Mar 18, 2011

Swedish Neuroscience Institute

Nonprofit Seattle area health provider Swedish added eight physicians to its Neuroscience Institute. They are Arthur Lam, Pavle Repovic, Lee Liou, Ednea Simon, Lina Fine, Ronald Young, Douglas Backous and Amer Malik. They specialize in the treatment of advanced neurological disorders and diseases including, hearing and skull base tumors, multiple sclerosis and stroke.

REI

Kent-based REI, a national retailer of outdoor gear and clothing, hired Sue Sallee as vice president, accounting and finance. The company also promoted Angela Owen, Tim Spangler and Tom Vogl to senior vice presidents of the merchandising, retail, and marketing divisions respectively. Sallee was recently vice president and controller of T-Mobile USA where she had worked since 2005. Owen has worked at REI for 21 years, Spangler joined in 1993 and Vogl started in 2006.

Foster Pepper

Kelly Angell, an associate in Foster Pepper’s Real Estate Practice Group, earned the LEED Green Associate credential from the Green Building Certification Institute. Angell’s practice is concentrated in real estate law.

Queen Anne Manor

Queen Anne Manor opened Anna’s Garden, an Alzheimer’s and dementia care community at 100 Crockett Street in the manor’s campus. The assisted living community is a secured space of 20 private studio units, a common area and an outdoor space. It is named after Anna Clise, one of the founders of the manor.

Mar 17, 2011

KeyBank

KeyBank hired Ron Wilkowski as vice president and senior relationship manager for the bank's middle market team in its Seattle-Cascades District. Wilkowski joins Key from Bank of the West and has specialized in commercial lending for several local financial institutions over his 22-year banking career.

NoteWorld

NoteWorld of Tacoma hired Vince Bianco and Allan Mayer as executive vice presidents of the sales and marketing teams, respectively. Bianco has 25 years experience building start-up companies and was recently CEO of Newsforce. Mayer has 30 years experience in marketing and spent over 20 years as a global marketing/management consultant with The HMC Co. NoteWorld provides finance transactions, note servicing and payment processing for the debt settlement industry.

KingX Studios

KingX Studios in Redmond promoted Bill Erdly to chief social architect for a new social media game called Odd Manor launching on Facebook this Spring. Erdly was director of engineering and is known in academia for his teaching and research in social computing, human-computer interaction and theory of game design. He is an associate professor and associate director of graduate studies at the University of Washington in Bothell.

Dorsey & Whitney

Law firm Dorsey & Whitney announced Nelson Dong, a partner in its Seattle office and head of its National Security Practice Group, has been appointed to the President's Export Council Subcommittee on Export Administration. The PECSEA advises the Department of Commerce on U.S. export control policy and process issues to serve the country's economic, national security, foreign policy and non-proliferation interests.

Colliers International

Kotansky

Seattle-based Colliers International named David Kotansky managing director of the Portland region. He was COO at Portland-based Felton Properties, and earlier was a director at institutional real estate investment company RREEF, where he managed 40 people in five Northwest offices.

Chamberlain Properties

New property management company Chamberlain Properties opened in Seattle in Suite E506 of 200 W. Mercer St. Brad LeCompte, the designated broker, has worked as a property manager in Seattle, primarily in office, retail and medical properties management. He previously worked for Cascade Pacific Real Estate Services. Paul LeCompte is a property manager with Chamberlain.

Bullitt president is guest speaker

Hayes

Denis Hayes, president of the Bullitt Foundation, will be the guest speaker at the April 13 Top of the Town, Capitol Hill Housing's annual fund-raising dinner at the Sorrento Hotel in Seattle. Hayes founded the Earth Day Network and expanded it to more than 180 nations, and was head of the Solar Energy Research Institute during the Carter administration. Capitol Hill Housing builds affordable housing and works to preserve neighborhood character in Seattle. Tickets are $200; call (206) 204-3842 or e-mail emadrone@capitolhillhousing.org.

EMB Management

Jenna McDonald was promoted to director of operations for EMB Management, a Bellevue-based company that manages residential community associations in the Puget Sound area. She was CFO.

NorthMarq Capital

Ron Peterson of NorthMarq Capital's Bellevue office arranged first mortgage financing of nearly $7.8 million for Monterey Apartments, a 60-unit property at 10212 N.E. 68th St., Kirkland. Financing was based on a 10-year term with a 30-year amortization schedule and was arranged for the borrower by NorthMarq through its seller-servicer relationship with Freddie Mac. The transaction is a refinance of an existing Freddie Mac loan. The borrower locked in a long-term rate of 4.88 percent 90 days prior to funding. The loan provided what Peterson said was a significant cash-out.

Bungie COO is BDA speaker

Pete Parsons, COO of gaming company Bungie, will be the guest speaker at the Downtown Bellevue Association's 7:30 a.m., Tuesday breakfast at the Bellevue Harbor Club, 777 108th Ave. N.E. Register at bellevuedowntown.org.

Hoban is CEO-to-CEO speaker

Tom Hoban, CEO of The Coast Group of Real Estate Companies, is the speaker at the 7:30 a.m., March 24 CEO-to-CEO breakfast at the Seattle Harbor Club, 801 Second Ave. He'll talk about reinventing your business for today's economy. To reserve a seat, contact John Hartman at (206) 230-9070.

NAIOP South Sound

The South Sound Chapter of NAIOP will host a March 25 breakfast panel discussion about the impact of health care reform on commercial real estate. Joe Kunkel of The Health Care Collaborative Group will moderate. Panelists are Barbara Nopen of Merrill Gardens, Wade Moberg of Franciscan Health Systems and CB Richard Ellis' Mike Denney, account manager for MultiCare. The program starts at 7:30 a.m. at Hotel Murano, 1320 Broadway Plaza. Register at naiopwa.org.