Jul 18, 2017

Downtown Seattle Association

Downtown Seattle Association has a new chair and five new members on its board of directors. The new chair is R.C. Hedreen's CFO Zahoor Ahmed. Megan Karch, CEO of FareStart, is vice chair, and will succeed Ahmed in 2019. Here are the new board members: Marcus Charles of Belltown Hospitality Group, Kris Richey Curtis of Kinzer Partners, Liz Dunn of Dunn + Hobbes, Chad Mackay of El Gaucho and Amy White of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Regence BlueShield

Tim Lieb is the new president of Regence BlueShield of Washington. He has been interim president for three months, after former president Don Antonucci left to join a health care startup. Lieb joined Regence in 2016 and before that was the principal of the Pacific Northwest employee health and benefits practice at Mercer.

AGC Education Foundation

Wallace

Price

Plant

Hanson

Hanley

Hayes

Brad Hayes, senior vice president and project director at Sellen Construction, joined the executive committee of the AGC Education Foundation board of trustees. The foundation also has five new board members: Max Hanley, managing director at Propel Insurance; Leah Hanson, director of human resources at Imco General Construction; Julianna Plant, project manager at Lease Crutcher Lewis; Mike Price, director of development and project executive at Abbott Construction; and Phil Wallace, senior operations manager at Kiewit.

Hermanson Co.

Prozinski

van der Veen

Hermanson Co. hired Eric van der Veen as account executive in the Critical Environments Group and Paul Prozinski as senior project manager. Van der Veen has over 20 years of project management experience and was a managing partner for a large local mechanical contractor. Prozinski was project manager for some of the largest firms in the local construction industry over the past 27 years. He has worked on large-scale projects for tech and industrial companies, as well as government entities. Hermanson is a Kent-based mechanical construction and services firm.

Osborne Construction Co.

Faizi

Curtis

Osborne Construction Co. hired Dale Curtis as project superintendent and Ebrahim Faizi as engineer. Curtis has 12 years of construction experience, working as a carpenter, engineer, project manager and superintendent. He holds a certificate in construction management from the University of Washington. Faizi has nine years of experience and holds a bachelor's degree in architecture. He previously was a quality assurance engineer with the Army Corps of Engineers, and has worked on commercial, residential, roads/bridges, and transmission line projects.

Kirtley-Cole Associates

Sheppard

Schwartz

New staff at Kirtley-Cole Associates includes senior project manager James Schwartz and superintendent Don Sheppard. Schwartz has experience building retail and distribution centers, mixed-used and commercial office projects. He is working on a cross-dock facility in Everett, Northshore Christian Academy's new building, and health care tenant improvements. Sheppard has more than 32 years of experience on large commercial office, multifamily and mixed-use projects. He is overseeing construction of the Shea Apartments on Capitol Hill in Seattle.

Jul 14, 2017

U.S. Bank

U.S. Bank named Betsy Cadwallader as Seattle market president, effective Aug. 1. Cadwallader will succeed Mike Katz, who has been market president since 2015. Katz is relocating but will remain with U.S. Bank. She has more than 30 years of commercial, corporate and investment banking experience including at JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Constellation Energy, and joined U.S. Bank in 2012. Her most recent position was chief credit officer for commercial banking. U.S. Bank has more than 90 branches and 174 ATMs in this market.

State Department of Commerce

The Washington State Department of Commerce gave a 2017 Smart Communities award to the Southeast Washington Coalition, which consists of Columbia, Asotin and Garfield counties, and the cities of Clarkston and Starbuck. The award honors their growth management master program update. The shoreline master program covers more than 300 miles of coastline. They also worked with Brigham and Associates and Ben Floyd of Anchor QEA.