Jan 04, 2001

Edelman P.R. Worldwide

Gail Anne Grosso joins Edelman P.R. Worldwide as executive vice president/creative director for the Western U.S. region. She will be based in Seattle. Grosso's most recent post was president and chief creative officer for Publicis/Seattle where she helped take Voicestream from a regional company to an international wireless communications presence. Prior to her three years at Publicis, Grosso served as senior vice president/creative director at Saatchi & Saatchi/N.Y. for most of the 1990s.

Adams and Associates

Adams and Associates, a Seattle-based staffing firm, added a new financial search service line, Adams Financial Search. The new affiliate will concentrate on creating a presence in the Puget Sound business community. Adams Financial Search is a recruiting and staffing service that assists companies in hiring high-end financial and accounting professionals, from senior staff accountants to CFOs.

The Puget Sound Center

The Puget Sound Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology announced it will receive a $927,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to train more than 150 people over the next 18 months in South Snohomish and North King counties. Included in the project is more than $500,000 in training resources available to individuals and small- to mid-size companies. Project Manager John Lederer will work with both the King and Snohomish County Workforce Development Councils, the WorkSource Centers, and community and technical colleges in North King and South Snohomish counties to broker the training.

Persing, Dyckman & Toynbee

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., an international insurance brokerage and risk management services firm headquartered in Itasca, Ill., announced the completion of two acquisitions; Persing, Dyckman & Toynbee of Tacoma and Castle Insurance Associates of Boston. Since 1945, Persing, Dyckman & Toynbee has been providing commercial clients and individual customers with risk management, retail property/casualty and benefits products. The firm specializes in the construction and manufacturing industries and provides property owners' and malpractice coverages. Curt Dyckman, area president, and his staff will continue to operate in their Tacoma location under the direction of Clark Johnson, Gallagher's Northwest regional manager.

Getty Images

Getty Images, a Seattle-based e-commerce provider of imagery and related products and services, announced that it has added two executives. Jeff Beyle joins the company as senior vice president and general counsel and David Glomski as vice president of digital asset management solutions. Beyle, a legal executive experienced in managing international legal and business development functions for Fortune 100 companies, will be responsible for overseeing worldwide legal affairs for the company. Glomski most recently was global program director for Oracle's FastForward suite of middle-market business solutions.

HouseValues.com

Nick Hanauer joined the board of HouseValues.com, a young online company whose Web site provides homeowners with estimates of their property's sale value. Hanauer is chairman of the online media company Avenue A and heads Second Avenue Partners, which led a recent, $2 million second round of financing for Bellevue-based HouseValues.com. A third, $1 million round of financing is expected later this quarter. "We are on track to reach profitability in the late spring of 2001 and do not anticipate the need to raise additional funds beyond this round," HouseValues.com founder and CEO Mark Powell said. Investors in the second round of financing also included Poseidon Ventures, Vault Capital and "many of the region's well-known angel investors," Powell said.

Housing Development Consortium

Jim Ferris became this year's president of the Housing Development Consortium of Seattle-King County. Ferris is executive director of the low-income housing maker Housing Resources Group. Other new board officers are: AIDS of Washington Executive Director Betsey Lieberman, vice president; Common Ground Executive Director Lynn Davison, secretary; and Impact Capital Deputy Director Alice Shobe, treasurer.

Apartment forecast

Jim Hebert of Bellevue-based Hebert Research will present his forecast for economic changes that will affect the apartment market at a Jan. 24 event organized by the commercial brokerage of Kidder Mathews & Segner. Hebert will speak between 8 and 9:30 a.m. at the Bellevue Club, southeast of downtown Bellevue. A continental breakfast will be served. Hebert said he'll work from an "economometric analysis of housing costs, employment, net population migration and supply of apartments" that gives his predictions 95 percent reliability. Seating is limited, Kidder said, so RSVP by Jan. 19 to (206) 296-9600.

Realtor of the Year

Wayne

Steven Waynereceived this year's Realtor of the Year award from the Seattle-King County Association of Realtors. Wayne works as an associate broker in Windermere Real Estate's Mount Baker office in Seattle. The association said he demonstrated "a faithfulness to the principles of the Realtor organization, professionalism and the code of ethics." The association also gave Wayne and four others -- Tara Cumminsof Coldwell Banker Bain, Philip Matricardi of Coldwell Banker Bain, and Mary Orvis of RE/MAX Metro Realty -- a special merit award for co-hosting the weekly radio program about home buying called KIXI Realtor Home Show.

The group also gave three Realtors awards for exemplary community service: Joan Wallace of Wallace Properties in Bellevue, Kimberley Brangwin of Coldwell Banker Bain in Seattle and Susan Horan of Coldwell Banker All-American in Federal Way.

The association's Pacesetter Award for outstanding contributions to the industry and community went to The Housing Partnershipfor advocating public policies that would increase affordable housing in King County.

Windermere Real Estate

Phil H. Carrillo joined Windermere Real Estate's Queen Anne office as a sales associate. Carrillo previously worked in sales and lending at Bank of America and in sales for Bentley Properties.

Bennett Cos.

Elizabeth Cole became marketing director for the Heritage Lodge at Totem Lake, a lodge-like, 86-unit seniors apartment complex set to open soon in Kirkland. Developer Todd Bennett's Bennett Cos. owns Heritage Senior Living LLC, which owns the Heritage Lodge.