SB Profiles
2018 Executive Excellence Awards: Craig Dawson, Retail Lockbox
The president and CEO of Seattle-based firm is one of this year's winners.
This article appears in print in the February 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. This small, impressive company provides remittance processing to banks, utilities and municipalities across seven states, but founder Craig Dawson focuses much of his energy on concerns closest to home. That philosophy is evident in his leadership style, which includes…
2018 Executive Excellence Awards: Randy Lee, PCC Natural Markets
Lee is stepping down after 46 years as the CFO of the nation's largest community-owned food market.
This article appears in print in the February 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Randy Lee managed Puget Consumer Cooperatives single storefront when it committed to selling natural and organic foods.Its time we become more concerned about what goes into our mouths, he declared at the time. Forty-six years later, Lee is stepping…
2018 Executive Excellence Awards: Board of Directors, TrueBlue
The board from the Tacoma-based company are winners at this year's awards.
SETTING THE STANDARD: TrueBlues board of directors, cited for its highly principled governance, also embraces racial and gender diversity. Directors, from left, are CEO Steven Cooper, Kim Harris Jones, Jeffrey Sakaguchi, William Steele, William Goings, Joseph Sambataro Jr., Bonnie Soodik, Colleen Brown and Stephen Robb. This article appears in print in the February 2018 issue….
2018 Executive Excellence Awards: Sharon Osborne, Children’s Home Society of Washington
The recently retired president and CEO of the Seattle agency is one of this year's winners.
This article appears in print in the February 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. It may be the heart that draws one to a social services career, but a head for managing serves people, too. Sharon Osborne has shown plenty of both in her 25-year tenure at Childrens Home Society. Upon her retirement…
2018 Executive Excellence Awards: Sharelle Klaus, Dry Soda Company
The founder and CEO of the Seattle-based beverage maker is one of this year's winners.
This article appears in print in the February 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Not knowing what the rules are, admits Sharelle Klaus, can be an advantage. The single mother of four spent 2005 and $15,000 from a home equity loan delivering cases of soda to QFC supermarkets in her car. The drinks…
2018 Executive Excellence Awards: Dave Clark, Amazon
The SVP of Worldwide Operations at Amazon is one of this year's winners.
This article appears in print in the February 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. To succeed at running Amazons sprawling customer service operations, Dave Clark jokes that everything he needed to learn came from 250 seventh-graders. He believes teaching kids to play in junior high band, his job before business school, gave him…
2018 Executive Excellence Awards: Jeff Lyon, Kidder Mathews
The chairman and CEO of the Seattle-based commercial real estate firm is one of this year's winners.
This article appears in print in the February 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Jeff Lyons first experience in expanding a business was selling his own company to someone else. The Tacoma brokerage his father had founded, Lyon Commercial, became the fourth office of commercial real estate firm Kidder Mathews in 1991, making…
2018 Executive Excellence Awards: Palvi Mehta, ExtraHop Networks
The chief financial officer of the Seattle-based firm and the treasurer for Code.org is one of this year's winners.
This article appears in print in the February 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Palvi Mehta believes an effective chief financial officer knows a business by the numbers and whats behind them, too. Its how she has helped ExtraHop to scale at a rapid pace, playing key roles in sales, recruitment and global…
2018 Executive Excellence Awards: Brad Jackson, Slalom
The CEO of the Seattle-based consulting firm is one of this year's winners.
This article appears in print in the February 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Running the technology consulting firm Slalom, Brad Jackson was accustomed to helping others solve business problems for their future. So, as his own company grows, he and cofounder John Tobin seek opinion from their own employee investors and clients…
Off the Clock with John Aitchison of the Center for Infectious Disease Research
This month's C-Suite Confidential interview.
Tell us about your Off the Clock activities at seattlebusinessmag.com/clock-seattle-executive This article appears in print in the January 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. John Aitchison is the president/director at the Center for Infectious Disease Research. The Center for Infectous Disease Research works on finding diagnostics, treatments and vaccines. Tell us what your…
Executive Q&A: James Boshaw Is Pushing the Envelope at PAC Worldwide
CEO James Boshaw expects revenue to more than double this year to $400 million.
PACKAGE DEAL: PAC Worldwide CEO James Boshaw oversees more than 800 employees working at plants in the United States, Mexico and Malaysia. Photo by John Vicory. This article appears in print in the January 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. When e-commerce sales rise, revenues rocket at Redmond-based PAC Worldwide Corporation. Thats because…
The Corner Grocery: Q&A with Dani Cone, Founder and Owner of Cone & Steiner General
In this age of Amazon, Dani Cone harks back to a simpler time with Cone & Steiner General.
This article appears in print in the January 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Dani Cone is a local dynamo and small-business owner who founded Fuel Coffee and High 5 Pie. In 2014, she introduced Cone & Steiner General, which has three stores in Seattle: downtown, Capitol Hill and Pioneer Square. Does Cone…
Deltas Former Seattle VP Dishes on His Favorite Travel Destinations
C-Suite Confidential with John Caldwell, recently named VP-Sales & Client Services at Delta Private Jets in Cincinnati.
Tell us what your company does and what attracted you to this business.Delta Air Lines is one of the worlds largest airlines and helps more than 180 million travelers get around the globe each year. Locally, Delta is the largest global carrier at Sea-Tac Airport and we have more than tripled flights and destinations at…