Sep 10, 2020

Panopto

Panopto, a leader in video management systems for enterprise and education markets, has been selected as one of Washington's 25 best midsize workplaces in an annual ranking compiled by the Puget Sound Business Journal. With more than 150 employees, Panopto was ranked number six on the list. Panopto is headquartered in Seattle and has offices in Pittsburgh, London, Hong Kong and Sydney. Since 2007, the company has created software that enables businesses and universities to create secure, searchable video libraries. Privately-held, Panopto was founded by technology entrepreneurs and software experts at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science.

State of Washington

Washington State Department of Commerce director Lisa Brown announced Jaime Smith has been named its new communications director. Smith is joining the department ahead of current communications director Barbara Dunn's impending retirement. Smith has nearly 20 years of communications, outreach and policy experience, much of it in state government. She recently served as Gov. Jay Inslee's executive director of communications and external affairs. She left briefly to start her own communications firm, but the COVID-19 pandemic brought her back into state government, where she served as director of the state's COVID-19 joint information center at Camp Murray. Smith's earlier work includes legislative assistant and policy analyst and communications specialist for several members of the Washington State House of Representatives.

Vashon Rotary Club

The Vashon Rotary Club announced its first-ever virtual event to fight homelessness. Prevent Homelessness on Vashon is a community partnership with the Vashon chamber and Our Mayberry, a new e-commerce platform. Our Mayberry officially launched in July 2020 as a e-commerce platform where small businesses offer their goods and services, and consumers can direct a percentage of every sale to charity. On Our Mayberry, the charities promote the businesses to shoppers and in return receive a contribution from each sale. Former football player Marcus Trufant joined the effort through his Trufant Family Foundation.

Accelerator Life Science Partners

Accelerator Life Science Partners, a early-stage life science management and venture capital firm, announced the expansion of its advisory teams. Kevin Chow, Ph.D. and Melissa Yeager have been named as operating partners; Scott Brun, M.D. and David Hirsh, Ph.D., have been appointed to the clinical and scientific advisory board; Jan Lundberg, Ph.D. has been appointed to the clinical and scientific advisory board and will serve as a senior advisor; and Eugene Yeo, Ph.D., will serve as a senior advisor. Chow and Yeager will join a group of operating partners to assist with the evaluation of new business opportunities, support current and future ALSP portfolio companies and serve in a variety of operating and advisory roles. Brun served in various scientific & leadership roles for over 20 years at Abbott and AbbVie. Hirsh is a professor in the department of biochemistry and molecular biophysics in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, where he also served as department chairman and subsequently was appointed Columbia University's first executive vice president for research. Lundberg has over two decades as head of research at AstraZeneca and head of research and development at Eli Lilly.

Sep 09, 2020

T-Mobile

Bellevue-based T-Mobile announced Project 10Million, an initiative aimed at delivering internet connectivity to millions of underserved student households at no cost to them. Partnering with school districts across the country, the program offers free wireless hotspots, free high-speed data and access to laptops and tablets, at-cost. The initiative's goal is to help every unconnected student in the U.S. get access to internet connectivity. The program is now live and available to school districts.

Dorsey & Whitney

International law firm Dorsey & Whitney has named corporate partner Lawrence Ward as head of the firm's Seattle office. Ward will replace Seattle office head and intellectual property partner Jennifer Spaith. Ward's practice focuses on U.S. national security law, and he is a former member of the U.S. State Department's Defense Trade Advisory Group. Dorsey has locations across the United States and in Canada, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region,

Broadmark Realty Capital

Broadmark Realty Capital, a commercial real estate finance company, has appointed Nevin Boparai executive vice president and chief legal officer. Boparai previously served as assistant general counsel, corporate and securities at Ventas, an S&P 500 healthcare real estate investment trust. He also served as managing director of Ventas Life Science and Healthcare Real Estate Fund, Previously, Boparai served as counsel, corporate transactions for Abbott Laboratories and as an associate with the law firm of Jones Day in Silicon Valley. Broadmark Realty Capital provides secured financing to fund the acquisition, renovation, rehabilitation or development of residential or commercial properties.

Sep 04, 2020

Smartsheet

Smartsheet, of Bellevue, announced that Rowan Trollope has been appointed to its board of directors. Trollope currently serves as CEO of Five9, a provider of cloud contact center software. Prior to Five9, Trollope was senior vice president and general manager of Cisco's Applications Group. He also served as group president sales, marketing and product development at Symantec, where he was responsible for cloud security. Smartsheet is a cloud-based platform for work execution.

ExtraHop

Seattle-based ExtraHop announced Reveal(x) has been selected as the three-time winner of the “Best AI-based Solution for CyberSecurity” award from AI Breakthrough, a market intelligence platform that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry. AI Breakthrough evaluated over 2,000 nominations from companies all over the world. Reveal(x) applies cloud-based machine learning to all network traffic to provide visibility, real-time threat detection, and intelligent response. ExtraHop recently introduced the Reveal(x) 360 platform, powered by cloud-scale AI, which decrypts and analyzes all cloud and network traffic in real time.

Hohimer Wealth Management

Hohimer Wealth Management hired Mark Dederer in the newly created position of director, philanthropic services. Dederer will help individuals and businesses maximize giving strategies. Most recently, Dederer served as the executive director of the Biller Family Foundation. He previously served as senior vice president of community affairs for Wells Fargo in Washington, Oregon and Alaska, and as vice president of the Safeco Insurance Foundation. Hohimer Wealth Management is an investment advisor providing goals-based wealth management. They specialize in multi-generational wealth management for high net-worth families as well as designing and managing retirement plans for business owners.

Academy Mortgage

Producing branch manager Umar Gebril announced that Danny Meier has joined Academy Mortgage Eastlake as a producing branch manager. In this role, Meier will contribute to growth in production, recruiting and coaching of loan officers and other team members in the greater Seattle area. Meier has over 10 years of mortgage experience, and most recently, he was a loan originator for Homestreet,

BitTitan

BitTitan, the developer of MigrationWiz, has been recognized by Seattle Business magazine as a top company in the state of Washington, earning recognition in the magazine's annual 100 Best Companies to Work For awards program. The award, which published in the August issue of Seattle Business magazine, recognizes the leading companies in Washington that set the standard for work environment, rewards and recognition, benefits, communications, responsibility and decision-making, and executive leadership. BitTitan allows IT service professionals to deploy and manage cloud technologies through automation. MigrationWiz is a SaaS solution for mailbox, document, public-folder and Microsoft teams migrations. The company has offices in Seattle and Singapore.