Sep 25, 2015

Washington Appleseed

Helm

Washington Appleseed is giving the Bradley C. Diggs Outstanding Service Award to Lucy Helm, Starbucks executive vice president, general counsel, and secretary, for advancing social justice in her work with MercyCorps, Washington YMCA, Disability Rights Advocates and Parkview Services. The award will be presented at Breakfast with the Best Oct. 14. Appleseed is a legal advocacy nonprofit focused on social and economic issues.

Washington State University

Michael and Virginia Jessemey McCarty won the Washington State University Alumni Association Alumni Achievement Award for service to the community, state and WSU. He was CEO of the Association of Washington Cities. She owns McCarty & Associates marketing firm. Both are active in philanthropic, church and economic development efforts.

Sep 24, 2015

REI

REI promoted Rachel Ligtenberg to vice president of retail. She has had a 25-year career with the co-op and leads store design, visual merchandising and flagship strategy. She will focus on new store design concepts. The co-op has 141 stores in 33 states, and four flagship stores: Seattle, Denver, Bloomington, Minn., and New York. The fifth flagship will open next fall in the Uline Arena in Washington, D.C.

Marchex

Marchex, a mobile advertising analytics company, named two new people to its executive leadership team. Kenshoo and Oracle veteran Gary Nafus is chief revenue officer. Matt Muilenburg, who most recently spearheaded international strategy and business development at CDK Global, has joined as senior vice president, customer evangelist.

Sep 23, 2015

Carney Badley Spellman

Neuman

Daniel I. Neuman has joined Carney Badley Spellman as an associate attorney, advising companies on formation, intellectual property, raising capital, and mergers and acquisitions.

Salish Lodge & Spa

Heikkila

Salish Lodge & Spa named Matt Heikkila executive chef, leading the 40-person culinary team for The Dining Room and The Attic restaurants as well as the new Chef's Studio. He has experience at Semiahmoo Golf & Country Club in Blaine and the private golf club TPC Snoqualmie Ridge, and joined Salish Lodge last year.

Sep 22, 2015

Green & Yalowitz

Hardwick

Amber L. Hardwick has become an owner of Green & Yalowitz, a construction law firm serving design and construction professionals in Washington and Oregon. She joined the firm as an associate in 2009.

Whitepages

Whitepages, which provides contact information in North America, hired Mayur Kamat, a product lead at Google, to head the communications experience division and focus on caller ID and spam/scam protection apps. Kamat was part of the Google Hangouts team. He will be vice president of mobile at Whitepages, based in the downtown Seattle headquarters.