May 10, 2011

Washington Business Institute

The Association of Washington Business Institute hired Amy Johnson as a strategic consultant on workforce training and manufacturing. Johnson will continue her role as COO for the Institute for Systems Medicine in Spokane. The AWB Institute focuses on improving the state's workforce.

Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo Advisors said Steve Becher joined the Bellevue office and Richard Nelson joined the Seattle office as financial advisors. Becher was a financial advisor at Chase Investments Services. Nelson was a financial advisor at UBS Financial Services.

InfoSpace

Bellevue-based InfoSpace, a developer of metasearch products, said William Ruckelshaus has been named president and chief executive officer. Ruckelshaus has served as president and acting chief executive officer since November of 2010, and has been a member of the board of directors since 2007.

Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker

Oles

Attorney Douglas Oles, a partner with the law firm Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker in Seattle, was elected to the national board of directors of the American College of Construction Lawyers. Oles has served as national chair of the American Bar Association Forum on the Construction Industry, and is a member of JAMS Global Engineering & Construction panel. Another firm partner, James Nagle, is also a board member. The college addresses legal and technical issues facing the design and construction of the built environment around the world.

Project Dimensions

Battrick

Tescholg

Hand

Benton

Boatman

Project Dimensions hired John Boatman as construction manager/estimator, Eric Benton as senior estimator and Christian Hand as project controls specialist. It also promoted Dennis Teschlog to vice president of estimating and Scott Battrick to chief estimator. Boatman has more than 18 years of project and construction management experience, specializing in K-12 projects. Benton has 25 years of cost management experience on industrial, commercial and heavy-civil projects. Hand has nine years of industry experience and has worked in project controls. Teschlog has 21 years of construction cost estimating experience. Battrick has 19 years of experience in construction cost estimating and cost management analysis. Project Dimensions is a project and construction management firm based in Kirkland.

May 06, 2011

Group Health Cooperative

The Group Health Cooperative Board of Trustees elected former Seattle deputy mayor and retired Boeing vice president Bob Watt to fill a vacant trustee position until the end of the year. Watt replaces Phyllis Best, who resigned to accept a position in Montana.

REI

Kent-based REI plans to open a new store this fall in Greenville, S.C. at the intersection of Interstate 85 and Woodruff Road. REI Greenville will be a one-story, 22,000-square-foot store with a bike shop and a seasonal gear rental department. This will be the first REI in South Carolina.

Evergreen State College

Michael Zimmerman will be the next academic vice president and provost at The Evergreen State College. Zimmerman has 30 years of experience in public and private institutions, most recently at Butler University and the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. He was dean of the colleges of arts and sciences at both. Zimmerman will begin work at Evergreen this summer and succeeds Don Bantz who served as provost for six years before becoming president of Alaska Pacific University.