May 02, 2023

Aiberry

Bellevue-based Aiberry, a mental health screening platform, was awarded the Best Mental Health Technology Solution of 2023 by Health Digital Tech Awards. The awards program recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in health technology. Aiberry's platform enables mental health screenings in a wide range of settings, from doctors offices to schools, workplaces, or even homes. It offers outcomes that can be tracked over time for trend analysis. The AI-powered virtual therapeutic assistant asks questions to gather mental health information. At the end of each screening, users and clinicians are provided with a risk level assessment for mental health disorders including suicidal ideation. Led by co-founders and co-CEOs Linda Chung and Johan Bjorklund, Aiberry received $8M in seed funding in March of this year.

Seattle Seahawks

The Seattle Seahawks announced a multi-year extension with Bonneville Seattle Media Group to continue with Seattle Sports 710 AM and KIRO Newsradio 97.3 FM as the official flagship radio broadcast partners of the Seahawks. The announcement was made by Seahawks Executive Vice President/General Manager John Schneider. Per the agreement, Seattle Sports and KIRO Newsradio 97.3 FM will continue to broadcast all Seahawks games, including pregame, play-by-play and postgame coverage. Radio coverage will also remain available for fans in the Seattle market on the Seattle Sports, KIRO Newsradio and Seahawks mobile apps. In addition, the partnership includes special programming, joint community service projects and exclusive web content. Bonneville International is an integrated media and marketing solutions company. Founded in 1964, Bonneville is headquartered in Salt Lake City.

Apr 28, 2023

Davis Wright Tremaine

Rice

David Rice, an attorney with more than two decades of experience advising clients on a wide range of privacy and data security issues, has joined Davis Wright Tremaine as a partner in the firm's Seattle office. Over the past 20 years, Rice has counseled domestic and international organizations on emerging issues in data privacy and data security. He advises clients on compliance, handles incident response, and conducts employee training. His experience encompasses a broad range of international, federal, and state laws. Rice has also negotiated hundreds of complex information technology contracts. Rice has counseled clients across diverse sectors, including B2C, data brokers, adtech, SaaS providers, healthcare-adjacent companies, and franchise operations. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional - United States. Rice joins the firm from the Seattle office of Miller Nash, where he was a partner. He previously worked as an associate at Venable LLP and at a predecessor firm to K&L Gates. He received his B.A. from The George Washington University and his J.D. from The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law. He currently co-chairs the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Federal Communications Bar Association.

Bates Group

Pappas

Bates Group, a Portland-based firm that offers regulatory, compliance, anti-money laundering, and litigation consulting for the financial services industry, appointed Benjamin Pappas as chief executive officer. Previously, Pappas was Bates Group's president, where he was responsible for driving the firm's overall growth strategy. Pappas succeeds former CEO Jennifer Stout, who will be taking up new roles as vice-chair of the board of directors and senior executive advisor to the firm. Client engagement will remain a key priority for Stout. She will continue to maintain close relationships with clients and will be actively involved in conducting outreach to Bates Group's portfolio of financial firms and counsel. Pappas was appointed chief operating officer of Bates Group in 2016 and president in 2019. Before joining Bates, he was senior vice president and COO of D.A. Davidson Companies' Equity Capital Markets business, where he was responsible for implementing strategic growth initiatives and developing an annual financial budgeting and forecasting process. Stout's decades-long leadership at Bates Group includes successfully leading and diversifying Bates from a retail litigation-focused expert consulting firm to a nationwide consulting firm offering services and solutions for litigation, regulatory, AML, and compliance clients at broker-dealer, registered investment advisors, banks, insurance, money services business, and digital assets firms.

CoreStack

Bellevue-based CoreStack, a global multi-cloud governance provider, announced it that it has won five Global InfoSec Awards from Cyber Defense Magazine, an electronic information security magazine, at the RSA Conference: Market Leader Cloud Security Automation; Most Innovative Cloud Security Monitoring; Best Solution Cloud Security Posture Management; Best Product Compliance Automation; and Most Innovative SecOps-As-A-Service. CoreStack offers a suite of NextGen Cloud Governance modules that leverage AI to provide continuous and autonomous governance for FinOps, SecOps, and DevOps across multi-cloud through one unified dashboard.

Apr 27, 2023

Seattle 98.9 KPNW

Collins

Seattle radio station 98.9 KPNW added another DJ to its on-air line-up, according to Scott Mahalick, Hubbard Seattle operations manager. Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Marco Collins, is taking over the air waves on weekdays from 3-7 p.m. starting May 1. Collins was the flagship DJ and music director at Seattle's 107.7 The End during the 1990s grunge explosion. His role breaking artists such as Nirvana, Beck, Weezer, Foo Fighters, and Garbage helped land him a place in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He joined the on-air staff at KEXP in 2009 and was there until his departure in mid-April. Started in 1923, Hubbard Broadcasting, is based in Minneapolis – Saint Paul, and operates radio and television stations in 10 states.

KING TV

TEGNA announced that KING, its NBC affiliate in Seattle, and journalist Chris Ingalls received The Brooks Jackson Prize for Fact-Checking, awarded by the Annenberg Public Policy Center in partnership with USC Annenberg's Cronkite Awards, for The Fraud Crusade, an investigative series on a misinformation campaign that sought to undermine public trust in Washington state's elections. In the series, Ingalls vetted claims of voter registration anomalies in three Washington counties made by the Voter Integrity Project. His reports used public records requests, reporting and interviews to expose false and misleading claims about voter fraud. The award's judges called his pieces “important, thoroughly researched, well produced, very informative.” The Brooks Jackson Prize is named for the veteran journalist who covered Washington and national politics for the Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, and CNN. TEGNA operates 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets.

Reperio Health

Portland-based Reperio Health appointed Naomi Levinthal as chief growth officer. Levinthal will lead Reperio's commercial operations and strategy. Levinthal joins Reperio from Memora Health where she served as vice president of strategy and partnerships. Previously, she served as vice president of product strategy and partnerships with AVIA Health, and managing director at the Advisory Board Company (now Optum). Earlier this year, Reperio announced its first patent for the technology that powers the company's biometric home-based screening service.

Davis Wright Tremaine

Davis Wright Tremaine announced new members of its Executive Committee. At the firm's annual partnership meeting, the partners elected new members to all three leadership positions: Camilo Echavarria as chair, Jaime Drozd as vice chair, and Sanjay Nangia as secretary. Echavarria will become the first Latino in the law firm's history to be elected to chair its Executive Committee. An employment litigator, he also is the firm's Los Angeles partner-in-charge and a member of the firm's Diversity Executive Council. Based in Seattle, Drozd is the firmwide co-chair of the Litigation practice and is a complex commercial litigator who advises and defends clients against a variety of consumer class actions. Based in San Francisco, Nangia is an experienced trial lawyer who represents a variety of high-profile companies with a special focus on the technology, financial services, energy, and healthcare industries. Davis Wright Tremaine has more than 600 lawyers representing clients throughout the United States and around the world.