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Jim Jarding

Mike Halverson

Mike Hauck

Active Generations

Active Generations has six new board members: Mike Hauck, Ogborn Mihm Quaintance and Accord Commercial Real Estate; Mike Halverson, retired from Premier Bankcard; Jim Jarding,

Maureen Ohm

Mary Michaels

Eide Bailly; Mary Michaels, AARP South Dakota; Maureen Ohm, MarketBeat; and Tracy Saathoff, United Health Group.

Sanford Health

Nathan Ovenden

Heather Herlyn

Two Sanford Health employees were co-presenters at the AHCA/NCAL Quality Summit earlier this month in Atlanta.

Heather Herlyn, director of quality and safety for the Good Samaritan Society, spoke at the session “Chasing Innovation: Strategies for Continuous Improvement and Organizational Growth.”

Nathan Ovenden, director of Medicare programs for Sanford Health Plan, spoke at the session “Evaluating Long-Term Care Financials: Shifting from Fee-for-Service to Population Health Models.”

Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation

The Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation has been accredited with Community Foundations National Standards, the highest standards for philanthropic excellence. The foundation’s policies and procedures went through a review of 26 National Standards in six key areas of community foundation operations, including donor services, investment management, grantmaking and administration.

KLJ Engineering

KLJ Engineering has added two employees to its South Dakota team.

Drake Keating

Joel Bartscher

Joel Bartscher is a licensed professional engineer in South Dakota and Minnesota and joins KLJ’s Construction group as a field engineer. With more than 10 years of experience in construction management, inspection and materials testing, he has worked on several transportation and municipal projects, including large-scale infrastructure improvement projects, USDA Rural Development-funded utility upgrades projects and municipal road reconstructions.

Drake Keating has joined the construction group as a field engineer. He has three years of experience in the construction field, including materials testing, structural inspections, material takeoffs, estimating and cost analysis for transportation and infrastructure projects.

Tim Dardis

Principal Financial Network of the Dakotas

Tim Dardis, a financial representative with Principal Financial Network of the Dakotas, has been recognized for his performance by the professional organization Million Dollar Round Table. Dardis has 19 years of membership with Million Dollar Round Table and has qualified for his fifth-year Top of the Table. He has 33 years of experience in the financial services industry, serving clients in the Sioux Falls area since 1989.

Nathan Benson

RSA

RSA has hired Nathan Benson as a civil engineer, marking the launch of the firm’s civil engineering department. Traditionally focused on architecture and interior design, RSA is expanding its services with Benson’s eight years of experience in site development, project management and civil design.

South Dakota Retailers Association

Brooke Bohnenkamp

Brooke Bohnenkamp of Pierre will join the South Dakota Retailers Association as deputy executive director May 27. Bohnenkamp has spent the past decade leading communications, special projects and the IT department for the city of Pierre. Before that, she spent several years working for the state of South Dakota and as a television news producer in South Dakota and Iowa.

Wireless World

Wireless World has received a 2025 USA Today Top Workplaces award issued by Energage. Winners were chosen based on feedback gathered through an employee engagement survey. Wireless World is a locally owned Verizon authorized retailer with three locations in Sioux Falls and 54 locations companywide in South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and Wisconsin.