Jun 23, 2020

Airship

Portland-based Airship hired Bernardo de Albergaria as chief commercial officer, leading global marketing, sales and partner organizations. De Albergaria has 20 years of experience leading global product, sales and marketing initiatives for technology companies. Most recently, he was CEO of Beckon, an enterprise marketing performance analytics platform. Prior to that, he was senior vice president and general manager of collaboration at Atlassian. Airship has a digital platform for companies to manage customer communications.

Summit Partners

Global growth equity investor Summit Partners added Matt Rissell to the firm's Executive-in-Residence program, which identifies new investment opportunities and advises growth stage companies in the software sector. Rissell founded TSheets, an Eagle, Idaho-based time tracking and scheduling software company that was bought for $340 million in 2018 by Intuit. Summit has U.S. offices in Menlo Park, California, and Boston.

T-Mobile

In Bellevue, T-Mobile agreed to sell $4 billion in senior secured notes in a private offering to institutional buyers. The company said it intends to use the proceeds for ongoing liability management, including the redemption of one or more series of existing unsecured notes. The new offering includes $1 billion in 1.5% notes due in 2026, $1.25 billion in 2.05% notes due in 2028 and $1.75 billion in 2.55% notes due in 2031.

Soluna Technologies

Soluna Technologies flipped the switch in Wenatchee on its new 3-megawatt pilot data center that integrates demand-response computing with green power. The data center is being used to mine cryptocurrency and for research and development. New York City-based Soluna is operating it on behalf of EcoChain, a subsidiary of Mechanical Technology.

Concord Pacific

Vancouver, B.C., developer Concord Pacific donated over 200,000 masks to South Lake Union-area businesses in partnership with the South Lake Union Chamber of Commerce. Recipients include small businesses and nonprofit organizations. Concord is building Seattle House, a luxury condo project in the Denny Triangle neighborhood.

Jun 19, 2020

Pemco

Abu-Emarah

In Seattle, Pemco Mutual Insurance appointed Abeer Abu-Emarah as director of product management. Abu-Emarah joined Pemco in 2018 as director of underwriting operations and analytics. She has 13 years of experience in managing products and was senior director of state operations at Liberty Mutual.

T-Mobile

Peter Osvaldik will become the new CFO at T-Mobile on July 1, when Braxton Carter retires from that role. Osvaldik is senior vice president of finance and chief accounting officer. He joined the Bellevue-based company in January 2016 as vice president of external reporting and technical accounting. Prior to that, he held chief accounting officer, controller and manager roles at Outerwall, Coinstar and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Carter has spent over 19 years at T-Mobile, starting at MetroPCS and then playing an integral role as the companies merged in 2013. Carter will be available as a strategic adviser through year end.

D.A. Davidson

In Portland, D.A. Davidson hired Ben Wilson as a senior analyst on its institutional equity research team to provide alternative data and emerging technology research. Wilson comes from KeyBanc Capital Markets, where he was a technology analyst for over 11 years. Prior to that, he was a senior editor at CNET Networks, a technology-focused news website. D.A. Davidson is headquartered in Montana, with offices in Denver, Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle.

Spaceflight

In Seattle, Spaceflight said it will launch two rideshare payloads aboard SpaceX's 10th Starlink mission. The payloads will include two Earth-observation microsatellites for BlackSky. The mission is targeted to launch in the coming weeks at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Spaceflight also announced it inked a deal with SpaceX to secure rideshare capacity on multiple launches through the end of 2021. Spaceflight is a satellite rideshare and mission management provider.

Conversa Health

Portland-based Conversa Health closed $12 million in Series B funding led by Builders VC and Northwell Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Northwell Health, one of New York's largest health care providers. Other investors were P5 Health Ventures, Nassau Street Ventures and UH Ventures. Conversa connects patients and caregivers through its healthcare conversation platform.

Paul G. Allen Family Foundation

The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation donated $1 million to the WA Food Fund, a statewide hunger relief program started in April that has raised over $8 million for Food Lifeline, Second Harvest and Northwest Harvest. WA Food Fund is managed by Philanthropy Northwest. Contributions can be made to http://www.wafoodfund.org.