Apr 28, 2000

Federal Home Loan Bank

Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle recently promoted four officers. Lisa Battaglia was named assistant vice president and financial services manager. Both Paul Liew and Kevin Nelson were promoted to assistant vice president and software support services managers. Glen Simencek was named assistant vice president and manager of customer funding.

Mainstar Software

Mainstar Software, a Bellevue-based provider of storage management and recovery solutions for mainframe and multi-platform computer systems, promoted Colleen Gordon to technical account manager. Gordon will provide software disaster recovery technical support to the company's Midwest clients.

Whatcom Museum of History and Art

The head of the Museum of New Mexico system is stepping down and taking a position at the Whatcom Museum of History and Art in Bellingham. Tom Livesay will resign from his position on April 30 and will take over as director of the Whatcom Museum on June 5. Livesay has served as the director of the Museum of New Mexico system for the past 15 years.

ePods

ePods, a Seattle-based Web access company, announced that Scott Bedbury, former chief marketing officer at Starbucks Coffee and worldwide head of advertising for Nike, will help drive the company's strategic efforts as brand architect. Bedbury will also assume a seat in the company's advisory board. ePods plans to make their services available next month.

AbleCommerce

AbleCommerce, the Vancouver-based developers of e-commerce software, announced that David Henderson has joined the company as its new CEO. Henderson brings more than 30 years management experience to the company's executive team.

ELF

ELF, a Seattle-based developer of software for the law and insurance industries, announced the hiring of Robert Thomas as director, strategic development and associate general counsel. Joining ELF from the law firm of Stokes Lawrence, Thomas has more than 20 years of experience in a broad range of legal practice specialties and the high-tech arena

Boeing Co.

Carol Holley has been a main voice for Boeing Realty Co., but because acquisitions have left the aerospace giant with no fewer than 26 different payroll systems, Realty is getting a new voice.

Holley is moving from communications manager for support services to fill the same role for people systems. That division is about to embark on the task of reducing Boeing to about half a dozen payroll systems company-wide.

Ron Ciro will keep his roll as communications manager for facilities and add Holley's old duties to that.

Apr 27, 2000

Herbert Research

Herbert Research, a full-service market research firm headquartered in Bellevue, has promoted Michael Link to vice president of marketing and research, Amy Ehrstine to senior research analyst and Tom Fisher to director of operations. Kenneth Klima and Tom Zbaren join the firm as research directors. In addition, the firm has added Shona Stark, Paul Kurrle, Eric Snider, Heather Ray and Yayoi Nakatani as research analysts.

TellThemNow.com

Seattle-based TellThemNow.com, a new Seattle-based Internet provider of interactive news, information and analysis services, has named Craig Parietti chief financial officer. Before joining TellThemNow, Parietti served as CFO of Applied Precision, a fast-growth company that provided an early presence on the Internet for its global base of semiconductor and biotechnology customers. At TellThemNow, Parietti will expand the company’s access to capital, structure new business relationships and manage its financial and strategic planning requirements.

Prairielaw.com

Prairielaw.com, a consumer-based legal information site headquartered in Seattle, announced the appointment of Victor J. Melfi, Jr. as CEO. Melfi will lead corporate and marketing strategy, capitalization, business and product development. Most recently, he was CEO of Virtual Spin, a Bellevue-based developer of e-commerce software solutions.

Subert-Gregory & Woodstrom

Subert-Gregory & Woodstrom, a Mercer Island-based marketing and communications firm, will soon publicly announce a change in its company name and roll out a new graphic identity. The new name of the firm will be sgwcreative. The firm is using the name change to signal its shift in focus to a creative team effort to meet clients' advertising, marketing and public relations needs.

KNCB Dave

KNCB Dave, a Seattle-based public relations and advertising agency, recently added seven new employees to its team. John Louie is vice president of finance, Dave Peterson is art director, Debra Collison is production supervisor, Kevin Glasse is a copywriter, Laurie Christomos is an account executive, and Heather Butler and Amy Neilson are account coordinators.

Cybercamps

Cybercamps, a Kirkland-based provider of technology education summer camp programs, has joined in a partnership with Stanford University's academic computing group to offer curriculum programs for high school and incoming college students beginning this July. The one-week sessions are designed to give students a head start on the skills and tools needed to compete in a technology-driven work environment.