May 07, 2025

Middle of Six

Flattery

Middle of Six, a marketing consultancy specializing in architecture, engineering, and construction has hired Julie Flattery as associate principal.

Based in Southern California, Flattery has been in the A/E/C profession for over 40 years and will contribute her significant knowledge in all areas of marketing to Middle of Six's team and clients.

She has been consulting for the past five years, providing the gamut of marketing services and teaching proposal workshops. She is also known for writing and speaking about the art of proposal creation, authentic interviewing, connecting with clients, and A/E/C marketing to professional organizations like the American Institute of Architects and EntreArchitect, and industry newspapers like Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce and DJC Oregon.

Prior to consulting, Flattery was marketing director for Bassetti Architects for nine years.

Parametrix

Morkert

Reynolds

Lisa Reynolds has joined Parametrix as a program manager with the firm's Advisory Services practice, providing owner advisory, business process improvement, organization development, and strategic consulting services to public agencies across the United States.

Reynolds has 30 years of experience in the environmental sector, including environmental permitting, compliance, and licensing; capital program planning; regional coordination; workforce development; allocation of investigation; and response costs at hazardous waste sites in the public and private sectors.

She comes to Parametrix from HDR Engineering, where she served as a utility planning lead. In this role, she provided utility planning support to municipal water and wastewater utilities, contributed to task order development, and conducted quality control reviews. Prior to that, she served as a principal engineer with the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. Her expertise involves wastewater, environmental management, and quality control in design and implementation of utility projects.

Reynold's holds a Master of Business Administration from Purdue University Global and a Master of Engineering in Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. She is certified by the Society of Human Resources Management and holds a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace certificate from the University of South Florida.

Parametrix has promoted Brian Morkert to director of information technology. Morkert brings over 30 years of experience in cybersecurity, infrastructure management, and digital transformation to the role, along with a proven track record of leadership within the firm.

Since joining Parametrix in 2015 as a senior consultant, Morkert has played a role in strengthening the firm's cybersecurity posture, modernizing infrastructure, enhancing service delivery, and helping drive innovation across business operations. He has also played a key leadership role in expanding client-facing data science initiatives, delivering custom dashboards, predictive analytics models, and technology solutions that directly support project delivery and client success.

In his new role, Morkert will oversee Parametrix's cybersecurity, infrastructure, and IT support functions. He will also guide the firm's broader technology strategy — advancing digital delivery capabilities, integrating AI-driven tools, and enabling seamless, secure collaboration across offices and project teams.

PLS Engineering

Weitzel

PLS Engineering has hired Jacob Weitzel. Weitzel is graduating from Oregon State University in June, pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and a minor in Economics. He will work part-time until graduation and will start his full-time career with PLS this summer.

His internships have included working with a local builder as a land development intern providing land plats, quantity takeoffs and assisting with reports in this department. He also worked with a civil and marine company on an outfall project in Wilsonville providing turbidity monitoring of the Willamette River and helped receive and compile daily reports from subcontractors.

Weitzel is an ASCE member as well as a member of NASTT.

May 06, 2025

Clearwater Analytics

Sethi

Blendu

Clearwater Analytics, a technology platform for investment management, promoted Subi Sethi to chief operating officer and Cindy Blendu to chief administrative officer. These expanded leadership roles strengthen Clearwater's ability to scale globally, integrate its expanded platform, and deliver even greater value to clients following its recent acquisitions. During her five-year tenure at Clearwater, Sethi has transformed the company's business operations, driving significant improvements in gross margin, dramatically improving client satisfaction and successfully building global operation centers that are now operating at scale. As COO she will elevate the client experience through operational innovation and AI-driven solutions, while driving efficiency across operations. Blendu will expand her portfolio to include human resources, IT, and facilities management for the integrated company. Throughout her six years with Clearwater, Blendu has been instrumental in improving engagement, efficiency, and productivity across the organization. Clearwater Analytics is headquartered in Boise.

