Jan 14, 2020

Theo Chocolate

Mark Rieland is the new CFO at Theo Chocolate in Seattle. Rieland was CFO and COO at Minneapolis-based Peace Coffee, where he helped transition the business to new ownership. Prior to that, he held various finance leadership roles at General Mills, Syngenta Seeds and Lenox Group.

Impinj

Seattle-based Impinj hired Cary Baker as CFO, effective Feb. 17. Baker is CFO and treasurer at RealNetworks. Prior to that, he was CFO at Heat Software, CFO at NetMotion Software and vice president of finance at Clearwire. Impinj also announced that Linda Breard, the company's CFO consultant, will transition next month to a new role as strategic consultant to the CEO. Impinj provides radio frequency identification products.

Zeevo Group

In Seattle, Zeevo Group made changes to its executive leadership group, with principals Joey Johnsen and John McCartney leading company operations and co-founder Karen Curtis stepping down but remaining as an adviser. Zeevo is a business, finance and information technology consulting firm to companies in the aircraft leasing, technology and consumer products industries. Along with the leadership changes, the company said it added a new fund service that oversees a global investment portfolio.

Smartsheet

Bellevue-based Smartsheet opened an office in Sydney and hired Nigel Mendonca to lead it as vice president of the Asia Pacific region. Mendonca came from Tableau Software, where he spent five years as country manager for Australia and New Zealand. Smartsheet is a cloud-based platform for work execution with other offices in London and Edinburgh, Scotland.

Basics

Basics, a food market designed to help people cook more at home with fresh regional ingredients, next month will open a new store in Hillsdale, Oregon. The store is going into a 12,000-square-foot space formerly occupied by Food Front at 6344 S.W. Capitol Highway. Hillsdale will be Basics' fourth location. Additional stores in Beaverton and Portland's Pearl District are expected to open later this year. Basics is part of the Wild Rose Food Co.

Jan 10, 2020

Northwest Kidney Centers

Northwest Kidney Centers named Drs. Yoshio Hall and Matthew Rivara as medical directors of two dialysis clinics in Seattle. Hall is heading up the Scribner clinic at 2150 N. 107th St., near Northgate Mall. Rivara is in charge of the Elliott Bay clinic, at 600 Broadway, on First Hill. Both teach at the University of Washington and are investigators at the Kidney Research Institute, a collaboration between Northwest Kidney Centers and UW Medicine.

Harry's Fresh Foods

Blount Fine Foods bought the former Harry's Fresh Foods headquarters in Portland to use as a production facility for its prepared soups and side dishes. Blount will invest over $25 million in the 80,000-square-foot plant, adding new processing equipment, a “spiral hydro chiller” for quick-chilling soups and proprietary cooking kettles. The plant will reopen in July with about 50 workers, ramping up to 150 by 2021. Blount veteran Douglas Gregoire was named general manager of the plant. Blount is based in Fall River, Massachusetts.

Legalpad

Global venture capital firm Amplo helped raise $10 million to fund upstart Legalpad's operations. Legalpad offers guaranteed work visas in an easy process. It has 15 employees in Seattle, Spokane, Denver and Jackson, Wyoming. Funding partners were Global Founders Capital, 8VC, Liquid 2 Ventures, Tekton Ventures, Gaingels, Collate Capital and several angel investors. Amplo board partner Alec Ross joins Legalpad's board as part of the deal.

Alaska USA

Anchorage-based Alaska USA Federal Credit Union signed a deal to buy seven TCF National Bank branches in the Phoenix market. Alaska USA already operates eight branches in the Phoenix area, as well as a financial center, operations center and data center in nearby Glendale. Financial terms of the deal, which is expected to close this spring, were not disclosed. Alaska USA operates in Alaska, Arizona, California and Washington.