Jul 15, 2003

Hydrogen Advertising

Hydrogen Advertising, a Pioneer Square-based advertising agency, added three people to its creative team. Bill Lemus is art director, Dennis O'Reilly is copywriter and Nicola Leonard will work on production.

WinWhatWhere

WinWhatWhere Corp. is changing its name to TrueActive Software. The 12-year-old company has a main office in Kennewick and a sales office in Kirkland. The company's computer monitoring software Investigator will now be called WinWhatWhere. It tracks all activity on networked PCs. Customers include businesses, government, education and health care institutions.

Seattle Human Services

Seattle Human Services Director Patricia McInturff announced the outdoor meals program will relocate from the Pubic Safety Building to City Hall Park, next to the King County Courthouse, on a temporary basis, beginning in August. The Public Safety Building will be used as a staging and equipment location for demolition of the Municipal Building. The new site is intended to minimize conflicts with local businesses. Last year, meal providers at the plaza served 226,000 meals to low income and homeless persons.

Pratt Fine Arts Center

Three new trustees have been elected to the 28-member board of the Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle. Roger Bass is a business consultant; Sharon M. Campbell is a designer and Kevin Martinez is senior manager for community and civic affairs for Starbucks. The new board officers are Manya Drobnack, president; Barbara Robertson, vice president; Karen Lorene, secretary; and Chris Abrass, treasurer. Pratt offers over 600 courses and workshops.

Family Resource Center

Former Lake Washington School District superintendent Karen Bates is the new chair of the Redmond-based Family Resource Center's Fulfilling Our Vision Campaign. The $1.7 million campaign will increase funding for health and human services at 18 agencies located on the center's campus. Services include helping homeless people and at-risk youth, and building new homes. Bates retired from the district last year.

Williams Kastner & Gibbs

Melissa A. MacDougall has joined Williams, Kastner & Gibbs as an associate in the law firm's Tacoma office. She concentrates on medical malpractice defense and civil litigation, and worked with the Seattle City Attorney's Office.

Jul 14, 2003

Kibble & Prentice

Michelle González has been named a vice president of Kibble & Prentice. González is a sales executive in the employee benefits division. Kibble & Prentice is a Seattle financial services firm that works with businesses and individuals.

Instrumentation, Automation and Systems Society

Jon Mathison, principal and owner of Advanced Industrial Automation, will lead the Instrumentation, Automation and Systems Society of America Seattle/Tacoma Section as president for the 2003-2004 fiscal year. Officers and directors include: Vice President Frank Kerns of Branom Instruments; directors Ed Peterson of Unit Process; Bob O'Brien of Brett Associates; Hans Togesen of Boeing; Wayne Strand of Advanced Industrial Automation; Frank Jump of North Seattle Community College. Walt Boyes of Spitzer Boyes will serve at the Division level. The ISA works for advancement in the use of sensors, instruments, computers and systems for the instrumentation and control community.

National Association of Credit Management

Sherry Wood, CCE, has been re-elected vice chairman Western Region on the board of directors of the National Association of Credit Management. Wood is director of credit for West Coast Paper in Seattle. For the past 17 years, Wood has had an active role with her local NACM affiliate, as well as with NACM-National.

Washington Mutual

The National American Indian Housing Council has received a $1 million commitment from Washington Mutual to support closing costs associated with its Tribal Lending Programs. This includes up to $2,000 for each home loan. Washington Mutual recently provided a $40,000 grant to NAIHC, the only national non-profit organization devoted exclusively to Native American housing.

Bainbridge Graduate Institute

Bainbridge Graduate Institute officials say theirs is the first business school to offer an MBA education that integrates environmental and social responsibility into all of its courses. Although a number of other schools have developed programs with a focus on the environment, BGI is the first graduate school devoted to sustainable business. Gifford Pinchot is co-founder of BGI. Information is available at http://www.bgiedu.org or (206) 855-9559.

American Association of Port Authorities

The American Association of Port Authorities has retained Jay Grant & Associates, a government affairs lobbying and public affairs firm with offices in Seattle and Washington, D.C., to represent the interests of AAPA members before Congress and the Department of Homeland Security regarding port security issues. AAPA represents over 150 ports in the U.S., Canada and South America. The Coast Guard estimates that the cost for addressing terrorist threats at ports will be $1 billion the first year and $4.4 billion over the following 10 years .