On The Job – Nov 14th, 2014

ADVERTISING, COMMUNICATIONS

Madison Crowley was hired as account manager at A-Train Marketing in Fort Collins. Her role will include managing client communications as well as marketing and advertising for behavioral health clients such as North Range Behavioral Health and Touchstone Health Partners. She previously was a social media strategist for IBMC College.

ARCHITECTURE, CONSTRUCTION

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Derek Young was promoted to senior associate at RB+B Architects in Fort Collins. He joined the company in 2000 and has been a project manager for several of RB+B’s projects including  the Windsor Readiness Center, which became the first LEED Platinum facility in the United States for the Army National Guard. He also managed Casey Middle School (LEED Platinum) in Boulder, and leads the design team’s construction administration for Weld County School District 6’s Prairie Heights Middle School in Evans.

Project leaders Brian Van Way and Shawn McNichol joined the homebuilding team at Boulder-based Von’s Colorado Concepts. Van Way has 11 years of experience in real estate investing and residential and commercial real estate remodeling. McNichol has a bachelor’s degree in economics and spent six years in the homebuilding industry before becoming a health-care specialist for the U.S. Army.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Sarah Wiebenson was named the city of Boulder’s first Hill Community Development Coordinator. The position is part of City Council’s strategy to encourage public and private reinvestment in the University Hill commercial district.

ENERGY

Ron Foster, chief financial officer and vice president for finance at Micron Technology Inc. since 2008, joined the board of directors of Fort Collins-based Advanced Energy Industries Inc. (Nasdaq:AEIS). Foster has more than 25 years of financial-management and operations experience. Before joining Micron, he was CFO and senior vice president of FormFactor Inc., a semiconductor wafer test equipment company. Advanced Energy develops power and control technologies for thin-film manufacturing and high-growth solar-power generation.

GOVERNMENT

Beth Sowder was named interim director of the city of Fort Collins’ Social Sustainability department. Sowder has worked for the city since 1995, and began her new post Nov. 3. She replaces Mary Atchison, who resigned earlier this month. Sowder started with the city as a code compliance inspector in 1995 and eventually was tasked with bringing the former Neighborhood Resources Office and Code Compliance department together to form Neighborhood Services. She has been manager of Neighborhood Services in the Planning, Development and Transportation service area since 2005.

HEALTH CARE

Loveland native Dr. Peter Smith joined the University of Colorado Health Internal Medicine Clinic in the north medical office building at 2500 Rocky Mountain Ave. in Loveland, just north of Medical Center of the Rockies. Smith is board certified in internal medicine and has been practicing medicine in the Loveland area for the past 15 years, most recently through Banner Health Medical Group. In 2012, Smith was president of the Larimer County Medical Society.

Kristin Gaida joined Fort Collins-based Miramont Lifestyle Fitness as a membership adviser for its Centerra location at 3755 Precision Drive, Suite 100, Loveland.

HIGH TECH

AllSource Analysis Inc. in Longmont created a board of directors to guide the new company that analyzes images taken from satellites for customers in the financial markets, government and energy sectors. Outside directors Peter Behrendt, Robert Bunting, Ryan Carr, Richard Herring and John Metzger join the founding executives – chief executive and chairman Stephen Wood, chief analytics officer Joseph Bermudez Jr. and chief marketing officer Charles Herring – on the board. The founders are all former employees of Longmont-based DigitalGlobe Inc., which provides satellite images. Behrendt had a 26-year career at IBM before joining data-storage firm Exabyte to become its CEO and chairman. Bunting, a scientist, educator and serial entrepreneur, co-founded the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Foundation and started the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s commercialization program. He is known for creating winning business plans, including Space Imaging and DigitalGlobe. Carr was a founder and chief investment officer at Sparta Asset Management, a small-cap investment firm with some of the nation’s largest pension funds as clients. Richard Herring served as a senior executive at Ball Aerospace & Technologies in positions including CIO and president of the Space Systems Division. After 27 years with Ball, he became CEO of EarthWatch, which later was renamed DigitalGlobe. Metzger became one of the first trade editors in geographic information systems. He later established one of the nation’s first high-tech public and investor relations firms, now Metzger Albee in Boulder.

LAW

Attorney Brandy Natalzia joined the law firm of Otis, Bedingfield & Peters LLC, which has offices in Loveland and Greeley. She previously was an associate attorney with a small law firm in Jacksonville, Fla., and worked as a legal project manager.

MANUFACTURING

Peter Lindgren, president of Fort Collins-based smartphone case maker OtterBox, has been appointed president and chief executive, replacing CEO Brian Thomas, who left the company. Lindgren joined the company in 2012 and also had served as chief operating officer.

Ilse Gayl was hired as chief executive at Boulder-based Swift Tram Inc., succeeding company founder Carl Lawrence, who remains as chairman and chief technology officer. Swift Tram wants to build automated transit networks powered by electricity to carry people and things in lightweight coaches suspended from elevated guideways. Gayl became involved with Swift Tram when she was assigned to the company as a volunteer mentor during the 2012 Cleantech Open, in which Swift Tram was a regional semifinalist. After that she led the company’s advisory board and was elected a company director in March. Gayl previously cofounded OneRain Inc. and continues as OneRain’s board chairwoman. Previously, Gayl worked in software development and marketing at Longmont-based Intrado Inc., which provides public safety information systems and 911 services.

NONPROFIT

Jack Finlaw was named president and chief executive of the University of Colorado Foundation. Finlaw, a Denver-based attorney, will take over on Nov. 17. Finlaw formerly worked for Gov. John Hickenlooper as chief legal counsel and has been a part of Hickenlooper’s leadership team since 2003, serving as director of Denver’s Theatres and Arenas Division and as Hickenlooper’s deputy chief of staff during his tenure as mayor of Denver.

Former Lyons Mayer Julie Van Domelen was named executive director of Boulder-based Emergency Family Assistance Association, an organization providing safety-net services for families in need in Boulder and Broomfield counties, effective Dec. 1. Van Domelen was a senior economist, lead social protection specialist and social protection and safety-net consultant for the World Bank.

REAL ESTATE

Andy Smith joined Fort Collins-based Chrisland Commercial Real Estate Inc. as an adviser.   In his new role, Smith will serve clients in a licensed brokerage capacity while helping them to navigate challenges related to entitlement, design, and due diligence. Smith recently served eight years on the city of Fort Collins Planning & Zoning Board, the last two as chairman Smith worked in private enterprise roles that include commercial banking, turn-around business consulting, the launch of a successful Internet technology venture and chief financial officer of an e-commerce company. Additionally, Smith worked in the public sector as a downtown redevelopment planner and economic analyst.

Paul Hunter will be the first Realtor to join Windermere Real Estate’s new Fort Collins branch, scheduled to open Dec. 1 at a soon-to-be announced location. Hunter is a veteran of the local real estate market specializing in investment properties in and around Old Town Fort Collins. He recently was elected chairman of the Fort Collins Board of Realtors and just began his one-year term. He formerly was managing broker at KEVCO Real Estate in Fort Collins.

OTHER

Matt Swando was named divisional vice president of Boulder-based BI Inc., a subsidiary of the GEO Group (NYSE: GEO). BI provides offender supervision, treatment and training programs for correctional agencies. Swando has worked with BI for more than a decade, having most recently held the position of vice president for sales since 2011. GEO made the move after promoting Ann Schlarb to vice president of GEO Community Services.

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