Business beat

ICM Asset Management has hired Anissa Bay as a client services administrator. She has almost 17 years of experience and holds a bachelor’s degree in organizational management from Whitworth College.

Mike Piper has been hired as a sales associate in the Coeur d’Alene office of Windermere Real Estate. He previously worked as director of marketing and sales and resort development at Fairmont Hot Springs.

Farmers Insurance has named Brad Fitzgerald as an agent. He previously worked as a manager at ConAgra/Lamb-Weston and has opened an office on the north side of Spokane.

Teresa Eggleston has been hired as director of marketing at Kiemle & Hagood Co. She holds a degree in business/marketing from Eastern Washington University.

Taylor Engineering has hired Rik Van Gelder as a surveyor and design technician at the company’s new Coeur d’Alene branch.

Shirley Smith-Allen has been hired as branch manager at the north Spokane branch of Eagle Home Mortgage. She has 12 years of experience as a branch manager and loan originator and 31 years of experience as a mortgage lender.

Citigroup Smith Barney has hired Robert Yuditsky as vice president and wealth management financial advisor.

Heidi Tobler has opened an AtHome America business which sells home-decorating products.

Eagle Home Mortgage has hired Bryan Morgan as a mortgage consultant. He has 15 years of experience in sales administration.

Alicia Gilrein has opened an AtHome America business, selling home-decorating products.

Eagle Home Mortgage has hired Ron McVay as a mortgage consultant. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Walla Walla College and has nine years of mortgage loan consulting experience.

PROMOTED

Coffman Engineers has promoted Kurt Niven to a principal. He has been with the company since 1998 and holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from California Polytechnic State University.

Dan Rauscher has been promoted at Garco Building Systems to general sales and marketing manager. He is a graduate of Gonzaga University and has been with the company since 1997.

AmericanWest Bank has promoted Blair Reynolds to executive vice president. Reynolds works as general counsel for AmericanWest Bancorporation and has been with the bank since 2004.

Heidi Cleveland has been promoted to senior vice president at AmericanWest Bank. She is the director of marketing and has been with the bank since 2004.

KUDOS

Dick Aagard has been awarded the John L. Scott President’s Elite Gold award and the MLS Gold award for his sales at John L. Scott Central.

Patsy Barten has earned the Graduate Realtor Institute designation from the Idaho Association of Realtors. Barten is a real estate agent at Windermere/Coeur d’Alene Realty’s Post Falls office.

Mike Parsons has earned the Graduate Realtor Institute designation from the Idaho Association of Realtors. Parsons is a real estate agent at Windermere/Coeur d’Alene Realty.

Garry Shea, a senior vice president, financial consultant at D.A. Davidson & Co., has earned the designation of Chartered Retirement Plan specialist.

Brandon Mulvey, a business account executive at Verizon Wireless in Spokane, has earned membership in the company’s President’s Cabinet. He received this award for ranking in the top 2 percent nationally in sales in 2005.

The Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce has awarded the following military personnel the Person of the Year Award. They are: Senior Airman Jon Cael of the Washington State Air National Guard, Master Sgt. Karla McClure of the Washington State Air National Guard, Sgt. Nicholas Stuart of the United States Army National Guard, and Senior Master Sgt. Brian Lavoie of the United State Air Force.

Tom McGann has received the Palouse Region STAR Award from the Palouse Tourism Marketing Committee. McGann is the director of the Student Sports Complex at the University of Idaho.

Costco Wholesale Corp. has been awarded the Service Excellence Award from the Coeur d’Alene Chamber of Commerce.

The Ohio Casualty Group has named Harris Dean Insurance of Coeur d’Alene as a Key Producer. The office has been open since 1980.