Minnesota native Jon Severson came to Colorado Springs in 2002. Like many single, young professionals, he wanted to meet people. But rather than join existing networking groups, he founded one, Colorado Springs Young Professionals. Since 2003, CSYP has grown from a few dozen casual acquaintances who met once a month at a variety of downtown [...]
Continue reading …As president of Doss Aviation, Ken Smith first got involved with the company in 2006 when a proposal he spearheaded as a consultant to Doss Aviation founder Frank Hunter resulted in the award of a $182 million, 10-year U.S. Air Force contract for flight screening services based in Pueblo. A year later, Hunter retired and Smith was named to head the company.
Continue reading …John Fredell is Southern Delivery System project director for Colorado Springs Utilities. The Southern Delivery System, which will bring water to city from Pueblo Reservoir is the city’s first major water project since Homestake I, which brought water from Western Slope over the mountains in the 1970s. Fredell’s negotiating skills were tested recently when the [...]
Continue reading …Commercial broker and community volunteer Steve Bach got his start in Colorado Springs and would like to see others have the same chance. His Bach Commercial Real Estate Partners portfolio includes some of the area’s largest transactions. Just last month, Bach’s company handled the sale of the former 185,000-square-foot Macy’s building for $3 million. As [...]
Continue reading …A former Navy pilot, Bob Lally moved to Colorado Springs in 2006 for a job with U.S. Northern Command. The “wow factor” of the city captured his attention, so he dropped anchor and waded into the community. Today, Lally’s involved with the National Homeland Defense Foundation and the UCCS athletic foundation. But he might be [...]
Continue reading …David Loose has been Junior Achievement of Southern Colorado’s CEO since 2008, but he has been with the organization for nearly three decades. During his 14-year tenure with J.A. International, Loose traveled to nearly 60 countries, expanding J.A.’s outreach from 15 nations to 97, increasing the number of students reached from 50,000 to more than [...]
Continue reading …Daisy McConnell is the new co-director of the UCCS Gallery of Contemporary Art. GOCA is a nonprofit art center and school. It offers visual art exhibitions from emerging and mid-career artists from its two galleries, one downtown at 121 S. Tejon St. and one on the UCCS campus, 1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway.The downtown gallery opened [...]
Continue reading …Eric Austin Attard has been the executive director of the Pikes Peak Gay & Lesbian Community Center since May. He’s also busy working on a master’s in marriage and family counseling. The Springs has a reputation for being intolerant. What’s your take? I think where you immerse yourself is vital to that question. A lot [...]
Continue reading …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 [...]
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