TCF NATIONAL BANK: William C. Branwell has joined as vice president in the commercial real estate department.
COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES: Named professor John McCray as director of the environmental science and engineering division.
COUNTRY FINANCIAL: Named Derek Easdon of Thornton as a financial representative.
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO LEEDS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: Said a paper co-authored by finance professor Sanjai Bhagat on the relation between governance indices and corporate performance has been honored as one of the Best Corporate and Securities Articles of 2009 by the Vanderbilt Law School publication Corporate Practice Commentator. The paper also won the De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek Law Prize for the best paper in the Law series awarded by the European Corporate Governance Institute.
BURG SIMPSON ELDREDGE HERSH & JARDINE P.C.: Announced Steven Laman has been elected to the Colorado Neurological Institute board of directors.
FIRST FINANCIAL EQUITY CORP.: Announced Ben Mendenhall has joined the Greenwood Village office as vice president, investments.
THE INDEPENDENT INSURANCE AGENTS & BROKERS OF NEW YORK INC.: Re-elected Rick Morgan, a Colorado- based insurance marketing and technology consultant, to a one-year term as an at-large director.
FAEGRE & BENSON MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE: Selected Stephen Llewellyn and Nadia Malik as recipients of the 2009 John C. Benson Pro Bono Award.
CACTUS: The Denver-based advertising agency has hired Michael Maciolek as the agency’s art director, Drew Dahlman as interactive designer and developer, and Sarah Riddle as junior designer.
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