RIGHT MOVES Alaska Business Monthly
Alaska Business Monthly welcomes Janis J. Plume, Advertising Account Manager, as the newest team member. He joins Vice President of Sales Charles Bell and Senior Advertising Account Managers Bill Morris and Anne Tompkins as an Plume advertising sales executive. Prior to joining Alaska Business Monthly, Plume spent much of the past twenty-five years working at two of the most prominent advertising agencies in Alaska.
Providence Medical Group Alaska
Harold Johnston, MD, is the new Chief Executive for Providence Medical Group Alaska. Johnston earned a bachelor’s in philosophy from Whitman, began his medical training with the University of Alaska Fairbanks WAMI program, Johnston and then completed his medical degree at the University of Washington. Johnston began medical practice in 1989 at the Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center after his family medicine residency at Swedish Hospital in Seattle.
Northrim BanCorp, Inc.
Schierhorn
Frye
Martin
Northrim BanCorp, Inc., the holding company for Northrim Bank, promoted executive and senior officers of Northrim Bank and Northrim BanCorp, Inc. Joe Schierhorn is now President, Chief Operating Officer of Northrim Bank while retaining his title as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Northrim BanCorp. He is a charter employee with the bank and started his Northrim career as Vice President, Commercial Loan Officer and Regulatory Compliance Manager and has been an Executive Vice President since 2001. Latosha Frye is now Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer for both Northrim Bank
Compiled by Russ Slaten and Northrim BanCorp. Frye joined Northrim in 2006, hired as Assistant Vice President, Lead Accountant for Financial Reporting. Michael Martin is now Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for both Northrim Bank and Northrim BanCorp. Martin started at Northrim Bank in 2011 and has twenty years of experience in the financial industry.
Hartung
Amundson
Blury
Steve Hartung remains Executive Vice President at both Northrim Bank and Northrim BanCorp, and moves to lead Corporate Development and Affiliate Relations. Several Northrim Bank senior managers saw promotions as well. Audrey Amundson is now Executive Vice President, Organizational Development and Planning. Amundson is also a charter officer and was the longtime Controller for Northrim Bank and the original Human Resources Manager. Jay Blury is now Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications Director. Blury started at Northrim in 2006 in the Marketing Department.
Craig
Miller
Wolfe
Ben Craig is now Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer. Craig joined Northrim in 2009 and has worked in the financial industry since 2001. Jim Miller is now Executive Vice President, Chief Credit Officer. Miller started at Northrim Bank in 1997 as a Vice President in the Commercial Loan department and has more than forty years of experience in the financial industry. Lynn Wolfe is now Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer. Wolfe joined Northrim in 1991. She was the Assistant Controller and Assistant Human Resources Manager and worked in many different departments.
Business Insurance Associates, Inc.
Geoffrey Willis was promoted to Commercial Account Executive, where he will oversee the insurance and risk management programs for several hundred businesses in Alaska. Willis has been with Business Insurance Associates for six years. Eric Van Horne was promoted to Commercial Account Manager. He was an Assistant Account Manager for two years. Van Horne will help manage the commercial insurance and risk management needs of a diverse group of Alaska businesses. Catherine Maccabee was promoted to Administrative Operations Manager. She was an Administrative Assistant for two years. Maccabee will be responsible for overseeing internal accounting processes and insurance administrative operations in her new role.
PND Engineers, Inc.
Cogdill
Branstetter
Kopplow
Ingrid Martin Cogdill joins PND in Anchorage as the Marketing Manager. Cogdill is a former journalist and worked as PND’s marketing director from 2000 to 2008, gaining extensive engineering industry marketing experience. Cogdill earned a Chenery BA in Journalism from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Rachelle Branstetter was hired as a Marketing Associate. Branstetter recently graduated from the University of Alaska Anchorage with a BA in English Rhetoric. Jake Kopplow, EIT, joins PND Ringler as a Staff Civil Engineer. Kopplow earned a BS in Civil Engineering from Idaho State University and has several years of experience in construction and engineering. Angela Chenery joins the firm as a Staff Accountant with more than fifteen years of accounting experience. Chenery earned a BAS in Business Administration
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