Jun 18, 2013

HomeStreet Bank

Sakas

Seattle-based HomeStreet Bank hired Chris Sakas as senior vice president for private banking. Sakas was vice president of private banking for Columbia Bank in Tacoma, and prior to that worked as senior relationship manager in the commercial real estate and business banking group for Wells Fargo Bank in Seattle.

Sterling Financial

Spokane-based Sterling Financial Corp., whose subsidiary does business as Sonoma Bank and Borrego Springs Bank in California, hired Gilbert Dalmau as Southern California market president and promoted Jamie Williams to Northern California market president. They will guide Sterling's California locations. Dalmau was with First California Bank and founded Americas United Bank, the first Latino-owned bank to be formed in California in more than 30 years. Williams joined Sonoma Bank in 2010.

Jun 14, 2013

Wells Fargo

A Wells Fargo bank will open June 20 in Broadway Market on Capitol Hill. The 2,500 square-foot store at 401 Broadway Ave. E. will be managed by Adrienne Parrish. It will have four teller windows, ATM and a historic mural about Capitol Hill. This is the first of five Wells Fargo branches to open this year. The others are: South Lake Union: 510 Terry Ave. N., July 22; Issaquah Highlands in September; Silver Firs in South Everett in the third quarter; and Kelsey Creek in Bellevue in the fourth quarter.

Helsell Fetterman

R. Thomas Olson has joined Helsell Fetterman. He has 47 years of experience in family-owned businesses, mergers and acquisitions, and business transactions.

Lane Powell

Lane Powell has launched a Privacy and Data Security Practice Group led by co-chairs Shawn M. Lindsay, who recently became a certified information privacy professional (CIPP/US), and JoAnn Lee Kohl, who is testing to become a CIPP/US. There will be 22 attorneys in the group with experience in business, labor and employment, intellectual property and long term care. They will work on legal compliance, internal policies, website privacy, trade secret protection and data breaches.

Jun 13, 2013

Pacific Northwest Ballet

Pacific Northwest Ballet Executive Director D. David Brown will retire in June 2014 after more than 14 years with PNB. He served as chairman of the board of Dance/USA and was president of the Washington State Arts Alliance, and is active in the Washington State Arts Commission. A committee will search for a replacement.

North Seattle Community College

North Seattle Community College President Mark Mitsui has been selected as deputy assistant secretary for community colleges at the U.S. Department of Education in the Office of Vocational and Adult Education. Mitsui oversaw completion of the Opportunity Center for Employment and Education, which combines employment help, social services, financial counseling, basic skills and education. It served more than 50,000 people last year, and won an award from the League for Innovation in the Community College.

Hacker Group

Hacker Group, a Seattle digital/direct marketing agency, named Steve Rosenblum executive director. He is a senior integrated marketing executive who has been with Hacker since 2009. Rosenblum has 25 years of experience in direct, digital and traditional marketing, and has worked at Liberty Mutual Insurance and JPMorgan Chase.