Apr 30, 2019

Adaptive Biotechnologies

Baldo

Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies appointed Dr. Lance Baldo as chief medical officer. Baldo has 20 years of experience in technology and therapeutics, and was senior vice president and head of U.S. Medical Affairs at Genentech. Adaptive Biotechnologies focuses on immune-driven medicine.

Washington Federal

Attorney Stephen M. Graham joined the board of Washington Federal. Graham is managing partner of Fenwick & West's Seattle office. He has been practicing law for 42 years. Washington Federal operates 235 bank branches in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Texas and New Mexico.

Symetra

Sand Point Elementary School in Seattle won a $20,000 education grant from Symetra and the Seattle Seahawks called the Symetra Heroes in the Classroom MVP Award. The grant will fund a program called Hear Our Voices, which provides a platform for the school's fourth- and fifth-graders to share stories of diversity by recording and producing oral histories in a digital library.

Apr 26, 2019

Cigna

Global health service company Cigna named Ryan Kocher as president of its health care and related benefits plans in the Pacific Northwest market, which includes Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. Kocher will be based in Seattle. He joined Cigna in 2003 and was COO of the company's MidSouth market.

Know Labs

Seattle-based Know Labs formed an advisory board for medical, scientific and regulatory issues. Dr. James (Andy) Anderson, the company's chief medical officer, is board chair. Other board members are Dr. G. Alexander (Zan) Fleming and Dr. David C. Klonoff. Fleming is president and CEO of California biopharmaceutical company Tolerion. Klonoff is medical director of the Dorothy L. and James E. Frank Diabetes Research Institute in California. Know Labs directs structured light or radio waves through substances to capture molecular signatures used for identification, authentication and diagnosis.

Board of Education

Margarita Amezcua, a sophomore at Auburn Riverside High School, is the new western Washington student representative to the Washington State Board of Education. Amezcua is student body president for her class and public relations officer for her high school band. She will begin her two-year term on May 10.

Apr 25, 2019

Leisure Care

Juno

Seattle-based Leisure Care appointed Michael Juno to the newly created position of vice president of East Coast operations. The move is part of Leisure Care's ongoing East Coast expansion plan, where the company plans to open eight communities this year. Juno was operations manager for the last 10 years at Leisure Care, one of the largest privately owned operators of senior living communities in the U.S.

Miller Nash Graham & Dunn

Beaver

In Seattle, Miller Nash Graham & Dunn partner Jeffrey Beaver won the Frohnmayer Award for Public Service from the University of Oregon Law School Alumni Association. Beaver was cited for assisting Sudanese lawyers representing victims of the Darfur conflict, service on the board of Friends of the Children-Seattle and international work with Lawyers Without Borders.

King County

King County Executive Dow Constantine named John Diaz as interim director of the Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention. Diaz has been in public service for over 30 years, including a stint as Seattle police chief. The county has been unsuccessful in two national searches for a permanent director. Diaz will assist with the third.