Jan 25, 2022

Columbia Bank

Jones

DeCaterina

Gaffney

Stockton

Boswell

Columbia Bank announced that a five-person commercial banking team has joined its Seattle office. The financial services professionals joining include: Robert Boswell, Jocelyn Stockton, Riley Gaffney, Anna DeCaterina and Miranda Jones. Boswell joins as a commercial banking team leader and senior vice president responsible for overseeing client relationships, business development, and risk management practices for the new Seattle Commercial Banking Team. Most recently, he was the commercial banking division manager at WaFd Bank. Stockton joins as senior vice president and commercial relationship manager. She has focused her banking career on industries including contractors, manufacturers, and professional services. Gaffney joins as a senior vice president and commercial banking relationship manager responsible for new business development. Prior to joining Columbia Bank, he worked in commercial banking at both WaFd Bank and KeyBank and in HomeStreet Bank's underwriting division. DeCaterina joins as a vice president and commercial relationship manager responsible for tailoring credit solutions to align with client goals. DeCaterina is experienced in analyzing a company's cash flow, performance metrics and market position across a variety of industries. Jones joins as a vice president and portfolio manager. She will support the commercial banking team with new deal approvals and ongoing portfolio monitoring. Prior to Columbia Bank, Jones was a senior credit analyst at WaFd Bank. Headquartered in Tacoma, Columbia Bank is Washington state-chartered full-service commercial bank with locations throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Northern California.

Everett Community College

Cain

Everett Community College's Board of Trustees voted unanimously to offer the interim presidency to Darrell L. Cain, Ph. D. Cain has accepted, pending the outcome of contract negotiations. Cain, currently the president of Pierce College Puyallup, has worked in higher education for almost 20 years with leadership roles at community and technical colleges around the country. In addition to serving as president, Cain has taught at least one class at Pierce College Puyallup every year. Cain, whose start date will be determined soon, will take over from EvCC Vice President of Human Resources Joseph Whalen. Whalen has served as acting president of EvCC since Jan. 1. The college's previous president, Daria Willis, resigned to become president of Howard Community College in Maryland. Cain will serve 12-18 months while the college conducts a search for a permanent president. Prior to Cain leading Pierce College Puyallup, he served as vice chancellor for student affairs at Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis. He also served as vice president for academic affairs at Eastfield College in Dallas and was dean for academic affairs at Atlanta Technical College.

Harbor Capital Advisors,

Harbor Capital Advisors announced that Stephanie Shuler joined the firm as senior vice president, regional investment consultant. She is responsible for new business development as well as relationship management with registered investment advisors, regional banks, broker-dealer advisors, family offices, and institutional consultants in Northern California, Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Shuler joins Harbor team from Blue Owl Capital where she served as the vice president of the Pacific Northwest region. Previously, she has worked for a number of firms including Manulife, PGIM, RiverSource, and Neuberger Berman. Harbor Capital has been developing portfolio strategies for clients for over 30 years.

Jan 21, 2022

City of SeaTac

Negusse

Simpson

The SeaTac city council selected Jake Simpson as mayor and Senayet Negusse as deputy mayor at its first regular meeting of the year. The city has a seven-member council elected by residents. The council chooses from among themselves who will serve as mayor and deputy mayor for a two-year term. The mayor is recognized as the head of the city for ceremonial purposes and is the chair of the council meetings. Currently, Simpson works as an organizer with SEIU 1199NW, the health care workers' union. For more than a decade he worked at small businesses as a professional cook and began his organizing career with UNITE HERE Local 8 as a rank-and-file leader. Negusse is the language equity program manager at King County. The council makes policy, land use and budget decisions for the city, and appoints a full-time city manager to oversee the daily operations of the city.

Fulcrum Capital

Clark

Fisher

Wilkins

Mathieu

Seattle-based wealth management firm Fulcrum Capital has a new leadership team: Michelle Mathieu, chief executive officer; Matthew Wilkins, chief operating officer; Kathryn Haggitt Fisher, chief wealth strategist; and Tim Clark, chief investment officer. Firm co-founder and former CEO Darcy Johnson announced that she will retire in December. Janet Welcher will leave the leadership team, but will continue to serve clients and will remain in her current role as a managing partner. Prior to becoming CEO, Mathieu was Fulcrum's chief investment officer for five years. She led three investment firms, co-managed two equity mutual funds, and served on a half-dozen nonprofit boards during her more than 25 years in the investment industry. Throughout his career, Wilkins has held roles in relationship management, sales and marketing, operations management, and systems management at both large and small wealth management companies. Fisher has been providing philanthropic and financial planning services to clients for over 15 years. She is a member of the University of Washington's estate and gift planning council. Clark joined Fulcrum in 2017. He directs the research and security selection process, manages the firm's U.S. Core Equity portfolio, and advises several of the firm's institutional clients. Fulcrum Capital was founded in 2007, and is an employee-owned and women-led organization.

