Nov 21, 2025

Compass Construction

Anderson

Ostrander

Swenson

Hart

Shuman

Kirkland-based Compass Construction recently added several new team members. Brad Shuman joined Compass as superintendent. Shuman brings over 40 years of hands-on construction experience, including managing complex, phased projects on occupied sites. He has a background in public sector and educational facility construction and is skilled in schedule creation and implementation. Cody Hart joined as project accountant. Hart brings over five years of experience in project accounting for construction and real estate projects. He holds a M.S. in Accountancy and a B.S. in Business Administration from Central Washington University, as well as a Project Management Certificate from the University of Washington. Dan Swenson joined Compass as assistant superintendent for the Cultivate project in Redmond. He has more than 20 years of experience in residential and commercial construction, including overseeing multimillion-dollar projects and managing teams through all phases of construction. Swenson earned his B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington. Hanna Ostrander joined Compass as safety representative. She has hands-on experience in heavy equipment operation, welding, and jobsite safety, and has supported safe work practices on a range of construction sites. Ostrander brings a strong foundation in safety training and holds several industry certifications. Additionally, Justin Anderson was promoted to project director. He joined Compass in 2011 as a project engineer and has since led numerous projects, including Vail, Yesler Terrace Phase 2, and 21 Boston- Compass’ largest completed project to date. Anderson is a University of Washington alumni and is currently enrolled in their Commercial Real Estate Certificate Program.

Nov 20, 2025

Hensel Phelps

Koob

Seavey

Winfield

Hensel Phelps announced that two employees in the Pacific Northwest Region, Paul Winfield and Tyler Seavey, have received their DBIA certificates. Winfield serves as Hensel Phelps' management representative. He has experience in developing and monitoring project master schedules, estimating, job cost reports and establishing and implementing effective communication procedures for all team components. He has applied his DBIA expertise on projects including the progressive design-build Caltech Resnick Sustainability Center and the Caltech Chen Neuroscience Research Building. Seavey manages all day-to-day client needs and concerns. He brings experience in developing and monitoring project master schedules, estimating, job cost reporting and implementing effective communication procedures across teams. He has applied his DBIA expertise on ground transportation such as the Downtown Redmond Link Extension project, aviation and public sector projects. Additionally, Dave Koob received his Associate DBIA. He manages project costs by establishing preliminary budgets and final cost estimates. He is experienced in all aspects of procurement for hard bid, conceptual and design-build projects, as well as preconstruction cost controls involving cost estimating, cost analysis and value engineering. Koob is currently providing estimating services for a confidential client data center project in Central Washington.

Skagit County Superior Court

Crandall

Gov. Bob Ferguson named current Skagit County Superior Court Commissioner Mary Crandall to the position of Skagit County Superior Court Judge. Crandall's appointment, effective Dec. 31, fills the position that Judge Thomas Verge's resignation will vacate. She has served four years in her current role as Skagit County Superior Court Commissioner in Mount Vernon, where she presides over matters such as civil protection orders, probate, guardianship, at-risk youth and juvenile offender calendars. She serves on several statewide judicial committees, including family and juvenile law, ethics and guardianship and probate. Before joining the Skagit County Superior Court as a commissioner, Crandall regularly served as a pro tem judge in San Juan County District Court for two years while also working as a prosecutor in Skagit County. In her legal practice, Crandall investigated and prosecuted a variety of criminal cases, including murder and gang-related weapons offenses, working closely with victims and witnesses. Earlier in her career, Crandall spent five years in Portland at the Multnomah County District Attorney's Office. Prior to that, she clerked for Lane County Circuit Court Judge M.K. Merten in Eugene, Oregon. Crandall earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Washington and her law degree from the University of Oregon.

Nov 19, 2025

Red Dot Corp.

