Mar 05, 2020

The Standard

Rucker

Flora

Portland-based Standard Insurance Co. (The Standard) promoted Stephanie Flora to vice president of internal auditing and hired John Rucker as assistant vice president of corporate tax. Flora joined the company in 2002 as an internal auditor and later became a senior internal auditor. She most recently was assistant vice president of internal auditing. Rucker has over 38 years of corporate tax experience with Ernst & Young and Deloitte Tax. Most recently, Rucker was senior vice president of tax at Lionsgate Entertainment.

HomeStreet

Mark R. Ruh on June 5 will resign from HomeStreet Bank, where he is executive vice president and CFO. Ruh will assist in transitioning the next CFO and could extend his tenure with the bank to Sept. 11, if necessary. Ruh was CFO for three years at HomeStreet, helping to change it from a thrift to a commercial bank. Seattle-based HomeStreet is searching for a new CFO and anticipates filling the position in the near term.

Traction Guest

David Sutcliffe joined Seattle's Traction Guest as board chair. Sutcliffe has nearly 40 years of experience leading tech companies, with stints as CEO and board chair of Sierra Wireless, board chair of Neurio Technology and board chair of Social Venture Partners Vancouver. Traction Guest operates a cloud-based visitor management service.

Pend Oreille Insurance

Newport Beach, California-based Alliant Insurance Services acquired Pend Oreille Insurance of Ponderay, Idaho. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Alliant will retain the Pend Oreille Insurance team, including co-owners Stefanie Nostdahl and Jodie Corless. Pend Oreille Insurance is an independent agency.

Lattice Semiconductor

Hillsboro, Oregon-based chipmaker Lattice Semiconductor will repurchase up to $40 million of its outstanding common stock over the next 12 months. Stock may be bought through the open market and in privately negotiated transactions. The company could suspend or discontinue the program at any time.

Mar 04, 2020

Carney Badley Spellman

Weber

Law firm Carney Badley Spellman re-elected Robert Weber as a director-at-large on its board. Weber's practice focuses on real estate, banking and corporate transactions. He represents landlords and tenants in commercial, office, medical and retail lease negotiations. He also assists in the purchase and sale of commercial and residential properties. Carney Badley Spellman has offices in Seattle and Olympia.

City of Sammamish

Marlene Dunham retired after working over 20 years for the city of Sammamish. Dunham has the distinction of being the city's first employee. She was contract administrator in her final role.

Zipwhip

Seattle tech company Zipwhip and The Riveter, a union of working women and allies, formed a joint scholarship program that supports young women in science, technology, engineering and math. The Women in STEM Scholarship will give $1,500 to one female student studying in a STEM field, as well as a six-month Riveter Ally membership that includes access to all workshops and programs sponsored by The Riveter and other public programs. It also provides an allotment of floating desk co-working hours. The winner will be announced June 1. Zipwhip is a cloud software company for business texting.

Avangrid Renewables

Portland-based Avangrid Renewables commissioned the 307-megawatt Karankawa wind farm near Corpus Christi, Texas. The farm supplies clean electricity to Austin Energy and Nike, helping both meet their sustainability commitments. Austin Energy has committed to meet 65% of its customers' energy demand with renewable resources by 2027; Nike has committed to power all of its owned or operated facilities with renewable energy by 2025.

Lithia Motors

Medford, Oregon-based Lithia Motors says 28 of its car stores won 2020 Dealer of the Year awards from DealerRater. Lithia also had 45 stores win the 2020 DealerRater Consumer Satisfaction Award.