Apr 30, 2019

Adaptive Biotechnologies

Baldo

Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies appointed Dr. Lance Baldo as chief medical officer. Baldo has 20 years of experience in technology and therapeutics, and was senior vice president and head of U.S. Medical Affairs at Genentech. Adaptive Biotechnologies focuses on immune-driven medicine.

Washington Federal

Attorney Stephen M. Graham joined the board of Washington Federal. Graham is managing partner of Fenwick & West's Seattle office. He has been practicing law for 42 years. Washington Federal operates 235 bank branches in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Texas and New Mexico.

Symetra

Sand Point Elementary School in Seattle won a $20,000 education grant from Symetra and the Seattle Seahawks called the Symetra Heroes in the Classroom MVP Award. The grant will fund a program called Hear Our Voices, which provides a platform for the school's fourth- and fifth-graders to share stories of diversity by recording and producing oral histories in a digital library.

Gray Lumber Co.

Devlin

Whisenant

Wittenberg

Allen

In Tacoma, Gray Lumber Co. promoted Rich Allen and Steve Wittenberg; and hired Christine Whisenant and Frank Devlin in contractor sales. Allen, now specializing in residential sales, has been at Gray for over 11 years and is an Air Force veteran. Wittenberg has been with the company for over 20 years, and is now focusing on commercial construction. Whisenant is a door and window specialist with 16 years of industry experience. Devlin services industrial and institutional accounts, and has been in the wood products industry for 25 years.

The Walsh Group

Rule

The Seattle office of The Walsh Group hired Tim Rule as senior project manager. Rule spent 19 years working for Kiewit in western Canada, mostly on design-build hydro, and design-build and P3 transportation projects. He is assisting with the preconstruction team at Walsh.

Apr 26, 2019

Cigna

Global health service company Cigna named Ryan Kocher as president of its health care and related benefits plans in the Pacific Northwest market, which includes Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. Kocher will be based in Seattle. He joined Cigna in 2003 and was COO of the company's MidSouth market.

Know Labs

Seattle-based Know Labs formed an advisory board for medical, scientific and regulatory issues. Dr. James (Andy) Anderson, the company's chief medical officer, is board chair. Other board members are Dr. G. Alexander (Zan) Fleming and Dr. David C. Klonoff. Fleming is president and CEO of California biopharmaceutical company Tolerion. Klonoff is medical director of the Dorothy L. and James E. Frank Diabetes Research Institute in California. Know Labs directs structured light or radio waves through substances to capture molecular signatures used for identification, authentication and diagnosis.

Board of Education

Margarita Amezcua, a sophomore at Auburn Riverside High School, is the new western Washington student representative to the Washington State Board of Education. Amezcua is student body president for her class and public relations officer for her high school band. She will begin her two-year term on May 10.