Movers & Shakers: New hires, promotions, honors, new businesses

WEEK OF JAN. 29

• UMB Bank Colorado announced Gregory Shaw has joined UMB as a vice president and commercial banking officer. Shaw has 21 years of experience in the financial services industry. Before joining UMB, he spent 13 years as a vice president in the Business Banking Division at JPMorgan Chase in Colorado Springs.
• Karen Migliaccio announced the opening of Prairie View Family Care, 7641 McLaughlin Road in Falcon. Migliaccio, a board-certified family nurse practitioner with more than 12 years of experience, will be accepting new patients of all ages. For more information, call 495-4554.

• Sophi Spicer Kohr has joined Add Staff, a locally owned staffing company, as medical staffing manager. Kohr has more than five years of staffing and recruiting experience.
• Derek Hemmer, loan officer/assistant vice president at Rocky Mountain Bank & Trust,
received the Emerging Small Business Lender for 2011 award from Colorado Lending Source. The  award is Colorado Lending Source’s way of recognizing individual lenders and private sector lending institutions that have materially increased business lending activity utilizing Small Business Administration loan programs in partnership with Colorado Lending Source.
• Blair Reeves has been appointed chief operations officer of the Better Business Bureau of Southern Colorado. Reeves joined the bureau in January 2004 and has served in several capacities.

• Charles Allen, of Colorado Springs, has been chosen to receive a Super Van Operator award for 2011 from the American Moving & Storage Association, the industry’s national trade association. The annual awards recognize van operators who demonstrate excellent records in safety and customer service.  Allen is being honored in the Special Commodities category.  He has been in the moving industry for 27 years and has been an owner-operator for Atlas Van Lines for the past 20 years. 
• Ray R. Phillips has launched C2E (Commitment 2 Excellence, www.c2eusa.com) in Colorado Springs. C2E is a service-disabled veteran-owned small business pursuing contracting opportunities in the Department of Defense and federal arenas of IT services, management consulting and systems engineering. Phillips, a retired Air Force senior officer, was recently CEO of Intecon, a $27 million service-disabled veteran-owned small business, and program manager of an $800 million homeland security and homeland defense contract. Anne Marshall has joined the C2E leadership team as chief operations officer;  she has 30 years of defense industry experience.
• Entravision Communications announced that Donald Daboub has been promoted to station manager overseeing Entravision’s television, radio and interactive media assets serving the Colorado Springs, Denver, Colorado Springs and Aspen markets. Daboub was previously the general sales manager for those markets, and has been with Entravision since 2006.  He has more than 15 years of experience in Spanish-language television, working for several leading Spanish-language broadcasters in various roles including local and national sales in both Chicago and Denver.

• Chad Parker, of Colorado Springs, has been appointed a full-time agent for American Family Insurance Group. Parker opened an office at 2130 S. Academy Blvd, Ste 200, in January. He successfully completed the 24-month American Family Insurance Agent-in-Training program under the mentoring of agent John McDonald of Security.

• Constant Wave, a Colorado Springs-based developer and provider of measurement analysis software, announced that Anthony Peccolo and Stephen Witt, two electronics industry executives, have joined the company. Peccolo, vice president of sales and marketing, joins Constant Wave from the Englewood office of Agilent Technologies where he was a North American sales manager. He has a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, Calif., and a master’s degree in business administration from the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver. Witt, vice president of business development, recently worked as a business development consultant for Certus Digital, a developer of Video-over-IP test and measurement tools in Monument, and has worked in several entrepreneurial roles. He has a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Mich.
• E Light Electric Services has moved its Colorado Springs office to a larger office at 4815 List Drive in the Centennial Business Center near I-25 & Garden of the Gods Road. E Light Electric Services is a commercial electrical contractor serving the Front Range with offices in the Springs, Englewood and Frederick.

