Apr 23, 2019

Symetra

Guilbert

In Bellevue, Symetra Life Insurance Co. named Daniel R. Guilbert as president of its Individual Life and Retirement divisions. Guilbert was executive vice president of those divisions. He joined the company in 2010 and led the Retirement Division to its first billion-dollar sales quarter.

Sarcos Robotics

Jackson

Keever

Salt Lake City-based Sarcos Robotics appointed Bill Keever as senior vice president of global sales and Tom Jackson as vice president of defense and public safety. Keever has over 30 years of experience leading large-scale and complex global sales teams. Jackson is a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonel and a 20-year defense, aerospace and energy industry veteran. Sarcos has an office in Bellevue.

Paccar

Bellevue-based Paccar named Preston Feight as CEO and a board member. Feight is executive vice president and has been with the company for 21 years, serving as president of DAF Trucks and vice president and general manager of Kenworth Truck Co. He will start as CEO on July 1, replacing Ron Armstrong, who will retire after 25 years with the company.

Alpine Immune Sciences

In Seattle, Alpine Immune Sciences appointed Dr. Stanford Peng as president and head of R&D. Peng was executive vice president of R&D and chief medical officer. Prior to joining Alpine in 2016, he was chief medical officer at StemCentrx, and executive medical director and head of inflammation and translational medicine at Seattle Genetics. He succeeds Dr. Mark Litton. Alpine focuses on immunotherapy to treat cancer, autoimmune/inflammatory and other disease.

Lease Crutcher Lewis

LeBeau

Dehmollayi

Callas

Nielsen

Frederick

Plant

Walters

Burris

General contractor Lease Crutcher Lewis promoted eight in its Seattle operations: Chris Burris to chief estimator; Kim Walters to estimator; Julianna Plant, Ashley Frederick, Joe Nielsen and Jeremy Callas to senior project managers; and Kris Dehmollayi and Herb LeBeau to project managers. Burris is a 17-year estimating professional who joined Lewis in 2014. Walters, LEED AP, has 14 years of estimating and construction management expertise, and joined Lewis in 2014. Plant joined the firm in 2015 as project manager, and has been in construction for 15 years. Frederick interned at Lewis in 2003 and became full-time in 2004. Nielsen has been in construction since 2003 and joined Lewis in 2010. Callas has been in construction since 2009 and joined Lewis in 2015. Dehmollayi is a six-year construction professional who has been with the firm since 2016. LeBeau started in structural design in 2004, moved to construction in 2006 and joined Lewis in 2015.

Ritchie Bros.

Equipment auctioneer Ritchie Bros. appointed Jeff Jeter as president of Upstream & Emerging Businesses, North America, and Kari Taylor as chief sales officer of U.S. Regions. Jeter helped integrate sales forces following Ritchie's acquisition of IronPlanet in 2017. Taylor has extensive experience in sales management in multiple industries, most recently as chief revenue officer for Benco Dental. The appointments are effective July 1.

AGC of America

Several Northwest firms won 2019 Willis Towers Watson Construction Safety Excellence Awards at Associated General Contractors of America's annual convention, held earlier this month in Denver. They were: Cornerstone General Contractors of Anchorage, first place in Building (under 600,000 worker hours); P&C Construction of Portland, first place in Construction Management (under 400,000 hours); Knife River Materials of Central Point, Oregon, second place in Highway & Transportation (over 2 million hours); BNBuilders of Seattle, second place in Building (over 1 million hours); and Acme Concrete Paving of Spokane, third place in Highway & Transportation (under 600,000 hours).

Apr 19, 2019

Know Labs

In Seattle, Know Labs hired Dr. Mark Tapsak as vice president of intellectual property. Tapsak was professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and interim assistant vice president and dean of graduate studies and sponsored research at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. He also worked at Medtronic and Dexcom. Know Labs directs structured light or radio waves through substances to capture molecular signatures used for identification, authentication and diagnosis.

Visit Vancouver USA

Kim Bennett, founding president and CEO of Visit Vancouver USA, is retiring after 20 years with the tourism office. Bennett also was executive director at Camas Washougal Chamber of Commerce and worked in the law offices of Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt. Her last day will be June 30.

RealWear

In Vancouver, RealWear appointed Rocky Scales to the new position of executive vice president of global sales. Scales has 20 years of experience in sales and marketing, leading the e-commerce business of Vesta and handling sales at SheerID, Ondot Systems and Hewlett-Packard. RealWear makes wearable computing devices for light and heavy industry that are voice-driven and head-mounted.

Great Wolf Lodge

Great Wolf Lodge opened a Build-A-Bear Workshop at its Grand Mound property in Thurston County. Build-A-Bear lets customers build their own stuffed animals. Great Wolf Lodge is an indoor waterpark.