Idaho Business Review IBR

Distinguished Northwest Nazarene University faculty members Mamie Oliver and Larry McMillin retired this semester. Oliver began her career with NNU as an adjunct professor in the early 1970s. She started teaching full time in 2000, bringing more than 40 years ...

Red Sky Public Relations in Boise has named Tracy Bresina chief operations officer and part owner. Bresina will co-own the company with chief executive officer Jessica Flynn and chief strategy officer Stephanie Worrell. As COO, Bresina will manage finances, business ...

Dave Jeppesen joins Blue Cross of Idaho as senior vice president of marketing and communications. He will oversee Blue Cross of Idaho’s corporate communications and be responsible for corporate advertising, public relations and consumer initiatives. Jeppesen worked as an international ...

Idaho Republican Party executive director Jonathan Parker will join Holland & Hart’s Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Group as director of governmental affairs and public relations in the firm’s Boise office. In his position at Holland & Hart, Parker will offer ...

The National Alliance for Caregiving and the MetLife Foundation have awarded one of five national Innovations in Caregiving Awards to Friends in Action, a program of the nonprofit Mountain States Group based in Boise. The award provides grants for family ...

MaryClaire Norman and Julie Hart have joined Waterstone Mortgage’s loan origination team. Norman has experience in commercial lending and sales. She previously worked at Banbury Golf Club in Eagle. Hart has worked in the mortgage industry for seven years. Her ...

Philip Gragg has joined the faculty of Concordia Law School as director of the George R. White Law Library. He will provide leadership in designing, implementing, assessing and managing the library. Gragg received his bachelor of science in anthropology from ...

Jim Hosac is the newest agent at Intermountain Commercial Real Estate in Boise. His specialties are office and flex space leasing and investment real estate sales. Hosac began working in real estate in 1997 at Thornton Oliver Keller’s former residential ...

Mark Wadsworth, of Blackfoot, a Shoshone-Bannock Tribal member and tribal range conservationist manager, is one of 11 tribal members USDA secretary Tom Vilsack has appointed to the Council for Native American Farming and Ranching. The council was created to advise ...

Colleen Braga, executive director for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Ada County, has joined the Garden City Chamber of Commerce board of directors. Braga has been an executive director for Boys & Girls Clubs for 17 years in Idaho ...