Dec 30, 2021

Anthony's Restaurants

Budd Gould, founder of Anthony's Restaurants, a 49-year corporation of 23 restaurants in the Pacific Northwest, announced new shared leadership. Gould named Amy Burns as co-president alongside her brother, Herb Gould, who has been a key leader in the company for several decades. Burns joined Anthony's full-time in 2016 after a 25-year career in human relations at Microsoft. Budd Gould first opened a steak and lobster house in Crossroads area of Bellevue in 1969, followed by an Early American theme restaurant, Mad Anthony's. He then began adding dinner houses on waterfront settings. The company has grown to 23 locations in Washington, Idaho and Oregon. Since 1984, Anthony's has owned a wholesale operation on Pier 91 in Seattle. Burns began her career in the family business at Anthony's HomePort in Kirkland and became a member of the board of directors in 2001. She will lead the company's human resources, marketing and operations.

Everett Community College

Jason Petrait is the new executive director of the statewide Center of Excellence for Aerospace & Advanced Manufacturing at Everett Community College. Petrait, who has worked in education and workforce development for more than a decade, will lead the Center of Excellence in its work as a liaison between industry, Washington state's 34 community and technical colleges, and economic and workforce development systems. In his most recent role as director of funding & strategic partnerships at the Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King County, Petrait oversaw private grants focused on manufacturing sector strategies, aerospace apprenticeship and workforce policy. Previously Petrait served as director of special projects at South Seattle College. Over six years at the college, he managed programs and partnerships, including a 1-year machining certificate with Shoreline Community College, manufacturing pre-apprenticeships and federal, state and local grants.

Fortive

Fortive has completed its previously announced acquisition of Provation Software. As a result of the acquisition, Provation has become an operating company within Fortive's Advanced Healthcare Solutions segment. Provation is a leading provider of clinical workflow software solutions to more than 5,000 healthcare facility customers, including hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers. The company's software portfolio serves gastroenterology and other clinical specialties with solutions that span the entire patient procedure, from pre-op through post-op recovery and follow-up. Fortive is headquartered in Everett and employs a team of more than 18,000 research and development, manufacturing, sales, distribution, service and administrative employees in more than 50 countries around the world.

Data I/O

Redmond-base Data I/O, a global provider of advanced data and security deployment solutions for flash, flash-memory based intelligent devices and microcontrollers, announced that Dr. Cheemin Bo-Linn will be joining its board of directors. Bo-Linn is the CEO of Peritus Partners, a valuation accelerator, for industry sectors including automotive, electronics, consumer, and medical sectors with integrated security. She was named “Top Woman of Influence” by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Bo-Linn served on four prior public boards in flash memory, cloud, SaaS, IoT, and manufacturing, as lead independent director and committee chair. Prior, during her 20+ years in senior IBM executive roles, she led global teams as IBM's VP of industrial sector/electronics, responsible for IBM's software, semiconductor chips, storage, and consulting services.

Dec 23, 2021

Columbia Bank

Seppa

Columbia Bank announced the promotion of Heather Seppa to retail market manager for the Columbia/Willamette market in Oregon. She also joined the retail leadership group. Seppa is a 17-year veteran of Columbia Bank with more than three decades of leadership experience in the financial services industry. She formerly was a regional manager for the bank's Oregon Coast/Southwest Washington region. Prior to joining Columbia in 2004, Seppa was an executive vice president at Bank of Astoria in Oregon. After the acquisition of Bank of Astoria, she served as president of Bank of Astoria from 2009-2013 when it operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of Columbia Bank. Seppa is the past president of the Astoria/Warrenton Chamber of Commerce. Columbia Bank is headquartered in Tacoma.

bttn

Seattle-based bttn, a health-tech startup, announced the addition of Steve Nielsen, a healthcare industry veteran, to its advisory board. Nielsen has served as CEO for McKesson Medical, Activus Medical, and LABSCO. He has experience managing multiple billion-dollar healthcare and medical supply business units, and served as a board member to Golden State Medical Supply, Concordance Healthcare, Core Scientific Creations and TopRx. He has been an advisor to a wide range of healthcare companies across the spectrum, including medical/surgical products distribution, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals. Nielsen will serve a two-year term, and joins bttn's other advisors, including Amol Deshpande, CEO and founder of Farmers Business Network and Divergent Investments, and Brendan Fallis, founder of Leawood Capital.

Tanium

Tanium announced that Jim Whitehurst has joined the company's board of directors as an independent director. Whitehurst is a senior advisor to IBM and special advisor to Silver Lake, a global technology investment firm. Prior to being named president of IBM in 2020, Whitehurst served as president and CEO of Red Hat, an open source software company, for over 12 years. In July 2019, he led the acquisition of Red Hat to IBM for $34 billion, marking the largest software acquisition in history, and the largest premium ever paid for a large-cap software asset. Whitehurst is the 2001 recipient of the Thomson-IVR “Deal of the Year” award, an accolade he achieved as acting treasurer of Delta Airlines. Whitehurst held several titles at Delta Airlines including chief operations officer, where in addition to taking full responsibility of all the airline's operations, he led the company turn around through bankruptcy restructuring. He currently sits on the board of directors for United Airlines and Duke University Health Systems as well as Rice University board of trustees and Bank Santander's international advisory board. Tanium, headquartered in Kirkland, is a platform used to gain visibility and control across all endpoints in on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments.

Dec 22, 2021

Madrona

Madrona has appointed three new strategic directors: Sunny Gupta, Charlotte Hubbert and Mark Nelson. Gupta, Hubbert and Nelson will work with Madrona portfolio company founders and executives, sharing their insight and operating experiences as leaders in their industries. Gupta is the co-founder and CEO of Apptio. Since founding Madrona-backed Apptio in 2007, he pioneered a market category, Technology Business Management, and led Apptio to an IPO in 2016 and through its subsequent acquisition by Vista Equity Partners. He is a current board member at Gainsight. Hubbert is senior director of business development and strategic alliances at Nanostring. She was previously partner and head of Gates Foundation Venture Capital, a $500M initiative at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Strategic Investment Fund. Hubbert currently holds board seats at City of Hope, LUCA Biologics and Entrinsic Health Solution. Nelson is the president and CEO of Tableau, a Salesforce company. Prior to that, he was the CTO at Concur, working closely with Madrona managing director Steve Singh. Additionally, Madrona recently added full time investment professionals Aseem Datar, Maria Gilfoyle, Sabrina Wu and Birkan Uzun. Madrona is a venture capital firm based in Seattle, and invests predominantly in seed and Series A rounds across the information technology spectrum.

Era Software

Seattle-based Era Software, a company that helps enterprises observe cloud services and infrastructures, was named the winner of the 2021 Tech Trailblazer Award in the Big Data category. Founded in 2012, the Tech Trailblazers Awards is an independent awards program dedicated to enterprise technology startups, helping identify innovative companies, concepts and individuals in a range of categories. Winners are identified by a combination of judging panel opinions and public vote. Era Software received the award for its real-time and cost-optimized observability and analytics platform that empowers enterprises to move from petabytes of log data to insights in seconds.