The COO of the Woodinville-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. 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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….

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…