Sep 08, 2021

Washington Patriot Construction

Shaw

Florance

Tishchenko

Balasyuk

Gig Harbor-based Washington Patriot Construction promoted Mikhail Balasyuk to project manager, Bogdan Tishchenko to assistant project manager, and Zerah Florance and Neil Shaw to senior project managers. Balasyuk interned with Washington Patriot in the summer of 2015 and became a permanent employee in 2016. He started as a project engineer and now primarily leads design-build projects for private clients. He holds bachelor's degrees in architecture and construction management from the University of Washington. Tishchenko was hired in 2017 as a project engineer. He graduated from the UW with a degree in urban planning and design, with a minor in architecture. He provides planning and estimating, and helps develop collaboration tools that provide visual representations of the company's projects. Florance joined the company in 2009 as a project manager and has led some of its most diverse design-build projects. She holds bachelor's degrees in construction management from the UW and architecture from Washington University in St. Louis. Shaw joined the company in 2013, and primarily leads its projects with state and federal agencies. He holds a construction management degree from the UW and serves as a mentor on the company's Project Engineer/Quality Control team.

Aug 31, 2021

Hensel Phelps

Ventola

Potter

Henderson

General contractor Hensel Phelps promoted Jay Henderson and Grant Potter to project managers, and hired Sarah Ventola as a proposal manager within its Pacific Northwest Region. Henderson has built aviation, health care and design-build projects in Washington, Northern California and Arizona over the course of his eight-year career with the company. He is currently working on the design-build Pacific Highway land port of entry project in Blaine for the Department of General Services. Potter has helped with $700 million of design-build projects in Washington and California since joining Hensel Phelps in 2013. He is currently working on the Sound Transit Downtown Redmond Link Extension, another design-build project. Ventola joins the project development team with over 15 years of AEC proposal and marketing experience. She was an independent consultant for the past three years and before that worked for WSP, CH2M Hill (now Jacobs) and HNTB.

APA

Pucci

Cribb

Asano

APA — The Engineered Wood Association has three new board members: Doug Asano, senior vice president of sales and marketing for Roseburg Forest Products Co.; Ashlee Cribb, vice president of wood products at PotlatchDeltic; and Pino Pucci, vice president of Tolko Industries. Asano joined Roseburg in 2020 as director of sales excellence. Prior to that, he worked at Huber Engineered Woods for over 16 years in multiple leadership roles. Cribb has 13 years of experience in various forest products leadership roles, with expertise in sales, marketing, strategic planning and operations management. Before joining PotlatchDeltic, she was senior vice president and chief commercial officer for Roseburg Forest Products. Pucci has over 25 years of industry and leadership experience. He also is on the board of Tolko U.S. Operations, which includes LaSalle Lumber Co. and Southeastern Timber Products.