Jul 16, 2025

Ankrom Moisan

Great

Architecture, interior design, brand, and planning firm, Ankrom Moisan has promoted Michael Great to vice president of architecture. Great steps into this leadership role, succeeding Murray Jenkins, who was recently named the firm's president.

Building on Ankrom Moisan's integrated architecture and interiors model, Great will enhance collaboration across the firm, deepen community engagement, and expand mentorship and professional development opportunities. He intends to launch a firmwide workforce development initiative to identify skill gaps and nurture emerging leaders.

His immediate priorities include refining project workflows to boost creativity, minimize repetitive tasks, and provide real-time performance insights.

Great began his career with Ankrom Moisan 25 years ago as an intern, working across multiple design studios. He has since held key positions, including project designer, managing principal, and most recently, design director of architecture.

PLS Engineering

LaBerge

PLS Engineering has announced the latest addition to its civil engineering team, Logan LaBerge. A recent graduate of Washington State University, LaBerge earned his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and has completed a course in Engineering Innovation in Design. LaBerge's hands-on experience includes an internship with the Washington State Department of Transportation assisting engineers with various projects and he participated in training programs focused on bridgework site safety.

Rice Fergus Miller

Avalos

Rice Fergus Miller’s Spokane office has hired Aissa Avalos in the role of interior designer. Avalos earned the full-time role six weeks into her summer internship with the firm.

A recent graduate of Washington State University, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design, graduating with honors. During her time at WSU, she served as editor-in-chief of Eunoia, a student-run magazine publication for the School of Design + Construction and was actively involved with the First Gen Center supporting fellow first-generation college students.

Avalos will be serving RFM’s healthcare and hospitality studios.

Compass Construction

Kirkland-based Compass Construction has hired Victoria Scott, Marija Magoc-Pobric, Mike Vos, Paul Roth, Jacob Treen and Troy Bushmeyer.

Scott has joined the Simon Northgate project team as a project engineer. She was originally hired in the summer of 2024 as a project engineer intern and recently graduated from Washington State University with a B.S in Construction Management.

Magoc-Pobric has joined Compass as a project manager. She has 10 years of experience in the construction industry, primarily working on multifamily mixed-use residential and preconstruction projects. She graduated from the University of Florida with a B.S in Construction Management.

Vos brings over two decades of experience in the construction industry, having progressed from laborer foreman to assistant superintendent, with a strong focus on safety management and field operations. He joins as a field superintendent.

Roth is an experienced construction professional with a strong background in project and field operations management. A U.S. Navy veteran, he also holds certifications in emergency medical services and fire officer training. He joins the Tanager project in Seattle as a field superintendent.

Treen has joined Compass as a project engineer. He previously worked in roles ranging from project estimator to coordinator, supporting large-scale commercial projects. He's been assigned to the Trace-Nitze Stagen project in Seattle.

Bushmeyer has rejoined Compass as a superintendent, bringing over 15 years of combined field and construction management experience. He was originally hired in 2017 as an assistant superintendent. He holds a Construction Management Certificate from Renton Technical College.

Jul 15, 2025

State of Washington

Kay

Gov. Bob Ferguson has appointed Cindy Kay as Washington's new executive director of the Board of Accountancy. Kay, a Certified Public Accountant, will lead the board following more than 15 years of work in state government and more than 20 years in the private sector. Most recently, Kay served for one year as a Board of Accountancy board member, contributing to regulatory oversight and policy advancement. She is also the co-chair of the Washington State Financial Management Advisory Council and has served as president of the Washington State Association of Government Accountants. Kay began her accounting career in Tucson, Arizona. with a Big Five accounting firm, followed by six years at a smaller CPA firm in Washington, where she honed her expertise in Generally Accepted Accounting Principles compliance and fraud accounting. She later transitioned into the private sector, serving within high-level financial reporting, budgeting and internal controls roles at various publicly traded companies. Kay then transitioned to public service, joining the Washington State Department of Transportation with her most recent role as the director of the Accounting and Financial Services Division. She earned a bachelor's degree in business management with an emphasis in accounting at Saint Martin's University in Lacey.

Amperity

Amperity, an AI-powered customer data cloud, appointed Grigori Melnik as chief product officer. With more than 25 years of experience leading platform innovation across high-growth startups and global enterprises, Melnik will lead Amperity's product strategy and execution during a period of rapid growth and industry transformation. Melnik has held leadership roles at Microsoft, Splunk, MongoDB, Tricentis, and most recently Cribl, where he expanded the company's multi-product strategy and drove significant market growth. Melnik holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Calgary. He also serves as a board director and strategy advisor to startups and private equity firms including Insight Partners and Warburg Pincus. Founded in 2016, Amperity operates globally with offices in Seattle, New York City, London and Melbourne.

Jul 11, 2025

Equal Opportunity Schools

Gutierrez

Equal Opportunity Schools (EOS) has appointed Antonio “AJ” Gutierrez as its new chief executive officer. Gutierrez has over a decade of experience leading education reform and scaling mission-driven organizations. As co-founder and chief policy and public affairs officer of Saga Education, Gutierrez helped grow the organization from a startup into a national leader in high-impact tutoring. Under his leadership, Saga served students in 17 U.S. states, and internationally in the Netherlands and Ukraine, while securing over $140 million in funding from philanthropic partners, federal grants and school districts. Raised in Boston and a graduate of Match Education, Gutierrez has advised federal agencies, philanthropic coalitions and school system leaders on deploying evidence-based strategies to accelerate learning at scale. EOS is a national nonprofit that works with districts nationwide to ensure that all students — especially those from underserved backgrounds — have access to rigorous coursework that helps prepare them for post-secondary success. EOS provides professional development for educators and builds school communities centered on student belonging.

State of Washington

Gov. Bob Ferguson has appointed Candie M. Dibble to the Spokane County Superior Court. Dibble's appointment fills the position being vacated by Judge Raymond F. Clary, who resigned from the bench on June 30. Dibble has nearly 25 years of experience as a prosecutor, administrative law judge, compliance coordinator and assistant attorney general. She has served as senior counsel for the Corrections Division of the Attorney General's Office in Spokane since 2010, co-leading a team of attorneys for the Corrections Civil Rights Unit. Dibble represented the Washington Department of Corrections, serving as lead counsel advising on state and federal constitutional conditions of confinement and other issues of statewide importance. Earlier in her career, Dibble served as an administrative law judge in Delaware, spent two years in private practice at a law firm in Mississippi, and served as an assistant solicitor in South Carolina. Dibble earned her bachelor's degree at Purdue University and her law degree from Indiana University School of Law.