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sity of Texas and a Master of
Science in structural engineer-
ing and structural mechanics
from the University of Colora-
do. His work with the compa-
ny has included the Foothills
Activity Center in Fort Collins,
16M in downtown Denver and
2755 Canyon in Boulder.
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Kenneth A. Whitelam
was
promoted to market president
over the Denver market for
Midland States Bank.
Whitelam brings more than
30 years of
financial ser-
vices experi-
ence and has
served the
Denver mar-
ket for the
past 20 years.
In this role,
Whitelam
will lead the
sales and
management
activities to support growth
and development of retail,
small-business and commer-
cial programs and services.
Whitelam received his Busi-
ness Administration degree
in accounting from Red River
College in Winnipeg, Manito-
ba, Canada. In addition, he has
received his Financial Manage-
ment Designation from the
Certified General Accountants
Association of Canada in Win-
nipeg and remains affiliated
with the CGA.
Whitelam is based at Mid-
land’s Denver branch.
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Joe Aiken
joined
National
Inspection Services.
Aiken has 35 years of man-
agement and technical experi-
ence with the assessment and
remediation of environmen-
tally impaired properties and
with the management and
operations of environmental
services and remediation busi-
nesses.
His expertise includes inte-
gration of environmental
cleanup with redevelopment;
environmental investigation
and selection of remedial
technologies to best address
site conditions; remedial cost
estimation; and modeling
of liabilities/costs to obtain
environmental insurance and
negotiate environmental liabil-
ity transfer programs.
Aiken also has experience
with the management of com-
plex environmental cleanup
programs, including regula-
tory negotiations to achieve
environmental closure related
to asbestos in buildings and
soils, petroleum contamina-
tion, soil and groundwater
impacted by chlorinated sol-
vents, indoor air issues, and
other environmental concerns.
He has served as the general
manager of an environmen-
tal technology division and
started a successful brown-
fields remediation and rede-
velopment business unit for a
major environmental consult-
ing company. He also man-
aged the operations of a real
estate investment company
that acquired environmentally
impaired real estate, providing
remediation of environmental
concerns and redevelopment
and repositioning services for
the properties. Aiken recently
was a member of the Colo-
rado Department of Public
Health and Environment
committee that developed the
Colorado Brownfields Tax
Credit program, managed the
preparation of Phase I envi-
ronmental site assessments for
37 gasoline service stations/
convenience stores as part of a
bank refinancing project, and
managed the implementation
of Phase II environmental
assessments at a number of
properties as part of the prop-
erty transfer process.
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Amy Borman, ASID, NCIDQ,
joined
Kimberly Timmons
Interiors
as a project manager
and residential design services
team leader.
She has more than 20 years
of experience
and a back-
ground man-
aging her
own design
practice. She
has complet-
ed hundreds
of residential
and commer-
cial projects
across the
United States and recently
relocated to Denver after more
than 10 years of working in
Southern California.
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David Gainers
joined the
Stewart Title Commercial
Services
Denver office as busi-
ness development officer.
He will be responsible for
growing the firm’s commer-
cial business by developing
and maintaining new busi-
ness relationships and sales
locally, regionally and nation-
ally. Gaines has 21 years of
experience in business devel-
opment and management in
the title insurance industry,
19 of which have been in the
commercial arena. Previously,
he worked in Stewart Title’s
Houston Commercial Services
office from 2004 to 2008.
Gaines attended Louisiana
Tech University, majoring in
business marketing.
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Matrix Design Group Inc.
added
James “Jamie” Price,
PE,
as executive vice president
and director of operations.
Previously with Parson
Brinckerhoff Inc. where he
served as the senior area man-
ager for Colorado/Wyoming,
he has more than 25 years
of engineering consulting
experience. Price was one of
the founding shareholders of
Matrix in 1999 and returns
to Matrix after a nine-year
absence.
Price is a graduate of the
Colorado School of Mines
and University of California,
Irvine. His experience includes
the redevelopment of Lowry,
Stapleton Airport, 14th Street,
Denver International Airport,
Quebec Parkway, Prairie Gate-
way/Dick’s Sporting Goods
Park, St. Anthony Hospital,
the Fitzsimons Army Medi-
cal Center, National Western
Stock Show and many transit
oriented development projects
throughout the greater Denver
area.
Matrix also added
Laura
Aldrete, AICP; Jason Rutt, PE;
Matt Buster, PE; Dave Kline,
PE, PTOE;
and
Steve Young,
PG,
to its Denver operations.
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Steadfast Cos.
announced
several promotions within the
company’s senior manage-
ment positions.
Tim Middle-
ton,
formerly executive vice
president, real estate finance,
has been promoted to chief
investment officer;
Bill Stoll,
formerly executive vice presi-
dent, acquisitions, has been
promoted to executive vice
president, real estate, with
overall responsibility for the
company’s acquisition, devel-
opment and construction teams;
and
Matthew Day,
formerly
vice president, acquisitions, has
been promoted to senior vice
president, acquisitions.
