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Dec 04, 2019
Washington Department of Ecology Director Maia Bellon says she is stepping down at year end after nearly seven years of leading the agency. Bellon has worked for the state for 25 years. She plans to take some time off and then become a lawyer focusing on environmental law and policy. Ecology did not say who would replace Bellon.
Middleby Corp. acquired Seattle-based Synesso, a designer and manufacturer of semi-automatic commercial espresso machines. Terms of the deal were not announced. Synesso has about $10 million in annual sales. Elgin, Illinois-based Middleby develops, manufactures, markets and services commercial and residential food service equipment.
Wells Fargo and Co. is expanding its NeighborhoodLift program to the city of Portland and Multnomah County. Wells Fargo Foundation is making a $7.1 million philanthropic commitment to the Oregon program, which will create more than 270 homeowners by offering $20,000 down payment assistance grants. Partners in Oregon include NeighborWorks America and its network member Portland Housing Center. More information is at http://www.wellsfargo.com/lift.
Woodinville-based Group14 Technologies received $18 million in financing from Amperex Technologies, Showa Denko, Cabot Corp., BASF Venture Capital and OVP Venture Partners. The new funds will be used to scale up manufacturing of Group14's next generation anode material for lithium-ion batteries.
Dec 03, 2019
Daniel Pingrey is the new Sammamish police chief. Pingrey was assistant chief and administrative sergeant for the Sammamish Police Department from 1999 to 2005, and was captain for the King County Sheriff's Office at Sammamish City Hall since April 2018. He began his law enforcement career in 1986 as a Kirkland police officer. He replaces Michelle Bennett, the city's first female police chief, who was promoted to major within the King County Sheriff's Office.
Zipwhip hired Nimrod Vered as senior vice president of engineering and promoted James Lapic to chief technology officer. Vered led development of workplace analytics at Microsoft. He also worked at Cisco, VoloMetrix and Check Point Software Technologies. Lapic has over two decades of technology experience, including eight years at Zipwhip. Seattle-based Zipwhip is a cloud software company for business texting.
Seattle venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group awarded the 14th Annual Madrona Prize to a University of Washington team using artificial intelligence to help physicians with accurate predictive models in time-sensitive and potentially life-saving situations. The team consisted of Ph.D./M.D. graduate students Gabriel Erion and Joseph Janizek, with physicians Carly Hudelson and Nathan White and the head of UW's Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence for Medicine and Science, professor Su-In Lee. Madrona invests in early-stage technology companies in the Pacific Northwest.
Bellevue-based Puget Sound Energy awarded a $10 million, 2-year contract to Willdan Group to deliver its Small Business Direct Install Program. Through the program, Willdan works with local contractors to provide building energy assessments and retrofits of controls, lighting, domestic hot water and refrigeration equipment. This is the fifth consecutive time that Willdan has been awarded the program. Anaheim, California-based Willdan provides technical and consulting services to utilities, government agencies and private industry.