Nov 04, 2021

NW Children's Foundation

Heile

Mueller

Helm

NW Children's Foundation, which works to end the intergenerational cycle of child abuse, neglect and trauma through grants and education, has restructured and expanded its executive leadership team to reflect its accelerating growth and scope. The non-profit organization promoted executive director Victoria Peattie Helm to chief executive officer, and associate director/CFO Lori Leff Mueller to chief operating officer. NW Children's Foundation also hired Adrienne Heile to fill the new position of chief program officer. Heile recently retired as an executive with State Farm Insurance. She started as a volunteer on NW Children's Foundation's board in 2020. During her 32-year career at State Farm, Heile volunteered for numerous non-profits. She served on the board of Symphony Tacoma, on the Advisory Council of Directors of the UW Milgard School of Business Women's Initiative, was strategic planning chair of Seattle Links, and was a board member of both Junior Achievement of Central Illinois and Domestic Violence of Saratoga Springs, NY. While NW Children's Foundation started as a grantmaking organization supporting non-profits focused on children, it has in recent years gained national attention for its annual Forum on childhood trauma. Through its grantmaking, NW Children's Foundation invests about $1 million annually to roughly 60-70 Western Washington child-serving organizations.

Allison Spielman Advisors

The Mather Group (TMG), a family- and employee-owned wealth management firm with eight offices across the country has announced its acquisition of Allison Spielman Advisors (ASA), a state-registered investment adviser firm based in the Seattle area. Established in 1997, ASA has a four-person team, including owner and founder, Thom Allison, CFP, who brings more than 30 years of experience to TMG. This acquisition adds a new market to TMG's expanding national footprint, as the ASA team will continue to operate out of its office in Bellevue. TMG is headquartered in Chicago.

Nov 03, 2021

Carney Badley

Miller

Vial

Seattle law firm Carney Badley Spellman has hired Tierney Vial and Marguerite Miller. Vial is an appellate attorney, whose practice focuses on appeals. During law school, Vial assisted in representing an elderly incarcerated client through the Washington Innocence Project in a case that established a new Washington standard for cruel punishment in conditions of confinement. After her first year of law school, Vial interned in the Violence Against Women Act Unit at Northwest Immigrant Rights Project. Before studying law, Vial taught high school English literature at Casablanca American School in Morocco and English as a second language at a primary school in Vigo, Spain. Miller's practice focuses on corporate and business law, mergers and acquisitions, and privacy law. During law school, Marguerite was a summer associate with Carney Badley Spellman, and gained experience working on corporate transactions, privacy issues, and ongoing corporate governance matters. Additionally, Miller interned with two early-stage startups and two publicly traded companies, where she counseled on anti-corruption and privacy compliance.

Remote Medical International

Remote Medical International (RMI), a global company providing medical services, support, and supplies worldwide, announced that it will appoint Duncan Higham as chief Executive officer. Higham is the former CEO of SSI Risk Management, a company acquired by RMI in July 2020. Currently, he serves as RMI's vice president global strategy, where he directs the company's growth in renewable energy emergency response. Higham will succeed Wayne Wager, who retired as chief executive officer effective November 1, 2021. Higham founded SSI Risk Management (SSI) in 2012 and SSI Energy in 2016. He grew the SSI Group into a multi-million dollar business before its acquisition by Remote Medical International. He graduated from Cardiff University and Imperial College in Economics before receiving emergency medical training in Cape Town, South Africa. On graduating from university, Higham served for ten years in the Royal Marines Commandos. He completed three tours in Afghanistan, the last as operations officer for the Royal Marines Commando Brigade. Headquartered in Seattle, RMI protects the health and wellbeing of teams working in diverse job sites, including remote pipeline installations, offshore wind and maritime operations, and television and film production locations.

Goldfinch Partners

Goldfinch Partners announced that Matthew Herman will join as a partner of the firm and general counsel in November 2021. Herman will be based in Goldfinch's New York office, where he will oversee legal and regulatory matters for the firm, and will join the firm's Investment Committee taking an active role in the investment process. For more than 15 years, Herman was a partner with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, a leading international law firm. Most recently, Herman was Freshfields' US managing partner and co-head of Global M&A. Headquartered in Seattle, and with investment professionals in the Bay Area and New York City, Goldfinch Partners is a financial sponsor with approximately $1 billion of equity invested in enterprise technology companies that power digital transformation.

Nov 02, 2021

Department of Commerce

Chavez

Brailey

Camacho

Three recent hires by the Washington State Department of Commerce significantly increase the agency's Community Engagement and Outreach team dedicated to promoting equity and opportunity for rural and underserved communities, small businesses and organizations. Jessica Camacho of Yakima will lead Commerce's Small Business Resiliency Network, a statewide program formed in Spring 2020, that works to ensure historically underserved business owners have access to business assistance, including COVID relief funding and support. Karlena Brailey joins the Community Engagement team. Brailey joined Commerce in September and is based on the Olympic Peninsula. Norma Chavez fills a similar post based in Kennewick, covering Adams, Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Klickitat, Yakima and Walla Walla counties. Brailey and Chavez bring their experience to the growing Commerce Community Engagement and Outreach team stationed throughout the state. Community Engagement and Outreach Office Deputy Director JB Bennis is based in Seattle, assisted by Contracts and Program Development Lead Tracy Gunter based in Olympia. Also based in Olympia, Engagement Specialist Steve Dunk serves southwestern Washington communities. Based in Spokane, Julia Havens manages the team and also serves as specialist for the far eastern portion of the state. Commerce is currently recruiting two more community engagement specialists, one serving north central Washington and the other covering the northwestern region. For more information on these positions, see Commerce's website.

Parcion Private Wealth

Parcion Private Wealth, a Seattle-area wealth management firm focused on helping business owners and entrepreneurs optimize wealth events, recently welcomed Brendan Sullivan as chief operating officer. Sullivan joins the 2-year-old firm and will preside over the daily management of the firm's business operations. Sullivan has more than 15 years in the finance industry, with the majority of that spent with independently owned advisor businesses. Prior to joining Parcion, Sullivan spent several years at HighTower Advisors and Charles Schwab Institutional. Most recently, he served as the chief operating officer at Sound Legacy Wealth Advisors.

Oct 29, 2021

SanMar Corp.

SanMar Corp., a national supplier of wholesale apparel and accessories, announced that Steve Cuthbert has been named its new vice president of sales.

Cuthbert's career in the outdoor textile industry spans 25 years. Most recently, he served as vice president of sales for The North Face. In the eight years at the company, Cuthbert bolstered its worldwide brand and built strong relationships with suppliers and retailers across the industry. Before that, he spent 15 years with Polartec where he served as director of sales.

Born and raised in Philadelphia, Cuthbert studied textile engineering at Philadelphia University and earned his master's degree in textile technology at the Institute of Textile Technology.