May 02, 2024

PACCAR

Pierre Breber and Brice Hill have been elected to the PACCAR Board of Directors, effective July 1, according to Mark Pigott, PACCAR executive chairman.

Breber held several senior executive roles in finance and operations during his 34 years at Chevron. He served as chief financial officer from 2019 – 2024 and as executive vice president of global refining and marketing from 2016-2018. He was executive vice president over trading, LNG marketing, pipeline and shipping businesses from 2014 – 2015 and managing director of Chevron's Asia South exploration and production business from 2011 – 2013. He was also a senior leader in finance roles such as treasurer, controller and investor relations.

Hill is a semiconductor industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience in finance, global operations and strategy. He is the chief financial officer at Applied Materials, a position he has held since 2022. He also served as chief financial officer at Xilinx Corp. from 2020 – 2022. He had a 25-year career at Intel in senior finance and operations roles, including as chief financial officer and chief operating officer of the Technology, Systems and Core Engineering Group. He began his career in finance at General Motors.

Additionally, Luiz Pretti has been elected to the board, effective Sept. 1. Pretti will succeed Franklin Feder, who will retire from the board on Aug. 30. Pretti served as president and chief executive officer of Brasil for Cargill from 2005 – 2020. He previously served in other executive leadership roles in the agribusiness, finance and automotive industries. Pretti has served as the chairman of Votorantim Cimentos since 2018, and as the chairman of AmCham-Brasil from 2019 – 2023.

Amazon Business

Amazon Business, the company's business-to-business procurement store, kicked off its third annual Small Business Month to help support the growth of small businesses in the U.S. This year, Small Business Month includes a new online resource center called Small Business Success Studio. The studio provides small businesses with free online educational tools and resources to start, run and grow their business. As part of Small Business Month, Amazon Business also launched the 2024 Small Business Grants program that gives eligible small businesses in the U.S. the chance to win over $250,000 in monetary grants, with one grand prize winner, four finalists, and 10 semi-finalists. Existing Amazon Business customers with an annual revenue of $1 million or less can apply for the grant. Grant recipients will receive one year of free Business Prime membership, Amazon Devices and Amazon Basics products. Applications are due by May 24, and winners will be announced on July 22. Additional information is available at http://www.amazon.com/smallbusinessgrants. GiftAMeal, based in St. Louis, Missouri, was the 2023 grand prize winner, receiving $25,000 to invest into its business.

May 01, 2024

Art Anderson Associates

Carpenter

Sjoberg

Rehahn

Art Anderson Associates announced the hiring of three employees: Chad Rehahn, Evan Sjoberg, and Jennifer Carpenter.

Rehahn joins the firm as an electrical engineer and will work in the Architecture and Engineering division. He will be responsible for electrical engineering and related services for a wide range of A/E project types. Rehahn comes to Art Anderson with a strong background in project management and electrical engineering. He graduated from Colorado Technical University with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and is a veteran.

Sjoberg joins as a CAD drafter and will work in the CADD Division. In this role, he is responsible for creating and modifying CAD models and 2D drawings in Revit, AutoCAD, AutoCAD MEP, Rhino, Ship Constructor, Solidworks, Civil 3D, or MicroStation, focusing on facilities (building/civil works/routed systems) projects. His work will directly support the firm's civil, structural, and mechanical teams.

Carpenter has also joined as a CAD drafter and will likewise work in the firm's CADD Division and be responsible for creating and modifying CAD models and 2D drawings in Revit, AutoCAD, AutoCAD MEP, Rhino, Ship Constructor, Solidworks, Civil 3D, or MicroStation. Her work will be primarily focused on marine (ship/vessel) projects. Carpenter has 14 years of experience as a CAD Designer/Modeler and experience in the marine industry. Her experience with aluminum boats includes interior cabin and below decks structural.

Coffman Engineers

Coffman Engineers has promoted Fred Barker to general manager of the firm's Seattle office.

Barker joined Coffman in 2010 and is a structural engineering principal.

He replaces longtime Seattle general manager Arvind Nerurkar who recently departed Coffman. Nerurkar joined the company in 1998 and served as the Seattle office GM for the past 13 years.

The Seattle principals unanimously chose Barker as the successor and are facilitating a smooth leadership transition.

Coffman's Seattle office has 92 employees offering multidiscipline services including civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and fire protection engineering, acoustics, commissioning, and energy storage services.

Parametrix

Moore

Daniel Moore has joined Parametrix as a senior consultant. He brings 17 years of experience in project management, construction management, constructability and cost mitigation.

Moore comes to Parametrix from CBRE, where he served as a senior project manager. In this role, he was responsible for all facets of project management and construction. Moore's project experience includes work for the Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Defense, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, King County Solid Waste Division, the City of Federal Way, and the Washington State Department of Transportation.

