Dec 03, 2010

KCTS 9

KCTS 9 hired Jeff Bieber as first-ever vice president of content. Bieber comes to Seattle from Washington, D.C., where he was vice president for national programming at PBS member station WETA. Bieber has guided the production of several high-profile projects for PBS such as “America at a Crossroads,” a series of 20 documentaries about the Iraq War, terrorism and America's response to 9/11. At KCTS, Bieber will expand original content and community engagement. He starts Jan. 3.

Integra Telecom

Renton's Integra Telecom, a fiber-based telecommunications provider for business, has hired Dan Purkey as vice president of operations. Purkey has 30 years of telecommunications experience and was general manager for Frontier Communications.

PocketBook

PocketBook-USA said Leon Sheiman has been named marketing manager. The company will open its second U.S. location in Westfield Southcenter Shopping Center to sell e-readers. PocketBook plans to open 20 locations nationwide next year. PocketBooks include a language translation dictionary

All Star Directories

All Star Directories, a publisher of online and career school directories, hired Marston Gould as vice president of marketing. Gould has been interim VP of marketing for three months. He has 10 years of executive experience and previously worked with NASA, Alaska Airlines, eMaven and Classmates.com.

Dec 02, 2010

Cornish College of the Arts

The next president of Cornish College of the Arts will be Dr. Nancy Uscher, provost of the California Institute of the Arts and a classically trained violist. Uscher will take the role in August of 2011 after spending six months as CalArts' co-acting president. She will be Cornish's first woman president since Nellie Cornish founded the school in 1914. Uscher succeeds Sergei Tschernisch, who retires next May. He led the visual and performing arts college for 17 years.

Northwest Maritime Center

Jake Beattie will be executive director of the Northwest Maritime Center & Wooden Boat Foundation in Port Townsend. He starts in January and succeeds Stan Cummings, who is retiring. Beattie is executive director of the Seattle nonprofit Bike Works and has been deputy director of The Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle.

Seattle Community College District

Albert Shen has been named to the board of trustees of the Seattle Community College District. Shen has 15 years of project management experience, and is principal and owner of Shen Consulting. The district is the second largest higher education institution in the state, educating more than 51,000 students.

Puget Sound Blood Center

Puget Sound Blood Center hired Michael Cheever as development director. Cheever was recently senior director for philanthropy at the University of Washington Medicine. Puget Sound Blood Center is an independent, community-based nonprofit.

Flinn Ferguson

Seattle commercial real estate company Flinn Ferguson promoted Matt Hermsen to principal. He will lead the company's presence in the South Puget Sound market. He began his career in 2002 at Flinn Ferguson, which exclusively represents tenants in lease negotiations with landlords.

Skanska

Kris Beason, a project executive in Skanska's Seattle office, has been elected as a director on Commercial Real Estate Women's Network 2001 national board. She is president of CREW's Seattle & Sound Chapter.

Seattle King County Realtors

Claudia Crowell, director of business practices for Seattle King County Realtors, has earned the certified executive designation from the National Association of Realtors for experience, initiative and professional development.

NorthMarq Capital

Bob Spiro of NorthMarq Capital's Bellevue office arranged a $4.28 million first mortgage for Beau Rivage 78, a 78-unit multi-family property in Spokane. Financing was based on a 10-year term with a 30-year amortization schedule. NorthMarq arranged the deal for the borrower through its seller-servicer relationship with Freddie Mac. Earlier this year, NorthMarq helped the owners arrange financing for another project: Beau Rivage 115.

Colliers

Seattle-based Colliers International acquired the majority interest in an Amsterdam-based commercial real estate firm, Boer Hartog Hooft, which will rebrand as Colliers International.

Cole Real Estate Investments

Phoenix-based Cole Real Estate Investments named Mitchell Sabshon executive vice president and chief operating officer. He's in charge of corporate finance activities and will work on portfolio strategy, mergers and acquisitions, asset management and other initiatives. He previously worked at Goldman Sachs. Earlier this year, Cole bought City Center Plaza, an office tower in downtown Bellevue.

McCarthy GMAC Real Estate

McCarthy GMAC Real Estate of Kenmore joined Real Living, and changed its name to Real Living Northwest Realtors. This is the Seattle area's first Real Living franchise. Keoki McCarthy is the broker-owner of Real Living Northwest Realtors.

Keller Williams Realty

Real estate broker Roland Bolman joined Keller Williams Realty's Seattle Metro West Market Center in West Seattle. The office has more than 60 associates.

NAIOP topic: Downtown renaissance

Commercial real estate group NAIOP's Dec. 15 breakfast will feature a panel discussion about what led to the revitalization of Seattle's retail core in the 1990s. Matt Griffin, principal of Pine Street Group, one of the companies involved in the $500 million, three-block redevelopment that was key to downtown's renaissance, will talk about the project's defining moment. Other panelists are former Seattle Mayor Norm Rice and Nordstrom President Blake Nordstrom. Tom Abbott of CB Richard Ellis will moderate. The 7:30 a.m. program will be at the Sheraton Seattle, 1400 Sixth Ave. The program kicks off the NAIOP chapter's new series called Defining Moment. Register at naiopwa.org.

CREW topic: Retailing in 2011

The CREW Seattle & Sound Dec. 9 chapter luncheon meeting will be on “Retailing 2011 and Beyond: How do you intend to capture more business in this current economy?” The panel discussion will be at the Washington Athletic Club, 1325 Sixth Ave., starting with registration at 11:30 a.m. Yves Mizrahi, president for Callison Real Estate Strategies, will be the moderator. The panelists are Richard Ellis, former VP of real estate and store development for Starbucks; Jill Spratt, lululemon athletica; Debra Coates of T-Mobile and J'Amy Owens of Bill the Butcher. For more information or to register go to http://www.crewseattle.org.