• Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation Program Director Denise King was appointed to the Governor’s Commission on Community Service.
• Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck added five first-year associates to the firm’s Denver office. Mike Havlik joined the corporate department; Gina Tincher joined the litigation department; Zach Siegel and Rob Steinhoff joined the real estate department; and Mike Smith joined the energy and natural resources department. Brownstein also added Jeffrey Lavigne as a first-year associate in their Las Vegas office.
• Denver-based elevators consulting firm Lerch Bates announced David Witt has been named consultant, elevator consulting group, in its Toronto office.
• First National Denver announced three executive hires: Jim Holland, vice president of commercial banking; Dave Lederhos, vice president of commercial real estate banking; and Blake Fulenwider, credit analyst for commercial real estate banking.
• Amadeus Consulting CEO and co-founder Lisa Calkins has been named a finalist for the 12th Annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business.
• studioINSITE of Denver and Omaha announced that Ellen Fitzsimmons has joined the firm as senior urban planner.
• Merlin Widick has joined NavPoint Real Estate Group as a land specialist.
• The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and the University of Colorado Denver Business School recognized Evan Makovsky for his commitment to ethical leadership with the inaugural Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year Award at the State of Small Business on Nov. 4.
• Cozette Crites has joined the Re/Max Properties team as a licensed agent in Colorado Springs.
• The board of directors of the Pueblo Zoo voted to appoint Abbie Krause as executive director.
• ANB Bank announced the appointment of Kay Greene as vice president, wealth advisor in the ANB Financial Services Division.
• Warren Resources, Inc. announced the appointment of Brian Gelman as interim chief financial officer.
• Denver-based business law firm Ireland Stapleton Pryor & Pascoe, PC, has added former Deputy Attorney General and former Colorado Secretary of State Bernie Buescher, and former Denver Department of Excise and Licenses Hearings Manager John E. Jennings to its regulatory practice group.
• Gary Community Investments has named Bruce Hoyt as senior vice president of investments.
• The board of trustees of Rocky Vista University announced the appointment of Clinton E. Adams as president and chief executive officer of Rocky Vista University.
• Mental Health America of Colorado has appointed Janice Sinden, chief of staff to Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, to the organization’s board of directors.
• Boulder-based Spectralink Corp. announced the appointment of Simon Rayne as the new managing director of Europe, Middle East and Africa.
• Key Equipment Finance announced that Lori G. Frasier, senior vice president of strategy and performance management, has been elected to the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association’s board of directors.
