Jun 30, 2023

Madrona

Kummert

Nelson

Alhadeff

Madrona appointed three venture partners to its team of investors. As venture partners, Loren Alhadeff, Mark Nelson, and Ted Kummert support Madrona's portfolio companies as they build, scale, and navigate a company's growth. Venture partners also work with the investment team on new companies and technologies. Alhadeff joins Madrona after 14 years leading the sales organization at DocuSign, most recently as COO. At Madrona, he works with portfolio companies on go-to-market strategy, developing sales teams, field leadership, and executive development. Nelson moves from a strategic director to a venture partner at Madrona. Most recently CEO of Tableau, he is a product and engineering leader, and has been part of the leadership team through two significant acquisitions, Tableau by Salesforce and Concur by SAP. In his new role, Nelson will work directly with portfolio companies and the investment team to identify new companies. Kummert returns to Madrona as a venture partner. An experienced product and engineering leader, he most recently served as the chief product development officer at UiPath and held a similar leadership role at Apptio. During his tenure at both companies, they each had a successful IPO. Kummert first joined Madrona a decade ago, coming directly off of 23 years at Microsoft as a corporate vice president, which ended with a 6-year tenure leading the SQL Server business. Madrona is a venture capital firm based in Seattle, with over 25 years of investing in early-stage technology companies.

Smartsheet

Shipchandler

Bellevue-based Smartsheet, an enterprise platform for work management, appointed Khozema Shipchandler to its board of directors. He will also serve on the board's Audit Committee. Shipchandler's experience focused on growing and scaling global digital businesses and communities. Currently, he is president at Twilio Inc. With over 25 years of experience, he has served as Twilio's chief operating officer and chief financial officer, as well as in a variety of financial roles at General Electric, across Industrial Internet, Aviation and Corporate Audit, in the U.S., Middle East and Singapore. Khozema earned his bachelor's degree from Indiana University Bloomington and completed graduate coursework at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Laird Norton Wealth Management

Laird Norton Wealth Management (LNWM), along with partner firm Wetherby Asset Management (WAM), opened a new office in the Philadelphia area. The firm now has five offices, adding to its existing operations in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York. The new Philadelphia office will allow LNWM and WAM to serve more high and ultra-high net worth clients on the East Coast with wealth planning and investment services, including impact investing, private equity and other alternative investing solutions, and multi-generational estate planning, philanthropic advising and family business advisory. Ron Albahary, LNWM and WAM's chief investment officer, will lead growth strategies for the new office.

Jun 29, 2023

Washington Trust Bank

Hannon

Mast

Washington Trust Bank added Aaron Hannon and Jake Mast to its Commercial Banking team in Seattle to serve as vice presidents and relationship managers. Hannon joins Washington Trust from Wells Fargo, where he served as a small business administration business development officer. He brings over 15 years of experience in the finance and banking industry. Hannon has a background working in the healthcare market with medical and dental professionals and specializes in commercial and industrial lending, real estate and small business banking. Hannon received a bachelor's degree in economics with a concentration in managerial economics from Central Washington University. Mast has over a decade of banking experience, and specializes in C&I lending, commercial real estate, treasury management, and working with medical and dental professionals. Mast comes to Washington Trust from Bank of America, where he served as vice president and senior small business banker. He studied business, international studies and Spanish at the University of Oregon and completed a study abroad program at the University of Granada in Spain. Headquartered in Spokane, Trust currently has over 40 branches and offices in Washington, Idaho and Oregon.

State Court of Appeals

Cooney

Gov. Jay Inslee appointed Judge John Cooney to the Washington State Court of Appeals, Division Three. He will replace Judge Laurel Siddoway who is retiring July 31. Cooney has been a Spokane County Superior Court judge since 2013. He has presided over hundreds of trials and overseen proceedings in the county's therapeutic courts. In 2020 he was the bench's chief criminal judge. Before being elected to the superior court, Cooney served as a Spokane County District Court judge from 2007 to 2013. He began his legal career practicing criminal defense at the Law Offices of John Cooney & Associates. Cooney earned both his bachelor's degree and law degree at Gonzaga University.

