Veteran retail broker Monica Wallace has been promoted to executive vice president of brokerage for Kidder Mathews' Pacific Northwest offices.
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Kidder Mathews has announced that industry veteran Monica Wallace has been promoted to executive vice president of brokerage for the company's six Pacific Northwest offices in Washington and Oregon.
Wallace joined Kidder's Bellevue office in mid-2021 as a senior vice president. In her new role she oversees strategic business pursuits, client relationships and recruitment.
Wallace has over 20 years of experience specializing in leasing grocery-anchored shopping centers and new construction mixed-use retail.
Kidder Mathews said Wallace will continue to pursue and support her clients while expanding her leadership and talent recruitment work.
With 900 real estate professionals, the Seattle-headquartered company says it's the largest independent commercial real estate company on the West Coast. It's the second largest in the Puget Sound region with 148 licensed brokers, according to Business Journal research.
“Kidder Mathews has a strong brand and offers a great platform for brokers to be successful due to its industry-leading marketing team, robust brokerage tools and data, and deep knowledge of the communities we serve,” Monica Wallace said in a release.
Kidders' Northwest offices are in Seattle, Bellevue, Tukwila, Tacoma, Olympia and Portland.
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Dean Allen is chairman and CEO of the national construction and energy services company McKinstry. In three years, its renewable energy team has grown from two employees to 20. Based on growth projections, the company expects to double the size of the team by 2025.
Jody Allen is chair of Vulcan Inc. and the Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trail Blazers. Reports surfaced this year that the Trail Blazers and the Seahawks could be sold, though she said neither team was for sale.
Jim Barr, the CEO of Vancouver-based Nautilus, delivered the exercise equipment company to new heights in 2021, thanks in part to a pandemic-induced shift to home gyms. It reported $676 million in revenue in fiscal year 2021, and in September, the board said it was exploring a possible sale.
Rich Barton, co-founder and CEO of Zillow, is on his second stint as the chief executive of the real estate technology company. In addition to Zillow, the serial entrepreneur founded both the job search site Glassdoor and the travel giant Expedia.
Kristen Bauer has served as CEO of Laird Norton Wealth Management since 2020. The Seattle-based firm earlier this year merged with Wetherby Asset Management, a registered investment adviser headquartered in San Francisco. Bauer retained her CEO role after the merger.
Brent Beardall is the president and CEO of WaFd Bank, the Seattle area's second-largest bank in terms of assets. He has been with the Seattle-based bank for more than 20 years. Beardall has also spent time as the chief financial officer at WaFd.
Alison Beddard leads the regional team of Cushman & Wakefield. This year the firm recruited a team of leading multifamily brokers and hired a seven-member appraisal team.
Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon and Kent-based spaceflight services company Blue Origin. As of September, he had a net worth of more than $145 billion, making him one of the wealthiest people in the world.
Samir Bodas, co-founder and CEO of Bellevue-based Icertis, has pushed the contract management software company to new heights over the past year. In January, the company received an investment from the German software giant SAP SE but didn't disclose the size of the investment. An Icertis spokesperson at the time confirmed the company had received an investment from SoftBank in early October that valued Icertis at $5 billion.
Jane Broom, the senior director of philanthropy for Microsoft, has overseen the company's landmark investment in affordable housing. Microsoft has pledged $750 million to help develop more affordable housing in King County.
Adriane Brown is a venture partner at Flying Fish Partners and sits on several boards including American Airlines, eBay, KKR & Co. and Raytheon. Before joining Flying Fish Ventures, Brown spent decades helping overhaul aerospace and manufacturing operations for giants like Corning and Honeywell Transportation Systems.
Bart Brynestad, a partner at the Tacoma office of Panattoni Development Co., has more than 30 years of experience in the industry. Panattoni is one of the busiest industrial real estate developers in the region, with much of its focus being in the South Sound area. In August, the company broke ground on its FRED310 project in Frederickson. It purchased the land from Boeing in 2021 for $200 million.
Phyllis Campbell, JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s Pacific Northwest chairman, has guided the bank's regional operations through the pandemic. She also works with BoardReady, a nonprofit aimed at promoting board diversity, as a founding senior strategist.
Ana Mari Cauce is the 33rd president of the University of Washington, as well as the first woman and first Latina to permanently hold the post. UW has an estimated annual economic impact on the state of $12.5 billion.
