Feb 06, 2014

City of Kent

Barry

Kent's assistant finance director Paula Barry was named interim finance director. Barry, a 16-year city employee, will oversee the 33-employee department while the city seeks a permanent replacement for Robert Nachlinger, who retired last month after 10 years.

Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson

Sedell

Finnell

Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson has named two new principals. Adrienne Finnell's practice focuses on complex marital dissolutions. Justin Sedell's practice concentrates on divorce, child custody disputes, collaborative law and high conflict litigation.

IID

IID, a cyber security firm in Tacoma, is expanding its executive staff. Ben King will be the first CFO, Merike Kaeo is the first CISO and Mark Foege is the vice president of marketing. The firm has a cyber intelligence collaboration platform called ActiveTrust that enables enterprises and government agencies to share cyber incident data in real time. King was the CFO and COO at PhaseOne Communications. Kaeo has served as IID's security evangelist for the past year. Foege worked at Townsend Security.

Feb 05, 2014

Federal Reserve Bank

Sutherland

Susan Sutherland has been promoted to oversee the Seattle Branch Office of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. She is senior vice president, human resources and statistics, and director of the Office of Diversity & Inclusion. She succeeds Mark Gould, who was appointed first vice president and chief operating officer. The Seattle branch serves financial institutions in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, northern Idaho and Hawaii.

The Fearey Group

Fryer

Hickman

The Fearey Group public relations and public affairs firm has hired Meredith Hickman as account executive and Susan Alder as life sciences senior consultant, and promoted Alex Fryer to director of public affairs. Adler was executive director of the Northwest Association for Biomedical Research. Hickman was with Waggener Edstrom. Fryer joined the firm in 2013 after nearly two decades of communications and journalism experience.

Feb 04, 2014

Helsell Fetterman

Stephanie Grassia has joined Helsell Fetterman, a Seattle-based law firm. She has practiced insurance law in Seattle for over 10 years and will lead the Insurance Coverage group.

Ryan Swanson & Cleveland

Ryan Swanson & Cleveland said Mick Fleming as rejoined the law firm in the Litigation, Real Estate and Business Groups. He worked for 14 years at Lane Powell. Fleming focuses on complex dispute resolution.

Washington State Fair

Gary F. Gonter of Lakewood was elected the 2014 president of the Washington State Fair in Puyallup, along with Michael D. Nelson, vice president; David R. Campbell, secretary; W. David Schodde, treasurer; and Kent R. Hojem, CEO. Gonter is president of Bandstand Music.