Jun 18, 2010

Virginia Mason Medical Center

Virginia Mason Medical Center has hired nine new physicians in a variety of specialties. Carli Hoaglan joined the Department of Anesthesiology. Janda Stevens joined the Section of Emergency Medicine. Lisa Wilson joined the Section of Emergency Medicine. Geetha Easwaran, Therese Franco and Mark Sullivan joined the Section of Hospitalist Service. Kirsten Wolff joined the Section of Gynecology. Janet Chieh joined the Section of Ophthalmology. Alvin Ngan joined the Section of Orthopedic Surgery and is practicing at VM Issaquah.

Seattle Media Group

Bonneville Seattle hired Pete Gammell as news director for the Bonneville Seattle Media Group, a newly created position. Gammell will oversee all news gathering and news content across each Bonneville Seattle radio station and digital media channel. He recently was online content manager for MyNorthwest.com

Pacific Division of American Phytopathological Society

Debra Inglis, professor and plant pathologist at Washington State University's Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Center, is the newly elected president of the Pacific Division of the America Phytopathological Society. The Pacific Division of APS includes members living in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming as well as the Canadian provinces of British Columbia Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Jun 17, 2010

CB Richard Ellis

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Milgard Medical Pavilion

Frauenshuh Healthcare Real Estate Solutions, developer of Milgard Medical Pavilion, selected John Bauder and Steven Perovich of CB Richard Ellis to market the 85,000-square-foot medical office building on the St. Anthony's campus in Gig Harbor. Completed in 2009, the project currently has 28,000 square feet of office space available.

Wolfgang Rood Hospitality Consulting

Hotel occupancy rates increased slightly to 66 percent in Washington in April, while average daily room rates dropped 2.6 percent to $115, according to Wolfgang Rood Hospitality Consulting's latest report. Downtown Seattle's occupancy (72 percent) was unchanged from the same month a year ago. The Bellevue/Eastside and Spokane/Eastern Washington markets were down slightly to 53 and 61 percent, respectively. The Sea-Tac Airport area (71 percent) and Pierce County (72 percent) recorded the biggest occupancy increases. Average daily rooms rates were down 6 percent to $149 in Seattle; down 2 percent to $95 in the airport area; up nearly 8 percent to $147 in the Bellevue/Eastside market; down 6 percent to $96 in Pierce County; and even at $90 in Spokane/Eastern Washington.

Network Mortgage Services

Regional mortgage lender Network Mortgage Services of Lynnwood is now Network Home Loans. The company also is expanding and upgrading the company's office at the Alderwood Business Campus. Ken Lane, president of the 23-year-old company, says the new name better reflects the company's core business of originating, servicing, and selling residential home loans. Construction will begin soon on the office renovation. When completed, the building will be renamed the Network Financial Center. The expansion will allow for an additional 25 employees.

Keller Williams Realty

Dan Wible and Geoff Hill joined Keller Williams Realty's Seattle Metro West Market Center. Previously, Wible owned and operated two small businesses and was a structural engineering consultant for 30 years. Hill, who has been a Realtor for four years, continues to run a house painting company, a company that rehabs vacant properties, and a company that evaluates photovoltaic solar power systems.

June 24 ‘Journey to Success' program

Four regional leaders in the building design and real estate development industry will speak at MulvannyG2 Architecture at 5 p.m. on June 24 about their careers and the challenges that inspired them as women. Panelists are Sue Baugh of Cushman & Wakefield Commerce, Kerry Carlson of Legacy Partners, Karen Niemi of MulvannyG2 and Lisa Wright of GLY Construction. Ginger Wesley of MulvannyG2 will moderate the discussion that MulvannyG2's Women in Leadership group and the Association for Women in Architecture are hosting. The event benefits AWA's scholarship fund. Cost is $25; register by e-mailing Women.InLeadership@MulvannyG2.com by Monday. MulvannyG2's address is 1110 112th Ave. N.E., Bellevue.

Stoel Rives

Stoel Rives, a full-service U.S. law firm, hired Skylee Robinson and Hania Younis to its Seattle office. Robinson is an associate in the Litigation Group and focuses on general commercial

litigation. She was a summer associate with the firm in 2007 and 2008. Younis is an associate in the Energy and Telecommunications Group, where she concentrates on renewable forms of energy such as wind, biomass and solar energy and on nonrenewable forms of energy.

AIM Consulting Group

Chicago-based AIM Consulting Group and Bellevue-based Sage IT Services have merged. The new organization will operate under the name AIM Consulting Group. AIM is a consulting and staffing firm that specializes in supporting information technology executives in Fortune 500 and high-growth emerging technology companies. Kyle Guilford, co-founder and managing partner of Sage IT Services, is now president of the West Region of AIM.

Potlatch Corp.

Spokane-based Potlatch Corp. named Lorrie Scott as vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. She replaces Pamela Mull, who retired in March of 2010 after 20 years with Potlatch.

Scott joins Potlatch from Weyerhaeuser Company, where she has held a variety of positions since 2001, most recently as senior vice president and general counsel for Weyerhaeuser Realty Investors.