SOUTHERN COLORADO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT appointed Allison Cortner to serve as executive director of the Pueblo-based economic-development organization. Cortner formerly served as Sen. Ken Salazar’s director for the Arkansas River Region.
THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR honored Colorado State University forestry economics professor Douglas Rideout for his research in wildland-fire management. Rideout led a CSU team that contributed to the development of the Interagency Fire Program Analysis System.
THE BREAKAWAY GROUP appointed David Batstone, David Chernow, Brian Kosar, Paula Morgan and Dr. Jeffrey Woodside to its advisory board.
VECTRA BANK COLORADO named Gary Kottler vice president and business-banking relationship manager in the Denver Tech Center business-banking division.
METZGER ASSOCIATES promoted Doyle Albee to senior vice president.
EMC ENGINEERS promoted Tom Poeling to vice president.
THE DENVER FOUNDATION: Angelle Fouther recently joined the foundation as communications officer.
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT DENVER AND HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER appointed Gerald Perry as library director.
HEP C CONNECTION recently elected Mike Grube and Mike Hofmann to the board of directors for three-year terms. Hep C also hired Nancy Steinfurth as its executive director.
CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL appointed Neil Flanzraich to its board of directors.
MCWHINNEY announced that Kyle Lundy has joined as vice president of commercial and mixed-use development.
CLEAR TECHNOLOGY INC.: John Repko has joined the company as chief technology officer.
ICON ADVISERS INC. hired Kathryn McLees, Timothy Bray and Timothy Howell as regional vice presidents in its sales division.
FRONTIER GMAC REAL ESTATE announced that Dan Brownstein has joined the company as a broker associate in its DTC office.