Pacific Northwest Ballet

Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer Noelani Pantastico has announced that after a 25-year dancing career, she is retiring to accept a position on the faculty of Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet (CPYB). Pantastico trained at CPYB before being hired at PNB in 1997. She was promoted to soloist in 2001 and principal in 2004. In 2008, she left PNB to join Les Ballets de Monte Carlo. In 2015, she returned to PNB as a principal dancer. Pantastico plans to continue as co-artistic director of Seattle Dance Collective, the company she founded in 2019 with fellow PNB principal dancer James Yoichi Moore. PNB audiences have at least two more opportunities to watch Pantastico perform, in the lead role of Jean-Christophe Maillot's “Roméo et Juliette,” Feb. 4–13. Pantastico is scheduled to dance on opening night and closing matinee, as well as additional performances to be announced. Visit PNB.org for up-to-date casting.

Port of Bremerton

The Port of Bremerton commission elected commissioner Axel Strakeljahn as president of the board of commissioners for 2022-2023. Strakeljahn has served on the port's board since January 2012 and has focused on economic development and job creation. During this time, he has represented the port at various organizations, most recently by serving on the executive board of the Kitsap Regional Coordinating Council, the executive board of the Puget Sound Regional Council, and as vice president of the Central Puget Sound Economic Development District Board. The port comprises Olympic View Industrial Business Park, Bremerton National Airport, Port Orchard Marina, Bremerton Marina, and several parks, piers and boat launches. Commissioners Cary Bozeman and Gary Anderson also serve on the board. With Strakeljahn becoming president, Anderson is now vice president and Bozeman is secretary.

Jan 20, 2022

Mighty-O Donuts

Olsen

Mighty-O Donuts announced that Erik Olsen will be the new operations manager of the five-store company. He will oversee staffing, supervise operations and processes, as well as ensure quality across all departments. Prior to Mighty-O, Olsen worked as the director of food and beverage at Columbia Hospitality, as well as the food and beverage manager at Columbia Tower Club. Mighty-O was founded 21 years ago by Ryan Kellner. The company sources most of its ingredients from local and organic vendors and producers. It has stores at Green Lake, Ballard, Capitol Hill and the Denny Triangle.

Lane Powell

Singh

Schirmer

Johnson

Pacific Northwest law firm Lane Powell added three attorneys to its Seattle office: Aaron Johnson, Jonathan Schirmer and Avin S. Singh. Johnson, counsel to the firm on the Tax team, joins Lane Powell from PwC, where he worked as a tax manager. Johnson represents U.S. and international businesses in state and local tax matters including tax controversies, tax planning and structuring tax-efficient transactions. Johnson is currently an adjunct professor at Seattle Pacific University and an affiliate instructor for the University of Washington. Schirmer joins the firm from Ahlers Cressman & Sleight as an associate on the Commercial Litigation and Construction teams. Schirmer has represented property owners, general contractors, subcontractors, developers and design professionals on complex public and private matters. He is admitted to practice in Washington and Alaska. Singh joins the firm from Cozen O'Connor as an associate on the Commercial Litigation and Construction teams. He is an experienced litigator who counsels on common and complex commercial, construction, product liability, property damage and general tort matters involving state as well as federal laws and regulations. He is admitted to practice in Washington and Hawaii.

Natural Systems Design

Natural Systems Design (NSD) promoted Colin Riordan to project scientist and Nic Truscott to senior engineer. New additions to the firm's staff include Lisa Remlinger as operations lead, and Kim Smith as marketing coordinator. Riordan joined NSD in 2015 and in his early days led field efforts and data analysis for the BPA and RCO effectiveness monitoring efforts. Since that time, he's expanded his capabilities to include GIS and spatial analysis, habitat suitability analysis, riparian ecology, and wetlands work. Truscott joined NSD in 2017 and has spent much of his time advancing stream and logjam engineering designs with the Bureau of Reclamation, Chelan County, and more recently with Skagit County, Lummi Tribe and Nooksack Tribe. Remlinger has more than 16 years of experience overseeing programs and initiatives in support of natural resources, clean water and climate programs. She has extensive experience with policy development and has advanced community forests, endangered species conservation plans, forest carbon projects and clean energy siting guidelines. Smith brings more than 25 years of experience in marketing, business development and event management for the AEC and technology sectors. She has managed, written and edited numerous winning proposals for such firms as Tetra Tech/KCM, INCA Engineers, Black & Veatch and the former CH2M Hill. NSD, founded in 2003, is a team of scientists, engineers and planners. It has over 45 employees in its Seattle, Bellingham and Port Angeles offices.