Feb 28, 2023

Red Bison

Bellevue-based Red Bison, a prop-tech and managed services company, announced that Rob Tiffany is joining as managing director, edge compute. In this role, Tiffany will work with customers to identify new opportunities to monetize the edge compute capabilities of Red Bison's in-building network. A best-selling author, speaker, and contributor to technology industry publications, Tiffany previously founded Digital Insights, a strategic advisory consulting firm. He also held positions as head of IoT strategy at Ericsson, chief technology officer at Hitachi, and global technology lead for the Azure IoT cloud platform at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, Tiffany co-founded NetPreceptor, developing an Enterprise Mobility Management platform for smartphones. The Red Bison platform integrates and connects smart building, HVAC, IoT, and other facilities/management technologies to streamline and automate building processes.

The Standard

The Standard recently became a founding sponsor of the Black Insurance Industry Collective to increase inclusion and support leadership opportunities for Black employees while also helping positively reshape the future of the insurance industry. The BIIC is a not-for-profit organization created to accelerate the advancement of Black professionals with the goal of increasing the representation of Black leaders at the mid-to-executive level in the insurance industry. Its goal is to support the development of Black talent in the insurance industry by providing educational opportunities, networking and training opportunities. It is the first industry-fueled effort solely dedicated to the development of Black professionals. One of the BIIC's signature initiatives is a four-day Executive Leadership Program designed specifically for Black professionals in the industry. The Standard is headquartered in Portland and is the marketing name for StanCorp Financial Group, and its subsidiaries: Standard Insurance Company, The Standard Life Insurance Company of New York, Standard Retirement Services, StanCorp Mortgage Investors, StanCorp Investment Advisers, StanCorp Real Estate, and StanCorp Equities.

Edifecs

Edifecs, a global health information technology solutions company, added Tom Schultz to its team of senior leaders as chief revenue officer. Schultz will lead the Edifecs sales team and drive sales strategy and execution. Schultz brings a successful track record ranging from entrepreneurial turnarounds to growing Fortune 1000 organizations. Most recently, he was senior vice president of sales at ABILITY Network. Before ABILITY Network, he served as chief growth officer at Evariant, where he increased valuations leading to a successful sale of the company. Edifecs starts 2023 ranked for the first time as a vendor on the 2023 Best in KLAS: CMS Payer Interoperability Report. Edifecs also launched a partnership with VirtualHealth to provide automated prior authorization for healthcare payer and provider clients. Edifecs is based in Bellevue.

Feb 24, 2023

Tree Top

Tree top will partner with 2023 Daytona 500 Champion Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and the Kroger Racing Team for the first time at the Pala Casino 400 on Sunday, February 26. Tree Top will be featured as the primary sponsor of Stenhouse Jr.'s car at the race in Fontana, California. Headquartered in Selah, Tree Top is a farmer-owned producer of fruit-based products, including apple juices and sauces. As part of the brand's partnership with the Kroger Racing team for the 2023 season, Tree Top's apple sauce and apple juice will be displayed on Stenhouse, Jr.'s car. Tree Top operates seven production facilities in Washington, Oregon and California.

Sentio

Seattle-based Sentio has raised $6.4 million in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Hashkey Capital, Canonical Crypto, Essence VC and GSR Ventures. The Sentio team consists of veteran engineers from Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft and TikTok. Sentio provides modern monitoring, alerting and log management for decentralized applications as an integrated and hosted experience. Additional observability features such as user behavior analytics and transaction simulation/debugger are under development. Currently, Sentio supports Ethereum, Aptos, BSC, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Avalanche and Moonbeam.

Data I/O

Redmond-base Data I/O, a global provider of advanced security and data deployment solutions for security ICs, microcontrollers and memory devices, announced that Noa Leading Co. will offer SentriX security provisioning services in Japan. Noa Leading is Data I/O's exclusive sales distribution partner in Japan and is an established supplier of programming services to the Japan market. Security provisioning will be available to customers effective immediately. SentriX secures the global electronics supply chain and protects IoT device intellectual property from point of inception to deployment in the field. Since 1972, Data I/O has developed solutions to enable the design and manufacture of electronic products for automotive, Internet-of-Things, medical, wireless, consumer electronics, industrial controls and other electronics devices.

Symetra

Symetra was named to the Forbes 2023 America's Best Midsize Employers list, coming in at No. 58 among the top 500 midsize employers nationwide. The designation is Symetra's sixth workplace award in the last 24 months. Presented by Forbes and market research company Statista Inc., America's Best Midsize Employers 2023 were identified in an independent survey taken by approximately 45,000 American employees working for companies with more than 1,000 workers in the United States. In total, 500 employers were recognized across 25 different industry sectors. The evaluation was based on direct and indirect recommendations from respondents who were asked to rate their willingness to recommend their own employer to friends and family. Their evaluations also included other employers in their respective industries that stood out either positively or negatively. Symetra was previously named to Forbes'America's Best-in-State Employers Washington list in 2021 and 2022 and was recognized by Fortune magazine and Great Place to Work as one of the 2022 Best Workplaces for Women.

Feb 23, 2023

Infogain

Schmitt

Product and digital marketing expert Garrick Schmitt is joining Infogain as vice president, digital strategy and experiences, and will lead its experience transformation division, Revel. Schmitt was named to the Adweek Creative 100 and AdAge A-List for Data and Analytics, as well as Campaign US's 40 Over 40, which recognizes leaders making a difference in media, marketing and advertising. Schmitt brings 25 years of experience to Infogain. He served as the North America lead for service innovation for Razorfish. Most recently, Schmitt was executive vice president for EssenceMediacom. Revel is the experience transformation division of Infogain. Infogain is a human-centered digital platform engineering company based out of Silicon Valley, working in the technology, healthcare, insurance, travel, telecom, and retail/CPG industries. Infogain, an Apax Funds portfolio company, has offices in California, Washington, Texas, the UK, and Singapore, with delivery centers in Seattle, Houston, Montevideo, Kraków, Noida, Bengaluru, Pune, Gurgaon, and Mumbai.

ShiftPixy

ShiftPixy, a Miami-based national staffing enterprise which designs, manages, and sells access to a platform that facilitates employment, will expand its national sales team into several major metropolitan markets including Seattle, according to co-founder and CEO Scott Absher. ShiftPixy delivers a next-gen platform for workforce management that helps businesses with shift-based employees navigate regulatory mandates, minimize administrative burdens and better connect with a ready-for-hire workforce. ShiftPixy has expertise rooted in management's more than 25 years of workers' compensation and compliance programs experience.

Smartsheet

Bellevue-based Smartsheet, an enterprise platform for modern work management, has been recognized as a leader in G2's 2023 Best Software Awards, ranking in the top five for Best Products for Enterprise. Smartsheet is the only collaborative work management offering to rank in the top 50 of the enterprise category. The Smartsheet platform offers a set of enterprise-grade capabilities to empower everyone to manage projects, automate workflows and rapidly build solutions at scale.. Smartsheet has a focus on three solution categories: project and portfolio management, marketing and creative management, and strategic transformation. G2 is a global software marketplace, with over 80 million annual software buyers that use its peer reviews to make software decisions.