May 08, 2003

Corus Pharma

The Seattle-based pharmaceutical development company Corus Pharma elected Kirby Cramer chairman of its board of directors and promoted Melissa Yeager to vice president of regulatory affairs and quality assurance. Cramer, former senior director at Immunex from 1994 to 2002 when the company merged with Amgen, has been a member of the Corus board since 2001. Yeager joined Corus in 2001 and was previously director of regulatory affairs for PathoGenesis.

Boeing Surplus Sales

The Boeing Surplus Sales retail store has new public hours from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday and Friday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. The store sells no-longer-needed office and factory items from Boeing facilities in Washington and Oregon, such as office furniture, computers, printers, computing peripherals, milling cutters, drills, test equipment, and raw and formed metal. The store sells to qualified buyers directly or via auction high-value assets such as wind tunnels, mainframe computers, forklifts, scrap metal lots, machine tools and vehicles. It is located at 20651 84th Ave. S. in Kent.

Pacific Northwest Bank

Jim Linardos has joined Pacific Northwest Bank as senior vice president and senior business development coordinator. Linardos most recently was Washington region manager for Bank of California/Union Bank of California and held positions with Seafirst/Bank of America. Pacific Northwest Bank is based in Seattle, with 58 financial centers in the Pacific Northwest.

South Snohomish County Chamber

Community Transit, Fisher Properties, Alderwood Mall, Green Graphic Design and the Northwest Washington Women’s Business Center will be honored with Business Excellence Awards from the South Snohomish County Chamber of Commerce at the chamber's annual awards ceremony. The event will be at the Mill Creek Country Club June 3. Barrie Macdonald, KeyBank senior vice president and retail banking executive, will be the keynote speaker. For more information, call the chamber at (425) 774-0507.

King County Bar Association

New officers of the King County Bar Association are Thomas E. Kelley, president; John M. Cary, first vice president; Gary A. Maehara, second vice president; Joseph E. Bringham, secretary/trustee; and Karen F. Jones, treasurer. The bar also elected Carolyn Cairns and Gary Strauss to three-year terms.

Tacoma Power

Michael Vert is the new electrical inspection manager at Tacoma Power. He will manage a 16-person staff providing electrical and energy code inspection services. Vert was previously electrical inspection supervisor for the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries.

May 07, 2003

Lee Hecht Harrison

Frank Buysse has joined Lee Hecht Harrison, a career management and outplacement-consulting firm in Bellevue, as vice president of business development. Before joining Lee Hecht Harrison, Buysse was a senior sales representative for Ceridian.

PRR

Pham

Evenson

Nguyen

PRR named Dave Resnick account director, Evan Pham assistant account executive, Ginger Nuss contract administrator, Kim Nguyen accounts payable coordinator and promoted Carey Evenson to account executive. Resnick recently worked with Verizon Information Services, Pham was with RealNetworks, Nuss was formerly with ScenicSoft, and Nguyen was the accounts payable specialist for Glacier Northwest. Evenson has been with PRR for nearly two years. PRR is a Seattle-based full service communications, marketing, public relations, creative design and public affairs consultancy. The company recently opened an office in the Washington, DC area.

The Spiegel Group

As part of its reorganization process, the Spiegel Group will close its teleservices division in Bothell which employs 365. The facility is scheduled to close on July 6. The company is also reducing the workforce at its Eddie Bauer division in Redmond by approximately 180 effective May 9. The Illinois-based Spiegel Group markets fashionable apparel and home furnishings through catalogs, retail and outlet stores including Eddie Bauer and Newport News, and its e-commerce sites: eddiebauer.com, newport-news.com and spiegel.com.

United Financial Mortgage Corp.

United Financial Mortgage Corp., headquartered in Oak Brook, Ill., has acquired Portland Mortgage Co., a privately held mortgage banker engaged in both wholesale and retail residential lending operating four branches in Oregon and two in southwest Washington State. Ron Rudy, the founder of Portland Mortgage, will remain in his current role as president of Portland Mortgage.

Matson Navigation

Matson Navigation promoted Ronald J. Forest to senior vice president. Forest joined Matson in 1995 serving most recently as head of its operations division where he oversaw Matson's terminal operations in Seattle, Oakland and Los Angeles