May 11, 2023

Kidder Mathews

Hicks

Kidder Mathews has brought on some new talent to assume a position with a very long title: director of engineering and sustainability for asset services. Filling the role will be Jeff Hicks, who makes the move from PSR Mechanical (a division of Service Logic). His prior gig involved large and complicated HVAC systems for the office, healthcare, hotel, mixed-use, retail, industrial and government sectors of commercial real estate. KM's Erin French said in statement, “We are thrilled to welcome Jeff. His expertise and passion for environmental stewardship will enhance our ability to deliver sustainable and energy-efficient solutions to our clients.”

NAIOP to assess downtown woes, possible recovery

Mayor Bruce Harrell announced his multi-pronged downtown activation plan last month. Now three city officials will expand on that topic at an upcoming NAIOP panel. The event takes place at the Sheraton Grand Seattle, with the pre-show networking to begin at 9 a.m. Ian Warner of Vulcan Real Estate will moderate the discussion. On hand from the city will be City Council member Sara Nelson, attorney Scott Lindsay and Marco Lowe from the mayor's office. Per NAIOP, the panel will assess “downtown Seattle's revitalization after the pandemic, that has been stymied by a slow return to work from employers, ongoing crime and public safety issues.” Fentanyl will also likely come up. Details and registration: naiopwa.org.

Tarragon

Christianson

Blair

Tarragon recently announced three promotions. After three years with the firm, Bayard Blair rises to development and acquisitions associate. Steph Christianson is now marketing manager, after working on projects including the Camber and Haven apartments in Kitsap County. A seven-year veteran with the developer, Drew Davis has been elevated to senior transaction manager. Tarragon president Dennis Rattie said in a statement, “Their expertise, hard work, and dedication have been vital to our success, and we look forward to their continued contributions as we pursue new opportunities and projects.”

Lawler leaps to Berkadia

Berkadia recently announced that multifamily specialist Brandon Lawler has joined the brokerage. He makes the move from Kidder Mathews. There, he worked with colleagues on over 45 deals worth more than $400 million. He also had prior stints at Newmark and Colliers.

Tanium

Kirkland-based Tanium, a provider of converged endpoint management (XEM), announced that four of its channel leaders have been named to the 2023 CRN Women of the Channel list. CRN annually recognizes women from vendor, distributor, and solution provider organizations whose expertise and vision are leaving a mark on the technology industry. The CRN 2023 Women of the Channel offer creativity, strategic thinking, and leadership to various roles and responsibilities while remaining focused on driving success for partners and customers. Tanium's 2023 Women of the Channel are: Jennifer Axt, vice president of U.S. state & local government and education (SLED); Sheila Luskin, regional vice president, partner sales; Kim Mackey, regional vice president, federal partners; and Kim Harris, senior director, global partner marketing. Axt, a 25-year industry veteran, has contributed to the success of several SLED-focused programs during her tenure at Fortune 100 companies. As a channel veteran with decades of partner management and leadership experience, Luskin brings to Tanium knowledge from her roles at multiple technology companies and partners. Mackey has 30 years of tech industry experience, and has focused on federal law enforcement agencies for the past 12 years. With a career spanning more than two decades, Harris has been recognized as a leader for her go-to-market strategies.

NIKE

Maria Henry has been appointed to NIKE's Board of Directors. Henry was chief financial officer of Kimberly-Clark Corporation from April 2015 through April 2022, and served as executive vice president and senior advisor of Kimberly-Clark from April 2022 until her retirement in September 2022. Prior to Kimberly-Clark, Henry was executive vice president and chief financial officer of The Hillshire Brands Company, formerly known as Sara Lee, and prior to that she was the chief financial officer of Sara Lee's North American Retail and Foodservice business. Henry began her career at General Electric and has held various senior leadership positions since then, specifically across strategy and finance at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio companies including as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Culligan International, and senior finance roles in several technology companies. In addition to joining NIKE's Board, Henry serves as a member of the Board of Directors of General Mills.

Vacasa

Vacasa appointed Bruce Schuman as chief financial officer, effective June 1. Schuman will succeed Jamie Cohen, who is stepping down to pursue other opportunities. Schuman joins Vacasa with nearly 30 years of financial leadership experience within the technology sector. Most recently, Schuman served as the CFO of Kiavi, Inc., a technology-driven real estate lender. Prior to Kiavi, Schuman spent more than 25 years at Intel Corporation, where he served as the financial lead for various business units. Cohen has served as Vacasa's CFO since joining the company in March of 2021, building out its core finance functions and overseeing its business combination with TPG Pace Solutions, that resulted in Vacasa becoming a publicly traded company. Vacasa is a vacation rental management platform based in Portland.

