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Sioux Falls Development Foundation

Mike Gray

Claire Herbst

Claire Herbst has joined the Sioux Falls Development Foundation as the talent recruitment coordinator. She is a recent University of South Dakota graduate and will work to recruit college students to Sioux Falls and match them with internship opportunities with local companies.

Mike Gray, director of business expansion and retention at the Sioux Falls Development Foundation, has been named to the board of directors for the Mid America Economic Development Council. The group serves economic development professionals in a 13-state region, providing education, making connections and sharing best practices.

Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz & Smith

Seventeen lawyers at Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz & Smith LLP have been listed in Best Lawyers 2023 for South Dakota in 24 practice areas.

  • Banking and finance law: Charles Gullickson, Douglas Hajek and Dixie Hieb.
  • Bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights/insolvency and reorganization law: Keith Gauer and Robert Hayes.
  • Bet-the-company litigation: Hayes.
  • Business organizations, including LLCs and partnerships: Hieb, Brendan Reilly and Catherine Tanck.
  • Closely held companies and family businesses law: Jonathan Brown, P. Daniel Donohue, Hieb and Tanck.
  • Commercial litigation: Thomas Frankman, Mitchell Peterson and Eric Schulte.
  • Corporate law: Brown, Gauer, Hajek, Hieb and Terry Prendergast.
  • Elder law: Sarah Richardson Larson.
  • Employee benefits, or ERISA, law: Jean Bender and Richardson Larson.
  • Employment law – management: Bender. 
  • Financial services regulation law: Gullickson and Hajek.
  • Government relations practice: Hajek.
  • Litigation and controversy tax: Tanck.
  • Litigation – banking and finance: Gauer.
  • Litigation – bankruptcy: Hayes.
  • Litigation – construction: Schulte.
  • Litigation – insurance: Peterson and Schulte.
  • Litigation – trusts and estates: Vince Roche.
  • Mergers and acquisitions law: Brown, Hajek, Reilly and Tanck.
  • Personal injury litigation – defendants: Frankman.
  • Personal injury litigation – plaintiffs: Peterson.
  • Real estate law: Brown, Donohue and Prendergast.
  • Tax law: Tanck.
  • Trusts and estates: Mary Akkerman, Donohue, Richardson Larson, Prendergast and Tanck.

Catherine Tanck

Eric Schulte

Brendan Reilly

Dixie Hieb

In addition, four Davenport Evans lawyers were named Lawyers of the Year: Dixie Hieb for banking and finance law; Brendan Reilly for mergers and acquisitions law; Eric Schulte for litigation – construction; and Catherine Tanck for trusts and estates.

Kalen Biord

Elizabeth Hertz

Two lawyers were named Ones to Watch: Elizabeth Hertz for appellate practice, commercial litigation, litigation – construction and litigation – intellectual property; and Kalen Biord for business organizations, including LLCs and partnerships; mergers and acquisitions law and tax law.

Hy-Vee

Hy-Vee Inc. has earned a GreenChill recognition from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its work to reduce refrigerant emissions and decrease its environmental impact. Hy-Vee received Superior Goal Achievement, which is awarded to GreenChill partners that meet their annual GreenChill refrigerant emissions reduction goal. EPA’s GreenChill Program is a voluntary partnership with food retailers, system manufacturers and chemical producers to reduce refrigerant emissions and decrease their impact on the ozone layer and climate change. Hy-Vee joined the program in 2010 and focuses its refrigerant management plan on leak avoidance and using lower global warming potential refrigerants.

Great Plains Zoo

The Great Plains Zoo has achieved accreditation by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums. The AZA requires facilities to complete its accreditation process every five years as a condition of membership, and less than 10 percent of attractions earn the distinction. The Great Plains Zoo has maintained accreditation since 1991.

Principal Financial Network of the Dakotas

Cassidy Frederick

Meredith Sehr

Principal Financial Network of the Dakotas has added two new staff members.

Meredith Sehr is a new business consultant and has four years of experience.

Cassidy Frederick is the site coordinator and most recently worked at Volunteers of America for five years.

Amanda Waddell

Amanda Waddell of Principal Financial Network of the Dakotas has been promoted to senior business development consultant and has been with the company for eight years.

 

 

Secure Enterprise Asset Management

Secure Enterprise Asset Management Inc. is one of only two providers in the country to successfully upgrade to the accredited certifications R2v3 and e-Stewards Version 4.1, which ensure secure and responsible resale and recycling of retired electronics. Only 14 companies in the U.S. are certified to both standards. SEAM also earned recertification for ISO 45001 and ISO 14001, along with certification for ISO 9001 and NAID AAA, the most recognized verification of data destruction qualifications in the world.

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