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Who’s News
Tony Burke was named pres-
ident of Pinkard Construction
Co. and Jeff Barnes has been
named chief operating officer.
An employee of the firm
since 1999, Burke started out
as a project
engineer and
has moved
through the
ranks as
senior engi-
neer, proj-
ect manager,
senior project
manager and
construction
manager. He also has provid-
ed leadership in the compa-
ny’s senior living, municipal
and health care groups.
Burke has a Bachelor of
Science in building construc-
tion management from Pur-
due University and is a LEED
Accredited Professional.
Barnes joined the company
in 2000 after several years
with several other commercial
contractors in Colorado and
Arizona. In the construction
industry since 1973, Barnes
has hands-on experience as a
superintendent, project man-
ager, senior project manager,
construction manager and
operations manager.
In his new role, Barnes will
oversee all business directly
relating to preconstruction,
construction, self-performance
and warranty, and will work
directly with the company’s
director of preconstruction,
construction managers and
field management. ▲
Jessy Mancha joined Shaffer
Baucom Engineering & Con-
sulting as a CAD designer.
Mancha has been drafting
for more than eight years with
CAD and has
e x p e r i e n c e
with aviation
p l a n n i n g ,
comme rc i a l
fire design
and a vari-
ety of differ-
ent planning
phases, such
as 20-year
progression models for air-
ports around the country. ▲
Adam Larkey was named
director of leasing and sales at
Zeppelin Development.
Larkey has more than eight
years of experience in commer-
cial and residential real estate.
Most recently, he worked as a
broker at Broad Street Realty
and prior to that as a real
estate agent at Dwell Denver.
He has sold and leased
residential, retail, office and
industrial space across the
Denver metro
area, with
more than 50
comme rc i a l
real estate
deals over
the past three
years and
more than
$10 million
in residential transactions in
the past five years. His cli-
ents have included The God-
dard School, Allstate Insur-
ance, Copper Door Coffee,
West+Main Homes, Garrett
Brown Designs, Feed Media,
Rose Paving, and Wills and
Wellness.
In addition to his real estate
background, Larkey was a
driving force and co-founder
of Eater Denver, a popular
blog that covers the local res-
taurant and dining scene. ▲
Alex Ducas joined Marcus &
Millichap Capital Corp. as an
associate director working in
Denver.
Ducas will be responsible
for securing commercial debt
financing for an array of prop-
erty types, including multi-
family, office, industrial, retail,
senior housing and hospitality.
His focus will be along the
Front Range and select outside
markets. He will be leverag-
ing the firm’s commercial real
estate financ-
ing origina-
tion platform
to utilize
n a t i o n a l ,
regional and
local fund-
ing sources
on behalf of
his clients,
i n c l u d i n g ,
but not limited to, MMCC’s
correspondent GSE (Fannie/
Freddie/FHA) lending rela-
tionships, commercial banks,
commercial mortgage-backed
securities lenders, life insur-
ance companies, private and
public funds and hard money
lenders.
Prior to joining the compa-
ny, Ducas served as a loan
adviser and sales consultant
with OnDeck Capital, where
he sourced and underwrote
new debt placements and
nurtured client relationships.
Previous to that, he served
in various business develop-
ment positions for alternative
energy companies in Northern
California.
Ducas is a graduate of the
University of Colorado Boul-
der, where he earned a bach-
elor’s degree in international
affairs. He currently is pur-
suing a Master of Business
Administration at the Univer-
sity of Denver. ▲
Tina L. Du Mond, AIA, ACHA,
EDAC, LEED GA, joined Hord
Coplan Macht’s health care
practice in Denver.
She joins the firm as senior
health care architect.
Du Mond brings more than
13 years of experience to the
firm and is
board certi-
fied by the
A m e r i c a n
College of
He a l t h c a r e
A r c h i t e c t s .
She will col-
laborate with
Mary Moris-
sette, FAIA, principal at Hord
Coplan Macht, to expand the
health care practice for the
Denver office and guide the
design and construction of
new health care projects.
Her past clients include the
University of Colorado Den-
ver Anschutz Medical Cam-
pus, Spectrum Health System,
HealthOne, Banner Health,
Catholic Health Initiatives,
SCL Health and a number of
independent rural health care
providers.
Du Mond has a Master of
Architecture degree from the
University of Colorado Den-
ver and a Bachelor of Science
from Metropolitan State Uni-
versity of Denver. ▲
DLR Group elevated six
design professionals to senior
associate and one design pro-
fessional to associate in the
Denver studio.
The new senior associates
are: Architecture, Kelly Gray,
CDT, CSI and Kyle Yardley, AIA,
LEED AP; Business Develop-
ment, April Herrmann; and
Engineering, Jonathan Ander-
son, PE, Carmen Mazzant, PE,
and Ryan Robley, PE, SE.
The new associate is Travis
Taullie, LEED AP BD+C, LC, engi-
neering. ▲
Rick Schuham was promot-
ed to vice chairman of Savills
Studley.
