Nagaraju “Raj” Peddapati has joined URS Denver as a transportation engineer.
Sherene Stenger, a lawyer in the Lakewood-based family law firm Polidori Franklin & Mona han, has been named to the ASIAN-PACIFIC BAR ASSOCIATION’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
DENVER SCORES, an after- school program, announced that Brandon Blew has been hired as executive director.
HYDER CONSTRUCTION has hired John King as its newest superintendent.
RE/MAX INTERNATIONAL has promoted Marnie Blanco to vice president, eBusiness, according to Kristi Graning, RE/MAX senior vice president of information technology and eBusiness.
Abbas Borghei has joined TRUEPOSITION as vice president of customer implementation and services.
Martha Schlicher, director of the National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center, will join RENEWABLE AGRICULTURAL ENERGY INC. on July 1.
Joe Blake, president and chief executive of the DENVER METRO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, will be honored as the recipient of the 2005-06 Jane Silverstein Ries Award. Established in 1983, the award is given annually by the nonprofit arm of the landscape-architecture profession to acknowledge demonstrated stewardship of land-use values and pioneering efforts to promote conservation and open space in the Rocky Mountain region over a long period of time.
Liane Heggy, corporate lawyer with Denver law firm JACOBS CHASE, has been appointed to serve on the board of directors of the Colorado Foundation for Public Health & the Environment.
Greg Francis, branch manager of U.S. BANK’s Park Meadows office, has won the company’s annual Pinnacle award, which represents the top 10 percent of U.S. Bank branch managers throughout the country. In addition, Francis was among the top 1 percent of employees nationwide to win U.S. Bank’s Top Tier status, earning him a $10,000 prize.
GERONIMO FINANCIAL, an absolute-return investment-management firm, announced it has hired Thomas Brook for the newly created position of chief operating officer, effective immediately. It also announced it has hired Timothy J. Morris and Kevin M. Starkey as new managing directors.
