• Jillaina Wachendorf has been named CEO of Wish of a Lifetime, effective immediately.
• The Colorado Health Care Association recently named Lacey Kneen, assistant director of nursing and wound-nurse manager at Western Hills Health Care Center in Lakewood, its nursing administrator of the year.
•Gregory G. Johnson has joined Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck’s intellectual-property group as of counsel.
• Women Impacting Public Policy recently presented Komal Goyal, managing partner of 6e Technologies, with the member-to-watch award.
• Samantha Johnson has been named media director at TDA_Boulder.
• The Denver office of KPMG LLP recently added Samantha Petersen to serve as west-region unclaimed-property-practice leader.
• Mutual of Omaha Bank appointed Brian Kreps as vice president and commercial-relationship banker in Denver.
• The Colorado Department of Human Services appointed Melissa Wavelet as director of the office of performance and strategic outcomes.
• Adam Warner, president of Key Equipment Finance, is the new chairman of the board of the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association.
• Karl Linden, the Helen and Huber Croft professor of environmental engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been elected president of the International Ultraviolet Association.
• Syntrinsic Investment Counsel announced that Alex Haun has joined as an analyst.
• Citywide Banks selected Blake Peterson to lead the bank’s growth initiatives in Boulder and surrounding communities.
• CH2M Hill announced that Ellen Sandberg joined the firm as vice president of community investment and executive director of the CH2M Hill Foundation.
• Dr. Alison “Brooke” Allen, a neurologist and owner of Roaring Fork Neurology PC and Mountain Neurological Research Center in Basalt, and Shauna Giddings Schmitz, a consultant, have joined the Colorado-Wyoming Chapter, National MS Society’s board of trustees.



