Aug 14, 2002

Bratrud Middleton Insurance

Bratrud Middleton Insurance has hired Grant W. Baldwin and Max Hanley as account executives in the company's commercial insurance division. Baldwin was previously an agent with County Insurance in Bellevue. Hanley spent the last five years as an account executive with a national brokerage in Seattle. Tacoma-based Bratrud Middleton is the largest privately owned insurance agency in Washington.

Overlake Hospital Medical Center

Doug Martin has been named chairman of Overlake Hospital's Foundation board after serving three years as a trustee on the board. Martin, who is acting vice president of marketing for DataConcert, also sits on the board of directors for Overlake's Venture Center. Martin spent 15 years in sales and marketing positions with Microsoft.

Wells Fargo

Dwight Prevo was named community development officer for Wells Fargo's operations in Washington state. Based in Seattle, Prevo will coordinate community and economic development programs throughout the state, as well as supervise the company's compliance with the Community Reinvestment Act. Prevo formerly worked as a strategic planning and marketing consultant for Puget Sound-area nonprofits.

Starbucks

Seattle-based Starbucks Coffee named former Dell Computer vice president Paula E. Boggs executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of the company. Boggs will oversee Starbucks' legal concerns as head of the law and corporate affairs department. Prior to joining Dell in 1997, Boggs was a partner in Seattle law firm Preston Gates & Ellis.

Cascade Designs

Cascade Designs hired Jeff Bowman for the new position of vice president, outdoor and strategic planning. Bowman will oversee sales, marketing and product development for the outdoor group. He previously directed development of major outdoor-apparel brands such as Polartec and Gore-Tex for Malden Mills and W.L. Gore & Associates. Bowman has also served as principal for Blue Sky consulting services since 2000

Aug 13, 2002

Key Bank

Key Bank has opened the Snoqualmie Ridge KeyCenter in its KeyBank Retail Plaza at 7917 Center Blvd. N.E. in Snoqualmie. The KeyCenter is one of eight retail businesses in the 11,000-square-foot development. Trisha Aguilar is the client relations leader and Joyce Beehler is the relationship manager at the new location. Grand opening festivities are planned for the week of Sept. 9.

Design Hovie Studios

Hovie Hawk, creative director of Design Hovie Studios, will resume work in the firm's Seattle office after working for the past year and a half in Italy. While in Italy, Hawk and the Seattle studio collaborated with Winsome Italia and Giorgio Galli and Partners on fashion industry projects. Design Hovie will also move from its current lower Queen Anne location back to Ballard, where the studio had been located from 1998 to 2000.

Signature Landscape Services

Signature Landscape Services has acquired Northwest Grounds Maintenance. Signature has provided landscape management services to King and Snohomish counties commercial, industrial and multi-family market for 25 years; Northwest Ground Management is a landscape maintenance firm that has served commercial/residential clients for 20 years.

Habitude

Habitude has reopened in a new facility at 2801 N.W. Market St. The new location has 8,000 square feet of retail space with a salon and Aveda retail store, and amenities such as a hot rock sauna, rain forest shower, a gathering grove for group parties and an art gallery. The spa's previous Ballard location was destroyed by fire four months ago. Habitude is the only Aveda Lifestyle Salon and Spa in Washington and is the main distributor of Aveda products in the Pacific Northwest.

TeraCloud

TeraCloud Corp. named Stefan Kochishan vice president, product management. Kochishan was previously a director of storage marketing at Fujitsu Softek. TeraCloud, a privately held company based in Bellevue, provides storage resource management solutions for mainframe and distributed storage environments.