Apr 28, 2023

Davis Wright Tremaine

Rice

David Rice, an attorney with more than two decades of experience advising clients on a wide range of privacy and data security issues, has joined Davis Wright Tremaine as a partner in the firm's Seattle office. Over the past 20 years, Rice has counseled domestic and international organizations on emerging issues in data privacy and data security. He advises clients on compliance, handles incident response, and conducts employee training. His experience encompasses a broad range of international, federal, and state laws. Rice has also negotiated hundreds of complex information technology contracts. Rice has counseled clients across diverse sectors, including B2C, data brokers, adtech, SaaS providers, healthcare-adjacent companies, and franchise operations. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional - United States. Rice joins the firm from the Seattle office of Miller Nash, where he was a partner. He previously worked as an associate at Venable LLP and at a predecessor firm to K&L Gates. He received his B.A. from The George Washington University and his J.D. from The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law. He currently co-chairs the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Federal Communications Bar Association.

Bates Group

Pappas

Bates Group, a Portland-based firm that offers regulatory, compliance, anti-money laundering, and litigation consulting for the financial services industry, appointed Benjamin Pappas as chief executive officer. Previously, Pappas was Bates Group's president, where he was responsible for driving the firm's overall growth strategy. Pappas succeeds former CEO Jennifer Stout, who will be taking up new roles as vice-chair of the board of directors and senior executive advisor to the firm. Client engagement will remain a key priority for Stout. She will continue to maintain close relationships with clients and will be actively involved in conducting outreach to Bates Group's portfolio of financial firms and counsel. Pappas was appointed chief operating officer of Bates Group in 2016 and president in 2019. Before joining Bates, he was senior vice president and COO of D.A. Davidson Companies' Equity Capital Markets business, where he was responsible for implementing strategic growth initiatives and developing an annual financial budgeting and forecasting process. Stout's decades-long leadership at Bates Group includes successfully leading and diversifying Bates from a retail litigation-focused expert consulting firm to a nationwide consulting firm offering services and solutions for litigation, regulatory, AML, and compliance clients at broker-dealer, registered investment advisors, banks, insurance, money services business, and digital assets firms.

CoreStack

Bellevue-based CoreStack, a global multi-cloud governance provider, announced it that it has won five Global InfoSec Awards from Cyber Defense Magazine, an electronic information security magazine, at the RSA Conference: Market Leader Cloud Security Automation; Most Innovative Cloud Security Monitoring; Best Solution Cloud Security Posture Management; Best Product Compliance Automation; and Most Innovative SecOps-As-A-Service. CoreStack offers a suite of NextGen Cloud Governance modules that leverage AI to provide continuous and autonomous governance for FinOps, SecOps, and DevOps across multi-cloud through one unified dashboard.

Apr 27, 2023

Seattle 98.9 KPNW

Collins

Seattle radio station 98.9 KPNW added another DJ to its on-air line-up, according to Scott Mahalick, Hubbard Seattle operations manager. Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Marco Collins, is taking over the air waves on weekdays from 3-7 p.m. starting May 1. Collins was the flagship DJ and music director at Seattle's 107.7 The End during the 1990s grunge explosion. His role breaking artists such as Nirvana, Beck, Weezer, Foo Fighters, and Garbage helped land him a place in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He joined the on-air staff at KEXP in 2009 and was there until his departure in mid-April. Started in 1923, Hubbard Broadcasting, is based in Minneapolis – Saint Paul, and operates radio and television stations in 10 states.

KING TV

TEGNA announced that KING, its NBC affiliate in Seattle, and journalist Chris Ingalls received The Brooks Jackson Prize for Fact-Checking, awarded by the Annenberg Public Policy Center in partnership with USC Annenberg's Cronkite Awards, for The Fraud Crusade, an investigative series on a misinformation campaign that sought to undermine public trust in Washington state's elections. In the series, Ingalls vetted claims of voter registration anomalies in three Washington counties made by the Voter Integrity Project. His reports used public records requests, reporting and interviews to expose false and misleading claims about voter fraud. The award's judges called his pieces “important, thoroughly researched, well produced, very informative.” The Brooks Jackson Prize is named for the veteran journalist who covered Washington and national politics for the Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, and CNN. TEGNA operates 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets.

