Nov 18, 2020

JND Legal Administration

JND Legal Administration, a legal management and administration services provider serving plaintiff and defendant firms, corporations and government entities, appointed Lorri Staal as vice president of operations. Staal has more than 20 years of complex litigation experience. She was a practicing attorney at Dechert LLP for 13 years before beginning her legal administration career in 2008. JND was founded in 2016 and has offices in Washington, California, Minnesota, New York, and Washington, D.C.

Dorsey & Whitney

International law firm Dorsey & Whitney announced that it has named 17 new partners in the firm, effective January 1, 2021, including Bonnie Paskvan in the Anchorage office. Paskvan's area of specialty is regulatory affairs. Dorsey has locations across the United States and in Canada, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.

T-Mobile

Bellevue-based T-Mobile is supporting Feeding America's mission to end hunger, and they're asking customers and employees to join them. For every act of kindness shared on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram with the hashtag #CaptureKindness through December 4th, T-Mobile will donate $10 to Feeding America, up to $1 million. On Giving Tuesday, December 1st, for each customer that clicks on the Feeding America donation option in the T-Mobile Tuesdays app, the company will donate $1, up to $500,000.

Nov 17, 2020

Schnitzer Steel Industries

Schnitzer Steel Industries announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Glenda Minor as a new independent director. Minor will also serve as a member of the Board's Audit and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees.

She is currently chief executive officer and principal of Silket Advisory Services, a privately-owned consulting firm. She was formerly senior vice president and chief financial officer of steel manufacturer, EVRAZ North America.

Schnitzer Steel Industries, which began operations in 1906 in Portland, is a manufacturer and exporter of recycled metal products.

Inland Cellular

Intelsat, operator of an integrated satellite and terrestrial network, and Inland Cellular, a regional mobile network operator serving communities in Pacific Northwest, are partnering to bring reliable 4G LTE broadband coverage to people in rural areas of Washington state, including remote construction, mining and camping sites. Intelsat partnered with U.S.-based equipment providers Comtech EF Data and Trilogy Networks. Inland Cellular, doing business as Inland Cellular and Emerge Technologies, has been providing wireless technology communications services since 1989 in Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho.

Pacific Dental

Weingarten Realty announced that Pacific Dental is leasing 2,388 SF at Queen Anne Marketplace in Seattle. Queen Anne Marketplace is anchored by Metropolitan Market and Bartell Drugs. Pacific Dental Services was founded by Stephen Thorne in 1994, and handles the dental practice's administrative tasks. PDS supports over 800 offices in 23 states. Weingarten Realty Investors is a shopping center owner, manager and developer.

Nov 13, 2020

Bordeaux Wealth Advisors

Bordeaux Wealth Advisors, an investment advisory and wealth management firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, announced it moved to a new and larger office space in Bellevue earlier this month to support its continued growth in the Seattle market. The firm opened a Bellevue office in January and hired Jon Snare as managing partner. Three additional wealth advisors – Jave Ragan, Martin Sobolewski, and Gregory Camperos – have been hired to support the firm's clients in the Pacific Northwest. Bordeaux's new offices are in Plaza East, located at 11100 NE 8th Street. The new 2,500 square-foot space doubled Bordeaux's existing office footprint in Bellevue.

Planar

Visualization technology company Planar hired Sandra Kanardy and Kit Shugrue to the its U.S. government division. The company is also expanding Planar's product security program. Kanardy will support state, local and education business development for the company's U.S. government team. Shugrue will support Planar's government business development for the West Coast. Founded in 1983, Planar is headquartered in Oregon, with offices and manufacturing facilities in Oregon, Europe and Asia.

The Fearey Group

The Fearey Group's CEO Aaron Blank has been announced as a recipient of PRWeek's 2020 40 Under 40 honorees. The annual list profiles the top U.S. public relations professionals across all sectors and industries. Blank worked as a radio reporter, anchor, producer and promoter in New York and Connecticut before beginning his career in public relations and joining The Fearey Group. In 2014, he became the owner of the Seattle-based firm. Launched in November 1998, PRWeek US is a trade magazine for PR professionals in the US.

Spaceflight

Seattle-based Spaceflight, a satellite rideshare and mission management provider, announced that it is developing two additional next-generation orbital transfer vehicles that will debut in 2021. Its first, Sherpa-FX, will fly on a fully dedicated rideshare mission with SpaceX, dubbed SXRS-3 by Spaceflight. The next two ESPA-class space vehicles in the company's portfolio are designed to provide more orbital diversification, including flexible manifest changes, deployment to multiple altitudes and orbital planes, and rapid launch solutions. Spaceflight has launched more than 300 satellites across nearly 34 rideshare missions.