Dec 26, 2000

Kenworth announces promotion

McQuary

KIRKLAND — Kenworth Truck Co. has announced the promotion of Anthony McQuary as Kenworth assistant general manager for sales and service.

McQuary most recently held the position of plant manager at the Kenworth manufacturing plant in Renton. Prior to that, he held positions in materials management and as business manager for the Kenworth T2000 development program

Delta Computer Systems

Denman

Donald Denman has been promoted to senior applications specialist at Delta Computer Systems, a Vancouver, WA-based provider of production line automation equipment. Denman previously served as a field specialist. Prior to joining the company, he worked 12 years at Tektronix in the engineering and electronics divisions.

The Rockey Company

House Republican Speaker Clyde Ballard announced he is naming Seattle public affairs specialist John Giese as the House Republican Caucus appointee to the Washington State Redistricting Commission. The five-member independent, bipartisan commission will spend the following year redrawing legislative and congressional district boundaries, based upon population figures from the 2000 Census. John Giese is senior counsel with The Rockey Company, a public relations and public affairs consulting firm, in its Seattle office. He has served as lead consultant on numerous initiative and candidate campaigns. For five years, he was chief of staff to Congressman Rod Chandler. Prior to his position in Washington, D.C., Giese was a senior advisor to Gov. John Spellman.

MediChem Life Sciences

MediChem Life Sciences, a Chicago-based drug discovery technology and services company, announced that Craig Behnke, Hans-Thomas Richter and Peter Nollert will join MediChem's Emerald BioStructures division on Bainbridge Island. Behnke was part of the team that determined the crystal structure for rhodopsin, the first GPCR to be solved. Richter has extensive experience with lipidic cubic phase (LCP) crystallization techniques. LCP is an advanced technology for crystallizing membrane proteins. Nollert also has extensive experience in LCP techniques, specifically with a high-throughput, automated method for LCP crystallization, a technology for which MediChem has an exclusive license from University of California, San Francisco.

DataTrend Information Systems

DataTrend Information Systems, an information technology consulting firm, announced that it will open a third branch office in Seattle Jan. 15. DataTrend Information Systems is an employee-based consulting firm comprised of technical experts in select focus areas. The company plans on producing approximately 40 new, high level IT positions in the next year. Their west coast client base will be comprised of corporations in need of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Business Technology Solutions (BTS)

Dec 22, 2000

Washington Trust Bank

Luttinen

Washington Trust Bank, a financial institution with a 98-year history in the state, officially opened the doors of its new Western Washington regional office at Two Union Square in Seattle. Scott Luttinen is president of the Seattle office. Luttinen has more than 15 years of banking experience. Prior to joining Washington Trust Bank, he spent nine years working for The Commerce Bank of Washington.

Northwest Hospital

Eisinger

Fitzthum

Northwest Hospital in Seattle announced the addition of Dina Eisinger and Jeffery Fitzthum to the hospital staff as physicians specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. Eisinger and Fitzthum's practice is located on the Northwest Hospital campus. Eisinger's practice includes a special interest in disability evaluation, inpatient rehabilitation, spasticity management and electrodiagnosis. Fitzthum's practice concentrates on musculoskeletal injury, manual medicine, spinal injections, disability evaluation and electrodiagnosis.

Everett Area Chamber of Commerce

The Everett Area Chamber of Commerce is one of 20 winners of Better Workplace Awards presented by the Association of Washington Business. The chamber received a certificate of merit in the Innovative Benefit/Compensation Programs category for firms with fewer than 25 employees. Among the chamber's innovations were job share, flexible work hours, compressed work week, deferred compensation and a teamwork environment.

Esterline

Esterline Technologies, a Bellevue-based manufacturer of components and subsystems for the aerospace/defense industry, announced that Robert Cremin will succeed Wendell Hurlbut as chairman of the board effective Jan. 19. Cremin will continue as the company's president and CEO. Hurlbut will continue as a board member.

Washington Public Ports

The Washington Public Ports Association honored Paul Chilcote, senior director of planning and development at the Port of Tacoma, with an honorary lifetime membership in the association at its annual meeting in Seattle. Chilcote's award acknowledges his status as one of the preeminent regional experts on strategic port planning, particularly as it relates to rail transportation planning. The association also elected new officers. Bob Sokol, a commissioner at the Port of Port Townsend, is president. Bob Moser, a commissioner at the Port of Vancouver is vice president. Judy DeVaul, a Port of Chelalis commissioner, is secretary. Steve Simpson, executive director at the Port of Friday Harbor, is treasurer.