LegitScript

Portland-based LegitScript appointed three senior executives to its leadership team: Jaylene Kunze as chief financial officer, Chris Riggio as chief revenue officer, and Tom Cook as chief product and technology officer. With more than five decades of combined experience across multiple Fortune-ranked, publicly traded, and award-winning organizations, these executive additions will support the company's rapid scaling and continued innovation, particularly in advancing the capabilities of its recently launched Xray AI Risk Intelligence Platform. Kunze brings over two decades of financial and operational leadership, helping high-growth software companies scale efficiently and strategically through both organic and inorganic growth. Before joining LegitScript, she held leadership roles at Hexure, Uplight, and MWH Global, and she began her career in public accounting at Deloitte. She will lead LegitScript's finance, accounting, legal, compliance and IT teams. Riggio has more than 25 years of fintech and software industry experience driving revenue, strategy, and sales execution at companies such as Confluence, Institutional Shareholder Services and Intercontinental Exchange. As LegitScript continues to expand globally, Riggio brings a strategic, cross-functional approach to revenue acceleration and will oversee go-to-market initiatives and ensure alignment and agility across Enterprise sales, marketing, enablement, and customer success teams. Cook brings over 30 years of customer-centric product development leadership to LegitScript's product and engineering teams. He will spearhead the development of solutions to address evolving compliance challenges and to combat fraud. Cook previously served as an operating executive at Elliott Investment Management and held senior leadership roles at Datto, Viewpoint Construction Software, and Ixia.

May 02, 2025

Clearwater Analytics

Boise-based Clearwater Analytics, a technology platform for investment management, has completed its acquisition of Beacon Platform, a provider of enterprise risk analytics and developer infrastructure. The acquisition strengthens Clearwater's capabilities in complex portfolio management across both public and private markets, including structured products, private credit, and derivatives. With the integration of Beacon's cross-asset risk modeling with front-office capabilities and alternative asset intelligence from the acquisitions of Enfusion and Blackstone's Bistro platform, Clearwater will offer a unified platform that spans the full investment lifecycle—from trading and modeling to accounting and regulatory reporting. Beacon's modular infrastructure delivers real-time analytics, scenario modeling, and custom development environments. Once integrated, these capabilities will support next-generation solutions for portfolio construction, risk management, and stress testing, fully embedded within the Clearwater platform.

DexCare

DexCare appointed Matthew Blosl as chief executive officer and board member. Blosl succeeds co-founder Derek Streat, who will transition to DexCare's Board of Directors. Additionally, DexCare co-founder Sean O'Connor has been named president. Blosl has more than two decades of leadership experience. Prior to joining DexCare, Blosl held a senior role at Experity, where he spearheaded commercial initiatives that expanded market presence and played a pivotal role in securing Experity's leadership position in the ambulatory electronic medical record market. Backed by leading institutional and strategic capital, DexCare partners with many of the nation's premier health systems, including Kaiser Permanente, Piedmont, Providence, Texas Health Resources, and Community Health Network. Under Blosl's leadership, DexCare will focus on accelerating platform innovation, including the introduction of AI-driven capabilities, and deepening market adoption. Health systems rely on DexCare's platform to achieve the operational clarity to best-utilize clinician hours, to intelligently navigate consumers to care, and to regain cost controls for sustainable growth. DexCare is headquartered in Seattle and serves more than 57 million patients across 50 states.

May 01, 2025

BLOXHUB, explained

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What is BLOXHUB, and why is its name in all-caps? It's an “ecosystem of companies,” based in Copenhagen, that includes co-work space. The organization also goes by the Nordic Hub for Sustainable Urbanization. Its director of global collaboration and partnerships is Martine Kildeby, and ULI Northwest is partnering with Scan Design Foundation to bring her here for a talk next Thursday, May 8. Back in Copenhagen, around 1,100 people from about 350 firms use the co-work space (not all at the same time, of course). BLOXHUB says those include “companies, science institutions, organizations, and public bodies — all working with architecture, design, construction, tech or other fields related to sustainable urbanization.” The 3:30 p.m. event, open to ULI members and non-members alike, will be held at MG2's downtown headquarters. Details and registration: northwest.uli.org

