On the move, July 13

Published July 13, 2006 at midnight

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Communications

CTA Public Relations hired Warren Laird as senior account executive to work with its investor relations and public relations clients. CTA also received four awards from the International Association of Business Communicators, including three Bronze Quill Awards and one Merit Award, at the annual Colorado chapter IABC Bronze Quill Awards Banquet. . . . Idée-Force hired Karla Zurowski as account manager and Brian Fuglestad as graphic designer. . . . PRACO Public Relations Advertising Co. received numerous awards at the 2005-2006 American Advertising Federation Regional Addy Awards. PRACO earned 14 Regional Addy Awards in the nonprofit, tourism and health care sectors. . . . McClain Finlon Advertising has promoted Nancy Casey, Ayanna Blueford and Christina McCoy. David Moorehouse, Heather Randall, Joshua DeWitt, Amy Stephan, Rudy Landry, Craig Kioski, Troy Kerr, Grace Zakhem, Jerica Irmen, Trent Orvis, Lacy Nolte, Adrienne Yeager, Heather Hale, Sarah Isola and Heather Popenhagen have joined the agency. Jeff Erin has been hired as senior copywriter, and Andy Sherman has been hired as senior designer in the creative department. The account management and media department has promoted Stephanie Riekhof, Kristina Boyer, Kylee Webster and Kabir Ananda. The traffic department has promoted Christine Fleming, Rene Ramirez and Ashley Dreiling. Linda Chillemi and Angela Lynch have been promoted in the accounting department. Group account directors Steve Moran and Jim Ochu and account director Frank Fragale have joined the account management department. . . . MGA Communications has promoted Denise Day to account executive and Kelli Edelen to account coordinator. Recent additions to the team are Charlene Meeker, account manager, Jessica Terlecki, account coordinator, and Adam Marquez, intern. . . . McStain Neighborhoods has named Nancy Drake Blanchard director of marketing. . . . Frontier Airlines has selected Linhart McClain Finlon as its national PR partner. . . . Flitner Communications of Jackson, Wyo., and JohnstonWells Public Relations in Denver have forged a strategic partnership to offer Wyoming-based clients in-depth media relations, community relations and social marketing counsel and services. . . . Amanda Clark has joined Catapult PR-IR as an account coordinator. . . . Online lead generation and search engine marketing agency 90octane LLC recently added Sean Brunner as a marketing coordinator. . . . Baxa Corp. received a Gold Award for its direct mail campaign submission at the annual American Marketing Associations's PEAK Awards Gala. . . . Katie Muck has accepted the position of director of public relations for Foster Marketing. . . . Weise Communications Inc. has appointed Jennifer Logan director of practice marketing, a division that caters to health care and medical practices and their marketing and branding needs. . . . Barnhart Communications hired Josh Davis as an advertising account manager and Molly Garrison as HR/office manager. . . . Coors Brewing Co. hired Eve Dreher to lead the company's internal and external communications functions as director of corporate communications. . . . JohnstonWells promoted Darby Doll to senior counselor.

