Aug 08, 2006

Ogden Murphy Wallace

Douglas K. Yoshida has joined Ogden Murphy Wallace's litigation and health care practice groups. Yoshida has represented health care providers, medical device manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, and other product manufacturers. Ogden Murphy Wallace is a multi-specialty law firm with offices in Seattle and Wenatchee.

KCTS

Sylvia McDaniel has been hired as executive director of communications and brand management at KCTS Television. She is currently communications and marketing manager for the city of Kent.

American Family Insurance

American Family Insurance will celebrate its grand opening on Aug. 16 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at 15906 Mill Creek Blvd. Suite 106 in Mill Creek. The open house will include a ribbon cutting ceremony at 6 p.m., a drawing and hors d'oeuvres. American Family Insurance is based in Madison, Wis.

Kibble & Prentice

Deanna Winchester has joined the Property Casualty Division of Kibble & Prentice as a sales executive. Winchester works with companies to develop insurance and risk management programs. Kibble & Prentice is a Seattle-based financial services firm.

Aug 07, 2006

King County Council

The Metropolitan King County Council appointed Ross C. Baker as its new chief of staff. Baker had been serving as legislative aide to council vice-chair Larry Gossett. Previously, Baker worked as an attorney and public affairs consultant.

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt has appointed Joaquin M. Hernandez to its Seattle office. Hernandez is a litigation attorney and previously worked an associate for Marston Heffernan Foreman in Redmond. Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt is a regional multi-service law firm with more than 160 attorneys in Washington, Oregon and Washington, D.C.

La Conner Country Inn and Channel Lodge

Ditas Pyle has been named director of sales at La Connor Country Inn and Channel Lodge. Pyle previously served as director of sales and marketing at Hawthorn Inn and Suites in Arlington.

Aug 04, 2006

Plum Creek Timber Co.

CFO William R. Brown has resigned from Plum Creek Timber Co., a national private landowner and wood products manufacturer based in Seattle. He was named president of Green Diamond Resource Co., a Seattle-based forestry company.

South Sound Home & Garden

Lisa Patterson was named editor in chief of Premier Media Group's South Sound Home & Garden magazine. Premier Media Group is a Tacoma-based publishing company.

Seattle-Northwest Securities

Maud Daudon has been appointed to serve a three-year term on the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, which develops rules regulating securities firms and banks involved in municipal securities. She is managing director of investment banking, and municipal trading and sales at Seattle-Northwest Securities Corp., a Seattle-based bond underwriter and financial advisor. She also served as deputy mayor for the city of Seattle and CFO for the Port of Seattle.

University of Washington

Robert J. Herbold, managing director of the Herbold Group, has given $1.5 million to the University of Washington Business School to establish an endowed professorship and a laboratory within the school's Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. About $1 million will be used to build the Robert J. Herbold Venture Creation Lab. Herbold is a retired executive of Microsoft.