May 23, 2017

Banner Bank

McLean

Banner Bank promoted Jim McLean to executive vice president of the Commercial Real Estate Lending Division, filling the position vacated by Doug Bennett's retirement. McLean will lead a team of about 80 people in five states, including the Multifamily Lending Group, Commercial Real Estate Specialty Unit, Residential Construction and Income Property Divisions, and loan administration for the division.

Portland State University

Portland State University has named Rahmat Shoureshi as the school's next president. Shoureshi has been interim president of New York Institute of Technology. He replaces Wim Wiewel, who has held the post since 2008.

Russell Investments

Russell Investments of Seattle said Keith McRedmond joined as managing director of business development for U.S. Private Client Services. He spent six years at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and will be based in New York.

Alston Construction

Bradford

Golbienko

Palewicz

The Seattle office of Alston Construction hired Natasha Palewicz as regional marketing manager, Jerry Golbienko as superintendent and Ryan Bradford as construction intern. Palewicz is applying her AEC industry experience to help grow and diversify the firm's West Coast region. Golbienko has 25 years of construction experience with specialties in retail, industrial and manufacturing. Bradford is a construction management student at the University of Washington. Alston specializes in general contracting, design-build and construction management.

Ritchie Bros.

Ritchie Bros. received unconditional antitrust clearance from the U.S. Department of Justice to buy IronPlanet for $758.5 million. The deal is expected to close in the next few weeks. Ravi Saligram will lead the new organization. Heavy equipment auctioneer Ritchie Bros. is based in the Vancouver, B.C., area. Pleasanton, California-based IronPlanet is an online marketplace for used heavy equipment and other durable asset sales.

Absco Solutions

Lynnwood-based Absco Solutions opened an office in Beaverton, Oregon, at 8366 S.W. Nimbus Ave. Clients served by the new office include Oregon State University, Providence Health & Services, Nordstrom and WinCo. Absco specializes in integrated fire, access control, video surveillance and mass notification systems.

Washington River Protection Solutions

Washington River Protection Solutions won the U.S. Department of Energy Mentor of the Year award. The company is a Hanford Site tank farm contractor for DOE's Office of River Protection. Through the DOE mentor-protege program, WRPS coached HUBZone business TerraGraphics Environmental Engineering in Pasco. WRPS also won the award in 2011.

AGC Education Foundation

The AGC Education Foundation awarded a record $74,750 for its 2017-18 scholarship recipients. University of Washington recipients are Logan Chun, Kelli Desrosier, Chris Erb, Morgan Harpel, Kye Johnson, Gordon Krippaehne, Hannah Russell, Katherine Vetter and David Vo. Central Washington University recipients are Jessica Harris, Hunter Hohmann, Tyler Kretschman, Jordan Weiberg and Martin Zermeno. Washington State University recipients are Austin Bartleson, Mitchell Cox, Jose Garibay, Tucker Jones, Riley O'Keeffe and Cole Schwartz. From Grays Harbor College, the winner was Sheri Beebe.