Dec 04, 2024

PitchBook

Tarhuni

PitchBook, a data provider for the private and public equity markets, announced executive vice president of research & market intelligence Nizar Tarhuni was named a 2024 Inspiring leader by the Inspiring Workplaces award program in the Senior Leadership category. The award recognizes individuals who go above and beyond to positively impact their organization and the people within it. Tarhuni began his tenure at PitchBook in 2014 as a financial writer, and today leads PitchBook's Market Intelligence department, which is comprised of the PitchBook Institutional Research Group, PitchBook News team, and Publishing department. His team of more than 130 global research analysts and journalists publish data-driven insights spanning the capital markets from PE, VC, and credit, to market trends across established industries and emerging technologies. In addition to overseeing institutional, news and quantitative research, Tarhuni also contributes to planning product and data operations roadmaps and leads market assessments to inform PitchBook's growth strategies. PitchBook has over 3,000 team members globally across offices in Seattle, New York, San Francisco, London and Singapore.

Oregon Solar Project

Avangrid, a sustainable energy company and member of the Iberdrola Group, and Portland General Electric, in collaboration with QTS and Meta, have signed a Power Purchase Agreement for Tower Solar, a new 120 MWac solar energy project now under construction in Morrow County, Oregon. The facility will deliver clean, renewable energy to Portland General Electric's grid through Green Future Impact (GFI), a voluntary program designed to help large commercial, industrial, and municipal customers meet their sustainability and carbon reduction goals through the development of new clean energy facilities in the region. Subscribers to PGE's GFI program enroll in a bundled renewable energy product and receive the Renewable Energy Certificates associated with the energy generated from the new facility. PGE's subscription pricing is designed to avoid cost shifting to non-participating customers. Under PGE's GFI program, QTS, a data center solutions provider, is developing a data center campus to support Meta's operations in the region that will be supported by renewable energy from Tower Solar, helping to meet Meta's sustainability and 100% renewable energy goals. Tower Solar will be located just west of Boardman on about 900 acres of industrially zoned land owned by the Port of Morrow near the Boardman Airport. The project will utilize more than 200,000 solar panels. Avangrid, headquartered in Orange, Connecticut, is the leading supplier of renewable energy to PGE's Green Future Impact program, including from Pachwáywit Fields, Oregon's largest operating solar facility, and the Daybreak, and Bakeoven solar farms, which are currently under construction. Tower Solar will become Avangrid's sixth solar facility in Oregon once construction is complete in 2026, and its 17th Oregon power generation project overall.

Dec 03, 2024

Lennon Crane

Brown

Lennon Crane, based in Monroe, has appointed Scott Brown to vice president of sales. Brown comes to Lennon Crane with 25 years of crane industry experience. Most recently he was senior key account manager at Barnhart, and prior to that was with Sickelsteel Cranes and North American Crane. “Scott Brown is the perfect fit for Lennon Crane to help represent the full line of Tadano Tele Crawlers, Rough Terrain. Truck Crane, and All Terrain Cranes. Brown's focus will be to develop and expand relationships while educating customers on the values and key benefits of the Tadano line of new cranes in Washington and Oregon,” says Scott Lennon, company vice president. Lennon Crane will celebrate its 50th anniversary in the crane business in 2025. The core business of Lennon Crane is the ‘bare rental' of rough terrain and tele crawlers between 35-160 tons. Lennon Cranes operates in the U.S. West and Western Canada and supports customers in numerous industry sectors.

Emerald Heights

Steilen

Gordon

Emerald Heights, a resort-style continuum of care retirement community located in Redmond, appointed two new members to their marketing team. Vienna Gordon is joining Emerald Heights as the new marketing and move-in coordinator, and Kayla Steilen will be the new sales and marketing associate. Gordon brings several years of experience to Emerald Heights after working in marketing, sales, customer relations and accounting roles for a variety of companies in property management, medical equipment and collegiate institutions. Steilen spent the last five years working in senior living marketing. She graduated with a degree in marketing from Central Washington University. The newly opened Courtyard, a $63 million apartment building, features three floors, six apartment designs, community rooms, outdoor meeting spaces, grand entry plaza, and an underground parking structure. FirView, a 67,555 square-foot expansion, will bring 54 one-bedroom apartments to assisted living along with a new dining space, activity rooms, an outdoor patio, underbuilding parking and a skybridge connecting the main buildings. Construction will be complete in 2025.

