Executive Profiles
The 2014 Executive Excellence Awards
By Gianni Truzzi, Leslie Helm & John Levesque January 20, 2014
This article originally appeared in the February 2014 issue of Seattle magazine.
The Executive Excellence Awards began last year with a class of 14 luminaries. We follow up this year with 13 more a group that is at once eclectic yet linked by its relentless pursuit of the exceptional outcome, be it bottom-line performance, employee engagement or social awareness. Congratulations to the recipients of the 2014 Executive Excellence Awards!
2014 Executive Excellence Honorees
Dean C. Allen, CEO, McKinstry
Sue Anderson, Vice President/ General Manager, CenturyLink Puget Sound
Alex Baehr, General Counsel, Colliers International
Steve Cooper, CEO, TrueBlue Inc.
Leonard Garfield, Executive Director, Museum of History and Industry
J. Shan Mullin, Partner, Perkins Coie LLP
Debra Music, Cofounder and Vice President Sales and Marketing, Theo Chocolate
Dan Price, Cofounder and CEO, Gravity Payments
Shelley Rotondo, CEO, Northwest Harvest
Sunny Singh, Founder and CEO, Edifecs
Russell L. Stein, CFO, Intellectual Ventures
Connie Symes, Executive Vice President of Human Resources, Expedia Inc.
Lifetime Achievement Award: Martha Choe, CAO, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
2014 Executive Excellence Judges
Melanie Dressel, CEO, Columbia Bank / Jerry Lee, chairman, MulvannyG2 Architecture / Jan Levy, executive director, Leadership Tomorrow / Stanley B. McCammon, president and CEO, Joshua Green Corporation / John Meisenbach, founder and CEO, MCM / Dave Sabey, president, Sabey Corporation