Nov 18, 2021

Lane Powell

Skattum

Wong

Schilbach

Shin

White

Huck

Lane Powell announced the hiring of several attorneys in its Seattle office. Karla Martinez White is an associate on the Commercial Litigation team. Martinez White is a commercial litigator whose practice focuses extensively on commercial general liability and property claims. Prior to joining Lane Powell, Martinez White assisted domestic and international insurer clients on insurance coverage and defense issues. Isaac Shin is an associate on the Private Client Services team. Shin works with high net worth families and individuals to accomplish their goals through customized estate planning strategies. Prior to joining Lane Powell, Shin assisted clients with a broad range of state and local tax matters. He also assisted clients with strategic planning, transaction, audit defense, refunds and administrative appeals. Aleksander (Sascha) Schilbach is an associate on the Private Client Services and Fiduciary Litigation teams. Schilbach focuses his practice on estate planning and estate-related litigation, including TEDRA litigation for high net worth families and individuals. Betty Wong joins Lane Powell as counsel to the firm on the Immigration team. Wong provides consultation and representation of immigration-related matters to a diverse client base, including startups and established companies, investors and entrepreneurs, artists and entertainers, researchers and academic scholars. Kai Subic-Skattum is an associate on the Private Client Services team. Subic-Skattum counsels high net worth families and individuals on estate planning, estate and gift tax planning, and probate and trust administration. Prior to joining Lane Powell, Subic-Skattum worked as a legal intern drafting, revising, and reviewing LLC agreements and related documents, with a focus on Opportunity Zone projects and regulations, COVID-19 legislation, advantages of different entity structures and estate planning techniques, and planning opportunities for tax savings. Finally, Lachlan Huck is an associate on the Corporate, Securities and M&A team. Huck is a corporate attorney who helps startups, technology, and SaaS companies reach their full potential. Prior to joining private practice, Huck served as an in-house attorney for both a biopharmaceutical company and clean water technology company.

Nov 17, 2021

StrongBox Data Solutions

Hall

Portland-based StrongBox Data Solutions, a provider of autonomous large-scale data management and archive solutions, announced the appointment of Andrew Hall as chief executive officer to lead the growth and transition of the company as it expands the market presence of StrongLink, the company's flagship product. StrongLink delivers automation and performance to simplify data management, offering both IT managers and channel partners a vendor-neutral solution to data and multi-vendor storage resource management with scalability to accommodate environments of any size. As a senior advisor within PartnerOne Capital, a private equity firm managing a growing portfolio of enterprise software companies, Hall is in a position to bring the resources of the larger company to StrongBox Data. He has 30 years of leadership experience, most recently serving as managing director of Insider Technologies (Manchester, UK), a company developing and supporting monitoring, tracking, and alerting products for central banks and government agencies. Prior to Insider Technologies, Hall was president of ETI-NET (Montreal Canada), which specialized in deploying business continuity solutions into major data centers globally.

Smartsheet

Bellevue-based Smartsheet, an enterprise platform for dynamic work, announced a partnership with Special Olympics to empower its teams and athletes to manage projects, automate workflows and collaborate more easily. The new partnership expands on their existing relationship and will provide Special Olympics with additional Smartsheet capabilities and support to realize the full impact that seamless collaboration can have across its whole organization. Special Olympics provides year-round sports, health, education and community building to 5.7 million people with intellectual disabilities in 200 countries. Today, more than 80 percent of Special Olympic teams use Smartsheet to manage their work and plan events. In addition to the partnership, Smartsheet will provide employee volunteer opportunities at regional Special Olympics community events around the globe. Most recently, Smartsheet, the Seattle Kraken, and Special Olympics Washington (SOWA) held an employee volunteer event on Smartsheet's rink at the Kraken Community Iceplex for SOWA athletes to learn about the game of hockey. Smartsheet employees also recently volunteered with Special Olympics Massachusetts and Denver; future events are scheduled in London and Edinburgh, where Smartsheet offices are located.

Milne Fruit Products

Michael Sorenson has been promoted to CEO & president of Prosser-based Milne Fruit Products. Sorenson will report to Court Wyckoff, executive chairman of the board. Sorenson joined Milne in 2005 with the acquisition of Milne by the Wyckoff Family. Sorenson has led Milne since his promotion to president and general manager in 2010. During the past decade Milne has expanded their production capacity, product offerings and global sales reach. Since 1956, Milne has been an industry leader in the production of fruit and vegetable juices, concentrates, and purees. Today, Milne is a global supplier to the industrial food, beverage, and health and wellness markets. Milne continues to be a growth-focused fruit and vegetable solutions partner with its full line of not-from concentrate and concentrated juice and puree offerings.