May 10, 2023

Mahlum

Park

Felver

Dunnam

Gordon

Mayo

Zhang

Joseph Mayo has been elevated to associate principal. Since joining Mahlum in 2008, Mayo has been an advocate for the use of mass timber in the design and construction industry and has been involved with pushing local jurisdictions to allow mass timber construction.

In 2010, he applied for and was awarded the AIA Seattle traveling scholarship which led him to Europe to learn more about mass timber design. That experience helped guide him as he authored the book, Solid Wood: Mass Timber Architecture, Technology and Design, published in 2015. He has worked on over a dozen mass timber projects including the Capitol Campus Childcare Center in Olympia, Washington (Mahlum's first Net Zero CLT project); a multi-story, K-12 CLT prototype grant with the United States Forest Service; and he assisted in pushing for Alki Elementary School to be Seattle Public Schools' first three-story mass timber school.

Mayo has also served on local and national AIA committees, co-authored a research paper exploring the economic viability of tall wood buildings, and assisted in teaching mass timber courses. He has worked with the City of Seattle Department of Planning and Development, and Washington State non-profit Forterra to lead investigations into the use of CLT in the building industry.

As Chair of Forterra's Building Code and Regulations Action Team, Mayo helped to successfully pass new building codes in Washington State that now recognize mass timber as a construction type, allowing up to 18 stories of CLT building. He was also a founder of the AIA Seattle Mass Timber Committee and is currently a past co-chair.

Mayo holds a Master of Architecture from University of Oregon and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from University of Washington.

Andrew Weller-Gordon has been elevated to associate. With over seven years of architectural experience, Weller-Gordon has played an integral part in the modernization of Grant High School for Portland Public Schools. Throughout the four-year process of this large, complex project, he contributed to conceptual design, coordination, and technical development, then followed the project from construction to completion. This positioned him as a critical force on Edison Elementary School for the Eugene School District; Legacy High School/Hollingsworth Academy/Archway Academy alternative learning campus for Evergreen Public Schools, and more recently as a team member for the Graduate Housing project at Oregon State University.

Weller-Gordon volunteers for the Architecture Foundation of Oregon's Architects in Schools program and is an active member of Mahlum's Construction Administration Support Group.

He received his Master of Architecture from the University of Oregon and his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Rochester. He is a registered Architect in the State of Oregon.

Brett Dunnam has been elevated to associate. Joining Mahlum four years ago, Dunnam has 10 years of architectural project experience. Dunnam took on substantial roles in the designs of Wy'east Middle School for Evergreen Public Schools, and the Samaritan Sweet Home Health Center project. He is currently lead designer for the Benton County Crisis Resource Center, located in Corvallis, Oregon.

He helps lead Mahlum's internal design efforts through the organization of individual project and firm-wide design reviews. He has volunteered for the Architecture Foundation of Oregon's Architects in Schools and as a reviewer for the University of Oregon and Portland State University.

Dunnam received his Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Master of Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design. He is a registered architect in the State of Oregon.

Katie Felver has been elevated to associate. With 12 years of experience, Felver works closely with design teams and consultants to minimize the impact buildings might have on occupant health, well-being, and the environment.

Since joining Mahlum in 2016, she has been involved in a variety of projects. At Lacamas Lake Elementary School for the Camas School District, Felver helped create a nature-centric learning environment, connecting children to the natural world through biophilic design. For the DeJardin Hall Science Addition at Clackamas Community College, she partnered with science faculty members to explore their passion to display science throughout the building as teaching moments, resulting in prominent installations such as a beluga whale skeleton and large-scale molecular structures. For her most recent effort at Edison Elementary School for the Eugene School District, she focused on designing a building that equitably supports students from all socio-economic backgrounds.

Felver leads Mahlum's Embodied Carbon Strategy Workshop and organizes Mahlum's Project Sustainability Leads meetings. She also helped create a tool kit that design teams use to reduce their projects' environmental impacts. Outside of Mahlum, she is a member and co-lead of the Carbon Leadership Forum Portland Hub.

Felver holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Oregon and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Ball State University. She is a registered architect in Oregon and a LEED accredited professional

Mariko Park has been elevated to associate. With 15 years of experience as an interior designer, Park advocates for community-based projects, including educational and historic preservation. Her talent and expertise serve multiple project types across the firm. In her current role on the Alki Elementary School replacement project for Seattle Public Schools, she is leading interior design efforts centering an equity, diversity, and inclusion lens from the design process that will translate into the final building design, helping to ensure the new school will successfully serve its intended community.

