Oct 05, 2017

Seattle Symphony

Principal guest conductor Thomas Dausgaard will begin a four-year contract as music director for Seattle Symphony in September 2019. Dausgaard will succeed Ludovic Morlot, whose tenure ends after the 2018–2019 season.

Bill4Time

Alpine Investors of San Francisco and Bellevue has made an investment in Bill4Time, a cloud-based time and billing software for professional service firms. Bill4Time's founder Jeremy Diviney will move into a technology-focused role as CTO. Steve Reardon of Alpine's PeopleFirst will be CEO at Bill4Time. Bill4Time was started in 2006, and has offices in Seattle and Pittsburgh. It streamlines the tracking and billing process.

Axiom

Axiom, a provider of tech-enabled legal and contracting solutions with offices in New York and Seattle, named Doug Hebenthal chief technology officer, based in Seattle. Hebenthal will oversee creation of a research and development center in Seattle that will open in early 2018. He was chief network engineering officer at Change Healthcare, director of engineering for Amazon's e-commerce payments and spent more than 20 years at Microsoft, including on the Xbox team. Axiom provides legal, contracts and compliance solutions for large enterprises.

Oct 04, 2017

Portland School District

Guadalupe Guerrero is the new permanent superintendent for Portland Public Schools. He comes to Portland from San Francisco, where he was deputy superintendent of instruction, innovation and social justice. Former Superintendent Carole Smith stepped down in July 2016 following a controversy about lead in water at some schools.

City of Seattle

Mayor Tim Burgess said Deputy Mayor Hyeok Kim will leave city government Oct. 13 to prepare for the expansion of her family. Burgess said Hyeok led several special projects and strategic initiatives. She co-chaired the Chinatown/ID Public Safety Task Force, coordinated the Education Summit, managed the city's response to the Aurora Bridge incident in September 2015, and worked on economic partnerships internationally.

Oct 03, 2017

Operation Homefront

Burley

Olivia Burley has joined Operation Homefront as its Washington state-based senior director, responsible for outreach, community collaboration, volunteer engagement, fundraising and service delivery in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming and Colorado. Operation Homefront programs include Holiday Meals for Military and Back-to-School Brigade. She worked in the Service to the Armed Forces Division of the American Red Cross.

State Board of Education

The State Board of Education named Deb Merle interim executive director, replacing former Executive Director Ben Rarick, who submitted his resignation on Sept. 18. Merle will serve for 90 days while the board begins a search process for a new executive director. Merle is currently a senior policy advisor to the governor on K-12 education. She will return to that work after a permanent executive director is named.

Sep 29, 2017

Operation Homefront

Sara Rizzo has joined Operation Homefront as the Washington state-based area manager. Operation Homefront programs support military families in the national nonprofit's Pacific Northwest region. Rizzo was a family readiness officer for the San Diego-based Marine Tactical Air Command Squadron 38, and has worked in other Marine Corps community services programs.

Skagit County

Skagit County Board of Commissioners named Jeffery A. Sargent director of the Emergency Medical Services Department, and Douglas J. ten Hoopen director of the Emergency Management Department. Sargent was director of Mountain Vista Fire Department in Tucson, Arizona. ten Hoopen was a diplomat and Department of Defense attache in Madrid.