Jun 30, 2011

Seattle Convention & Visitors Bureau

Seattle's Convention & Visitors Bureau hired Kelly Peiffer as national account director, Midwest office. Peiffer joins Roxanne Townsend in representing Seattle in the Midwest. Peiffer has 15 years of experience in tourism sales, destination marketing and business development. SCVB has an office in Washington, D.C., and its headquarters in Seattle.

Columbia Bank

Columbia Bank hired Peter Glein as residential loan officer in western Pierce and Thurston counties. Glein has nine years of experience in banking and was recently manager of Cherry Creek Mortgage.

Jun 29, 2011

Banner Bank

Banner Bank named the winners of its annual Banner's Best Awards: John Austenson, Bruce Nelson, Jill Rice, Roy Wallace, Erica Erdozain, Christine Chi, Sue Gammell, Cheryl Bosh, Tom Sackmann, Kirk Johnson and Angela Potestivo. The Production Club Award winners are Sam Adrian and Cheryl Williams. Vicki Smith is operations coach of the year. Rob Bennett won the Service Excellence Award. Lee Ann Anderson won the Real Estate Leader's Club Member Award.

REI

Kent-based REI is opening a store in Indianapolis at the Plaza at Castleton next spring. The 23,800-square-foot store will have a bike shop, seasonal gear rental department and community space. REI Indianapolis will be the first REI store in Indiana. The company has 117 stores in 28 states and two online stores.

VLST Corp.

VLST Corp., a Seattle-based biotechnology company focused on therapeutics for autoimmune and inflammatory disorders, hired Brian Blackman as vice president, finance and administration. Blackman joins VLST from BN ImmunoTherapeutics where he was director of business operations since 2008.

Jun 28, 2011

Columbia Bank

Columbia Bank hired Eric Deisler as assistant vice president and commercial banking officer of the Silverdale branch. Deisler worked for U.S. Bank in Grand Forks, N.D., as a small business relationship manager.

Crista Ministries

Crista Ministries in Shoreline hired Mark Crozet as vice president of fund development. Crozet has 26 years of experience with fundraising and recently worked with Atlanta-based Habitat for Humanity International as senior vice president of resource development.

Helsell Fetterman

Helsell Fetterman hired Benjamin Nivison as an associate attorney. Nivison focuses on individual and corporate clients in complex commercial and product liability litigation, and was an associate attorney at a Northwest regional law firm.