Nov 05, 2021

IRG Physical & Hand Therapy

IRG Physical & Hand Therapy announced the acquisition of Cascade Children's Therapy, located in Mill Creek, changing the clinic's name to IRG Cascade Children's Therapy – Mill Creek. This marks the company's 36th expansion in physical therapy, occupational therapy and affiliate clinics. IRG will retain existing staff members of Cascade Children's Therapy, continuing to provide more than 32 years of professional experience to new and existing clients. The clinic will continue to offer physical, occupational and speech/language therapy services to youth from infancy onwards. IRG Cascade Children's Therapy – Mill Creek is located at 16030 Bothell-Everett Hwy, Suite 140, Mill Creek. IRG Physical & Hand Therapy is headquartered in Mill Creek, and operates over 30 outpatient orthopedic clinics throughout the Puget Sound region.

Echodyne

Echodyne, a radar platform company, announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Innovation Team has awarded the company a $20M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The five-year agreement enables CBP to expand deployments of Echodyne's radars and explore new applications for the radars along the country's land and marine borders and ports of entry. Echodyne provides its technology directly to DHS as well as through an increasing number of integrators that supply systems to DHS and its components. Radars deployed in field environments enhance agent safety and provide intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities not previously available. Echodyne has already completed delivery of 30 Echodyne EchoGuard Radar Systems under the terms of this contract. Echodyne is headquartered in Kirkland, and serves customers across the defense, national security, and critical infrastructure protection markets worldwide.

PEMCO

PEMCO Mutual Insurance was named one of America's Best Insurance Companies for 2022 by Forbes. The Seattle-based insurer was one of only 90 insurance companies across the nation to be recognized by the publication on its inaugural list of top-performing insurers, and it ranked first in the auto insurance category based on customer feedback. To develop its America's Best Insurance Companies list, Forbes partnered with Statista, a consumer data company, and surveyed more than 16,000 policyholders across the United States to gather feedback on their current insurer. The company evaluated 4,200 insurance carriers based on eight key metrics, including overall satisfaction and whether customers would recommend their insurer to family and friends. Additionally, PEMCO announced that Trent Stoker has been promoted to the role of director of next generation (NextGen) technology strategy and implementation. In his new role, Stoker will work with leaders and subject-matter experts across PEMCO to orchestrate strategy development, future-state visioning, selection and initial implementation of PEMCO's insurance processing system platform components. Stoker joined PEMCO in 2018 as a claims quality advisor. In 2020, Stoker led an enterprise-wide team that implemented scenario planning and helped PEMCO prepare for operational changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to his work at PEMCO, Stoker currently serves as chair of the Washington Insurance Guaranty Association.

Nov 04, 2021

NW Children's Foundation

Heile

Mueller

Helm

NW Children's Foundation, which works to end the intergenerational cycle of child abuse, neglect and trauma through grants and education, has restructured and expanded its executive leadership team to reflect its accelerating growth and scope. The non-profit organization promoted executive director Victoria Peattie Helm to chief executive officer, and associate director/CFO Lori Leff Mueller to chief operating officer. NW Children's Foundation also hired Adrienne Heile to fill the new position of chief program officer. Heile recently retired as an executive with State Farm Insurance. She started as a volunteer on NW Children's Foundation's board in 2020. During her 32-year career at State Farm, Heile volunteered for numerous non-profits. She served on the board of Symphony Tacoma, on the Advisory Council of Directors of the UW Milgard School of Business Women's Initiative, was strategic planning chair of Seattle Links, and was a board member of both Junior Achievement of Central Illinois and Domestic Violence of Saratoga Springs, NY. While NW Children's Foundation started as a grantmaking organization supporting non-profits focused on children, it has in recent years gained national attention for its annual Forum on childhood trauma. Through its grantmaking, NW Children's Foundation invests about $1 million annually to roughly 60-70 Western Washington child-serving organizations.

