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A "Key Employee"
addition or promotion is a credible "News Hook," appropriate for release to the news media.
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Christine Shapard Appointed Founding Executive
Director for the Colorado Cleantech Industry Association Christine
Shapard, a well-known name in Denver's business community has been named the first executive director for the Colorado Cleantech
Industry Association (CCIA), a trade association currently being formed for the State's clean technology industry. Clean
technology is anything that helps consumers or industries to use natural resources such as energy, water and waste more efficiently
- and, while using them - lessen their environmental footprint. Denver,
CO, March 17, 2009 -- Christine Shapard, a well-known name in Denver's business community has been named the first
executive director for the Colorado Cleantech Industry Association (CCIA), a trade association currently being formed
for the State's clean technology industry. The announcement is made by Ron Bernal, partner with Sequel Venture Partners, and
member of the CCIA organizing committee, who says his team is absolutely thrilled to have an executive of Shapard's
caliber on board to spearhead the future launch of the new association and its ongoing management and growth. “I’m extremely excited about leading the first industry-led, industry-focused
cleantech trade association in our state,” Shapard says. “Colorado has the potential to be the national leader
for the this important industry.”” Shapard most recently
served as interim director of the Colorado Bioscience Association (CBSA), which she originally joined in January 2006 as director
of marketing and communications. Prior to CBSA, Shapard was with the Governor's Office of Economc Devopment & International
Trade where she helped start Colorado's trade association for nanotechnology companies and help launch both the BioWest Conference
& Expo and the Bioscience Colorado magazine. Clean technology is
anything that helps consumers or industries to use natural resources such as energy, water and waste more efficiently - and,
while using them - lessen their environmental footprint. The sector includes renewable energy manufacturers and providers
as well as products and services that make our current energy production and distribution systems more efficient. About the Colorado Cleantech Industry Association The Colorado Cleantech Industry Association represents the interests of the state’s cleantech
industry. Its mission is to further establish Colorado as a world leader in clean technology by providing representation and
advocacy, a unified voice, relevant programming and capacity development. For more information, visit http://www.coloradocleantech.com. ### Contacts: Christine Shapard, CCIA Executive Director, 303-623-2690, Chris@coloradocleantech.com Maggie Chamberlin
Holben, Absolutely Public Relations, 303-984-9801, maggie@absolutelypr.com Here's another Key Employee announcement
campaign example:
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Biotech Executive John Collar Named President
& CEO of the Colorado BioScience Association, Effective December 8 Following an extensive national search, John Collar, Chief Operating Officer of Westminster-based
Matrilinex, has been named President & CEO of the Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA), effective December 8, 2008.
A seasoned senior executive, Collar has a background of solid corporate experience with a proven track record for strategic
planning, managing to metrics, and c-level operational
responsibilities. He succeeds Denise Brown who retired from the association in September after six years of dedicated
service. Denver, CO –
November 21, 2008 – John Collar, Chief Operating Officer of Westminster-based Matrilinex, a start up mitochondrial
DNA testing lab company, has been named President & CEO of the Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA), effective December
8, 2008. The announcement is made by Jack Wheeler, CBSA Board Chair, who says Collar has been appointed President & CEO
by the CBSA board following an extensive national search process, coordinated by a respected search firm and managed by a
subcommittee of the board. “We
are very pleased that we were able to attract a group of extremely talented executives to our interviewing process. Of the
three candidates who made it to final selection, John Collar stood out above the rest. He was here in Colorado employed
at a biotech start up, and the national search process simply proved to our search committee and the board of directors that
a local executive was ready to lead the association,” Wheeler says. Prior to Matrilinex, Collar was Chief Operating Officer for Neuromark, Inc., an early stage Company
in the genetic diagnostic field for psychiatric disorders; Corporate Vice President for Octagon Systems, a Colorado-based
company serving the embedded computer systems markets; and served as President of Industrial Laboratories, a privately held
company in the food, nutraceutical, and drug testing industry. In addition he spent three years as Director of Operations
for publicly held Amrion, Inc. (a subsidiary of Whole Foods) and twelve years as Director of International Operations for
Baxter. "I'm very excited to join the CBSA in
this leadership role and especially looking forward to building on the many positive achievements and programs that Denise
Brown, the CBSA staff, board and member volunteers have made happen over the past six years for Colorado's bioscience industry,”
Collar says. “This position, along with my background in large and small businesses in pharmaceuticals, biotech
and medical devices, provides a very unique opportunity for both me and the Association. As we move forward
through these challenging times, we will continue to work diligently to expand the bioscience industry in Colorado through
a broad spectrum of existing and new programs." Collar
received a Masters of Business Administration, Marketing minor, from Barry University, Miami Shores, FL, in 1990. He
earned his Packaging Engineering undergraduate degree from Michigan State University in 1979. Collar has served as Chairman
of the Board for the Colorado Association of Manufacturing and Technology; and is a board member for the City of Westminster
Business Advisory Group, MSU Alumni Association and The Butterfly Pavilion. He is a former board member of Octagon Systems
Corp and the PC/104 consortium. In addition, Collar
holds professional certification in Packaging Engineering & Materials Management and is past chairman of Professional
certifications for the International Society of Packaging & Handling Engineers. He also holds his pilots license, multi-engine
rated, and U.S. Coast Guard Captain's license, Master's rating. Collar
succeeds Denise Brown who retired from the association in September. Brown was honored this year with the CBSA’s special
Chairman’s Award for taking the CBSA organization from 20 to 400 members during her tenure. Her awareness of the
bioscience industry’s needs and her ability to advocate on behalf of it has made CBSA the preeminent industry organization
in Colorado, as well as an organization that is held up as a model across the country. About Colorado BioScience Association CBSA is a not-for-profit corporation providing services and support for Colorado’s growing biosciences
industry. With more than 400 members, the CBSA actively works to promote the growth of the industry by advocating for
a better business environment, by promoting programs that grow the state’s bioscience workforce, by fighting for policies
that support a strong bioscience industry in the state and by speaking with a single voice on behalf of the companies in the
state. For more information, visit http://www.cobioscience.com. # # # Contacts: Jack Wheeler,
Colorado BioScience Association Board Chair, 303-339-1420 or jwheeler@micro-phage.com
Maggie Chamberlin Holben, APR, Colorado BioScience
Association Board Member and Media Relations Consultant, 303-984-9801, maggie@absolutelypr.com
Here's another Key Employee
announcement campaign example:
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Mary J. Gearhart, P.E., has been named operations
manager for the Rocky Mountain Region of the international Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation.
