Sep 04, 2014

Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding

The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock named Betsy Davis executive director. She served over a decade as executive director of The Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle, a hands-on maritime museum, where she expanded programs and helped raise more than $7 million for capital projects. Davis also has over a decade of management experience at Microsoft, owned a small business and worked for nonprofits.

Overlake Medical Center

Overlake Medical Center named Dr. David Knoepfler chief medical officer. Knoepfler has spent most of his career at Overlake, starting as a volunteer in the emergency department in 1983. He and his father, Peter Knoepfler, were the first father-son practicing physicians at Overlake. Knoepfler was Overlake's chief medical information officer.

Association of Washington Business

The Association of Washington Business named Jason Hagey director of communications. He was communications manager and replaces Jocelyn McCabe, who left to start a public relations business.

Sep 03, 2014

CVPartners

Addison Group of Chicago is expanding its professional staffing services onto the West Coast by acquiring CVPartners, a staffing firm with offices in San Francisco and Seattle. CVPartners focuses on jobs in finance, accounting, information technology and human resources. It will maintain offices in Seattle and Bellevue as well as San Francisco and Mountain View California.

The Partners Group

The Partners Group is moving to a new office space in Bellevue that will house all Washington divisions including Employee Benefits Consulting, Commercial Insurance and Private Client Services. The new space is at 11225 S.E. Sixth St., Suite 110. The firm opened new offices in Bend and Lake Oswego, Oregon, this year along with a new location in Bozeman, Montana.

Aug 29, 2014

Seattle Public Schools

Seattle Public Schools named Stacy Howard media relations specialist, replacing Teresa Wippel. Howard worked at Seattle University as media relations specialist, and also handled media and communications in Haiti for the Salvation Army, and was an assignment editor at KOMO TV.

Atigeo

Bellevue-based Atigeo, which describes itself as a “compassionate technology company,” said two tech veterans have joined the executive team: Ellen McDermott, formerly of Microsoft and JPMorgan Chase, is chief information security officer, and Scott Mahan, formerly of Bsquare, is chief financial officer. McDermott has more than 25 years of security experience and led a security team through the JPMorgan-Chase merger. Mahan's background is in software and public accounting.

Helsell Fetterman

Debra Akhbari joined Helsell Fetterman as an associate attorney. She won the firm's Richard S. White Fellowship and was a summer associate in 2013. She works with the litigation practice group.