At Parametrix, Moore joins the firm's Greater Washington Community Building division, which provides project and construction management, owner's representative, survey, and landscape architecture services to public and private clients throughout the Pacific Northwest. He will be based in the firm's Bremerton office.

Seattle Green Earth Cleaning

McDowell

Heather McDowell, founder and managing member of Seattle Green Earth Cleaning, has been named Washington Small Business Person of the Year, and National Small Business Person of the Year Runner-Up by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Founded in 2010, Seattle Green Earth Cleaning is an environmentally friendly residential cleaning company offering customized services to clients throughout the Seattle metropolitan area. The SBA Small Business Person of the Year award recognizes small business owners who demonstrate staying power and substantiated history as an established business with at least three years of business operation. Winners must also show growth in net worth and business expansion, increase in jobs and sales, innovativeness of products or services, response to adversity, and contributions to community-oriented projects. McDowell initially launched her own business from a home office, with a flip phone and a rented storage unit, and cleaned client homes herself as the only employee. Now in 2024, the company has its own headquarters with offices, warehouse, and staff kitchen, has created jobs for 46 team members, and is on track to exceed $3 million in annual revenue. The Seattle District serves Washington state and northern Idaho with office locations in Seattle and Spokane.

T-Mobile

Bellevue-based T-Mobile and EQT, a purpose-driven global investment organization, have entered into a joint venture with EQT's Infrastructure VI fund that will acquire fiber-to-the-home platform Lumos from EQT's predecessor fund EQT Infrastructure III. The joint venture will bring T-Mobile's retail, marketing, brand and customer experience strengths together with EQT's fiber infrastructure investment expertise. Together they will acquire Lumos' scalable fiber network build capabilities to deliver high-speed fiber internet connectivity to customers across the U.S. without current access to fiber. After the transaction closes, Lumos, which currently reaches 320,000 households with fiber optic internet and home wi-fi service in the Mid-Atlantic, will transition to a wholesale model with T-Mobile as the anchor tenant. The agreement will focus on market identification and selection, network engineering and design, network deployment, and customer installation. The transaction is expected to close in late 2024 or early 2025, subject to regulatory approvals. At closing, T-Mobile is expected to invest approximately $950 million in the joint venture to acquire a 50% equity stake and all existing fiber customers, with the funds invested by T-Mobile being used by Lumos for future fiber builds. The next capital contribution by T-Mobile out of an additional commitment of approximately $500 million is anticipated between 2027 and 2028.

Apr 30, 2024

The Standard

Orr

Portland-based Standard Insurance Co. (The Standard) named Porter Orr second vice president of artificial intelligence strategy and development. In his new role, Orr is responsible for leading and administering the company's AI strategy. Orr will partner with employees in IT as well as business and service divisions across The Standard to harness AI capabilities. Prior to joining The Standard, Orr was head of Applied AI Products and Platforms at Unum. He also held various roles in data analytics, machine learning and AI at Mobi Systems, the U.S. Department of Defense and Walt Disney. Orr earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science and business from Pepperdine University and a MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. In business since 1906, The Standard is a family of companies providing financial protection products and services for employers and individuals.

Itron

Itron is collaborating with Cairns Regional Council, located in Queensland, Australia, to modernize its water distribution system. The Itron solution will be deployed over the next three years as part of the council's comprehensive water security plan to take advantage of technology to better identify water leaks and improve customer experience. This project builds on phase one of the council's smart water network project, which included an initial deployment of Itron's Intelis ultrasonic water meters and integrated IoT network solution. Now, in this second phase, Itron and the council are working together to deploy additional Intelis smart water meters, which will be managed by Itron's Temetra NB-IoT digital platform to improve collection, tracking and management of water data from all endpoints within its network. Itron, a global provider of energy, water, smart city, IIoT and intelligent infrastructure services, is headquartered in Libery Lake, Washington.

Trico Companies

Ferguson

Ashley Ferguson joined Burlington-based Trico Companies as senior project engineer in the Commercial Business Unit. The company says Ferguson has over 12 years of experience, coming from Lydig Construction in Bellevue, where she honed her skills and expertise in construction management. She holds a bachelor's degree in construction management from Brigham Young University, Idaho, and several notable certifications such as OSHA 30 and Passive House Tradesperson.

Hermanson Co.

Rob Jacobs is the new controller at Hermanson Co. in Kent. Jacobs has over 20 years of experience in the construction industry. At Hermanson, he is responsible for managing the daily operations of the accounting department, specifically overseeing the project accounting and general ledger teams. Jacobs' diverse background includes working with owners, general contractors and manufacturers.