Schuham joined the firm in
1991 and has been a mem-
ber of the firm’s senior man-
agement since 1997. He has
advised and represented the
full spectrum of consulting,
financial services, pharmaceu-
tical, manufacturing and non-
profit organizations. Schuham
plays an integral role in form-
ing the strategic direction of
Savills Studley through his
position as a member of the
firm’s executive committee
and board of directors. He also
is the Central Region lead with
oversight responsibilities for
operations between Chicago
and Denver.
In his corporate real estate
career, Schuham has repre-
sented some of the nation’s
most prestigious companies
and service firms and has
negotiated some of the coun-
try’s most significant real
estate transactions. His exten-
sive knowledge of building
infrastructure issues and their
impact on business operations
has enabled him to provide
expert counsel to clients in
all business, government and
nonprofit areas locally, nation-
ally and globally. Schuham’s
notable clients include Gold-
man Sachs, Illinois Tool Works,
RSM US LLP, T. Rowe Price
and Takeda Pharmaceuticals.
He also is a member of the
company’s law firm practice
group. ▲
Bruce LePage joined Morten-
son’s Denver office as design
phase executive, while the
company also announced the
promotion of William Gregor
to vice president, operations,
for the Denver office.
LePage has nearly 25 years
of construction management
experience, with a focus on
leading pre-
construction
efforts for
health care
f a c i l i t i e s .
He has been
i n v o l v e d
with several
major health
care projects
within Colo-
rado, including the new Craig
Hospital in Englewood and
the St. Anthony North Cam-
pus in Westminster.
Gregor has more than 25
years of construction man-
agement experience, success-
fully leading
the firm’s
delivery of
many of its
largest and
most com-
plex health
care projects,
i n c l u d i n g
the new St.
Joseph Hos-
pital in Denver and the Chil-
dren’s Hospital of Illinois and
OSF St. Francis Medical Cen-
ter in Peoria, Illinois. ▲
Ryan Heatherman joined
Coan, Payton & Payne LLC.
Heatherman comes to the
firm with 12 years of legal and
litigation experience.
His practice focuses on busi-
ness and banking litigation,
business transactions and
corporate contracts, business
formation, mergers and acqui-
sitions, corporate and regula-
tory compliance, all areas of
real estate, oil and gas related
issues, insurance coverage,
creditors’ rights, judicial fore-
closures, employment issues,
estate and probate adminis-
tration, fam-
ily law and
military law.
Heatherman
is admitted
to practice
before all
courts in Col-
orado, Okla-
homa, and
the Court of
Appeals for the Armed Forces.
Heatherman received his
Bachelor of Business Admin-
istration from the University
of Oklahoma with a major in
accounting. He received his
law degree from the Universi-
ty of Tulsa College of Law. He
started his career as an officer
in the United States Marine
Corps, where he prosecut-
ed courts-martial, and later
deployed to Afghanistan with
an infantry battalion. After the
Marine Corps, Heatherman
served as the general counsel
of an oil and gas company for
two years before enrolling at
the University of Notre Dame,
where he received a Master of
Business Administration, cum
laude, with a concentration in
entrepreneurship.
Previously, he had a litiga-
tion law firm in Fort Collins
and continues to serve as a
major in the U.S. Marine Corps
Reserves. ▲
Robin Brown was named
executive director of the Grand
Junction Economic Partnership.
Brown is the founder of
Brownhouse PR and lifestyle
publication Spoke+Blossom,
as well as a weekly columnist
for The Daily Sentinel. Pre-
viously, Brown led a major
capital campaign for The His-
toric Avalon Theatre in Grand
Junction.
In her new role, Brown will
lead the overall economic
development efforts for Colo-
rado’s Grand Valley with the
mission to increase capital
investment and primary job
opportunities in the region.
She will be supported by
GJEP’s existing three-person
team, which includes Jenni-
fer Seal, director of operations
and investor affairs, and Cilia
Kohn, director of marketing
and communications. Steve
Jozefczyk will assume a great-
er role moving forward as the
organization’s new deputy
director. ▲
Ted Swan was promoted to
director, civil engineering, in
Ware Malcomb’s Denver-based
civil engineering practice.
In this position, Swan is
responsible for the growth and
management of a civil engi-
neering team in Denver and
manages both commercial and
multifamily projects.
A registered Professional
Engineer, Swan has more than
12 years of experience design-
ing and managing a diverse
portfolio of projects ranging
from public-
sector infra-
s t r u c t u r e
i m p r o v e -
ments to
re s i den t i a l ,
comme rc i a l
and indus-
trial devel-
opments in a
multitude of
jurisdictions. His experience
includes the design and con-
struction observation of site
drainage, grading, utilities,
and roadway improvements.
Swan has been working in
the firm’s Denver civil engi-
neering office for over seven
years, most recently serving
as engineering manager. In
this position, he was respon-
sible for managing numerous
civil engineering projects in
the Denver market, including
preparing and reviewing con-
struction documents and pro-
viding construction admin-
istration services for public,
commercial, residential, edu-
cation and retail projects.
Swan holds a Bachelor of
Science degree in civil engi-
neering from Colorado State
University. He holds a LEED
Tony Burke
Jessy Mancha
Adam Larkey
Alex Ducas
Tina L. Du Mond
Bruce LePage
William Gregor
Ryan Heatherman
Ted Swan