Apr 14, 2004

Cascade Natural Gas

Cascade Natural Gas recently opened a 2,200-square-foot training facility in Yakima to train employees on safe delivery of natural gas. Cascade will also upgrade its Bellingham facility to accommodate customer service staff. Cascade is a local distribution company providing natural gas service to 212,000 customers in Washington and Oregon.

SafeHarbor Technology

Seattle-based SafeHarbor Technology named Annette M. Jacobs president and chief executive officer. She replaces Chad Waite, general partner at OVP Venture Partners, who will remain on the company's board. Jacobs was president and corporate executive vice president of the $5 billion consumer markets group for Qwest Communications International.

Intelligent Results

Stan Shull joined Bellevue-based Intelligent Results as vice president of business development. Shull led strategic alliance efforts for IBM where he worked with Microsoft, Hewlett Packard and Intel. Intelligent Results is privately held and has an East Coast office in Philadelphia. Its products are used by financial institutions to predict customer behavior in collections, recovery and attrition.

Seattle's Convention and Visitors Bureau

Seattle's Convention and Visitors Bureau promoted Elias Calderon to director of Internet marketing. Calderon will manage Web-based marketing and trade. Visitors spend $3.6 billion in Seattle and King County each year, which helps support jobs for 60,000 people, according to the bureau.

Hamilton/Saunderson

Seattle-based Hamilton/Saunderson is opening a satellite office in Portland, Maine. Marketing specialist Meg Handlin will work on public relations and management. Handlin worked for Portland-based Diversified Business Communications on marketing and logistics. Hamilton/Saunderson offers advertising, public relations and market research services.

Workforce Development Council

U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao announced a grant of $762,659 for the Tacoma-Pierce County Workforce Development Council to train health care workers. The grant is part of the President's high growth job training initiative to remedy industry workforce shortages. The Tacoma-Pierce County Workforce Development Council will contribute an additional $700,000.

Apr 13, 2004

Washington District Export Council

Steven Barnett is the new chairman of Washington District Export Council, appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce. Members volunteer to sponsor and participate in trade promotion activities and give advice to small and medium-sized businesses interested in exporting. Barnett is president of the Seattle-based management consulting firm Banner Consulting International and has worked in global trade for 20 years as a consultant and professor of international business.

Sound Experience

Ball

Geoff Ball, former director of Bainbridge Youth Services, is executive director of the Port Townsend-based nonprofit Sound Experience. Ball has experience in outdoor education programs and succeeds interim executive director Beth Grafe. The nonprofit operates experiential education programs about Puget Sound aboard the schooner Adventuress, and serves 3,000 youth and adults each year.

Women's University Club

The Women's University Club of Seattle has appointed new members to its board of trustees: Pam Peterson, Jeanne Crow, Shelley Dreyer-Green, Linda Beecher, Donna Walzer, Karen Smith, Cherry Jarvis, Nancy Burnell and Alyson Stage. The group's Brava Award Dinner will be held at the club, at Sixth and Spring in Seattle, on May 13. Award recipients this year are Jeanne Ehrlichmann Bluechel, a music education activist, Linda Hartzell, artistic director of Seattle Children's Theatre, and Nancy Pearl director of Washington Center of the Book at Seattle Public Library. The club promotes educational, cultural and social activities for college-educated women. The dinner costs $57. For more information call (206) 623-0402.

Norske Skog North America

Jonathan Glanville is director of coated-paper sales for the Seattle office of Norske Skog North America. He will train with Ken Platt who is planning to retire. Glanville comes from Norske Skog Canada (USA) newsprint sales.