THE COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES announced that civil-engineering professor Tissa Illangasekare was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF KANSAS CITY promoted Mark Horan to assistant vice president in charge of the bank’s headquarters construction project in Kansas City. He joined the Denver branch in 1984 as a facilities planner.
THE DENVER TELECOM PROFESSIONALS announced that Scott Binder, senior vice president of Comcast Colorado, and John Suranyi, president of sales and service for DirecTV, have been named finalists for DTP’s Communications Executive of the Year award. The winner will be announced in March.
THE RITZ-CARLTON DENVER recently hired Audrey Strong as director of public relations, Sarah Shelton and Abeer Tarazi as senior sales managers, and Kristin DeYonker as a sales manager.
BONDI & CO.: The certified public accounting firm gave senior positions to Hsiong-Ching Chang and Stephen Saunders.
FAEGRE & BENSON LLP named Nathaniel Ford, Richard Nakashima, Heather Carson Perkins, Adam Sher, Jennifer Sullivan and Ezekiel Williams as partners in its Denver and Boulder offices.
IRONSTONE BANK named Bill Kelver as a business banker and vice president in Denver and Todd Krantz to the same position in Lone Tree.
TEAMSAI INC.: Mike McBride has joined the aviation and business-innovation consulting firm.
SPIREMEDIA recently hired Todd Clarkston, Joe Gutierrez, Justin Roszelle and Andre Turrettini as Web developers.
U.S. BANK promoted Mike DiPetro to senior vice president of community banking.
CQG: Chandy Ghosh was named chief information officer of the software company.
KEYSTONE RESORT recently appointed Brian Peterson as human-resource director.
VECTRA BANK COLORADO named Jim Friedberg senior vice president of commercial banking in Denver.
