Feb 27, 2019

DOWL

Jenkins

Mason

Towle

Stapleton

Murata

DOWL has five new owners: Darren Murata in Redmond, Read Stapleton and Mike Towle in Portland, Justin Mason in Bend, and Gary Jenkins in Fairbanks. Murata is a civil engineer who has developed municipal transportation projects, including aviation and roadway, and secured new clients in the Northwest. Stapleton leads the firm's land use planning sub-practice area. He has provided land use and environmental planning in the Northwest for over 20 years, with clients that have included local governments, utility districts, school districts and developers. Towle is a project manager who has focused on commercial retail. He also has experience in multifamily and transportation. Mason is a senior project manager, the Bend office manager and the civil sub-practice area leader. An engineer, he has managed transportation and roadway projects, and helped DOWL break into new markets in the Northwest. Jenkins joined DOWL in 2013 as office manager and lead engineer for the Fairbanks office, which he helped establish. In his 23 years in engineering, he has managed projects that include public sector transportation, water and sewer and civil site development.

Weber Thompson

Goetz

Bredberg

Doe

Lodi

Winn

Riibe

Goel

Burpee

In Seattle, Weber Thompson promoted Nicole Winn and Cody Lodi to principal, Emily Doe and Skye Bredberg to senior associate, Lissa Goetz, David Burpee and Neha Goel to associate and Leslie Riibe to senior graphic designer. Winn is a member of the high rise design studio and has worked on Cristalla, Viktoria and Nexus. She is working on The Waverly, a residential tower in South Lake Union. Lodi has worked on projects in various sectors, including high-rise, mid-rise and mixed-use. He is in the commercial office design studio and recently designed the Watershed Building and Living Stone in Fremont, both Living Building Pilot Program projects. Doe has project management and construction administration skills. Her projects have included, Radius SLU, Pike Motorworks and Marlowe. She is project manager on Solis, a Passive House condo on Capitol Hill. Bredberg has worked on projects that include high-rise residential tower Ascent and Trailside, a student-targeted community near University Village for which she is project manager and project architect. Goetz is in the interior design studio and has a background in architecture and in Revit. In 2018 she helped Bellwether procure reduced price or donated furniture for its Arbora Court affordable housing project. Burpee is in the high-rise design studio and has worked on The Waverly. Goel has worked on a range of projects and is now in the commercial office design studio. Riibe has a background in graphic design and hospitality. She has contributed environmental graphics for the Ascent, Marlowe, Watershed and Luna projects. Weber Thompson specializes in architecture, interior design, landscape architecture and community/urban design.

Allwest Testing & Engineering

Turpin

Mascorro

Allwest Testing & Engineering promoted Adrian Mascorro and Shawn Turpin to area managers in its Meridian and Lewiston, Idaho, offices, respectively. Mascorro has nearly 15 years of experience as a geotechnical engineer. He was hired in 2015 as engineering manager. Turpin will oversee business development, manage office operations and finances and assist department managers. He was hired in 2012 as manager of the Lewiston office's geotechnical engineering and environmental services department. Allwest is an engineering, environmental, and construction materials testing firm.

King County Board of Health

Metropolitan King County Councilmember Jeanne Kohl-Welles is the new chair of the King County Board of Health. Kohl-Welles said she will focus on domestic violence, missing and murdered indigenous women, and gun violence. She has been an alternate on the board since 2016.

Washington Winegrowers Association

Washington Winegrowers Association honored several people at its annual convention and trade show in Kennewick. Jim McFerran, director of viticulture for Wyckoff Farms and Coventry Vale Winery, received the Erick Hanson Memorial Winegrape Grower of the Year Award; Rick Hamman, retired viticulture manager for Hogue Ranches, received the Industry Service Award; Ted Baseler, former president and CEO of Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, received the Lifetime Achievement Award; and Charlie Hoppes, owner and winemaker of Fidelitas, won the Grand Vin Award.

Joshua Green Corp.

Campbell Soup Co. is selling its 225,000-square-foot Everett refrigerated soup plant to an affiliate of Seattle-based private investment company Joshua Green Corp. The deal is expected to close later this year. Other details were not disclosed.

HomeStreet Bank

In Seattle, HomeStreet Bank is seeking buyers for its stand-alone home loan centers and related mortgage origination personnel. It also is seeking buyers for most of its single-family mortgage servicing operations for loans originated by those centers. If these businesses are sold, HomeStreet expects to retain a smaller mortgage operation integrated with its commercial and consumer banking business.

Feb 26, 2019

Nintendo of America

Bowser

Fils-Aime

Reggie Fils-Aime will retire on April 15 as president and COO of Nintendo of America in Redmond. Fils-Aime has been with Nintendo for 15 years, nearly 13 years in his current role. Doug Bowser will become the new president. Bowser is senior vice president of sales and marketing. Before joining Nintendo in 2015, he was vice president of global business planning at Electronic Arts.

King County

Brendan McCluskey on March 18 will become the new director of the King County Office of Emergency Management. McCluskey was director of emergency management for the New Jersey state health department, and worked as an incident commander during Superstorm Sandy and other federally declared disasters on the East Coast. He replaces Walt Hubbard, who retired last year.

Point B

Setareh “SiSi” Pouraghabagher joined the board of Point B, a management consulting, digital studio, venture investment and real estate development firm in Seattle. Pouraghabagher was CFO and COO for the insurance division of Bank of America and chief administrative officer at QBE North America.

Immune Design

Merck is buying Immune Design for $300 million. Immune Design is a late-stage immunotherapy company using in vivo approaches to enable the body's immune system to fight disease. It has offices in Seattle and San Francisco. The deal is expected to close this spring.

CITC of Washington

Galvan

The Construction Industry Training Council of Washington appointed Cordaro “Cord” Galvan as apprenticeship and facility coordinator at its recently opened Pasco training center. Galvan was apprenticeship and craft training program assistant at CITC’s Bellevue location. In his new role, Galvan will assist apprentices and employers, attend job fairs and monitor jobsites.