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Avera Health
Avera Health’s board of directors has new leadership. Gary Gaspar, an owner and CEO of Interstate Office Products, has been named chair. Sister Penny Bingham of the Benedictine Peace Center in Yankton will serve as vice chair.
New board members are Sister Roxanne Seifert of Avera Queen of Peace Hospital in Mitchell and Dr. Katherine Wang of Avera Medical Group.
Interstate Office Products
Bree Stotz has been promoted to operations manager at Interstate Office Products and will serve as the primary interface between the sales and design and the furniture installation groups.
Sanford POWER
Freddy Coleman has been named director of the Sanford POWER Basketball Academies. Coleman has led the POWER Basketball Academy in Fargo since 2019. He played basketball at North Dakota State University and helped the Bison reach the NCAA Tournament in 2009. He has served as the top assistant at Concordia College and as an assistant coach at NDSU.
Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation
The Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation has two new members on its board of directors: Matt Gassen, who is retiring at the end of the month as CEO of Feeding South Dakota, and Marilyn Korsten, owner of SamCreative.
TSP
TSP’s principal group has two new members.
Project manager Tadd Holt in Watertown celebrated 21 years with TSP in June. He is a licensed structural engineer.
Senior architect Von Petersen in Rochester, Minnesota, is a LEED accredited professional who joined TSP in 2010.
TSP has added two architectural graduates to its design practice.
Jamie Ohrt works in the Sioux Falls office. Ohrt has a bachelor’s degree in biology and worked at zoos in New Mexico, Texas, and California before pursuing design as a second career. She earned her master’s degree in architecture from the University of New Mexico.
Autumn Kayl is based in the Rapid City office. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from South Dakota State University, where she majored in architecture and picked up a minor in construction management. Kayl joined TSP after completing her Master of Architecture at Kansas State University.