Jul 20, 2022

SeekOut

Seattle-based SeekOut, an Enterprise Talent Optimization Platform, announced the launch of its Healthcare Talent Pool for companies to source candidates for hard-to-fill healthcare positions. With the newly expanded capabilities, SeekOut's platform provides companies with access to a large pool of U.S. healthcare candidates. According to the World Health Organization, the supply of healthcare workers is forecasted to reach a shortfall of 14.5 million healthcare workers by 2030, and the industry's need for a specialized workforce makes it difficult for organizations to reach experienced talent. The new sourcing feature also provides aggregate data on candidates' skills, locations and employment history. Founded in 2017, SeekOut has raised $189 million in funding, is backed by Tiger Global Management, Madrona Venture Group, Mayfield and Founders Circle Capital. In 2022, SeekOut was named on the Forbes annual list of America's Best Startup Employers and CEO Anoop Gupta was named GeekWire's CEO of the Year.

Radisys

Radisys, headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon, announced that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named Radisys' Engage Digital Platform (EDP) as a 2022 Unified Communications Product of the Year Award winner. A programmable communication and digital engagement solution, EDP enables service providers to offer differentiated speech and video analytics APIs, SDKs, and turnkey conversational AI applications. The Engage Digital Platform is built on Radisys' media server technologies that support applications in over 150 operators' networks serving more than 1.7 billion subscribers.

Jul 19, 2022

T-Mobile

Any T-Mobile, Sprint, Metro by T-Mobile and Assurance Wireless customers who text 988 will now be able to connect to a professionally trained crisis counselor for free, at one of over 200 nationwide 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline centers. This new option follows T-Mobile's launch of 988 calling in November 2020, nearly 20 months before the July 16, 2022, national rollout deadline for all providers set by the Federal Communications Commission. Prior to the launch of 988 texting, T-Mobile worked to make sure texts would go directly to Lifeline without first being translated to Lifeline's existing 1-800 number. This solution, which became shared across providers and industry partners, means that anyone texting 988 will receive a text back from 988 as expected and not from a different, unrecognizable number.

Nyhus Communications

Spokane-based DH has acquired Nyhus Communications, including its clients and its nine-person team. The combined agency will comprise more than 50 people with offices in Spokane and Seattle. DH and Nyhus have been IPREX partner agencies for more than a decade. IPREX is a network of independently owned agencies, with 96 offices worldwide. Marc Berger, Nyhus president and partner, will become executive vice president and Seattle market leader for DH. Berger currently leads the Nyhus team and oversees the firm's work. Nyhus was founded in Seattle by CEO Roger Nyhus in 1994. The 10-person agency specializes in crisis, high-stakes and health care communications. Along with the private transaction closing on June 30, Roger Nyhus announced his retirement from the agency. DH is a branding, advertising, public relations and social change agency. The firm designs and implements integrated media and community engagement campaigns for private and public sector organizations. The firm employs nearly 50 communications strategists and creatives and has operated for more than 25 years. The new company will be rebranded at DH.

Lasher Holzapfel

Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson announced that George Holzapfel was recognized for excellence in the 2022 Chambers High Net Worth Guide: Private Wealth Law. Holzapfel serves as general legal counsel to hundreds of private and family companies and also serves as estate planning counsel to the owners of virtually all of these businesses. In addition, he acts as estate planning counsel to senior and other executives of publicly held corporations and their families. Holzapfel also handles the estate administration for many clients, including assuring that advanced estate plans and trusts are properly implemented. Additionally, Lasher Holzapfel's Family Law Practice Group and two of the group's attorneys, Linda Ebberson and Lisa Sharpe, were recognized in the 2022 Chambers High Net Worth Guide: Family/Matrimonial. Ebberson specializes in complex, high-value divorce cases and is an experienced litigator. Sharpe advises high net worth and prominent individuals on complex and high-value divorce matters, as well as custody cases and financial issues. The Chambers High Net Worth guide covers global private wealth management work and features in-depth editorial about leading lawyers and law firms providing wealth preservation and estate planning. Chambers Research is conducted by 200 Research Analysts, across 200 jurisdictions and provides nearly 6,000 rankings tables. Annually they collect hundreds of thousands of responses from clients, the majority via in-depth interview. Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson was founded 49 years ago in Seattle.

Jul 15, 2022

Columbia Sportswear

Columbia Sportswear's board of directors appointed Christiana Smith Shi to serve as a director and member of its audit committee. Shi is the principal at Lovejoy Advisors, an advisory services firm focused on digitally transforming consumer and retail businesses, which she founded in 2016. Previously, she served as president, direct-to-consumer at Nike from 2013 until 2016 after serving in various roles beginning in 2010. Shi serves on the board of directors, governance and people committee and compensation committee of Mondelez International, and also on the board of directors, compensation and human capital committee and risk committee of United Parcel Service.

NR Smith

Apella Capital, a financial advisory and wealth management firm serving individuals, families, and businesses, announced NR Smith and Associates, a registered investment advisor firm headquartered in Olympia, has joined the firm. NR Smith brings over $82 million in assets under management to Apella Capital. This is the second acquisition for Apella in 2022 and the first jointly with Wealth Partners Capital Group. NR Smith is a wealth management firm and CPA practice, providing clients with financial planning, portfolio creation, asset management, tax preparation and planning, and accounting services. This is Apella's thirteenth transaction to date. Apella is headquartered in Glastonbury, Connecticut and has thirteen offices around the country in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, Colorado, Oregon and California. The history of NR Smith & Associates goes back to 1941, when Elliot Spring offered accounting, tax services and bookkeeping systems to local loggers, timberland owners, and Christmas tree growers.

Cyemptive Technologies

Snohomish-based Cyemptive Technologies announced that Cyemptive CEO Rob Pike has been named “Cybersecurity CEO of the Year” by CEO Monthly as part of its Global CEO Excellence Awards 2022. Pike won the award for his leadership role in Cyemptive's development of Cybersecurity solutions to protect computing environments before or immediately following a compromise. Now in its sixth year, the Global CEO Excellence awards celebrate the CEOs who have shown tenacity and dedication to their business and colleagues over the past year. Nominees are assessed based on their accomplishments, reputation, and ability to illustrate commitment to their missions and values in business. Winners are determined based on information independently gathered by the CEO Monthly team and assessed by a panel.

City of Tacoma

The Tacoma Employees' Retirement System (TERS) is seeking applications for the resident member position on the TERS Board. Applications are due August 5, 2022. This is a three-year volunteer position, with an opportunity to be reappointed, for a Tacoma resident who is not employed by the city of Tacoma. TERS Board members are responsible for maintaining the financial health of the system and high quality service to its participants. Board meetings are held on the second Thursday of each month at the Tacoma Public Utilities building or in an online format. A defined benefit plan providing retirement benefits to city of Tacoma employees, TERS serves about 3,000 active members and 3,000 deferred and retired members. The TERS Board member application form, submission instructions and details on the TERS plan, are available at cityoftacoma.org/retirement.