Jun 29, 2022

Liberty Bank

Camie Tat has joined Liberty Bank as vice president and credit administrator in the bank's Bellevue office. Tat is an experienced commercial credit analyst and underwriter for business enterprises and commercial banks. In her 20 years in the financial services industry, she has managed client portfolios, conducted financial analysis and credit adjudication. As VP and credit administrator, Tat will assist the chief credit officer in maintaining the integrity of Liberty Bank's credit risk and quality standards and help streamline and oversee the credit process. Previously, Tat worked as a treasurer and risk analyst for Boeing Capital, as a commercial lending underwriter/portfolio manager at HomeStreet Bank in Seattle, and commercial credit adjudicator/analyst at RBC Financial Group in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Tat earned her advanced bachelor of arts degree in labor and workplace studies and a minor in business from University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. She served on the board of the Risk Management Association in Calgary, Canada. Liberty Bank is headquartered in Poulsbo and has an office in Bellevue.

Seattle Opera

Seattle Opera announced Michaella Calzaretta as its new chorus master and head of music staff. Calzaretta will prepare the 36-member Seattle Opera Chorus, which will be featured during the 2022/23 season in The Elixir of Love, Tristan and Isolde, Samson and Delilah in Concert, and La traviata. Additionally, Calzaretta will oversee the company's musical activities. The appointment comes after a search led by Christina Scheppelmann, Seattle Opera general director and Aren Der Hacopian, director of artistic administration & planning. Calzaretta succeeds longtime Seattle Opera chorus master John Keene, who accepted a position as chorus director at San Francisco Opera in January. Calzaretta will step into the role immediately to prepare the chorus for the company's upcoming production of The Elixir of Love, which runs August 6–20 at McCaw Hall. Calzaretta previously served as chorus master and assistant conductor at Utah Opera, where she recently completed her fifth season. She made her main stage conducting debut in October 2020 with performances of The Human Voice and Gentleman's Island. Other conducting credits include Damn Yankees and The Merry Widow with Pittsburgh Festival Opera, and Patience with the Indiana University Gilbert and Sullivan Society. Calzaretta is a doctoral candidate (ABD) in choral conducting at Indiana University, and she holds a bachelor of music in vocal performance from Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, and a master of music in choral conducting from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Established in 1963, Seattle Opera is committed to serving the people of the Pacific Northwest through music, storytelling, and programs for people of all ages.

Jun 28, 2022

Washington Trust Bank

Washington Trust Bank has hired Erica Slatt as vice president and Small Business Administration manager in Seattle. Slatt joins Washington Trust with more than 20 years of SBA sales and credit experience. Before joining Washington Trust, Slatt developed SBA and Paycheck Protection Program initiatives across Western Washington for First Federal and First Financial Northwest Bank. Prior to those roles, she was with KeyBank for 15 years, serving as an SBA business sales officer and an agribusiness credit officer, underwriting agribusiness and commercial and industrial loans. Washington Trust Bank is the largest independently owned full-service commercial bank in the Northwest, serving the region since 1902. Headquartered in Spokane, Washington Trust currently has 42 branches and offices in Washington, Idaho and Oregon.

Leafly

Seattle-based Leafly Holdings is set to join the broad-market Russell 3000 Index at the conclusion of the 2022 Russell indexes annual reconstitution, according to a preliminary list of additions posted earlier this month. Annual Russell indexes reconstitution captures the 4,000 largest US stocks as of May 6th, ranking them by total market capitalization. Membership in the US all-cap Russell 3000 Index, which remains in place for one year, means automatic inclusion in the large-cap Russell 1000 Index or small-cap Russell 2000 Index as well as the appropriate growth and value style indexes. FTSE Russell, a global index leader that provides benchmarking, analytics and data solutions for investors worldwide, determines membership for its Russell indexes primarily by objective, market-capitalization rankings and style attributes. Russell indexes are widely used by investment managers and institutional investors for index funds and as benchmarks for active investment strategies.

Sounders FC

On Wednesday, Sounders FC will host the club's first-ever ‘Pups at the Pitch' event during the home match versus CF Montreal. For the first time in club history, fans can bring their dogs to join them at Lumen Field. To attend, specific Pup Pack tickets must be purchased in advance through SoundersFC.com/Pups. The deadline to buy Pup Pack tickets is 3:00 p.m. PT on Tuesday, June 28; no walk-up Pup Pack tickets will be sold, and no dogs will be admitted with any other ticket. A $50 Pup Pack ticket includes one human and one dog ticket, seated in a designated section in the upper level available only for this event. Additional human tickets for this section are available for $25. Members of the Pup Pack also receive exclusive entrance to the Pups & Pints beer garden presented by The Farmer's Dog and Michelob Ultra, which will be available in the North Plaza ahead of the day's match. Seattle Humane's MaxMobile will also be on site in the North Plaza, giving fans the chance to meet pups, pick up dog-friendly giveaways and learn more about adoptions, services and ways to get involved with Seattle Humane.

Jun 24, 2022

LeoStella

Kaplan

LeoStella, a specialized satellite constellation design and manufacturing company, has expanded its leadership team with the addition of Mike Kaplan as vice president of business development. Kaplan will bolster LeoStella's new business and customer efforts. Kaplan brings more than 40 years of experience in the space industry, with positions at both government and private organizations. He has served in senior leadership positions at NASA, Boeing, Raytheon Technologies, Ball Aerospace, Space Systems Loral, and most recently, Belcan. Kaplan's work has involved leading teams in the development of technologies such as spacecraft subsystems, spacecraft buses, planetary landers, and robotic satellite servicers. Kaplan is an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a member of the AIAA Small Satellite and Space Systems Technical Committees, Space SMART think tank, and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Based in Tukwila, LeoStella is a joint venture between Thales Alenia Space and BlackSky.

T-Mobile

T-Mobile and Big Brothers Big Sisters of America announced a new partnership that makes access to T-Mobile's Project 10Million, a $10.7 billion initiative focused on providing students free internet connectivity, even easier. Through the collaboration, the more than one hundred thousand students who are in Big Brothers Big Sisters' network of 230 agencies across 5,000 communities will be able to learn about Project 10Million, and eligible households will now be able to more easily register for the program's free internet and a mobile hotspot that provides 100GB of data per year for five years. Parents and guardians of eligible K through 12 grade students will find the tools to enroll in Project 10Million at http://www.t-mobile.com/bbbs or in-person through their Big Brothers Big Sisters match support specialist. School administrators and educators can learn more about Project 10Million and apply for their district at http://www.t-mobile.com/p10m. Based in Bellevue, T-Mobile provides services through its subsidiaries and operates its flagship brands, T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile. Founded in 1904, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America is the largest and most experienced youth mentoring organization in the United States.

Marchex

Marchex, an AI-powered conversation intelligence company, announced that its Marchex Conversation Intelligence solution has been selected as winner of the “AI-based Analytics Innovation Award” in the fifth annual AI Breakthrough Awards program conducted by AI Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global Artificial Intelligence market today. In 2021, Marchex was recognized as “Best AI-based Solution for Sales” by AI Breakthrough. Marchex Conversation Intelligence enables businesses to immediately analyze voice- and text-based customer conversations. Marchex is headquartered in Seattle.