Nov 29, 2000

The Elliott Hotel

Marchettoni

Ahmed

The Elliott Hotel, opening in Seattle in 2001, has named Tev Marchettoni as director of catering and conference services and Zahoor Ahmed as senior controller. Marchettoni has served as catering manager at the Royal Oak Country Club in Cincinnati and the Boston Vista Hotel and as director of catering at the Renaissance Cottonwoods Resort in Scottsdale, Ariz. Ahmed comes to The Elliott with 16 years of experience in hotel accounting. He is The Elliott's fiscal advisor and is in charge of the financial branch of the hotel operation, overseeing all accounting functions, internal controls and purchasing.

Lane Powell Spears Lubersky

Price

Erik Price has joined the law firm of Lane Powell Spears Lubersky in its Olympia office as an associate. Price concentrates his practice in civil litigation, administrative and environmental law. Prior to joining the firm, he was an associate with Owens Davies Mackie in Olympia and an associate with the Seattle law firm of Helsell Fetterman.

Seattle's Best Coffee

Seattle-based Seattle's Best Coffee has opened a cafe in the new Terminal 2A in Orlando Airport. SBC's Atlanta-based franchise partner, Coffee Klatch, is heading up the venture. Coffee Klatch has already established three SBC cafes in Atlanta's Hartfield Airport with plans to open two more in the near future. SBC has been focusing efforts in Orlando and Las Vegas. A 15-cafe plan in hotels and casinos over the next five years was recently announced in Las Vegas, with the opening of the first two cafes last month.

HouseMaster

Bruce and Donna Howe, directors of the Seattle area office of HouseMaster, a home inspection service, were awarded the Achievement Award for Marketing Excellence at the company's annual conference held recently in Vancouver, B.C.

Wolfstone, Panchot & Bloch

The Seattle-based law firm Wolfstone, Panchot & Bloch announced that Steven Ross has become of counsel to the firm. Ross will continue his practice in labor and employment law. The firm also announced the addition of Kevin Hull as an associate. Hull's practice emphasizes all aspects of litigation and family law.

Perkins Coie

The law firm of Perkins Coie announced that Clemens Barnes joined its Seattle office as a partner in the labor and employment law group. Barnes will focus his practice on employment law advice and representation, union-management issues, special government contractor obligations, and employment contract, pay practices and wrongful discharge litigation.

Nov 28, 2000

Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell

Buckhalter

Grissom

Schauer

Scott

J. Bradley Buckhalter, Stone Grissom, Jason Schauer and Timothy Scott have joined the law firm of Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell, Malanca, Peterson & Daheim, which has offices in both Seattle and Tacoma. Buckhalter joins the firm with experience as both a judicial clerk and a legal assistant. Grissom joins the firm after serving as a legal investigator for the King County Public Defender's office. Schauer's legal experience includes working as an intern for the Attorney General of Washington and for the Notre Dame legal aid clinic. Scott has worked as a summer associate at Lukins & Annis in Spokane and as a deputy clerk at the Office of the Clerk U.S. District Court in the eastern district of Washington state.

Bader Martin Ross & Smith

Bader Martin Ross & Smith, a Seattle-based accounting and consulting firm announced 10 new hires and one promotion. The new hires are: Christine Hill, manager; Gary Chen, staff accountant; Mira Freiberg, tax department; Nicole Rowley, staff accountant; Young Chung, staff accountant; Linda Ferrera, staff accountant; Keith Tyacke, senior; Sabine Pradhan, senior; Helen Wright, accounting technician; and, Karianna Heimerman, accounting technician. Ryan Berry was promoted to tax senior. Berry has been with the firm since December 1998.

Absolute Future

Absolute Future, a Bellevue-based developer of secure communications systems, announced that it has named Scott Whitmore vice president, sales and marketing for its SafeMessage secure messaging product. Whitmore joined the company in July as a consultant to the sales and marketing team with responsibilities for developing the sales and marketing plan for the SafeMessage product launch. He joined the company full time last month in his current role.

FizzyLab

FizzyLab, a Seattle-based developer of automated information delivery solutions for online businesses, announced that Rip Warendorf was appointed senior vice president, business operations. Warendorf, a former executive at Corbis and iVillage, brings to FizzyLab more than 15 years of sales and business development experience in the technology and publishing industries.

Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless, a national wireless communications provider, has named D.J. Hulet as vice president of sales operations for the Northwest area. Hulet is responsible for leading the company's integrated sales and distribution efforts across all four regions in the Northwest area. She is a 23-year veteran of the telecommunications industry, most recently serving as customer service general manager for BTCellnet in the United Kingdom.

Lithia Motors

Lithia Motors of Medford, Ore. announced that it has completed the acquisition of Columbia Center Ford in Tri-Cities. In October of last year Lithia completed the acquisition of a Dodge store, and in May of this year Lithia acquired a Honda store in the same market area. With this most recent acquisition, Lithia now operates 107 franchises in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Colorado, Idaho and South Dakota. Lithia sells 26 brands of new vehicles at 50 stores and over the Internet at http://www.lithia.com