Jan 27, 2022

Lasher Holzapfel

Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson announced that attorneys James Blankenship and Joseph Evans have joined the firm. Blankenship joins the firm's Employment Law and Business Litigation practice groups. He represents and advises employers and employees in disputes involving wrongful discharge, discrimination, wage and hour claims and union matters. He also represents business entities in complex litigation, professional liability, and regulatory disputes. Evans joins the firm's Business Litigation group, bringing experience representing financial institutions and national lenders in consumer finance, commercial litigation and real estate matters. His practice has included representation in state, federal, and bankruptcy courts in Washington and Oregon. Lasher Holzapfel was founded 48 years ago in Seattle.

Carney Badley

Schalla

Susan Schalla has been elected to the board of directors and as director of associates at Carney Badley Spellman. Schalla has extensive experience in mergers & acquisitions on both the buy-side and sell-side, having successfully closed transactions with enterprise value up to $460 million. She has represented private equity firms in acquiring and selling portfolio companies, and has represented businesses in manufacturing, software, food and beverage, telecommunications, retail, consulting and professional services, and other industries.

Seyfarth

Sherwood

Douris

Meghan Douris and Ashley Sherwood have joined Seyfarth's Litigation department and Construction practice group as partners in the Seattle office. Previously, they served as construction partners at Oles Morrison. Joining Douris and Sherwood in their move to Seyfarth is associate Ryan Gilchrist. Seyfarth announced the formal launch of its Seattle office in 2020, the firm's first in the Pacific Northwest and fifth on the West Coast. Seyfarth's Seattle office is currently comprised of 30 lawyers, including 17 partners, from a cross-section of the firm's departments. Douris provides legal counsel to general contractors and subcontractors on a range of issues affecting their construction projects. Douris also helps organizations understand and secure government contracts in the construction and service industries. She founded Women Leaders in Construction and is a current member. Sherwood represents general contractors, subcontractors, and developers of all sizes on complex private and public construction projects at the state, federal, and international level. A past president of CREW Seattle, Sherwood currently serves on its board of directors and has held leadership positions since 2017. Gilchrist's practice spans construction, commercial litigation, real estate, and government contracts. With more than 900 lawyers across 17 offices, Seyfarth Shaw provides advisory, litigation, and transactional legal services to clients worldwide.

REVTech

Out of 70 applications from across the nation, Microsoft announced that REVTech, a local certified Woman / Veteran Owned Lakewood firm, is one of fifteen #BuildFor2030 Hackathon Heroes. REVTech's winning project, called Navigation Application (NAVApp), is currently deployed in the city of Seattle and gaining traction across the country. NAVApp assists both those experiencing homelessness, as well as city leaders and field technicians. The Microsoft #BuildFor2030 Hackathon seeks to drive transformative solutions and services into development to further the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals. The Sustainable Development Goals are a call for action by all countries to promote prosperity while protecting the planet. They recognize that ending poverty must go hand-in-hand with strategies that build economic growth and address a range of social needs including education, health, social protection, and job opportunities. The NAVApp works by creating real-time, secure, geo-accurate data by city employees and other service providers while at the same time being able to provide HIPAA compliant security and customized solutions for people experiencing homelessness. REVTech was founded in 2011 by husband and wife team RJ Naugle and Anne Sprute.

Jan 26, 2022

Madrona Venture Group

Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group announced that James Phillips is joining the firm as a strategic director. Phillips will work with Madrona's portfolio company founders and executives, sharing his insight and operating experiences and will collaborate with the investment team. Phillips is the president of the Digital Transformation Platform group at Microsoft, a product development group spanning Microsoft's business applications and services. Prior to joining Microsoft, Phillips was a founder and CEO of Akimbi Systems and a co-founder at Couchbase. He held engineering, product management, corporate development and marketing leadership roles at Intel, VMware and Synopsys, and spent two years as a technology investment banker with UBS PaineWebber. Phillips joins a growing group of experienced operators joining the firm to help portfolio companies and assist the investment team. Recent strategic directors include founder and CEO of Apptio, Sunny Gupta, president and CEO of Tableau, Mark Nelson, and senior director of business development and strategic alliances at Nanostring, Charlotte Hubbert.

IRG Physical & Hand Therapy

IRG Physical & Hand Therapy is offering a training and mentorship program to local medical residents through the Swedish Family Medicine Residency Program. Through the program, first- and third-year residents participate in a 4-week rotation with certified physical therapists to learn about treatment for common musculoskeletal conditions. In addition to providing mentorship and job shadowing opportunities, IRG Physical & Hand Therapy also provides a yearly lecture on the benefits of physical therapy and treatment of relevant conditions. IRG Physical & Hand Therapy accommodates up to 22 residents who participate in medical rotations throughout the year. IRG Physical & Hand Therapy is headquartered in Mill Creek, and operates over 35 outpatient orthopedic clinics throughout the Puget Sound region.

ZoomInfo

ZoomInfo announced it has expanded its global operations in London and named Simon McDougall as its first chief compliance officer. ZoomInfo plans to relocate some of its senior executives to London in 2022 and is actively hiring for U.K. roles to expand sales and service capabilities locally and regionally. With more than two decades of international experience in data privacy, London-based McDougall will oversee ZoomInfo's compliance function. Most recently, McDougall was deputy commissioner for the Information Commissioner's Office, the U.K.'s independent authority that upholds information rights and promotes openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals. Previously, McDougall built privacy consulting practices at Promontory, an IBM company, and Deloitte, working with clients from a range of sectors in Europe, the U.S., and Asia, and served on the board of the International Association of Privacy Professionals. ZoomInfo is headquartered in Vancouver, Wash.

Ziply Fiber

Ziply Fiber announced that after an initial rollout in Kirkland last month, it has begun offering ultra-high-speed 5-gig and 2-gig residential fiber internet service to nearly 170,000 residential customer addresses in 60 cities and towns across Washington, Oregon and Idaho. By mid-year, these multi-gig residential services will be available in most of the company's four-state fiber footprint. Ziply Fiber began building out fiber in markets throughout the Northwest in 2020 and has announced 57 fiber construction projects since then. The company plans to introduce its 5-gig and 2-gig service in Montana later in Q1 2022. As the company continues to expand its fiber presence, Ziply Fiber's expansion into new fiber markets will be built with multi-gig services enabled. Ziply Fiber is headquartered in Kirkland, and has major offices in Everett, Beaverton, Oregon and Hayden, Idaho. Most of Ziply Fiber's executive team, which consists of former executives from AT&T, CenturyLink, and Wave Broadband, either grew up in the Northwest or have spent the better part of 30 years living here.