Jackie Driscoll’s newly created position at Centura Health, the parent of Penrose-St. Francis Health Services and about a dozen other hospitals in Colorado, grew out of the system’s plans to deal with health care reforms. Driscoll, a native of Colorado Springs, started her career as a medical technologist and now serves as the chief business [...]
Continue reading …Greccio Housing Development Director Jill Gaebler is the board president of the Colorado Springs Charter Academy, now one of the city’s most successful charter schools, which she helped found several years ago. She’s an Air Force veteran, a mother of two and a swift marathoner. How did you decide to start a Charter School? Back [...]
Continue reading …The 2011 U.S. Women’s Open is still a year away but Doug Habgood is already busy getting things ready. Habgood, the head of the Bruno Events team for the Open, knows how much work is involved. “You’ve got to remain cool and calm, even when everything is crazy,” he said. Apparently, Habgood’s good at the [...]
Continue reading …Richard Nehring has spent 27 years tracking oil and gas deposits in the United States. The founder of Colorado Springs-based NRG Associates, Nehring says that, despite the Gulf oil spill, oil companies will seek to tap reserves in deeper waters and in more remote areas. And as that occurs, the nation will have to make [...]
Continue reading …The Western Museum of Mining and Industry is one of the few privately funded history museums in the nation. David Carroll, who has a master’s in arts administration, has been executive director since 2005. Under his leadership, revenue has increased 86 percent and total visitation increased 27 percent. What’s new at the museum? Most people [...]
Continue reading …Denver native Chuck Fowler has lived in Colorado Springs for many years and now runs CFowler Communications. He has been married to Cindy (who received the Chamber’s Athena award earlier this year) for more than two decades, and the couple has one daughter, Emily. Recently, Fowler volunteered his time to head the “City Committee,” which [...]
Continue reading …Colorado Springs Sports Corp. CEO Tom Osborne’s concept for state and national amateur games was patterned after Olympic events. The 2010 Rocky Mountain State Games is expected to bring more than 7,000 people to the Pikes Peak region from July 30 through Aug. 1. The former Montana State University basketball player recently weighed in the [...]
Continue reading …Ten years ago local attorney Scott Blackmun, who had been named interim CEO of the U.S. Olympic Committee, was passed over for the top job. Blackmun took the setback in stride, and moved on with his life. Meanwhile, the USOC became, in the opinion of many observers, a dsysfunctional mess. After a tumultuous year under [...]
Continue reading …As chief executive of Catholic Charities of Colorado Springs since 2007, Jason Christensen has overseen the renovation of both The Marion House Soup Kitchen, which serves an average of 450 hot meals per day, and The Hanifen Center, which houses the SET Medical Clinic, family immigration services and other emergency and basic life-support services. Christensen, [...]
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