Park is an active member of Mahlum's Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Continuing Education Committee and in service to historic preservation, she is a council member with Historic Seattle.

She is currently a candidate for Master of Design Studies in Historic Preservation from Boston Architectural College. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design from California State University, Sacramento. She is NCIDQ certified, a Certified Interior Designer in California, and a LEED Accredited Professional.

Sunny Dongyue Zhang has been elevated to associate. Joining Mahlum in 2017, Dongyue Zhang has over eight years of architectural experience. She helps project teams advance innovative and unique solutions for PreK-12 educational facilities and leads the effort to select healthy building materials with little to no toxic ingredients.

Dongyue Zhang was a lead team member in the creation of a master plan framework for The Northwest School in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, and she deftly resolved technical details during construction at Seattle Girls' School new south Seattle campus. She leads Mahlum's involvement with the Gibson Ek High School internship program where she mentors students who are interested in a career in architecture. Under her leadership, students shadow project teams, then perform parallel projects with them, or work independently on their own small pursuits.

Dongyue Zhang has a Master of Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design, and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from University of Minnesota. She is a registered architect in Washington.

MKA

Lang

Kuo

Hasselbauer

Diggs

Carroll

Kuntz

Chen

Burns

Strandquist

Magnusson Klemencic Associates announced the promotion of nine employees to BIM director, senior associate, and associate positions.

Kevin Carroll, Autodesk CP, AIA, has been promoted to BIM director. Carroll has 35 years of experience as an AEC professional. He is a licensed architect and a past adjunct professor at Pierce College, where he taught Revit and 3D modeling courses.

Jennifer Diggs, Jeremy Hasselbauer, Amy Kuo, Alex Lang, and Brad Strandquist have been promoted to senior associate.

Diggs manages residential and high-rise designs, projects in areas of high seismicity, and is currently working on a significant new addition to the University of California Berkeley campus.

Hasselbauer is a resource for MKA's high-rise building designs in high-seismic and wind-governed regions. He was instrumental in delivering the 200 Park project in San Jose — the second building in the world to incorporate the innovative SpeedCore system.

Kuo specializes in office campus projects offering unique design solutions based on her diversity of experience in steel, concrete, and timber designs.

Lang provides a meticulous implementation of MKA's structural designs with a laser focus on quality documentation and quality assurance of construction.

Strandquist is crucial to MKA's work in the Philippines, leading many successful high-rise projects, consistently demonstrating his ability to collaborate and his specialized knowledge of Performance-Based Seismic Design.

Patrick Burns, Mandy Chen and Kevin Kuntz have been promoted to associate.

Burns routinely delivers the highest-quality design solutions to clients.

Chen has experience on numerous office buildings and life science developments and offers outstanding project management and technical leadership to all her projects.

Kuntz works out of MKA's Chicago office delivering right-fit design solutions to his projects by providing designers and contractors with a specialized understanding of steel structures and lower embodied carbon processes and materials.

Betacom

Betacom was named the winner of a Gold Stevie Award in the Best Business Technology Pivot category in The 21st Annual American Business Awards. All organizations operating in the United States are eligible to submit nominations for the American Business Awards. Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word meaning “crowned,” the awards will be presented to winners in New York on June 13th. More than 3,700 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories, including Startup of the Year, Executive of the Year, Best New Product or Service of the Year, Marketing Campaign of the Year, Thought Leader of the Year, and App of the Year, among others. Betacom is the first-time winner in a first-time category – Best Business Technology Pivot. Betacom was established in 1991 as a wireless infrastructure provider to AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon. Having completed more than 800 large-scale design and deployment projects, Betacom saw an opportunity to pivot its business model to embrace the end-to-end delivery and deployment of high speed, low latency networks using private 4G/5G technology for future-looking Industry 4.0 initiatives such as robotics, autonomous vehicles, and AR/VR. In addition, Betacom's customer Teltech Group won a Silver Stevie for Minority-Owned Business of the Year. More than 230 professionals worldwide participated in the judging process to select this year's Stevie Award winners. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Bellevue, Betacom has regional offices throughout the country.

T-Mobile

Bellevue-based T-Mobile US announced that T-Mobile USA, its direct wholly-owned subsidiary, plans to offer, subject to market and other conditions, senior notes in a registered public offering. T-Mobile USA intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes, which may include among other things, share repurchases and refinancing of existing indebtedness on an ongoing basis. Barclays Capital, Citigroup Global Markets, Goldman Sachs & Co. and J.P. Morgan Securities are the joint book-running managers for the offering of the notes. The Issuer has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus) with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the offering of the notes. These documents are available by visiting EDGAR on the SEC Web site at http://www.sec.gov.