Jason Childs is the president and CEO of Saltchuk Marine, a family of marine services companies with 1,100 employees and $400 million in annual revenue. Saltchuk Marine acquired Centerline Logistics’ harbor ship assist operations in California and the Pacific Northwest in December 2020 and is working to open the New Bedford Foss Marine Terminal in Massachusetts in 2023 to support offshore wind energy operations.
Laura Clise founded Intentionalist, an online directory and guide of small businesses owned by diverse individuals, to help people “spend like it matters.” She was named one of the Business Journal's Outstanding Voices in 2021 for her efforts to support small business owners.
In addition to co-founding the Bellevue-based software company Smartsheet, which went public in 2018, Maria Colacurcio spent more than three years at Starbucks, where she was named director of business integration. She is now CEO of Syndio, a Seattle-based startup she joined in 2018 that develops software to examine pay equity.
Majdi Daher, co-founder and CEO of Denali Advanced Integration, has led the Redmond-based IT consulting firm for 30 years. Denali's revenue grew more than 187% between 2019 and 2021, making it one of the fastest-growing companies in the region.
Craig Dawson is the president of Retail Lockbox, which he co-founded in 1994. The Seattle-based firm specializes in remittance processing and document management. He is also president of Retail Lockbox Services and Black Business Warehouse. Dawson sits on several boards, including Boise Cascade, Washington Trust Bank and McKinstry Co. He recently served as chair of the Washington Roundtable, where he has been a director since 2000, and is co-chair of Washington Employers for Racial Equity.
Stan Deal has been president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, the jet maker's most important business unit, since 2019. He joined Boeing in 1986, and in 2017, he became president and CEO of Boeing General Services.
Sheila Edwards Lange became chancellor of the University of Washington Tacoma in September 2021. In addition to leading the fast-growing university, she is also overseeing significant campus expansions and development and working with community members to find better ways to serve its students. She also works with city leaders to help support Tacoma's growth.
Preston Feight took over as Paccar's CEO following the 2019 retirement of Ron Armstrong and has steered the company toward a self-driving future. The Bellevue-based manufacturer is making investments at its facilities around the Puget Sound region to develop and produce autonomous cargo delivery trucks. That pilot program is part of a partnership with California-based Aurora Innovation and global delivery company FedEx.
Bill Frame was named CEO of Kidder Mathews in 2020, taking over for longtime leader Jeff Lyon. The company has the second most locally licensed commercial real estate brokers (148) in the Puget Sound region behind CBRE. Kidder Mathews led all brokerages in the region with 71.5 million square feet sold or leased in 2021.
Kemper Freeman, the chairman and CEO of Kemper Development Co., runs the fifth-generation, family-owned company. His company has proposed a four-tower retail, apartment and hotel project that will add 1.8 million square feet to the Bellevue Collection.
Paco Galanes, Google's Washington site lead, is overseeing the company's massive expansion in Kirkland. By 2025, the company will have three new towers as part of its Kirkland Urban campus, pumping hundreds of millions into Washington's economy.
Richard Galanti is the chief financial officer of Costco. In fiscal year 2022, which ended Aug. 28, Costco reported more than $222 billion in sales — marking the first time the annual figure has surpassed $200 billion. That doesn't include another $4.2 billion from membership fees.
Bill Gates is one of the most influential people of modern times. He co-founded one of the world's most valuable companies, Microsoft, as well as the world's largest private charitable organization, the Gates Foundation, which helps millions of impoverished people around the globe. Gates also co-founded one of the region's fastest-growing energy companies, TerraPower, which raised $750 million earlier this year.
Former Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire is the CEO of Challenge Seattle, a group of CEOs working with politicians to help solve the region’s biggest challenges. She helped launch the group in 2015, which focuses on issues including education and transportation. Gregoire said solving the challenges requires getting politicians and businesspeople together at the same table.
Matt Griffin is the managing partner of Pine Street Group, the real estate development firm managing the $1.9 billion Seattle Convention Center addition. He played a key role in getting the project back on track after the pandemic threatened to derail it. Griffin helped engineer a deal with Seattle-headquartered R.D. Merrill Co. for a 29-story building near the convention center site.
Dr. Vin Gupta is the chief medical officer for Amazon and a medical analyst for NBC News. Throughout the pandemic, Gupta has also served as an affiliate assistant professor for the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, as well as a part-time critical care pulmonologist for Virginia Mason Medical Center and a deployable critical care air transport doctor in the U.S. Air Force Reserves at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
Adrian Hanauer is majority owner of Seattle SoundersFC. The club made headlines this year by announcing a headquarters move to Boeing's former Commercial Airplane's campus in Renton. The club will occupy 50,000 or more square feet in an existing building and develop four or five practice fields.
