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ournal

Who’s News

port the com-

pany’s special

projects divi-

sion.

McInroy has

more than 25

years in proj-

ect manage-

ment, with an

emphasis on

hosp i t a l i t y,

comme rc i a l

office buildings, health care and

residential construction.

Mike Swanson

joined

Div 6

Millwork

as manager.

Swanson brings experience to

all aspects of

the business,

i n c l u d i n g

e s t ima t i ng ,

scheduling,

fabrication,

project man-

agement and

installation.

Originally

from Nebras-

ka, Swanson

started his

career at other shops before

making the move to the firm.

McWhinney

added

Peter

Lauener

as its new president.

Lauener’s graduated from

Whittier College in 1983, after

which time

he worked in

the hospital-

ity industry.

He then went

on to Lusk

Co., where

he focused

project

management,

i n c l u d i n g

commercial,

res ident i a l ,

resort, industrial and master-

planned communities in South-

ern California.

A majority of Lauener’s

career has been in entitling

complex projects across an

array of product types. The last

15 years of his career at Intra-

corp were focused on entitling

and building urban residential

projects from single-family to

high-density apartments and

condos. Over his 30-year career

he has focused on large, mas-

ter-planned projects and built

thousands of residential units

both for rent and for sale, as

well as office, industrial and

commercial.

Additionally,

John Monta-

quila

joined the firm as chief

financial officer.

He brings more than 25

years of real estate finance and

investment experience to the

firm.

After completing his Master

of Business Administration,

Montaquila worked for Securi-

ty Capital Group after which he

was a partner with M3 Capital

Partners. Most recently, Mon-

taquila was the head of U.S.

real estate for Arcapita Inc., a

Bahrain-based alternative asset

investment manager.

Montaquila graduated from

the University of Pennsylva-

nia-The Wharton School with

a degree in finance, and earned

his MBA at Northwestern Uni-

versity’s Kellogg School of

Management.

Parker Schenken

joined

Sher-

man & Howard LLC’s

public

finance department. He will be

working out of the firm’s Den-

ver office.

Schenken spent the last

22 years in public finance in

Omaha. He has served as bond

counsel, borrower’s coun-

sel and underwriter’s coun-

sel on various transactions,

with recent emphasis in the

health care, education and

utility spaces. He is licensed

in Colorado, Nebraska and

Iowa. Schenken is a 1994 grad-

uate, with distinction, of the

University of Nebraska College

of Law. Schenken also holds

a degree in civil engineering

from Loyola Marymount Uni-

versity.

Five AIA Colorado mem-

bers have been elevated to the

American Institute of Archi-

tects College of Fellows. Brian

Chaffee, FAIA, Charles Cun-

niffe, FAIA, Don Deth-

lefs, FAIA, Larry Friedberg,

FAIA

, and

Mark Outman,

FAIA

, received this honor as

recognition of an exemplary

career having broad impact

on the profession.

Chaffee is a principal with

Fentress Architects. Over his

36-year career in architecture,

he has led

and designed

projects rang-

ing from the

mo n um e n t

enclosure of

the Iwo Jima

M e m o r i a l

to extreme-

large

and

pro-

g r a mm a t i -

cally complex museums, head-

quarter office buildings, court-

houses, convention centers and

airports.

Cunniffe is the founding

principal of Charles Cun-

niffe Architects in Aspen. For

36 years, he

has tirelessly

volunteered

in the com-

munity. He

helped

found Jazz

Aspen Snow-

mass

and

Te l l u r i d e ’ s

S h e r i d a n

Arts Foun-

dation. In addition, he has

provided leadership for the

Aspen Area Community

Plan, Aspen’s Civic Area Plan

and Aspen’s Municipal Facili-

ties Master Plan.

Dethlefs is the CEO of

Sink Combs Dethlefs. He is

known for his work on sports,

event, enter-

tainment and

arena facili-

ties. He has

been respon-

sible for inno-

vative con-

cepts

such

includ-

ing Ameri-

canswithDis-

abilities Act

considerations in these facili-

ties, seating concepts such as

loge suites and developing col-

legiate arenas as community-

centric buildings. He has been

a part of more than three-doz-

en AIA Design Award-winning

projects.

Friedberg is the State Archi-

tect for Colorado. He has suc-

cessfully championed the need

for funding of public build-

ings by working with numer-

ous governors and state leg-

islatures to refocus the state’s

deferred maintenance program

to improve facilities through-

out the State of Colorado.

imple-

m e n t e d

and

co-

authored leg-

islation codi-

fying

into

law energy

performance

cont rac t i ng

and high per-

formance cer-

tification of

public buildings. Friedberg

successfully led preservation

projects at the Colorado State

Capitol building.

Outman is a principal with

Fentress Architects. Outman

has dedicated his 35-year career

to elevating the human spirit

through the

e x p e r i e n c e

public

architecture.

Through his

work, he has

elevated air-

port termi-

nals to expe-

riential civic

buildings. As

the require-

ments of federal security agen-

cies have led to more secure

airport terminals, Outman

has pushed the limits to also

make them more humane.

