SB Profiles
The Winners: 2019 Executive Excellence Awards
Honoring leaders from Amazon, KeyBank, Smartsheet and many more Seattle-area companies.
This article appears in print in the February 2019 issue. See more about the winners of the 2019 Executive Excellence Awards here. Click here for a free subscription. Congratulations to the honorees in Seattle Business magazines seventh celebration of outstanding achievement in the C-suite. The Executive Excellence Awards recognize leaders for exemplary performance in the…
2019 Executive Excellence Awards: Carol K. Nelson, KeyBank
The Pacific region executive/market president is one of this year's winners.
This article appears in print in the February 2019 issue. See more about the winners of the 2019 Executive Excellence Awards here. Click here for a free subscription. Banks dont have a lot of opportunity to differentiate themselves in a market crowded with competitors. Everyones under the same regulations; everyone offers the same products. Standing…
2019 Executive Excellence Awards: Patrick Callahan, Urban Renaissance Group
The CEO of the Seattle-based company is one of this year's winners.
This article appears in print in the February 2019 issue. See more about the winners of the 2019 Executive Excellence Awards here. Click here for a free subscription. Patrick Callahan, a veteran of commercial real estate giant Equity Office Properties, set out on his own with Urban Renaissance Group in 2006, just in time to…
2019 Executive Excellence Awards: Robert Moser, Laird Norton Wealth Management
The president and CEO of the Seattle-based company is one of this year's winners.
This article appears in print in the February 2019 issue. See more about the winners of the 2019 Executive Excellence Awards here. Click here for a free subscription. As Seattle names go, they dont get more old-Seattle than Laird Norton. The underlying businesses go back seven generations and 160 years, says Robert Moser, Laird Norton…
2019 Executive Excellence Awards: Rajeev Singh, Accolade Inc.
The CEO is one of this year's winners.
This article appears in print in the February 2019 issue. See more about the winners of the 2019 Executive Excellence Awards here. Click here for a free subscription. With one huge success on his resume the $8.3 billion sale of Bellevue-based Concur Technologies, a corporate travel-expense manager he cofounded Rajeev Singh and teammates could have…
2019 Executive Excellence Awards: Board of Directors, Columbia Bank
The board of the Tacoma-based company is one of this year's winners.
PLANNING TO SUCCEED. Columbia Banks board of directors is cited this year for its methodical succession planning. Directors are, front row from left, CEO Hadley Robbins, Janine Terrano, Chairman Craig Eerkes, Randy Lund and Tom Hulbert, and back row from left, Eric Forrest, Betsy Seaton, Bill Weyerhaeuser, Mark Finkelstein, John Folsom, Michelle Lantow, Mae Numata, David Dietzler and Ford Elsaesser.
2019 Executive Excellence Awards: Manny Medina, Outreach Inc.
The CEO of the Seattle-based company is one of this year's winners.
This article appears in print in the February 2019 issue. See more about the winners of the 2019 Executive Excellence Awards here. Click here for a free subscription. Outreach, which offers cloud-based software to help clients communicate with sales prospects, has crammed several corporate lives into its 5-year existence. Cofounder and CEO Manny Medina remembers…
2019 Executive Excellence Awards: Mark Mader, Smartsheet Inc.
The president and CEO of the Seattle-based company is one of this year's winners.
This article appears in print in the February 2019 issue. See more about the winners of the 2019 Executive Excellence Awards here. Click here for a free subscription. When business-management software-as-a-service company Smartsheet went public in 2018 with a $150 million IPO, CEO Mark Mader was asked what one thing contributed to the companys growth….
2019 Executive Excellence Awards: Bill Hallerman, Catholic Community Services
The director of the Seattle-based company is one of this year's winners.
This article appears in print in the February 2019 issue. See more about the winners of the 2019 Executive Excellence Awards here. Click here for a free subscription. With responsibility for a $30 million budget, 400 employees and 22,000 customers, Bill Hallerman is every bit a corporate executive, but his job comes with some features…
2019 Executive Excellence Awards: Laurie Stewart, Sound Community Bank
The CEO and president of the Seattle-based company is one of this year's winners.
This article appears in print in the February 2019 issue. See more about the winners of the 2019 Executive Excellence Awards here. Click here for a free subscription. A lot of small community banks in Washington didnt make it through the housing finance crisis and Great Recession. One that did was Seattle-based Sound Community Bank….
2019 Executive Excellence Awards, Lifetime Achievement: Michael Garvey, Saltchuk Resources Inc.
The cofounder of the Seattle-based company is the winner of this year's Lifetime Achievement Award.
This article appears in print in the February 2019 issue. See more about the winners of the 2019 Executive Excellence Awards here. Click here for a free subscription. Michael Garvey spent 25 years of his professional life as a lawyer who invested on the side. That sideline grew into todays Saltchuk Resources, a $2-billion-annual-revenue collection…
Off the Clock: Skanska’s Murphy McCullough Scours Seattle for Vinyl
Skanska's executive vice president hunts through record stores with his son.
This article appears in print in the January 2019 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Tell us what your company does and what attracted you to this business. Skanska is one of the largest development and construction companies in the U.S. Our Commercial Development team invests in and develops customer-focused, highly sustainable office and…
