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Aug 20, 2020
In Seattle, Pemco Mutual Insurance named Nancy Kobashigawa as a business systems solutions manager in the People and Brand department. She previously held a similar position as a senior business analyst on the IT team. Prior to joining Pemco in 2018, Kobashigawa held several business systems positions with Liberty Mutual Insurance, progressing in seniority over her nearly 20-year tenure with the company.
Bellevue-based Symetra Life Insurance Co. hired Lori Black as vice president and national voluntary practice lead in the Benefits Division, a new role for the company. Black is responsible for growing Symetra's presence in the group insurance market, executing critical investments already underway and refining the Benefits Division's ongoing voluntary benefits strategy. Black previously was vice president of strategic development at YouDecide, a voluntary benefits outsourcing firm. Before that, she was vice president of producer relations strategy and operations at Cigna.
Bellevue-based Puget Sound Energy will buy power from the 200-megawatt Golden Hills Wind Farm in Sherman County, Oregon, that will be built by Avangrid Renewables. The project will help PSE meet its goals to reduce carbon dioxide emissions while providing additional capacity to serve customers, particularly during winter periods of high electricity demand. Avangrid expects to complete the wind farm by late 2021. An estimated 250 jobs will be created or supported during construction.
Aug 19, 2020
WSP USA, an engineering and professional services consultancy, promoted Jacqueline (Jackie) Peduzzi to alternate delivery leader for the West region to lead the selection of and manage the relationship with contractor and concessionaire partners in Alaska, California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii. She is currently a vice president and area manager for construction services in Denver and involved in projects that include Texas High-Speed Rail in Fort Worth. Since being hired in 2011, she has been operations manager for construction services and project manager. Her previous experience in transportation design, project and construction management includes infrastructure improvements, underground tunnels, elevated railways, transit facilities and highways.
In Seattle, Perkins and Will promoted Devin Kleiner and Ed Palushock to associate principal, Oliver Wuttig, Christa Wood, Bill Xu, Holly Herzer, Ryan Ramsey and Patricia Forman to senior associate and Ana Hakim to associate.
Kleiner is a senior project architect and “Living Design” leader for the Seattle studio, serving as a sustainability resource for project teams, connecting them with firm-wide research. His 17-year career has also included teaching art and special education at an elementary school. His work has been recognized by AIA Seattle Energy in Design, the Society for College and University Planning and the Living Building Challenge. He worked on the University of Washington's Life Science Building, completed in 2018.
Palushock is an architect with 28 years of experience. As a project manager, he oversees commercial, institutional and higher education projects. He is working with Martin Selig Real Estate on the Federal Reserve Building in Seattle, which will be done later this year.
Wuttig is a project designer who has specialized at Perkins and Will in the programming, design and detailing of science/technology and corporate, civic and commercial projects. He has experience in environmental graphics and as an exhibition designer at a science museum. He is working on Franklin Antonio Hall in San Diego, with University of California San Diego. Its anticipated completion is 2022.
Wood is a designer II who joined the Seattle office in 2013. Wood's work has focused on science and technology, the human experience and supporting her clients' work, from technical R+D labs and offices to emergency homeless shelters. She also co-leads the studio's pro-bono social purpose efforts. She is working with Mary's Place on Seattle-facility transformations and was on the design team for the University of California San Diego's Center for Novel Therapeutics in La Jolla, which opened 2019.
Xu, is a senior project designer with 18 years of experience. He has worked in the commercial, residential, mixed-use, higher education, hospitality and science and technology sectors. He leads design teams through complex projects of varying scales. He is working on an office project in Boise, Idaho with Rafanelli & Nahas and a KeyBank office modernization in Anchorage, Alaska with Peach Investments that is expected to be done by 2021.
Herzer is a project architect who was hired 13 years ago. She has worked as a civic, healthcare and corporate interior designer. She is responsible for project ideation, management and detailing as well as contact administration and consultant coordination. In recent years, she worked with Vulcan Inc. on the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle and King County Library System on the Tukwila Library.