Executives

Martha Schlicher, director of the National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center, has joined Renewable Agricultural Energy as vice president of engineering and operations. . . . John Grant has been appointed vice president of sales for The Vintner's Club, a private residence club headquartered in Colorado. Its premier property is in Burgundy, France. . . . Bryan Olinger is the new director of facilities at Devereux Cleo Wallace. . . . MX Logic Inc. has named Pete Khanna senior vice president of operations. . . . Lockheed Martin Corp. named Mark Valerio vice president and general manager, special programs for its Space Systems company. Valerio succeeds Thomas J. Scanlan, who retired June 30. . . . Christopher Gillies has been named senior vice president/partner for Legacy Partners' Denver office. . . . Cognitive Solutions appointed Larry Graziani vice president of sales and marketing. . . . John Atencio Designer Jewelry announced that Paul Oberman has been named chief financial officer. . . . Gates Corp. announced that Marco Moran, who most recently held the position of president of Gates Power Transmission Division in Europe, has been appointed to the role of worldwide president of power transmission and will relocate from Belgium to the corporate headquarters in Denver. John Bohenick, president of the North American Power Transmission Division, will relocate to Belgium to step in as president of the European Power Transmission Division. . . . Denver-based Public Radio Capital, an adviser to the public radio industry in planning, acquiring and financing new public radio channels, has promoted business manager Erin Moran to chief financial officer. . . . Angel Abbud-Madrid has been appointed director of the Center for Space Resources, a NASA Research Partnership Center based at Colorado School of Mines. . . . The Colorado Business Council, Colorado's Gay Lesbian Bisexual & Transgender chamber of commerce, has named Vinnie Meza as its executive director. . . . Colorado Capital Bank announced that David Twibell has been promoted to president of wealth management. . . . Brad Thomann has been named senior vice president of training at Jeppesen/Alteon. . . . Bob Greene has been promoted to the newly created position of executive vice president, advanced services at Starz Entertainment Group LLC. . . . Richard Gonzales has been named vice president finance/treasurer of the Stapleton Development Corp. . . . Neil Werde was named president of Aspen Pet Products in Denver. . . . Kevin Engstrom joined FirsTier Bank as a vice president. . . Jay Kade has joined IMA of Colorado Inc. as director of surety, where he will consult with key surety clients. . . . The Fitzsimons Redevelopment Authority has named Jill Sikora Farnham as executive director. . . . Janus Capital Group Inc. has appointed Eric Hargens as divisional sales manager to lead Janus' continued efforts to meet the needs of financial advisers and their clients. . . . Gerald Snyder has joined M.A. Mortenson Co. as a construction executive. He will be responsible for overseeing the company's operations in Colorado Springs. . . . Erica Stull has joined Colorado Public Radio as vice president of community outreach. . . . IBG Business Services Inc., a Denver-based merger and acquisition advisory firm, hired Judy Brown as investor relations coordinator. Also joining IBG is Vice President Brad Ripps. Joining as vice president is attorney Jerry Caldwell. Laura Gerhard is IBG's new client marketing specialist. . . . CH2M Hill has named Brock McEwen technology director for the Global Water Business Group. Glen Daigger has joined CH2M Hill as senior vice president and chief technology officer for the firm's global Civil Infrastructure Business Group. . . . The RMH Group has elected William "Bill" O. Green as company president.

Grants

The Keystone Center received a $100,000 grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts to support a joint fact-finding process focused on the risks and benefits of the future expansion of nuclear power in the United States. . . . Del Pueblo Elementary School received a $100,000 Lowe's Grant for campuswide improvements. . . . Rose Youth Foundation, a grant-making initiative of Rose Community Foundation, has awarded $50,000 in grants to 10 projects in three categories: promoting Jewish identity for Jews ages 13 to 25, promoting tolerance between Jews of different denominations and people of other faiths ages 13 to 25, and homelessness. . . . Caring for Colorado Foundation has awarded $2.5 million in grants to 58 projects across the state. . . . ADA Technologies Inc. will receive a total of more than $400,000 to conduct research on three projects. The grants are from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. . . . The Children's Treehouse Foundation, which trains oncology social workers, nurses, clergy and child-life specialists from cancer hospitals across the country to launch emotional group support programs for children of parents with cancer, has received a $100,000 grant from the Avon Foundation. . . . The Denver Foundation has awarded a grant to Community Reach Center in the amount of $13,000. The grant supports the center's Early Childhood Services Program. This grant provides matching funds toward a HealthOne Alliance grant awarded earlier to the center in the amount of $50,000. . . . Children's Hospital announced a $100,000 grant from Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation to oncologist Dr. Lia Gore, director of Children's Experimental Therapeutics Program, in support of her ongoing study of neuroblastomas. . . . Cerebral Palsy of Colorado received a $25,000 gift from Southwestern Investment Group. . . . Denver's Jessica Starr and Emily Rotbart are this year's recipients of the Women's Foundation of Colorado Dottie Lamm Award. Each will receive a $1,500 grant to contribute to a girl or women's-centered nonprofit and $1,500 to put toward her academic or vocational school expenses.