Reperio Health

Portland-based Reperio Health appointed Naomi Levinthal as chief growth officer. Levinthal will lead Reperio's commercial operations and strategy. Levinthal joins Reperio from Memora Health where she served as vice president of strategy and partnerships. Previously, she served as vice president of product strategy and partnerships with AVIA Health, and managing director at the Advisory Board Company (now Optum). Earlier this year, Reperio announced its first patent for the technology that powers the company's biometric home-based screening service.

Davis Wright Tremaine

Davis Wright Tremaine announced new members of its Executive Committee. At the firm's annual partnership meeting, the partners elected new members to all three leadership positions: Camilo Echavarria as chair, Jaime Drozd as vice chair, and Sanjay Nangia as secretary. Echavarria will become the first Latino in the law firm's history to be elected to chair its Executive Committee. An employment litigator, he also is the firm's Los Angeles partner-in-charge and a member of the firm's Diversity Executive Council. Based in Seattle, Drozd is the firmwide co-chair of the Litigation practice and is a complex commercial litigator who advises and defends clients against a variety of consumer class actions. Based in San Francisco, Nangia is an experienced trial lawyer who represents a variety of high-profile companies with a special focus on the technology, financial services, energy, and healthcare industries. Davis Wright Tremaine has more than 600 lawyers representing clients throughout the United States and around the world.

Apr 26, 2023

Everett Community College

Everett Community College's Board of Trustees voted unanimously to offer the college presidency to Chemene Crawford, and Crawford has accepted, pending completion of contract negotiations. The decision was made at a special board meeting April 21 after a national search, a campus visit last week with students, faculty, staff and community forums, and an in-depth interview with the board. Crawford is president and CEO of North Seattle College. She has served over 30 years in higher education, including roles from full time faculty member to associate vice chancellor, previously serving at Dallas College and other colleges and universities. Crawford earned a doctorate of education in organizational leadership for Nova Southeastern University, a master's in human resources and organization development and a bachelor's of science in organizational behavior, both from the University of San Francisco. Everett Community College worked with the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) Searches to conduct a national search. ACCT will continue to assist EvCC during the contracting process. EvCC's next president will lead an institution that educates more than 15,000 students per year and employs more than 800 faculty and staff at several locations throughout Snohomish County, with most students at the main campus in Everett.

Pacific Crest Savings Bank

Ryan Douglas has joined Pacific Crest Savings Bank as senior vice president and risk officer. Douglas brings more than 16 years of experience in finance, risk management and public service, most recently serving as a senior bank examiner with the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions. He will oversee all areas of risk management to help ensure the bank continues to operate in a safe and sound manner, as well as head the bank's programs to ensure compliance with consumer protection laws and regulations. Prior to joining Pacific Crest, Douglas worked extensively in roles within the state government, spending the last six years as a bank examiner with the state Division of Banks. He began his career as a revenue agent with the Washington State Department of Revenue, overseeing state and local tax compliance while working with small business owners. Pacific Crest Savings Bank also hired Angela Monsef as senior loan Processor. Monsef brings more than 15 years of consumer and residential lending and mortgage experience to the role, previously serving in various lending positions around the greater Puget Sound region. Monsef will support the lending team and work closely with clients to determine their individual needs, guiding them through processing and closing their loan.

Prior to joining Pacific Crest, Monsef worked extensively in residential lending, most recently serving as senior loan processor at Capstone Home Loans for more than six years. She began her career as a loan processor at Bay Equity in Everett. Founded in 1984, Pacific Crest Savings Bank is a local and independently owned community bank headquartered in Lynnwood.