Ramsey is a medical planner who joined the company in 2009, and has a background in project delivery and building information modeling. He recently worked on Kaiser Permanente specialty clinics in Silverdale, Ballard (Seattle), Smokey Point and Olympia, as well as St. Joseph's Medical Center Master Facility Plan with Virginia Mason, all completed last year.
Forman is regional general counsel. She reviews contracts and oversees claims and other legal matters for the firm's Western studios. She was in private practice from 2006-2013, at Gensler from 2013-2016 and joined Perkins and Will in 2016.
Hakim is a project architect with 14 years of industry experience. She has participated in projects based around the world, ranging from large institutional and commercial developments to single-family residential remodeling. She collaborates with project managers, leadership and stakeholders on healthcare and corporate, civic and commercial projects. She also oversees the company's mentorship program. She is working on Seattle-based projects, including Swedish First Hill North Tower with Providence Health and Services.
Perkins and Will is a global architecture and design firm.
Twenty-four attorneys at Seattle law firm Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson were named to the Washington Super Lawyers and Rising Star lists. In addition to being named Super Lawyers, Linda Kelley Ebberson and Lisa Ann Sharpe both made the Top 100 Lawyers in Washington State and the Top 50 Women Attorneys in Washington lists. They both specialize in family law. Other family law attorneys on the lists are Hillary J. Collyer, Danielle L. LaBelle, Tara K. Richardson, Maya Trujillo Ringe, Justin M. Sedell and James D. Stensel. Attorneys specializing in business litigation making the lists are Mario A. Bianchi, Robert J. Henry, Dean A. Messmer, Julie M. Pendleton and Paul J. Spadafora. Three estate and probate lawyers on the lists are George S. Holzapfel, Darin T. Jensen and Eric C. Reutter. Remaining lawyers on the lists are: Robin W. Phillips and Shannon L. Trivett (employment and labor); Shannon Sperry and Eugene W. Wong (real estate); Anthony J.W. Gewald (general litigation); Konrad Miernowski (tax); Karl A. Weiss (business/corporation); and Quentin Wildsmith (estate and trust). No more than 5% of the lawyers in the state are selected as Super Lawyers and no more than 2.5% are named Rising Star.
Yoko Miyashita is the new CEO of Leafly, a Seattle-based cannabis technology company. Miyashita joined Leafly in 2019 as general counsel, leading the company's position and policies on key compliance and government affairs issues. Prior to that, she was general counsel at Getty Images. She replaces outgoing CEO Tim Leslie, who is staying on during a brief transition period.
Bothell-based Seattle Genetics appointed Dr. Ted W. Love to its board. Love is president and CEO of Global Blood Therapeutics, and has over 25 years of experience in the health care and biotechnology/pharmaceutical industries. Concurrent with Love's appointment, Dr. Srinivas Akkaraju resigned from the board after serving 17 years on it.
Portland-based Locomation and Springfield, Missouri-based Wilson Logistics have finished the first test using Locomation's human-guided autonomous convoying for transporting commercial freight. The test involved two Locomation trucks hauling Wilson Logistics trailers and freight in an autonomous relay convoy over a 420-mile route on Interstate 84 between Portland and Nampa, Idaho. Locomation's system allows one driver to pilot a lead truck equipped with technology augmentation while a follower truck operates in tandem through a fully autonomous system. This allows the follower driver to log off and rest during this time. Locomation estimates the system will reduce operating costs per mile by 30% and reduce fuel consumption by 8%. Wilson has local offices in Pacific and Portland.
Tech website IoT Evolution World awarded Itron of Liberty Lake with a 2020 IoT Evolution Product of the Year Award for its wastewater monitoring solution that it created with Utility Systems Science & Software and Avanti Co. The wastewater monitoring system uses Itron's multipurpose industrial internet-of-things network and connected wastewater sensors to identify conditions that cause sanitary sewer overflows.