Nov 29, 2007

Ignition Partners

Bellevue-based Ignition Partners promoted Richard Fade, Michelle Goldberg and Adrian Smith to investing partners in Ignition Venture Partners IV. Fade has been with Ignition for four years as a venture partner and worked for Microsoft for 16 years. Goldberg has been with Ignition for eight years as a principal. Smith has been with Ignition for eight years as a principal. Ignition Venture Partners IV is Ignition's fourth early stage fund. Ignition has offices in the Pacific Northwest and China.

Dorsey & Whitney

The Seattle office of law firm Dorsey & Whitney promoted James Howard to partner. He was a member of the Trial Group. Dorsey & Whitney employs 650 lawyers on three continents.

PowerTech Group

Kent-based PowerTech Group promoted Brendan Patterson to vice president of marketing. Patterson was director of product management and marketing. The PowerTech Group is an automated computer security solutions company.

Tarragon

Tarragon added Stephanie Keller to its executive management team as director of marketing. She was formerly business development manager with LandAmerica and lease administrator for Terabeam. Tarragon also promoted Ryan Hitt to development manager and Kelley O'Connor to leasing manager. Hitt joined the firm in 2005 as associate development manager with responsibilities for Kent Station, Junction 192 and Sunrise Village. He was with Burgess Weaver Design Group & HOK Architects. O'Connor is primarily responsible for retail lease administration, marketing and leasing. She formerly worked with The Macerich Co.

Grubb & Ellis

Grubb & Ellis Co. hired Arne Svendsen in the Seattle office as a senior associate focusing on the close-in industrial market, specifically Sodo. He was with Heger Realty Corp. in Los Angeles where he spent six years as an associate. Svendsen specialized in the disposition of properties in the Central, East and Southeast submarkets of Los Angeles County.

NAIOP awards

M Street, a mixed-use high-rise on First Hill, won the grand prize for Urban High-Rise Residential Project of the year at the Washington State Chapter National Association of Industrial & Office Properties awards earlier this month. Kitsap Credit Union's new headquarters won Office Development of the Year — under 250,000 square feet. Opus NWR Development and Seattle-based Holland Partners I LLC are the M Street developers. The Kitsap Credit Union headquarters is the first new private office building in downtown Bremerton in more than 40 years. Opus also developed that project.

CREW topic: Land development

CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women) Seattle's Dec. 13 luncheon will run from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Washington Athletic Club, 1325 Sixth Ave., Seattle. The cost is $35 for members and $50 for non-members. The topic is “Township 110 Land Co.: The Future of Land Development.” The development division of Plum Creek Timber was renamed Township 110 Land Co. It has more than 8 million acres of timber-producing land and is the largest private land owner in the U.S. José Oncina, senior director of real estate development for Township 110 Land, will talk about its development plans. Register online at http://www.crewseattle.org or by mail at CREW Seattle, Box 2016, Edmonds 98020-9516. For phone reservations call (206) 417-5580.

Nov 28, 2007

Virginia Mason Medical Center

Virginia Mason Medical Center hired five new physicians. Farideh Eskandari joined the endocrinology section. Patricia Auerbach, Ellen Frechette and Jeff Knight joined the general internal medicine section. Auerbach will practice at the Lewis and John Dare Center at Virginia Mason's Bellevue clinic. Knight completed his internal medical residency at Virginia Mason where he was internal medicine chief resident. Adel Assaad will work in the pathology section.

PRR

PRR, a Seattle-based public affairs and communications firm, hired Andrea Wedderburn, Susan Hoffman and Miles Pomeroy. Wedderburn is media relations account director. She has eight years experience and worked at a private consulting firm. Hoffman is senior associate. She has nine years of public policy experience and worked at the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Pomeroy is IT manager. He last worked in California.

Murray, Smith & Associates

Murray, Smith & Associates Engineers/Planners has a new Boise office established by three of the firm's senior engineers, David Stangel, Craig Anderson and Dennis Galinato, who have all been named associates and shareholders. Stangel has more than 13 years of municipal engineering experience and is an expert in hydraulic modeling and GIS technology in master planning. Stangel's recent work includes projects for cities in Idaho, Oregon and Washington, Snohomish PUD and the Mountain Home Air Force Base. Anderson has more than 14 years of experience serving public agencies throughout the Pacific Northwest. Galinato has more than nine years of experience managing water, wastewater, and stormwater projects. He recently completed work for Issaquah Highlands, Tamarack Resort and Mountain Home Air Force Base.

IA Interior Architects

IA Interior Architects hired Tom Pike, Anna Lovell, Katie Solomon and Julie Woolsey. Pike is a project manager and has more than 17 years of experience in architecture and design. Pike is currently working on the Expedia headquarters in Bellevue and Amazon.com. Lovell has more than 10 years of experience in interior design. She is working on Port Blakely Communities, Expedia and WaMu. Solomon, an interior designer, is part of the Merrill Lynch and WaMu teams. Woolsey, an interior designer, is working on assignments for Expedia, Amazon.com and WaMu.

BHC Consultants

BHC Consultants promoted Chanda Emery and Aubin Phillips to senior planners and Carlito Tolentino to senior GIS analyst. Emery is a certified planner with seven years of experience in regulation, planning and development review services to clients including Darrington, Gold Bar, and Orting. Phillips is a certified planner with more than three years of experience providing environmental, long-range planning, and planning services to cities and tribes in Washington and Oregon. Tolentino is responsible for producing digital maps, assisting in the development of GIS applications and maintaining the GIS database.

Bernardo-Wills Architects

Bernardo-Wills Architects, hired Project Manager Rupali Joshi. Joshi comes to Bernardo-Wills Architects from an architectural and interior design firm in Mumbai, India, where she was a business consultant and partner. She has experience in architectural and interior design as well as master planning landscape design. Joshi is Bernardo-Wills Architects' first employee on an H1B visa, a non-immigrant visa category under the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Callison

Callison hired Tom Hippman as an associate principal in its Dallas office. Hippman has more than 15 years of experience in the design and management of large retail centers including projects in Texas and the Ibn Battuta Mall in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Cary Kopczynski & Co.

Cary Kopczynski & Co. promoted Satish Jain to senior engineer/seismic design lead. Jain is working on the 20-story Bellevue Place Hyatt expansion. CKC also hired Michael J. Park as design engineer and Amanda Bliss as administrative assistant.