiencies in complex operations, streamlining processes for all partners. Evans strives to anchor projects with solid relationships.

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ARTS

Scharf

Tom Scharf, former chief executive of Denver nonprofit Swallow Hill Music from 2007 to 2014, was selected to lead the Fort Collins-based Bohemian Foundation’s music programs. He will start Aug. 31, succeeding Kristen Karabensh. She has served Bohemian Foundation for the past four years and will remain with the foundation through September, then will relocate out of state with her family.

Jalyn Courtenay Webb was named managing director of the Midtown Arts Center in Fort Collins. A University of Northern Colorado graduate, Webb has been a performer and vocal coach in the area for more than 20 years. She most recently was a sales consultant for Vera Bradley, managing retailers in six states. Before that, she spent six years as district manager for Brighton Collectibles.

BANKING, FINANCE

Ron Secrist, who retired in March as Boulder Community Health Foundation president, was named chairman of Louisville-based private investment firm Trailhead Wealth Management’s advisory board. Secrist, who also is a former Boulder city manager, will initially be charged with filling out the membership of the advisory board, which is being formed to provide the company with strategic guidance.

EDUCATION

Jenna Dunn was hired by IBMC College to instruct in the medical-assisting degree program at its Longmont campus. Dunn had been a certified medical assistant since 2011 at University Health Clinic in Longmont, and previously was a medical receptionist at Longmont United Hospital. She received an associate’s degree in medical assisting from National College in Lynchburg, Va.

FOOD AND BEVERAGE

Perich

Christine Perich, president and chief operations officer at Fort Collins-based New Belgium Brewing, will take over as chief executive on Oct. 9. Co-founder and current CEO Kim Jordan will transition exclusively into the executive chair of the brewery’s board of directors. The COO role likely will be added to the duties of the brewery’s production director. Perich was hired as New Belgium’s controller in 2000, took on the role of COO in 2008 and most recently has been handling the roles of both COO and president. She was instrumental in transitioning the brewery into 100 percent employee ownership in 2013.

GOVERNMENT

Gene Stille was named by Weld County commissioners to replace Jason Maxey as an at-large representative for the county Planning Commission. The board also reappointed Terry Cross as District 3 representative and Jordan Jemiola as District 5 representative. Each member will be in office for three years with their terms expiring on July 31, 2018. Maxey served two full consecutive terms, the term limit.

HEALTH CARE

Dr. Fred Michel will become chief medical officer at Boulder-based Mental Health Partners on Sept. 14. He previously served 20 years at AspenPointe in Colorado Springs, where he was chief medical officer and medical director since 2001. He earned his medical degree at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine in Seattle, with residency at the University of Colorado Health Science Center in Denver, where he completed both adult psychiatry and child/adolescent psychiatry residencies.

HIGH TECH

Yancey Spruill, former chief financial officer at DigitalGlobe, was hired as both CFO and chief operating officer at Boulder-based email delivery services provider SendGrid Inc. Spruill replaces Chad Varra as CFO.

LAW

Roskie

Jamie Baker Roskie joined the law office of Coan, Payton & Payne LLC in Fort Collins. Her practice focuses on all areas of real estate, land-use development planning, zoning, local government and environmental law. She earned a bachelor of arts in international affairs from Lewis and Clark College and attended law school at the University of Georgia, where she graduated magna cum laude. After law school, Baker Roskie practiced as an associate attorney in the law firm of Shaw Pittman in Washington, D.C., then returned to the University of Georgia as managing attorney for the UGA Land Use Clinic.

MANUFACTURING

John McCarvel, former chief executive of Niwot-based shoemaker Crocs Inc., was named chairman of the board and lead investor of Broomfield-based Feel the World Inc., which does business as Xero Shoes. With the move, McCarvel reconnects with Xero chief product officer Dennis Driscoll, whom McCarvel brought to Colorado as Crocs’ head of global design.

OTHER

Pete Reicks, an executive with Boulder-based Elevations Credit Union, was appointed to the board of examiners for the 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, given for organizational innovation and performance excellence. Reicks leads Elevations’ Enterprise Performance Excellence department, which is responsible for business-process management, business analysis and project-management functions. Prior to joining Elevations in 2008, Reicks held a variety of roles at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

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ADVERTISING, COMMUNICATIONS

Burbridge

David Burbridge was named director of account and production services at Fort Collins-based A-Train Marketing Communications Inc. He spent the past 17 years providing national and multinational organizations with marketing strategy and communications expertise with an emphasis on franchise marketing.

Schmidt
Hammitt
Evans

Copywriter Erik Schmidt and project managers Meghan…

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