Construction is close to completion on a new Wells Fargo banking store in Bellevue at 1915 140th Ave. NE. The 5,000-square-foot store is set to open Monday, Aug. 18, with grand opening celebrations scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 18.
Three Overlake executives recently became Fellows of the American College of Healthcare Executives (www.ache.org), the nation’s leading professional society for healthcare leaders.
Eleven Bellevue businesses have been named to the second annual King County’s 2008 Best Workplaces for Recycling list.
Phil Scott, from Bellevue, has been ranked on Barron’s 2008 list of America’s “Top 100 Financial Advisers.” It is fourth year in a row to achieve the honor.
Longtime Eastside Realtor Kathy Shumaker has been named manager of Brazen Sotheby’s International Realty Bellevue Main Street office.
Baldwin Resource Group is celebrating its 10th anniversary as a professional services firm. Baldwin Resource Group offers a broad array of services in the business and personal insurance, business consulting, and risk management disciplines.
Ki Rak Cho, owner of Master Cho’s Taekwondo School in Bellevue, has been indicted as a Master at the World Championship and Masters Ceremony by the American Taekwondo Association.
Bellevue-based City University of Seattle has launched an Executive Master of Business Administration in Global Leadership program. The program is the only such offering in the Northwest that has a fixed emphasis area in global leadership.
Soon after the devastating 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit China’s Sichuan province on May 12th, the Seattle community mobilized to quickly raise funds to help victims. Bellevue-based MulvannyG2 Architecture employees also joined the fundraising effort and donated $15,000 including matching funds from the firm’s management.
Bellevue-based Express Construction has hired Lytton Volson as a project engineer and Shelly Erdahl as a job cost accountant.
Richard Wilson has been hired as Director of Customized Employment at AtWork!. Prior to joining AtWork! he was Director of Programs for The Arc of King County and also served as Interim Executive Director and Family Service Director.
Tom Skillings, founding principal of Skillings-Connolly Inc., has been elected as the 2008-2009 chairman of the board of directors of the Bellevue-based American Council of Engineering Companies of Washington (ACEC.)
Mike Brennan has been named director of Bellevue’s newly created Development Services Department.
Bellevue residential builder, Grey Lundberg, Inc. was honored with a Gold Nugget Award for its 5-star Built Green project, The Urban Lodge, a high-performance demonstration home which was destroyed by the Street of Dreams fires this past March. The project earned an “Award of Merit” in the category of Sustainable Built Green Home.
Kathy Weber, a financial adviser for Smith Barney, has been recognized in weekly financial magazine, Barron’s as one of the “Top 100 Women Financial Advisors” within the wealth management industry. The article appeared in the June 7, 2008 issue.
Kevin Cipoletti has been hired as area vice president, sales and marketing, with Gallagher Benefit Services, Inc., in Bellevue.
Symetra Life Insurance Company has been named a “Ward’s 50” top performing insurance company for 2008. The company was recognized as a leading life and health insurer based on an independent analysis of 850 companies by the research and consulting firm the Ward Group.
GA Creative, a Bellevue-based graphic design and marketing firm, has received several awards recently.
Would you like to be buried or cremated? A fancy casket or a biodegradable coffin? Ashes sprinkled over the Puget Sound or launched into space? A somber church service or a party with live music?
Gregory Carruthers has been named manager for Wells Fargo’s Overlake Park location.
