On the Job – March 9, 2012

NONPROFIT

A Child’s Dream announced Carrie Endres of Sample & Bailey has been appointed the treasurer of the agency. Endres will be working on accounting and policy implementation. A Child’s Dream was founded in 2007 to grant dreams to children who are terminally or chronically ill, injured or low income in Larimer County.

FINANCE

Ryan Yoder, financial advisor with Northwestern Mutual and managing director of The Northern Colorado/Southern Wyoming Group, has become a Qualifying member for the 11th consecutive year and is now a Life Member of The Million Dollar Round Table. Yoder also earned his CLTC certification recently. The Certified in Long-Term Care program is the long-term care insurance industry’s only independent professional designation.

Bank of Colorado announced the addition of Josh Johnson as vice president, commercial lender, to its lending staff in Estes Park. Johnson brings over eight years of lending and management experience to the bank in commercial and agricultural lending. Before coming to Bank of Colorado, Johnson managed the commercial and agricultural loan portfolio in Lincoln, Neb., for Nebrask Bankers’ Bank.

Jack Wolfe, senior managing director of wealth management for First National Bank, announced that Dale Cloud will be returning as the market manager for wealth management services. Cloud’s responsibility includes leading business development and coordination of private client and investment services to high net worth individuals, non-retirement plan institutional clients, foundations and 501(c) 3 organizations in Colorado. .

HEALTH CARE
Dr. Kelby Bethards joined Poudre Valley Medical Group. Dr. Bethards is board-certified in family medicine and will care for patients at the medical group’s three urgent care centers, Greeley Urgent Care, Loveland Urgent Care and Harmony Urgent Care in Fort Collins.

Sarah F. DeMoor, MD, and Lisa Young, DO, received the F. William Barrows Award for Outstanding Family Medicine Resident. The two serve as administrative co-chief residents at North Colorado Family Medicine Residency in Greeley. DeMoor earned her medical degree at Creighton University and Young, a former nurse, graduated from the Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine.

INSURANCE
Morgan Fugate, recently joined the team at Brown & Brown—Fort Collins as the receptionist and administrative assistant in order to help accommodate the firm’s growing client base. Brown & Brown is a full service insurance agency that offers commercial property and casualty, workers’ compensation, employee benefits, contract bonds, professional liability and personal insurance coverage lines.

CONSTRUCTION
Sears Trostel named Chet Nance assistant manager of Sear’s Trostel’s commercial and residential sales store in Fort Collins. Nance is a 15-year construction and industrial sales expert. Prior to Sears Trostel, he spent 11 years at BMC West Building Materials.

ACADEMICS
As part of this year’s Founders Day, Pat Stryker was recognized by Colorado State University as the third recipient of the Founders Day Medal, which honors an individual or family that has had a significant, lasting impact on the university’s history and progress.

GOVERNMENT
Firestone Police Chief David Montgomery presented awards to CSO Angela Gahnstrom and CSO Michelle Powers for work in community service programs and work in the animal cruelty investigation; Sgt. Brian Scott for superior leadership; Sgt. Neal Lucero for major crimes investigations supervision; Officer II Curtis Sasson, Officer II Kimberly Cornwell and Officer II Ray Bueno for traffic/public safety awareness; Officer II Michael Cionek, Officer II Sean Haynes, Officer Lucas Dunker and Detective Pattie Dixon for work in major crimes investigations.

BOARDS
Upstate Colorado Economic Development announced its new officers and board members. The new officers on the board include Jeff Bedingfield, chair, attorney-at-law; Scott Ehrlich, chair elect, president of Ehrlich Motors; and Tom Harem, treasurer, owner of AGPROfessionals. Board members include Mitch Anderson, president and CEO of Agland; Chris Castilian, manager of government relations for Anadarko Petroleum; Sean Conway, Weld County commissioner; Bill Garcia, Weld County commissioner; John Gates, mayor pro tem, Greeley; Roger Knoph, president of EnviroTech Services; and Tom Norton, mayor of Greeley. Three seats remain to be filled in the near future, one from the private sector and two representing Weld County municipalities.

The board of directors at the University of Northern Colorado Foundation named Cynthia Evans president. Evans was an executive professor at UNC’s Monfort College of Business from 2005 to 2010, following a 30-year career that included leadership roles at Xcel Energy, ColoradoBusiness Magazine and U S West.

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