Jul 18, 2007

Davis Wright Tremaine

The Seattle office of law firm Davis Wright Tremaine hired F. Ross Boundy, Phillip R. M. Hunt and Melanie Haindfield as members of its national intellectual property/patent law practice. Boundy is a senior patent litigator. He was with Christensen O'Connor Johnson Kindness. Hunt and Haindfield are associate patent attorneys. Hunt was at the Beaverton, Ore., office of Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman and Haindfield was with Seattle's Seed Intellectual Property Law Group. Davis Wright has 480 lawyers worldwide.

Venture Bank

Venture Bank hired Amanda Cochrun as a customer service representative with floating responsibilities in King County. Venture Bank has 18 offices in four Western Washington counties.

VMC

Redmond-based VMC, a technology services outsourcing and project management company, hired Robert E. Wise as chief operating officer and promoted Glenn Hoogerwerf to executive vice president. Wise will take charge of operations across North America, Europe and Asia. He was with Zanett in New York. Hoogerwerf is a co-founder of VMC.

Jul 17, 2007

Peterson Sullivan

Peterson Sullivan, a Seattle-based CPA firm, named Al Dunnell and Matt Matson directors of the firm. Dunnell has 20 years of public accounting experience and has been with Peterson Sullivan since 2002. Matson has been with the company since 1988.

Pondera Engineers

Pondera Engineers graduated from the technology incubation program with Sirti, a Washington state funded economic development agency. Pondera Engineers, a software firm, was the first tenant in the Sirti Technology Center in Spokane in 2006. It will move to Post Falls, Idaho. Sirti has 40,000 square feet of usable incubation space.

Venture Bank

Venture Bank hired Ileah Kang as a loan assistant in the bank's Downtown Redmond Financial Center. She has a year of banking experience. Venture Bank has 18 offices in four Western Washington counties.

Jul 16, 2007

Intervest Mortgage Investment

Intervest Mortgage Investment Co. promoted Julie Bridge to assistant vice president. Bridge joined the company in 2002 as an income property loan analyst.

Westsound Bank

WSB Financial Group, the parent company of Westsound Bank in Bremerton, named Charles Turner as senior vice president/chief lending officer of Westsound Bank. Turner has been with the bank since 2006, before which he was with Mariner Bank.

Worldwide Energy

Worldwide Energy Corp. in Seattle hired Davis Gates Smith as chief executive officer. Smith has worked with Century Petroleum, Consolidated Resources and PetroGates. Worldwide Energy Corp. is based in Carson City, Nev.