• Merrick & Co. promoted Robert Berglund to senior vice president.
• Cynthia Hinds, president of Lakewood-based Hinds Financial Group Inc., was named to the Top 50 Independent Broker-Dealer Women Advisors of 2011 by Registered Rep magazine.
• Morgan Keegan & Co. Inc. promoted Chris Pikul to senior vice president.
• SuviCa Inc. elected Dr. Jay T. Backstrom to its board of directors.
• Denver Health recently added Dr. Kenneth Bellian as a head and neck surgeon; Drs. Daniel Heppe and Daniel Hoody as hospitalists; Dr. Matthew Roberts as an anesthesiologist.
• Nick Ghiselli, a senior attorney with COPIC, has been appointed to the Denver Bar Association’s board of trustees.
• Maren Stewart, president and chief executive officer of LiveWell Colorado, was named chair of the board of the Aurora Economic Development Council.
• University of the Rockies named Debora Scheffe its first dean of research.
• Aha! Software named Greg Conley chief executive officer. Conley succeeds Mark Teflian, who will continue as chairman.
• Hotel Teatro selected Mark Plonkey as general manager.
• CP+B announced that Neil Riddell has been promoted to vice president, executive director of product innovation.
• Mike Osborne, chief operating officer of bieMEDIA, has been appointed to Mobile Acuity’s board of directors.
• Management Performance International announced that Mark G. Hines has joined the firm’s labor relations practice.
• Centennial Bank added Charles Holmes, as market president for the bank’s Boulder location; David Mariea, senior vice president, commercial lending at the downtown location; and Courtney Gimeno, a loan portfolio officer.
• Brinkman Construction hired Steve Rewerts as a project manager and Mike Tonniges as a superintendent.
• Numerica Corp. hired Daniel Lingenfelter as a research scientist.
• Colorado Ovarian Cancer Alliance appointed Stuart E. Bennett, founder of the Kathleen Bennett Foundation of Hope for Ovarian Cancer, and Mike Kopcha, who served as a director and secretary of the nonprofit, to its board of directors.
