Dec 09, 2004

PT Holdings Co.

Port Townsend-based PT Holdings Co., the parent company of Port Townsend Paper Corp., appointed Timothy P. Leybold vice president and chief financial officer. Leybold has 18 years' experience, including 10 in the forest products industry. Leybold was chief financial officer of The Port Blakely Companies, a Seattle-based forest products and residential development firm.

The News Tribune

The McClatchy Co. recently named Cheryl Ebright Dell publisher of The News Tribune in Tacoma. Dell was publisher of McClatchy's Tri-City Herald in Kennewick. She is replacing Elizabeth (Betsy) Brenner, who will be publisher and president of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Dell has held newspaper management positions in California, Texas and Washington.

Owen Media

Owen Media, a Seattle-based high tech public relations agency, named Amy Taillefer-Temple account coordinator. Temple worked for Newport Children's School and for the Seattle public relations firm Parker LePla.

Bocada

Bocada, a provider of software for data protection performance management, hired Michael Bauer as vice president of global partner and channel sales. Henry Albrecht was promoted to vice president of product management.

Bauer will head strategic partnerships. He has more than 20 years of experience in high technology businesses. Albrecht will work with existing customers, prospects and development teams. Albrecht was in business management in the QuickBooks line at Intuit. Bocada is a private company funded by venture investors and headquartered in Bellevue.

Dec 08, 2004

Harborstone

Schmidtke

The Pierce County chapter of Credit Unions named Rick Schmidtke Credit Union Professional of the Year. Schmidtke, president and chief executive officer of Lakewood-based Harborstone Credit Union, has more than 30 years experience. Harborstone offers mortgage lending, investment services and insurance for individuals and small businesses.

Northwest Securities

Seattle-Northwest Securities Corp., a Seattle-based investment bank and bond underwriter, added Kim L. Moore to its subsidiary SNW Asset Management. Moore will focus on new business development of taxable and tax-exempt fixed income assets. She has 16 years of finance and investment experience.

PragmaVentures

West Linn, Ore.-based PragmaVentures and Robbinex will be known as Robbinex of the Pacific Northwest LLC. The new partnership will serve Oregon and Washington and offer consulting services on how to sell a business. It will be managed by Raymond G. Hanson, president of PragmaVentures of Oregon and Washington. His expertise is in business sales, acquisitions and valuations.

Seattle Aquarium

Seattle Aquarium Director Bill Arntz will retire in January, 2005. Arntz worked in the federal government's Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He also was a regional administrator for the Department of Energy. Aquarium Deputy Director John Braden will be acting director.