Mar 28, 2018

Washington Wine Industry

The Washington Wine Industry Foundation appointed Corina Davis, Joe Hattrup, Jordon McEntire and JJ Williams to its board of directors. Davis is senior vice president and wealth management advisor at Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. Hattrup is a third-generation farmer with 165 acres of wine grapes in two Yakima Valley vineyards. McEntire oversees operations, business planning and marketing at Bleyhl Co-op, which serves farmers. Williams is sales manager at Kiona Vineyards and Winery. Two board members retired: Bill Shibley of Harvest Fresh Produce and Tom Waliser of Beresan Winery.

Children's Eye Care

Kirkland-based Children's Eye Care was bought by Mednax of Sunrise, Florida. Children's is a private pediatric ophthalmology practice employing two ophthalmologists, one optometrist and eight full-time non-clinical associates. Krista Heidar is medical director for the practice. Mednax is a national health solutions company.

Coughlin Porter Lundeen

Lentz

Frizzell

Fjelstad

Malaspino

Brockway

Pehlivanian

Hitzemann

Duvall

Zagers

Whitney

Peterson

Seattle-based Coughlin Porter Lundeen promoted Tim Brockway to associate principal, Kyle Malaspino, Aaron Fjelstad, Ben Frizzell, Eric Lentz and Jason Whitney to project manager and Bryan Zagers, Chris Duvall, Cory Hitzemann, Garo Pehlivanian and Jeff Peterson to principal. Brockway has over 25 years of industry experience. He oversees feasibility, planning, entitlement and design of complex projects, with work that includes Kirkland Urban and Southport on Lake Washington. Coughlin Porter Lundeen provides structural, civil and seismic engineering.

Reid Middleton

Curulla

Garding

Schrawyer

In Everett, Reid Middleton hired Kyle Schrawyer as junior party chief and James Garding as a project surveyor, and promoted Leah Curulla to senior marketing coordinator. Schrawyer has 15 years of field surveying experience, including topographic, land and riparian boundaries, ALTA, elevation and construction surveys. Garding is a U.S. Army veteran with 17 years of surveying experience. He specializes in construction staking, boundary and cadastral surveys and topographic mapping. Curulla has over 15 years of marketing experience and supports the waterfront, civil and transportation engineering groups. Reid Middleton provides structural and civil engineering, land surveying and permitting services.

KMB architects

Valdez

Olympia-based KMB architects hired Bill Valdez as a principal. Valdez is a project leader and has over 23 years of public safety design and courts experience. He will lead the growth of KMB's justice and public safety studio.

HDR

HDR named Jim Henry health director responsible for the U.S. West region health care architecture practice. Henry has 20 years of architectural experience, including 13 with HDR. Most recently, he was design director for the South, with work that includes New Parkland Hospital in Dallas and The Pavilion for the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. HDR provides engineering, architecture, environmental and construction services.

Mar 27, 2018

Madrona Venture Group

Sudip Chakrabarti joined Madrona Venture Group in Seattle as a partner on the investment team, where he is helping entrepreneurs build companies. Chakrabarti has experience investing in enterprise and cloud-based companies, and has founded startups. He was a venture capitalist at Lightspeed Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz in Silicon Valley. Madrona invests in early-stage tech companies in the Pacific Northwest.

Pacific Crest Savings Bank

Lynnwood-based Pacific Crest Savings Bank appointed Dave Griffith to its board of directors. Over his 30-year career, Griffith worked in risk management, mortgage banking, sales, trading and insurance at several financial institutions. He was chief market risk officer for SunTrust Mortgage before retiring late last year. Pacific Crest focuses on real estate lending.

Graham Construction & Management

Burke

Polis

Clerf

Williams

Dover

Amaya

Joshi

Rountree

Awasthi

Ripkin

Weibel

McKinstry

Colley

Johnson

In its Seattle office, Graham Construction & Management hired operations manager Troy Johnson; project managers Chris Colley, Rob McKinstry, Josh Colborne, Rudy Weibel and Justin Ripkin; project engineers Akshay Awasthi, Jeff Rountree and Ayush Joshi; superintendents Nick Amaya, Doug Simmering, Stephen Dover, Gary Church and Tyler Williams; senior administrative assistant Sarah Clerf; regional health safety and environment manager Brian Polis; and senior health safety and environment coordinator Hunter Burke. Awasthi, Amaya and Simmering are working on the Ballard Blocks mixed-use project. Colley and Dover are managing the Olympia Transit Center project. Rountree is working on Graham's Costco account. McKinstry and Church are overseeing the multifamily Alexan Central Park project. Johnson, Colborne, Weibel, Ripkin, Joshi, Williams and Clerf are on the 1200 Stewart towers team.

The Walsh Group

Karrer

Durston

The Walsh Group hired Caitlin Durston as project engineer and Mary Karrer as site safety manager. Durston recently earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Iowa State University, and served two internships with Walsh in Chicago and Seattle. She is working with the estimating/preconstruction team on a private development in Seattle. Karrer has 15 years of experience as a safety professional. She previously worked on several projects at JBLM, and spent a year in Afghanistan as a construction assurances officer and safety specialist.