Puyallup-based Red Dot Corp. and its employee-owners are celebrating the company's 60th anniversary by launching a new brand, platform-Red Dot is REDy for Anything. “REDy for Anything captures both who we are and where we're going,” said John Beering, CEO of Red Dot. “It reflects our purpose: to take the team member ingenuity, product reliability, and customer relationships that have defined us for 60 years and apply them to new frontiers. We're expanding into emerging markets while staying deeply committed to the people, products, and partnerships that built Red Dot's legacy.” The anniversary celebrations came on the heels of the launch of Offroad Arctic, a new brand of in-cab climate control for UTVs, or utility terrain vehicles. Red Dot currently has manufacturing and sales facilities in the United States, United Kingdom and China, a Millenium RedDOT LTD partnership in India, international OEM partnerships, a strong distributor network and products in use across six continents. Red Dot traces its beginnings to the late 1950s, when Harcourt G. “Harky” Runnings started a sideline business making heaters at his automotive radiator repair shop in West Seattle. In 1965, he incorporated Red Dot with a plan to develop heating and air conditioning products specifically for heavy-duty vehicles and off-highway equipment. Red Dot serves the construction, agriculture, mining and off-highway, military, emergency, coach and bus, and specialty vehicle markets. The company is expanding into strategic new markets, including UTVs and side-by-sides, electric vehicles, battery thermal management, and advanced commercial applications.

Supio

Seattle-based Supio, a legal AI platform purpose-built for personal injury law, has been awarded the Document Intelligence Solution of the Year in the sixth annual LegalTech Breakthrough Awards. Each year, the LegalTech Breakthrough Awards honor and recognize the most exceptional technology contributions globally that are reshaping the legal landscape. Among thousands of other nominations, Supio stood out for its AI platform that transforms how personal injury and mass tort law firms build stronger cases and achieve superior outcomes. Supio's platform automates the most time-intensive aspects of case preparation across the entire lifecycle. The company recently launched its next-generation platform, CaseAware AI, supporting attorneys from intake through trial with agentic research, rapid drafting and deposition analysis. The award also builds on other recent ecosystem momentum for Supio, including a partnership with Litify that sees Supio's technology power new medical record chronology capabilities for Litify customers, and an additional partnership with Thomson Reuters, which integrates Supio's AI technology into the Thomson Reuters legal tech stack.

Nov 18, 2025

PBCO Financial Corp.

PBCO Financial Corp., the holding company of People's Bank of Commerce, announced that Steve Erb, chief operating officer of the company and bank will retire in March 2026. Erb joined the bank in January 2014, serving as chief banking officer, chief strategy officer, and most recently as chief operating officer. Erb will be succeeded by Nikki Hoffman, senior vice president and IT director, who will step into the role of chief operating officer of the bank on Jan. 1, 2026. Hoffman has worked at People's Bank since 1998, with prior roles in commercial lending, operations support, and most recently as director of the bank's IT department. PBCO is based in Medford, Oregon.

Nov 14, 2025

Veeam Software

Cerra

Veeam Software, a data resilience software provider, has appointed Allison Cerra as chief marketing officer. Reporting directly to CEO Anand Eswaran, Cerra joins from Alkami Technology, a provider of fintech digital banking for mid-market financial institutions, where she has served as chief marketing officer since 2021. Her prior leadership roles include vice president of marketing at HPE, where she led the company's digital-first go-to-market transformation during the COVID-19 pandemic, and as chief marketing officer at McAfee, where she re-established the company's brand identity after its separation from Intel. Cerra will lead Veeam's global marketing organization, overseeing brand strategy, product marketing, demand generation, events, communications, and digital engagement. Cerra succeeds Rick Jackson, who is retiring after a 40-year career and three-and-a-half years as Veeam's CMO. Veeam solutions are purpose-built for powering data resilience by providing data backup, data recovery, data portability, data security, and data intelligence. Veeam is headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries.

GridStor

GridStor, a Goldman Sachs Asset Management-backed developer and operator of utility-scale battery energy storage systems, named Spencer Mash as the company's senior vice president of finance and head of capital markets. Mash brings more than 20 years of experience in capital management to the GridStor executive team, including more than a decade of renewable energy finance focused on distributed generation and utility-scale solar and wind projects across the United States. Prior to joining GridStor, most recently Mash co-founded and served as executive vice president of Greenbacker Renewable Energy Company, an investment manager and independent power producer. In his SVP role, Mash will lead financing transactions to support the company's portfolio of more than 3 GW of battery energy storage projects in later-stage development, under construction, and already operating. As head of capital markets, Mash will negotiate and structure diverse capital solutions, manage relationships with lenders and investors, and ensure rigorous due diligence processes. Mash's prior roles include serving as vice president at Deerfield Capital Management, where he performed due diligence and financial analyses, negotiated loan documentation, and monitored private middle-market first lien, second lien, mezzanine, and one-stop senior secured debt investments. He began his career in the Leveraged Acquisition Finance group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. GridStor is headquartered in Portland.