Aug 21, 2024

Rock Project Management Services

Cauilan

Pickard

Renton-based Rock Project Management Services hired Katelyn Pickard and Joseph Cauilan as assistant project managers. RPM provides owner's representative services to public and private clients throughout Washington that have education, technology, health care, transportation and municipal projects. Pickard has 10 years of experience providing technical support to project teams on a variety of project types, especially with environmental-related projects. Most of Pickard's project experience has been developed through her involvement with underwater dive operations at various industrial sites, including plants, bridges, water treatment facilities, retaining walls, fuel docks, and tunnel boring machines. Cauilan is a recent electrical/electronic engineering graduate from the University of Washington, Bothell. He has an interest in circuit design, and power system design and analysis.

Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson

Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson announced that Aaron Schwartz, Emily Husa and Faye Washburn have joined the firm. Schwartz joins the firm as counsel, with nearly 20 years of litigation practice spanning a wide range of matters from simple wage disputes to complex class actions involving hundreds of millions of dollars. He represents individuals and companies on matters including employment litigation and discrimination, commercial disputes, insurance coverage, sexual abuse, and complex mass torts. Husa joins Lasher as a litigation attorney after two years of summer internships through the LEAD-WA program. She recently graduated from Seattle University's School of Law, during which time she also was a Judicial Extern for the Hon. Janet Chung, Court of Appeals of Washington Division 1. Washburn also spent a year as a summer intern with Lasher, and recently graduated from Seattle University's School of Law. She joins the Family Law Practice Group and will continue to work on complex financial dissolutions, post-dissolution matters, prenuptial agreements and parenting plan litigation. Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson was founded over 50 years ago in Seattle, and provides comprehensive legal services for businesses, their owners and families.

Aug 20, 2024

Rush Commercial Construction

Gallington

The Rush Companies announced that Aaron Gallington, chief estimator at Rush Commercial Construction, has achieved the Associate Design-Build Professional certification from the Design-Build Institute of America. The certification reflects Gallington's completion of training and testing to demonstrate his proficiency in the Design-Build Done Right principles essential for successful design-build project delivery. He is among a select group of design-build professionals nationwide to achieve this designation. Founded by Gordon Rush in 1987, The Rush Companies is made up of five integrated real estate focused businesses — Capital, Commercial, Development, Residential and Property Management. Rush is headquartered in Gig Harbor.

Liberty Bank

Hadlock

Liberty Bank promoted Matt Hadlock to the position of VP & information security officer. Since joining the Liberty Bank in 2021, Hadlock has demonstrated a commitment to the company's information security protocols, working to protect sensitive data and maintain compliance with industry standards, and has been instrumental in strengthening the company's cybersecurity measures. He recently became a Certified Information Systems Security Professional. Liberty Bank is headquartered in Poulsbo, and has an office in Bellevue.

Perkins Coie

David Delafield will be joining Perkins Coie on Sept. 16 as its new chief financial officer. Delafield will lead the strategic financial planning for Perkins Coie's international operations. Delafield will join Perkins Coie from Davis Wright Tremaine, where he has served as CFO since 2018. He previously served as CFO at Providence Health & Services, where he led financial oversight for a medical group with over 2,500 providers. He also worked at Deloitte and Microsoft earlier in his career in consulting and corporate accounting roles. Delafield will work closely with Perkins Coie's leadership team on driving the firm's financial vision and objectives. As CFO, he will manage and optimize the firm's financial planning with respect to investments in its lawyers and business professionals, pricing and rates, cutting-edge technologies, and client-centric real estate. Delafield holds both an MBA and BA in business administration from Washington State University. Perkins Coie recently opened a London office with a technology-focused corporate practice.

Aug 16, 2024

DeLille Cellars

Gorski

DeLille Cellars promoted Jason Gorski to vice president of winemaking. Gorski joined DeLille Cellars in 2011 as an assistant winemaker and most recently served as the director of winemaking and viticulture. During his 13 years at DeLille, Gorski's efforts have led to more than 700 wines receiving scores of 90 points or higher from major critics, and several placements on Top 100 lists. Since joining DeLille, Gorski has led several winery expansions, the creation of many new wines, and the development of the winery's Métier label. As vice president of winemaking, Gorski will continue to lead the winemaking efforts at DeLille, ensuring that the winery remains committed to producing the highest quality wine. Founded in 1992, DeLille Cellars is the oldest operating winery in Woodinville, known for pioneering Bordeaux-style blends from Washington State.

Responsive

Responsive appointed Shankha Sen as its first chief financial officer. Sen brings more than 25 years of experience scaling global finance operations at high-growth, enterprise technology organizations. Prior to Responsive, Sen served as group vice president, finance, for PowerSchool, a provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education that was recently acquired by Bain Capital in a $5.6 billion transaction. He also held numerous positions at Red Hat including vice president, global finance, where he led global finance teams during its acquisition by IBM for $34 billion. Earlier in his career, Sen served in a variety of finance positions at EMC/Dell Technologies and Sequent/IBM. Sen will report to Responsive CEO Ganesh Shankar, and will be responsible for developing and executing financial strategies. Responsive also recently hired Meera Raman as vice president of operations and Ben Stokes as regional vice president of sales. Raman has experience in driving operational excellence and change management at companies such as Meta, Amazon, and IBM. Stokes is a sales leader with experience in scaling revenue at high-growth companies, such as Proofpoint, Whistic, and ListReports.

Responsive (formerly RFPIO) is a developer of Strategic Response Management software headquartered in Portland, with additional offices in Kansas City, MO and Coimbatore, India.

Aug 15, 2024

Alston Construction

Love

Alston Construction promoted Grady Love to assistant superintendent for the Tacoma office. Love brings several years of construction experience to the role, with his most notable project being the Ashley Furniture Distribution Center in Spanaway. In his new role, Love will assist the site superintendent to ensure the successful completion of projects through overall management of field forces, jobsite coordination, and communication. He will provide guidance on the constructibility of systems and input on scheduling and improving efficiencies during the preconstruction phase.

Alston Construction is an established general contractor and has been building projects including industrial buildings, distribution centers, offices, retail stores and showrooms since 1986.

Amperity

Seattle-based Amperity, an AI-powered Lakehouse customer data platform, appointed Chris Polishuk as its chief revenue officer to lead its global go-to-market teams, enhance sales strategies and expand market reach. Polishuk has over two decades of experience developing enterprise sales strategies, assembling high-performing teams, and managing global customer relationships across technology and data companies including Datorama (acquired by Salesforce), Acxiom and Birst.

OpenEye

OpenEye, a global provider of video surveillance and cloud-managed security solutions, is expanding its operations internationally. To help support this growth, OpenEye named Neil Killick as the company's VP for international sales and Matt Sutcliffe as its channel business manager. With over 25 years in international sales and operations, Killick brings experience working extensively with market-leading brands including ADI Distribution, Honeywell, and most recently, Milestone Systems, where he collaborated with their team to drive high revenue growth and company expansion. Sutcliffe's addition to OpenEye strengthens the UK and EMEA teams with Sutcliffe bringing 24 years of experience within the UK security industry. He has worked with Honeywell, ADI Global Distribution, and most recently, Oprema/EET. OpenEye is based in Liberty Lake.