Mar 21, 2003

Prime Advisors

Prime Advisors, Inc., a Kirkland-based investment manager specializing in insurance company investment portfolios, hired Nigel Cheetham as senior vice president of technology. Cheetham will manage Prime's systems, including the Dynamic Financial Analysis (DFA) systems and models, and will report to Duane Castles, chairman and CEO. He founded a software consulting company focused on insurance companies and investment firms, and was with SS&C Technologies, an investment technology vendor. He will work in Prime's Bloomfield, Conn., office.

Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium

Dave Smith, formerly of the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut, has joined the staff of Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma. His expertise with seahorses already is being tapped as the zoo staff prepares for opening "Once Upon a Tide," a seahorse exhibit, in May. Smith, 27, is a certified scientific scuba diver and will take part in research dives as well as dives in the North and South Pacific aquariums. Dr. Karen Goodrowe, general curator, is being honored for her work on a conservation project involving the endangered black-footed ferret. She co-authored a paper that won the Paper of the Year Award for 2002 from Zoo Biology, an official publication of the American Zoo & Aquarium Association.

Aventail

Aventail Corp. appointed Richard Helgeson to the newly created position of vice president of North American sales. He has over 20 years of sales experience in the enterprise security and networking industry. Helgeson was president and CEO at Captus Networks, a provider of intrusion prevention solutions for enterprises, ISPs, government agencies and universities.

Coldstream Capital Management

Bellevue-based Coldstream Capital Management, which offers wealth management services to high-net-worth clients, has opened a Portland office in the US Bancorp Tower. The new office will be managed by Paul Vermilya and Kori Allen. As of December 2002, Coldstream managed approximately $400 million for 200 clients and their families in the Northwest.

MSNBC.com

MSNBC.com has hired Allen Bestwick, the former "Voice of NASCAR" as a NASCAR analyst. Bestwick currently provides play-by-play analysis on NBC and TNT NASCAR telecasts. He will join NBC's NASCAR analyst Benny Parsons in providing original online content to MSNBC, including weekly race previews and a run down on which drivers are hot and which are not.

Mar 20, 2003

Dorsey & Whitney

Dorsey & Whitney, an international law firm, announced Joe Gaffney is the new partner-in-charge for the Seattle office. Gaffney joined Dorsey in 2000 and practices in the areas of tax, business and estate planning, with particular emphasis in closely held businesses, IRS disputes, integrated financial planning, complex trusts and estates, executive compensation and charitable matters. He succeeds Robert D. Kaplan as Seattle partner-in-charge, who will continue to serve the firm as marketing partner, where he will work with partners-in-charge in the firm’s 21 offices. Gaffney has been active in the Seattle community for more than 25 years.

City University

City University added three members to its board of governors. Majdi (Mike) Daher is vice president of Denali Advanced Integration, an information technology and consulting company located in Bellevue. Henry (Hank) Kirk was president of Centralia College from 1986 to 2002 and has more than 40 years of administrative, counseling and teaching experience. Charles (Charlie) Gillette has held a variety of senior-level management positions in finance, sales and marketing, and is president and CEO of Knowledge Anywhere. City University is a private, not-for-profit university with a mission of making education accessible to everyone who wants to learn.

The Frause Group

The Frause Group, a Seattle-based public relations, public affairs and marketing communications firm, has hired Laura Hyland as an account executive and Maggie Foote as an account coordinator. Hyland worked as an account executive at Sumner Rider and Burton Luch in New York. Foote’s professional experience includes work at City Year Seattle as an AmeriCorps member.

FlightSafetyBoeing

FlightSafety Boeing Training International made several key leadership appointments within the Americas region. FSB, soon to be re-named Alteon, has appointed John Alexander vice president - Americas, based in Long Beach. He will be responsible for training operations in North and South America. Other changes include Chris Johnson-Pasqua replacing Alexander as general manager of the Long Beach Training Center. Martin Schaaf is now general manager of the Miami Training Center. FSB has training centers in Atlanta, DFW Airport, Louisville, Mexico City, St. Louis, Salt Lake City and Seattle, and recently announced plans to build a $60 million center in Atlanta.