Aug 14, 2000

Bozell Seattle

Seattle-based advertising company Bozell Seattle has added several senior staff members and promoted a number of others. Christi Malcomson was named media director. Fame Royer has joined the agency as management supervisor. Jo Proctor is a new senior account planner. Former management supervisor Chris Lloyd is now a vice president and group account director. Chris Bennett has been promoted to management supervisor. Chris Hunter has been promoted to a vice president. Lorna Harrington was promoted to media coordinator. Christi Hickey has been named office manager and Michael Quirk has been named head of the electronic production group.

Advanced Radio Telecom

Advanced Radio Telecom, a Bellevue-based provider of broadband wireless Internet protocol access services, announced the appointment of Art Kawaguchi to senior vice president, general manager/northwestern region, which includes Seattle, Portland, San Jose and San Francisco. Kawaguchi will also act as an interim general manager of the western region, which includes Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego and Phoenix. Kawaguchi previously worked for Intermedia Communications and EMI Communications.

Bratrud Middleton Insurance

Bratrud Middleton Insurance, headquartered in Tacoma, has been ranked as one of the 100 largest brokers in the U.S., according to Business Insurance, a weekly trade magazine on commercial insurance brokering. To qualify, agents and brokers must deal directly with corporate or institutional policyholders and generate at least $500,000 in gross revenues from commercial retail brokerage insurance business. Founded in Tacoma in 1923, Bratrud Middleton Insurance is the largest, privately owned, independent insurance agency in the state, with eight branch offices.

Ogden Murphy Wallace

Seattle artist/attorney Karen Sutherland has been named a “Superlawyer” by a poll conducted by Washington Law and Politics and has been selected to show her blown-glass art in the Emerald City Fine Art Third Annual Juried Glass Festival. Sutherland, the chair of the employment and labor law practice group of the Seattle law firm Ogden Murphy Wallace, has been practicing law for 16 years. Five years ago, she began studying glassblowing. She started her own business, Sutherland Art Glass.

Aug 11, 2000

Residential Inventory Corp.

Grand opening ceremonies were held at the Larkspur Landing Hotel in June for the Residential Inventory Corp. located in Renton. The company is a licensed, bonded and insured corporation that provides video and digital home inventories. Owners Darlene Pryor and Don Teele opened the business which documents personal possessions for insurance and other purposes. The company provides high quality VHS tapes, digital pictures on CDs, computerized printouts and engraving services.

Armstrong/Robitaille

Tim Mooney, president of independent insurance brokerage firm Armstrong/Robitaille's San Francisco office, recently announced the opening of a new facility in Portland. Looking to expand upon its core commercial base of business, Mooney has hired Mark McPike as the new vice president to head up the Portland facility. McPike comes to the company with more than 20 years experience in the wood products and transportation industries.

Edmonds Community College

Gov. Gary Locke has appointed Ronald Howell, president of the Washington Research Foundation, to the Edmonds Community College Board of Trustees. He will replace Karen Miller, a longtime board member who was first appointed in 1978. Howell leads a private, nonprofit corporation that seeks to create start-up companies based on the most promising technologies developed at the University of Washington and other research institutions in the state.

Inforetech Wireless Technology

Inforetech Wireless Technology, a Seattle-based company that applies the Global Positioning System and wireless technology to information systems for the golf and recreational industries, announced it has named Iain McLean to the newly created position of chief operating officer. Effective Aug. 28, McLean will be responsible for shaping the company's business objectives and strategies as it prepares to launch the first-ever, hand-held, wireless golf pace-of-play GPS system, the InforemerT 2000