Sep 01, 2020

Seattle Art Museum

The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) and the Betty Bowen Committee, chaired by Gary Glant, announced the six artists selected as finalists for this year's Betty Bowen Award: Dawn Cerny, Roland Dahwen, Elijah Hasan, Marilyn Montufar, Christian Alborz Oldham, and Tariqa Waters. The juried award honors a Northwest artist for their original, exceptional, and compelling work. The award was founded in 1977 to honor the legacy of Betty Bowen (1918–1977), Founded by Bowen's friends, the award is administered by SAM. The Betty Bowen Committee — comprising Northwest curators, collectors, and artists — reviewed 615 applications from visual artists residing in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Last year's winner was Lynne Siefert, the first filmmaker to win the award. The winner of the 43rd Betty Bowen Award will be announced in September.

PEMCO

Halfon

Seattle-based PEMCO Mutual Insurance announced that Josh Halfon has been named as a new manager of pricing analytics. Halfon joined PEMCO in 2017 as a product analyst, In 2019, Halfon transitioned to the Pricing Analytics team. In his new role, Halfon will support PEMCO's ongoing pricing strategies. Before joining PEMCO, Halfon served as an analyst and consultant at Third Sector Intelligence and as a CMM Programmer at Exotic Metals Forming Co.

Convoy

In Seattle, Convoy announced that Mark Okerstrom has been appointed as the company's President and Chief Operating Officer (COO), In this newly created role, Okerstrom will work closely with Co-Founder and CEO, Dan Lewis, Okerstrom will directly oversee Convoy's finance, operations, sales, marketing, supply, and marketplace growth teams. Most recently Okerstrom was President & CEO of Expedia Group, and prior to that was Expedia Group's CFO and EVP of Operations. Convoy is a digital freight network.

Terreno Realty

In San Francisco, Terreno Realty Corporation announced that it has completed the redevelopment of its property at 8615 S. 192nd St. in Kent and leased 100% of the property. The redeveloped property consists of a newly developed 220,000-square-foot rear-load industrial distribution building on approximately 12.7 acres adjacent to state Route 167. The total cost of the redeveloped property is approximately $33.9 million. Terreno Realty Corporation has executed a lease for 100% of the property which commenced Aug. 25, 2020 and expires Nov. 30, 2027 with a provider of retail supply chain, warehousing and final-mile delivery.

Tempered

In Seattle, Tempered announced new hardware and software designed to protect data, applications, and devices across on-premise, remote, and cloud environments. The new version 2.2.8 software split tunnel includes improved user onboarding, Alibaba Cloud support, high-availability and performance enhancements. Also announced and available immediately is the Airwall 110-Series for distributed edge deployments where secure connectivity and remote access are needed. The 110e supports ethernet, while the 110g includes support for cellular modems for last-mile connectivity. Both can be deployed to protect, connect, and manage devices at the IoT edge or inside an operational technology (OT) environment.

Compass Construction

Rennes

Seeb

Turay

Kirkland-based Compass Construction promoted Taylor Turay to superintendent and Jeff Seeb to project manager, and hired Isaiah Rennes as project engineer. Turay started with Compass in 2009 as a laborer, returned in 2011 as a labor foreman and worked his way up to assistant superintendent in 2014. Seeb joined the company in 2016 as a project engineer and was promoted in 2018 to senior project engineer. Rennes interned with Compass in his junior and senior years at the University of Washington. He graduated earlier this year with bachelor's degrees in construction management and architectural design.

Lease Crutcher Lewis

Karr

In Seattle, Todd Karr joined Lease Crutcher Lewis as healthcare director for Washington. Karr has 24 years of construction management experience, with a focus on health care projects. He previously was a project executive with Howard S. Wright, a Balfour Beatty Co., and worked at GLY Construction for nearly two decades. At Lewis, he is serving clients such as SCCA, Seattle Children's, EvergreenHealth and Kaiser Permanente.

BMC Stock Holdings

Builders FirstSource and BMC Stock Holdings, both national building material suppliers with operations in the Pacific Northwest, will merge to create a company with over $11 billion in sales and about 26,000 employees in 42 states. Builders FirstSource is based in Dallas. Locally, it has lumber stores in Arlington, Bainbridge Island, Fife, Gig Harbor, Spanaway, Graham, Shelton and Olympia. BMC is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. It has local operations in Issaquah, Everett, Auburn, Kingston and Lakewood. The new company will operate as Builders FirstSource and will be based in Dallas, with corporate centers of excellence in Raleigh and Denver. The all-stock deal is expected to close later this year or in early 2021.