Jan 17, 2020

City of Kenmore

The Kenmore City Council reelected David Baker as mayor and Nigel Herbig as deputy mayor. It also swore in two new council members (Melanie O'Cain and Corina Pfeil) and two reelected council members (David Baker and Milton Curtis). O'Cain is an accounting records and administration manager at the Port of Seattle, and Pfeil is a behavioral and social health services undergraduate at Lake Washington Institute of Technology. Council members serve staggered four-year terms, and the council selects one of its members to serve as mayor and a second as deputy mayor for two-year terms.

Family Law Casa

In Seattle, Family Law Casa selected Deidre McCormack Martin as executive director. McCormack Martin has over 20 years of experience with nonprofits. She previously was executive director of Summer Search's Seattle office, a national youth development organization, and interim executive director at the Washington Association for Infant Mental Health. She starts Tuesday at Family Law Casa, which advocates for local children in high-risk custody cases.

Vacasa

Portland vacation rental management company Vacasa promoted Jeff Flitton to chief technology officer. Flitton replaces Tim Goodwin, who relocated to California to become CTO of TigerConnect, a health care communication platform. Flitton joined Vacasa in 2017 as director of software development and was promoted to vice president of engineering the following year.

National Payment Systems

In Portland, payment processing company National Payment Systems expanded its executive team and rebranded as Boom Commerce. Its expanded executive team is led by new CEO Sabin Burrell, founder of BlueSquare Resolutions. Other new leaders are senior vice president Greg Forte and vice president Kayla Jantz. Forte comes from Fiserv Global Business Solutions and Jantz worked with Burrell at BlueSquare. Boom recently got a capital infusion from Acrewood Holdings and is pursuing acquisitions and other strategic investments.

Swenson Healthcare

In Tacoma, Swenson Healthcare joined Comagine Health's Partnership to Reimagine Health Care, a five-year program that seeks to improve care for people with Medicare while reducing provider burden. The program started last year and is open to health care organizations in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah. Swenson is a clinical practice group serving patients in a post-acute care setting.

Jan 16, 2020

Crowley

Van Gundy

Sesnon

Andreini

Crowley Maritime Corp. split Crowley Marine Services into three interrelated business segments: offshore services, ship assist and tanker escort, and engineering services. As part of the move, it appointed Jeff Andreini, Porter Sesnon and Coulston “Cole” van Gundy as leaders in the new segments. Andreini rejoined Crowley after four years as CFO for Ardent Holdings, a marine salvage business that Crowley previously owned half of. He is heading up offshore services from Houston in his new role. Sesnon, based in Seattle, is in charge of ship assist and tanker escort. He joined Crowley in 2018 as a director of business development and before that was a lawyer at K&L Gates in Seattle. Van Gundy is leading business development for project and construction management services, as well as engineering and design-related offerings provided by both Crowley and Seattle-based subsidiary Jensen Maritime Consultants. He joined the company in 2006 as an engineer supporting vessels managed from the Pacific Northwest.

BitTitan

Bellevue-based BitTitan created a corporate development division to help drive acquisitions and named Kirk Swanson as corporate development associate. Swanson was an associate in the investment banking group at D.A. Davidson & Co. in Seattle. Before that, he worked at Boeing and T-Mobile. BitTitan is looking to buy cloud-based software-as-a-service companies. It helps information technology service companies automate on the cloud.

Perkins Coie

Deborah Ruffins is the new chief marketing officer in the Seattle office of law firm Perkins Coie. Ruffins was global head of strategic initiatives at Hogan Lovells in New York City and prior to that led global business development at Bingham McCutchen in New York City.

Beck Family Estates

Beck Family Estates appointed three regional sales managers: Jack Chase for the West, John Davids for the Midwest and Nicholas Abuabara for the Northeast. Chase was on-premise director at Vehrs Distributing, where he managed supplier programming, training and compliance in Washington, Oregon and northern Idaho for national and regional accounts. He is working for Beck in Seattle. Davids is based in Chicago and Abuabara in New York City. McMinnville, Oregon-based Beck imports wines from Graham Beck and Steenberg vineyards, both in South Africa, and sells wines from Angela Estate in McMinnville.

Quadrant prepares to sell townhouses in Kirkland, Bel-Red

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Quadrant Homes is now marketing two new townhouse communities on the Eastside. Opening Jan. 25 in Totem Lake is the 82-unit Vareze at 11530 117th Lane N.E. Prices start in the $700,000s, and sizes run from 1,283 to 2,209 square feet. Quadrant acquired the 4-acre site in 2017 for $9.3 million. It's next to Eastside Subaru, and close to the Cross Kirkland Corridor trail.

Quadrant expects to open the 46-unit Lario in March. That's at 1135 124th Court N.E., on Bel-Red Road, which is walkable to the future light rail station at the Spring District, set to open in 2023. Prices start in the $800,000s, and sizes run from 1,160 to 2,136 square feet. Quadrant acquired the 2.5-acre site in 2018 for $11.4 million.

Name change for South Sound lender

Emerald Capital Funding of Federal Way announced its recent merger with Pacific Equity & Loan, and Emerald will now operate under the latter's name. Christopher Robison, who founded Emerald, said in a statement, “The move comes amid a rapidly evolving mortgage industry in specifically the private money and hard money lending sector. We are noticing a lot of new players from other states that might not know our market as well as we do.” The combined firm also has an office in Lakewood.

The future of co-living

That's the topic NAIOP will address at its monthly breakfast in February. Speaking will be Christopher Bledsoe of the startup Ollie, which doesn't yet operate here. (It's in New York, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and Boston.) Other panelists will be confirmed later. The event takes place at the Four Seasons at 7 a.m. Feb. 26. Details and registration: naiopwa.org.