Jul 11, 2019

ThriftBooks

Ross Mignoli is the new CFO at Seattle-based ThriftBooks. Mignoli has over 35 years of financial consulting, executive management and business advisory experience. He was a partner at Arthur Andersen and CFO of Performance Driven Brands, a provider of automotive parts. ThriftBooks says it is the world's largest seller of used books.

City of Seattle

The city of Seattle's Office of Sustainability & Environment hired Ximena Fonseca-Morales as program coordinator for the Equity & Environment Initiative. Fonseca-Morales recently worked for Washington County's Environmental Health program in Oregon, where she focused on partnership development and led community engagement on a wide range of environmental topics.

Fraxion

Rick Gustafson joined the board of Fraxion, a Seattle cloud-based procure-to-pay solution for business expense management. Gustafson has over 25 years of experience in spend management and technology, most recently as CFO of ServiceMax, a provider of mobile and cloud-based field service solutions.

Evergreen Market

Evergreen Market is opening a cannabis store this summer in Bellevue at 638 116th Ave. N.E. It is the fifth location for the company, which is the maximum allowed by state law.

Rover.com

Rover.com, a Seattle-based provider of pet sitters and dog walkers, added the ability to book in-home pet grooming services. Seattle and Austin, Texas, are the first two cities to have the service; more will be launched later this year.

Jul 10, 2019

Nautilus

Barr

James “Jim” Barr IV later this month will become CEO and a board member of Vancouver-based fitness equipment maker Nautilus. Barr was a group president at industrial equipment marketer Ritchie Bros., and executive vice president and chief digital officer at OfficeMax. Earlier this year, Bruce Cazenave resigned as CEO after seven years with Nautilus.

Darigold

Kondoor

Seattle-based Darigold opened a sales office in Dubai and added Benoy Kondoor as sales director for the Middle East and Africa. Kondoor previously managed dairy sales for Louis Dreyfus Co. in the Middle East and Pakistan. The new office is in the Dubai World Trade Centre complex. Darigold is the marketing and processing subsidiary of Northwest Dairy Association, which is owned by over 430 dairy farms.

WSU Health Sciences

Daryll DeWald, chancellor of WSU Health Sciences, took on the added title of vice president of Health Sciences. The new position reflects DeWald's additional responsibilities of overseeing WSU's Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, College of Nursing, and College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences — all based in Spokane. DeWald was a life-sciences researcher and professor before joining WSU in 2011 as dean of the former College of Sciences.

TCS World Travel

Seattle-based TCS World Travel merged with Travcoa to improve its custom-tailored journeys across the globe. Travcoa offers curated journeys and TCS offers private jet journeys. The merged businesses operate under the TCS name.

Miller Nash Graham & Dunn

In Portland, Miller Nash Graham & Dunn was ranked No. 4 nationally in the annual Glass Ceiling report by Law360. The ranking is based on the percentage of female equity partners among law firms of 150-299 lawyers. This is the fourth consecutive year that Miller Nash has appeared on the list.