Steve Harr is the CEO of Sana Biotechnology, a publicly traded biotech headquartered in Seattle. The biotech, which also has operations in South San Francisco and Massachusetts, announced in June it is developing and leasing a roughly 80,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Bothell that will replace its Fremont, California, facility.
Ada Healey is the head of Vulcan Real Estate, which has developed an average of more than 500,000 square feet of projects annually since 2004. In a rare move, Vulcan Residential sold a downtown Seattle development site along with plans for a 44-story apartment tower earlier this year. Vulcan is busy developing projects on both sides of Lake Washington and sold the Belltown property to balance priorities.
Bill Hilf has been CEO of Vulcan Inc. since December 2016 and leads the company's philanthropic, research, arts, community, investments, policy and technology programs. Hilf previously held leadership roles with Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard. He was Microsoft’s executive sponsor to the United Nations Refugee Agency and a leader for the Microsoft Give campaigns.
Dr. Rod Hochman is the president and CEO of Renton-based Providence, the fourth-largest health system in the U.S., with 51 hospitals and nearly 1,000 clinics across seven states. Hochman is also the former chairman of the American Hospital Association board of trustees.
Brad Jackson has served as CEO of Seattle-based consulting firm Slalom for more than 21 years. The firm says it has more than 13,000 employees and is in 43 markets across six countries. It employs 1,920 workers in Washington.
Andy Jassy recently wrapped up his first year as CEO of Amazon. He's now steering the company through economic headwinds following record growth, as the retail side hiccups and the cloud side flourishes. Amazon is the state's largest employer with 85,000 workers.
Sally Jewell sits on the board of Costco, Symetra and The Nature Conservancy. She is the former CEO of REI and former U.S. Secretary of the Interior. Jewell was also the Edward V. Fritzky Endowed Chair in Leadership at the UW Foster School of Business for the 2021-22 school year.
Greg Johnson, CEO of the real estate development company Wright Runstad, is considered a visionary. He saw the potential for the Spring District, a mixed-use development rising on the site of former warehouses. The 36-acre Bellevue mixed-use project is home to the Global Innovation Exchange and will have a number of office buildings leased to Meta. When completed, the district will have over 3.3 million square feet of space as well as a light-rail station.
Nichole June Maher is the founding CEO of the Group Health Foundation. About $200 million in commitments have been made since the organization's first year of grantmaking in 2019. More than 80 percent of these resources were granted directly to culturally specific, cross-racial, multicultural and Tribally led organizations. Previously, Maher was the CEO of the Northwest Health Foundation, where she became an early advocate for health equity.
Since taking the Redfin CEO role 17 years ago, Glenn Kelman has transformed the company into a tech-heavy real estate brokerage powerhouse, complete with brokered listings, mortgages and direct homebuying. Redfin began posting rentals on its website in March, almost a full year after closing its $608 million cash purchase of Atlanta-based RentPath. Kelman was the Business Journal's Executive of the Year in 2021.
Peter Kern is the CEO of Expedia. He has guided the company through the Covid-19 pandemic, which heavily stifled travel. The company has been making an effort to declutter its operations, including a rebrand and simplified customer experience. Expedia also welcomed employees back this year to its new $900 million campus in Seattle's Interbay neighborhood.
David Kirtley, co-founder and CEO of Everett-based fusion company Helion, has guided the company to new heights over the past year. The company raised a $500 million Series E round last November and is building its seventh-generation fusion generator.
Sommer Kleweno Walley was named the permanent CEO of Harborview Medical Center in January. Kleweno Walley, a Harborview veteran of nearly 25 years, took over the reins at a crisis point in health care. For nearly two years, the pandemic and its waves have pushed hospital resources to the edge, causing strain and burnout on workers, who are leaving the industry in droves.
Tod Leiweke, the CEO of and team president of the Seattle Kraken, oversaw the NHL debut of the team and its rebuilt venue, Climate Pledge Arena at Seattle Center, during the 2021-22 season. The arena is the first carbon-neutral arena in the U.S. Leiweke previously was CEO of the Seahawks, where he hired coach Pete Carroll, and Seattle Sounders FC.
Dan Lewis, co-founder and CEO of Convoy, has grown the freight network startup to one of the most valuable tech startups in the region. The company in April secured $260 million in new funding, $160 million in Series E equity funding and $100 million in venture debt. Convoy has a value of $3.8 billion after the raise.
