Mar 10, 2005

Parsons Public Relations

Seattle's Parsons Public Relations added Wendy Abeel and Rosemarie Buchanan as senior account managers. Abeel has 15 years of experience in public relations and public affairs. Buchanan was a journalist and editor. Parsons Public Relations represents home, garden and environment-related clients.

Foster Pepper

Foster Pepper & Shefelman added John Ray Nelson to its Spokane office. Nelson will work in the litigation practice group and was a partner in Preston Gates & Ellis. FP&S also has offices in Seattle, Portland and Anchorage.

ReliOn

Spokane's ReliOn, a provider of fuel cell solutions for backup power applications, appointed Gary Flood president and chief executive officer.

Lynnwood Convention Center

Michael Felsenstein will be the executive chef for the Lynnwood Convention Center, set to open this spring at 196th Street Southwest and 37th Avenue West. Felsenstein will oversee the food and beverage department.

EsophyX

Redmond's EsophyX, a medical device company, appointed Thierry Thaure as chief executive officer. Thaure was senior vice president of sales and marketing at Accuray Inc.

Mar 09, 2005

Banner Bank

Gammell	Gilham
Jensen	Heigert

New Banner Bank branches are open in Evergreen Way and Edmonds. Sue Gammell is branch manager at Evergreen Way. Division operations manager Allison Gilham is based in the Edmonds branch and will also be Alderwood branch manager when that branch opens this month. In South Everett, Keri Jensen was promoted to retail branch manager. Steven Heigert was named commercial real estate loan officer. Banner Corp. is the parent of Banner Bank, headquartered in Walla Walla.

Canlis

Canlis Wine Director Shayn Bjornholm passed an exam to become a master sommelier. Bjornholm is now one of 118 professionals with the title in the world. Bjornholm created Canlis' wine program and list. Canlis Restaurant is located in Seattle.

World Wide Packets

Spokane-based World Wide Packets, a provider of Ethernet Access networking solutions, appointed its vice president of hardware engineering as chief technology officer. Kevin Daines was in the vice president post for five years and has 15 years of experience in engineering and networking.

Cray

The Seattle-based supercomputer company Cray appointed Peter Ungaro president. Ungaro was senior vice president of sales, marketing and service. He was a vice president at IBM, where he led global sales of server and storage products.

Corporate Psychology Resources

James Basile and Patrick Hopp are launching the Seattle offices of Corporate Psychology Resources, an Atlanta-based human capital consulting firm. Basile has a PhD in clinical psychology and specializes in executive development. Hopp is also a PhD and works with companies to help identify and develop talent.