Oct 20, 2022

Vacasa

Gonzalez

Vacasa announced that Rachel Gonzalez will serve as an observer on its board of directors. The company intends to seek stockholder approval to expand the size of its board and to elect Gonzalez as an independent director at the 2023 annual meeting of stockholders. From 2014-2018, Gonzalez served as general counsel and then chief administrative officer of Sabre, a global travel software and technology provider, where she oversaw multiple departments including human resources, corporate communications, legal strategy, regulatory and government affairs, and compliance. Gonzalez most recently served as executive vice president and general counsel of Starbucks, where she supported the board of directors and oversaw the Law & Corporate Affairs department. She currently sits on the board of Electronic Arts Inc., serving as a member of its nominating and governance committee. Vacasa, headquartered in Portland, is a vacation rental management platform.

Standard Insurance

Standard Insurance (The Standard) and Securian Financial Group reached a definitive agreement under which The Standard will acquire Securian Financial's retirement record-keeping business. The acquisition is expected to close this year. The Standard, founded in 1906 and based in Portland, has offered retirement plans since 1982 with an emphasis on small to mid-sized plans. Securian Financial, founded in 1880 and headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota, offers a similar suite of defined contribution and defined benefit products and services. The transaction, which excludes Securian Financial's pension risk transfer and institutional retirement businesses, will significantly expand the scale and competitive position of The Standard's retirement offerings in the U.S. and will accelerate its diversification and growth in the retirement record-keeping segment. Securian Financial's employees, sales team and management who supported the recordkeeping business will join The Standard following the close of the transaction. PJT Partners is acting as financial advisor and Locke Lord is acting as legal advisor to The Standard. Goldman Sachs is acting as financial advisor and Eversheds Sutherland is acting as legal advisor to Securian Financial.

Tanium

Tanium, a provider of converged endpoint management (XEM), won best-in-class for endpoint security in the CISO Choice Awards 2022, selected by a panel of CISO judges who have served at some of the world's best-known companies. The Tanium XEM platform won top honors for its capabilities that unify disparate teams and workflows across the organization while protecting every endpoint from cyber threats. Tanium's approach integrates IT, Risk and Compliance, and Security into a single platform, complementing anti-malware solutions with real-time visibility, management, and remediation capabilities to improve cyber resilience and reduce IT shelfware. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for seven consecutive years and ranks on Fortune's list of the Best Large Workplaces in Technology.

Oct 19, 2022

Cushing Terrell

Smith

Henderson

Rudy

Cushing Terrell announced the promotion of associate Sandi Rudy to director of the firm's interior design service sector.

Rudy will be responsible for strategic direction, business development, and high-level client relationship management; staffing and workload management; mentorship and career development for team members; and the overall success, health, and growth of the service sector.

During her time at Cushing Terrell, Rudy and her team have partnered with some of the world's largest companies, including Google, Facebook, Dell, and Apple, supporting their future-forward workplace designs.

To support the growing team, two other Austin-based interior designers, Angelica Henderson and Eleanor Smith, have been promoted to regional leadership positions.

PACE Engineers

Nicol

Boyd

Brown

Ferrell

Sheldon

Nichols

Welly

Olshausen

Wang

Stampfler

PACE Engineers, Inc. announced 10 promotions.

Shane Sheldon, PE, has been promoted to principal engineer. Sheldon is a water resources engineer with 14 years of experience. He has been with PACE since 2019 and leads the Water Resources group. He holds an undergraduate degree in geology and a master's in water resources engineering. Sheldon has extensive experience in fish passage design, including complex fish ladders, intake systems for hydropower projects, stream restoration, and fish passage culvert replacements in Washington and Oregon. He is currently leading hydraulic designs for WSDOT fish barrier correction projects throughout the Northwest.

Tom Ferrell, PE, has been promoted to project manager. Ferrell has been with PACE for 15 years, focusing on Oregon municipal projects. He has recently designed three reservoirs, four pump stations, and six miles of water main for local public works agencies.

Rosanna Brown, PE, has been promoted to senior project manager. Brown has 16 years of civil engineering experience, specializing in land development. She joined PACE five years ago and is leading the design for several assisted living facilities in West Seattle, Sammamish, and Woodinville, as well as several large apartment complexes in North Bend, Shoreline, and Everett. Brown was appointed to the Snohomish County Planning Commission in January 2022.

Mitchell Boyd, PE, was promoted to project engineer. Boyd joined PACE in 2021 and has seven years of civil engineering experience. He is currently designing several water and sewer system projects. He supports our planning group with comprehensive water and sewer system plans and water plan extensions.

Colin Nicol has been promoted to environmental scientist. Nicol has over 11 years of fluvial geomorphology and physical habitat assessment experience. Before PACE, he was the lead developer of the NOAA lifecycle model, which prioritized restoration actions in the Chehalis Aquatic Species Restoration Plan. Nicol brings a strong background in river restoration, salmon ecology, and the scientific literature underpinning these disciplines. He is currently leading the habitat design of the SR 167 to 509 Riparian Restoration Program. The project will advance the use of beaver dam analogs to aid in restoring approximately 150 acres of aquatic and floodplain habitat.

