People on the Move – Utah Business

Pleasant GrovedoTERRA, the worlds leading global essential oils company, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Brannick Riggs to its corporate administration team as vice president of healthcare initiatives and chief medical director of doTERRAs medical clinic. Riggs, who has served on doTERRAs medical advisory board for five years, will continue to practice medicine while advancing the work doTERRA has already begun in research and healthcare in this newly created position. While serving on the companys medical advisory board, Dr. Riggs made major contributions to doTERRAs research and education initiatives. Prior to joining doTERRA, Dr. Riggs taught as an associate professor at the University of Utah College of Medicine, practiced as a physician and partner at Revere Health, and served as Revere Healths Medical Director of the Northern Utah Region. He graduated from the University of Arizona College of Medicine. While studying at Arizona, he received training in integrative medicine under Dr. Andrew Weil, an internationally recognized expert in this field. He is passionate about marrying modern medicine with essential oils, proper nutrition, and exercise. He enjoys using essential oils in his personal and family life, teaching individuals and healthcare professionals about them, and conducting research in this field.

Salt Lake CityNewmark Grubb ACRES (NGA) is excited to welcome the Summit Senior Housing Advisors (SSHA) group, McSean Thompson and Sam Bechthold. SSHA are industry leaders in senior housing investment sales in the Intermountain West and will play a critical role in furthering the success of Newmarks market-leading investment division. McSean has consulted with dozens of operators on how to implement operational improvements and has closed over $75 million in transactions in the last 36 months. He has extensive experience in data science and analytics, having completed a five-year engagement with the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in the United Arab Emirates; he became passionate about caring for the senior population while volunteering at a senior housing facility while pursuing his undergraduate degree at Brigham Young University. Bechthold is a healthcare real estate professional with a wide range of experience in brokerage, asset management and senior housing operations including business development and investment analysis. Sam got his start in healthcare real estate management as a senior investment analyst and asset manager at Welltower (formerly Health Care REIT), where he was responsible for an $865 million portfolio of senior housing assets. He received a masters degree in real estate finance and development from Cornell University and earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Utah.

Salt Lake CitySpectrum Engineers is pleased to welcome Vellachi Ganesan as their new lighting designer. In addition to being an architectural lighting designer, Ganesan is a light artist and design educator. She studied architecture (BA) in Singapore and Paris, and architectural lighting design (MSc) in Stockholm. Ganesan has worked for eight years within the lighting design industry. Her experience includes working as a lighting designer for Arup, presenting award winning light-art installations at international festivals and teaching lighting design to Architecture and Multi-Disciplinary Design students in renown tertiary institutions. Ganesan believes in working collaboratively across disciplines with architects, designers and artists to create work that is meaningful to the human being. Her work has received notable recognition, including the Special Commendation Award (Special Projects) at the prestigious Lighting Design Awards (London) in 2012.

Salt Lake CitySnell & Wilmer is pleased to announce that Salt Lake City attorney Braden Johnson has been nominated to Needs Beyond Medicine board of directors. In addition to his service as a director, Johnson will also assist as the corporate secretary. Needs Beyond Medicine is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to decrease the burden of cancer by increasing awareness, education and relief to cancer patients. Needs Beyond Medicines primary focus is to assist in enhancing the quality of life for those diagnosed with cancer through educational and financial support. At Snell & Wilmer, Johnson focuses his practice in commercial finance, real estate acquisitions and banking law. Johnsons skills include regulatory experience with the U.S. Departments of Labor and Justice, company filings, joint venture agreements and complex transactions for private entities. Johnson received his J.D. from the University of Colorado School of Law and his B.A.in political science from Brigham Young University.

Salt Lake CityInMoment, the leader in customer experience (CX) intelligence, announced that Robert Youngjohns, a software luminary and former EVP, general manager, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Software, has been appointed to the companys Board of Directors. For more than 30 years, Youngjohns has played pivotal roles across many of the pioneering technologies and organizations that are the foundation of todays high-tech landscape. Most recently, he led HPEs multi-billion dollar software portfolio, which spanned from Big Data and analytics to security and information management. In this role, he established one of the foremost software portfolios that capitalized on the intersection of structured and unstructured information enabling organizations of all sizes to better manage risk and tap into real business value. Prior to leaving HPE, he facilitated its Software Business Segments nearly $9 billion merger with Micro Focus, creating one of the largest software companies in the world. Yesterday, HPEs majority ownership of the business was spun off into a new entity called Seattle SpinCo. In addition to HPE, Youngjohns was president of Microsoft North America, and served as president and chief executive officer at publicly-traded Callidus Software. There, he initiated the transition of the companys traditional on-premises enterprise software model to a SaaS environment. His experience also includes tenures at Sun Microsystems and IBM, where he held a variety of regional and global leadership positions. Youngjohns currently serves as operating partner at HgCapital, a UK-based private equity firm, and senior advisor with global management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. He also serves as a board member for Blueprint, SiteCore and Densify. Youngjohns has a masters degree with honors in physics and philosophy from Oxford University in the United Kingdom.

OgdenCorporate Alliance of Northern Utah is excited to announce that ReAnne Reimschussel has been named the new Membership Director. She will be meeting with companies of all sizes in Northern Utah to help them reach their goals and connect with the right companies. She attended Weber State University with a focus on Psychology and Business Administration. Previous to Corporate Alliance she was the Executive Corporate Trainer and the Executive Mentoring Director at 3KeyElements. Corporate Alliance is about leading yourself and growing your network. Our training and connecting events are designed to inspire and educate while connecting you with some of the most influential companies in our communities. We help our members create their own powerful networks. People who know them, people who like them and people who trust them.

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People on the Move - Utah Business