SB Profiles
Executive Q&A: Dr. Jeff Sperring of Seattle Children’s on Racing to Turn Breakthroughs Into Cures
"The best outcomes happen when you support employees to empower their best ideas."
This story appears in the July 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Seattle Childrens Hospital, which has 7,530 employees and is ranked fifth in the nation in quality, has seen its clinical and research efforts expand rapidly in recent years. Building Hope, its eight-story, $305 million hospital expansion in Laurelhurst, was completed in…
Q&A: Diana Naramore, Owner and CEO of Sip & Ship
Sip & Ship is a coffeehouse inside a mailbox store, with a gift boutique tucked inside
Executive’s name, title, and company name Diana Naramore, owner and CEO, Sip and Ship Tell us what your company does and what attracted you to this business. Sip and Ship is a coffeehouse inside a mailbox store with a gift boutique tucked inside. Our mission is to lead people, products and businesses to a better…
Executive Q&A: Sheila Edwards Lange on How the Path to Sharing Seattle’s Prosperity Is Through Education
The president of Seattle Central College on growing up in Mississippi, Seattle's spirit of civic engagement, and the value of an inclusive education
FEELING CONNECTED. Dr. Sheila Edwards Lange appreciates the ethos of civic engagement in Seattle. I never experienced that in Southern California, she says. This article appears in the June 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Looking out her office window atop Capitol Hill, Sheila Edwards Lange is struck by the number of construction…
Q&A: Sarah Patterson, Executive Director of the Virginia Mason Institute
The local health care leader has been with Virginia Mason Institute since 1984
This article appears in the May 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Tell us what your company does and what attracted you to this business. Virginia Mason Institute provides lean training, coaching and solution-based products to organizations worldwide to improve patient safety, quality and efficiency. We strive to deliver training that inspires, prepares…
Art Zones Nancy Guppy Features 25 Whimsical Collages in Her First Art Show
Her first solo show mixes collage and paint-by-number works.
This article appears in the May 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. No one who knows Nancy Guppy would consider her career a paint-by-numbers affair. Which may explain Guppys penchant for taking old paint-by-numbers pictures and augmenting them with spirited and certainly curious collage. Guppy starred for a decade on the local sketch…
Q&A: MOHAIs Howard Giske Tells Seattle’s Stories Through Photos
Howard Giske recently retired after nearly four decades at the Museum of History and Industry, having worked as the curator of photography since 1996.
This article appears in the May 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Howard Giske began working at the Museum of History and Industry in 1980. He became curator of photography in 1996 and retired in March. What exactly did you do? I acquired, cared for and shared wonderful historic photographs from all over…
Executive Q&A: Marilyn Strickland Wants to Change the Seattle Narrative That Business is Bad
The Seattle Metro Chambers new CEO on leadership, consensus and kimchi.
CULTURAL APPRECIATION: As an African-American and Korean-American woman, Marilyn Strickland understands intersectionality in government and in the workplace. This article appears in the May 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Marilyn Strickland has taken the reins as CEO of the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce at a time when the owners of many…
ACT Managing Director Becky Witmer Keeps Theater In Business
Becky Witmer dishes on being a theater kid and handling the strangest patron complaints.
This article appears in print in the April 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Becky Witmer is managing director of ACT a contemporary theatre. She joined ACT in 2011 as director of marketing and communications and served as general manager from 2014 to 2015. ACT recently renewed Witmers contract for three years. On…
Executive Q&A: Ariane Cornell Says Blue Origin Will Launch People into Space by the End of 2018
The head of astronaut strategy at Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin discusses her background, her love of "Star Trek," the New Glenn rocket and when consumers might be headed to infinity and beyond.
SPACE STATION: Ariane Cornell at Blue Origin’s 260,000-square-foot engineering and manufacturing facility in Kent. This article appears in print in the April 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Ariane Cornell is head of astronaut strategy and sales and New Glenn commercial sales director for the Americas at Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos aerospace manufacturer…
Off the Clock with James Filsinger, President and CEO of Yapta
Filsinger is a Seahawks season ticket holder and has been commissioner of the same fantasy football league since 1996.
Tell us what your company does and what attracted you to this business.Yapta is the industry leader in corporate travel price assurance and data analytics. We monitor airfare prices and hotel rates on booked business travel itineraries for more than 6,100 companies including a majority of the top 100 corporate travel spenders in the United…
Q&A: KEXP’s Sharlese Metcalf on Discovering and Supporting Northwest Bands
DJ Sharlese Metcalf looks for the best in Northwest music for her Saturday night program, "Audioasis."
This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Sharlese Metcalf is host of the Northwest music program Audioasis on KEXP (Saturdays, 69 p.m.). She also is an original member of the TUF collective and cofounder of the DJ crew False Prophet (falseprophetdjs.com). Describe the mission of Audioasis….
Executive Q&A: Pamela Maynard of Avanade Is Advocating for Diversity in Tech
After heading up Avanades operations in Europe and Africa, Pamela Maynard is bringing her philosophy on tech diversity to the entire company.
This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Pamela Maynard was born in London but her parents, immigrants from Barbados, moved the family to a village outside the city in search of a better education for their two children. Maynard became the first in her family to…
Seattle Public Relations Legend Jay Rockey Dies at 90
Rockey was director of public relations for the Seattle World's Fair, and was a staple in the community for two generations.
Jay Rockey, the dean of public relations professionals in Seattle for two generations, died last week. He was 90. Rockey founded Jay Rockey Public Relations in 1962, immediately after the Seattle Worlds Fair ended. Rockey had been director of public relations for the fair and was largely responsible for the fairs being noticed across the…