Jan 22, 2001

Meals.com

Bellevue-based Meals.com has hired several new employees.

Larry Breitbarth, formerly acting CFO at Bothell-based Applied Technical Services Corp., is the finance director. Mark Carlson, formerly the Web statistics manager at HomeGrocer.com, is the director of knowledge management.   Jerome Hill is the lead Web developer. Hill was director of e-commerce development at G & L Internet Bank. Doug Goar, the quality assurance manager, was with Microsoft's Global Network Services. Dave Gregson, director of retail development, comes to Meals.com after 20 years with the Ralston Purina Co.

Northwest Hospital

Denise Schwind has been hired at Northwest Hospital, a not-for-profit hospital in Seattle, as a family practice physician assistant. Schwind's practice is located at the Lake Forest Medical Clinic in Bothell.

Torrefazione store in San Francisco

Torrefazione Italia, part of the Atlanta, Ga., AFC Enterprises food empire, has opened its fourth cafe in the San Francisco Bay Area. The new store, located at 1909 Union St., brings the total to 19 Torrefazione cafes in the United States and Canada. Milan native Mario Gelmini is Torrefazione's director of cafe operations.Torrefazione is part of Seattle Coffee Co., which also owns Seattle's Best Coffee. Seattle Coffee Co. is a subsidiary of AFC.

New name for Olympic Venture Partners

The technology-focused venture capital firm formerly known as Olympic Venture Partners is now called OVP Venture Partners. The company says it changed its name to avoid litigation with the U.S. Olympic Committee, which it described as having a "far-reaching trademark" on the name Olympic. OVP has offices in Kirkland and Lake Oswego, Ore

Jan 19, 2001

ServerLogic

ServerLogic Corp., an e-business consulting firm in Bellevue, has acquired StorePartners!com, a Portland-based e-commerce development and hosting company. ServerLogic, which operates additional offices in Portland, San Francisco and Irvine, Calif., had revenues of $8 million last year. With the StorePartners acquisition, the company expects revenue to grow by another 50 percent this year. ServerLogic will keep StorePartners intact as a separate business unit. Wade Brooks, CEO of StorePartners, will become vice president of ServerLogic and general manager of the StorePartners!com division.

SMC Corp.

Mathew M. Perlot has retired as chairman of the board and CEO of SMC Corp. for health reasons. Perlot will remain an outside consultant to the Bend, Ore., company. SMC, a company publicly traded on the Nasdaq, manufactures recreational vehicles. Company co-founder Curtis W. Lawler will become CEO and Michael R. Jacque will remain president and COO.

Christensen O'Connor Johnson Kindness

Jeffrey M. Sakoi has been elected to his second term as chairman of the management committee at the Seattle-based intellectual property law firm of Christensen O'Connor Johnson Kindness. Sakoi has been with the firm since 1987 and a member since 1993. His practice focuses on foreign and domestic patent and trademark matters.

Riddell Williams

Blomgren

John Blomgren has been hired to the intellectual property practice group at Riddell Williams, a Seattle law firm. Blomgren focuses his practice on computer and Internet law. Before joining the firm, he worked at Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe.

Short Cressman & Burgess

Kilbreath

Sullivan

Claudia Crawford Kilbreath and John D. Sullivan were elected members of Short Cressman & Burgess, a Seattle law firm. Kilbreath joined the firm in 1993. She provides legal advice in employment-related matters. Her employment litigation practice includes discrimination and wrongful termination cases. Sullivan is co-chair of the firm's real estate section. His practices emphasizes real estate transactions and land use. He is also chair of the planning commission for the city of Mukilteo.

Seattle Art Museum

Nicholas Dorman, a paintings conservator at the Doerner Institut of the Alte Pinakothek in Munich and conservation faculty member at Technische Universität München, will join the Seattle Art Museum staff in mid-April in the new position of chief paintings conservator. Dorman will establish the museum's first conservation department and create a conservation studio on the museum's fifth floor.