Flathead Business Watercooler

Seminar looks at cybersecurity

Job Service Kalispell’s Blueprint for Business Success webinar on Tuesday, April 12 is Cybersecurity: Reduce Your Risk by Having a Plan presented by Shawn Weisz of Weisz Consulting. The Zoom event is free and runs from noon to 1 p.m. The ever-changing landscape of IT security is in focus now more than ever. Learn how to reduce your risk and protect your company with these key takeaways: Learn the many facets of current risks and how it’s increasing, learn a multi-layered approach for protecting your business, learn the need for backups and redundancy and creating a plan. Go to Job Service Kalispell/Facebook or call 406-758-6200 for link to register.

Honor rising starts

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2022 "20 Under 40" awards providing the chance to honor a co-worker, employee or friend who you feel is making a positive impact on the local business community.

Nominations should demonstrate the individual's path to success, unique talents, achievements, community involvement, etc., with winners selected by a panel of local judges.

The awards are sponsored by the Daily Inter Lake, Whitefish Credit Union, the Kalispell Chamber and Flathead Area Young Professionals.

For more information or to submit a nomination, visit https://tinyurl.com/2xz4972e

Ribbon-cutting

Join the Whitefish, Columbia Falls and Evergreen chambers of commerce next Wednesday, April 27 for an open house and ribbon-cutting at Right on Trek.

The event runs from 4-5:30 p.m., with the ribbon-cutting set for 4:30 p.m. Right On Trek is located at 1010 Conn Road in Columbia Falls. For more information call 310-9476.

Montana State Fund hires president

Montana State Fund, the state's largest and leading workers' compensation insurance company, has announced the hiring of Holly O’Dell as President and CEO for the company.

O’Dell comes to MSF from Oregon’s SAIF Corporation, a sister sState fund, where she has spent the last 17 years. Holly earned a bachelor of science in nursing from Oregon Health Sciences University, where she graduated as a registered nurse and spent five years working with low-income women in the women’s unit at the Marion County Health Department, working full time while in law school. In 2006, Holly graduated from Lewis and Clark College School of Law with a Juris Doctorate.

O’Dell concludes her work in Oregon in May and will join the MSF team in Helena shortly thereafter.