Corliss makes two land deals

Eric (left) and Steve Corliss

Family-run Corliss Management Group announced two significant land deals in March and April. First, it sold a 136-parcel home building site at its much larger Sunrise to KM Homes, which will construct and then sell the single-family residences. That 80-acre subdivision is dubbed Sunrise Heights. Of the $17 million deal, Eric Corliss said in a statement, “As a fifth-generation family business that has been developing this master planned community for over three decades, we are thrilled to see Sunrise Heights take form.” (South of Puyallup and east of Frederickson, Sunrise spans about 1,400 acres, and includes apartments and some commercial buildings.) Then in April, not far away from Sunrise, Corliss said it assembled 48 acres near Pierce County Airport — Thun Field. The price or prices weren't disclosed, and the county hasn't yet recorded the sales. Corliss says that development plans will follow, and that it's now seeking “a qualified industrial commercial real estate brokerage firm to assist in evaluating site design, leasing strategies and/or disposition options for the property. The selected firm will play a key role in helping CMG shape its approach to the site's future — from land planning to market positioning.” Mark Walsh at Corliss is leading the effort; he said in a statement, “The site has long been a target for CMG due to its location, infrastructure access, and industrial zoning. With full control now secured, we are in the early stages of evaluating a large-scale industrial park development that is thoughtful and impactful for the region.”

Dunham lands two Kirkland tenants

At two different Kirkland addresses, Ryan Dunham Real Estate represented the landlords in a pair of new leases. At Peter Kirk Square Office Park, Three Keys Property Management took 1,026 square feet, bringing the building to full occupancy. And at the 720 Market St. building, owned by Michelle Moscatel, 910 square feet went to Moment US.

eXp Realty adds to its ranks

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An entirely virtual brokerage based in Bellingham, eXp Realty has about 83,000 agents working in the U.S. and abroad. New to the ranks is Feisal Ramjee, who'll remain based in Kirkland. Leo Pareja of eXp said in a statement, “Feisal's mastery of new construction, relentless work ethic and focus on service make him a perfect fit for eXp. We're thrilled to support his vision as he continues to shape communities and mentor the next generation of agents.” Ramjee also expects to begin working the Arizona market. Separately, eXp announced last month that its Mindy Grubb, already VP of events, is now executive director of eXtend a Hand, the company's charitable foundation. She said, “This role is deeply personal to me. I've seen firsthand how powerful it is when a real estate community rallies around its own.”

Lots sold in Wenatchee

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Skyridge is a future 400-home community in Wenatchee. The first land sales recently took place, says Century Communities, which acquired an initial 63-home chunk of the project from Triad Maple LLC. Buyer and seller jointly announced the deal. Triad is led by Fred Grimm, a well-known figure in Seattle development circles. Century's Mick Cermak said in the joint announcement, “We're thrilled to build at Skyridge and contribute to the ongoing growth within Wenatchee.” The development, on the west side of the Columbia River, directly abuts the 2,000-acre Sage Hills nature preserve, with its large network of trails.

Western States Petroleum Association

Stanley

The Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) named Jim Stanley the organization's director of media relations. In this role, Stanley will lead WSPA's media engagement and messaging strategy across all five states the association serves —Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. Stanley brings nearly 15 years of experience in high-level political communications and public affairs. He most recently served as communications director for the California State Assembly Republican Caucus, where he oversaw all external messaging and advised lawmakers on media strategy, rapid response and public policy communications. His background also includes senior roles with the National Republican Congressional Committee, where he helped lead multimillion-dollar national campaigns, and extensive experience as a strategist on issues ranging from energy and public safety to affordability and regulation. Founded in 1907, WSPA aims to ensure that Americans have reliable and affordable access to petroleum and other energy sources by supporting policies that consider social, economic, and environmental factors.

Mutual of Enumclaw

Otis

Mutual of Enumclaw, a Washington-based regional carrier of personal, business and farm and ranch insurance, has hired insurance industry veteran Bob Otis as its new president and CEO. Otis joins Mutual of Enumclaw with more than 30 years of executive level experience in property and casualty insurance, with firms including Allstate, USAA, and National Lloyds. Most recently, he was president of Kemper Corporation's Personal Insurance business unit. Otis began his career as an underwriter with Safeco and holds the Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter designation. He earned a BA from the University of Dayton, and an MBA from Xavier University. Otis has successfully led organizations during periods of repositioning and growth. He has deep experience in both agency and direct distribution channels, while leading large national product lines as well as strong regional and niche carriers. Mutual of Enumclaw currently operates in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming and Montana.