Extended-time Tucson small business enhancement chief, Ellen Kirton, dies | Small business News
Ellen Kirton served Tucson business owners start out and expand their businesses. She’s revealed with one particular of her clientele, Ray Montoya of Engineering and Environmental Consultants, in 2015.
Ellen Kirton, longtime director of the Pima Community Faculty Compact Business enterprise Growth Centre, died Sunday right after problems from an illness.
Just after a very long occupation in banking, Kirton became director of the Pima County SBDC in 2012.
The SBDC joined Pima Community College’s Workforce Growth Division in 2016.
“Through her do the job aiding and inspiring business people in setting up, increasing and growing their modest firms, Ellen developed a long lasting economic influence for potential generations,” Pima Community Faculty Chancellor Lee Lambert and other Pima officers claimed in a information launch.
Kirton’s spouse and children will routine a memorial function to rejoice here lifetime later this spring, the school said.
Kirton’s 35-12 months job in banking involved a 10 years as a vice president for Arizona company banking at Chase Bank.
Just after leaving Chase in 2004, Kirton ran a enterprise consultancy and in 2008 established EffortlessHR, which provides an world-wide-web-based mostly human methods administration software.
She a wrote a self-assistance ebook, “Cinderella is However Dancing: 8 Selections That Can Increase Your Life,” which was published in 2009.
Kirton volunteered on the boards of numerous nearby nonprofits, including the Improved Enterprise Bureau, Make-A-Desire Basis, New Beginnings for Gals and Kids, and the breast-most cancers charity Susan G. Komen.