Jan 19, 2017

Madrona Venture Group

Li

Sandler

Cochran

Somasegar

Madrona Venture Group, an early-stage venture capital firm, named S. “Soma” Somasegar managing director. He joined Madrona in 2015 as a venture partner after leading Microsoft's Developer Division, and has been an active angel and seed investor. Hope Cochran has joined the firm as venture partner. Cochran was CFO of King Digital, creator of Candy Crush, and Clearwire. Julie Sandler was prompted to partner and Daniel Li to senior associate. Sandler launched Seattle Entrepreneurial Women's Network and was a senior product manager at Amazon. Li joined Madrona in 2015 and previously worked in the Seattle office of Boston Consulting Group.

Garvey Schubert

Garvey Schubert Barer said Eryn Karpinski Hoerster, Susan Kim and Daniel Vecchio have been elevated to owners. Hoerster is based in the Portland office as part of the litigation practice. Kim's Seattle practice focuses on real estate and hospitality. Vecchio is a litigator in Seattle focused on commercial litigation, bankruptcy and debtor/creditor issues.

Jan 18, 2017

Ashbaugh Beal

Ashbaugh Beal named Tristan Swanson partner. He will continue to focus on insurance recovery, construction and real estate litigation.

Andersen Tax

Andersen Tax named Nick Pavelich managing director of the Seattle office and said he will join the Private Client Services group. Pavelich was CFO and president of real estate at Laird Norton Co. He also was a partner at Clark Nuber and a director at KPMG and Arthur Andersen. His specialties include real estate, flow-through entities and transaction structuring.

Jan 13, 2017

Summit Law Group

Summit Law Group announced it has hired five attorneys from Riddell Williams to create a new real estate group, which it dubs “the Dirt Group.” They are Kyle L. Branum, Courtney L. Seim, Keith J. Seo, Denice Tokunaga and Katie K. Yuen. Tokunaga will be the new real estate practice leader. Summit said over the past decade, this team has established one of Seattle's leading commercial real estate practices.

American Seafoods Group

American Seafoods Group said Mikel Durham is the new CEO, and current CEO and Chairman Bernt Bodal will continue as chairman. Durham has worked in the food service and consumer products industries, including at PepsiCo, Burger King, Cadbury Schweppes and Yum. American Seafoods harvests, processes and supplies wild-caught seafood.

JND Legal Administration

JND Legal Administration named Jennifer Keough CEO, to oversee class action, mass tort, corporate restructuring, eDiscovery and government services. She was managing director of JND Legal Administration and CEO of the class action division. The firm also has a new 11,000-square-foot Seattle headquarters.

Jan 12, 2017

iinnovate Leadership Network

Perkins Coie partner David F. McShea has joined the board of advisors at iinnovate Leadership Network, a peer CEO network focused on the innovation economy. iinnovate was founded in 2016 by R. Joe Ottinger to help founders, CEOs and presidents of innovative companies. McShea joins others in the Seattle tech community, including Chris Ackerley, Artie Buerk, Vikram Jandhyala, Ralph Pascualy, Heather Redman, Michael Schutzler and Karl Triebes. Ottinger said less than 10 percent of tech companies have grown to more than 20 employees.

Clark Nuber

Clark Nuber PS, a Bellevue-based CPA firm, named Jennifer Becker Harris a tax shareholder. Harris joined Clark Nuber as a tax senior in 2003.