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Brendan Clarke,
managing
director of
Colorado Springs
Commercial, a Cushman
& Wakefield Alliance,
was
awarded the Certified Commer-
cial Investment Member Desig-
nation by the CCIM Institute.
The CCIM designation is
awarded to commercial real
estate professionals upon
successful completion of a
graduate-level education cur-
riculum and
presentation
of a portfolio
of qualifying
experience.
Clarke
joined the
firm in Feb-
ruary as its
managing
director, spe-
cializing in
medical office and investment
opportunities along with avia-
tion and airport projects. Pre-
viously, he worked with NAI
Highland Commercial, where
he closed more than $10 million
in real estate transactions.
Prior to his real estate career,
Clarke was a military fighter
pilot with both the Royal New
Zealand Air Force and the
Royal Air Force; thereafter
an international airline pilot
with Air New Zealand. He has
owned, managed and consulted
on investment and commercial
real estate both in New Zealand
and, more recently, Colorado
after relocating to Colorado
Springs in 2013.
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Keo Frazier
joined
McWhin-
ney
as vice president of mar-
keting.
In this role, she will be
responsible for developing the
vision and executing the strat-
egy of an integrated marketing
and public relations platform
for the company and all of its
initiatives. Frazier also leads
both the internal development
of key marketing initiatives and
materials as well as activates
and develops relationships with
key partners.
Prior to joining McWhinney,
Frazier operated two successful
marketing businesses in Colora-
do. Her most recent marketing
role was senior director of mar-
keting for Shaw Construction.
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Anthony Knoppe, Alex
Engle
and
Gregory Dent
joined
Davis Partnership Archi-
tects
as senior architect, archi-
tect intern
and architect,
respectively.
They will
assist in the
development
of design and
construction
documents
for commer-
cial, health
care and mul-
tifamily housing projects.
Knoppe joined as a senior
architect in the health care
practice group. He has 17
years of experience practic-
ing health care architecture,
including involvement in labo-
ratory research work at Uni-
versity of Colorado Boulder,
health care facilities across the
Great Plains region and the
1.8-million-square-foot Hum-
ber River Regional Hospital in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Engle joined as an architect
intern in the commercial stu-
dio. He has
several years
of architec-
tural design
experience
while with
other local
firms. He has
undergradu-
ate and mas-
ter’s degrees
from North
Dakota State University and
will be working on various
multifamily housing projects.
Dent is an experienced
architect
proficient in
complicated
addition and
renovation
projects,
including
U.S. Depart-
ment of
Veterans
Affairs/U.S.
General Services Administra-
tion work, senior housing,
higher education and K-12
projects. He will join with the
health care practice group
working on various SCL
projects.
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Kay Moon
Folan
joined
Quantum
Commercial
Group.
Folan will
focus on
multifamily
for the Colo-
rado Springs-based firm.
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Who’s News
High Fives!
Transwestern’s
Denver
office held as happy hour
event May 18 to round out
its fundraising efforts for the
firm’s national philanthro-
py partner, Make-A-Wish.
Approximately 100 people
attended the event at the Pub
on Pearl, where 60 percent of
the proceeds went directly to
Make-A-Wish to help grant
wishes for children with life-
threatening medical condi-
tions.
By the end of the night, the
donation exceeded $15,000,
surpassing the fundraising
goal by more than $2,000.
Jennifer Jones, an adminis-
trative associate at Transwest-
ern, shared her personal expe-
rience with Make-A-Wish,
which granted a wish for her
daughter, now 29.
“Make-A-Wish gave some-
thing to my daughter that she
will have for the rest of her
life, an experience andmemo-
ries that came at a time when
sickness and doubt were daily
reminders of our reality,” said
Jones. “Not only did this
organization positively affect
my daughter’s life, but mine
as well. We are so thankful for
everything they provided for
our family.”
Transwestern Managing
Director Brad Cohen and his
band, The Slipshods, volun-
teered their musical talents
at the event, entertaining
the group with renditions of
famous rock songs.
Transwestern partnered
with Make-A-Wish on a
national level to raise the
funds necessary to grant more
and better wishes. The happy
hour at Pub on Pearl was the
last fundraising event in a
series duringMay that includ-
ed Breakfast for a Cause and
Yoga for a Cause to help reach
the donation goal. Transwest-
ern also received support for
the events from local Make-
A-Wish Colorado representa-
tives Lauren Beede and Stacie
Winslow.
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John Blackshire and Nica Alfonso of Transwestern and Brent Lopez
enjoy a happy hour event to raise funds for Make-A-Wish.
High Fives! recognizes good deeds and accomplishments
by companies and individuals in the Colorado commercial
real estate industry. Please share your good news
and photos with us by emailing
Submissions should be 200 words or less.
Kenneth A.
Whitelam
Amy Borman
Anthony Knoppe
Alex Engle
Brendan Clarke
Gregory Dent
Kay Moon Folan
