Oct 20, 2000

University of Washington

Boardman

Paul Boardman, who has represented Washington state and the nation's forest products industry in Japan since the early 1990s, has been named director for the Center for International Trade in Forest Products at the University of Washington's College of Forest Resources. Boardman manages a staff and graduate students who conduct international market researh of use to government, industry associations and businesses ranging from small, value-added companies to large integrated forest product companies. He also supervises the center's publications and events.

Appliant.com

Aney

Mattson

Appliant.com, a Seattle-based management service provider, has appointed Rob Aney as vice president of products and Todd Mattson as vice president of marketing. Aney leads the team responsible for ensuring that Appliant's products and services meet the needs of customers and partners by defining product direction and managing the product process from start-to-finish. Mattson directs Appliant's marketing strategy, communications and corporate branding efforts. He most recently was vice president of marketing services for Saltmine.

Associated Grocers

Associated Grocers, a retailer-owned cooperative which provides food, general merchandise and retail services to 400 independent grocers in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and the Pacific Rim, named Gene Puhrmann chief information officer. Puhrmann replaces Dr. Ken Viafore, who has served as the company's interim CIO since April of this year. Viafore will continue as an Associated Grocers boardmember. Puhrmann previously directed delivery systems for Bank of America.

Miller Nash

Thirteen lawyers from Miller Nash, a law firm with offices in Seattle, Portland and Vancouver, were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2001-2002. The 2001-2002 edition is the ninth edition since its inception in 1983. The attorneys are: Michael Arthur, Joyce Bernheim, Donald Burns, Donna Cameron, William Crow, Dean DeChaine, M. Christie Helmer, Louis Livingston, Conrad Moore, Thomas Olson, Peter Richter, Jeffrey Thede and Robert Walerius.

KCTS

Seattle-based journalist Ron Reagan is joining the regional current affairs series, KCTS Connects. Reagan will appear in the series on a semi-regular basis. He will offer election analysis and commentary on the presidential race in the Election Night edition of the series airing live Tuesday, Nov. 7, from 9 to 10 p.m. and will be featured intermittently on the series thereafter. Reagan, son of former president Ronald Reagan, has 15 years' of experience as a reporter, anchor, host and producer for national television

Oct 19, 2000

DDB

Stirrett

Sandifer

Williamson

The Seattle office of DDB, a full-service communications company, announced several new hires. Tracy Stirrett joined DDB's direct marketing arm, hunt.DDBdirect, as an account executive. Stirrett had worked for the Seattle Mariners and Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery. John Williamson joined the agency as an assistant art director. Norene Sandifer is a production manager for hunt.DDBdirect. Lori Bentler joined hunt.DDBdirect as an account manager. Noah Rabinowitz joined the agency as a billing coordinator.

The Frause Group

The Frause Group, a Seattle public relations, public affairs and marketing communications firm, has added Sue Gillespie and Robin Rask to the staff. Gillespie joins the firm as account executive. She previously worked in the communications department at Stimson Lane Vineyards & Estates, parent company of Chateau Ste. Michelle winery. Rask has been named assistant account executive. She recently completed a summer internship with The Frause Group while serving as a public affairs specialist with the U.S. Coast Guard Reserves.

Washington State University

An eight-member committee has been established to develop a framework for strategic planning for Washington State University. The Strategic Planning Oversight Committee, named in late September by President V. Lane Rawlins, also will coordinate the planning activities of WSU's major units and oversee planning for activities that cut across multiple organizational areas. William Fassett, dean, College of Pharmacy, will chair the committee. Provost Ron Hopkins and Rawlins will serve as ex-officio members. SPOC members include JoAnn Asher Thompson, Karl Boehmke, Barbara Couture, Hal Dengerink, Fassett, Bob Greenberg, Sally Savage and Mike Tate.

InterStar

Jennifer Lawson has joined InterStar, the marketing and public relations arm of Seattle-based ISNetworks, as an account representative. ISNetworks is an e-commerce and information system software company specializing in the digital signature technology.

Seattle University

The Albers School of Business and Economics at Seattle University has been awarded a $226,500 grant to support the new Center for Electronic Commerce and Information Systems (CECIS). The funding, awarded by the M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust, will be used to purchase laboratory equipment, hardware, software, and specialized furniture for a state-of-the-art computer lab. Launched during the 1999-2000 academic year, the CECIS was one of the first programs in the country, and the first in Washington state, to offer an MBA and undergraduate business concentrations in e-commerce.

AuraServ

AuraServ, an integrated communications provider, has opened its Western regional sales offices in Bellevue. AuraServ provides businesses a solution that lets them manage all communications, whether voice mail or e-mail, through their PCs. Lorne Rubis will lead the company in the Western region as senior vice president and general manager. Rubis most recently was chief operating officer for Multiple Zones, a nation-wide direct reseller of computer products and services based in Seattle.

Apartmentcomps

Bill Strader has taken the new position of vice president and director of marketing for Seattle-based Apartmentcomps Inc., a startup company that lists apartment building sales data on the Internet. Strader jumped from competitor RealFacts, based in California. Strader will help "build the systems to handle current customer flow as well as pro-active strategies to rocket the company to a new level," said Apartmentcomps CEO Dan Sanchez. The company now lists 6,000 properties in the Sun Belt and expects to reach 20,000 in 30 markets nationwide by year-end, Sanchez said.

Windermere Real Estate

Joe Maxwell became designated broker and president of a new Windermere Real Estate residential office in Puyallup, the company's second office in the Pierce County city. The new office employs 20 sales associates. Maxwell was designated broker and branch manager for John L. Scott's Puyallup/Canyon Road office from 1995 to this year. He worked as a sales associate for Prudential Benton Realty from 1987 to 1993.

Keller Williams Realty

Linda Santos, Douglas Erhardt, Brooks Friedman and Caitlin Johnston joined Keller Williams Realty's Bellevue office as affiliates.

Fair on affordable housing for Indians

The second annual outreach fair to promote affordable housing and home ownership for Native Americans in the Puget Sound area is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 29th, at Discovery Park in Seattle. The event will run from noon to 4 p.m. in the Daybreak Star Cultural Center. It's called the Housing Information Fair & Children's Halloween Party. Four agencies organized it: the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, the Seattle Indian Health Board, the Tlangit & Haida Washington Chapter and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Bankers, real estate agents and others will provide information during the event. For more details, call Iris Friday at HUD, (206) 220-5104, ext. 3542.

RE/MAX in Port Angeles

Nine-year agents Alan and Michaelle Barnard bought a Port Angeles franchise from RE/MAX International. The office, called RE/MAX Performance Team, will work for buyers and sellers in residential, commercial and raw land.