Titan

Titan, the parent company of Vigor, MHI Holdings, and Continental Maritime of San Diego, announced Frank Collins will join as senior vice president, government and public affairs. Vigor operates in the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii and Alaska, and MHI Holdings, is based in Norfolk, Virginia. Collins will replace Jill Mackie, who is retiring. Additionally, Benton Strong was recently named director of public affairs, responsible for all communications, as well as state and local government affairs across all Titan companies. Collins joins Titan from the Shipbuilders Council of America, where he served as senior defense advisor. He has over 37 years of public and private sector experience in the ship repair industry. Collins was chief of staff for a member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and district director for a member who later chaired the House Armed Services Committee. He served as chief executive officer of United States Marine Preservation, as a principal government relations representative for BAE Systems Ship Repair, and was senior vice president at United States Marine Repair. Strong joined Vigor in October 2020. He previously spent seven years as a political advocacy communications professional in Washington, D.C., as well as serving as communications director for the mayor of Seattle. Mackie joined Vigor in 2015, after 17 years as head of government relations and strategic communications at the Seattle Times. Mackie led Vigor's government affairs support for the next generation of the Washington State Ferries, as well as federal appropriations and defense policy efforts in ship repair, marine and heavy complex fabrication. Titan Acquisition Holdings was formed in 2019, and its family of companies provide ship repair, ship modernization, marine and complex fabrication services.

Jun 28, 2023

The Standard Charitable Foundation

Portland-based Standard Insurance Company's charitable foundation, The Standard Charitable Foundation, announced three grants totaling $140,000 to nonprofits. Junior Achievement of Oregon and Southwest Washington was awarded $75,000 to expand and update their Portland facilities and establish a new program site in Hillsboro. With the addition of the Hillsboro site, BizTown and Finance Park, JA's signature programs focused on financial literacy, work readiness and entrepreneurship, will reach more than 25,000 students annually. The Hillsboro Community Foundation was awarded $50,000 to support disability access to a playground adjacent to Hidden Creek Community Center. The project is a partnership between city of Hillsboro Parks and Recreation Department, Hillsboro Community Foundation and Hillsboro School District. When completed, it will be Hillsboro's first fully inclusive park and playground. New Avenues for Youth was awarded $15,000 for its social enterprise programs including the Ben & Jerry's PartnerShop and screen-printing business, New Avenues INK. Portland-based New Avenues works to prevent youth homelessness and provide young people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with opportunities and resources.

Seattle Mariners

FuboTV, a sports-first live TV streaming platform, announced a marketing partnership with the Seattle Mariners. This is Fubo's fourth marketing partnership with a Major League Baseball team following recent agreements with the Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Guardians and St. Louis Cardinals. The partnership includes the display of Fubo branding at select Mariners home games as well as fan engagement opportunities. Additionally, Mariners season ticket holders will receive an invitation to join Fubo for a free 30 day trial. Fubo streams Mariners games through its carriage agreements with regional sports networks, and national sports networks (ESPN and FS1) as well as MLB Network, MLB Strike Zone and MLB.TV.

Schnitzer Steel

Schnitzer Steel Industries was named to TIME's third-annual TIME100 Most Influential Companies list. The ranking highlights 100 companies that are making an extraordinary impact around the world. To assemble the list, TIME solicited nominations from its global network of contributors and correspondents as well as from outside experts. Then TIME editors evaluated each on key factors, including impact, innovation, ambition, and success. Schnitzer's inclusion in the TIME100 list is the company's latest global recognition. Earlier this year, the Schnitzer was named the Most Sustainable Company in the World by Corporate Knights and was recognized by Ethisphere as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the ninth consecutive year. Schnitzer Steel Industries manufactures and exports recycled metal products, and operates facilities in 25 states, Puerto Rico, and Western Canada. Schnitzer has seven deep water export facilities located on both the East and West Coasts and in Hawaii and Puerto Rico. The company's steel manufacturing operations produce finished steel products, including rebar, wire rod and other specialty products. Schnitzer began operations in Portland in 1906.