Jul 28, 2022

Northwest Kidney Centers

Rodgers

Larmer

orthwest Kidney Centers has named Robin Larmer vice president of legal affairs and chief compliance officer and John Rodgers vice president of information technology. Previously, Larmer was vice president of compliance at Molina Healthcare of Washington and chief compliance and regulatory affairs officer at Santa Clara Family Health Plan in San Jose, California. She holds a law degree from the University of Minnesota and a master of science in rehabilitation psychology and special education from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In her role at Northwest Kidney Centers, Larmer is responsible for all legal services to ensure the organization's operations are in full legal compliance and provides counsel on complex issues. Rodgers background includes more than 20 years of experience with not-for-profit, for-profit and startup healthcare organizations. Most recently, he served as the CIO for Cambridge Healthcare Services. He also spent 12 years with Kaiser Permanente and moved to Washington as the Regional CIO when it purchased Group Health in 2017. He has bachelor's degrees in Computer and Information Science and Economics from the University of California (Irvine and Santa Cruz). Northwest Kidney Centers, founded in Seattle in 1962, is a regional, not-for-profit, community-based provider of kidney dialysis, public health education and research into the causes and treatments of chronic kidney disease.

Pacific Program Management

Pacific Program Management added Janiel Eggleston to its executive leadership team as CFO. A Seattle native, Eggleston graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in accounting and business management and has built a career over more than 20 years leading financial strategy for high-tech, retail and health care firms as both an internal finance director and a consultant. She has worked with large public entities and private equity-backed and early-stage companies. Prior to joining PPM, Eggleston held various roles at drugstore.com, before launching her own consulting practice in 2004. During that time, she led financial strategies for a diverse clientele, including ICO Global Communications, Navigating Cancer, F5, Imagen Capital Management and FIRST Robotics. Founded in 2009, PPM is a commercial real estate program and project management firm headquartered in Seattle.

Ookla

Ookla, a global connectivity intelligence firm, has acquired Swedish company CellRebel. Along with localized network experience data, CellRebel brings data visualization capabilities to support mobile network performance and optimization use cases, and a host of real-world consumer experience measurements to Ookla's portfolio. Ookla is part of Ziff Davis, a digital media and internet company whose portfolio includes leading brands in technology, entertainment, shopping, health, cybersecurity, and martech. Ookla's headquarters is located in Seattle. CellRebel is a telecom company offering an analytics platform that helps network operators, their related service providers, and application developers to better understand and improve customer experiences and network quality globally.

Jul 27, 2022

Funko

Funko, an Everett-based pop culture and lifestyle brand, plans to enter the video game market through a collaboration with developer 10:10 Games. The companies' first co-production will be an “AAA action platformer” video game in 2023. This first game will have major third-party studio integration and is expected to be rated for teens. Funko and 10:10 Games will focus on developing content for current and next gen consoles and PCs with the still untitled release. 10:10 Games was founded last summer by industry veterans, and is led by video game developer Jon Burton.

Boise Cascade

Boise Cascade completed the previously announced acquisition of Coastal Plywood and its manufacturing operations in Havana, Florida, and Chapman, Alabama. Boise Cascade is one of the largest producers of engineered wood products and plywood in North America, and is a leading U.S. wholesale distributor of building products.

Moda Assist Program

Moda Health, the Portland Trail Blazers and Astoria Parks & Recreation opened an improved, all-abilities playground at 45th and Cedar streets in Astoria, Oregon. The city of Astoria was selected by the Moda Assist Program to receive funding to purchase new equipment, receiving $20 for every assist the Portland Trail Blazers made during the 2020-21 regular season for a total of $37,000. The Blazers and Moda each contributed $10 per assist. The park includes a we-saw (a wheelchair-accessible see-saw), an ADA-accessible merry-go-round, and a pyramidal climber installed on poured-in-place surfacing designed to increase access and reduce the frequent maintenance associated with bark chips. Funding assistance was also secured through grants from the Pacific Power Foundation for $4,500 and from the Ford Family Foundation for $5,000. Parks Maintenance Supervisor Matt Moritz and his team led the design of the park and selected the equipment after conducting a community survey. The Moda Assist Program has provided funding since 2013 for all-abilities playgrounds in eight other cities across Oregon.

SeekOut

Seattle-based SeekOut, an enterprise talent optimization platform, announced the launch of its Inbound Talent solution, transforming workflows for inbound application review and reducing hours of manual review and process. Inbound Talent works in tandem with the platform's other search capabilities to match candidates with job requirements. In 2022, SeekOut was named on the Forbes annual list of America's Best Startup Employers and CEO Anoop Gupta was crowned GeekWire's CEO of the Year. Founded in 2017, SeekOut has raised $189 million in funding, is backed by Tiger Global Management, Madrona Venture Group, Mayfield, and Founders Circle Capital. It is valued at $1.2 billion.

Jul 26, 2022

The Standard

Burlie

The Standard named Jason Burlie vice president and head of sales for retirement plans. Burlie will have direct responsibility for The Standard's retirement plans distribution and market development strategies. He will also be responsible for designing and delivering customer-driven solutions that accelerate growth. Prior to joining The Standard, Burlie served in various sales leadership roles at Prudential Financial and most recently was head of retirement plans sales and strategic relationships. The Standard, based in Portland, is the marketing name for StanCorp Financial Group, and its subsidiaries.

Mason

Richarson

Moon

Seattle-based Mason, creator of a fully managed infrastructure for developing and delivering dedicated smart devices, announced the appointment of Phil Moon as CFO and Bernard Richardson as VP of Operations. Moon has previous experience at both top financial services firms and startups including Morgan Stanley, Texas Pacific Group, Square and Grove Collaborative. He recently helped lead Grove's public listing and previously raised more than $450 million in the private equity markets. As CFO, Moon will implement enterprise-class processes across the organization to enable Mason to deploy capital to expand its platform while ensuring there are adequate resources required to reach their operational objectives. Richardson brings relevant experience to Mason having launched products for major electronics and mobile players including Apple, Meta, Amazon and Microsoft throughout his career. He has over 30 years of leadership experience across various industries and functions. At Mason, Richardson will have a hand in further expanding the team and overall operations as well as making new investments.

City of Tacoma

The city of Tacoma is looking for applicants with a background working in human resources management to fill a position on the Citizen Commission on Elected Salaries. This position is appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the city council. The Citizen Commission on Elected Salaries determines the compensation of the mayor and council members. The commission meets quarterly in one or more regular or special meetings to carry out its duties. The commission is comprised of seven members. The applicant must be a resident of the city of Tacoma. Applications are due by end of day August 16, 2022. For questions about the application process contact Monica Rutledge at (253) 591-5469 or mrutledge@cityoftacoma.org.