Mar 03, 2023

Pacific Northwest Ballet

Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer Lesley Rausch announced that she will be retiring at the end of the 2022-23 season. Rausch joined PNB as a member of the corps de ballet in 2001. She was promoted to soloist in 2007 and principal in 2011. Her 22-year career will be celebrated at the Season Encore Performance, Sunday, June 11 at McCaw Hall. Additionally, audiences will have several opportunities to catch Raush's performances during the second half of PNB's 50th Anniversary season: BOUNDLESS (March 17 – 26); A Midsummer Night's Dream (April 14 – 23); and WORLDS TO COME (June 2 – 11). Rausch is from Columbus, Ohio. She studied with Shir Lee Wu at Columbus Youth Ballet and also at Pacific Northwest Ballet School. She took summer courses at the School of American Ballet, International Dance School at Jackson, Mississippi, and PNB School. She was a finalist in the 1998 Concours International de Danse de Paris, and has performed as a guest artist with Chicago Dancing Festival, Lafayette Ballet Theatre, Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival, Nevada Ballet Theatre, and Ballet Hawaii. In addition to her performing career, Rausch has been a guest teacher at Ballet Hawaii, Evergreen City Ballet, New American Youth Ballet, and Punahou Dance School. She also is on the faculty of Pacific Northwest Ballet School. Pacific Northwest Ballet's 2022-2023 season is sponsored by ArtsFund and Microsoft.

Jensen Investment Management

Jensen Investment Management announced Alexandria Sorosky, MaryAnn Dahl and Todd Schoen as new equity ownership shareholders. Sorosky joined the firm in 2018 and is currently the manager of Sales and Client Services, where she is responsible for sales and client service for adviser and intermediary channels for the western United States. Prior to Jensen, she was in internal sales and national accounts in the non-traded REIT industry. Dahl has been with the firm since 2018 and is currently a manager with the Jensen Private Client team. Prior to joining Jensen, she was responsible for the portfolio reporting and investment research functions for Deschutes Investment Consulting. She began her career working as an analyst at investment consulting firms that served high-net-worth families, foundations and endowments, and she spent more than six years at Greycourt & Co. Schoen joined Jensen in 2019 and currently serves as the firm's senior compliance officer. Previously, he was a compliance officer for Russell Investments. Schoen has also worked as a securities compliance examiner for the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions and the Texas State Securities Board. Jensen Investment Management is a 100% employee-owned equity investment management firm based in the Portland area.

Marten Law

Marten Law recently opened offices in the Mountain West, with locations in Boise and Twin Falls. With the addition of these offices, the firm now has six locations across the country, including: Seattle, Portland, Washington, DC and Boston, and now has almost 20 lawyers practicing exclusively environmental and energy law. Attorneys at the Idaho locations include Albert Barker, John Simpson and Travis Thompson. Barker represents clients in disputes having to do with water rights and water quality, environmental and natural resources, mining, food production, and commercial litigation. He has counseled clients in water rights and right-of-way litigation, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, NEPA, Superfund and other environmental litigation. Barker is also a member of the Idaho Water Resources Board. Simpson assists clients in litigation and administrative proceedings concerning conjunctive administration of ground and surface water, Endangered Species Act, remediation of ground and surface water, adjudication of Native American water rights issues, water right transactions and power generating facilities. He has served as a member of the National Water Resources Association's Policy Development Committee since 2001, and in 2010 was appointed as a representative to the Western States Water Council. He is also one of Idaho Water User Association's representatives for the Columbia Basin Collaborative. Thompson represents individual water users, canal companies, municipal providers, and irrigation districts throughout Idaho. He also counsels clients on general business, small hydroelectric projects, and real property matters and related litigation.

Mar 02, 2023

State of Washington

Stewart

Gov. Jay Inslee appointed Kendrick Stewart interim director of the state Department of Commerce effective March 4, when Lisa Brown steps down from the post she held the last four years. Stewart currently serves as deputy director of the agency's Organizational Health, Equity and Performance Division. A public servant for more than 20 years, including several prior years in leadership at Commerce, Stewart returned to the agency in February 2020 to lead internal operations, with a specific focus on organizational health, equity and performance. Stewart holds a bachelor's degree in liberal arts from Colorado State University and a master's of public administration from the University of Washington. No time frame has been set for announcing a permanent appointment to the position. Commerce works with local governments, businesses, community-based organizations and tribes to strengthen communities. The department's portfolio of more than 100 programs and public and private partnerships work to promote sustainable community and economic development.

Seabourn Cruises

Leahy

Luxury cruise line Seabourn appointed Natalya Leahy as the business's new president. Leahy, whose seven years with Holland America Group included operational oversight of Seabourn, succeeds Josh Leibowitz who is leaving the brand to pursue new opportunities. Leahy was most recently chief operating officer for Holland America Group serving Princess, Holland America Line, Seabourn, P&O Australia and land operations. Prior to joining the cruise industry, she held various leadership roles with Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola. As part of a structure to build on the benefit of shared services between Holland America Line and Seabourn, she will report to Gus Antorcha, president of Holland America Line. Leibowitz oversaw the successful return to service of the Seabourn fleet. He also led the expansion into ultra-luxury expedition voyages with the launch of Seabourn Venture, offering guests opportunities to explore remote destinations around the world. Prior to Seabourn, he served for seven years as chief strategy officer for Carnival Corporation.

DomainTools

Seattle-based DomainTools announced the expansion of its C-suite leadership team with the appointment of Chad Bacher as chief product officer. As CPO, Bacher is responsible for DomainTools' product vision, strategy, and execution, and oversees the company's Product, Engineering, Architecture and Research teams. Bacher joins DomainTools with more than 25 years of technology and cybersecurity experience. Prior to DomainTools, he held executive product leadership roles at Webroot, Malwarebytes, Carbonite and Alert Logic, where he led product development teams that were responsible for building innovative products in hyper-growth environments. DomainTools monitors the Internet and brings together domain, website and DNS data to provide context and machine-learning driven risk analytics delivered in near real-time.

Mar 01, 2023

T-Mobile

Bellevue-based T-Mobile was selected by Vail Resorts as its exclusive nationwide wireless partner in a multi-year partnership focused on bringing 5G to the slopes, trails and lodges at its resorts across the country. The companies will leverage T-Mobile's 5G network to improve connectivity for resort employees and guests, explore 5G-powered solutions to enhance resort operations, and support sustainability goals. T-Mobile will expand and enhance its network at the resorts with additional coverage and capacity. Vail Resorts, through its subsidiaries, is a leading global mountain resort operator. Vail Resorts' subsidiaries currently operate 40 destination mountain resorts and regional ski areas. Additionally, Vail Resorts owns and/or manages a collection of hotels under the Rock Resorts brand, as well as the Grand Teton Lodge Company in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Avalara

Avalara, a provider of cloud-based tax compliance automation for businesses of all sizes, announced the launch of Avalara Property Tax, a new digital business solution for real property and personal property tax management designed to improve tax compliance with automation. Avalara's new property tax software solution allows businesses and accounting professionals to manage their entire property tax portfolio and compliance activities, from preparing business personal property renditions to handling and processing assessments, appeals, and tax bills. This release follows Avalara's acquisition of CrowdReason just over a year ago to help businesses solve property tax compliance challenges. As part of the Avalara Platform, businesses can use Avalara Property Tax to automate their property tax compliance alongside other tax compliance requirements. Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and around the world in Brazil, Europe and India.