Jan 16, 2020

Crowley

Van Gundy

Sesnon

Andreini

Crowley Maritime Corp. split Crowley Marine Services into three interrelated business segments: offshore services, ship assist and tanker escort, and engineering services. As part of the move, it appointed Jeff Andreini, Porter Sesnon and Coulston “Cole” van Gundy as leaders in the new segments. Andreini rejoined Crowley after four years as CFO for Ardent Holdings, a marine salvage business that Crowley previously owned half of. He is heading up offshore services from Houston in his new role. Sesnon, based in Seattle, is in charge of ship assist and tanker escort. He joined Crowley in 2018 as a director of business development and before that was a lawyer at K&L Gates in Seattle. Van Gundy is leading business development for project and construction management services, as well as engineering and design-related offerings provided by both Crowley and Seattle-based subsidiary Jensen Maritime Consultants. He joined the company in 2006 as an engineer supporting vessels managed from the Pacific Northwest.

BitTitan

Bellevue-based BitTitan created a corporate development division to help drive acquisitions and named Kirk Swanson as corporate development associate. Swanson was an associate in the investment banking group at D.A. Davidson & Co. in Seattle. Before that, he worked at Boeing and T-Mobile. BitTitan is looking to buy cloud-based software-as-a-service companies. It helps information technology service companies automate on the cloud.

Perkins Coie

Deborah Ruffins is the new chief marketing officer in the Seattle office of law firm Perkins Coie. Ruffins was global head of strategic initiatives at Hogan Lovells in New York City and prior to that led global business development at Bingham McCutchen in New York City.

Beck Family Estates

Beck Family Estates appointed three regional sales managers: Jack Chase for the West, John Davids for the Midwest and Nicholas Abuabara for the Northeast. Chase was on-premise director at Vehrs Distributing, where he managed supplier programming, training and compliance in Washington, Oregon and northern Idaho for national and regional accounts. He is working for Beck in Seattle. Davids is based in Chicago and Abuabara in New York City. McMinnville, Oregon-based Beck imports wines from Graham Beck and Steenberg vineyards, both in South Africa, and sells wines from Angela Estate in McMinnville.

Jan 14, 2020

Theo Chocolate

Mark Rieland is the new CFO at Theo Chocolate in Seattle. Rieland was CFO and COO at Minneapolis-based Peace Coffee, where he helped transition the business to new ownership. Prior to that, he held various finance leadership roles at General Mills, Syngenta Seeds and Lenox Group.

Impinj

Seattle-based Impinj hired Cary Baker as CFO, effective Feb. 17. Baker is CFO and treasurer at RealNetworks. Prior to that, he was CFO at Heat Software, CFO at NetMotion Software and vice president of finance at Clearwire. Impinj also announced that Linda Breard, the company's CFO consultant, will transition next month to a new role as strategic consultant to the CEO. Impinj provides radio frequency identification products.

Zeevo Group

In Seattle, Zeevo Group made changes to its executive leadership group, with principals Joey Johnsen and John McCartney leading company operations and co-founder Karen Curtis stepping down but remaining as an adviser. Zeevo is a business, finance and information technology consulting firm to companies in the aircraft leasing, technology and consumer products industries. Along with the leadership changes, the company said it added a new fund service that oversees a global investment portfolio.

Smartsheet

Bellevue-based Smartsheet opened an office in Sydney and hired Nigel Mendonca to lead it as vice president of the Asia Pacific region. Mendonca came from Tableau Software, where he spent five years as country manager for Australia and New Zealand. Smartsheet is a cloud-based platform for work execution with other offices in London and Edinburgh, Scotland.

Basics

Basics, a food market designed to help people cook more at home with fresh regional ingredients, next month will open a new store in Hillsdale, Oregon. The store is going into a 12,000-square-foot space formerly occupied by Food Front at 6344 S.W. Capitol Highway. Hillsdale will be Basics' fourth location. Additional stores in Beaverton and Portland's Pearl District are expected to open later this year. Basics is part of the Wild Rose Food Co.