Feb 14, 2020

Stoel Rives

Pritchard

Morse

Stoel Rives promoted attorneys Kara Morse and Scott Pritchard to partners in its Seattle office. Morse is a health care attorney providing regulatory, business and transactional support to medical groups, managed care companies and other health care entities. Pritchard focuses on complex litigation in a variety of fields including commercial, corporate, partnership, trust and estate, real property, construction and health care disputes.

Omeros

In Seattle, biopharmaceutical company Omeros appointed Kurt Zumwalt to its board. Zumwalt worked at Amazon for 15 years, where he was global treasurer and managed the company's relationships with over 45 banks. Prior to that, he was assistant treasurer at Paccar.

Alliant

Casey Parvey is the newest vice president in the Portland office of Alliant Insurance Services. Prior to joining Alliant, Parvey was a sales executive with a national insurance brokerage and consulting firm. He is experienced in workers' compensation, property, liability and other lines of coverage. Alliant is headquartered in Newport Beach, California.

Anitian

Cloud security company Anitian appointed John Vecchi as chief marketing officer. Vecchi has over 25 years of experience delivering new enterprise security and technology products to market. He previously was CMO at ColorTokens and at Solera Networks. At Anitian, he is splitting his time between Salt Lake City and the company's newly redesigned headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon.

Nike

Beaverton, Oregon-based Nike is transitioning its Nike brand business in Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay to strategic distributor partnerships to improve efficiency and drive growth. The move has Grupo Axo acquiring Nike's operations in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, and Grupo SBF, through its wholly owned subsidiary, becoming owner of operations in Brazil. The deal is expected to close by mid-year.

Feb 13, 2020

The Standard

Prakash

Chandler

Portland-based Standard Insurance Co. (The Standard) promoted Greg Chandler to vice president of information technology and Laxman Prakash to assistant vice president and chief information security officer. Chandler was vice president of IT solutions delivery. He joined the company in 2008 as director of infrastructure operations and was promoted a year later to assistant vice president of IT infrastructure. Prakash joined The Standard in 2011 as director of information security and business continuity, and was promoted in 2017 to second vice president of information security.

Arctic Information Technology

Bailey

Dave Bailey is the new president and general manager of Arctic Information Technology in Anchorage, Alaska. Bailey's appointment comes on the heels of Arctic IT winning contracts with the National Park Service, city of Seattle and King County. Arctic IT is a Doyon Government Group subsidiary that manages IT networks and provides business application services. It has local offices in Seattle and Federal Way.

Vacasa

Portland vacation rental management company Vacasa appointed independent board member Matt Roberts as interim CEO. Roberts is former CEO of restaurant booking service OpenTable and former CFO of online consumer lending group E-Loan. Vacasa founder Eric Breon is stepping down as CEO but will remain on the board. Executive search firm Reynolds Associates has been hired to find a permanent replacement.

Frazier Healthcare Partners

In Seattle, Frazier Healthcare Partners acquired EPTAM Precision Solutions and appointed Mark Kemp as CEO of EPTAM. Kemp is an operating partner at Frazier and has over 30 years of business experience, with expertise in the medical device market. He replaces Dana Waterman, who is pursuing other interests. EPTAM makes medical devices, implants and high-precision components. It has operations in New Hampshire, Colorado and New Jersey. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Frazier invests in health care companies.

Port of Seattle

The Port of Seattle created a stand-alone department responsible for equity, diversity and inclusion. It says it's the first port authority in the nation to do so.