May 17, 2023

Emerald Communities

Emerald Communities, a not-for-profit senior housing organization serving Emerald Heights in Redmond and Gig Harbor's Heron's Key, recently hired Denisa Feddersen as their new corporate controller.

As corporate controller, Feddersen will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of accounting including financial reporting, audits, actuarial studies, payroll, and financial analysis. Feddersen will ensure financial management for Emerald Communities, which encompasses Emerald Heights and Heron's Key.

Feddersen comes to Emerald Communities with an extensive background in senior living. She previously worked as the vice president of finance and corporate controller at a senior living community based in Calif. She also has experience as a CPA auditor and tax professional.

She has earned an MBA from St. Mary's College, a Bachelor of Science in accounting from San Francisco State University, an MIT executive certificate in management and leadership, and her CPA license.

PRR

PRR announced that Kyana Wheeler has joined the agency as the Senior Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).

Wheeler has 20 years of DEI experience in anti-racism data and measurements, systems analysis, group facilitation, anti-racist leadership development, and policy impact analysis that includes more than seven years of consulting experience.

In her leadership role as Senior Director of DEI, Wheeler will lead PRR's DEI practice focusing on external equity efforts and working with clients to facilitate anti-racist work. She also joins PRR's Management and Client Services Leadership teams.

Prior to joining PRR, Wheeler served as Deputy Manager of the Race and Social Justice Initiative for the City of Seattle.

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.