May 16, 2023

The Standard

Friesen

Portland-based Standard Insurance Company (The Standard) named Dave Friesen second vice president of Enterprise Data and Analytics. Friesen joined The Standard in 2012 as a director of IT Business Relations. He then moved to IT's Solutions Delivery organization as a senior director where he led various functional areas before transitioning to support Employee Benefits Data and Analytics, Actuarial and Investments. In his new role, Friesen will be leading the Enterprise Data and Analytics organization including the data engineering, advanced analytics, data governance, business intelligence and business integration operations functions. Prior to joining The Standard, Friesen held various leadership roles in software engineering, data services, ERP consulting and IT audit.

Leisure Care

Grubbs

Seattle-based Leisure Care Senior Living promoted Bre Grubbs to partner and chief strategy officer. In her new role, Grubbs will support company growth, strategic planning, investment strategies, marketing and business development. She has been with Leisure Care since 2005 in various capacities including sales, marketing and business development. Grubbs has a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Washington State University and an Accounting Certificate from the University of Washington. Founded in 1976, Leisure Care operates 56 retirement communities and more than 7,500 apartments in the United States.

Edifecs

Edifecs announced that Chris Lance has joined the senior leadership team as chief product officer. He will spearhead product strategy and execution. Lance joins Edifecs after serving as CPO at Evolent Health Services where he helmed development, strategy, and delivery of the business' Health Plan Administration software and services portfolios. Before joining Evolent Health, he was a vice president and head of product at Change Healthcare, where he managed a portfolio of payer financial management solutions. In these roles, Lance led a range of business transformation initiatives, including the transition to a platform business model. Earlier this year, Edifecs announced the addition of Tom Shultz to its team of senior leaders as chief revenue officer; the company won Best in KLAS for their interoperability platform; and was recognized by the Stevie Awards for Best Technology Pivot by utilizing its interoperability as a differentiating foundation to now provide customers with more effective value-based payment and risk adjustment solutions. Edifecs is a global health information technology solutions company headquartered in Bellevue.

May 12, 2023

Magic Cabinet

Toering

Magic Cabinet, an organization that partners with nonprofits and philanthropists to achieve community-led impact, appointed Karen Toering as director of advocacy. Shifting from her role as Seattle program director, Toering will work closely with the Magic Cabinet leadership team, setting the intention to use its positional power and resources to strengthen advocacy within the sector and with non-profit partners and philanthropic partner networks. Toering is a long-time community organizer and nonprofit leader in the Seattle area. As the director of Magic Cabinet's Advocacy program, Toering will steward efforts in building relationships to alter existing philanthropic systems and promote a new status quo for community leaders. Magic Cabinet provides funding and access to a peer network to small- and medium-sized nonprofits in Puget Sound and the San Francisco Bay Areas. The foundation's participatory approach invests in nonprofit cohorts with a common geography and mutually supporting missions. Magic Cabinet's approach brings together four elements of community-centered philanthropy: trust-based philanthropy, participatory decision-making, capacity building and long-term investment.

Northwest Center for Energy and Decarbonization

The Inland Northwest Center for Energy and Decarbonization (INTENT) has been awarded $996,490 through its partner, Urbanova, from the U.S. National Science Foundation's Regional Innovation Engines, or NSF Engines, program. The funded two-year project is: “Advancing energy and decarbonization technologies in the Inland Northwest”. The INTENT/Urbanova team is among the more than 40 teams to receive one of the first-ever NSF Engines Development Awards, which aim to help partners collaborate to create economic, societal, and technological opportunities for their regions. This award is focused on accelerating the equitable decarbonization of the power grid and energy systems in the Inland Northwest region. The scope of the NSF Engines Development Award project will ultimately serve 28 Inland Northwest counties in Washington and Idaho. The overarching goal is to inclusively build the economy, nurture effective investments in innovation, grow and sustain a capable workforce, and draw use-inspired research and development into building economic opportunities. Initially, committed partners include tribal governments, land grant research universities, an investor-owned utility, national labs, a regional workforce council, non-profits leading in energy and equity, public and private universities, public utility districts, angel investment groups, intellectual property experts, state agencies, other economic cluster organizations and several sector-leading for-profit companies. Urbanova was founded in 2016 as a civic innovation partnership bringing city, university, industry, and nonprofit sectors together to discover how new technologies, integrated data and jointly developed solutions can improve lives of residents.

ZoomInfo

Vancouver-based ZoomInfo, a go-to-market platform to find, acquire, and grow customers, has been recognized by TrustRadius with seven 2023 Top Rated Awards for customer satisfaction. ZoomInfo's SalesOS platform was honored in the Intent Data, Sales Intelligence Software, and Market Intelligence Software categories. The company's conversation intelligence solution, Chorus, repeated as a winner in the Sales Enablement, Sales Coaching, Call Recording, and Conversation Intelligence categories. Since 2016, the TrustRadius Top Rated Awards have become an industry standard for recognition of distinguished business-to-business technology products. Top Rated Awards help distinguish products that have excellent customer satisfaction ratings, scoring them by recency, rating, and relevance.

May 11, 2023

Tanium

Kirkland-based Tanium, a provider of converged endpoint management (XEM), announced that four of its channel leaders have been named to the 2023 CRN Women of the Channel list. CRN annually recognizes women from vendor, distributor, and solution provider organizations whose expertise and vision are leaving a mark on the technology industry. The CRN 2023 Women of the Channel offer creativity, strategic thinking, and leadership to various roles and responsibilities while remaining focused on driving success for partners and customers. Tanium's 2023 Women of the Channel are: Jennifer Axt, vice president of U.S. state & local government and education (SLED); Sheila Luskin, regional vice president, partner sales; Kim Mackey, regional vice president, federal partners; and Kim Harris, senior director, global partner marketing. Axt, a 25-year industry veteran, has contributed to the success of several SLED-focused programs during her tenure at Fortune 100 companies. As a channel veteran with decades of partner management and leadership experience, Luskin brings to Tanium knowledge from her roles at multiple technology companies and partners. Mackey has 30 years of tech industry experience, and has focused on federal law enforcement agencies for the past 12 years. With a career spanning more than two decades, Harris has been recognized as a leader for her go-to-market strategies.

NIKE

Maria Henry has been appointed to NIKE's Board of Directors. Henry was chief financial officer of Kimberly-Clark Corporation from April 2015 through April 2022, and served as executive vice president and senior advisor of Kimberly-Clark from April 2022 until her retirement in September 2022. Prior to Kimberly-Clark, Henry was executive vice president and chief financial officer of The Hillshire Brands Company, formerly known as Sara Lee, and prior to that she was the chief financial officer of Sara Lee's North American Retail and Foodservice business. Henry began her career at General Electric and has held various senior leadership positions since then, specifically across strategy and finance at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio companies including as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Culligan International, and senior finance roles in several technology companies. In addition to joining NIKE's Board, Henry serves as a member of the Board of Directors of General Mills.

Vacasa

Vacasa appointed Bruce Schuman as chief financial officer, effective June 1. Schuman will succeed Jamie Cohen, who is stepping down to pursue other opportunities. Schuman joins Vacasa with nearly 30 years of financial leadership experience within the technology sector. Most recently, Schuman served as the CFO of Kiavi, Inc., a technology-driven real estate lender. Prior to Kiavi, Schuman spent more than 25 years at Intel Corporation, where he served as the financial lead for various business units. Cohen has served as Vacasa's CFO since joining the company in March of 2021, building out its core finance functions and overseeing its business combination with TPG Pace Solutions, that resulted in Vacasa becoming a publicly traded company. Vacasa is a vacation rental management platform based in Portland.