Jun 12, 2000

Seattle's Best Coffee

Seattle Coffee Co., an AFC Enterprise company, announced that Birmingham, Ala.-based Wall Street Deli is serving Seattle's Best Coffee throughout its 120-unit national chain. Wall Street Deli operates a nationwide chain of quick-service, delicatessen style restaurants in 19 major markets, from Chicago to Houston, D.C. to Dallas. Most of the restaurants are located in large suburban and downtown office buildings and are designed to serve the population in and around those buildings.

University of Washington

The University of Washington's Center on Human Development and Disability has received an unprecedented gift of $5 million to endow a new center for the treatment of autism, to encourage early intervention and to expand training of professionals. In what is believed to be the largest gift ever given to the university for a specific disorder, a personal donation of $5 million from Microsoft executive Richard W. Fade and his wife, Susan, is expected to be matched by a $5 million grant from an anonymous source. Fade is Microsoft's vice president of OEM Multinational accounts.

Publicis

Publicis, a communications company with offices in Seattle, announced two new hires and one promotion in its U.S. information technology department. Debra Michaels joined the company as a technology training coordinator for its U.S. operations, Andrew Gunn joins the company as a network manager for the central region and Jeff Oler was promoted to network manager for the western region. Oler joined Publicis in 1997 in the help desk. He was network engineer and management information systems manager before being promoted to his new position.

Jun 09, 2000

Landor Associates

Landor Associates, a Seattle-based branding and design firm hired Stephen Birkhold as client director and promoted Mary Lewis to naming strategist. Birkhold is the main strategic consultant for the company's Microsoft account and has 16 years of marketing experience. Lewis is a special team leader for verbal branding and naming issues.

Tidemark Computer

Tidemark Computer Systems Inc., a software developer for state and local governments, announced the appointment of Daniel J. Evans as chairman of the company's board of directors. Evans, who was first elected governor of Washington state in 1965 and served three terms in office before joining the U.S. Senate in 1983, will use his years of experience to advise Tidemark as the company expands its suite of e-government products and services. Evans role is to ensure Tidemark helps local governments catch up with the technological advances made by their private-sector counterparts.

Melby, Cameron and Hull

Gina Tomasi has joined Melby, Cameron and Hull, an Edmonds-based association management firm, as an account executive. She will serve as executive director for the Washington State Psychological Association and the Washington State Dietetic Association.

Zebra Hill Marketing

Zebra Hill Marketing, based in Bellevue, and Axis Promotions & Events, based in New York City, announced the joint acquisition of CoGear.com, a promotional product industry e-commerce solution. Purchased from Corporategear for an undisclosed sum, CoGear.com’s Internet technology significantly expands the bricks-and-mortar businesses founded by Peter Weinstein of Zebra Hill and Larry Cohen of Axis Promotions. By accessing CoGear.com, corporate customers are able to browse through thousands of products organized by categories, search for specific items by keywords, upload artwork, and place orders online.

Jun 08, 2000

Kibble & Prentice

Laura VanOrden has joined the personal insurance division of Kibble & Prentice, a Bellevue-based financial services firm, as an account executive. VanOrden has experience designing personal insurance programs for individuals and families.

Charter Bank

Barbara Brace and Keith McCullough have joined Charter Bank's Bellevue branch. Brace joins the bank as a vice president/relationship manager. She has 18 years of experience in banking, most recently with Key Bank of Washington. McCullough joins the bank as a vice president/credit administrator. He has 10 years of consumer and commercial banking experience.

employeesavings.com

employeesavings.com, a Bellevue-based provider of Web-based work/life solutions used by Fortune 500 companies to attract and retain employees, announced that Niklas Gustafsson, a former senior technology executive with Vulcan Ventures-funded Mercata, has joined employeesavings.com as vice president of engineering. Gustafsson will oversee the strategic planning and innovation of employeesavings.com's global technology solutions and engineering team. Most recently in leadership positions with Vulcan Ventures-backed Mercata and Asymetrix Learning Systems, he brings more than a decade of experience in managing the development and execution of technology solutions.

Pro2Net Corp.

Rick Telberg, a veteran journalist and accounting industry analyst, has joined Pro2Net Corp., a Seattle-based provider of online resources to business professionals in the accounting, financial services, insurance, legal and human resources industries as senior editorial director of its accounting business unit. Telberg will play a key role in charting an editorial plan integrating the five industries Pro2Net serves and allowing users to share information across traditional professional boundaries.

Clark Nuber

The board of directors of the Washington Society of CPAs voted unanimously to honor Bellevue-based Clark Nuber with the Firm of the Year Award for its strong support and involvement with the chapter program throughout the state and its ongoing commitment to the profession and to the society.

Bates Technical College

President William Mohler of Bates Technical College in Tacoma is a recipient of the Distinguished Citizen Award for 2000, an award presented by the Municipal League of Tacoma-Pierce County for the past 28 years. During 15 years as president of the college, Mohler has made progress in meeting the educational needs of diverse workplace populations, giving special attention to dislocated workers and WorkFirst recipients.

The Virginia Anderson Internship

Seattle Center director Virginia Anderson’s consistent interest in maintaining affordable housing in Seattle has resulted in her name going on a University of Washington internship program. The non-profit Housing Resources Group contributed $15,000 to fund an internship for a UW student interested in pursuing a career in affordable housing and financing. HRG named it the Virginia Anderson Internship.

The UW’s new Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies will administer the internship and doesn’t necessarily have to send the intern to HRG. Anderson helped start HRG and served on its board, but isn’t on the board now. "Anderson has worked tirelessly in a volunteer role to assist HRG create thousands of units of affordable housing in downtown Seattle neighborhoods," HRG said.

Creating the internship is part of HRG celebrating its 20th anniversary. The Downtown Seattle Association created HRG in 1980 to increase the supply of affordable housing in and around downtown.

Unico Properties

Robynn Rockstad-Rex joined Seattle-based Unico Properties as director of marketing and communications. She came from the Seattle healthcare information company CareWise Inc.