Cary Blanchette has more than 20 years experience as a fund-raising executive for health care organizations, and he’s now using that expertise as executive director of the Memorial Foundation. Family connections brought him to Colorado Springs, where he recently oversaw the foundation’s annual gala, its largest fund-raising event of the year. Blanchette took over for [...]
Continue reading …Colorado Springs Child Nursery Centers President and CEO Diane Price was caught by surprise last month when Gov. Bill Ritter appointed her to the newly formed 30-member Early Childhood Leadership Commission. “I had no idea I was being considered; it’s not something you apply for,” she said. The lifelong early education advocate knew as early [...]
Continue reading …Michelle Mercer, a resident of Colorado Springs since 2007, recently published a biography of Joni Mitchell, “Will You Take Me as I Am: Joni Mitchell’s Blue Period.” The book was the second such biography for Mercer, who also authored “Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter.” Mercer’s books have attracted glowing reviews and have [...]
Continue reading …Jason Aguilar, the owner of StealthCom Solutions Inc., studied computers and electronics at DeVry University in California. While still in school, he was hired in 1999 by Spectrum Communications to pull cable and dig trenches, installing underground cable in Southern California schools. “It was a good niche for me — I loved it,” he said. [...]
Continue reading …Sue Kiernan launched her second career 10 years ago when she founded Centered on Success Inc., a business coaching, training and consulting company. Her background, she felt, prepared her well for her new role. With 25 years as a speech and language pathologist, Kiernan — who has a master’s in communication disorders — saw “a [...]
Continue reading …For the past 25 years, Nanna Meyer has tried her best to make a meaningful contribution to the breadth of information available about health and nutrition. A professor of sports nutrition at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, she isn’t really sure how much of a difference she’s made to the nation’s health – [...]
Continue reading …Deborah Tuck is faced with the task of helping feed the tens of thousands of low-income Coloradans who depend upon the Care and Share Food Bank for sustenance. Recently named CEO of Care and Share of Southern Colorado, Tuck came to Colorado Springs from Flagstaff, Ariz. where she spent 10 years as the founding president [...]
Continue reading …Cindy Fowler has blazed her share of trails, wearing multiple hats. The first she wears is one of a business developer for office furnishing and design company, OfficeScapes. For the past 11 years, she has built winning customer relationships with those from the private sector as well as from education and government services. The second [...]
Continue reading …Dave Steigerwald is not a man who sits still for long. As shareholder and managing director of Sparks Willson Borges Brandt & Johnson P.C., Steigerwald stays busy working with clients, volunteering and with family time. As an attorney, he enjoys helping clients put deals together at the 30-plus-year-old firm that specializes in business law for [...]
Continue reading …Lt. Gen. Michael Gould plans to leave his mark on the Air Force Academy. As the commander who’s been at the post since June, Gould is overseeing the Academy’s most extensive renovation since it was built in the 1950s. Nearly every building needs an upgrade, as do the academy’s practice planes. “It’s crazy. We’re flying [...]
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