CSU–Pueblo Hasan Advisory Board adds four new members
 
Pueblo –The Hasan School of Business Board of Advisors at Colorado State University – Pueblo has announced the addition of four members. The members are leaders within the community who provide a vital link between the Hasan School of Business and southern Colorado communities. The board assists the school by keeping the curriculum pertinent and updated while also highlighting the schools programs and strengths to others.

The new members are Bonnie Martinez, Community Bank President for Wells Fargo in Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Monument, and Woodland Park; Keith Swerdfeger, President of K.R. Swerdfeger Construction; Laura Kelly, partner at Redwine Kelly Financial Services; and Judy Fonda, President of Premier Mortgage Services. Board members meet four times and year and may only serve two three-year terms with the exception of the senior advisors who may serve an unlimited term.

A Colorado native, Martinez has spent more than 30 years in the banking industry with stops in San Antonio, Texas, and Northern California before returning to her home state last April. She lives in Colorado Springs with her husband of 31 years.

Swerdfeger has led Swerdfeger Construction since 1968 and incorporated the company in 1973. Among his community activities, he has served as president of the Southern Colorado Contractors Association, the Colorado Contractors Association, chaired the Pueblo City and County Regional Building Commission, and been a director of the Pueblo Economic Development Corporation.

A 1991 graduate of CSU-Pueblo, Kelly has more than 13 years in the financial services industry with expertise in financial issues of divorce, financial planning, education, and retirement funding. She serves on the board of Parkview Medical Center Foundation and is involved in numerous community organizations.

Fonda oversees internal operations for Premier Mortgage as well as develops business relationships at Premier Mortgage Services, where she has worked since 1989. She is chair of the Parkview Medical Center Board of Directors, treasurer of the Pueblo Economic Development Corporation and also is involved with the Pueblo Day Nursery Children’s Foundation, KTSC, YMCA, and Newborn Hope.

Other board members on the Hasan School of Business Board of Advisors are: Ray Aguilera, Pueblo Community College; Carla Barela, Cortez Construction Company, Inc.; Annette Copeland, Jones-Healy Realtors; Dan DeRose, DD Marketing, Inc.; Tom Farley, Petersen and Fonda (Chair of the Advisory Board); Dick Greenwood, Health Care Insurers; Len Gregory, St. Mary-Corwin Hospital; Greg Hahn, ReMax of Pueblo; Tom Healy, Jones- Healy Realtors (Senior Advisor); Mary Lee Lobato, Pueblo Bank and Trust; and Gerald McPherson, McPherson, Breyfogle, Daveline and Goodrich, PC.


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