Dec 18, 2019

KeyBank

Key Family Wealth, a division of KeyBank's Key Private Bank, expanded its Seattle team with Doug Haack as family wealth strategist, Jennie Tyndall as family wealth investment consultant and Brecken Diller as family office director. Haack has over 20 years of experience serving ultra-high-net-worth clients. He previously was chief client relationship officer at Cornerstone Advisors in Bellevue. Tyndall is a five-year veteran of Key Private Bank with over 25 years of investment and portfolio management experience. Before joining Key, she was director of portfolio management and communications for Threshold Group. Diller was private client manager at US Trust. He has over 15 years of experience in estate, tax and financial planning; and is a certified financial planner.

IFM

The Institute for Functional Medicine elected Dr. Joseph E. Pizzorno as board chair for a two-year term. Pizzorno served on the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy, and on the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee. He was a founder and president of Bastyr University. He will start on Jan. 10, replacing Laurie Hofmann. IFM also announced that current vice chair Juliet Rogers will transition from the governing board after serving as a director since 2013.

Sea-Tac Airport

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport brought back its SEA Visitor Pass program, which allows non-travelers past security checkpoints to spend extra time with friends and family, or shop and dine at airport vendors. The airport allows up to 100 non-ticketed visitors per day between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. under the program. Passes can be obtained online at https://tinyurl.com/SeaTacVP.

Vacasa

Portland vacation rental management company Vacasa is acquiring Resort Lodging Co. of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The deal is expected to close by the end of the month and includes 250 vacation properties managed by Resort Lodging in Steamboat Springs. All 155 of Resort Lodging employees are expected to continue working under Vacasa.

Dec 17, 2019

Skagit County EDA

Heffernan Trester

The Economic Development Alliance of Skagit County hired Mary Heffernan Trester as program manager of Leadership Skagit, which promotes leadership in businesses and communities in Skagit County. Trester has over two decades of experience in higher education, workforce development, equity and diversity training, and program management. She has been director of continuing education for 5.5 years at Edmonds Community College. Trester will start Jan. 1, replacing Kathryn Bennett.

Fortive

Everett-based Fortive appointed Mark D. Morelli as president and CEO and David H. Naemura as CFO of NewCo, an industrial company that Fortive is forming as part of its separation into two companies. Morelli and Naemura will start with NewCo in the first quarter of 2020. Fortive also announced it plans to appoint Karen C. Francis as board chair of NewCo prior to NewCo becoming a public company, which is expected in the second half of 2020. Morelli is president and CEO of Columbus McKinnon and Naemura has been CFO at Gates Industrial for five years. Francis was chair and CEO of AcademixDirect and held the same roles at Publicis & Hal Riney.

Shiftboard

Seattle-based Shiftboard won a silver Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Technology Award for “best advance in time and labor management.” The company develops scheduling software for employers of hourly workers. Brandon Hall Group is a research organization in the performance improvement industry.

The Standard

Portland-based Standard Insurance Co. (The Standard) announced five grants totaling $65,000 through its charitable arm. This season, The Standard Charitable Foundation gave $10,000 to My Sisters' Place, $15,000 to New Avenues for Youth, $10,000 to p:ear, $15,000 to Quad and $15,000 to Tualatin Hills Park Foundation.