Jul 17, 2024

Whatcom County Superior Court

Slattery

Gov. Jay Inslee appointed Jennifer Slattery to the Whatcom County Superior Court. She will fill a new, fifth seat created by the Legislature in 2024. Slattery has focused her 15-year career on family law and general civil litigation. For the last seven years, she operated her own small firm, consistently employing students part-time to build practical experience. Her family law practice includes litigation, collaborative law, and mediation. Since 2023, Slattery has also served as a pro tem commissioner for the Whatcom County Superior Court. In that capacity, she presides over minor guardianship, protection orders, dependency, juvenile detention, unlawful detainers, and criminal arraignments. Since 2018, she has been a member of the Bellingham Sunrise Rotary Club. Slattery has also served for several years as a board director with the Whatcom Community College Foundation and as a volunteer attorney with LAW Advocates and Street Law clinics. As a volunteer attorney, she has provided extensive pro bono legal assistance. Slattery earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Washington, and her law degree from Seattle University Law School.

Amplify Consulting Partners

Sparq, a provider of outsourced digital engineering for technology driven and Fortune 1000 companies, has acquired Seattle-based Amplify Consulting Partners. Amplify, founded in 2017, is a data-first consulting firm providing professional services across the technology ecosystem, including data engineering, visual analytics, program management and data-driven marketing. As part of Sparq, Amplify will increase the scope of services available to its clients. Sparq was founded in 2004, and is based in Atlanta. In 2023, funds managed by Harvest Partners Ascend Management, acquired a majority stake in Sparq, intended to allow the company to further scale its operations and digital service offerings. Bain Capital Double Impact has also been one of Sparq's investment partners since 2019.

Seattle Kraken

The Seattle Kraken and TEGNA are partnering with Gray Media to broadcast all locally available Seattle Kraken games on Gray's KAUU in Anchorage and KYEX in Juneau free over-the-air beginning with the 2024-2025 season. This follows the recent announcement that TEGNA will broadcast all locally available Kraken games, approximately 70 regular season games each year, on KING 5 and KONG in Seattle, KGW in Portland and KREM and KSKN in Spokane. Additional broadcast partners in Washington and Oregon are expected to be announced in the coming weeks. The 2024-25 Kraken season will kick off with Seattle's home opener on Tuesday, October 8 against the St. Louis Blues at Climate Pledge Arena. TEGNA operates 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets. Gray Media is a multimedia company headquartered in Atlanta, serving 113 television markets.

Jul 16, 2024

BERK Consulting

Gifford

BERK Consulting announced that Kevin Gifford has been promoted to associate principal. Gifford joined BERK in 2013 and has 18 years of experience as a land use planner and geospatial analyst. As leader of the firm's GIS team, he oversees internal training and professional development, manages internal analytical tools and resources, and also leads spatial analysis and data visualization projects for our clients. While working at BERK, Gifford completed his Master of Information and Data Science from the University of California, Berkeley and holds a Master of Urban Planning from Texas A&M

Electronic Business Machines

Dayao

Dave Schlosser, COO of Electronic Business Machines, announced the promotion of Dino Dayao to the position of purchasing manager. Dayao has been with Electronic Business Machines since 2019 and started at a warehouse logistics position. Electronic Business Machines is a local, independent office technology and software solutions provider servicing businesses for 38 years throughout the Greater Puget Sound region.

Jul 12, 2024

King County Library System

Gallagher

The King County Library System (KCLS) named Chase Gallagher as the new communications and marketing director. Gallagher reports to KCLS Executive Director Heidi Daniel. Gallagher brings more than 15 years of strategic communications experience across the public and private sectors. He most recently served as the communications director for King County, the largest local government in Washington state, where he led communications efforts on public health, chronic homelessness and policy initiatives for King County Executive Dow Constantine.

Previous roles include working in executive communications at Alaska Airlines, as the media manager for Gov. Jay Inslee and as a communications manager at the Department of Ecology. He also works with the White House on presidential events. Gallagher holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Washington. Founded in 1942, the King County Library System supports the communities of King County (outside the city of Seattle), has 50 libraries and serves approximately 1.6 million people.

Orca Security

Portland-based Orca Security appointed John Tavares as senior vice president of worldwide partner and alliances sales. In this role, Tavares will be responsible for advancing Orca Security's 100% channel-led go-to-market strategy. Key priorities include evaluating partner enablement opportunities, evolving the channel program to be even more beneficial and profitable for partners, and scaling the company's market ecosystem. Tavares joins Orca Security from Zscaler where he was instrumental in revamping strategy for increased partner profitability. Prior to Zscaler, Tavares implemented a new global partner-first strategy at Commvault with a key focus on the company's SaaS transformation business, Metallic. He also played a prominent role in building Dell Technologies' partner-first IT Transformation business.

Jul 11, 2024

Port of Everett

Liard

The Port of Everett has hired Monique Liard as its new chief administrative & financial officer. This role manages the port's $83 million operating and capital budget, while also overseeing all financial, risk management, purchasing, and information technology functions of the port. Liard will also advance port priorities across all business lines and direct staff implementation of services, policies, procedures and programs. She will also serve as the Port Commission-appointed auditor and treasurer. Liard brings 18 years of experience as a chief financial officer. Prior to joining the port, she served as the CFO for the Spokane Transit Authority. She also held the CFO role for NxEdge, Shape Technologies Group, Caterpillar's Energy Solutions Group, as well as a consulting CFO for CFO Selections. Throughout her tenure, Liard has overseen local and global teams. Liard earned her bachelor's degree in business administration with concentrations in finance and accounting from the University of Wisconsin. She is a certified public accountant in Washington state. Liard replaces the port's former CFO Eric Russell, who retired in March. Other recent Port leadership hires tied to retirements and transitions include Cassidy Follins, the port's new grants compliance manager and Barb Hackmann, the port's new human resources manager. Follins ensures the port's compliance with grant and loan requirements and reviews construction-in-progress for various projects. Before joining the port, Follins worked for the Seattle-based National Court Appointed Special Advocate/Guardian ad Litem Association for Children, and the Pacific Science Center. Hackmann develops and administers the port's human resources and employee benefits programs to recruit, hire and retain employees. She previously worked at the Seattle Mariners and the Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett.

Qumulo

Seattle-based data storage company Qumulo appointed Douglas Gourlay as president and chief executive officer. Gourlay will also join Qumulo's Board of Directors. A 25-year industry veteran, Gourlay previously served as vice president and general manager of software at Arista Networks. Joining Arista in 2009, Gourlay held various executive leadership roles across product, systems engineering, marketing, and sales. Prior to Arista, he held executive leadership positions at Cisco Systems, where he developed several multi-billion-dollar product lines. Earlier in his career, Gourlay served as an infantry officer in the United States Army. Gourlay has filed or holds over 70 patents in systems and networking technologies. Gourlay replaces retiring CEO Bill Richter, who will transition to the role of board and executive advisor.