HEALTH CARE
Scott Gottlieb
UnitedHealth Group, an Eden Prairie-based national health insurer, announced that Dr. Scott Gottlieb has joined its board of directors. Gottlieb, a practicing physician, is a former U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner and has held roles at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and on the Federal Health Information Technology Policy Committee.
ARCHITECTURE
NewStudio Architecture, St. Paul, announced the return of Sunny Reed to the position of director of interior design/senior associate.
FINANCIAL SERVICES
Associated Banc-Corp announced that Mike Lebens will succeed Paul Schmidt as the Twin Cities market president, effective Jan. 1. Lebens currently is senior vice president and commercial banking market leader; Schmidt is executive vice president and head of commercial real estate and facilities. Associated Banc-Corp is the parent company of Associated Bank, based in Green Bay, Wis., and is the 14th largest bank in Minnesota by deposit market share.
FOOD
Hormel Foods Corp., an Austin, Minn.-based provider of grocery store prepared food brands, announced the appointment of Paul Kuehneman as interim chief financial officer and controller. Kuehneman previously was director of internal audit, vice president and chief financial officer for Jennie-O Turkey Store, a Hormel division, and most recently, vice president and controller of Hormel Foods. … KZ Provisioning, a Minneapolis-based provider of nutrition services for sports teams, announced the appointment of Bri Rosas as its first chief executive officer. The company was founded by Minnesota-based James Beard Award-winning chefs Gavin Kaysen and Andrew Zimmern. Rosas formerly was president and co-founder of Opus Sports Partners and also led the communications and broadcast departments for the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves and the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx.
HONORS
Hormel Foods Corp., Austin, Minn., announced that it was recognized by Vault as having one of the top 150 internship programs in the nation.
LAW
Maslon, Minneapolis, welcomed attorneys Dany Berbari and Ashley Patyk to the firm’s Litigation Group. Berbari previously served as a law clerk for the Honorable James B. Loken of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Patyk served as a law clerk for the Honorable Tracy M. Smith of the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
MANUFACTURING
Graco Inc., a Minneapolis-based maker of fluid handling equipment for industry, announced the appointment of Andrea (Andi) H. Simon to its board of directors effective Dec. 5. Simon serves as executive vice president and chief financial officer at MasterBrand Inc. … Apogee Enterprises, a Bloomington-based provider of architectural windows and related products for commercial construction, announced that Independent Chair Donald A. Nolan has been appointed chief executive officer, effective Oct. 31, succeeding Ty R. Silberhorn. Nolan also will become executive chair of the board; board member Patricia K. Wagner has been appointed the independent lead director.
PUBLISHING
Coffee House Press , a Minneapolis-based book publisher, announced the appointments of Mark Haber as director of acquisitions and marketing, and Kaija Straumanis as editorial director; both new positions. Haber has been director of marketing for Coffee House Press for the past two and a half years; Straumanis formerly was senior editor of Open Letter Books in Rochester, N.Y.
TECHNOLOGY
Clearfield, a Plymouth-based communication fiber management company, announced the elections of Rebecca Seidel and Kathleen Skarvan to its board of directors, effective Dec. 10. Seidel is senior vice president and president of Cardiac Ablation Solutions at Medtronic; Skarvan is a former senior vice president and president of Hutchinson Technology’s Disk Drive Division. … NetSPI, a Minneapolis-based data-security company for business, announced the appointment of Sridhar Jayanthi as its interim chief product and technology officer. Jayanthi previously was with McAfee, now Trellix, and FireEye, now Mandiant, and was the CEO and co-founder of PolyLogyx.
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