Nov 16, 2021

Museum of Northwest Art

Catalani

The Museum of Northwest Art's Board of Trustees announced the selection of Stefano Catalani as MoNA's new executive director. MoNA's current executive director Joanna Sikes will continue her role through the end of 2021. Sikes will begin a new role as MoNA's director of development. She joined MoNA in April of 2018 as interim director. With the addition of Catalani, MoNA gains an executive director with 15 years of experience in leadership and operations, most recently with Gage Academy of Art. His art career straddles gallery, museum, and educational branches. Catalani will join the museum beginning January 1st, 2022. The Museum of Northwest Art, located in La Conner, collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the Pacific Northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people.

Standard Insurance

Brandl

Portland-based Standard Insurance (The Standard) announced that Margaret Brandl has been named assistant vice president and actuary, Actuarial Governance and Risk Management. Brandl has an extensive background in corporate risk management and actuarial systems and controls. Most recently she was vice president and managing actuary for the life and annuity business at Genworth Financial. Previously, she held a succession of roles with Manulife Financial in Canada. She led transformation of actuarial processes, models and tools in both companies. In her new role, Brandl will have responsibility for actuarial governance and risk management including the implementation of effective and agile actuarial and risk governance at all levels of the organization. Standard Insurance also announced that Kevin Erdahl has been promoted to assistant vice president of Employee Benefits Underwriting. Erdahl will assume full leadership of and responsibility for underwriting of the company's employee benefit products, including medical underwriting functions. Erdahl started at The Standard in 1994 as an associate underwriter in Employee Benefits. During his career Erdahl has held multiple leadership roles, most recently, he was second vice president of risk management for Employee Benefits Underwriting with responsibility for the western and central region underwriting teams and is serving as the business owner for medical underwriting systems.

Nov 12, 2021

Fortive

Fortive appointed Elena Rosman as vice president of investor relations, effective Nov. 29. Most recently, Rosman served as vice president, investor relations at Aptiv. Prior to Aptiv, she held various management roles in treasury, M&A and investor relations at Honeywell. Griffin Whitney will continue to lead the investor relations function throughout Rosman's onboarding period, before moving to a new role within Fortive's corporate development team to support the execution of the company's capital allocation strategy. Everett-based Fortive provides essential technologies for connected workflow solutions across a range of end markets.

City of Tacoma

The city of Tacoma is conducting a survey until Dec. 10 to evaluate the community's perceptions of city services. The survey is conducted every two years in preparation for the biennial budget. A total of 750 randomly sampled households — 150 from each council district — across Tacoma will have the opportunity to identify which services they feel are important, which service areas have improved over time, and which service areas could improve in the future. The community survey, administered by MDB Insight, will assess the city's performance in its major service areas, and help the city better understand community members' perceptions of these service areas. The survey findings will also help define the community's current priorities and aid the city's ongoing planning and improvement processes. More information about the survey is on the city's website, or contact Reid Bennion from the Office of Management and Budget at rbennion@cityoftacoma.org.

Proliance Surgeons

Seattle-based Proliance Surgeons, one of the nation's largest independent health care practices, named Troy Simonson chief executive officer, and announced a new strategic relationship with Minnesota-based Revo Health. In his new role, Simonson will lead Proliance Surgeons' growth and innovation strategy. Simonson will also maintain his current role as CEO of Revo Health. Revo is a managed-services organization that specializes in supporting physician leaders across the country. Simonson has worked in the health care industry for over 25 years. His accomplishments at Revo include guiding the creation of Infinite Health Collaborative, an independent multi-specialty practice with over 200 physicians in the Twin Cities. Proliance Surgeons is a physician-owned-and-managed company, with more than 100 locations across Washington.

Nov 10, 2021

DreamBox Learning

Evergreen Coast Capital signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in DreamBox Learning, a Bellevue-based education technology provider that promotes intelligent adaptive learning. TPG's The Rise Fund will retain a significant minority stake and continue to be represented on the company's board of directors. The deal follows a record year for DreamBox, on target for over $100 million in revenue and nearly 40% growth as K-12 schools accelerate blended learning solutions. DreamBox also expanded its leadership team this year and acquired two companies in the English language arts market. The investment comes on the heels of The Rise Fund's recent acquisition of Teachers of Tomorrow, which adds to an education portfolio that includes EverFi, InStride and Renaissance Learning.