Former Gov. Gary Locke is the interim president of Bellevue College. When Locke was governor, Washington was ranked as one of the top five best-managed states in the nation and he more than doubled the state's exports to China. Later, he served as President Obama's secretary of commerce and then as U.S. Ambassador to China, the first Chinese-American to occupy the role.
François Locoh-Donou, CEO of F5, joined the app security and delivery company in 2017. F5, which officially dropped "Networks" from its branding in November 2021, is among the 50 largest employers in Washington with about 1,500 workers.
Rick Luebbe, co-founder and CEO of battery tech company Group14, is eyeing major expansion after raising $400 million in May. Luebbe said the company plans to build a large-scale facility in Moses Lake that is slated to open in the second half of 2023.
Thomas Lynch is the president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. Fred Hutch recently merged with the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, and the center is clinically integrated with UW Medicine. Lynch serves as the chief executive for the merged organizations. This year, Fred Hutch also landed two historic donations: a $710 million pledge from the Bezos family in October and a $78 million donation from Stuart and Molly Sloan in September.
Chad Mackay, the CEO of Fire & Vine Hospitality, co-founded the Third Door Coalition in 2018 with Sara Rankin, a professor at Seattle University School of Law. The coalition is a group of local leaders working to find solutions to chronic homelessness. Under Mackay's leadership, El Gaucho has evolved into Fire & Vine Hospitality, which owns El Gaucho locations in Seattle, Bellevue, Tacoma, Portland and Vancouver, Washington, as well as Aerlume and Aqua by El Gaucho.
Laura MacNeil is PNC's regional president for the state of Washington and the West Coast territory executive. The Pittsburgh-based bank, one of the largest banks in the country, is looking to continue growing its presence in the Seattle area after establishing a foothold here in 2020.
Michael Malone is the founder of Hunters Capital, which is known for buying and refurbishing old auto row buildings on Seattle's Capitol Hill. The company has expanded to the University District, where it's turning the 110-year-old building that housed Wells Fargo and converting it to a climbing gym for the Seattle Bouldering Project.
Michael Marsh is president and CEO of Overlake Medical Center and Clinics. He's led the hospital since 2014 and guided it through the $250 million Project FutureCare, its largest campus redevelopment to date. Overlake ranks No. 36 among Washington employers with 3,362 workers.
Avalara CEO Scott McFarlane is helping take private the company he co-founded in 2004. In August, Avalara announced it will be acquired by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners in an all-cash deal worth $8.4 billion.
Gordon McHenry Jr. is president and CEO of United Way of King County, one of the largest United Way branches in the nation based on donations. United Way of King County has increased its focus on BIPOC communities. The work includes partnering with other organizations to distribute food to thousands of people and helping thousands of students at two-year colleges with financial support for food, car repairs, and mental health and rental assistance.
Matt McIlwain joined Madrona Venture Group in 2000 and is currently a managing director at the Seattle-based venture capital firm. The firm raised $690 million in September for two funds.
Manny Medina is the co-founder and CEO of the Seattle-based sales technology company Outreach. The company raised $200 million last year and eclipsed a $4.4 billion valuation.
Pallavi Mehta Wahi serves at law firm K&L Gates as co-managing partner of the U.S., managing partner of the Seattle office, chair of the firmwide diversity committee and co-chair of the firmwide India practice. She is the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce Board Chair and director of the Seattle branch board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. She also sits on the boards of the King County Bar Foundation, Woodland Park Zoo and the University of Washington Global Business Law Institute.
Margaret Meister is the president and CEO of Symetra. She started at the Bellevue-based company in 1988 and worked her way up. She was appointed chief financial officer in 2006 and became CEO in 2018.
John R. Miller is the senior managing director at CBRE, the region's largest commercial real estate services firm. The company is embracing the new realities of the office by moving into a new, smaller space to showcase what it calls its new Future of Work standards.
Trish Millines Dziko is the co-founder and executive director of the Technology Access Foundation. She left Microsoft in 1996 to start the nonprofit, which focuses on educating people of color in science, technology, engineering and math.
Ben Minicucci took over as the CEO of Alaska Air Group in 2021 after Brad Tilden stepped down. The CEO has guided the airline through the travel industry recovery, and revenue for the SeaTac-based carrier reached $2.7 billion in the second quarter of 2022 as travel demand surged this year.
Yoko Miyashita took over the CEO role of the digital cannabis marketplace Leafly in August 2020. The company went public on the Nasdaq in February through a SPAC merger.
