Jun 28, 2012

The Fearey Group

Seattle-based Fearey Group promoted Sierra Hansen to vice president of public affairs. Hansen has 16 years of experience in public and political affairs, and has worked with King County, Sound Transit and the city of Seattle. The Fearey Group is a public relations and public affairs firm.

Pendrell Corp.

Kirkland-based Pendrell Corp. hired Robert Jaffe as general counsel and corporate secretary. Jaffe has been an attorney for 40 years, 25 of them as partner with K&L Gates. Pendrell is an intellectual property investment and advisory firm.

Point B

Seattle-based Point B promoted Chuck Ritter as managing director of industries and Patrick McCauley as managing director of services. Ritter launched and led the Point B Chicago office as practice director; McCauley launched and led Point B's southern California practice. Point B is a management consulting firm.

Jun 27, 2012

Point Inside

Bellevue-based Point Inside hired Corey Mandell as chief technical officer. Mandell has 30 years of enterprise platform development experience and was recently senior vice president of product engineering at Kaseya. Point Inside applies indoor location and customer engagement technologies to help retailers connect with customers in real-time.

AAA Washington

Bellevue-based AAA Washington hired Patrick McCormick as vice president of insurance. McCormick was head of partner development at PlanMember Financial Corp., a securities and advisory firm. Prior to that, he worked at Safeco Life Insurance for 20 years and stayed through the transition to Symetra Financial. AAA Washington provides insurance products to more than one million members in Washington and northern Idaho.

University of Oregon

The Oregon University System announced Michael Gottfredson is the new president of the University of Oregon. Gottfredson was vice chancellor and provost at the University of California, Irvine, and succeeds interim president Robert Berdahl as of Aug. 1.

Jun 26, 2012

Revenue Management Systems

Seattle-based Revenue Management Systems hired Eric Nordling as chief operating officer. Nordling brings 23 years of airline revenue management experience and has worked at United Airlines, MarkAir, Delta Air Lines, Atlantic Coast Airlines and Independence Air. Revenue Management Systems is a software company that developed airRM, a revenue management application for the airline industry.

AAA Washington

AAA Washington hired Lori Reed as IT project specialist at its headquarters in Bellevue. Reed has 25 years of experience in financial services and the insurance industry.

Bureau of Land Management

BLM said Mike Mottice will be the acting Oregon/Washington state director, replacing Ed Shepard who served as state director for six years. Mottice has worked for BLM for 32 years. BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land in 12 western states and administers 700 million acres of sub-surface minerals throughout the nation.