May 18, 2017

Comcast

Comcast named Amy Lynch regional VP for the Washington region, based in Lynnwood. Lynch replaces Kyle McSlarrow, who will become the new senior vice president for customer experience. Lynch was VP of engineering operations for Comcast ‘s West Division.

City of Tacoma

Tacoma City Council appointed Elizabeth Pauli to city manager. She is the first woman to hold this position. Pauli had been Tacoma's interim city manager since February and was city attorney before that. She was a partner at McGavick Graves in Tacoma.

Seattle City Club

The Seattle City Club said the Nancy Nordhoff Civic Leadership Award goes to Vu Le, who it called a civic visionary and community builder. Le founded the Rainier Valley Corps and work to cultivate leaders of color, strengthen organizations and encourage collaboration between diverse communities.

May 17, 2017

Woodland Park Zoo

Woodland Park Zoo has a new vice president of education, Wei Ying Wong, PhD., who was with the Philadelphia Zoo as director of conservation impact. She also worked at The Ocean Project to help zoos, aquariums and nature centers develop tools and strategies for conservation.

City of Spokane

The former U.S. attorney for Eastern Washington, Mike Ormsby, has been appointed city attorney for Spokane. He was confirmed this week to head the city legal department.

Nativis

Nativis Inc., a clinical stage, bio-electronic life science company developing treatments for serious diseases, named Dr. Donna Morgan Murray chief regulatory officer. She was head of Global Quality & Regulatory Compliance at Bristol-Meyers Squibb, and president of ZymoGenetics.

May 16, 2017

Western Office Interiors

Associates Purchasing, a privately owned Knoll furniture dealership in Los Angeles and Orange County, intends to merge with Western Office, Los Angeles, a unit of Western Office Interiors, a West Coast Knoll dealership with offices in Seattle and Las Vegas. Jonathan Felton, former CEO and president of Associates Purchasing, will be the new entity's president and partner.

LabCorp

LabCorp of Burlington, North Carolina, has completed the acquisition of Spokane-based Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories from Providence Health & Services and Catholic Health Initiatives. LabCorp now assumes PAML's ownership interests in Colorado Laboratory Services, Kentucky Laboratory Services, MountainStar Clinical Laboratories, PACLAB Network Laboratories and Tri-Cities Laboratory.

Crab King

A new restaurant called Crab King has opened at 15600 N.E. Eighth St. in the Crossroads area. Xiaomeng Liu and his wife, Peipei, operate the Northern Japanese-style restaurant.