Jul 19, 2024

Shockey Planning Group

Anderson

Everett-based Shockey Planning Group (SPG) announced a change in company ownership. Camie Anderson, an employee of the firm for the past 24 years, has purchased SPG from its original founder, Reid H. Shockey. Anderson joined SPG in 2000 after receiving a degree in planning and environmental policy from Western Washington University. During her years with SPG, she has played a key role in all aspects of land use and environmental planning for both private and public sector clients.“It is with great pleasure and confidence that I have been able to hand over to Camie the reins of the company I founded in 1980.” said Shockey. “I will remain on staff to support the organization, but the management will be completely in Camie's capable hands. We have been thoughtfully approaching this ownership change over the past few years to ensure a seamless transition.”

Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson

Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson announced that four of their attorneys were included in the 2024 Chambers High Net Worth (HNW) Guide. Recognized in the Family/Matrimonial category are Linda Kelley Ebberson, Lisa Ann Sharpe, and Jamie Polito Johnston. Recognized in the Private Wealth Law category is George Holzapfel. Ebberson's practice focuses exclusively on complex divorces. She is an original founder of Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson. Ebberson has more than 40 years of experience in commercial, construction and dissolution cases. Sharpe counsels high net worth individuals from both the private and public sectors, across a wide variety of industries including technology, sports, entertainment, finance, healthcare, and professional services. She is skilled in financial and custody litigation, prenuptial agreements, custody evaluations, mediation and trial practice. Polito Johnston's practice focuses on complex marital dissolutions, representing high net worth individuals involving the valuation and division of closely-held companies, stock options and awards, family trusts and partnerships, separate property tracing, as well as custody matters and prenuptial agreements. 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 executives of publicly held corporations and their families. The Chambers HNW guide covers global private wealth management work and features in-depth editorial about leading lawyers and law firms providing wealth preservation and estate planning. Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson was founded over 50 years ago in Seattle.

Jul 18, 2024

Digimarc

Digimarc appointed Katie Kool as the new chairperson of the company's board of directors. Kool succeeds Alicia Syrett, who has served as chairperson since 2020. Kool has served on the Digimarc board since 2022. While serving as CEO of Tide Cleaners, Kool grew the business from 35 dry cleaning and laundry service stores to 191 stores. As chief financial officer of North America Fabric Care, she partnered with the company's leadership team to profitably grow the business by $1.5 billion in sales. Kool was a co-founder and is currently president of Impact100 Genesee County, which empowers women as philanthropists to make grants to non-profit organizations within local communities. Kool earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Kalamazoo College, and an MBA in finance from Washington University in St. Louis. Digimarc is a digital watermarking company headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon.

Washington Secretary of State

Secretary of State Steve Hobbs has been elected the treasurer of the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS), the nation's oldest nonpartisan professional organization for elected officials. Founded in 1904, NASS includes secretaries of state, lieutenant governors, and chief state election officials from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. Hobbs previously served on the NASS Executive Board as the Western Region vice president and was co-chair of the State Heritage Committee. He is a member of the NASS Elections, Cybersecurity, State Records and Archives, International Relations, and Business Services committees. He will serve as the treasurer for a one-year term. Washington's Office of the Secretary of State oversees areas within state government including managing state elections, registering corporations and charities, and governing the use of the state flag and state seal.

Jul 17, 2024

Whatcom County Superior Court

Slattery

Gov. Jay Inslee appointed Jennifer Slattery to the Whatcom County Superior Court. She will fill a new, fifth seat created by the Legislature in 2024. Slattery has focused her 15-year career on family law and general civil litigation. For the last seven years, she operated her own small firm, consistently employing students part-time to build practical experience. Her family law practice includes litigation, collaborative law, and mediation. Since 2023, Slattery has also served as a pro tem commissioner for the Whatcom County Superior Court. In that capacity, she presides over minor guardianship, protection orders, dependency, juvenile detention, unlawful detainers, and criminal arraignments. Since 2018, she has been a member of the Bellingham Sunrise Rotary Club. Slattery has also served for several years as a board director with the Whatcom Community College Foundation and as a volunteer attorney with LAW Advocates and Street Law clinics. As a volunteer attorney, she has provided extensive pro bono legal assistance. Slattery earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Washington, and her law degree from Seattle University Law School.

Amplify Consulting Partners

Sparq, a provider of outsourced digital engineering for technology driven and Fortune 1000 companies, has acquired Seattle-based Amplify Consulting Partners. Amplify, founded in 2017, is a data-first consulting firm providing professional services across the technology ecosystem, including data engineering, visual analytics, program management and data-driven marketing. As part of Sparq, Amplify will increase the scope of services available to its clients. Sparq was founded in 2004, and is based in Atlanta. In 2023, funds managed by Harvest Partners Ascend Management, acquired a majority stake in Sparq, intended to allow the company to further scale its operations and digital service offerings. Bain Capital Double Impact has also been one of Sparq's investment partners since 2019.

Seattle Kraken

The Seattle Kraken and TEGNA are partnering with Gray Media to broadcast all locally available Seattle Kraken games on Gray's KAUU in Anchorage and KYEX in Juneau free over-the-air beginning with the 2024-2025 season. This follows the recent announcement that TEGNA will broadcast all locally available Kraken games, approximately 70 regular season games each year, on KING 5 and KONG in Seattle, KGW in Portland and KREM and KSKN in Spokane. Additional broadcast partners in Washington and Oregon are expected to be announced in the coming weeks. The 2024-25 Kraken season will kick off with Seattle's home opener on Tuesday, October 8 against the St. Louis Blues at Climate Pledge Arena. TEGNA operates 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets. Gray Media is a multimedia company headquartered in Atlanta, serving 113 television markets.

Jul 16, 2024

BERK Consulting

Gifford

BERK Consulting announced that Kevin Gifford has been promoted to associate principal. Gifford joined BERK in 2013 and has 18 years of experience as a land use planner and geospatial analyst. As leader of the firm's GIS team, he oversees internal training and professional development, manages internal analytical tools and resources, and also leads spatial analysis and data visualization projects for our clients. While working at BERK, Gifford completed his Master of Information and Data Science from the University of California, Berkeley and holds a Master of Urban Planning from Texas A&M

Electronic Business Machines

Dayao

Dave Schlosser, COO of Electronic Business Machines, announced the promotion of Dino Dayao to the position of purchasing manager. Dayao has been with Electronic Business Machines since 2019 and started at a warehouse logistics position. Electronic Business Machines is a local, independent office technology and software solutions provider servicing businesses for 38 years throughout the Greater Puget Sound region.