Feb 12, 2020

Madrona Venture Group

Singh

Seattle venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group appointed Steve Singh as a managing director. Singh co-founded and led Concur, a corporate travel and expense management firm that was acquired in 2014 by SAP for $8.3 billion. He then served on the executive board of SAP and later was CEO of open source software company Docker.

The Standard

Quetel

Dykhouse

Portland-based Standard Insurance Co. (The Standard) promoted Jans Dykhouse to assistant vice president of sales operations and dental, and Kathleen Quetel to second vice president of risk underwriting. Dykhouse joined the company in 1999 and has been senior director of sales operations and service, and second vice president of employee benefit sales operations. Quetel has been with the company since 1992, moving up the ranks from associate underwriter to senior director of risk management.

Davis Wright Tremaine

Seattle-based Davis Wright Tremaine said a six-lawyer group focusing on energy matters joined its Washington, D.C., office. The group comes from Alston & Bird and is led by partners Sean Atkins and Michael Kunselman. It includes former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission senior executive Andrea Wolfman. The group is rounded out with Jamil Nasir, Bradley Miliauskas and Michael Kellermann, as well as several staff.

RH Strategic

Seattle-based Raffetto Herman Strategic Communications acquired MIX Public Relations of Seattle. The move deepens RH Strategic's expertise in cybersecurity, enterprise and emerging technology. It also grows the firm to 30 professionals with staff in cities coast to coast, including an office in Washington, D.C. MIX was founded in 2009 by Hally Wax and Matthew Mors.

Docugami

Kirkland startup Docugami secured $10 million in seed funding led by venture fund SignalFire, with participation by NextWorld Capital and others. The company also announced that Bob Muglia, former CEO of Snowflake and former head of Microsoft's Office and Azure businesses, is joining the company as a major investor and board member. Docugami uses artificial intelligence to help businesses create and manage documents for greater productivity, compliance and insight.

Feb 11, 2020

Qumulo

In Seattle, Qumulo hired Barry Russell as senior vice president and cloud general manager. Russell was global vice president of cloud business at F5 and a general manager at Amazon Web Services. Qumulo is a provider of hybrid cloud file storage.

Impinj

Eric Brodersen on March 6 will step down as president and COO of Impinj, a Seattle-based provider of radio frequency identification products. Brodersen has been with the company for nearly five years. He plans to travel and spend time with family before pursuing other opportunities. Impinj does not plan to immediately hire a replacement.

DOE

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management appointed Connie Flohr as manager of the Idaho Cleanup Project in Idaho Falls. Flohr was deputy manager of the radioactive waste cleanup program for nearly three years, and was acting manager since November. She has over 30 years of experience in leadership, budgeting and planning. Environmental Management oversees cleanup at the Idaho National Laboratory Site.

Amazon

Seattle-based Amazon started a new program that awards $25,000 prize packages to seven teachers working with students in underserved U.S. communities to build computer science skills. All 2,400 high school and robotics teachers in the Amazon Future Engineer program can be nominated at AmazonFutureEngineer.com starting Thursday until March 12.

NTT

Data center and technology services provider NTT said it will build five data centers on its 47-acre campus in Hillsboro, Oregon. The five new buildings will total 1 million square feet and will be part of NTT's Global Data Centers division, which operates over 160 data centers in more than 20 countries and regions.