Commercial real estate firm Commerce CRG has formed a new team, The Richmond Group, led by Mike Richmond and supported by Dana Baird and Jeff Rossi. The team will assist owner, investor and occupier clients in making real estate decisions through consulting and transaction management services. The team has 34 years of combined real estate experience. Richmond, a specialist in the sales and leasing of office properties, has more than 15 years of experience.
Jonathan Cooney has been promoted by Macy's Northwest to regional human resources director for the company's East region. Cooney will be based in Salt Lake City. He started his retail career in 1993 as a sales associate at Macy's and has served in three other positions since then. Macy's Northwest is based in Seattle and operates 67 Macy's stores in Utah and five other states.
Joel Greer has been appointed as the new director of admissions at The Art Institute of Salt Lake City. He has experience in higher education and the automotive industry. His educational background includes a degree in psychology from Brigham Young University.
PricewaterhouseCoopers has appointed three people to positions at its Salt Lake City office. John H. Curtis has been named manager of the Salt Lake office. He will administer client engagements and supervise staff. He has accounting and business administration degrees from the University of Utah and has worked at PwC since 2001. Darin Hafen has been appointed tax manager. He will manage and supervise several corporate engagements and provide individual tax and compliance consulting. His education includes a master's degree in accounting from Brigham Young University. He has been employed at the company since January 2002. Stanley D. VanderToolen has been named tax partner of the Salt Lake office. He will oversee all tax-related client services. VanderToolen has more than 16 years of experience in public accounting, providing tax consulting and compliance services for public and private entities. He has accounting degrees from the University of Utah and Brigham Young University.
Nathan Smith has been hired as interactive designer for Richter7, a Salt Lake-based advertising, design, interactive work and public relations agency. He is a recent graduate of Utah State University.
Darrin Johns has been named to lead the sales and installations for the new Utah branch of Powerzoning, a home-cooling technology company based in Colorado. Johns previously was a real estate investor and owner of a landscaping business.
Dr. Jason Huddleston has joined Central Utah Clinic Internal Medicine in American Fork. A doctor of osteopathy and physician of internal medicine, Huddleston has a degree in statistics from Brigham Young University in addition to his medical degrees. His specialties include hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, congestive heart disease, COPD and kidney disease.
Laurie Nadeau has joined Windermere Real Estate in Park City, and Andrew Stone has been added to Windermere Real Estate-Utah's Salt Lake City-Foothill office as a sales associate. Nadeau also has earned the EcoBroker Certified designation after completing a training program on the energy and environmental issues that affect real estate transactions. Stone was formerly a sales associate at a Salt Lake City firm.
Ray Buttars has been hired as vice president of business development for the Dairy Farmers of Utah. Buttars has more than 20 years of strategic planning and business development experience in the agricultural industry. He will develop and lead strategies to optimize the current Utah and Nevada dairy markets and identify growth opportunities in the dairy industry.
Thomas H. Kemp has been named the new director of the College of Business at Western Governors University. He has 23 years of teaching and leadership experience at another university, worked in human resources at two aerospace companies and was an education consultant, and taught at several other higher education institutions. He has degrees from the University of Utah.
Lisa Jones and Michelle Call have joined Westminster College's Counseling Center. Jones was appointed director, and Call is a counselor. Jones previously worked at a pair of other university counseling centers. Call was a therapist at a rape recovery center, an agency providing substance abuse programs and in private practice. He has degrees from the University of Utah and Utah State University.
Doug Cole, a senior associate and retail property specialist, has joined NAI Utah Commercial Real Estate at its Salt Lake City office. Cole specializes in the leasing and sales of retail properties and has been active in the Southern California, Las Vegas and Salt Lake City markets since 1997. Doug was previously at another agency.
Dr. Gily Ionescu, an internal medicine physician, and Dr. Kirk Leininger, a physical medicine and rehabilitation physician, have joined the Intermountain Healthcare Medical Group. Both have their offices at the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo, where Leininger has practiced for four years. Ionescu, a native of Romania, has training in infectious disease, obesity and nutrition. Leininger, who graduated form the University of Utah School of Medicine, specializes in nonsurgical treatment of patients with back and neck pain, as well as other musculoskeletal injuries. He also treats patients with stroke, brain injury and spinal cord injury, including complications from those problems, and performs nerve conduction tests and EMGs and does Botox injections for muscle spasticity.
Ike Dietz has been promoted to assistant vice president at Bank of American Fork's main branch, and Zane Evans has been promoted to vice president at the bank's Pleasant Grove branch. Dietz graduated from Brigham Young University and began his banking career with Bank of American Fork in 2003, serving as a mortgage loan specialist and mortgage loan officer. Evans has 10 years of banking experience, four of which are at Bank of American Fork's Pleasant Grove branch.