May 02, 2000

Riddell Williams

John Chafee, Caitlin Moughon, Janissa Strabuk and Alajendor Torres have been named principals at Riddell Williams, a Seattle-based law firm. Chafee focuses his practice on corporate transactions, international business and intellectual property law. Moughon's practice is concentrated in labor and employment law. Strabuk practices complex civil litigation. Torres focuses his practice on corporate and securities law.

Speakeasy/GameSpy

Speakeasy Network, a Seattle-based high-speed DSL network, announced the formation of the Speakeasy Gaming Network, a venture created in conjunction with GameSpy Industries. The new endeavor will significantly improve connection speeds, performance and the overall experience for Internet gamers. The Speakeasy Gaming Network provides Speakeasy customers with high-speed access to GameSpy's dedicated gaming servers an its network of more than 35 game-community Web sites.

Action Engine

Kevin Morris has joined Action Engine, a Seattle-based provider of a service that uses Web-enabled wireless and wired devices to instantly arrange the logistics of an event at the touch of a button, as the company’s vice president of marketing. Morris will oversee all aspects of the company’s marketing function, including product branding, public relations, advertising and promotions.

OvertheHedge.net

Redmond-based OvertheHedge.net announced plans to launch a new, live Webcast network for gardeners across North America. This gardening network presents programming with simultaneous viewer feedback. Not only is the technology new, but the network business model on which OvertheHedge.net is structured is also original. Setting itself apart from e-commerce sites, OvertheHedge.net combines three media worlds: Webcast retail advertising on the network, income from its consumer gardening magazine and syndicated radio programs on 20 stations.

Go2Net

Go2Net, an Internet network providing consumer services, business services and enabling services, has hired Rick Thompson as chief financial officer. Thompson, who joins Go2Net after more than 12 years with Microsoft, will play a primary role in Go2Net’s operational, financial and strategic activities, including investments, acquisitions and partnerships, and in the integration of these opportunities into Go2Net’s overall business

PNE Corp.

PNE Corp. of Longview hired Nicholas Hastings as director of commercial construction. Hastings received his bachelor of science degree in construction management from Washington State University and has more than 13 yeas of direct construction-project management experience. He worked for Taisei Construction and was instrumental in the establishment of Walt Disney Imagineering's West Coast Construction Management division.

Projects that Hastings has managed include Disneyland's Toontown, Multnomah County's Inverness Jail, Clark County's 911 center, Pierce County's Ford Middle School, as well as fire stations for the cities of Oak Grove, Silverton and Scotts Mills.

Canyon Creek Cabinet

Bill Weaver, president of Canyon Creek Cabinet Co., has been appointed the company's chief executive officer and elected to the board of directors. With more than 27 years experience in the cabinet industry, Weaver was appointed president last year after serving as vice president of sales and marketing from 1995 to 1997 and as executive vice president in 1998.

Prior to joining Canyon Creek, Weaver was vice president of sales and marketing at De Wils Industries in Vancouver. Canyon Creek has tripled in size during the last four years, recently moving into a 196,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Monroe.

ContractorHub.com

ContractorHub.com, a business-to-business e-commerce exchange for the construction industry, appointed Randy Lieber vice president of Finance and Chief Financial Officer. He comes to ContractorHub.com from a 14-year tenure with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Lieber said his goal is to put in place the financial systems and team to manage the company's fast-paced growth.

Lieber has been involved in public accounting and corporate finance for over 20 years. During the past five years working in PricewaterhouseCoopers' Technology Practice in San Jose and Seattle, his focus has been on software and Internet-related companies.

ContractorHub.com is a business-to-business e-commerce exchange involved in procurement and payment processes for the construction industry. Headquartered in Kirkland, the company has offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston and Atlanta.

and Internet-related companies.

ContractorHub.com is a business-to-business e-commerce exchange involved in procurement and payment processes for the construction industry. Headquartered in Kirkland, the company has offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston and Atlanta.