Terry Myerson, a former Microsoft executive, is the CEO of Truveta, a health tech startup that launched in February. The startup quickly grew to more than 200 employees, with nearly $200 million in funding. The company plans to use the money to continue building its team and develop the cloud infrastructure it needs to manage health care data.
Satya Nadella brought Microsoft into its next stage as CEO, turning the company into a major cloud provider and rival to Amazon Web Services. Over the last two years, Microsoft's cloud division has grown enormously and become highly profitable and valuable. Microsoft is the second-largest employer in Washington with more than 60,000 employees.
Erik Nordstrom, the CEO of the Seattle-based retailer, is responsible for Nordstrom's finance operations, full-price business, Nordstrom.com and technology operations. He has navigated the company through a difficult period in which it closed several stores while building out its online business.
Pete Nordstrom is the president and chief brand officer at Nordstrom. Along with his brother Erik, he has helped guide the retailer through a murky recovery. Earlier this year, the retailer reported both men's and women's apparel sales had exceeded pre-pandemic levels, led by suits and dresses. Sales, however, slowed by July after customers' rush to refresh their wardrobes eased.
Financial industry veteran Deanna Oppenheimer this year was appointed non-executive chairman of the board of IHG, one of the largest hoteliers in the world. She is the London-based company's first female chair.
Hospitality industry veteran John Oppenheimer is the founder and CEO of Columbia Hospitality, which operates dozens of properties, including Salish Lodge and two newer properties, the State Hotel in Seattle and the Lodge at St. Edward State Park in Kenmore.
Matt Oppenheimer is the co-founder and CEO of the remittance company Remitly, which announced in August it is acquiring the Israel-based fintech company Rewire for about $80 million. Remitly went public on the Nasdaq in September 2021.
Ketul Patel is the co-CEO of Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, which came out of a merger with Seattle-based Virginia Mason and Tacoma-based CHI Franciscan. Patel became the hospital system's sole CEO in 2022 when Dr. Gary Kaplan transitioned toward retirement.
Eduardo Peñalver took over as president of Seattle University following the retirement of Stephen Sundborg in 2021. Peñalver is the first non-priest and the first Latin American president at Seattle University. He led Cornell Law School for seven years and served on the board of Cornell’s platform for online education, eCornell. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Cornell and his law degree from Yale, and he clerked for former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.
Susie Plummer is the vice president and general manager at University Village, the 23-acre outdoor shopping center known for its tenant mix, steady foot traffic and high sales volumes.
Mary Pugh is the CEO and chief investment officer of Pugh Capital Management, which manages more than $1 billion in assets. She co-founded the firm in 1991 and has been recognized by numerous organizations, including the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Fed Family Distinguished Service Award, 2018), the Seattle Storm (Inspiring Women Award, 2017) and Seattle Business Magazine (Executive Excellence Award, CEO of the Year, 2016).
Heather Redman, managing partner at Seattle-based venture capital firm Flying Fish Partners, has helped drive the company's growth this year. The firm closed $70 million in May and announced its expansion to Alberta.
Bill Robertson, CEO of MultiCare, steered the health care organization through the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. He joined MultiCare in 2013. MultiCare, a nonprofit, operates 11 hospitals and hundreds of clinics across Washington.
Richard Romero, CEO of Seattle Credit Union, has worked in banking for 34 years. Seattle Credit Union recently opened a branch in Tacoma’s Salishan neighborhood and has plans to open a second Tacoma location in the Hilltop neighborhood this fall.
Lewis Rudd is the CEO and president of Ezell's Famous Chicken. In 2021, Rudd helped establish the Raising Up Black Businesses Initiative (better known as the RUBB Initiative) with his brother Darnell and sister Faye Stephens. The effort supports Black-owned businesses in the Pacific Northwest with no-strings-attached grants.
Maher Saba is the vice president of remote presence for Meta and the company's highest-ranking executive in the Seattle area, where it employs more than 8,800 workers. On top of the major office purchases it's made in Bellevue over the past two years, it expanded its office space in January with new leases in Seattle's Sodo area.
Dave Sabey is the founder, chairman and president of Sabey Corp., a family commercial real estate company with a portfolio that includes the Intergate-branded data centers as well as the Cherry Hill medical campus with partner Swedish Medical Center.
John Schoettler is Amazon's vice president of global real estate and facilities. Amazon announced this summer it is pausing the construction of five Bellevue towers and delaying the start of a sixth as the company reevaluates the design of the workspaces. Occupying about 11.7 million square feet, the company is the region's largest office occupier.