Allison Spielman Advisors

The Mather Group (TMG), a family- and employee-owned wealth management firm with eight offices across the country has announced its acquisition of Allison Spielman Advisors (ASA), a state-registered investment adviser firm based in the Seattle area. Established in 1997, ASA has a four-person team, including owner and founder, Thom Allison, CFP, who brings more than 30 years of experience to TMG. This acquisition adds a new market to TMG's expanding national footprint, as the ASA team will continue to operate out of its office in Bellevue. TMG is headquartered in Chicago.

Nov 03, 2021

AKS Engineering & Forestry

Stull

Steigleder

Marquis

Joki

Hollenbeck

AKS Engineering & Forestry welcomed five new employees to the company: Tim Hollenbeck, Tyler Joki, Julie Marquis, Matt Steigleder, and Paul Stull III.

Tim Hollenbeck, PLS, is a Washington-registered professional land surveyor, drone specialist, and FAA-certified Remote Pilot. He earned a BA in geography at Western Washington University and brings 22 years of experience in traditional and high-tech surveying for residential and commercial land development to AKS' Vancouver office. Tyler Joki comes to AKS with 13 years of experience in natural resources conservation and project management. He has worked for private engineering groups and local and federal agencies in the Portland area with a focus on wetlands restoration, aquatic resources monitoring, and feasibility assessment of environmentally sensitive projects. He is also a licensed landscape contractor and holds a BS in biology from Portland State University.

Julie Marquis recently joined AKS as Marketing Proposal Manager. Marquis has broad experience across the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. She has 13 years of marketing expertise under her belt, nine of which were acquired with engineering firms. Marquis brings strong leadership, strategic planning, communications, and research abilities to the AKS marketing team. Matt Steigleder, PE, is a project manager and transportation engineer with nine years' experience designing and managing urban and rural roadway projects. Steigleder earned his BS in civil engineering at Oregon State University. He has extensive experience working on traffic engineering projects for the Oregon Department of Transportation, working on every part of the process from conceptual design alternatives through construction support.

Paul Stull III, PE, has joined the AKS team in Tualatin as a project engineer. Stull III holds a BS in civil engineering and an MS in environmental engineering from Oregon State University. He has nearly 30 years' combined experience managing commercial, industrial, private, and public projects, with a focus on environmental and water resources. He is a licensed environmental engineer in Oregon, Washington, and Alaska.

B + H

Morrow

B+H, an architecture, interior design and real estate advisory firm, has welcomed back Hannah Morrow as practice lead for Healthcare in their Seattle Studio. Morrow returns to B+H from KMD architects where she built on her prior healthcare experience with a number of local projects. Morrow's B+H portfolio includes corporate workplace and several hospital projects, including SickKids in Toronto, Ontario, and currently a hospital redevelopment in Burnaby for Fraser Health.

Nelson

Lewis

Nelson Worldwide, an architecture, design, and strategy firm, welcomed Rachael Lewis as Regional Design Leader. Based in the firm's Seattle office, Lewis will lead the hospitality team to craft memorable experiences that attract, connect, and engage loyal guests. Lewis joins Nelson with over two decades of experience in design, brand development, and team management. As a seasoned leader with an extensive hospitality background, she will provide innovative insight on industry trends and bring hospitality design elements to various market sectors, including workplace, healthcare, and retail. Before joining Nelson, Lewis worked at Katerra as Director of Architecture and Design, where she led multi-family and hospitality verticals. Throughout her career, she has worked alongside hospitality leaders, brand executives, and high-profile clients. She also unified a team of diverse professionals to deliver spaces that attract and inspire while enhancing the user's experience through design and branding. Some of the brands she has previously worked with include The Walt Disney Company, Hilton Worldwide, IHG, and Best Western International.

Parametrix

Jones

Wesley Jones, PE has joined Parametrix as a Senior Water Engineer based out of the firm's Puyallup and Bremerton offices. He has 18 years of experience in civil engineering, including the commercial, educational, and industrial sectors. Jones comes to Parametrix from Sitts & Hill Engineers, Inc. where he was a Civil Principal, leading design teams and providing quality control on a variety of private industrial and commercial projects. He is skilled in scheduling, cost estimating, permitting, and a variety of civil-specific tasks such as pump stations, paving, stormwater management, rail, general site development, and utilities. His recent project experience includes stormwater treatment and site design for The Boeing Company, the Tacoma LNG Facility for Puget Sound Energy, a new manufacturing facility for James Hardie Building Products, and the Pierce County Skills Center for the Bethel School District.

