Apr 26, 2022

BNY Mellon Wealth Management

BNY Mellon Wealth Management named Justin Williams as senior client strategist. He works with ultra-high-net-worth families, business corporate executives, private equity and hedge fund principals and their family offices, as well as foundations and endowments on their comprehensive wealth needs. Williams is based in Seattle and reports to Bo Lee, market president, Pacific Northwest. Williams joins BNY Mellon Wealth Management from Wells Fargo, where he served as a wealth advisor, senior vice president. He provided custom, comprehensive wealth plans to high-net-worth clients to help them achieve their wealth goals. Prior to that, he held various senior leadership roles at Key Private Bank, including senior relationship manager, senior vice president. He also worked as a financial relationship manager at Bank of America. He is a Certified Wealth Strategist professional.

T-Mobile

Lucid Drone Technologies has chosen T-Mobile to be the exclusive provider of IoT connectivity and management for their fleet of industrial spraying drones. Together, Lucid Drone Technologies and T-Mobile are collaborating to put maintenance teams and exterior cleaning companies out of harm's way using drone technology for high-risk facilities maintenance work like exterior soft-wash cleaning and high-rise window washing. The next generation of Lucid Drone Technologies industrial spraying drones can perform exterior washing for commercial building surfaces and windows, including outdoor stadiums and arenas, hotels, and university structures. T-Mobile's network powers critical capabilities for Lucid Drone Technologies industrial spraying drones such as real-time sharing of flight data, battery utilization information, hardware diagnostics, and delivery of firmware and software updates. Additionally, T-Mobile Control Center will give Lucid Drone Technologies the ability to view and manage the connectivity of their industrial spraying drones. Initially, T-Mobile for Business will deliver 4G LTE connectivity to Lucid Drone Technologies industrial spraying drones, providing a reliable connection nationwide. Lucid Drone Technologies expects to utilize T-Mobile's 5G network in the near future for advanced use cases such as network operations center access, live streaming video and remote piloting. Lucid Drone Technologies is a Charlotte, NC-based robotics company that currently designs and builds industrial spraying drones for labor-intensive jobs.

Apr 22, 2022

Stoic

Stouffer

Seattle-based Stoic announced Trisha Stouffer has been appointed CEO and president of the company. An experienced business leader, Stouffer succeeded John Watson as CEO. Watson will continue in his role as chief technical officer. Prior to Stoic, Stouffer served in key roles at Amazon, IMDb, Twitch, Riot Games, Microsoft Game Studios, and Xbox. She served as chief operating officer and executive producer at Stoic for the past two years. Founded in 2012, Stoic is a creator of games and entertainment.

Washington Health Benefit Exchange

The Washington Health Benefit Exchange board unanimously named current chief financial officer Jim Crawford as interim CEO, effective June 10, when current CEO Pam MacEwan retires. During his more than two decades of public service, Crawford has held several senior level positions in state and local government. This includes managing the public finance and state budgeting process as assistant director of the Budget Division of the Office of Financial Management. He also served as senior budget assistant to the governor, and worked as assistant superintendent for fiscal and operations of the Olympia School District. As a next step, the Health Benefit Exchange board will conduct a search for a permanent CEO, which is expected to take six months.

Seattle Credit Union

Seattle Credit Union is partnering with Tacoma Housing Authority and the Salishan Association for an upcoming expansion to Tacoma this summer. The credit union's mission is to provide financial support and opportunities for communities that are underserved and have been systemically discriminated against. Seattle Credit Union will occupy a space at Salishan Family Investment Center, at 1720 E. 44th St., in a community center that serves East Tacoma. Seattle Credit Union's physical presence in the building will include a hub (similar to a branch office) with regular banking hours and a 24-hour ATM. This location will be staffed by employees who can open accounts, answer questions and provide financial counseling to community members. The credit union will also have a regular presence in the surrounding neighborhood and will provide support for local organizations and events.

City of Tacoma

Tacoma's Office of Environmental Policy and Sustainability is leading an effort to better understand air quality issues and inequities in the city. The city is teaming up with Tacoma Public Schools, University of Washington Tacoma, Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department and Microsoft Research Tacoma on the program. Tacoma was identified by the Microsoft Research “Project Eclipse” team as an ideal location to test prototype air sensors because of the potential for measurable observations that can be compared to Tacoma's Equity Index. Phase I sensors were recently installed outdoors at 10 public schools in Tacoma. The city plans to use data gathered from these sensors to prioritize infrastructure funding and program efforts to address climate change — such as mitigating heat islands, assessing the impacts of heat and smoke events, and identifying tree planting priorities.

Apr 21, 2022

Port of Seattle

Springmann

Linda Springmann has been hired by the Port of Seattle as the new director of cruise and maritime marketing, bringing more than 25 years of cruise industry experience to the position. Springmann comes from Holland America Line, where she was vice president of onboard revenue for the Holland America/Princess Cruises/Seabourn brands, vice president of deployment and itinerary planning for Holland America Line and Seabourn Cruises, vice president of Alaska marketing, and director of product marketing for Holland America Line. She served as a member of the Alaska Travel Industry Association for eight years, and as chair of the marketing committee.

Pemco

Pemco Mutual Insurance hired Scott Newman as director of risk management and internal audit. Newman is returning to Pemco after previously serving as the company's director of internal audit, and brings more than two decades of experience in leading risk and audit teams for organizations across the Northwest. Most recently, he was senior vice president and general auditor for Tacoma-based Columbia Bank, where he directed the institution's audit and loan review functions and oversaw the bank's governance, risk management and internal control processes. Prior to that, he was Russell Investment's director of internal audit.

Sage Bionetworks

Sage Bionetworks appointed Kim Baggett as chief operations officer. Baggett joins Sage after 15 years at Seattle Children's Research Institute, where she was most recently vice president, center business operations. During her tenure, Baggett was a leader in setting strategic direction for research, and was responsible for the business operations for all the research centers spanning basic, translational, clinical and health outcomes. Baggett received her master's degree in public administration from Seattle University, her bachelor's degree from the University of Washington, and is a 2020 graduate of Leadership Tomorrow. Sage is a nonprofit health research organization based in Seattle.

Symetra

Symetra announced National Park Trust as its first national environmental partner. Dedicated to preserving the country's national parks and to environmental education, National Park Trust is working to create a pipeline of future park stewards by connecting kids to parks. Symetra has committed $150,000 to the organization through 2025 to fund access and education programming for underserved youth. National Park Trust's Buddy Bison school program helps more than 20,000 students in 40 states annually connect with parks. Prioritizing environmental sustainability is one of the core commitments of Symetra's newly launched corporate social responsibility initiative, Symetra Social Impact. Over the next three years, the program aims to drive transformation across three priority areas — social commitments, sustainability and governance — through goals aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Symetra is a diversified financial services company based in Bellevue.