Dec 23, 1996

Piper Jaffray

The board of directors of Piper Jaffray Inc. has elected the following employees as officers. In the Bellevue office; Brenda Berg, vice president-investments; Clarence Pickles, assistant vice president investments. In the Seattle office; David Midgley, managing director-corporate finance; Dennis Grove, managing director-investments; Chad Abraham, vice president-corporate finance; Michael Feeney, vice president-OTC training; Ann Wakeman and Tammy White, vice president-municipal U/W & trading; Robert Rupp, Eric Brewe, Steven Charlston and Susan Lawrence, vice president-investments; Lancelot Lu, John Donaldson, Gregory Leddy and Scott Merriman, assistant vice president-investments. Mary Gorman, assistant vice president.

NW Minority Supplier Development Council

The Northwest Supplier Development Council has announced the new members of the Council and of the Advisory Board for 1997-98. Officers of the Council include, David Stubblefield, Seafirst Bank, chairman; Debbie Johnson, The Bon Marche, vice chair; Lorene Lambro, The Boeing Company, secretary; and Regina Glenn, Pacific Communications Consultants, treasurer. Additions to the Advisory Board include: Nick Sena, The Boeing Company; and Delena Sunday, Nordstrom.

Frontier Bank

Everett based, Frontier Bank, has opened a new branch in Burlington, located at 1219 Nevitt. The office will be headed by Tim Fitzgerald. Frontier Bank is the largest independent commercial bank in Western Washington and has eighteen branches. Frontier has plans to open their nineteenth office in Redmond in early 1997.

Advanced Radio Telecom

Advanced Radio Telecom (ART), a wireless broadband telecommunications company, has promoted Richard Shields to senior vice president , technical operations, and Timothy Marshall to director, program management. Shields will be responsible for managing and directing the engineering and field services, network operations and technology development departments. Marshall will coordinate operational systems development for ART's technical functions and managing quality assurance and policies, procedures, and standards.

Bader Martin Ross & Smith

Bader Martin Ross & Smith, P.S., a Seattle based accounting and consulting firm has made the following additions to its office. Darrell Nuttall joins the firm as a senior manager in the audit department. Kelli Bekel joins as a staff accountant in the tax department. Shawn Bunce has joined the firm as a senior accountant in the accounting and business advisory services department. Robert Wolfe joins as a staff accountant specializing in taxation.

Social Security Administration

Donald Mings, regional commissioner of Social Security for federal Region X, will retire on January 3. Mings, a career Social Security Administration (SSA) employee, has served in the Seattle post since December 1990 following five years in a similar capacity in San Francisco. As regional commissioner, Mings was responsible for administration of all Social Security programs in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington and for management of over 1,500 employees in 57 facilities.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Marv Clement, manager of the office of research and technology applications at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, has received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Technology Transfer from the Technology Utilization Foundation and the Federal Laboratory Consortium. The award is presented to individuals in government-related work who have, throughout their careers, made important strides in transferring government-developed technology to the private sector and found innovative ways to successfully commercialize new and pathbreaking technologies. The award recognizes Clement's contributions to technology transfer efforts at Pacific Northwest, within the national laboratory system and across the country. Clement has established 100 Cooperative Research and Development Agreements between the laboratory and private industry, crafted unique multicompany CRADAs for the U.S. Council for Automotive Research and championed Pacific Northwest's innovative Entrepreneurial Leave of Absence program, which encourages staff to license and commercialize laboratory technologies.

KOMO TV

KOMO TV has elected Joseph Barnes as the vice president and news director of the station. Barnes has over thirty years of experience in broadcast journalism and has worked for several stations around the country. KOMO television is owned and operated by Fisher Broadcasting Inc. and is an affiliate of the ABC television network.