At Parametrix, Jones joins the firm's Puget Sound water division serving a variety of public clients and private clients including the counties of King, Pierce, Kitsap, Grant, and Mason (along with cities therein), King County International Airport, Port of Moses Lake, The Boeing Company, James Hardie Building Products, Miles Sand & Gravel, and Puget Sound Energy, among others.

Shannon & Wilson

Galas

Shannon & Wilson, Inc., a geotechnical and environmental consulting firm, announced that Shannon Galas has joined their firm in its Seattle office as a senior marketing manager. Prior to joining Shannon & Wilson, Galas spent more than 12 years at HDR, most recently supporting the Water Business Group with management, strategy, and hands-on marketing for the Washington Area. In her 20 years of A/E/C marketing, Galas has led engineering pursuits related to the infrastructure and treatment of drinking water, wastewater, water reuse, and stormwater; water resource management; construction management; value engineering; transportation; real estate services; and federal work. Her architectural background includes civic, public school, higher education, historic preservation, rehabilitation, corporate/office, healthcare, and interior design.

Carney Badley

Miller

Vial

Seattle law firm Carney Badley Spellman has hired Tierney Vial and Marguerite Miller. Vial is an appellate attorney, whose practice focuses on appeals. During law school, Vial assisted in representing an elderly incarcerated client through the Washington Innocence Project in a case that established a new Washington standard for cruel punishment in conditions of confinement. After her first year of law school, Vial interned in the Violence Against Women Act Unit at Northwest Immigrant Rights Project. Before studying law, Vial taught high school English literature at Casablanca American School in Morocco and English as a second language at a primary school in Vigo, Spain. Miller's practice focuses on corporate and business law, mergers and acquisitions, and privacy law. During law school, Marguerite was a summer associate with Carney Badley Spellman, and gained experience working on corporate transactions, privacy issues, and ongoing corporate governance matters. Additionally, Miller interned with two early-stage startups and two publicly traded companies, where she counseled on anti-corruption and privacy compliance.

Remote Medical International

Remote Medical International (RMI), a global company providing medical services, support, and supplies worldwide, announced that it will appoint Duncan Higham as chief Executive officer. Higham is the former CEO of SSI Risk Management, a company acquired by RMI in July 2020. Currently, he serves as RMI's vice president global strategy, where he directs the company's growth in renewable energy emergency response. Higham will succeed Wayne Wager, who retired as chief executive officer effective November 1, 2021. Higham founded SSI Risk Management (SSI) in 2012 and SSI Energy in 2016. He grew the SSI Group into a multi-million dollar business before its acquisition by Remote Medical International. He graduated from Cardiff University and Imperial College in Economics before receiving emergency medical training in Cape Town, South Africa. On graduating from university, Higham served for ten years in the Royal Marines Commandos. He completed three tours in Afghanistan, the last as operations officer for the Royal Marines Commando Brigade. Headquartered in Seattle, RMI protects the health and wellbeing of teams working in diverse job sites, including remote pipeline installations, offshore wind and maritime operations, and television and film production locations.

Goldfinch Partners

Goldfinch Partners announced that Matthew Herman will join as a partner of the firm and general counsel in November 2021. Herman will be based in Goldfinch's New York office, where he will oversee legal and regulatory matters for the firm, and will join the firm's Investment Committee taking an active role in the investment process. For more than 15 years, Herman was a partner with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, a leading international law firm. Most recently, Herman was Freshfields' US managing partner and co-head of Global M&A. Headquartered in Seattle, and with investment professionals in the Bay Area and New York City, Goldfinch Partners is a financial sponsor with approximately $1 billion of equity invested in enterprise technology companies that power digital transformation.