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Note:
this company was acquired by Tetra Tech on March 7, 2003. Foster
Wheeler Environmental Corporation
Intensifies Focus On Rocky Mountain Region
Lakewood, CO (December 20, 2001)
– Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation is heading into 2002 with an expanded emphasis on its Rocky Mountain Regional
Office. Sam W. Box – chairman, president and CEO of the company – recently announced that Mary J. Gearhart, P.E.,
was hired to run the Foster Wheeler Environmental offices in Denver, Albuquerque and Chicago.
Foster Wheeler Environmental
Corporation is most familiar in the region for its 1997 program management contract with the Rocky Mountain Arsenal to design
remediation projects and select the subcontractors needed to perform the $1.6 billion cleanup effort. In addition, Foster
Wheeler's Rocky Mountain Region is focused on these projects:
--- Unexploded ordnance surveying and removal. It
is estimated that in excess of 10 million acres of land in the continental U. S. may be affected. Foster Wheeler Environmental
Corporation was awarded two contracts to provide UXO services worldwide.
--- An environmental remediation and construction
contract with the Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence, Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, to provide environmental cleanup
and construction services.
--- A contract to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the US Forest Service,
including a Rehabilitation Needs Plan, a Tral1sportation Analysis, a Watershed Analysis, a Biological Assessment! Biological
Evaluation, and a Socioeconomic Evaluation on the "Viveash Fire" near the town of Pecos, New Mexico.
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A contract with the Federal Highway Administration to provide services for a cleanup project at the Denver Federal Center
in Lakewood, Colorado.
Mary Gearhart brings more than 22 years experience in environmental and infrastructure engineering
to the position at the Rocky Mountain regional office of Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation. She has held positions
at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, David E. Fleming Company, and most recently served as vice president
and area manager for ARCADIS, Inc. She has been responsible for both program management and operations management, and has
been instrumental in developing innovative site closure strategies, permitting and compliance programs and long-term operations
and maintenance programs.
Gearhart was appointed as a member of the Colorado Water Quality Control Commission,
serving the Commission from 1988 to 1993. She is a native Denverite and graduate of the University of Colorado at Denver Civil
Engineering program. Gearhart is currently chairing the University of Colorado at Denver Engineering Advisory Council and
is a member of the search committee for anew dean for the College of Engineering. She has served on this Council since 1979.
In addition, Gearhart also chairs the Board of Directors of the Sand Creek Regional Greenway Partnership and is a member of
the Board of Directors for the Colorado Opera Troupe, and still finds time to serve as the co-den leader of her 8-year-old
son's Cub Scout troop.
Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation's mission is to conduct a global business directed
toward cleaning up and protecting the environment while facilitating economic growth, and to do so in a safe, compliant, cost-effective
manner. The company assists clients in reducing their environmental liability through proactive planning, risk-based approaches,
analyses and corrective action. Clients benefit from staff experience, talent and technologically advanced systems that solve
their most complex environmental problems.
Notes to Editors:
Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation, a wholly
owned subsidiary of Foster Wheeler USA, is a leading environmental consulting, engineering, and remediation firm employing
2,200 people expert in the areas of environmental sciences" engineering disciplines and construction. The firm has 25
domestic offices and 19 international locations.
Further, please note that Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation
was acquired by Tetra Tech on March 7, 2003, and is now called Tetra Tech FW, Inc., (go to http://www.ttfwi.com for more information).
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Contact: Maggie Holben, 303-984-9801
The media relations campaign for Mary Gearhart's
executive announcement (executed in conjunction with Consensus Communications, Lakewood, CO) December 2001-July 2002 resulted
in ten placements in the following publications: Denver Daily Journal, Denver Business Journal, Intermountain Jewish News,
Rocky Mountain News, Denver Post, Defense Cleanup, Colorado Construction, WomenOfColorado.com and Colorado Woman News.
Circulation reach: 1,122,904
Ad Value Equivalent: $3,197.80
In addition, exposure was also achieved
at HoustonChronicle.com, CBSMarketWatch.com, Hoovers Online, WorldNews.com, worldenvironment.com, PCQuote.com and Yahoo!Finance.com.
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