Jul 12, 2018

FareStart

Angela Stowell, partner and CEO of Ethan Stowell Restaurants, is now CEO of FareStart in Seattle. Stowell and her husband, chef Ethan Stowell, grew their business over the past 11 years to include 16 restaurants. Angela succeeds Megan Karch, who stepped down in March after 18 years at the nonprofit to lead IslandWood environmental learning center on Bainbridge Island. ESR is seeking a replacement for Stowell. FareStart provides job training in the food industry for homeless and low-income people.

Bluetooth SIG

In Kirkland, Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced that Peter Liu and Ron Wong are joining its board this month as associate member directors. Liu is an architect of wearable systems at Bose and Wong is a director of product marketing at Cypress Semiconductor. Bluetooth SIG oversees development of Bluetooth standards and licensing.

Phytelligence

Seattle-based agricultural biotech company Phytelligence hired Gerard Bogdon as global vice president of sales for citrus. Bogdon is based in Florida, where he oversees sales of citrus varieties of rootstock, spring buds and whips. He has more than 17 years of experience.

Immusoft

Seattle-based biopharmaceutical company Immusoft hired Dr. Jason D. Fontenot as chief scientific officer. Fontenot was head of exploratory research at Juno Therapeutics. He also spent nearly a decade as a group leader in the immunology department at Biogen. Immusoft re-engineers B cells to treat diseases.

M3 Biotechnology

M3 Biotechnology, a Seattle clinical therapeutics company addressing Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases, named Deborah C. Hopkins to its business and strategy advisory board. Hopkins has executive experiences in finance, technology and innovation at Citi, Boeing, General Motors and Lucent Technologies.

Jul 11, 2018

City of Redmond

Redmond Mayor John Marchione announced Maxine Whattam is the city's new COO and Erika Vandenbrande is the new planning director. Whattam started with the city in 2016 as Parks & Recreation director and recently was interim public works director. She was a manager for Kennewick for 24 years. Vandenbrande has been with the city for more than 17 years, serving as transportation demand management program manager, economic development manager and deputy administrator.

Lane Powell

Joe Woods joined law firm Lane Powell as COO in the Seattle office, where he will help develop the strategic plan and growth strategy. Woods was senior practice group business manager at Perkins Coie. Lane Powell also has offices in Anchorage, Portland and London.

Employment Security Department

Suzan “Suzi” LeVine is the new commissioner at the state Employment Security Department. LeVine was U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein, a member of Gov. Jay Inslee's Career Connect Washington Task Force, communications director at Microsoft, and vice president of sales and marketing in luxury travel at Expedia.

Heritage Financial

Heritage Bank president and COO Jeff Deuel was promoted to CEO, and chief lending officer Bryan McDonald was promoted to COO. Deuel replaces Brian Vance, who will continue as CEO of Heritage Financial Corp., the bank's parent, until his retirement in July 2019. Deuel also was named president of Heritage Financial. McDonald joined Heritage Bank after it merged with Whidbey Island Bank, where he was president. Olympia-based Heritage operates 65 branches between Bellingham and Portland.