The American Advertising Federation's Utah Chapter has selected its board of directors. Members include Jeff Olsen, president; Julie Hackett of Citadel Broadcasting, and Jennifer Shorter of Rare Method, who will serve on the executive committee; and directors Heather Cameron-Bevan of Alan Frank & Associates; Adrienne DeHart of MediaOne; Summer Fredrickson of Orton Group; Teri Gibson of Richter7; Adam Morgan of ThomasArts; Boyd Petersen of Valley Journals; Susan Spivey of Communication Management Co.; Jason Suker of R&R Partners; Angie Wingert of Ridgeline Design; Ann Waters of Parsons Behle & Latimer and Marcia Winn of Richter7.
A. Cory Maloy has been appointed senior account director at Snapp Conner PR. Maloy has nearly 20 years of public-relations experience. He has served in both agency and corporate capacities at several companies. Most recently, he was senior director of public relations and corporate communications for a Utah-based company.
Katherine E. Judd has joined the law firm of Clyde Snow Sessions & Swenson as an associate. Judd's education includes degrees from the University of Utah and Brigham Young University.
Dr. William F. Gowski has joined Intermountain Medical Group's Intermountain Orthopedic Speciality Group. Gowski's experience includes a surgical internship and orthopedic residency at the University of Utah. His practice will be at the Orthopedic Specialty Hospital.
Joseph Hansen has been named executive director of the Utah Valley Healthcare Foundation. He assumes the lead role in directing philanthropic activities for Intermountain Healthcare in Utah County. Hansen has worked as a fundraising consultant with a San Francisco-based company and has experience in running health-care capital campaigns. His experience includes serving as director of a hospital foundation in Ogden. His education includes degrees from Utah State University and the University of Utah.
Joanna Radmall has joined the law firm of Holland & Hart as an associate. Radmall will be part of the business department of the Salt Lake City office. She served as a summer associate at the firm in 2007. Her education includes degrees from the University of Utah and Brigham Young University.
Tom Gocke has been promoted to vice president of global golf and Nick Wright has been promoted to vice president of global ASI (ad specialty industry) at Ogio. Gocke has been with the company for three years as the company's director of global golf. Wright has led the company's ASI team as its national sales manager for the past nine years. He started with the company in 1999 as key account manager and was promoted to national sales manager three months later.
Merridith Ferne, Blake R. Wigdahl and Jeff A. Kooring have joined Thanksgiving Point. Ferne is the company's chief development officer. Most recently, she was vice president of fund development for an organization in Salt Lake City. She also has raised funds for three other organizations and is president of the Utah Society of Fund Raisers. Wigdahl is the company's director of programming. Most recently, he was special exhibitions project manager for an art museum in Utah. Kooring is senior public events manager. He has worked in the event/facility and nonprofit industries most of his career.
Lee Gientke and Kimberly Przybyla have joined OrangeSoda. Gientke is director of partner development, leading the company's efforts to develop partner and affiliate relationships. Before joining OrangeSoda, Gientke was a business development manager at a company involved in online exchange for financial and other consumer-services leads. Przybyla is general counsel and vice president of strategic business affairs and will direct and manage all partner relationships and legal affairs. Przybyla previously practiced law nearly four years as an associate at a Salt Lake City law firm, where she helped clients with estate planning, trust administration, charitable giving and general business planning and advised small businesses on various company matters. She also worked in the trust and safety department of another company from 2000 to 2004.
Laurence Rea has been named vice president of operations at Great Basin Scientific Inc. Rea will be responsible for creating the regulatory, manufacturing and quality-control systems and staffing and will oversee the set-up of the company's manufacturing facilities in Longmont, Colo. Rea has more than 20 years of engineering and manufacturing experience.
David Bradford has been appointed senior vice president, general counsel and head of international development at Fusion-io. Bradford will direct all legal matters related to the company's business, including technology sales and licensing, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions and the protection of the company's intellectual property. He will continue to serve as chairman of the company's advisory board and also drive business development for the company internationally. Bradford has more than 30 years of experience in law and technology. His education includes degrees from Brigham Young University.
Riley Timmer has been promoted to vice president of finance at USANA Health Sciences Inc. Timmer will oversee the financial-reporting, financial-budgeting, accounting and tax departments. Timmer started working for USANA in January 2001 as a financial analyst. After serving for two years in that role, Timmer also took on investor-relation duties. Later, as USANA's executive director of finance, he managed financial reporting and budgeting. Timmer's education includes a degree from the University of Utah.
Rob Galloway has been appointed chief operating officer at US Synthetic Corp. Galloway also will become the company's chief executive officer following the December 2009 retirement of CEO Louis Pope. Galloway joined the company in October 1997 as a mechanical engineer and managed the company's product testing facilities. He was promoted in 1998 to research and development engineer and customer manager. Four years later, Galloway founded and managed Sundance Diamonds, the company's gem diamond business division. In 2004, Galloway assumed the position of production manager and became vice president of operations in 2006. Galloway's education includes a degree from the University of Utah.
Nikolija Bojanic has been promoted to staff engineer at Professional Service Industries Inc. and Newell White has joined the company as its geotechnical services department manager. Bojanic has been with the company since May 2007. Bojanic's education includes a degree from the University of Utah.