Sep 08, 2022

Lighthouse

Seattle-based Lighthouse, a provider of technology-enabled eDiscovery, compliance, and information governance services, appointed Ron Markezich to succeed Brian McManus as chief executive officer. Markezich, who has served as a member of the Lighthouse board since October 2019, will become CEO on Oct. 1. McManus will stay on with the company as executive vice chair. Markezich spent nearly 25 years at Microsoft, where he developed Microsoft's commercial cloud services such as Office 365 and drove cloud services in leadership roles across engineering, sales, marketing and finance. He spent over 15 years as a corporate vice president at Microsoft, and was also Microsoft's chief information officer. Lightyear Capital, a New York-based private equity firm, owns a majority stake in Lighthouse.

Qumulo

Data storage company Qumulo appointed Claire Thompson as vice president of EMEA sales operations and worldwide sales enablement, and Fabrice Gourlay as vice president of EMEA sales. Thompson joins Qumulo with more than 10 years of expertise in the region, most recently as vice president of sales strategy and planning at Tableau. Thompson led the scaling of Tableau's EMEA operations from an individual team to a software sales organization supporting the entire region. Prior to Qumulo, Gourlay was vice president of EMEA sales at Impinj. He brings more than 15 years of sales leadership in the EMEA region, and while at Impinj he guided the company's strategic selling strategy that contributed to its IPO in 2016. Previously, he was director of EMEA at Dell EMC's Isilon Storage Division, and vice president of worldwide pre-sales at Quantum. Qumulo is based in Seattle.

Parcion Private Wealth

Parcion Private Wealth, a Seattle-area wealth management firm focused on helping business owners and entrepreneurs optimize wealth events, hired Tim Bond as director of investment operations and portfolio management, and Stacee Kratovil as a senior family advisor. In his role, Bond will handle daily portfolio management, overseeing investment and trading strategies for the firm's clients. Prior to joining Parcion, Bond worked at JP Morgan Asset Management for more than 10 years and managed more than $100 billion in assets. He also served as the chief investment officer at Gripman Investment Advisors, where he managed a multi-asset strategy. Most recently, he was a private investment analyst and portfolio manager at Winthrop Capital Management. Kratovil has over 10 years of experience working within the multifamily, office and private wealth sectors. She specializes in leading individuals and families through all phases of the wealth planning process. Kratovil comes to Parcion after serving as a vice president at U.S. Bank Private Wealth Management.

Lattice Semiconductor

Hillsboro, Oregon-based Lattice Semiconductor has been named a 2022 Global Sustainability Leadership Award winner by the Business Intelligence Group for the second consecutive year. The awards honor people, teams, and organizations who have made sustainability an integral part of their business practice or overall mission. Lattice's low-power technology is used to solve customer problems across the network, from the edge to the cloud, in the communications, computing, industrial, automotive and consumer markets. The Business Intelligence Group was founded with the mission of recognizing talent and superior performance in the business world. The organization's proprietary scoring system measures performance across multiple business domains and is judged by business executives.

Sep 07, 2022

Perkins Coie

Kallon

Former federal judge Abdul Kallon joined Perkins Coie's Litigation and Labor & Employment practices as a partner in the Seattle office. Kallon joins Perkins Coie after serving as a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama for the past 12 years. Kallon will bring his experience and perspective as a practitioner and former jurist to assist clients with challenging litigation needs. He will also serve as an advisor on federal court advocacy. During his time on the bench, Kallon presided over a broad range of civil and criminal cases, including complex employment and commercial litigation and cases focused on constitutional rights. He served on the Judicial Conference Committee on Financial Disclosures, the Federal Judicial Center's Advisory Committee on District Judge Education, and as a mentor judge for newly appointed judges. Kallon was nominated to the federal bench by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2009. He started his legal career as a clerk for Judge U.W. Clemon of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. Prior to joining the bench, he was a partner with Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, where he focused on litigation and labor and employment issues during his 15 years at the firm. Kallon received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Perkins Coie has more than 1,200 attorneys in offices across the United States and Asia.

Metropolitan Improvement District

The Metropolitan Improvement District, a program managed by the Downtown Seattle Association, unveiled a new fleet of mobile machines that will enable the Clean Team Ambassadors to address cleaning and sanitation needs in downtown. Part of MID's $15.5 million budget for the 2022-23 fiscal year, the investment in 18 cleaning “trikes” will nearly triple the current fleet. In the last fiscal year alone (ending in June), MID's Clean Team collected more than 1.4 million gallons of trash from downtown sidewalks, alleys and curb lines, in addition to cleaning biohazard materials. The MID service area consists of six downtown neighborhoods: Belltown, Denny Triangle, Pioneer Square, Retail Core, West Edge and Waterfront. This coverage area equals 285 square blocks. Established in 1958, the Downtown Seattle Association is a nonprofit membership organization whose mission is to create a healthy, vibrant downtown.

