Dec 27, 2005

Port of Tacoma

The Port of Tacoma has named David Morrison director of financial planning and treasurer. Morrison was senior finance manager for Microsoft and also worked in finance for Intel and Deloitte & Touche.

JayRay

Shari Day Campbell, medical marketing veteran and former owner of a public relations and marketing firm, has joined JayRay as a senior consultant. JayRay is a communications consultancy with offices in Seattle and Tacoma.

ERA Care Communities

ERA Care Communities, a Puget Sound retirement housing provider, has a new director of sales, Nancy Werner. She will oversee sales management at six, and soon to be seven, local properties.

Williams, Kastner & Gibbs

Timothy W. Jones has joined the Seattle law office of Williams, Kastner & Gibbs as an associate, focusing on commercial litigation. He received his J.D. from Seattle University School of Law.

Dec 23, 2005

Washington Mutual

Washington Mutual will align its single-family residential mortgage lending operations under one management team to streamline operations and improve service. Management of Long Beach Mortgage Co., the company's subprime lending business, and Mortgage Banker Finance, warehouse lending, will move from the Commercial Group to David Schneider, president of the Home Loans group. The balance of the Commercial Group, including multifamily lending, will report to Al Brooks. Craig Chapman, president of the Commercial Group, will leave the company Jan. 31, 2006.

ABODA

Redmond-based ABODA, formerly Northwest Suites & Housing Services, hired Teresa Villarreal as reservations account specialist, Marcus Jimenez as reservations and sales consultant, and Shanna Desono as laundry assistant.

Work Force Development Center

Stephanie Pennix Berntsen, an attorney with Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt in Seattle, was recently elected to the board of directors for the Work Force Development Center, a non-profit vocational training center in Mukilteo. It serves students from Snohomish, Island and North King counties.

Rainier Pacific Bank

Rainier Pacific Financial Group of Tacoma said its subsidiary, Rainier Pacific Bank, will purchase the property and casualty insurance businesses of Christopherson-Boze Insurance Services and Holman Insurance Agency in the first quarter of 2006. The agencies employ 15 people and will continue to operate under their current names and from their locations in University Place and Gig Harbor.