Nov 16, 2021

Museum of Northwest Art

Catalani

The Museum of Northwest Art's Board of Trustees announced the selection of Stefano Catalani as MoNA's new executive director. MoNA's current executive director Joanna Sikes will continue her role through the end of 2021. Sikes will begin a new role as MoNA's director of development. She joined MoNA in April of 2018 as interim director. With the addition of Catalani, MoNA gains an executive director with 15 years of experience in leadership and operations, most recently with Gage Academy of Art. His art career straddles gallery, museum, and educational branches. Catalani will join the museum beginning January 1st, 2022. The Museum of Northwest Art, located in La Conner, collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the Pacific Northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people.

Standard Insurance

Brandl

Portland-based Standard Insurance (The Standard) announced that Margaret Brandl has been named assistant vice president and actuary, Actuarial Governance and Risk Management. Brandl has an extensive background in corporate risk management and actuarial systems and controls. Most recently she was vice president and managing actuary for the life and annuity business at Genworth Financial. Previously, she held a succession of roles with Manulife Financial in Canada. She led transformation of actuarial processes, models and tools in both companies. In her new role, Brandl will have responsibility for actuarial governance and risk management including the implementation of effective and agile actuarial and risk governance at all levels of the organization. Standard Insurance also announced that Kevin Erdahl has been promoted to assistant vice president of Employee Benefits Underwriting. Erdahl will assume full leadership of and responsibility for underwriting of the company's employee benefit products, including medical underwriting functions. Erdahl started at The Standard in 1994 as an associate underwriter in Employee Benefits. During his career Erdahl has held multiple leadership roles, most recently, he was second vice president of risk management for Employee Benefits Underwriting with responsibility for the western and central region underwriting teams and is serving as the business owner for medical underwriting systems.

Rafn Co.

Morran

Bellevue-based Rafn Co. promoted Todd Morran to senior superintendent. Morran started at Rafn in the mid-1990s, left for a few years, and then returned in 2016. He also is the company's safety committee chair and has been integral in Rafn's efforts to navigate COVID-19 compliance requirements. Morran is currently working on a renovation of the Cherry Street Garage building in Seattle.

ABC of Western Washington

The Associated Builders and Contractors of Western Washington signed up four new members: Homestreet Electric of Tacoma, Mercedes-Benz Sprinter of Tacoma, National Glass Industries of Woodinville and DRSi of Bellevue. Homestreet is a family-owned commercial and residential electrical services company. Mercedes-Benz sells and services Sprinter vans. National Glass distributes flat glass and supplies fabricated glass such as tempered and insulated glass and custom fabricated edge work. DRSi is a full-service commercial digital printer.

Sellen Construction

Seattle-based Sellen Construction signed an enterprise agreement with Versatile, a tech company that optimizes the construction process through its CraneView platform, which uses an internet of things device mounted to the crane hook to collect and analyze data on each pick while delivering insights that improve budgets, schedules and crane utilization. Sellen began using CraneView in January 2020 on a 211,000-square-foot office project in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood. Sellen now plans to use CraneView on its other projects. Versatile is based in Los Altos, California.

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers

Vancouver, B.C.-based equipment auctioneer Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers completed its $175 million acquisition of SmartEquip, which provides real-time service and diagnostic support for companies' equipment fleets, as well as electronic procurement of parts from original equipment manufacturers and dealers. SmartEquip is based in Norwalk, Connecticut.

Nov 12, 2021

Fortive

Fortive appointed Elena Rosman as vice president of investor relations, effective Nov. 29. Most recently, Rosman served as vice president, investor relations at Aptiv. Prior to Aptiv, she held various management roles in treasury, M&A and investor relations at Honeywell. Griffin Whitney will continue to lead the investor relations function throughout Rosman's onboarding period, before moving to a new role within Fortive's corporate development team to support the execution of the company's capital allocation strategy. Everett-based Fortive provides essential technologies for connected workflow solutions across a range of end markets.

City of Tacoma

The city of Tacoma is conducting a survey until Dec. 10 to evaluate the community's perceptions of city services. The survey is conducted every two years in preparation for the biennial budget. A total of 750 randomly sampled households — 150 from each council district — across Tacoma will have the opportunity to identify which services they feel are important, which service areas have improved over time, and which service areas could improve in the future. The community survey, administered by MDB Insight, will assess the city's performance in its major service areas, and help the city better understand community members' perceptions of these service areas. The survey findings will also help define the community's current priorities and aid the city's ongoing planning and improvement processes. More information about the survey is on the city's website, or contact Reid Bennion from the Office of Management and Budget at rbennion@cityoftacoma.org.

Proliance Surgeons

Seattle-based Proliance Surgeons, one of the nation's largest independent health care practices, named Troy Simonson chief executive officer, and announced a new strategic relationship with Minnesota-based Revo Health. In his new role, Simonson will lead Proliance Surgeons' growth and innovation strategy. Simonson will also maintain his current role as CEO of Revo Health. Revo is a managed-services organization that specializes in supporting physician leaders across the country. Simonson has worked in the health care industry for over 25 years. His accomplishments at Revo include guiding the creation of Infinite Health Collaborative, an independent multi-specialty practice with over 200 physicians in the Twin Cities. Proliance Surgeons is a physician-owned-and-managed company, with more than 100 locations across Washington.