Oct 28, 2005

Ikaria

Flemming Ornskov joined Seattle biotechnology company Ikaria as president, chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors. Ornskov has senior executive experience in the pharmaceutical industry. He worked for Novartis in Switzerland, where he restructured business operations to improve sales.

Kibble & Prentice

Insurance and financial services company Kibble & Prentice appointed Jim Doud vice chair of its board of directors. Doud has been on the board for three years. He is executive director of San Mateo, Calif.-based Calco Insurance Agents and Brokers. Kibble & Prentice's offices are in Seattle and Bellevue.

Moss Adams

The Seattle-based accounting and consulting firm Moss Adams says it will buy Albuquerque, N.M.-based Neff+Ricci in January 2006. Neff+Ricci provides business assurance, tax and consulting services for public, private and government clients. Wayne Brown is Neff+Ricci's managing partner.

Foster Pepper & Shefelman

Foster Pepper & Shefelman of Seattle added Taudd A. Hume to its Spokane office. Hume is an associate in the litigation practice, and focuses on land use planning and environmental law. Christopher S. Napier joined the Seattle office as an associate in the real estate practice. Napier was an associate with Preston Gates & Ellis in Seattle. New associates in Seattle are Kelly M. Angell, Mark S. Leen and C. Ryan Russell. Angell is in the municipal government practice, Leen does litigation and Russell focuses on business matters. Rosa Fruehling-Watson is a lawyer in the employment, labor and immigration practice.

Oct 27, 2005

CB Richard Ellis

Biethan

CB Richard Ellis hired 25-year real estate veteran Scott Biethan as senior managing director of Valuation & Advisory Services in the Northwest. The company is expanding these services in the region, which includes Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. Biethan, who will be based in Seattle, joins the company from Cushman & Wakefield. He will recruit appraisers throughout the Northwest, and head CB's national hotel and hospitality appraisal practice.

Coldwell Banker Bain

Affiliate companies Coldwell Banker Bain in Seattle and Coldwell Banker Barbara Sue Seal Properties of Portland/Vancouver hired Suzanne Zinn Mueller as vice president of marketing, communications and brand management. She moved here from Illinois, where she was vice president general manager of Ryan Partnership's Chicago office.

Chiles & Co.

Vulcan Inc. hired Chiles & Co. to manage its property at the south marina area of Lake Union in Seattle. The Seattle company will oversee 7.6 acres, including Chandler's Cove and the H.C. Henry Pier. The properties include 57,000 square feet of retail and office space, and 92 boat slips.

Security Properties

Seattle-based Security Properties has acquired another Bay Area apartment. Security paid $23.3 million for the 124-unit Diplomat in Mountain View, Calif. Security plans to renovate the property, which was built in 1969. The Diplomat is the company's fourth multi-family asset in the Bay Area. Managing Director of Acquisitions Lonnie Nadal says Security wants to buy more.

Colliers International

LSI Logic Corp., of Milpitas, Calif., retained Colliers International Advanced Technology Real Estate Group in Seattle to help with the sale of its semiconductor manufacturing plant in Gresham, Ore. Stephen Rothrock, executive director of the Colliers group, says the 1998 plant on an 80-acre site that is fully permitted for an expansion.

Wright Runstad & Co. and Urbis Partners

Walton Street Capital of Chicago chose Wright Runstad & Co. to manage and operate 1.2 million square feet in two Seattle properties it just bought: Metropolitan Park and Park Place. Lisa Stewart and Cleita Harvey of Urbis Partners were selected to lease the portfolio. Urbis will work with Wright Runstad for the first time, but Stewart previously provided the same services for two other Walton Street Capital properties in Seattle. For Wright Runstad, the assignment is a reunion of sorts with former principals of Chicago-based JMB Realty, who later formed Walton Street Capital. Wright Runstad and JMB partnered in development of Wells Fargo Center in Seattle. This assignment increases Wright Runstad's assets under management in Seattle to more than 4 million square feet.

Aboda

Aboda CEO Brenda Handley is retiring and President Dave Caple will take over CEO responsibilities. Ralph Jones has been named executive vice president, and Steve Bredeweg is chief operations officer. Former Vice President of Operations Marilyn Fink has been named senior vice president. Gary Ciabotti is senior vice president of East Coast operations. The Redmond company is a corporate housing provider. Clients include Microsoft, Amazon and Boeing.

NAIOP honor Nickels and Marshall

The Washington chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties named Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels and Bellevue Mayor Connie Marshall the 2005 Public Officials of the Year. They're being honored for fostering regional cooperation and leadership on transportation, density and economic development issues. They'll receive the award at NAIOP's Night of the Stars banquet Nov. 4 in Seattle.

Frontier Bank

Six Bellevue bankers will open a new office for Frontier Bank. Milton Douglas will manage commercial loan officers Donald Charles ("Chuck") Brockway, Jr., Ronald R. Jackman, Cheryl A. Gunderson, Alan L. Parsons and Theresa Sykes. All were most recently with Wells Fargo Bank. Until a central Bellevue business district site is found, the team will be based in Frontier's Kirkland office. New support staff will also join the team. Frontier bank is based in Everett.

Schnitzer Steel Industries

RRC Acquisition, a subsidiary of Portland company Schnitzer Steel Industries, has agreed to buy all assets of Regional Recycling. RRC will pay $65 million in cash and assume certain liabilities. Regional Recycling runs 10 metals recycling facilities in Alabama and Georgia. Last year Regional Recycling sold more than 500,000 tons of ferrous metal and nearly 100 million pounds of non-ferrous metal, and earned $190 million. Schnitzer Steel Industries recycles ferrous metals and retails auto parts.

Clark Nuber

Clark Nuber accountant Malcolm Edwards was recently named to the board of Community for Youth. Adult mentors in the group help struggling high school students become confident adults. Clark Nuber is an accounting and consulting firm based in Bellevue.

InfoSpace

Bellevue company InfoSpace, a provider of mobile content, appointed Alan Welsman vice president of European product management and marketing. Stephen Davis is president of mobile media. Kieve Huffman is vice president of content. In the past 12 months, InfoSpace has acquired two European companies.