Feb 20, 2019

EFSEC

Stacey Brewster and Elizabeth Green-Taylor are new members of the Washington Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council, replacing Dennis Moss and Jaime Rossman. Brewster was appointed by the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission as its representative on the council. She is a legal and library assistant at WUTC. Green-Taylor was appointed by the Washington Department of Commerce as its representative. She was on the council from 2013 to 2016, and works with the state's Bond Cap Allocation Program.

Fortive

In Everett, Fortive appointed Jeannine Sargent as board director and compensation committee member. Sargent is an operating partner of early-stage tech venture fund Katalyst Ventures. Fortive is a professional instruments and industrial technologies company.

State Board of Education

Lifelong educator Bill S. Kallappa II was appointed to a four-year term on the state Board of Education. Kallappa is education director for the Nisqually Tribe and has 25 years of experience in K-12 schools.

Feb 15, 2019

Smartsheet

Garg

Praerit Garg joined Bellevue-based Smartsheet as chief technology officer. Garg has over 23 years of tech experience and is co-inventor on more than 25 patents. He was general manager of identity, directory and access services at Amazon Web Services, and started his career at Microsoft. Smartsheet is a cloud-based platform for work execution.

Seattle Hockey Partners

Humphrey

Seattle Hockey Partners (NHL Seattle) named Todd Humphrey senior vice president of digital and fan experience. Humphrey was CEO of LiquidPlanner, a provider of project management software, and co-founder and chief commercial officer of League Inc., a Toronto-based digital health insurance and employee wellness company. He also was a professional hockey player.

Russell Investments

Seattle-based Russell Investments hired Ying Tan as president and general manager for the Shanghai office. Tan has more than 20 years of experience in wealth management, investment research and trading. She headed Mercer's investment business in China and before that was a senior analyst at Children's Medical Center in Boston.

Symetra

Bellevue-based Symetra is making a $100,000 donation to The Sophia Way, a nonprofit helping homeless single women in King County. The donation will allow Eastside Emergency Shelter for Women to remain open this summer at its interim location while construction is underway on a permanent facility in Kirkland. Symetra provides employee benefits, annuities and life insurance.

Feb 14, 2019

Chef

Brian Goldfarb is the new chief marketing officer at Chef, a Seattle-based continuous automation software company. Goldfarb was CMO at Splunk and senior vice president of marketing at Salesforce.com. He has more than 20 years of executive experience, including stints at Google and Microsoft.

Darigold

Seattle-based Darigold promoted Grant Kadavy to COO. Kadavy joined the firm in 2016 as chief commercial officer. Darigold is the marketing and processing subsidiary of Northwest Dairy Association, which is owned by about 450 dairy farms.

Omeros

Seattle biopharmaceutical company Omeros appointed Dr. Thomas F. Bumol to its board. Bumol is executive director of Allen Institute for Immunology and a former senior executive at Eli Lilly and Co.

Providence St. Joseph Health

In Renton, Providence St. Joseph Health created Ayin Health Solutions, a company that helps payers, providers, employers and government reduce costs, improve care and keep pace with the health care industry's transition to population health. Dr. Rhonda Medows is CEO of Ayin and president of Population Health at Providence. Ayin is based in Portland.