Aug 15, 2000

Builders' Hardware

Seattle-based Builders’ Hardware & Supply Co. has restructured its management team. Shirley S. Henry will become chairman and CEO, Douglas E. Gerbing has been named president and John Phillips will retain his position as corporate vice president. Also, Bob Larson will remain vice president of BH&S Kennewick, Ray Rech and Sue Trimble will remain company treasurer and secretary respectively, and Greg Lunde has been promoted to vice president of dealer sales. Henry has been with Builders’ Hardware since it was founded by her and her father Thomas M. Shannon in 1958. She will remain actively involved in the company for at least the next few years. Gerbing joined Builders’ Hardware in 1967 and has held the position of corporate senior vice president since 1993. The company employs 116 people and sells hardware, doors, frames, toilet accessories, contractor specialties and dealer specialties in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska.

Environmental Resource Management

Environmental Resource Management, a Bellevue-based environment, health and safety consulting firm, has named Timothy McCormack as a principal. McCormack will oversee technical operations and client development activities throughout the Pacific Northwest region. He is a registered professional geologist with 15 years of environmental engineering experience throughout the U.S.

Whitman College

J. Antonio Cabasco, associate admission director at Whitman College in Walla Walla, has been promoted to admission director. Cabasco assumes responsibility for the private college's 15-person admission staff.

Northwest Pears

The Pear Bureau Northwest has named Jeffery Correa to the position of international marketing director. Correa assumed the position on August 1. As the lead manager of export programs, he will oversee the promotion activities for the Northwest Pear industry in over 30 international markets.

EverTrust Financial Group

EverTrust Financial Group, the Everett-based holding company for Everett Mutual Bank and Commercial Bank of Everett, announced the addition of two new Everett Mutual Bank branch managers and a new account executive to its Bellevue office. Cynthia Stevenson is the new branch manager for Everett Mutual Bank's main branch. James Belford is the new Silver Lake branch manager and Theodore Sundquist is the new account executive in the company's Bellevue office.

Sound Transit

The Sound Transit board unanimously supported the appointment of Ramon Gould to the Sound Transit Citizen Oversight Panel. Compromised of citizens throughout Sound Transit's three-county district, the panel serves as an independent body responsible for reviewing the performance of Sound Transit. Gould has been a community leader in Edmonds for many years

Aug 14, 2000

Bozell Seattle

Seattle-based advertising company Bozell Seattle has added several senior staff members and promoted a number of others. Christi Malcomson was named media director. Fame Royer has joined the agency as management supervisor. Jo Proctor is a new senior account planner. Former management supervisor Chris Lloyd is now a vice president and group account director. Chris Bennett has been promoted to management supervisor. Chris Hunter has been promoted to a vice president. Lorna Harrington was promoted to media coordinator. Christi Hickey has been named office manager and Michael Quirk has been named head of the electronic production group.

Advanced Radio Telecom

Advanced Radio Telecom, a Bellevue-based provider of broadband wireless Internet protocol access services, announced the appointment of Art Kawaguchi to senior vice president, general manager/northwestern region, which includes Seattle, Portland, San Jose and San Francisco. Kawaguchi will also act as an interim general manager of the western region, which includes Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego and Phoenix. Kawaguchi previously worked for Intermedia Communications and EMI Communications.

Bratrud Middleton Insurance

Bratrud Middleton Insurance, headquartered in Tacoma, has been ranked as one of the 100 largest brokers in the U.S., according to Business Insurance, a weekly trade magazine on commercial insurance brokering. To qualify, agents and brokers must deal directly with corporate or institutional policyholders and generate at least $500,000 in gross revenues from commercial retail brokerage insurance business. Founded in Tacoma in 1923, Bratrud Middleton Insurance is the largest, privately owned, independent insurance agency in the state, with eight branch offices.

Ogden Murphy Wallace

Seattle artist/attorney Karen Sutherland has been named a “Superlawyer” by a poll conducted by Washington Law and Politics and has been selected to show her blown-glass art in the Emerald City Fine Art Third Annual Juried Glass Festival. Sutherland, the chair of the employment and labor law practice group of the Seattle law firm Ogden Murphy Wallace, has been practicing law for 16 years. Five years ago, she began studying glassblowing. She started her own business, Sutherland Art Glass.