Nov 27, 2024

Environmental Science Associates

Worsley

Rogers

McKinney

Hunnewell

Environmental Science Associates (ESA) welcomed several new hires in the Northwest region, bringing on Maya Hunnewell, Chad McKinney, Vanessa Rogers and Colin Worsley.

Hunnewell joins as the Northwest Environmental Planning Business Group director. With over 20 years of experience, Hunnewell has led environmental analysis and compliance for large-scale transit and transportation projects in the Seattle area. Her SEPA and NEPA planning expertise will elevate ESA's ability to serve public agencies across Washington, including Sound Transit, WSDOT and King County Metro.

McKinney, a senior river engineer, brings over 16 years of expertise in hydraulic and hydrologic analysis, sediment transport and watershed modeling. McKinney will contribute to ESA's river-focused designs and lead significant restoration projects, leveraging his extensive experience working with tribal partners.

Rogers joins as regional business development leader, bringing over 15 years of experience in environmental compliance, permitting and sustainability practices. Rogers will guide the Northwest region's business development efforts, focusing on emerging energy, water and natural resource management opportunities.

Worsley, a principal wetland ecologist, has more than 20 years of experience in wetland assessment, permitting and habitat restoration. Worsley's expertise will strengthen ESA's Biological Resources Group, where he will lead projects focused on wetland delineation and management and federal, state and local permitting.

RMC Architects

Pike

Kirsten

Abigail Kirsten joined RMC Architects (RMC) as a design professional. She received a Master of Architecture from Washington State University this year and Bachelor of Arts degrees in both art and mathematics from Gonzaga University in 2020.

Kirsten was drawn to RMC because of the firm’s focus on multifamily housing and healthcare projects. She is currently working on Millworks Phase II multifamily housing, city of Bellingham Public Works Phase II, and St. Paul’s Old Parish Hall renovation.

Olivia Pike also joined RMC, as a human resources/payroll coordinator. Pike graduated from the University of New Mexico in 2020, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, while minoring in Management. After receiving her degree, she began working with a small accounting firm.

Pike will handle payroll processing for the firm and provide human resources support for RMC staff.

Dorsey & Whitney

Hinton

Attorney Loni Hinton has joined Dorsey & Whitney as counsel in the construction & design group in the firm's Seattle office. Hinton assists clients in formulating approaches to tackle issues that emerge at various stages of the construction project life cycle. She represents public and private owners, developers, contractors, design professionals, and product manufacturers in legal matters involving risk mitigation and insurance, contract drafting and negotiation, construction liens and payment bond claims, design disputes, construction defects, and delay and impact claims. Hinton joined Dorsey from Davis Wright Tremaine. She received her J.D. from Seattle University School of Law, and her B.A. from University of Washington. Dorsey & Whitney has locations across the United States and in Canada, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.

City of Seattle

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell appointed Bonnie Glenn to serve as the interim director of the Office of Police Accountability (OPA) following director Gino Betts' announcement of his intention to resign on Dec. 13, following two and a half years of service leading the OPA. Under Betts' leadership, OPA recently received Seattle's first “Achievement in Oversight” award from the National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement, a civilian oversight body. Betts also doubled OPA's community outreach efforts, innovated projects to promote transparency and trust, and earned consistently high performance ratings from the Office of Inspector General. Glenn currently serves as OPA deputy director and is an experienced leader in this space, with more than 25 years of legal and judicial experience. Before serving as deputy OPA director, Glenn served for more than seven years as an administrative law judge with the Washington state Office of Administrative Hearings. Her experience includes decades of public service, including as the deputy chief of staff at the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, the acting director of the Seattle City Attorney's Office Domestic Violence Unit, and the assistant to the secretary of the Department of Social and Health Services on Juvenile Justice.