Mar 12, 2008
Pacific Continental Bank made a series of promotions. Fred Holubik is senior credit officer. Michael Gaberman is commercial banking and relationship banking team leader. Ken Yokoyama is commercial banking team leader. Holubik, Gaberman and Yokoyama will retain their titles of senior vice president. Debra Hauser is senior vice president. Katerina Kouznetsova is vice president.
Bellingham-based Pier Systems, a provider of software and professional services to help organizations manage communications, hired Stephen Wood as regional vice president. Wood will lead the company in expanding its Southwest sales efforts based in Los Angeles. He recently worked in New Orleans building new homes and commercial buildings after Hurricane Katrina.
The Association of Washington Business awarded the 2008 C. David Gordon Award to Ralph Munro for his civic leadership. Munro was secretary of state from 1980 to 2001 and has been president of the Seattle Rotary Club No. 4. He currently sits on the boards of directors for several companies including Dategrity. The Gordon Award is AWB's highest award for civic achievement and recognizes people who have made a difference to the state through public service.
Seattle-based Point B Solutions Group, a professional-services firm specializing in project leadership, hired Mike Pongon as chief operating officer. Pongon has 12 years experience and recently led the Portland and Los Angeles offices. He has worked with the company since 2000.
Otak hired five people in Arizona, Colorado, Oregon and Washington, and another 10 in the firm’s Abu Dhabi office. In Seattle, Otak added senior project manager and landscape architect
Keith Bates. Bates has experience designing zoos and botanical gardens. Bates’ past local projects include the Hanford Reach National Monument heritage and visitor center in Richland, the Nikkei WWII Exclusion Memorial on Bainbridge Island and the UIAT NW Native Canoe Center in Seattle. Otak’s Carbondale, Colo., office hired senior project manager
Gary Long. Long joins Otak after more than 30 years with the Bureau of Land Management. He has experience in wilderness management and visual resource management, as well as historic trails management and environmental analysis. In Tempe, Ariz., Otak hired landscape architect
Tiffany Halperin. Halperin’s past projects include the Omni Tucson National Resort and the Hotel Valley Ho in Scottsdale. Otak’s Manzanita office added
Will Lawrence as survey technician. Lawrence has led survey crews and was part of the management team responsible for creating a forest-management model for more than 15 million acres in Southeast Alaska. The Yakima office hired
Erik Pruneda. Pruneda’s areas of study included hydrology and hydraulics, and he worked with Whatcom County to obtain stream flow measurements, conduct research and develop a groundwater computer model.
KPFF hired
Mike Anderson as director of marine transit. Anderson has 34 years of experience in marine transportation, most recently as chief executive officer of Washington State Ferries. His experience in maritime operations includes vessel procurement and maintenance, waterfront and upland facilities and management of operations of one of the largest ferry systems in the world.
Berger/ABAM Engineers promoted
Helen Devery to Vancouver office branch manager. Devery has been with the company for more than 14 years and previously was planning manager. The firm also promoted
John D. White to regional client development director for the Vancouver office. White founded The JD White Co. in 1976, 30 years before its 2006 acquisition by Berger/ABAM, when he became vice president and branch manager.
NAC|Architecture hired
Melissa McFadgen as a senior associate. McFadgen returns to the firm after working for an area architectural firm for the past year. Her past projects include the Spokane Falls Community College sn-w’ey’-mn Building, Washington State University Academic Center in Spokane and Mountainside Middle School in the Mead School District. She is working on a new dormitory at Whitworth University and a building at Spokane Falls Community College. McFadgen is president-elect of the AIA Spokane Chapter.
FSI Architects hired
Terry LeDesky as senior project architect. LeDesky has more than 20 years of experience, including 16 years as principal architect of his own firm in Oak Harbor. His past work includes master planning, commercial, health care, and church design, and adaptive reuse of historic structures. He is also chapter president of the Northwest Washington American Institute of Architects and was involved in development of North Whidbey Skate Park. FSI Architects is a division of Fisher Companies in Burlington.
