Dec 18, 2019

SRG Partnership

In Seattle, SRG Partnership hired Pierce McVey as a design principal and Kenny Grist as a senior associate. In Portland, SRG hired Sohee Ryan, Eric Reynaert and Rachel Lozeau as architectural designers.

McVey has three decades of experience focusing on health care, higher education, planning and public projects, with a background in high-performance building systems and sustainable innovation. Grist is an architect with over 20 years of experience who has worked in project architect and project manager roles for education, technical and health care clients in the West. Current projects include the University of Washington IMA Pool Validation Study and the city of Seattle Municipal Courts lobby renovation.

Ryan has five years of experience in the architecture industry and has graphics and visualization skills. She is working on the Oregon State Capitol accessibility, maintenance and safety seismic upgrade and the Oregon Health & Science University aerial tram recladding. Reynaert has five years of design experience. He is working on the Marine and Environmental Research and Training Station at Clatsop Community College and the Western State Hospital master plan. Lozeau has four years of industry experience and technical and graphics skills, with current work on the Oregon State Capitol upgrade. SRG provides programming, planning, architecture and interior design.

Freiheit Architecture

In Bellevue, Freiheit Architecture hired Corey Higbee, Sydney Bodman and Michael Ashinay as architectural designers and Jackie Kong as accounting manager, and promoted Dustin Thorlakson to senior project architect and Adrian Ho to project manager. Higbee has four years of experience in residential and mixed-use projects and is working on high-rise and office projects. Bodman has three years of experience and is working on office tenant improvements. Ashinay has five years of experience with a focus on mixed-use projects including podium-style and walk-up apartments, and is working on condo and mixed-use apartment projects. Kong has over nine years of experience focusing on financial statement analysis.

Thorlakson has over nine years of experience focusing on the office, restaurant, retail and mixed-use markets, and a background in project feasibility and early stage design studies. His project experience includes the 13 Coins restaurant and Avalara Hawk Tower in Seattle. He is working on four new office buildings in Kirkland. Ho has over eight years of experience in architecture, specifically in the multifamily and tribal/cultural/civic markets. He also has a background in masterplanning, project feasibility studies and land use code review. His projects include Basel Newport Townhomes and the Tulalip Bay Comprehensive Plan. Freiheit is a commercial architecture and interior design firm.

KeyBank

Key Family Wealth, a division of KeyBank's Key Private Bank, expanded its Seattle team with Doug Haack as family wealth strategist, Jennie Tyndall as family wealth investment consultant and Brecken Diller as family office director. Haack has over 20 years of experience serving ultra-high-net-worth clients. He previously was chief client relationship officer at Cornerstone Advisors in Bellevue. Tyndall is a five-year veteran of Key Private Bank with over 25 years of investment and portfolio management experience. Before joining Key, she was director of portfolio management and communications for Threshold Group. Diller was private client manager at US Trust. He has over 15 years of experience in estate, tax and financial planning; and is a certified financial planner.

IFM

The Institute for Functional Medicine elected Dr. Joseph E. Pizzorno as board chair for a two-year term. Pizzorno served on the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy, and on the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee. He was a founder and president of Bastyr University. He will start on Jan. 10, replacing Laurie Hofmann. IFM also announced that current vice chair Juliet Rogers will transition from the governing board after serving as a director since 2013.

Sea-Tac Airport

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport brought back its SEA Visitor Pass program, which allows non-travelers past security checkpoints to spend extra time with friends and family, or shop and dine at airport vendors. The airport allows up to 100 non-ticketed visitors per day between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. under the program. Passes can be obtained online at https://tinyurl.com/SeaTacVP.

Vacasa

Portland vacation rental management company Vacasa is acquiring Resort Lodging Co. of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The deal is expected to close by the end of the month and includes 250 vacation properties managed by Resort Lodging in Steamboat Springs. All 155 of Resort Lodging employees are expected to continue working under Vacasa.

Dec 17, 2019

Skagit County EDA

The Economic Development Alliance of Skagit County hired Mary Heffernan Trester as program manager of Leadership Skagit, which promotes leadership in businesses and communities in Skagit County. Trester has over two decades of experience in higher education, workforce development, equity and diversity training, and program management. She has been director of continuing education for 5.5 years at Edmonds Community College. Trester will start Jan. 1, replacing Kathryn Bennett.

Fortive

Everett-based Fortive appointed Mark D. Morelli as president and CEO and David H. Naemura as CFO of NewCo, an industrial company that Fortive is forming as part of its separation into two companies. Morelli and Naemura will start with NewCo in the first quarter of 2020. Fortive also announced it plans to appoint Karen C. Francis as board chair of NewCo prior to NewCo becoming a public company, which is expected in the second half of 2020. Morelli is president and CEO of Columbus McKinnon and Naemura has been CFO at Gates Industrial for five years. Francis was chair and CEO of AcademixDirect and held the same roles at Publicis & Hal Riney.

Shiftboard

Seattle-based Shiftboard won a silver Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Technology Award for “best advance in time and labor management.” The company develops scheduling software for employers of hourly workers. Brandon Hall Group is a research organization in the performance improvement industry.

The Standard

Portland-based Standard Insurance Co. (The Standard) announced five grants totaling $65,000 through its charitable arm. This season, The Standard Charitable Foundation gave $10,000 to My Sisters' Place, $15,000 to New Avenues for Youth, $10,000 to p:ear, $15,000 to Quad and $15,000 to Tualatin Hills Park Foundation.

Lease Crutcher Lewis

In Seattle, Lease Crutcher Lewis promoted Coriann Presser to project executive. Presser was senior project manager in charge of the Building Cure job at Seattle Children's Research Institute. She has been with Lewis since 2006 and is now focusing on upcoming work for Alexandria Real Estate Equities and the life science market.

The Walsh Group

Anthony P. Pydych joined The Walsh Group as preconstruction director. Pydych is a registered architect with a background in preconstruction, business development, design project management, design project delivery, and design technology. He comes from Katerra/UEB Builders. At Walsh, he is working on preconstruction for two private jobs in Seattle.

Pro.com

Monica Williams is the new CFO at Pro.com, a Seattle startup overseeing construction projects for homeowners. Williams was vice president of financial planning, analysis and treasury at Zillow Group. Prior to that, she was CFO at Avvo and Allrecipes.com.

Michels Corp.

Amanda Kerr of Michels Corp. won the Young Tunneller of the Year award from the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association. Kerr was a heading engineer in 2015 on the Northgate Link Extension with the Michels-Jaydee-Coluccio joint venture team. She is currently working on a sewer tunnel project in Ohio.

Rider Levett Bucknall

The Seattle office of Rider Levett Bucknall has moved. The new address is 101 Stewart St, Suite 301, Seattle, WA 98101. RLB provides construction cost and project management services.