Apr 22, 2016

Helsell Fetterman

Sarah Elerson has joined Helsell Fetterman as an associate in the family law practice group. She focuses on divorce or legal separation, and parenting plans as well as pre/post-nuptial agreements. She was an associate at Stokes Lawrence in the family law practice.

Rock Wood Fired Kitchen and Spirits

Rock Wood Fired Kitchen and Spirits named John D. Allegretto president and CEO. He was senior vice president and chief supply chain officer for BJ's Restaurant and Brewhouse, and also worked at Walt Disney and Harvard University. Rock Wood opened in 1995 as a local pizza joint in Tacoma and now has 22 restaurants nationwide.

Lifelong

Lifelong, a Seattle-based organization focused on the health and well-being of people living with HIV or AIDS, named Barbara Ebert as executive director. Mark Baker and Paul Getzel are deputy executive directors. Ebert joined Lifelong in 2014 as director of finance and has been interim executive director. Lifelong's services include Chicken Soup Brigade, medical case management, prevention services, housing and health care access.

Apr 21, 2016

Wallace hires John Rochford

Wallace Properties added John Rochford as a vice president focused on office and industrial leasing. Rochford brings 28 years of experience in real estate and technology. He last worked at Coast Sperry Van Ness, and began his real estate career in the Baltimore/Washington, D.C., area in 1988, before moving to Seattle in 1992 and working in the technology industry for 13 years. In 2005, he joined NAI Puget Sound Properties. Wallace Properties is based in Bellevue, and offers brokerage, investment, development and property management services.

HomeStreet forms real estate division

Seattle-based HomeStreet Bank promoted Bill Endresen to lead a new division that combines the firm's commercial real estate lending and operations teams. Endresen replaces Randy Daniels, who the bank said left to pursue other interests. Endresen joined HomeStreet in March 2015 as executive vice president of the commercial capital division, which provides loans up to $10 million for multifamily, office, retail and industrial properties. HomeStreet was founded 96 years ago, and offers construction loans, residential and commercial mortgages, as well as banking, insurance and investment services.

Minar joins Columbia Pacific

Vera Minar is the new chief investment officer of Columbia Pacific Wealth Management, and will oversee strategy for Columbia Pacific Advisors, an affiliated company that is developing projects in Seattle. Minar was a director of Stanford University's endowment, helping grow it from $14 billion to $25 billion. Columbia Pacific Wealth Management and Columbia Pacific Advisors are part of a group of companies. Columbia Pacific Advisors manages more than $1 billion in alternative investment strategies, including real estate. Columbia Pacific Advisors is developing a 24-story senior care community on First Hill and a 16-story apartment tower with a Whole Foods Market on Capitol Hill.

$19M refinance for Coug Housing

Ron Peterson and Scott Gilson of NorthMarq Capital's Seattle office arranged $19.23 million to refinance Coug Housing Portfolio, a 367-unit student housing property near Washington State University in Pullman. The portfolio includes 13 non-connected parcels near WSU. The refinance allowed the owner to pull three undeveloped parcels out of the portfolio. NorthMarq Capital has 36 offices across the country and a loan portfolio of more than $47 billion.

Leadership Council on Legal Diversity

Tran-Caffee

Cooper

Carson R. Cooper and Cozette Tran-Caffee of Lane Powell have been selected to serve on the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity 2016 class of Pathfinders. This new program trains early-career attorneys in leadership and network development. LCLD is a group of more than 240 corporate chief legal officers and law firm managing partners.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Jim Morehead has been named market executive for the Western Washington and Pacific Rim market in global commercial banking for Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He oversees middle market banking teams that serve companies with revenues of $50 million to $2 billion.