Feb 10, 2021

Taste Washington

Taste Washington unveiled its 2021 programming, a month-long celebration of Washington wine and food. In its 24th year, Taste Washington is adjusting to meet the needs of public safety by offering an entire month of new promotions encouraging people to directly support Washington wineries and restaurants. Taste Washington 2021 will introduce Taste Washington To Go and Taste Washington At Home, along with unique winery and restaurant activations and hotel packages. Taste Washington To Go, presented by Alaska Airlines, highlights some of Washington's top produced wines, paired with different themed menus. Each week, chefs will create a special takeout pairing crafted for the specific theme. Wineries across the state will offer promotions highlighting the week's featured variety, and local restaurants will offer their own spin on the theme. Taste Washington At Home is presented by Whole Foods Market. Each week Whole Foods will share a different recipe and Washington wine pairing. The program runs March 1 through April 4. Additional information is available at http://www.tastewashington.org.

Club Champion

Custom golf club fitter Club Champion has opened a new fitting studio, located at 5849 Tacoma Mall Blvd, Tacoma. The store is open and accepting fitting appointments. This is Club Champion's second location in the state of Washington. Club Champion fits, sells and builds custom golf clubs using brands like Callaway, TaylorMade, Ping, Titleist, Cobra, Fujikura, Golf Pride and many more. The new studio features two indoor hitting bays with TrackMan launch monitors for analyzing performance, a SAM PuttLab system, and a build shop for repairing and assembling golf clubs by hand. Club Champion has been ranked by Golf Digest as one of the 100 Best Club Fitters for the last ten years. Club Champion was established in 2010 and is headquartered in Chicago.

Protego Trust Bank

Protego Trust Bank, a bank designed and built specifically for institutional clients seeking opportunities within the world of digital assets, announced that it has received conditional approval from the Untied States Treasury's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The new federal charter will allow Protego to convert from a Washington State chartered trust company into a nationally chartered trust bank and will enable Protego clients nationwide to hold, trade, lend and issue digital assets. Protego is the first financial institution to receive such approval from the federal regulator. Protego is backed by Science Blockchain, an investor in RealBlocks and Wave Financial Group, and has a leadership team with experience from Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, State Street, BNY, and Morgan Stanley.

The Watershed Co.

Crandall

Ochoa

Grosser

The Watershed Co. hired Matt Grosser as a landscape designer and Lexi Ochoa as an arborist and said Katy Crandall has completed the Professional Wetland Scientist certification. Grosser has five years of experience and a background in urban engineering and green stormwater infrastructure. He will support the team with the design of private and public waterfront projects by producing 3D visualizations, interpretive graphics and construction documents. Ochoa is an ISA Certified Arborist with a background in urban forestry and horticulture. She will support the firm with arborist studies, tree health and management as well as forest health assessments. Crandall is a wetland and wildlife biologist and certified arborist specializing in assessing infrastructure impacts on critical areas. Kirkland-based Watershed provides natural resources assessment, mitigation and restoration design, environmental planning and permitting, stormwater monitoring, arborist and landscape architecture services.

Reid Middleton

Grunberg

Tess

Altringer

Davis

Andersen

Moore

Tsujii

Smiley

Morton

Sabra

In Everett, Reid Middleton promoted Ken Andersen to executive vice president and Mark Davis to senior engineer. Also, it hired Lupe Altringer as an office assistant, Jared Tess as a party chief, Canyen Grunberg as a survey instrument operator and Rami Sabra as a designer I. In Alaska, the firm hired Trevor Morton as a designer I and in San Diego it hired Kyle Smiley, Brian Tsujii and Julia Moore into that same position. Altringer brings previous office experience. Tess has four years of survey experience. Grunberg has two years of survey experience. Sabra brings one year of experience. Morton received his degree from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Smiley and Tsujii both bring one year of experience. Moore graduated from San Diego State University. Reid Middleton provides civil and structural engineering, planning and permitting, and surveying services.

