Feb 20, 2015

Leaf Healthcare

Neill

Brandon T. Neill has joined Leaf Healthcare's Northwest sales team. Leaf makes a wearable medical device that helps reduce pressure ulcers. He was Seattle territory manager for Stryker and will lead Leaf's hospital outreach.

MCM

Seattle-based MCM is consolidating with AssuredPartners, an independent insurance organization. MCM specializes in employee benefits, property and casualty, executive benefits, wealth transfer and retirement services. MCM will keep its name and local leadership, including John Meisenbach and Don Bacic. They said this will give MCM an entry into national and international markets.

X5 Solutions

Radnor, Pennsylvania-based NewSpring Capital, a family of private equity funds, has an agreement to purchase X5 Solutions, a private Seattle-based telecom firm. NewSpring worked with a new senior executive team to acquire X5 and will invest in X5 to expand its network infrastructure, operational capacity and work force.

Feb 19, 2015

Finsphere

Oppenheimer

Finsphere Corp., a mobile identity-authentication service, named Deanna Oppenheimer of Seattle-based CameoWorks as a strategic adviser because of her experience in financial services. She was president of consumer banking at Washington Mutual and CEO of U.K. retail banking at Barclays PLC. Oppenheimer started CameoWorks to advise companies on decisions, opportunities, relationships and strategies.

Whitepages

Whitepages of Seattle hired Geoffrey Arone as executive vice president of products. The website provides access to more than 200 million personal identities. Arone was chief scientist at Experian, where he tested and designed products and technologies. He founded three startups, and worked at Oracle and Real Networks.

Frazier Healthcare

Frazier Healthcare, a Seattle-based provider of growth capital to health care companies, added Brett Moraski to its Growth Buyout team as an operating partner. He will focus on payor services and IT-enabled ancillary services to the payor industry. He worked at LLR Partners, WellPoint and Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield.

Feb 18, 2015

Rush, Hannula, Harkins & Kyler

Crowley

Molly Kling Crowley is a personal injury attorney who has been named a partner at Rush, Hannula, Harkins & Kyler. She was admitted to the Washington bar in 2000 and joined RHHK in 2007. The firm has eight attorneys in Tacoma.

Frontier Communications

Christian

Frontier Communications named Cameron Christian vice president of West Region marketing, covering California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana, and managing over 2,000 employees. Christian was director of product, marketing and analytics for Cox Business California and also worked at Clearwire in Kirkland. He will be based in Beaverton, Oregon.