Feb 15, 2001

Seattle University

Ted Lord, former executive director of the Pride Foundation, has been named acting director of the Joint Center for Nonprofit and Social Enterprise Management and acting head of the Executive Master of Not-For-Profit Leadership Program, a partnership between Seattle University and the region's nonprofit and philanthropic sector. He will serve in that position until a permanent director is named. Lord currently serves on the board of the United Way of King County.

Java Trading Co.

Java Trading Co. of Seattle was recently formed to bring the Java Trading Co. brand and roasting technology to strategic partners around the globe. The company creates strategic partnerships to set up Java PureRoast coffee roasters in the area of distribution. The company’s main goal is to bring Seattle specialty coffee to Japan and Korea. The Lotte Group, with headquarters in Tokyo and Seoul, is working through a subsidiary, Java Trading Asia Co., to open several hundred Seattle style coffeehouses as well as domestic roasting operations to support retail and wholesale expansion.

Betts, Patterson, & Mines

Bradley Rorem and Steve Block have been named as directors of Betts, Patterson & Mines, a Seattle law firm. Rorem practices primarily in the area of commercial litigation, with emphasis on construction and real estate litigation. Block's practice focuses on numerous aspects of transportation and logistics law. He also concentrates his practice on customs, domestic and international business matters, and civil rights.

Virginia Mason Medical Center

Virginia Mason, a regional healthcare system, announced two additions to its staff and one to its board of directors. Gaston Deysine has joined the Federal Way Clinic, orthopedic surgery department, Huong Pham has joined the department of radiation oncology and Terry Macaluso has joined the medical center's health system board of directors. Deysine has completed an internship in general surgery and a residency at the State University of New York. Pham has a special interest in the treatment of brain tumors, radiosurgery and lung cancer. Macaluso is executive vice president, corporate development for the Ackerley Group. She joins the 13 other members of the board who share the responsibilities of overall direction and achievement of Virginia Mason Medical Center.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce presented Washington State Rep. Adam Smith with its 2000 "Spirit of Enterprise" Award for his support for its pro-business legislative agenda in the second session of the 106th Congress. Key 2000 votes included opening markets overseas to U.S. goods and services, and providing tax relief for American small businesses

Oxygen Bar coming to Northgate

An Oxygen Bar will open March 1 at Northgate Mall. As the name implies, customers come in to breath 97 percent pure oxygen. Sometimes they take it scented, under names like "Nirvana," "Utopia" and "Revitalize." Aromas include herbal, lavender and coconut. Owner Jim Adams said oxygen bars have been in use in Japan for about 40 years.

Customers buy a reusable nose cannula for $2. The cannula is a plastic tube with an outlet for each nostril. The other end attaches to an oxygen canister that provides 97 percent oxygen. Customers pay for sessions of five, 10 and 15 minutes at $1 per minute. The oxygen is pulled from surrounding air, which normally has 20 percent oxygen. Customers can choose to sit in a mechanical massage chair while breathing through their cannula, as well.

The Northgate Oxygen Bar will be on the north end of the mall, near Champion Massage.

L.J. Melody

John Petersen has become manager of the Portland office of the commercial mortgage banker L.J. Melody & Co. Peterson was senior vice

president for Bank of America in charge of commercial real estate lending for Oregon, Idaho and southwest Washington. He also worked for Security Pacific Corp., Orbanco Financial Services Co. and as an Oregon assistant attorney general. He received his law degree from the University of Oregon.

HomeStreet Bank

Elaine Wolfe has joined HomeStreet Bank as vice president and north Puget Sound regional manager. She'll head business development and operations at nine branches  in Seattle, Marysville, Mountlake Terrace and the Eastside. Previously, Wolfe worked 14 years at Key Bank, most recently as area sales manager and district-wide client-relations manager. She also worked at Security Pacific Bank.

Knowledge Anywhere

The Internet training company Knowledge Anywhere is moving its headquarters into Bellevue from Sammamish and expanding its sales force into six cities. Knowledge Anywhere provides a variety of business-oriented, Web-based training classes such as in computing, sales, human resources, accounting, insurance and securities.

The company, started in 1998, says it's profitable. Sales director Ron Burley Jr. also said the decline of many dot-com companies has benefited Knowledge Anywhere by making good employees available for Knowledge Anywhere to hire.

The company recently opened sales offices are in Los Angeles, Portland, Atlanta and Chicago and plans to open soon in Florida and San Francisco. The company envisions expanding into seven more cities next quarter.

Tacoma Mall

Two clothing retailers leased space in Tacoma Mall: The Children's Place and Pacific Sunwear. The mall, owned by Simon Property Group, underwent a recent renovation that included adding a nine-bay food court.