May 09, 2018

Chef

Ried

Scobie

Chef, a Seattle-based continuous automation software company, named Corey Scobie senior vice president of product and engineering and Ryan Ried vice president of worldwide sales. Scobie and Ried each have more than 20 years of leadership experience at Silicon Valley technology companies.

Qumulo

Qumulo, a Seattle-based provider of universal-scale file storage, appointed Peter Zaballos chief marketing officer. Zaballos has more than 25 years of marketing experience at technology companies, most recently as CMO for Minneapolis-based SPS Commerce.

Visualant

Visualant is changing its name to Know Labs. The Seattle company directs structured light or radio waves through substances to capture molecular signatures used for identification, authentication and diagnosis.

Marvista Elementary School

Marvista Elementary School in Normandy Park won a $20,000 education grant from Symetra and Seattle Seahawks called Symetra Heroes in the Classroom MVP Award. The money will fund a program called Calm Classrooms that helps students regulate emotions and energy to maintain an optimal learning environment.

HAPO Credit Union

Richland-based HAPO Credit Union is adding Invo Video Banking. Invo provides an integrated video platform for real-time interactions without the need to fully staff all branches.

May 08, 2018

Dorsey & Whitney

Szpajda

Leffler

Cristofer I. Leffler joined Dorsey & Whitney as partner and Stefan Szpajda joined as of counsel. Both are in Dorsey's Trial Group in Seattle. Leffler's practice focuses on intellectual property and commercial litigation. He was a partner at Foster Pepper in Seattle. Szpajda's practice focuses on patent and trade secret litigation. He was of counsel at Foster Pepper's intellectual property litigation practice.

City of Bellevue

Hagen

Jerome “Jay” Hagen next week will become chief of the Bellevue Fire Department. Hagen is deputy chief at the Seattle Fire Department, and has 33 years of fire service experience. Todd Dickerboom has been interim fire chief in Bellevue since Mark Risen retired last September.

City of Seattle

Andres Mantilla next week will become interim director of the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods. He will replace Kathy Nyland, who will become a senior advisor at Seattle Parks and Recreation. Mantilla is director of external relations and outreach for the mayor's office, and before that worked on community and small business outreach at the Department of Neighborhoods and Office of Economic Development.

Oversea Casing

Seattle-based Oversea Casing Co. acquired DeWied International of San Antonio. Both companies make sausage casings. The new firm is called Oversea DeWied International and is headquartered in Seattle, with subsidiaries in San Antonio, Mexico City, British Columbia and China.

Rover.com

Seattle-based Rover.com is bringing its pet sitting and dog walking services to Europe, beginning with the United Kingdom in July.