• 90Octane LLC hired Lauren Gramling as a digital-media planner/buyer.
• Sage Hospitality promoted Jan Lucas to regional vice president of the select service division.
• Merrick & Co. recently promoted Scott Gustafson to vice president; and Robert Berglund, Christopher Sherry and David Sprenkle to senior vice president.
• Sarah Lorance of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield was named chair of the Alzheimer’s Association Colorado Chapter for 2014. Other new officers are Tom Hurley, Jackson National Life Insurance, vice chair; Phillip Heath, InnovAge, secretary; Dan Thomas, retired, treasurer; and Don Bechter, RMB Capital Management, executive committee member-at-large . New board members for 2014 include: Cari Mackay, Young Professionals Alzheimer’s Association of Colorado, board chair; Jamison Miller, Comfort Dental; Sidney Okes Jr., community member; Thomas O’Donnell, Holland and Hart LLP; Karla Rickansrud, community member; and Kristy Tochihara, Morgan Stanley.
• Solix Biosystems hired Austin Maguire as president and chief executive.
• ITC Telecom Technology LLC announced that Susan Misgen has joined the company as director of system solutions.
• Wendy Aronson has assumed the executive-director position at the Young Philanthropists Foundation.
• Norris Design announced the hiring of 13 staff members in its Denver office. Rachel Barth, Letora Anderson, Jason Fickman, Jena Biondolilo, David Thorpe, and Will Woodard were hired as landscape designers; Denny Wetmore, 3-D animation designer; Dave Jenkins, Sarah Doyle and Leanne Vielehr, project managers; and Mike Copeland, Megan Testin and Meghann Pullen were named associates.
• Otten Johnson Robinson Neff + Ragonetti PC elected Bill Kyriagis as a shareholder and director.
• Colorado Department of Revenue welcomed Laura Solano as the new director of the Colorado Lottery.
• The Opus Group announced the addition of Ryan Zink as project manager at Opus Design Build LLC.
• Lerch Bates promoted Mark Hall to senior project manager, strategic accounts.
• Sheridan Ross PC named Ian Walsworth a shareholder.
• Alan Quiller joined Pedal to Properties as a broker in Boulder.
• The University of Colorado at Boulder has named Mark D. Gross as the director of the campus alliance for technology, learning and society.
