Sep 19, 2024

Valentine Roofing

Valentine Roofing has been named a finalist for the 2024 BBB Torch Award for Ethics, an honor presented by the Better Business Bureau. This award celebrates businesses that demonstrate the highest standards of ethics and integrity in their relationships with customers, employees, and the community. Valentine Roofing is a finalist in the Large Business category, recognized for its dedication to ethical business practices. “We are honored to be recognized as a finalist for the BBB Torch Award for Ethics,” said Steven Heller, CEO at Valentine Roofing. “This recognition highlights our commitment to ethical practices and the values that have guided us from the beginning. We take pride in delivering exceptional service while positively impacting the communities we serve.” The 2024 BBB Torch Award for Ethics winner will be announced on Oct. 24. Valentine Roofing serves the Puget Sound area, focusing on delivering high-quality roofing services, and has maintained an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau since it was founded in 2008.

Parse Biosciences

Parse Biosciences, a global life sciences company, hired Kaitie Kramer as vice president of marketing. She will lead the marketing strategy for the company and its portfolio of single cell solutions. Kramer brings more than 20 years of commercial biotech experience to the role and joins Parse from Twist Bioscience, where she served as senior director of commercial marketing, overseeing key initiatives to help drive growth and brand awareness. She also brings extensive single cell and general cell biology experience to the role. While serving as Illumina's first single cell sequencing sales specialist, Kramer was part of the team who helped bring broad awareness to new applications and use cases of single cell sequencing. Previously, she held senior marketing and business development roles with Thermo Fisher Scientific, Illumina, and Irvine Scientific. She holds a bachelor's degree genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With technology developed at the University of Washington by co-founders Alex Rosenberg and Charles Roco, Parse has raised over $50 million in capital and is now used by 2,000 customers across the world. The company is based in Seattle's South Lake Union district, where it recently expanded into a new headquarters and state-of-the-art laboratory.

Veeam Software

Veeam Software appointed Niraj Tolia as chief technology officer. Tolia joins the company following Veeam's acquisition of Alcion, a security-first, AI-driven data management startup he co-founded with Vaibhav Kamra. In his new role, Tolia will spearhead the product strategy and engineering efforts for the Veeam Data Cloud, which expands Veeam's data resilience solutions into a flexible suite of services. He will work closely with Anton Gostev, Veeam's chief product officer. Tolia previously founded Kasten and served as the general manager of the Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes business unit. Before founding Kasten, Tolia led product development at Maginatics, a startup acquired by Dell EMC's Data Protection Group. Veeam is headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries.

Sep 17, 2024

Lease Crutcher Lewis

Beierle

General contractor Lease Crutcher Lewis hired Austin Beierle to serve as a project executive in the company's Seattle office. A lifelong builder and the son of a union carpenter, Beierle began his construction career in 2009.With a focus on highly technical and demanding projects, he'll support the continued growth of the company's Seattle commercial market sector — including the delivery of high-rise office, residential and hospitality projects — and the company's self-perform subsidiary, Crutcher Structures.

Lattice Semiconductor

Following a comprehensive search by the company's board of directors, Lattice Semiconductor appointed Ford Tamer as chief executive officer and a member of its board of directors. Tamer replaces Esam Elashmawi, who served as interim CEO since June 2024. Elashmawi will continue to serve as the company's chief strategy and marketing officer, a position he has held since September 2018 and maintained while serving as interim CEO. Tamer brings to his role extensive industry experience and leadership spanning semiconductors, networking, and enterprise software. In his most recent operating role, Tamer served as president and CEO of Inphi for over nine years. Prior to Inphi, he was CEO of Telegent Systems, senior vice president and general manager of Broadcom's Infrastructure Networking Group, co-founder and CEO of Agere. Most recently, he served as a senior operating partner of Francisco Partners. Lattice Semiconductor is headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Performance Home Medical

Kent-based Performance Home Medical (PHM), a home medical equipment and respiratory services provider, named Larry Mastrovich, who has served as PHM chairman since January 2024, chief executive officer. Mastrovich's appointment follows healthcare-focused private equity firm Grant Avenue Capital's investment in PHM and reflects PHM's continued focus on expanding its geographic footprint, and accelerating the business' growth. Mastrovich brings three decades of leadership, operations, sales and marketing, and strategic transaction experience to PHM. For more than 25 years, Mastrovich worked at Apria Healthcare, most recently as president and COO. Prior to joining PHM, he served as president and CEO of Breathe Technologies, a medical device manufacturer for respiratory products. Founded in 2001, PHM provides home care services to patients in need of obstructive sleep apnea, oxygen, ventilator, and continuous glucose monitoring device and supply needs. Serving over 70,000 patients primarily in the Pacific Northwest, PHM provides access to in-home equipment and supplies throughout its over 20 locations across Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Grant Avenue Capital is a healthcare-focused, middle-market private equity firm.

Sep 13, 2024

Lease Crutcher Lewis

Schuck

Seattle-based general contractor Lease Crutcher Lewis (Lewis) promoted Rob Schuck to the role of project executive within the firm's corporate market sector, which delivers high-end spaces for companies in the Pacific Northwest. During his six years with Lewis, Schuck has demonstrated an ability to deliver complex lab environments, data centers, and technical office spaces while ensuring positive project outcomes. In his new role, he will continue to help drive the growth of Lewis' corporate market sector team.

Banner Bank

Borrecco

Banner Bank is expanding its executive leadership team by adding Mark Borrecco as chief banking officer. Borrecco will oversee the bank's production lines of business, including commercial, commercial real estate, community banking and mortgage, and will be responsible for executing the bank's initiatives to enhance the client experience while ensuring continuing growth and profitability across all banking divisions. Borrecco has more than 25 years of banking experience focused in the Western U.S., most recently as the California president of a large regional bank. Prior to that, he held positions as president, CEO, chief banking officer and national sales manager with regional and community banks. Borrecco earned his bachelor's degree in economics from California State University. He has served on the Pacific Coast Banking School Board of Directors and the Greater Sacramento Economic Council. Banner Bank is a Washington-chartered commercial bank headquartered in Walla Walla, conducting business in Washington, Oregon, California and Idaho.

Titan

Titan, a bi-coastal company providing ship repair and marine and complex fabrication services, appointed Francesco Valente as CEO. Valente will replace Jim “Marco” Marcotuli, who is retiring after five years leading the company and nearly five decades as a leader and executive in the aerospace, defense and manufacturing sectors. Valente joins Titan with more than 20 years of experience running business operations globally, including as CEO of Fincantieri Marine Group, the parent company's U.S. shipbuilding and ship repair operation. He joins Titan from Beretta, where he has led U.S. operations since 2019. Valente will join Titan on Sept. 23, with Marcotuli taking on a role as a board member and advisor. Valente will be based at Titan's headquarters in Portland. Titan Acquisition Holdings was formed in 2019. Titan is the parent company of Vigor, operating in Portland, Seattle, Ketchikan and Hawaii; MHI Holdings, based in Norfolk, Virginia; and Continental Maritime of San Diego.