Oct 10, 2017

Women Business Owners

Women Business Owners said Vanessa Smith is the 36th winner of its Nellie Cashman Woman Business Owner of the Year Award. Smith owns Blue Ribbon Cooking. She started the cooking and catering business at 23 and within three years had over 90 employees. Cashman (ca. 1850-1925) was an Irish immigrant, gold miner and community organizer who had a string of businesses in the West that made her financially independent.

Stoel Rives

Stoel Rives LLP hired J. Nathanael Watson as an of counsel attorney in the Environment, Land Use and Natural Resources Group in Seattle. Watson was a trial attorney for the Environment & Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 2009 to 2013 in Washington, D.C., and from 2014 to 2017 in Denver.

NAWIC

Price

Olson

McCants

Lombroia

Lacktorin

Bresnahan

Emtman

Westgard

Erickson

Browne

The Puget Sound Chapter of the National Association of Women in Construction has assembled its 2017-18 board of directors. Officers are: Jenny Browne of Convergint Technologies, president; Holly Erickson of Performance Contracting Inc., treasurer; Kristina Westgard of Propel Insurance, secretary; and Kathryn Emtman of Lease Crutcher Lewis, immediate past president. Directors are Jessie Bresnahan of Amazon, Jackie Lacktorin of Holmes Electric, Annie Lombroia of Ashbaugh Beal, Susan McCants of Osborne Construction, Melody Olson of Parker Smith & Feek, and Courtney Price of Clark Construction.

Oct 06, 2017

Umpqua Bank

Umpqua Bank, a subsidiary of Umpqua Holdings Corp. that is based in Roseburg, Ore., is expanding its Puget Sound small business banking team. Here are the six new relationship bankers: Cyndee Wood (Auburn/Federal Way), Leland Williams (Bellevue), Billy Huntley (North Seattle), Greg Hansch (Tacoma), Jerrod Vinson (North Seattle/Lynnwood) and Tim Corrigan (South Seattle).

F5 Networks

F5 Networks named Steve McMillan executive vice president of global services, based at F5's Seattle headquarters. He was senior vice president of customer success and managed cloud services at Oracle, and spent 19 years at IBM on global managed services, consulting and IT. Long-time F5 executive Julian Eames is retiring.

Funko

Everett-based Funko, a pop culture consumer products company, announced three executive appointments: Andrew Perlmutter, senior vice president of sales, has been promoted to president; Johanna Gepford has been promoted to SVP of global sales; and Jaime Beckley has been named VP of sales.

Oct 05, 2017

Seattle Symphony

Principal guest conductor Thomas Dausgaard will begin a four-year contract as music director for Seattle Symphony in September 2019. Dausgaard will succeed Ludovic Morlot, whose tenure ends after the 2018–2019 season.

Bill4Time

Alpine Investors of San Francisco and Bellevue has made an investment in Bill4Time, a cloud-based time and billing software for professional service firms. Bill4Time's founder Jeremy Diviney will move into a technology-focused role as CTO. Steve Reardon of Alpine's PeopleFirst will be CEO at Bill4Time. Bill4Time was started in 2006, and has offices in Seattle and Pittsburgh. It streamlines the tracking and billing process.

Axiom

Axiom, a provider of tech-enabled legal and contracting solutions with offices in New York and Seattle, named Doug Hebenthal chief technology officer, based in Seattle. Hebenthal will oversee creation of a research and development center in Seattle that will open in early 2018. He was chief network engineering officer at Change Healthcare, director of engineering for Amazon's e-commerce payments and spent more than 20 years at Microsoft, including on the Xbox team. Axiom provides legal, contracts and compliance solutions for large enterprises.

CBRE promotes Parsons

Parsons

CBRE has promoted John Parsons to lead its national data center practice for valuation and advisory services (VAS). A Seattle native with 15 years of experience in commercial real estate, Parsons has been with CBRE since 2011. VAS team leader Thomas B. McDonnell said the firm has strengthened specialty property types such as data centers, health care and senior housing. CBRE projects that national data center investment for 2017 will exceed the past three years combined. About $18.2 billion was invested during the first half of this year.

Realtors to plant trees in Issaquah

Seattle King County Realtors will have a tree-planting day of service Friday at Cougar/Squak Corridor Park in Issaquah from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Work gloves and tools will be provided. This is the 11th such day of service oraganized by SKCR and The Realtors Environmental Council. Volunteers should dress for the weather, which is forecast to be sunny. For registration and more details: nwrealtor.com.

NAI Puget Sound Properties seals Fife deal

NAI Puget Sound Properties said that its team of Jeff Forsberg and Arie Salomon represented the buyer of a fully leased industrial building in Fife. The transaction was worth $4.3 million for the 43,000-square-foot building at 2523 Pacific Highway E. The site is 2.6 acres. The local buyer of the Fife 2523 Building was Fortune Investments. Forsberg said in a statement, “This was a rare opportunity to aquire a multi-tenant business park in the hot Fife market on busy Pacific Highway.” Theron Meier of Neil Walter Co. represented the seller, who was not named.

Realtors education day Oct. 19

The Washington State Commercial Association of Realtors said its annual education day will be Thursday, Oct. 19, from 8 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. at Motif Hotel. Topics will include Eastside zoning, Kirkland Urban, the SeaPort Alliance and the last legislative session. Registration and info: wscar.org.

M&M works on 2 recent deals

Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and procured the buyer, both local, for a self-storage faciltiy in Richland. The 308-unit Stor-House Self Storage sold for $5.65 million, or about $113 per square foot. The 2004 structure has 49,795 rentable square feet, and sits on almost 3.7 acres. M&M's Chris Secreto said the property is in West Richland, near a retail corridor and higher-end housing. In Longview, M&M's George Miller represented the buyer of the 130-unit Mountain View Apartments, who paid $10.58 million for the complex, which was developed on six acres in 1979. Whitney Rhoades from M&M's Portland office represented the seller. Joel Deis, from the Seattle office, assisted in the deal.

2 CREW social events

CREW is organizing a free social and educational gathering tonight with the theme of “The Talent Storm: How to weather challenges in the workplace.” The event takes place from 5:30-7 p.m. at Knoll, 1200 Fifth Ave. And competing for your attention on the same night is a ticketed mixer at the new Old Stove Brewing Co., in MarketFront at Pike Place Market, at 1537 Western Ave. The Oktoberfest event is also sponsored by NAIOP, and runs from 4:30-7:30 p.m. Register at crewnetwork.org and naiopwa.org.