Kerri Schroeder is Bank of America's Seattle market president, a role she has held for more than four years. Her career in banking spans more than 25 years. Bank of America has 2,200 employees in Washington, making it one of the 50 largest employers in the state.
Howard Schultz returned to the helm at Starbucks in late March when Kevin Johnson abruptly stepped down. Schultz steered the company as interim CEO through a tumultuous unionization effort among its U.S. stores. Laxman Narasimhan, 55, joined the company in October and will take the CEO role next year.
Since founding his real estate company, Martin Selig has developed numerous Seattle towers, including the Northwest's tallest, Columbia Center. The company continues to develop, including the new 400 Westlake, an ultra-sustainable tower.
Adam Selipsky is the CEO of Amazon's cloud division, Amazon Web Services, and the most high-profile boomerang employee of the company. After leading Tableau for five years, he came back to AWS in 2021 to replace Andy Jassy, who was named CEO of Amazon.com.
Karl Siebrecht is the CEO of the logistics company Flexe, which he co-founded in 2013. In July, Flexe announced a $119 million Series D round, pushing the company's value to more than $1 billion.
Mike Sievert wrapped up his second year as T-Mobile CEO in May. During his time, T-Mobile has moved people back into the office, finished up its campus renovations and expanded its 5G reach.
Steve Singh, managing director at Madrona Venture Group, joined the Seattle-based venture firm in 2020. He was previously the founder and CEO of Bellevue-based Concur, which SAP acquired in 2014.
Bob Smith is the CEO of Kent-based Blue Origin, which hit a milestone in 2021 when it sent its founder, Jeff Bezos, and three other passengers into space briefly aboard the New Shepard. Blue Origin, which was founded in 2000, is the second-largest aerospace company in Washington with more than 2,500 employees. The company leases just over 227,000 square feet in Renton.
One of the most prolific Microsoft executives, President Brad Smith is the face of the company's public and private policies. In the last year, he's met with White House officials on cybersecurity, communicated the company's stance on union activity and is helping the company navigate a $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
John Stanton has been the majority owner and CEO of the Seattle Mariners since April 2016. He is a pioneer in the wireless industry, having led four of the nation's top wireless providers, including time as chief operating officer of McCaw Cellular and CEO of VoiceStream Wireless, which became T-Mobile. Stanton is chairman of Trilogy Partnerships, a private equity fund, and is a member of the board of directors for Costco Wholesale and Microsoft.
Clint Stein, president and CEO of Columbia Bank, has guided the Tacoma-based bank through a busy period. In October 2021, Columbia and Portland-based Umpqua Holdings Corp., the parent company of Umpqua Bank, announced they are combining the two banks. The newly formed bank's holding company is headquartered in Tacoma.
Bill Sterud joined the Puyallup Tribe of Indians council in 1978 and has held several leadership positions since. He is the chairman and oversees the tribe's economic expansion. In addition to the recently completed Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, the tribe is planning to open a restaurant on Ruston Way featuring Native American cuisine as well as a float plane dock.
Ethan Stowell is a James Beard Award-nominated chef whose restaurant group operates several acclaimed Seattle restaurants, including Tavolata, How to Cook a Wolf, the Goldfinch Tavern, Cortina and Ballard Pizza Co. The acclaimed chef opened his first Eastside restaurant, a Ballard Pizza Co., in Woodinville, announced plans for another Tavolata in Redmond and a Victor Tavern in downtown Seattle, which opened in July.
Alisha Valavanis was named CEO of the Seattle Storm and sister company Force 10 Sports Management in 2019. Valavanis joined the franchise in 2014 as chief operating officer, before a promotion to president and general manager in 2015. In 2021, she joined the ownership group of Force 10.
Bob Wallace is the founder and CEO of Bellevue-based Wallace Properties. The company this year announced its largest project to date, a 950-unit, mixed-use project in downtown Bellevue.
Toby Whitmoyer is the Washington market president for Woodinville-based Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, the Northwest’s largest wine company. He is the winemaker's top executive in its home state after David Dearie resigned as CEO in October.
James Williams is the managing partner at the Seattle office of the law firm Perkins Coie. His focus is on complex business litigation and civil issues. Last year, the firm spearheaded the launch of the Black Boardroom Initiative, which aims to increase the number of Black leaders on public boards to 1 in 8 by 2028. Perkins Coie is the largest locally headquartered law firm in Washington.
