On the Job, Dec. 11-24, 2015

BANKING, FINANCE

Matt Lewis was named vice president for commercial banking at Broomfield-based Summit Bank and Trust. He has more than eight years of experience in lending and previously was a commercial lender at First National Bank. Lewis, who will work at Summit’s Broomfield Banking Center, earned a bachelor’s degree in finance and management from the University of Colorado.

FOOD AND BEVERAGE

Eric Franecki was promoted to Colorado craft brand manager and Shane Redman was promoted to national craft brand manager at Loveland-based beer distributor High Country Beverage. Franecki has worked at High Country Beverage for seven years and most recently was on-premise craft sales representative. Redman, a High Country Beverage employee for almost four years, worked as an off-premise sales representative in the Fort Collins area.

GOVERNMENT

Kathy Partin, a professor in Colorado State University’s Department of Biomedical Sciences and director of CSU’s Research Integrity and Compliance Review Office, is leaving the Fort Collins campus after 19 years to become head of a federal office in Washington. Partin, who also served as CSU’s assistant vice president for research, was named the new head of the U.S. Office of Research Integrity, part of the federal Department of Health and Human Services. Partin received a bachelor of arts degree in history from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in molecular microbiology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

NONPROFIT

Lisa Poppaw, who served eight years on the Fort Collins City Council, was named executive director of nonprofit ChildSafe Colorado. She succeeds the organization’s clinical director, Val Macri-Lind, who co-founded ChildSafe in 1986 and has been serving as interim executive director for the past two years. A resident of Fort Collins for more than 20 years, Poppaw’s experience with nonprofit groups includes serving as Northern Colorado regional director for Manufacturer’s Edge and as executive director for the Foundation on Aging for Larimer County. A 501(c)(3) organization with offices at 1148 E. Elizabeth St., just north of Poudre Valley Hospital, ChildSafe serves Northern Colorado and southern Wyoming with outpatient treatment and advocacy for child victims of sexual abuse and their non-offending family members, as well as adults who were abused as children.

REAL ESTATE

Mark Witkiewicz was named senior vice president for commercial development and Dan Cohen was named senior vice president for community development and acquisitions at Loveland-based McWhinney. They bring more than 40 years of combined experience to the real-estate investment, management and development company. Witkiewicz previously was managing director and chief operating officer for Corporex Colorado and vice president for development at Silverman Development Co. Cohen previously was founder and principal of Urban Investment Group LLC and vice president for planning and development at Catellus Development, the mixed-use development division of Prologis.

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