May 26, 2021

Seattle Southside RTA

Powell

Jeff Powell has been appointed communications manager for the Seattle Southside Regional Tourism Authority (RTA), the official destination marketing organization for Seattle Southside, including the cities of SeaTac, Tukwila and Des Moines. He will work closely with current team members to promote the region, foster relationships with key Seattle Southside stakeholders and continue the RTA's efforts in building awareness to bring in more visitors to Seattle Southside. As communications manager, Powell's focus will be media relations, website and marketing content development, social media and internal and external communications on behalf of the destination marketing organization. Powell has over 15 years of marketing and communications experience. Most recently, he helped promote lifestyle brands as the communications manager at Ricardo Beverly Hills, a luggage and accessories brand based in Kent. Prior to that, Powell explored Asia and Australia as a travel editor with Expedia, and served as senior editor on the brand strategy team at Nordstrom. The Seattle Southside RTA is funded by a self-assessed hotel fund and supported by a lodging tax from the cities of SeaTac, Tukwila and Des Moines.

Prime 8 Consulting

Prime 8 Consulting, headquartered in Bellevue, announced its partnership with Titans FC, a youth soccer organization. Adam Nowland is president and director of coaching for Titans FC. Titans FC is a youth soccer organization that promotes the personal development of each player and helps them reach their full potential, while nurturing a passion for the game of soccer. The Titans FC aims to influence positive change in the youth soccer landscape throughout the state of Washington, by removing financial, political, and social constraints that are the barriers to the development of players. Prime 8 Consulting is a woman-owned management consulting firm, specializing in helping companies implement organizational change, get products to market quickly, and adopt modern practices and technologies.

May 25, 2021

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has awarded Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Seattle with the Rolls-Royce ‘Dealer of the Year' Award for Global Excellence in Ownership Services. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Seattle is owned and operated by OpenRoad Northwest, a division of OpenRoad Auto Group. The Ownership Services Dealer of Year Award is based on a range of measurements and achievements in delivering service and support throughout the lifetime of Rolls-Royce ownership. Every year Rolls-Royce Motor Cars highlights the achievement of top dealers around the world. Later this year, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Seattle will be moving into a new 67,755-square-foot center at 13617 NE 20th Street in Bellevue. The new facility will house 23 service bays, a large showroom and customer lounge, plus an additional 10,000 square feet of flex space for special events.

Dorsey & Whitney

International law firm Dorsey & Whitney announced that 69 of its lawyers and 28 of its practices across eight of its U.S. offices were ranked by Chambers and Partners in its annual survey, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business 2021. The following Seattle-based Dorsey lawyers were ranked individually by Chambers in its latest guide: Chris Barry – Corporate/M&A; Michael Droke – Labor & Employment; Kimton Eng – Intellectual Property; Aaron Goldstein – Labor & Employment; John Hollinrake – Tax; and Paul Meiklejohn – Intellectual Property. Chambers surveys and interviews clients and lawyers across the United States to determine which firms and attorneys are considered leaders in their field. Rankings assess key qualities in the legal field, including technical legal ability, professional conduct, client service, commercial astuteness, diligence and commitment.

Auth0

Bellevue-based Auth0 hired Natalie Hausia-Haugen as head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). Hausia-Haugen brings more than 15 years of industry experience and will be responsible for accelerating Auth0's DEI vision, policies and processes. Prior to joining Auth0, Hausia-Haugen worked at Nike where she held senior employee engagement, diversity and inclusion, and people-related roles. She was a leader on Nike's diversity and inclusion employee council and the co-chair of Nike's employee resources group for teammates of color with roots in Asia, the Middle East, and the Pacific Islands. Before Nike, Natalie worked for Target, leading both local and national diversity and inclusion strategies.

May 19, 2021

ZoomInfo

ZoomInfo, a provider of go-to-market intelligence solutions, announced that Chetna Mahajan has joined the company as chief information officer. With nearly two decades of experience in technology and operations, she will lead ZoomInfo's information technology strategy. Mahajan will serve on ZoomInfo's executive leadership team and report to Chris Hays, ZoomInfo's chief operating officer. Mahajan was most recently vice president of business systems and data analytics at Conga. Prior to Conga, Mahajan served as senior director of business systems, intelligent automation, and digital experience for Symantec, a cybersecurity software company. She also held senior roles at Delta Dental of California, the Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology, Boeing, and Sun Microsystems. ZoomInfo is headquartered in Vancouver.

RocketReach

Bellevue-based RocketReach, an intelligence platform used by sales, marketing and recruiting teams, appointed Tom Hale to its board of directors. Hale currently serves as president of SurveyMonkey, a provider of software solutions for customer experience, market research, and survey feedback, where he is responsible for overseeing engineering, infrastructure, product marketing, user experience and growth. Before joining SurveyMonkey in 2016, he spent six years at HomeAway, an internet marketplace for vacation rentals, first as chief product officer and then as chief operating officer. Hale currently serves on the boards of Cars.com and NoiseAware.

Folklife Festival

With support from Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, the 50th annual Northwest Folklife Festival will take place virtually on Memorial Day weekend, May 28-31. The full schedule is now available. There are many ways to engage with programming at this year's virtual festival. Streaming channels such as 50 Years of Folklife, Folklife Premieres, and The Roadhouse all feature regional artists while On-Demand and Family Fun channels provide any time access to performances. New this year, the Gathering Room provides live workshops in an intimate virtual space. Additional information is available at http://www.nwfolklife.org/festival/home.

Lattice Semiconductor

Lattice Semiconductor announced that the Lattice Sentry solution stack and the Lattice SupplyGuard supply chain security service won the 2021 Global InfoSec Cutting Edge in Embedded Security Award from Cyber Defense Magazine. Lattice's Sentry solution stack is a combination of customizable embedded software, reference designs, IP, and development tools for accelerating the implementation of secure systems compliant with NIST platform firmware resiliency guidelines. The Lattice SupplyGuard service extends the system protection provided by the Sentry stack throughout the supply chain by delivering factory-locked devices protected against attacks like cloning and malware insertion. Lattice is headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon.