Aug 21, 2003

Tektronix

Tektronix has appointed Cyril J. Yansouni to its board of directors. Yansouni has been a director of PeopleSoft since 1992 and has served as both chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer at Read-Rite. He has served as vice president at Unysis, president of Convergent Technologies and was with Hewlett-Packard from 1967 to 1986. Tektronix, based in Beaverton, Ore., is a test, measurement, and monitoring company serving the communications, computer, and semiconductor industries worldwide.

K/P Corp.

K/P Corp. has launched a Web site to help parents order school supply kits for 140 participating schools in the area. The site also offers comfort kits/emergency readiness packs that schools keep on hand in case of emergencies. The site is designed to make it easier for parents to buy school supplies. K/P donates one dollar to Kits for Kids, a fund set aside for each school to purchase the supply kits for kids in need, for every kit ordered. The site can be found at 1-2-3go.net.

Willows Lodge

Brett Magnan has been named lodge manager of Woodinville's Willows Lodge. Magnan was previously the lodge's operations manager. He has held prior positions at the Sorrento, the Westin Seattle and the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco. Willows Lodge is managed by MTM Management.

Ater Wynne

Mike Shackelford and Bill Campbell have been reelected to managing partner and chair respectively at Ater Wynne. Both will serve on the law firm's management committee. Newly elected members of the management committee are Greg Struxness, partner and chair of the firm's corporate finance group; and Diane Peters, associate in the firm's business group. Steve Wynn and Greg Harris were also reelected as members of the committee. Ater Wynn has offices in Portland and Seattle.

Washington Retail Seminar

The postponed, 15th annual Washington Retail Seminar is set for 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18, at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center on the downtown Seattle waterfront. A main theme will be customer loyalty programs. Speakers will include Brian Johnson of Alaska Airlines' Mileage Plan, Bill Winkelman of Starbucks' loyalty program and Russell Libby of ARG/Cormack, who will also discuss employee loyalty. A panel moderated by Randy Carucci and Donald Becka will address mold remediation in retail properties. For more information, call Summit Law Group at (206) 676-7007.

S-J Management

Michael Sauter's S-J Management LLC, a Seattle-based apartment investment and management firm, sold the 148-unit Erlands Point Apartments in Bremerton to Michael Wensman's Earlands Point Apartments LLC. The price equals $61,486 per unit, which Sauter said is highest ever in Bremerton. S-J bought the complex at 300 Austin Drive in August 1999 for $7,15 million, or $48,311 per unit.

John L. Scott

Brooks

Cervantes-Patel

Kraght

Regina Brooks became a residential sales agent in John L. Scott Real Estate's Lynnwood office. Lili Cervantes-Patel started selling in the firm's Lynnwood Center office. Five agents joined the Kingston office: Kathy Butler, Norma Butler, Diane Nathan, John Clear and Steve Kraght. Three started in Laurelhurst: Tom Spain, Paul Harvey McLaughlin and Kurt Lantz.

Leland Consulting Group

Chris Zahas was promoted to senior associate at Leland Consulting Group, a Portland, Ore.-based real estate strategies provider. Zahas is Leland's lead project manager. He's currently working on transit-oriented development near light rail stations for the Sacramento Regional Transit District and on creating incentives for urban housing development in Boise for Boise's urban renewal agency. He recently worked with Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, in writing a downtown development strategy and helped structure public-private partnerships in Bellingham and Spokane.

Leland also promoted Melinda Plummer to associate in its Portland office. Plummer is an architect who serves as the firm's liaison with architectural firms. She's working on phase two of Moses Lake's downtown revitalization and on the Boise housing incentives. Liland hired Jonathan Williams as senior analyst in Portland. Williams came from Sam Schwartz Co. of New York City, where he prepared environmental assessment documents for the reconstruction of East River Pier 15 and public outreach material for construction of the AirTrain to John F. Kennedy Airport. Williams recently received his master's degree in city and regional planning from the University of Pennsylvania.