DENVER METRO CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU: Named Patti O’Keefe, general manager of the Denver Marriott City Center, its 2006 chairwoman, succeeding John Gart of the Gart Cos.
ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS: Reappointed Quality Electric Inc. president Rex Wiederspahn a member of the National Government Affairs Coordination committee.
AIR METHODS CORP.: Named Mike Allen senior vice president of the company’s Air Medical Services division.
RENTECH INC.: Ronald Butz retired as chief operating officer, vice president and secretary as of Dec. 31 but remains on the board of directors.
QUALITY ELECTRIC INC.: Announced Phil Fowler joined as chief financial officer/controller.
HOSTWORKS: Added Dave Young to the development staff, Eve Fisher as project manager and Alison Hopkins to customer support.
KRG CAPITAL PARTNERS: Announced Rob Martin, director, resigned to pursue other interests.
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: Ajay Menon, dean of the College of Business, and associate professor Joe Cannon have won prestigious awards for research papers in the marketing field. Menon and his co-authors received the 2005 S. Tamer Cavusgil Award for a paper published in September’s Journal of International Marketing. Cannon and his co-author received the 2006 Louis W. Stern Award for an article in the Journal of Marketing Research.
THE COLORADO SPORTS HALL OF FAME: Announced the election of Brian Cook, president of Travel Organizers, to the board.
RIPCORD: Named Phil Odell director of client services.
CRESA PARTNERS: Dawn McCombs joined as associate transaction manager.
STUDIOINSITE: Brian Nicholson has joined the landscape architecture and urban design firm as a landscape architect
CORGENIX MEDICAL CORP.: Announced that Jun Sasaki, the representative of Medical & Biological Laboratories Co. Ltd., a company partner in Nagoya, Japan, has resigned from the board of directors.
