Associations
Bobbie Jordan-Schultz, Jordan Homes, has been named 2012 president of the Building Contractors Association of Southwestern Idaho. Also recognized was Wayne Stacy as the Builder of the Year, Karen Beamguard, Associate of the Year, and Oregon Tile & Marble, the Company of the Year. Winners are nominated and selected by industry peers based on involvement in the association.
Michelle Ross of St. Luke’s Health System has assumed the chair position of Boise Young Professionals. Brooke Greene of CTAI is BYP’s chair-elect and will serve as chair in 2013.
The goal of Boise Young Professionals, a program of the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce, is to connect, empower and engage young professionals throughout the Boise Valley in an effort to keep and attract talent.
There are 20 seats available on the BYP leadership team, which is made up of work team chairs and chair-elects for events and networking, membership, professional and leadership development, community and civic involvement, program sponsors and at-large positions.
Construction
Dennis Cunningham and his company, ActiveWest Builder, has qualified as a finalist in the National Association of Home Builders 50+ Housing Awards.
ActiveWest submitted its project, Meadow Ranch in Coeur d’Alene, in three categories: Best Detached Home Up to 2,100 Square Feet, Best “Green” Community, and Best For Sale — Up to 200 Homes.
ActiveWest was officially notified that it qualified as a finalist in all three categories and will receive either a gold or silver award in each category from NAHB to be presented at the International Builders Show in Orlando on Thursday.
Meadow Ranch is an active adult community in Coeur d’Alene.
Financial services
Cheryl Guiddy, Robert Shappee, Josh Tyree, and Alaina Schrenk have been promoted at Harris & Co. PLLC Certified Public Accountants.
Guiddy has been elected as the firm’s managing partner. She has more than 20 years of experience in taxation and accounting and has been a partner in the firm for more than 10 years. In addition, she was named to the board of the Idaho State Board of Accountancy.
Shappee has been admitted to the firm as a partner. He has more than 10 years of experience in taxation and accounting. Shappee helps clients in a variety of industries with their tax planning, compliance and financial reporting needs. As a leader in tax research and planning, Shappee helps Harris & Co. stay at the forefront of client accounting and tax matters. Before joining Harris & Co., Shappee was at a big-four accounting firm. He is a graduate of Boise State University, where he earned a Master of Science in accounting with an emphasis in taxation.
Tyree has been promoted to senior manager within the firm. He has more than nine years of experience in providing assurance and tax services to a diverse set of clients. He specializes in financial reporting for small to middle market businesses. Before joining Harris & Co., he was in the Los Angeles office of CBIZ Inc., where he provided accounting services to private and publicly traded companies. Tyree is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in business economics with an emphasis in accounting.
Schrenk has been promoted to senior accountant within the firm. She has more than three years of experience in taxation and audit services to clients in a variety of industries. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting from Boise State University.
W.D. “Bill” Stockwell has been promoted to CEO of Legacy Wealth Management Group. Stockwell was the company’s chief operating officer and has been in investment management for 28 years.
Venice Fairbanks has joined RiskPoint Insurance Advisors, a full-service commercial insurance agency, as a principal based in Boise. Fairbanks works with clients nationwide and has more than 20 years of insurance industry experience. Serving clients in Idaho and Oregon, Fairbanks works with all types and levels of businesses. A certified insurance service representative, Fairbanks is an expert at defining client needs and delivering solid solutions to fill them.
RiskPoint Insurance Advisors LLC is a full-service commercial insurance agency headquartered in Bend, Ore.
Government
Patrick N. Holman, Ph.D., will be joining the Washington, D.C., staff of Sen. Mike Crapo as nuclear energy fellow for the 2012 calendar year.
Holman served as director, Office of Budget and Planning for the Office of Nuclear Energy, where he coordinated the development of the annual budget submission to Congress and advised senior leadership on all manners of budget, strategic and program planning activities. Prior to that Holman worked for the Department of Energy’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer, primarily on improving program assessments and performance management and reporting. He joined the DOE in 2001 as a Presidential Management Fellow.
Holman holds a doctorate in political science, focused on environmental and federal land management policy, as well as a Master of Public Administration. Both degrees were earned from Northern Arizona University.
In Sen. Crapo’s office, Holman will focus on energy and natural resource issues, including research and cleanup activities at the Idaho National Laboratory. He is on a year-long Congressional Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy, which is responsible for the INL.
Health care
Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center has been named a Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence for the second consecutive year by HealthGrades, a national provider of health care information. This distinction once again places Saint Al’s among the top 5 percent of hospitals nationwide for clinical performance.
The HealthGrades Hospital Quality and Clinical Excellence study objectively identifies those hospitals with the best overall clinical performance across all 26 medical diagnoses and procedures that the organization rates. HealthGrades evaluates hospitals solely on clinical outcomes: risk-adjusted mortality andin-hospital complications. HealthGrades’ analysis is based on about 40 million Medicare discharges for the years 2008, 2009 and 2010. Using these top-performing hospitals as a benchmark in this year’s HealthGrades study, HealthGrades quantifies the impact of differences in hospital quality in terms of lives lost and unexpected complications.
