Mar 06, 2009

Stoel Rives

Stoel Rives promoted three attorneys to principals in the Seattle office. They are Steven Thiele, Samuel Webb and W. Scott Wert. Thiele practices in the Resources, Development and Environment Group. He is the former chief toxics cleanup attorney for the Washington State Attorney General's Office Ecology Division. Webb is in the Technology and Intellectual Property Group. Wert is in the Real Estate Group.

Motricity

Richard Leigh has been hired as senior vice president and general counsel for Bellevue-based Motricity. Motricity is a provider of mobile data solutions and services. Leigh has been general counsel for Cell Therapeutics and general counsel for Vulcan Inc.

Crowley Maritime

Crowley Maritime promoted Scott Craig to director West Coast/Alaska. Craig will oversee the Seattle, Long Beach and Anchorage crewing locations that service operations from southern California to northwestern Alaska. He joined Crowley in 1975 as mate.

Pacific Place

Elizabeth Rossi has been named marketing manager at the Pacific Place shopping center in downtown Seattle. She has been interim marketing manager since October and has 15 years experience in media marketing. Hoa Tran, former marketing coordinator at Pacific Place, has been named assistant marketing manager.

Mar 05, 2009

Sound Transit

Sound Transit hired Ron Tober as deputy chief executive officer and Ron Klein as director of communications and external affairs. Tober has 35 years of experience and was CEO of the Charlotte Area Transit System. He had previously been director of transit for the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle. Klein worked for eight years in Pierce County's communication department.

Center for Economic Vitality

The Small Business Development Center at Western Washington University has changed its name to the Center for Economic Vitality, and will no longer be affiliated with the SBDC statewide network housed at Washington State University. The center will still offer business counseling and research, and will also continue to be connected to the College of Business and Economics at Western Washington University. It is located in Bellingham Towers.

King County

The Metropolitan King County Council unanimously confirmed Executive Ron Sims' appointee Kathleen Van Olst as director of the Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention. Van Olst has been running the department on an interim basis since October. She previously served in the King County Prosecutor's Office managing the new Complex Prosecutions and Investigations Division. She replaces Reed Holtgeerts, who recently retired after 32 years with the department.

Colliers International

Colliers International promoted three commercial brokers in the Puget Sound region. Bill Condon and Andrew Hitchcock have been named vice presidents in the Seattle office. Condon is an industrial specialist concentrating on leasing and sales in South King and Pierce counties. Hitchcock also focuses on industrial leasing and sales in the South Puget Sound industrial marketplace. In the Tacoma office, Connie Boyle has been promoted to associate vice president. She specializes in investment properties and retail leasing in South King County.

Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate

Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate announced the affiliation of its first residential real estate brokerage in Washington, Executive Real Estate. The Bellevue-based brokerage signed a long-term agreement and will operate under the name Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Executive. It has 260 sales associates in six offices in Bellevue, Everett, Bothell, Kent, Burlington and Seattle.

Yates Wood & McDonald

Peter Argeres has left Ewing & Clark, Inc. after 15 years and joined Yates Wood & McDonald. He will continue to handle sales and leasing of office, retail and commercial condos in the Seattle area.

Appraisers' Coalition of Washington

Stan Sidor, vice president at GVA Kidder Mathews, has been elected president of the Appraisers' Coalition of Washington, a statewide legislative action group representing 17 chapters of different appraisal organizations along with all unaffiliated appraisers.

Egis Real Estate Services

Seattle-based Egis Real Estate Services promoted Richard McDowell to service manager. The firm is moving, effective March 16, to 6363 Seventh Ave. S., Suite 240, Seattle.