The Phoenix Business Journal has another outstanding class of professionals to be honored and celebrated at the 14th annual Most Admired Leaders event on Thursday, May 11, at Phoenix Art Museum.
Kopius, a leading provider of dual-shore digital transformation services, has appointed David Sterenberg as its Chief Revenue Officer. A veteran sales leader, Sterenberg has expertise in digital transformation technology and scaling organizations to drive innovation and growth. He will use his expertise in platform and partnership development to advance a high performing sales organization.
Yassamin Ansari began her professional career at the United Nations, as a policy adviser advocating for climate change. Now, as a Phoenix City Council member and vice mayor, she says that true progress toward a sustainable future starts at the local level. “We are on the front lines of climate change from extreme heat to air pollution,” said Ansari, who was elected to the city council in 2021 at age 28. “These are already issues affecting Arizonans and Phoenicians. Cities play a very important role in also being on the front lines of solutions.”
When the bay doors opened and the new electric bus rolled in during Mountain Line’s launch event on Thursday, there was a strange silence. Despite the cavernous acoustics of the warehouse space, the bus moved forward with almost no sound — the gentle creak of fresh rubber on its tires louder than its electric propulsion. Even inside the bus, sitting right over the motor, there was not much to hear. Casual conversations — even whispers — were fully audible.
Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce presenting Scottsdale Forward: Innovation in Business on Wednesday, April 19; GT Medical Technologies raises $45M to expand tech to treat brain tumors; Intel names Stuart Pann head of foundry business unit crucial to AZ; Parchment acquires Quottly, leading tech solution for course and program sharing, transfer articulation and dual enrollment; Boeing will be building dozens of Apache helicopters in Mesa; the VB Cosmetics story in 2023; Banner Health to build $400M hospital campus in Scottsdale; UArizona Center for Innovation generates $35.3M economic output; Terkel guest blog: Top 12 tech skills employers look for in 2023; Ideas Collide guest blog: The importance of marketing in a down economy; ListenUp launches new technology at Scottsdale’s Smithsonian affiliate Western Spirit: Museum of the West; Phoenix Business Journal names Mignon Gould as associate editor; Raytheon wins contract to develop orbital hypersonic missile defense system; Benchmark Technologies opens new plant in Mesa that will create 100 jobs; Phoenix Sky Harbor starts 2023 with record passenger numbers; Spencer Fane law firm names Phoenix office managing partner; Virgin Galactic’s Mesa facility coming along; company hopeful commercial space flights can resume in Q2; Paragon IT Pros guest post: How to navigate difficult conversations; Pipeline AZ’s IT/Cyber Career Network offers valuable career resources; Per Scholas Phoenix establishes advisory board; Qwick appoints president of Dutch Bros Coffee to board of directors; and February 2023 AZ TechCast episode features ASU’s Cloud Innovation Center, Amazon Web Services and the Arizona Commerce Authority.
Phoenix council member Yassamin Ansari pushes for climate action, sustainable energy; Mountain Line unveils first fully electric buses in Flagstaff; SRP looks from within to select new CEO to replace retiring Mike Hummel; Microsoft agrees to make data centers air cooled amid water infrastructure challenges in Goodyear; KORE Power selects Siemens as infrastructure technology provider for Arizona battery gigafactory; Hobbs won’t support water legislation that ‘creates additional loopholes’; Atlis Motor Vehicles becomes first company to successfully demonstrate over 1 megawatt charging capability; new lithium-ion battery recycling plant planned for Pinal County; Arizona still gets a significant amount of power from burning coal – how soon could that change?; Arizona voters support expanding access to natural spaces for underserved communities; and ZEVX closes $20M+ funding round, appoints Don Listwin as CEO.
South Korean battery giant LG Energy Solution Ltd. has confirmed its plans to move forward with building a battery complex in Arizona and will be significantly increasing its investment in the project. LGES, one of the largest battery makers in the world, said Friday that now it plans to invest $5.5 billion to construct two manufacturing plants in Queen Creek, a town located just south of the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport.
The Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce presents Scottsdale Forward: Innovation in Business, an economic development symposium geared towards business leaders in the Scottsdale community. The breakfast event will be held at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday, April 19th from 7:30 AM to 9:15 AM. Registration is open through the Scottsdale Chamber’s website.
Tempe-based GT Medical Technologies Inc. raised $45 million to expand its technology to treat patients with operable brain tumors. The funding will be used to expand the company’s commercialization of its GammaTile Therapy, a targeted radiation therapy the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared in July 2018 for patients with operable brain tumors.
Salt River Project has named longtime employee Jim Pratt as the company’s new general manager and CEO. Pratt will start his new job on May 5 to lead Arizona’s largest community-based, not-for-profit utility. Pratt succeeds CEO Mike Hummel, who is retiring. The Tempe-based company said that Pratt was selected from among a number of internal candidates.