Law
John Ashby and Kristin E. Bjorkman have become partners in the firm of Hawley Troxell. Ashby, a member of the litigation and employment and labor groups, has practiced law at Hawley Troxell for more than six years. Bjorkman is a member of the real estate and banking groups and has also practiced at the firm for more than six years.
Ashby’s practice focuses on employment law and commercial litigation. He advises employers on labor and employment issues under state and federal law. He also represents employers in administrative proceedings and litigation involving claims of wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, and claims under wage and hour laws. Ashby was a law clerk for Judge Stephen S. Trott, United States 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. He earned his law degree from the University of Arizona College of Law.
Bjorkman’s practice focuses on real estate and commercial and real estate financing, including documenting loan originations and due diligence, while representing banks, financial institutions and other institutional lenders. She was a law clerk for Judge James C. Morfitt, 3rd Judicial District in Canyon County. Bjorkman earned her law degree from the University of Idaho. She is also active in the community, participating in Leadership Boise class 2011-2013, Boise Young Professionals and CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women) Idaho.
Natural resources
Tom Parker, CEO of U.S. Silver Corp., has retired.
Parker will remain on the board of directors until the corporation’s annual shareholders’ meeting anticipated in June 2012 and will also be available to the corporation on a consulting basis. A CEO search process hasbegun. Gordon Pridham, executive chairman, will act as interim CEO until a permanent replacement is named. Steve Long, as U.S. Silver’s chief operating officer, remains responsible for the day-to-day mining operations in Idaho.
Nonprofits
Dr. Greg Janos, executive medical director of St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital, and Darren Kyle, McDonald’s owner/operator with Valley Food Service based in Twin Falls, have been elected to the board of the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Idaho.
Board officers for the year are Sarah Seidl, president, Seidl Home Co.; Anne-Marie Lodge, vice president, D.A. Davidson & Co; Cindy Martin, secretary, Hewlett-Packard; Sue Quint, treasurer, Quint Financial LLC; and Keely E. Duke, past president, Duke, Scanlan & Hall PLLC. They support the mission of the Ronald McDonald House, which provides a “home-away-from-home” for families of ill and injured children.
Retail
Moxie Java nearly tripled this year’s donation to The Idaho Foodbank through sales of IdaHo Ho Ho with Moxie Java, a CD of holiday tunes by local musicians. Though this is only the second year Moxie Java has produced the holiday CD, sales generated $18,261, enough to provide about 54,000 meals for those in need throughout the state.
More than 1,900 CDs were sold at Moxie Java locations and the Record Exchange, where limited quantities are still available. IdaHo Ho Ho with Moxie Java charted No. 1 and 2 on the Record Exchange weekly bestseller list in December and came in No. 5 on its top 50 sellers list for 2011.
Other businesses
Peter Thornton, Raquel Moreno, Jennifer Hetherington, Michael McCabe and Ryan Vestal are the 2012 leaders of Bodybuilding.com, a bodybuilding and fitness site and online retailer of nutritional supplements.
Thornton has been named senior vice president of e-commerce. He brings extensive e-commerce and multi-channel marketing expertise to Bodybuilding.com. He will be responsible for bringing leadership and strategy to the overall marketing, merchandising and category management functions while creating the best online shopping experience for Bodybuilding.com’s customers. Thornton was the former vice president of marketing, e-commerce and merchandise planning at the Territory Ahead and had prior stops at Harry & David, Coldwater Creek and Xerox. He earned a degree in marketing from University of Idaho.
Moreno has been named vice president of human resources.
She spent much of her time in the consumer retail industry at Toys R Us, Target and AT&T Wireless. Moreno will be responsible for human resources strategy to achieve business goals. Moreno earned a degree in psychology from Northwestern University and a law degree from John Marshall School of Law in Chicago.
Hetherington, promoted to vice president of marketing from director of marketing, has been with the company since June 2010.
McCabe, now vice president of operations from director of operations, began his career at Bodybuilding.com in March 2006 as the Florida Distribution Center manager. Vestal, promoted to vice president of finance from controller, has been with the company since June 2008.
Kathe Alters, Boise resident and veteran fundraiser, has joined Idaho Public Television as a corporate business development officer.
Alters has 16 years of nonprofit fundraising experience. She worked for Boise State Public Radio, where she served as corporate support manager for the past 11 years.
A native of Idaho, Alters worked in various fundraising capacities in New York and San Francisco before returning to her home state in 1993.
Alters began her new job in January.
Bre Scholl of Boise has become an independent consultant with Tastefully Simple Inc., a national direct sales company featuring more than 60 delicious, easy-to-prepare foods.
As an independent business owner, Scholl offers delicious food samples at home taste-testing parties, along with easy ideas for everyday meals, recipes and serving suggestions.