Fortive

Fortive's board of directors appointed Wright Lassiter III as a director, effective Jan. 1, 2022. Lassiter is president and CEO of Henry Ford Health System, a private, not-for-profit health system comprised of six hospitals, a health plan and wide range of ambulatory and retail health services. Prior to joining Henry Ford Health System in 2014, Lassiter was CEO of Alameda Health System in Oakland, California. He also is the chair-elect of the American Hospital Association board of trustees, starting in 2022. In addition, Lassiter is a director of Quest Diagnostics, a publicly traded diagnostic testing company, and the lead independent director of DT Midstream, a publicly traded energy company. Everett-based Fortive is a provider of essential technologies for connected workflow solutions.

Nov 09, 2021

Stoel Rives

Stoel Rives announced nine attorneys were promoted to the partnership effective January 1, 2022. This year's class of new partners includes six women and three men who practice in the firm's offices in Anchorage, Portland, Salt Lake City, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. James Graves and Kate Mathews are the new Stoel Rives partners in the Seattle office. Graves is an Environment, Land Use and Natural Resources attorney. He counsels clients working with state and federal regulators through all phases of investigation and remediation of contaminated sites, and is experienced in cost recovery through litigation and alternative dispute resolution, including equitable allocation proceedings at complex, multi-party sediment cleanup sites. Mathews is a Real Estate & Construction attorney with a specialized practice focus on real-estate secured financing and affordable housing development. Her client base includes private real estate developers, tax-credit investors, and public housing authorities. She is experienced in major acquisition and disposition deals and development of multi-family, mixed-use and industrial real estate projects, including structuring, construction and permanent financing, leasing, low-income housing tax credit financing, and workforce housing initiatives.

City of Edmonds

After four decades of public service, including seven years in the role of economic and community services director for the city of Edmonds, Patrick Doherty announced plans to retire at the end of 2021. After earning both bachelor's and master's degrees in Urban Planning, Doherty started his career in the town of Los Gatos, California in September 1981, going on to serve in various other cities in the country before coming to Edmonds, but most notably for almost 17 years at the city of Seattle as its design review manager, and 13 years at the city of Federal Way as its community and economic development director. Initially appointed by Mayor Dave Earling, Doherty started with city of Edmonds in July of 2014 to serve as economic development and community services director. Initial responsibilities focused on tourism promotion, business attraction, stewardship of the former Strategic Action Plan, leading communications and PR, as well as intergovernmental relations and the city's lobbying efforts in Olympia and Washington, DC. Later, Doherty worked on the Diversity Commission, and with Arts and Culture Manager Frances Chapin to achieve Creative District designation of the greater Edmonds downtown area – the first such designation in Washington State. The recruitment process will begin shortly to fill vacant position. It is expected that process will culminate in the first part of the new year. Ultimately, the Mayor will appoint a new director, subject to City Council confirmation.

PACCAR

PACCAR was honored as a 2021 “Top Company for Women to Work for in Transportation,” and three PACCAR executives were recognized for their industry leadership, by the Women in Trucking Association (“WIT”). WIT is a non-profit organization that encourages the employment and promotes the accomplishments of women in the trucking industry. WIT solicited nominations for companies with a culture that supports gender diversity, flexible hours, competitive compensation and benefits, professional development and career advancement opportunities. Employees and business partners voted to determine the honorees. Lily Ley, PACCAR vice president and chief information officer, is named as a finalist for WIT's 2021 “Influential Women in Trucking” award. The award highlights the achievements of female leaders in the trucking industry. Brooke Vasquez, PACCAR Parts senior director of marketing, and Erin Luke, assistant director of North American materials, are honored as 2021 “Top Women to Watch in Transportation.” This award recognizes top performers in the industry who provide leadership and support to other women and have had significant career accomplishments in the last year.