Executive Excellence
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…
Video Recap: 2018 Executive Excellence Awards
Congratulations to all of this year's winners!
The 2018 Executive Excellence Awards celebrated leaders for exemplary performance in the day-to-day operation of complex corporate ecosystems as well as in the larger context of providing a moral compass to the people whose lives they influence directly and indirectly. Watch the video below from the event, held at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel. See our…
2018 Executive Excellence Awards, Lifetime Achievement: Howard Behar, Starbucks
The former Starbucks executive is being honored for his 50-year career, where he helped lead the coffee company from 28 stores to more than 15,000 stores on five continents.
This article appears in print in the February 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. A decade of retirement has only affirmed Howard Behars commitment to his business ideals. The former president of Starbucks now travels the world evangelizing the ways leaders need to lead. I need to fill my soul every day, Behar…
2018 Executive Excellence Awards: Simon Woods, Seattle Symphony
The president and CEO at one of Seattle's most treasured artistic institutions.
This article appears in print in the February 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. To thrive, a citys art needs to match the citys character. This belief guided Simon Woods when he took the executive leadership of the Seattle Symphony in 2011. The orchestra had great cultural assets notably the acoustic jewel that…
2018 Executive Excellence Awards: Craig Dawson, Retail Lockbox
The president and CEO of Seattle-based firm is one of this year's winners.
This article appears in print in the February 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. This small, impressive company provides remittance processing to banks, utilities and municipalities across seven states, but founder Craig Dawson focuses much of his energy on concerns closest to home. That philosophy is evident in his leadership style, which includes…
2018 Executive Excellence Awards: Randy Lee, PCC Natural Markets
Lee is stepping down after 46 years as the CFO of the nation's largest community-owned food market.
This article appears in print in the February 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Randy Lee managed Puget Consumer Cooperatives single storefront when it committed to selling natural and organic foods.Its time we become more concerned about what goes into our mouths, he declared at the time. Forty-six years later, Lee is stepping…
2018 Executive Excellence Awards: Board of Directors, TrueBlue
The board from the Tacoma-based company are winners at this year's awards.
SETTING THE STANDARD: TrueBlues board of directors, cited for its highly principled governance, also embraces racial and gender diversity. Directors, from left, are CEO Steven Cooper, Kim Harris Jones, Jeffrey Sakaguchi, William Steele, William Goings, Joseph Sambataro Jr., Bonnie Soodik, Colleen Brown and Stephen Robb. This article appears in print in the February 2018 issue….
2018 Executive Excellence Awards: Sharon Osborne, Children’s Home Society of Washington
The recently retired president and CEO of the Seattle agency is one of this year's winners.
This article appears in print in the February 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. It may be the heart that draws one to a social services career, but a head for managing serves people, too. Sharon Osborne has shown plenty of both in her 25-year tenure at Childrens Home Society. Upon her retirement…
2018 Executive Excellence Awards: Sharelle Klaus, Dry Soda Company
The founder and CEO of the Seattle-based beverage maker is one of this year's winners.
This article appears in print in the February 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Not knowing what the rules are, admits Sharelle Klaus, can be an advantage. The single mother of four spent 2005 and $15,000 from a home equity loan delivering cases of soda to QFC supermarkets in her car. The drinks…
2018 Executive Excellence Awards: Dave Clark, Amazon
The SVP of Worldwide Operations at Amazon is one of this year's winners.
This article appears in print in the February 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. To succeed at running Amazons sprawling customer service operations, Dave Clark jokes that everything he needed to learn came from 250 seventh-graders. He believes teaching kids to play in junior high band, his job before business school, gave him…
2018 Executive Excellence Awards: Jeff Lyon, Kidder Mathews
The chairman and CEO of the Seattle-based commercial real estate firm is one of this year's winners.
This article appears in print in the February 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Jeff Lyons first experience in expanding a business was selling his own company to someone else. The Tacoma brokerage his father had founded, Lyon Commercial, became the fourth office of commercial real estate firm Kidder Mathews in 1991, making…
2018 Executive Excellence Awards: Palvi Mehta, ExtraHop Networks
The chief financial officer of the Seattle-based firm and the treasurer for Code.org is one of this year's winners.
This article appears in print in the February 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Palvi Mehta believes an effective chief financial officer knows a business by the numbers and whats behind them, too. Its how she has helped ExtraHop to scale at a rapid pace, playing key roles in sales, recruitment and global…