Jan 22, 1999

Dain Rauscher

Dain Rauscher has named Karl V. Leaverton director of its private client group offices in the Pacific Northwest. Leaverton formerly served as the Midwest regional director. Leaverton will oversee 15 investment branch offices in Washington, Oregon and Idaho.

Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo's Private Client Services Group has hired James Cooch as a financial consultant to provide investment, brokerage, trust and private banking services to individual investors in the Puget Sound region. Cooch formerly served as a financial consultant with Salomon Smith Barney in Bellevue.

The University of Phoenix

The University of Phoenix Washington Campus has appointed Jerrad Tausz as campus director. Tausz formerly served as the director of enrollment at the Oregon Campus. The University of Phoenix Washington Campus is a regionally accredited, private, post-secondary university.

Esterline Technologies

Esterline Technologies, a Bellevue-based specialty manufacturing company focusing on the aerospace, automated equipment and instrumentation industries, has named Robert W. Cremin chief executive officer. Cremin has spent the last 22 years in executive positions at Esterline and its predecessor organizations. Cremin succeeds Wendell P. Hurlbut who will continue to serve as chairman of the board of directors.

Bader Martin Ross & Smith

Howard S. Sibelman recently became a shareholder at Seattle's Bader Martin Ross & Smith. Sibelman's practice emphasizes accounting and auditing services, and he will serve as director of audit services.

Mercer Island Chamber of Commerce

The Mercer Island Chamber of Commerce has elected Philip M. King as president; David Bolson as vice president; Christine Hammers as secretary; Stan Means as treasurer; and past president is John Scherzo.

Metawave Communications

Metawave Communications, a Redmond-based provider of smart antenna systems for cellular operators, has negotiated a technical cooperation agreement with Shanghai Post & Telecommunications Administration, an operator of GSM systems in Shanghai, and Shanghai New Globe Co., a distributor of telecommunications equipment. A Metawave smart antenna system will be tested for GSM networks under the agreement.

Nichols Brothers Boat Builders

The fourth of six tractor tugs built for operation by Crowley Marine Services was recently delivered to the company in Seattle. The final two vessels are under construction by Nichols Brothers Boat Builders Inc. for Vessel Management Services Inc., a Crowley Maritime Corp. subsidiary. The vessels were designed and engineered by Guido Perla & Associates Inc..

Guardian Ad Litem

Volunteers are needed for the King County Guardian Ad Litem Program, a court advocacy program for abused and neglected children. Training and professional guidance is provided so volunteers can interview those involved in the case, review records, monitor court orders and make recommendations to the judge. For more information call (206) 296-1120.

CB Richard Ellis

Ann Chamberlin has been promoted to senior managing director of CB Richard Ellis' Seattle-area offices. She is one of the few women to rise to a regional management position for a major real estate firm and the only one in the Pacific Northwest. Chamberlin said her goal is to recruit new talent and retain what she called existing stars. Chamberlin succeeds regional manager John Records, who has been reassigned to a California office. Greg Coxon will continue to oversee the Tukwila office as managing director and will help cover Bellevue's operations. Chamberlin remains head of the Bellevue office where she has boosted staff from seven brokers to 19, including such well-known players as Gary Danklefsen, Rob Larsen, Steve Bordner, Mike Shigley, Ken Barnes and Mark Hockman. Chamberlin said she looks forward to recruiting new talent to the Seattle office. Her promotion marks just the latest first in Chamberlin's career. When she joined the company in 1979, she worked with fellow pioneering women Joni Henry and Barbara Howell in what had long been a male-dominated field. Previously she was a public affairs manager lobbying for Intalco Aluminum, and before that she was the first female pharmaceutical representative for Burroughs Wellcome.

Commonwealth

Lori Leonard and Valerie Brown have joined Commonwealth Land Title Insurance's new escrow office at 204 S. 248th St., Suite 1, in Federal Way. Leonard has 15 years of experience with Washington Title. Brown, Leonard's assistant, also worked at Washington Title. The team specializes in residential sales.

Windermere

Geoff P. Wood is the new president of Windermere Services Co., the operations arm of Windermere Real Estate. He heads the company's nine-member executive management team and oversees day-to-day services of Windermere Services, which provides real estate, legal, marketing and financial services for Windermere's real estate network throughout Washington, Oregon and Idaho. He began his career with the company in a management role with the firm's original five-office operation in 1993. He was promoted to vice president two years later. Previously he worked at Timberland Homes in construction and business management.

Seattle Mortgage

Seattle Mortgage recently arranged $1.3 million in permanent financing for the Tolt Towne Center in Carnation. The 35,000-square-foot retail building, owned by Ethel Graham, will continue to include QFC as its tenant. John Henkle was the loan officer who arranged financing.

Keller Williams Realty

Rob Flick, billed by Keller Williams Realty as its "real estate coach to the stars," returns to Bellevue for a 90-minute complimentary symposium for agents and owners at 5:30 p.m. at the Bellefield Office Park Conference Center, 1150 114th Ave., in Bellevue. Keller Williams is an Austin, Texas-based national firm with plans to establish itself in the Northwest. It recently opened an office in Bellevue and affiliated with the independent brokerage Realty One in Gig Harbor. After the symposium, Flick will talk to agents more about his company.