Bruce Coomer

Associations
Bruce D. Coomer has been appointed executive director of the Arizona Association for Economic Development, succeeding John Bowers, who is retiring after serving as AAED’s executive director for almost six years.
Mr. Coomer has been an active member of the association for 14 years, during which time he has served as the association’s president, a committee chairman and as a member of the board of directors. He was honored as AAED Member of the Year in 1999.
Following more than 30 years of experience in the transportation industry, he spent the last two years with the Arizona Department of Commerce as the business attraction manager. He resides in Ahwatukee with his wife of 33 years, Carol.
New Hires
Scott Bundgaard has been hired by J.P. Morgan Property Exchange Inc., to help corporations and high-net-worth individuals use Like-Kind Exchanges to manage their tax liabilities.
The former Arizona senator will be based in Chase Tower in downtown Phoenix. He will serve in the newly created head-of-business development role for the company’s 11-state Western region, which includes Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
Mr. Bundgaard served six years in the Arizona Senate as chairman of the Finance Committee, and two years in the Arizona House as vice chairman of the Banking Committee. He has worked in commercial real estate at Retail Brokers, Inc., in global private equity and financial services at Pierson Capital LLC and as a financial adviser at Raymond James and Morgan Stanley.
Kevin Haskell has been hired as senior acquisition and sales manager for AREáD, a local real estate development company. His responsibilities include managing the firm’s land acquisition and sales departments along with assisting in entitlement activities.
Mr. Haskell brings more than 15 years of experience in the real estate industry to the company. Most recently, he worked for Weinstein and Harris as a commercial land broker agent. Before that, he served as regional land acquisitions director for KB Homes and land acquisitions assistant for Brown Family Communities.
Legal
The Phoenix School of Law has hired the following three people to work in their legal library:
Koviena Nelson joins as a public service librarian. She earned her J.D., LL.M and M.L.S. from the State University of New York, University at Buffalo. She looks forward to her new position, which will allow her to “have one-on-one contact with the students and know them by name.”
Aaron Asher was hired as a technical services library assistant. Before coming to the Phoenix School of Law, in addition to other corporate and government libraries, he worked as a librarian at Kansas State University, for the Library of Congress and for the Nuclear Energy Institute. He will “work behind the scenes processing books and doing cataloguing work.”
Becky Gremes will assume duties as a law library assistant for the school. She offers a wealth of experience, in both the supervisory and support areas, from her years working in academic and public libraries in Minnesota and Indiana. She is pursuing a degree in organizational leadership and is interested in the criminological and sociological aspects of the law.