Falkon

Falkon, a go-to-market intelligence platform, announced a $16 million capital raise. The round, which brings the company's total funding to $20 million since its inception in October 2019, was led by OMERS Ventures, with participation from Greylock Partners, Trilogy Financial, Flying Fish Partners, and Madera Partners. Falkon unifies GTM data and delivers real-time operational intelligence. The Seattle-based startup will use the funding to accelerate growth and drive customer acquisition. Falkon was founded by Mona Akmal, Aakash Kambuj and Josh Zana, Seattle-based leaders of high-growth engineering and product teams. Founded in 1962, OMERS is a jointly sponsored pension plan, with 1,000 participating employers ranging from large cities to local agencies, and over half a million active, deferred and retired members. OMERS Ventures has made over 60 investments in disruptive technology companies across North America and Europe.

Sep 02, 2022

ExtraHop

Seattle-based ExtraHop, a provider of cloud-native network intelligence, announced the appointment of four new leaders to its executive team: Matt Parson as chief financial officer, Christine Nurnberger as chief marketing officer, Lauren Zajac as chief legal officer, and John Hoffman as chief people officer. As CFO, Parson will oversee the company's financial operations with an eye toward bringing public-market discipline to ExtraHop. He was most recently CFO at Paymentus, a publicly traded SaaS-based payment solutions provider. Parson also spent 12 years at Red Hat across a number of roles in the organization. As CMO, Nurnberger will focus on growth and marketing strategies to help ExtraHop tap into new global markets and expand in existing markets. Most recently, Nurnberger spent eight years as the CMO at Bottomline, a provider of business payment automation and digital banking solutions. As CLO, Zajac will oversee all ExtraHop global legal, ethics and integrity, and compliance strategy and operations. She spent the past 15 years at Workhuman where she led all legal, compliance, and data protection functions. Zajac also has served as general counsel for a broad mix of high-growth technology companies. As CPO, Hoffman will guide ExtraHop people functions, including human resources, global recruitment, and talent acquisition. Most recently, Hoffman was chief people and productivity officer at Alvaria.

Somalytics

Somalytics received seed funding of $1.9 million to launch mass production of its new sensor. The funding was led by hard science investment firm IP Group with support from WRF Capital. IP Group provided the initial investment for Somalytics that helped launch the company last year out of CoMotion, University of Washington's collaborative innovation hub. The nanotechnology start-up is commercializing a patent-pending carbon-nanotube paper composite capacitive sensor, which is a new technology developed by University of Washington researchers in collaboration with CoMotion. Somalytics expects to begin mass production of its sensors before the end of the year out of its new headquarters and manufacturing facility in Redmond, which it moved into in July. WRF Capital, a reserve pool of funds that Washington Research Foundation invests in local early-stage companies, has backed 119 startups since 1996.

State of Washington

Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced he has selected Assistant Attorney General Morgan Damerow as the Attorney General's Office Open Government Ombuds. For the previous two years, a team of assistant attorneys general performed the ombuds' duties. That team included Morgan Damerow and one of the deputy attorneys general who serves on the office's Core Leadership Team. In 2013, Ferguson restored the Open Government Ombuds to a full-time position. Ferguson's first ombuds, Nancy Krier, retired in June 2020, after seven years of service. Damerow will assist citizens, public agencies and elected officials with Open Public Meetings Act and Public Records Act compliance. The work of the ombuds includes: answering questions about the Open Public Meetings Act; providing Open Public Meetings Act training to newly elected officials; answering inquiries from individuals on how agencies should comply with the Public Records Act; and providing guidance to state and local agencies on their approach to public records requests.

WaFd Bank

Washington Federal, parent company of Washington Federal Bank, (WaFd Bank) announced the promotion of Kelli Holz, veteran banker and current senior vice president chief risk officer to chief financial officer effective January 1, 2023. She replaces Vincent Beatty, who announced in January 2022 that he will be retiring at the end of this December. Holz is both a certified public accountant and certified anti-money laundering specialist, and brings 34 years of finance and risk experience in various leadership positions to this role. She was controller and interim chief financial officer at Horizon Bank in Bellingham, prior to that institution being acquired by Washington Federal Bank in 2010. Holz holds an accounting and business administration degree from Western Washington University. She is also active as a member of the board of trustees and treasurer for the Meridian Public School Foundation where she oversees the granting of college scholarships for high school graduates. Established in 1917, WaFd Bank operates branches in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico.