Jul 11, 2003

Andaluca

Andaluca Executive Chef Wayne Johnson recently won a national award for community service for his annual "thank-you" dinners for local firefighters and his quarterly feasts for homeless kids. Johnson received the American Hotel & Lodging Association’s Achievement Award in Community Service.

Johnson also has volunteered for FareStart, a non-profit organization that trains homeless people for jobs in the food industry.

Pierce County Careers Connection

The Pierce County Careers Connection executive board has three new members: Ed Froese, vice president at Boeing, Tony Lewis of the Southwest Washington Electrical JATC, and Steve Ellis, president and CEO of the Tacoma Urban League.

Seattle Art Museum

Susan Rosenberg, a specialist in modern and contemporary art who received a PhD. in art history from New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, has been appointed the Seattle Art Museum's associate curator of modern and contemporary art, which is a new position. Rosenberg will assume the post in August. She was with the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Meydenbauer Center

Meydenbauer Center made two new hires for convention sales and business development. Brenda Dotson is convention sales manager, and Kristin Berry is business development manager.

Dotson's position was recently created to attract more regional and national convention business. She spent three years with Washington DECA as marketing and events coordinator. Berry is handling local sales. She was CEO of a Seattle area corporate event planning company.

Tools for Schools

Several Portland companies are adopting 11 of the city's highest poverty elementary schools and providing a backpack filled with a year’s worth of school supplies to every student on the first day of school.

Executives from Pixelworks, Radio Cab driver David Yandell and the Osozaki Foundation created Tools for Schools last year. Schoolhouse Supplies is joining the effort in order to expand the program. Tools for Schools is seeking sponsors for three remaining schools. Contact Liz Fanning at (503) 249-9933.

Jul 10, 2003

INK Communications & Design

INK Communications & Design, a Seattle-based communications firm focusing on public relations, marketing and creative services for businesses, is opening its first overseas office in London. The new office will serve INK's current clientele of European-based technology companies as well as expand new business throughout Europe and the Middle East. Andy Bray, principal of Netrius Associates marketing consultancy and former marketing director at KPMG Consulting and Lucent Technologies, has been named managing director. INK has offices in Seattle, London and Vancouver.

Light Sciences

Light Sciences has appointed A. Bruce Montgomery, M.D., Corus Pharma's founder and CEO, to its board of directors. Montgomery was executive vice president of research and development at PathoGenesis. Light Sciences, founded in 1995, is a privately owned Seattle company developing Light Infusion Technology for destruction of pathological tissues.

Pacific Science Center

Pacific Science Center appointed R. Bryce Seidl as executive director. Seidl was most recently interim executive director of the Pilchuck Glass School. He also worked with Simpson Timber Co., and was president and CEO of Fisher Mills. He served as mayor of Vancouver. George Moynihan, executive director for the past 23 years, is retiring. Pacific Science Center is raising $300,000 to re-light the science center's signature arches in his name.

Lynden Air Freight

Lynden Air Freight, a domestic and international freight forwarder, added new district managers Jeff Bell, Bill Goman and Reagan Jones to the company's Honolulu, Portland and Houston offices. Each is responsible for operational, sales, and customer service initiatives within their respective locations.

Northwest Group

Teri Dunn, president of the Northwest Group, a Woodinville-based core group of Global Imaging Systems, has been appointed vice president of marketing at the parent company. Brian Landgren, chief operating officer of the Northwest Group, moves up to executive vice president, assuming Dunn's group responsibilities. The Northwest Group includes Quality Business Systems based in Woodinville, and Copytronix located in Portland. Global Imaging Systems provides office technology solutions including equipment, network integration services and electronic presentation systems.