HomeStreet Bank

HomeStreet Bank announced a grant in support of Seattle area police officers, HomeStreet Bank will match up to $150,000 in donations to the Seattle Police Foundation. The funds will be used to support officer wellness and morale programs in the months to come.

In addition to the $150,000 donation, HomeStreet Bank plans to sponsor National Night Out events in communities it serves. National Night Out is a community building campaign that promotes police-community partnerships which culminates on the first Tuesday in August every year. HomeStreet is a diversified financial services company headquartered in Seattle, serving consumers and businesses in the Western United States and Hawaii through its various operating subsidiaries.

Nov 16, 2021

Museum of Northwest Art

Catalani

The Museum of Northwest Art's Board of Trustees announced the selection of Stefano Catalani as MoNA's new executive director. MoNA's current executive director Joanna Sikes will continue her role through the end of 2021. Sikes will begin a new role as MoNA's director of development. She joined MoNA in April of 2018 as interim director. With the addition of Catalani, MoNA gains an executive director with 15 years of experience in leadership and operations, most recently with Gage Academy of Art. His art career straddles gallery, museum, and educational branches. Catalani will join the museum beginning January 1st, 2022. The Museum of Northwest Art, located in La Conner, collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the Pacific Northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people.

Standard Insurance

Brandl

Portland-based Standard Insurance (The Standard) announced that Margaret Brandl has been named assistant vice president and actuary, Actuarial Governance and Risk Management. Brandl has an extensive background in corporate risk management and actuarial systems and controls. Most recently she was vice president and managing actuary for the life and annuity business at Genworth Financial. Previously, she held a succession of roles with Manulife Financial in Canada. She led transformation of actuarial processes, models and tools in both companies. In her new role, Brandl will have responsibility for actuarial governance and risk management including the implementation of effective and agile actuarial and risk governance at all levels of the organization. Standard Insurance also announced that Kevin Erdahl has been promoted to assistant vice president of Employee Benefits Underwriting. Erdahl will assume full leadership of and responsibility for underwriting of the company's employee benefit products, including medical underwriting functions. Erdahl started at The Standard in 1994 as an associate underwriter in Employee Benefits. During his career Erdahl has held multiple leadership roles, most recently, he was second vice president of risk management for Employee Benefits Underwriting with responsibility for the western and central region underwriting teams and is serving as the business owner for medical underwriting systems.

Nov 12, 2021

Fortive

Fortive appointed Elena Rosman as vice president of investor relations, effective Nov. 29. Most recently, Rosman served as vice president, investor relations at Aptiv. Prior to Aptiv, she held various management roles in treasury, M&A and investor relations at Honeywell. Griffin Whitney will continue to lead the investor relations function throughout Rosman's onboarding period, before moving to a new role within Fortive's corporate development team to support the execution of the company's capital allocation strategy. Everett-based Fortive provides essential technologies for connected workflow solutions across a range of end markets.

City of Tacoma

The city of Tacoma is conducting a survey until Dec. 10 to evaluate the community's perceptions of city services. The survey is conducted every two years in preparation for the biennial budget. A total of 750 randomly sampled households — 150 from each council district — across Tacoma will have the opportunity to identify which services they feel are important, which service areas have improved over time, and which service areas could improve in the future. The community survey, administered by MDB Insight, will assess the city's performance in its major service areas, and help the city better understand community members' perceptions of these service areas. The survey findings will also help define the community's current priorities and aid the city's ongoing planning and improvement processes. More information about the survey is on the city's website, or contact Reid Bennion from the Office of Management and Budget at rbennion@cityoftacoma.org.

Proliance Surgeons

Seattle-based Proliance Surgeons, one of the nation's largest independent health care practices, named Troy Simonson chief executive officer, and announced a new strategic relationship with Minnesota-based Revo Health. In his new role, Simonson will lead Proliance Surgeons' growth and innovation strategy. Simonson will also maintain his current role as CEO of Revo Health. Revo is a managed-services organization that specializes in supporting physician leaders across the country. Simonson has worked in the health care industry for over 25 years. His accomplishments at Revo include guiding the creation of Infinite Health Collaborative, an independent multi-specialty practice with over 200 physicians in the Twin Cities. Proliance Surgeons is a physician-owned-and-managed company, with more than 100 locations across Washington.