WEEK OF JAN. 22

• UMB Bank Colorado announced that Judy James has joined UMB as vice president and private banking client manager. In this role, she is responsible for developing client relationships, proactively delivering consumer banking products and services and providing financial guidance and solutions. Before joining UMB, James spent four years as vice president and private banker in the wealth management group at American National Bank in Colorado Springs. Before that, James held various roles in Wells Fargo for 22 years, concluding with the role of private banker.
• Wilson & Company announced the appointment of Scott T. Asher as Colorado Springs transportation operations manager. Asher, a professional engineer licensed in Colorado, has more than 15 years of experience in managing, planning and designing roadways.  His most recent projects were as project manager for the I-25 New Pueblo Freeway Environmental Impact Statement for the Colorado Department of Transportation and the Austin Bluffs Parkway interchange at Union Boulevard for the city of Colorado Springs.
• Pikes Peak Hospice & Palliative Care has elected Randy Stiles, special adviser for the president-business analytics at Colorado College, as 2012 chairman of its board of directors. Other officers include: Douglas Flinn, general counsel and chief of staff, Diocese of Colorado Springs, vice chair; Jameson Smith, chief operating officer, Penrose-St. Francis Health Services, secretary; and Steve Hochstetter, audit partner at Stockman, Kast, Ryan & Co., treasurer. Three new members have joined the PPHPC board: Lisa Carlson, registered investment specialist, El Pomar Foundation; Dr. Wendy Oatis, Memorial Health System Cancer Center; and Michelle M. Smith, chief nursing officer, Memorial Health System. Pikes Peak Hospice Foundation has elected Jeff Rosacker, partner in Osborne, Parsons & Rosacker, as 2012 chairman of its board of trustees. Other officers include: Doris Baker, publisher/president of Filter Press, vice chair; attorney Patricia Martin, secretary; and Dan Winter, president of DJW Consulting Group, treasurer.
• U.S. Bank in Colorado Springs has named Brenda Lammers and Amber Moro as trust relationship managers. Lammers and Moro are responsible for providing expert advice and counsel in the area of personal trust products and services. They join Norman Alvis, portfolio manager, in U.S. Bank’s Private Client Group on the second floor at 6 S. Tejon Street. Before joining U.S. Bank, Lammers worked as a Certified Public Accountant for 30 years, most recently as a tax partner for Stockman, Kast, Ryan + Co. Moro has been working in the financial services industry for 19 years in investment management and private banking and is a Certified Financial Planner.
• Chris Scovil has joined Stockman Kast Ryan + Co. as a tax manager. Scovil specializes in tax planning and compliance for C corporations of varying sizes as well as transactional tax matters; he also works with partnerships and S corporations. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Illinois Certified Public Accountant Society and the Colorado Springs World Affairs Council.
• Erickson, Brown & Kloster, P.C. has promoted Katie Schaffer, CPA, to tax manager. Schaffer serves individual and business clients in the areas of tax planning, retirement plan administration and design and general business consulting. Brad N. Whitten has joined Erickson, Brown & Kloster as a staff accountant; he has four years experience in public accounting. Tiffany Phelan, who has also joined the firm as a staff accountant, has two years experience in public accounting.

• The American Society of Home Inspectors awarded its President’s Award to Bob Walstead, a Colorado Springs home inspector. The award is given at the association’s annual meeting for “outstanding service to the president and the board of directors.” Walstead is the senior inspector at Nationwide Property Services, a local inspection firm, and  is a certified ASHI inspector. He is serving ASHI as the 2011-2012 national speaker of the Council of Representatives. The speaker represents the 84 local chapters to the ASHI board of directors.

• James Pontious is the new Western sales manager for Voith Turbo’s Rail Division. Based in Colorado Springs, Pontious will focus exclusively on sales in the Western U.S. He has 15 years of sales experience and was most recently in the information technology industry. He worked for seven years in passenger transit rail and freight rail sales.
• The Colorado Springs-based Space Foundation announced that former astronaut Leroy Chiao has joined its leadership team, serving in the newly created position of special adviser-human spaceflight. Chiao flew on three space shuttle flights and a Russian Soyuz flight and was the commander of International Space Station Expedition 10. Though based in Houston, he will participate significantly in the annual National Space Symposium, April 16-19 at The Broadmoor, the Space Foundation said.

• David R. Tohlen has been elected to the board of directors of The Home Front Cares, serving as the chair of the strategic planning committee. Tohlen is a retired Air Force colonel with14 years of executive-level experience in the defense contracting industry, having held key positions in management, planning and business development.
• Al Mathews is a new advisory board member for The Home Front Cares. Mathews is the vice president and co-owner of Peak Aviation Center. He is the coordinator of The Home Front Cares’ Hungry Heroes program which greets soldiers returning from deployments.
• Sandia Advertising has been selected to represent Eagle
Claw, the legendary fishing-tackle brand developed and distributed by the Wright & McGill Company of Denver. Eagle Claw, America’s only fish hook manufacturer, is the largest distributor of terminal tackle in North America. Sandia is a Colorado Springs-based advertising agency founded in 1999.
• Garden of the Gods Club has been recognized as a premier ceremony and reception venue in WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards 2012. The annual awards program recognizes the top local wedding vendors from the WeddingWire network.
• VIP Mortgage has purchased the Colorado Springs branch of Citywide Home Mortgage at 7660 Goddard St., Suite 100. VIP, a full service mortgage banker and broker, serves the lending needs of real estate professionals, builders and individual homebuyers throughout Arizona, Texas, California and Colorado.