Dave Clute

has been named a

vice president at

ESD,

a leader

in the design of high-perfor-

mance buildings, mission criti-

cal facilities,

workplaces,

and health,

science and

e d u c a t i o n

e n v i r o n -

ments.

Based

Denver, Clute

is active in

the local real

estate

and

architecture/engineering mar-

ketplace. He is a member of the

Colorado chapter of CoreNet

Global, that sponsored the third

Annual Innovation Forum at

the History Colorado Center on

March 8th.

Clute comes to the firm from

Zurich Insurance Group. As

the global head of workplace

technology at Zurich, Clute

was responsible for the devel-

opment, implementation and

operation of workplace technol-

ogy systems. During a decade

at Cisco Systems, he helped

launch the Cisco Connected

Real Estate program. He has

also pioneered the use of Trim-

ble’s 3-D SketchUp program.

Kaitlyn Weimer

joined

Con-

silium Design

as landscape

designer. Weimer is an ambi-

tious designer with a broad

range of design acumen com-

ing from recognized firms along

the East Coast. Her experi-

ence spans

from residen-

tial develop-

ments

and

h o s p i t a l -

ity projects to

urban plan-

ning.

W e i m e r

earned

Bachelor of

Arts in land-

scape architecture from Loui-

siana State University with a

minor in business administra-

tion.

Elsy Studios

added project

architect

Kaye Mullaney

and

interior designer

Sam Ward

its team.

As a project architect, Mul-

laney will be responsible for

m a n a g -

ing projects

from concept

to comple-

tion. She is

licensed

architect with

than

26 years of

e x p e r i e n c e

working on a

diverse range

of project types. Before join-

ing the firm, Mullaney was

an associate at H+L Architec-

ture where she oversaw pro-

duction of the design and con-

struction doc-

uments for

over 1 million

square feet of

new hospital

construction.

Ward will

assist

the

firm’s interi-

or designers

with project

administra-

tion, lease exhibits, space plan-

ning and vendor collaboration

in her new role. Before being

hired on full-time, Ward was

an intern at Elsy Studios. She

is an interior design graduate

of Colorado State University,

where she was the president of

ASID-CSU.

Crystal Nodsle

joined

Shalls

Design Studio

and will pro-

vide design services.

She has an interior design

degree from North Dakota

State Univer-

sity and more

than 15 years

of experience

in the indus-

try. Her back-

ground is as

a consultant

and product

expert for art,

accessories,

textiles, fur-

niture and architectural mate-

rials.

Norris Design

promoted

Ryan McBreen

and

David

Lane, PLA,

to principal in the

Denver office.

McBreen graduated from the

University of Colorado Boulder

in 2002 with

a bachelor’s

degree

environmen-

tal

design

and

land

p l a n n i n g

and from the

Un i v e r s i t y

of Colorado

Denver

2003 with a

master’s degree in urban and

regional planning. McBreen

joined the firm in 2005.

McBreen specializes in site plan-

ning and enti-

tlements as

well as project

management

and coordi-

nation. He is

working on a

variety of proj-

ects including

the

Sevens

Memory Care

facility in Jef-

ferson County, Clear Creek Cross-

ing in Wheat Ridge, the Crystal

Valley Ranch development in

Castle Rock and the single-fam-

ily development, Inspiration, in

Aurora.

Lane joined the firm as a land-

scape architect in 2003 after grad-

uating the year prior fromKansas

State University with a bachelor’s

degree in landscape architecture.

Lane is a registered landscape

architect in the state of Colorado

and a LEED Accredited Profes-

sional.

He is currently working on a

variety of projects including the

Broadstone at Lowry develop-

ment, a park at the Museum of

Outdoor Arts, phase II of the

Gables Cherry Creek develop-

ment and Solana Olde Town Sta-

tionApartments.

CBRE

named

Shanda Staggs

regional sales manager for Colo-

rado.

She will collaborate with local

leadership and assist with busi-

ness development and advisory

and transaction efforts for all

Occupier Services business.

Staggs comes to the firm from

Jeppesen, a Boeing Co., where

she

was

most recent-

ly a senior

sales opera-

tions analyst

respons ibl e

for developing

and manag-

ing successful

sales opera-

tions

pro-

grams.

Staggs holds a bachelor’s

degree from Metropolitan State

University in Denver and is cur-

rently completing her Master of

Business Administration through

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Uni-

versity.

NateWallshein

of Otis, Beding-

field & Peters LLCwas appointed

to the board of the

Matthews

House.

The Matthews House is

organi-

zation

that

e m p o w e r s

young adults

and families

in transition

to navigate

difficulties on

the road to self

suff i c i ency.

The Matthews

House pro-

vides resourc-

es and relationships necessary for

individuals to take control of their

lives and shape positive futures

for themselves.

Ron McInroy

Mike Swanson

Mark Outman

Brian Chaffee

Kaitlyn Weimer

Larry Friedberg

Charles Cunniffe

Don Dethlefs

Kaye Mullaney

Ryan McBreen

Crystal Nodsle

Shanda Staggs

Nate Wallshein

Sam Ward

David Lane

Peter Lauener

Dave Clute

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