Dean Stampfler is now a senior survey technician. Stampfler has been a part of the PACE team for 13 years. He plays a significant role in the successes of the survey team, specifically on projects across the Pacific Northwest, notably Washington's fish passage and Oregon's transportation projects. Stampfler's daily tasks include coordinating and dispatching survey crews and collaborating with other disciplines within PACE.

Tasha Wang, PE, was promoted to senior engineer. Wang is an design engineer specializing in water resources engineering. She holds a master's degree in hydrology and hydrodynamics from the University of Washington. Wang has been a crucial part of PACE's Water Resources group since 2019 and is a technical lead for hydraulic modeling. She is currently leading preliminary hydraulic design reports for WSDOT fish barrier projects and supporting design-build fish passage and stream restoration projects.

Andreas Olshausen, PE, has been promoted to project engineer. Olshausen has nine years of civil engineering experience and joined the PACE team four years ago. He is a key contributor in designing water system improvements for special utility districts and reviewing developer extension plans.

Paula Welly was promoted to business development specialist. Welly joined PACE at the peak of the pandemic in 2021. Her ten years in the AEC industry have helped her navigate PACE through various business development and marketing projects. Welly's natural leadership skills have played a vital role as she has worked with PACE's disciplines to develop business development strategies.

Christian Nichols, PE, has been promoted to project engineer. Nichols has over nine years of civil engineering experience and has been at PACE for five years. He is a main player in our land development projects. One of his recent projects, Ellie Passivhaus in Queen Anne, Seattle, won NAIOP's Sustainable Development of the Year award- Nichols was the project engineer.

Ware Malcomb

Herseth

Michael Herseth has joined Ware Malcomb as a civil engineering manager in the firm's Seattle office. In this role, Herseth will help lead the growth and management of the Seattle civil engineering team and manage select projects.

A registered professional engineer in the state of Washington, Herseth brings over nine years of experience to Ware Malcomb.

Prior to joining the firm, he worked as a civil associate for an engineering company and was responsible for a wide range of development projects throughout the Pacific Northwest. Herseth's expertise spans a variety of project types, including multifamily, affordable housing, mixed-use, healthcare, education, infrastructure, roads and trails. His experience includes all phases of site development and civil engineering design, from concept design to contract documents and contract administration.

Herseth is a registered Professional Engineer in Washington and a member of both ULI and DBIA. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Washington State University.

Habitat for Humanity

Gali

Collins

Habitat for Humanity of East Jefferson County hired Robert Collins as construction manager, and Heidi Gali as bookkeeper. This growth allows Habitat to build affordable homes at a faster rate, while identifying efficiencies and cost savings across its operations.

Collins comes to Habitat with more than 20 years of corporate experience in program, financial, supply chain and operational management, and held leadership roles at Microsoft, Amazon and JPMorgan Chase. Collins will be focused on managing all aspects of Habitat's construction projects. Gali joins Habitat with more than 15 years of accounting and bookkeeping experience, most recently having worked for Gooding O'Hara and Mackey. In her new role, Gali manages Habitat's accounts receivable and payable, and supports the finance director with payroll and benefits administration. Founded in 1998, Habitat EJC is an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, and operates to serve the East Jefferson County, WA community. Habitat EJC built its first home in 1999 and has since completed nearly 100 home builds, renovations and repairs.

CoreStack

Bellevue-based CoreStack, a global multi-cloud governance provider, and Feuji, a global technology services company, announced the formation of a strategic partnership. Feuji will offer its OpsRight cloud managed services on CoreStack's NextGen Cloud Governance platform to actualize best practices for cloud operations, security, compliance, access, and resources by implementing a well-architected framework. This solution will help customers achieve integrated and continuous governance across FinOps, SecOps, and CloudOps. CoreStack is backed by strategic advisors, including the ex-CEO of Wipro and ex-CIO of Microsoft. The company is a Microsoft Azure Gold Partner, Amazon AWS Advanced Technology Competency Partner, Oracle Cloud Build Partner, and Google Cloud Build Partner. Feuji

is headquartered in Dallas, with operations in Costa Rica and India.

Journey Strategic Wealth

Journey Strategic Wealth, a financial advisory firm with advisors across the country, announced the addition of three advisory teams led by Mark Newfield, Laurie Adams, and Kathleen Barlow, totaling $210 million in new assets under management. Newfield and his team in Richmond, VA, join Journey after departing Bleakley Financial Group. Adams, a Seattle-based advisor, comes to Journey after spending 14 years at Eagle Strategies, a subsidiary of New York Life Insurance Company. Adams focuses on creating a supportive community, within her practice, for female wealth holders. Adams will be based in Seattle but travel across the country working with clients. As Adams integrates her practice into the firm, Journey will acquire her business. Barlow joins from Raymond James, and Journey will partially acquire her financial planning practice specializing in serving families and women.