On the Job – June 27, 2014

ARTS

Attorney Jacob W. Paul of Coan, Payton & Payne LLC, a business and real estate law firm with offices in Fort Collins, Greeley, Denver and Steamboat Springs, was elected to the Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra Board of Directors. The Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra is the oldest

BANKING, FINANCE

Erica Herman joined First National Bank in Greeley as a commercial lender in its Weld County market, which includes branches in Greeley, Windsor, Johnstown, Brighton, Fort Lupton, Kersey and Platteville. A graduate of Black Hills State University in Spearfish, S.D., she previously worked as a senior relationship manager, credit analyst and teller at Wells Fargo Bank.

DEVELOPMENT

Ashley Stiles was named director of business development in Northern Colorado for The Broe Group in Windsor, developer of a business park there. A Windsor native, she most recently was national director of project development for Roche Constructors.

EDUCATION

Gordon Jones was named chief financial officer at IBMC College, replacing Dave Giesler, who had been CFO since 2009. He previously had been CFO at Center Partners in Fort Collins for a decade, after serving there as director of finance. Jones earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley. IBMC has campuses in Fort Collins, Greeley, Longmont and Cheyenne.

Education and civil rights lawyer Valerie Simons was named director of institutional equity and compliance at the University of Colorado-Boulder, effective July 22. The newly created position, which includes the role of Title IX coordinator for the campus, reports directly to Chalcellor Phil DiStefano and has campuswide oversight for all complaints of discrimination. Simons is founder and managing member of the Education Law Group of Colorado LLC, a law firm representing students and/or their parents in federal civil rights matters. Prior to that, she served as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Education Section, where she was lead counsel on behalf of the United States enforcing Title IX and Titles IV and VI of the Civil Rights Act in dozens of cases around the nation.

GOVERNMENT

Deputy chief Greg Testa, a 27-year veteran of the Boulder Police Department, was named Boulder police chief, replacing Mark Beckner, who retired April 1 after 36 years as a Boulder police officer.

Kevin Gertig was named executive director of Fort Collins Utilities. He served as interim director since the retirement of Brian Janonis in March. Gertig’s 38 years of industry experience includes more than three decades as a Fort Collins Utilities employee in roles of increasing responsibility. He holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental health from Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

HEALTH CARE

Rebecca Craig of Fort Collins was elected vice president of the board of directors of the Alexandria, Va.-based Ambulatory Surgery Center Association. A member of the board since 2011 and a past president and active member of the Colorado Ambulatory Surgery Center Association board, she is currently chief executive of Harmony Surgery Center and Peak Surgical Management LLC, both in Fort Collins.

Marilyn Schock was named chief operating officer at University of Colorado Health’s Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland and Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, effective Aug. 18. She most recently was chief executive at Banner Health’s McKee Medical Center in Loveland. She has 20 years of experience in the health-care industry after earning a bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy and a master’s degree in business administration, both from Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

Certified nurse midwife Karen Vorderberg rejoined University of Colorado Health’s OB/GYN clinic at 1715 61st Ave. in west Greeley. She worked there from 2010 to 2012 when it was the Center for Women’s Health. Vorderberg, who also will see patients at 2500 Rocky Mountain Ave. in Loveland, earned her degree at Emory University in Atlanta and worked as a nurse midwife for two years at the Gallup Indian Medical Center in New Mexico.

Tracy Nelson, an associate professor in the Department of Health and Exercise Science at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, was elected to the Health District of Northern Larimer County board of directors on May 6 along with two other Fort Collins residents, Tess Heffernan and Michael Liggett. Nelson, also an associate professor of epidemiology and associate director of the Colorado School of Public Health, received her undergraduate degree in health and exercise science at CSU, earned a master’s degree in public health from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley and a Ph.D. in biobehavioral health from Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pa.

HIGH TECH

Thomas A. Cellucci was named chief executive at data-security firm eCrypt Technologies Inc. (OTCQB: ECRY) in Boulder. Cellucci previously was chief commercialization officer at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the White House in the Bush and Obama administrations. He also leads Cellucci Associates, a marketing firm focused on developing business and marketing plans for high-tech firms worldwide. Cellucci replaces eCrypt’s co-founder Brad Lever, who will remain with the company as chief financial officer and take on the newly created position of chief operations officer.

PRINTING

Jim Comiskey joined Fort Collins-based AlphaGraphics as sales manager. He has more than 30 years of experience in the printing industry.

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