May 03, 1999

Bullivant Houser Bailey

Bullivant Houser Bailey recently added attorneys Greg Bartholomew, Cristini Kapela Dugoni, Grace Han, Gretchen Herbison, Elizabeth Kim, Karen O'Shea and Bruce Lambrecht to the Seattle office. Bartholomew, joining the business practice group, previously served as partner at Mitchell, Lang & Smith. Dugoni has moved from the firm's San Francisco office to join the business practice group. Han is serving as an associate in the business litigation practice group. Herbison, joining the insurance coverage group, formerly worked at Clarke, Bovingdon, Cole, Mills & Lether. Kim, joining the insurance coverage group, formerly worked at Burgess Fitzer and the Puget Sound Legal Assistance Foundation. O'Shea, joining the business litigation practice group as a member, formerly worked at Johnson Martens Christie Andrews and Browne & Ressler. Lambrecht is joining the general litigation practice group.

Northwest Hospital

Marsha Rule recently joined Northwest Hospital in its marketing department. Rule formerly served as a freelance journalist, an associate producer for KCTS Television and a reporter for The Seattle Times.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of King County

Preston Kabinoff and Genese Turner were recently honored as the Big Brother and Big Sister of the Year at Big Brothers Big Sisters of King County annual board dinner.

nvst.com

nvst.com, a Bellevue-based company providing online access to business opportunities, professional journals, research databases and continuing education courses, recently developed Nvst Webtool, a program to help businesses create web sites. For more information, visit the web site.

World Trade Club

The World Trade Club will be holding its annual dinner from 5:30 to 9 p.m., May 12th at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center. The Frank Russell Company, Vanguard Trading Services and Oneonta Trading Corp. are finalists for the Governor's Trader of the Year Award. Encompass Globalization, DaVinci Gourmet and Mathers Controls are finalists for the Governor's Emerging Trader Award. To register for the dinner, call (206) 283-9400; tickets are $75 per person.

Apr 30, 1999

Northwestern Trust and Investors Advisory

Wendy Kizzier has been named vice president and senior relationship manager at Seattle-based Northwestern Trust and Investors Advisory Co. Kizzier formerly served as an account executive at Fiserv Inc. in Seattle.

Williams, Kastner & Gibbs

Christopher K. Shank recently rejoined the Seattle law office of Williams, Kastner & Gibbs as a member after practicing with Bogle & Gates. Shank focuses his practice on family law.

Full House Sports & Entertainment

Full House Sports & Entertainment, the business arm of the Seattle SuperSonics, recently named Steve Hood manager of sales and corporate sponsorship. Hood formerly served as managing partner of Community Pacific Broadcasting in Anchorage.

Immunex

Douglas C. Southern will be retiring from his post as chief financial officer at Immunex, a Seattle-based biopharmaceutical company developing immune system science. Southern worked for the company for nine years.

Treehouse

Tully's Coffeewill donate a 1,075-square-foot retail space, adjacent to the Tully's store on 19th and Aloha on Capitol Hill, to Treehouse, a community-based charity that benefits foster, abused and neglected children in King County. The space will be developed and occupied by Laurel Gifts, a locally-owned gift store, which will donate its net proceeds to the Treehouse Wearhouse. Through the Wearhouse, children can receive used and new clothes, books, toys, school supplies, bikes and other items.

Country Companies

Nancy Stratton has been named an agent for the Country Companies insurance group office in Vancouver.

Perkins Coie

The Northwest's largest law firm, Perkins Coie, is expanding its real estate group in Bellevue, adding four lawyers who had worked at Bogle & Gates, which went out of business this spring. Craig Shrontz and Craig Gilbert are joining as partners, Jeff Wyszynski as Of Counsel, and Brett Wiese as an associate. Shrontz focuses on commercial real estate and general business with an emphasis on retail and mixed-use projects, senior housing and cable television transactions. He was managing attorney at Bogle & Gates in Bellevue. Gilbert's practice emphasizes commercial real estate transactions and general business. He had been a Bogle & Gates partner. Wyszynski focuses his work on general corporate and business law and commercial real estate transactions. He was formerly Of Counsel at Bogle & Gates. Wiese, a Bogle & Gates associate, practices real estate corporate and business law, with an emphasis on purchase and sale transactions and commercial leasing.

Kauri Investments

Kauri Investments has hired Rosalie Webster as executive vice president and director of property management. She has 17 years' experience in property management. Founded in 1987, Kauri is noted for renovation, conversion and property management. The company has developed or rehabilitated nearly 1,800 housing units and manages 1,100 units in 20 complexes.

Norris, Beggs & Simpson

Brian Dennehy has joined Norris, Beggs & Simpson as a sales associate in industrial leasing. Dennehy had worked at Colliers International. His new responsibilities include growing the firm's leasing, sales and tenant representation business in the Kent Valley.

Cushman & Wakefield

Marily Sande has joined Cushman & Wakefield as an associate director in the Financial Services Group. She has 14 years of leasing experience and most recently was assistant vice president of Winmar Co., where she leased 250,000 square feet at Redmond Town Center. Prior to that she coordinated the leasing and construction of more than 4 million square feet of retail and office in the Southwest. She also has worked for the Sabey Corp., leasing retail properties, including Northtown Mall in Spokane, and at Coldwell Banker, representing Bellevue Square and various tenants and developers.

Marcus & Millichap

The Michelle and Hillcourt apartments have been sold to Doug Lo for $6 million. The North Seattle apartments total 121 units and were sold by limited partnerships. Broker Robert Sheppard of Marcus & Millichap represented the limited partnerships.

Re/Max

Ralph and Margie Ripley, co-owners of Re/Max Canyon Creek and Re/Max Masters, have consolidated the offices into one brokerage at the expanded Canyon Creek branch, 22232 17th Ave., in Bothell. Thirty agents at the Masters office in Everett will join 70 at Canyon Creek, which had No. 1 market share in sales volume in Snohomish County. The Masters office was fourth. The new office has 100 agents. Ripley said with expanded services the office should grow to 150 agents soon.

Windermere

Windermere Real Estate has three new sales associates at its Sand Point office in Seattle. They are Suzanne Davis, Scott Graham and Phyllis Haaland. Davis was a legal secretary at Lane, Powell, Spears & Lubersky in Seattle, Graham worked at Access Wireless in Seattle, and Haaland owned Paint This in Bothell.