Oct 10, 2017

Women Business Owners

Women Business Owners said Vanessa Smith is the 36th winner of its Nellie Cashman Woman Business Owner of the Year Award. Smith owns Blue Ribbon Cooking. She started the cooking and catering business at 23 and within three years had over 90 employees. Cashman (ca. 1850-1925) was an Irish immigrant, gold miner and community organizer who had a string of businesses in the West that made her financially independent.

Stoel Rives

Stoel Rives LLP hired J. Nathanael Watson as an of counsel attorney in the Environment, Land Use and Natural Resources Group in Seattle. Watson was a trial attorney for the Environment & Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 2009 to 2013 in Washington, D.C., and from 2014 to 2017 in Denver.

Oct 06, 2017

Umpqua Bank

Umpqua Bank, a subsidiary of Umpqua Holdings Corp. that is based in Roseburg, Ore., is expanding its Puget Sound small business banking team. Here are the six new relationship bankers: Cyndee Wood (Auburn/Federal Way), Leland Williams (Bellevue), Billy Huntley (North Seattle), Greg Hansch (Tacoma), Jerrod Vinson (North Seattle/Lynnwood) and Tim Corrigan (South Seattle).

F5 Networks

F5 Networks named Steve McMillan executive vice president of global services, based at F5's Seattle headquarters. He was senior vice president of customer success and managed cloud services at Oracle, and spent 19 years at IBM on global managed services, consulting and IT. Long-time F5 executive Julian Eames is retiring.

Funko

Everett-based Funko, a pop culture consumer products company, announced three executive appointments: Andrew Perlmutter, senior vice president of sales, has been promoted to president; Johanna Gepford has been promoted to SVP of global sales; and Jaime Beckley has been named VP of sales.

Oct 05, 2017

Seattle Symphony

Principal guest conductor Thomas Dausgaard will begin a four-year contract as music director for Seattle Symphony in September 2019. Dausgaard will succeed Ludovic Morlot, whose tenure ends after the 2018–2019 season.

Bill4Time

Alpine Investors of San Francisco and Bellevue has made an investment in Bill4Time, a cloud-based time and billing software for professional service firms. Bill4Time's founder Jeremy Diviney will move into a technology-focused role as CTO. Steve Reardon of Alpine's PeopleFirst will be CEO at Bill4Time. Bill4Time was started in 2006, and has offices in Seattle and Pittsburgh. It streamlines the tracking and billing process.

Axiom

Axiom, a provider of tech-enabled legal and contracting solutions with offices in New York and Seattle, named Doug Hebenthal chief technology officer, based in Seattle. Hebenthal will oversee creation of a research and development center in Seattle that will open in early 2018. He was chief network engineering officer at Change Healthcare, director of engineering for Amazon's e-commerce payments and spent more than 20 years at Microsoft, including on the Xbox team. Axiom provides legal, contracts and compliance solutions for large enterprises.