Apr 02, 1999

PhotoDisc

PhotoDisc, the Seattle-based, royalty-free stock photography brand of Getty Images Inc. recently added Toni Marinovich as vice president of marketing. Marinovich formerly served as national sales manager at Apple Computer.

Tim Girvin Design

Seattle-based strategic branding and design firm Tim Girvin Design Inc. has been renamed and will now be called Girvin. For more company information, visit the web site at http://www.girvin.com.

Broderick Group

Steve Henderson has joined the Broderick Group, an Eastside real estate brokerage firm, as a prinicpal. Henderson, who previously worked for Cushman & Wakefield, has nine years' industrial and high-tech facility leasing and sales experience and has been involved in some of the largest industrial projects on the Eastside. In addition to development-related transactions totaling more than 60 acres, he has completed deals for more than 750,000 square feet of build-to-suit facilities and related transactions.

Comps.com

Comps.com, a national commercial real estate information service headquartered in San Diego, has acquired the assets of Real Estate Transaction Journal, a Portland monthly. The Journal's real estate sales transaction information will now be provided through Comps' Internet website and CompsLink software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. It was Comps' third acquisition in the last five months. The Journal, which covers Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties in Oregon and Clark County, Wash., was sold to Comps by Palmer, Groth & Pietka, a full-service real estate appraisal company in Portland.

Apr 01, 1999

Davis Wright Tremaine

Ward E. Buringrud, commercial finance, Bradley L. Fisher, litigation, Monica Brown Gianni, federal and international tax, R.Z. Margaret Lu, business/corporate, employment law and international business transactions, Jonathan M. Michaels business/corporate, mergers and acquisitions and health law, Martin R. Morfeld, tax and health law, and Jeffrey B. Oster, intellectual property, patents and technology-based business law, were recently named partners in law firm Davis Wright Tremaine's Seattle office.

Mar 31, 1999

Sparling

Seven new associates have been named at Sparling. David V. Balyeat is a registered communications distribution designer who joined the firm in 1994. He has worked with TCI Cablevision of Washington, Compaq and Microsoft. Steven C. English, who joined the firm in 1993, has been designing electrical systems for commercial and health care clients for 29 years. He has provided construction administration services for several million square feet of buildings at Microsoft World Headquarters in Redmond. Thomas B. Mullins is manger of Sparling's audio/video consulting group. Mullins, who has been with the firm since 1995, is currently working on presentations systems for the Experience Music Project and Key Arena's Courtside Club. Michael B. Newberry, who has also been with the firm since 1995, designs power, lighting and security systems for hotels, commercial and educational facilities. As a project manager, he currently leads design teams for Seattle's Millennium Tower, Nordstrom's 700 Olive Way office tower, the Bellevue Technology Tower and W. Hotel in Seattle. John J. Parry specializes in design and construction support for power distribution systems for multiple building campuses. His recent projects include Microsoft's Troon office building, Sammamish Park Place in Issaquah and tenant improvements and renovations to the Boeing Customer Services Training Center in Renton. He joined the firm in 1995. Kari J. Schmidt manages Sparling's office support staff, and the firm's in-house employee education program. Joseph D. Virnig, who joined Sparling in 1991, has been designing electrical systems for educational, manufacturing and commercial buildings. His projects include Edmonds-Woodway and Meadowdale High Schools, Eddie Bauer headquarters expansion, and the State of Washington Natural Resources Building.

Hart Crowser

Wayne Adams has joined the Seattle office of Hart Crowser as an associate geotechnical engineer. He comes from Golder Associates, where he spent 10 years. His project management experience includes the 42-foot-deep KOMO Broadcasting temporary shoring next to the monorail; project manager for landslide remediation near Golden Gardens Park in Seattle, and the Microsoft Campus Troon permanent soil nail basement walls. At Hart Crowser, he is manager for construction of Three Bellevue Center in downtown Bellevue. In Hart Crowser's Portland office, Leon Lahiere has been promoted to senior project geologist and Michael Fitzgerald has been hired as environmental scientist. Lahiere has been with the firm for eight years, and has recently managed environmental projects for Shell Oil, US West, the Port of Portland and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality's Orphan Site program. Fitzgerald has five years of experience in soil science, agronomy, waste management, hydrology and construction. He will be responsible for field task coordination in land and water use surveys, ecological risk assessments, wetland delineation and mitigation and environmental construction site management. Andrew Raichle has joined the staff of Hart Crowser's Jersey City, N.J., office. Sediment management in port and coastal environments will be Raichle's primary focus. His research in the areas of wave modeling, erosion prediction and the performance of coastal structures has been featured in peer review journals. Raichle will be responsible for expanding the market for sediment services to undeveloped and residential waterfronts.

Union-Street.com

Union-Street.com, a Seattle-based developer of interactive applications for Web sites, recently hired Brian Oaks as vice president of sales. Oaks formerly held a position in national business development and partner marketing with Sprynet.