Hanson Professional Services

Suarez

Marcelo Suarez, a railway engineer in the Bellevue office of Hanson Professional Services, earned his professional engineer license in Washington. Suarez joined the firm in 2015. He performs design and construction oversight of infrastructure improvements for rail projects. Hanson is a national consulting firm providing engineering, planning and allied services.

ALSC Architects

Shiras

ALSC Architects of Spokane hired Luke Shiras as a project manager/architect. Shiras has 23 years of professional experience and a background in educational facility planning and design. He will join the firm's K-12 design studio. ALSC provides planning and design services.

Feb 09, 2021

Qumulo

Seattle-based Qumulo announced that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Gregg Machon, vice president of worldwide channels and OEMs for Qumulo, a Top Channel Chief for 2021. The annual list recognizes top IT channel leaders who continually demonstrate leadership, influence, innovation and growth for the IT channel. This is the third consecutive year Machon has been named to the CRN Channel Chiefs list. CRN's 2021 Channel Chiefs list will be featured in the February 2021 issue of CRN Magazine and online at http://www.CRN.com/ChannelChiefs.

Tanium

Matt Thompson has joined Tanium's Board of Directors as an independent director. Thompson was most recently the executive vice president of worldwide field operations at Adobe, overseeing global sales, partnerships, ecommerce, consulting and services, and customer success operations. Tanium also recently appointed Mark Fields, former CEO of Ford Motor Company, and David Rowland, executive chairman of Accenture, to its Board of Directors. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list of Top 100 Private Companies in Cloud Computing for five consecutive years and ranks 4th on FORTUNE's list of the Best Workplaces in Technology 2020.

JND Legal Administration

JND Legal Administration, a legal management and administration services provider serving plaintiff and defendant firms, corporations, and government entities, has again been recognized for excellence in claims administration by readers of the New York Law Journal. Having been named a Best Claims Administrator for three consecutive years, JND has been admitted to the Journal's ‘Best of 2020' Hall of Fame. Readers of the Journal ranked JND as the #1 Claims Administrator in both 2018 and 2019. JND was Founded in 2016 and has offices in Washington, California, Minnesota, New York and Washington, D.C.

T-Mobile

This Black History Month, Bellevue-based T-Mobile is introducing three programs with the goal of helping create more opportunities for Black communities across the nation. The initiatives — Magenta Scholars, the NextTech Diversity Program and Magenta Edge — will provide resources and support to Black students, tech workers and business owners. T-Mobile's Magenta Scholars program will donate $500,000 to create 18 scholarships for students attending historically Black colleges and universities. The program is a partnership with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. The application period opens Feb. 18 and scholarships will be awarded in the fall of 2021. Over the next five years the NextTech Diversity Program aims to provide career training and placement for candidates to take on roles as 5G network technicians. Telecom trade school The Learning Alliance will oversee recruitment, training, certification and job placement of candidates. Magenta Edge offers advice and insight and provides free educational programming on subjects such as best practices for entrepreneurs while addressing systemic barriers to Black small-business success.

Katerra

Beason

Katerra, a technology-enabled construction company, appointed Kris Beason as head of construction for the Pacific Northwest, where she is overseeing project delivery in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Her role focuses on scaling delivery of factory-built multifamily housing and mass timber projects. She succeeds Greg Smith, who is transitioning to lead project delivery for the company's factory-driven multifamily platform. Beason has over three decades of experience in construction management, holding executive roles at large construction companies that include Skanska and Mortenson.

Forma Construction Co.

Whitton

In Seattle, Forma Construction Co. named Carrie Whitton as outreach and inclusion manager. Whitton has been with the company for three years, most recently as a project manager in the Special Projects Division. Prior to joining Forma, she was a designer with a small subcontractor and also was a contracts specialist at Sound Transit, where she collaborated with local businesses on public works from the owner's side. Forma says Whitton has an understanding of the subcontracting process from the perspectives of both a public agency and a general contractor, as well as the realities of what small and historically underutilized firms face in the marketplace.