Oct 04, 1995

Accounting Partners

Bellevue-based Accounting Partners, a staffing firm specializing in the placement of temporary and permanent accounting and finance professionals, has opened a new office in Menlo Park, Calif. Operated by husband and wife team Ted and Stephanie Macauley, Accounting Partners has grown into a $2.5 million business with three offices and 15 employees since its foundation in January 1994.

Washington Public Power Supply System

The Washington Public Power Supply System's executive board has elected Don Carter, deputy city manager for utilities and physical services for the city of Richland, as its new chairman. Three other officers were also appointed to serve one-year terms on the 11-member executive board which serves as the policy-making body for the Supply System. Carter has served as executive board secretary since joining the board in June 1994, and is also a member of the Supply System's board of directors. He has more than 20 years experience in the public utility industry, including the last seven years as Richland's Energy Services director. Los Angeles-area consultant Louis H. Winnard was named executive board vice chairman. Winnard, who was elected to the executive board in July, also served on the board from 1982-88. He is a former general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Elected board secretary was Edward E. Coates, an independent customer services consultant and former director of utilities with Tacoma Public Utilities. And, Vera Claussen, a Grant County Public Utility District Commissioner and president-elect of the American Public Power Association, was reelected as assistant secretary of the board. Claussen has been a member of the executive board since 1986, and also serves on the Supply System board of directors.

WA State Convention & Trade Center

Larry Stevens, an employee with the Washington State Convention & Trade Center for seven years, has been nominated as an outstanding convention service manager by the readers of national journal Successful Meetings. Using a ballot in the publication's June issue, readers specifically named those convention service managers who have done an outstanding job of servicing and managing events. Winners will be selected and featured in a special supplement in the February 1996 issue.

Oct 02, 1995

Industrial Resources

Industrial Resources Inc. has appointed Jim Chapman to the position of general operations manager, responsible for field operations in the Industrial and Marine divisions as well as direction of the home office. He returns to the Mount Vernon-based company after nine years with Central Products of Erie, Colo. Industrial Resources is an international construction firm specializing in plant construction, refinery shutdowns and marine vessel retrofits.

Consolidated Press

Gary Stone has been installed as chief executive officer at Consolidated Press, Seattle. In his new position, Stone will handle the duties of general manager and be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the 65-year-old printing company. Dave Colby, one of Consolidated's owners, will have reduced operation responsibilities. Stone, a California native, spent 18 years with Cal Central. His last position with the large, heat-set printer was as vice president of operations. For the past year and a half, Stone managed the Sacramento branch of LDR, a western graphic arts supply company. Consolidated has also hired Robert Brown, a certified public accountant from Florida, as its chief financial officer. Brown was formerly vice president of finance at Carlson Color Graphic in Ocala, Fla., for eight years. He also has experience in financial management with Ernst and Whinney, a Syracuse accounting firm, and GeoSolutions in Gainsville, Fla.

Eagle Newspapers

Eagle Newspapers Inc., publisher of 18 community newspapers in Oregon and Washington, has acquired the Portland/Seattle-based Daily Shipping News from Kenneth and Jean Bradley. The general circulation newspaper publishes five days a week, supplying news and shipping schedules for the ports of the Northwestern United States. Published continuously since 1920, the paper was purchased in 1985 from long-time owner Leslie D. Dana. Kenneth Bradley, 72, is retiring from a lengthy newspaper career that began at the Toronto Star shortly after WWII. With the Portland Oregonian for 10 years, he became business editor of the Oregon Journal and later, editor of the Daily Journal of Commerce in Portland. He has also broadcast business news for KGW TV and Oregon Public Broadcasting.

Princess Cruises

Dean Brown has been appointed president of Princess Tours. He will also hold the title of vice president of Princess Cruises. A 16-year veteran of Princess Tours, Brown began his career with the Seattle-based company in 1979 in the reservations department. He has been vice president of reservations and operations since 1989. Active in Alaska affairs, Brown has been a member of the Alaska Visitors Association for the past 15 years. He joined the organization's board of directors in 1989 and currently serves as its first vice president.

Sep 29, 1995

XEROX

XEROX Corp. has named Frank Santos vice president and general manager of its new Customer Business Unit, XEROX of the Pacific Northwest. As part of the company's nationwide realignment of sales and service, 65 sales districts and 77 service districts have been streamlined into 37 new entities know as Customer Business Units. Santos will oversee 570 employees and manage customer operations in Washington, Oregon, Alaska and northern Idaho. Previously, Santos was district sales manager for Washington and Alaska. He has been with XEROX since 1974 when he began as a sales trainee in San Antonio, Texas.

Washington Natural Gas

Carol J. Briant has been named vice president of human resources at Washington Natural Gas Co. Briant formerly served for two years as human resources manager for Washington Energy Services Co., which like Washington Natural Gas is a Seattle-based subsidiary of Washington Energy Co. Before that, she served in a similar capacity for Wright Runstad & Co. in Seattle and was personnel director for the Anchorage Daily News in Alaska. Briant also provided management and organization development consulting services to other Pacific Northwest companies. She is a member of the Northwest Compensation Forum, Northwest Human Resources Management Association, American Association of University Women and the Historic Seattle Preservation and Development Authority.

Cogent Technology Training

Dwayne Walker, former general manager of Worldwide Solution Sales and Marketing at Microsoft Corp. and current chairman of Integra Technology International Inc., has become a major investor in Cogent Technology Training. The Seattle company also announced that Ed Mohebi, chief operating officer of Cogent, will take on the additional responsibility of CEO.