Executive Q+A
Executive Q+A: Concur President Elena Donio
Shepherding the Bellevue company from independent enterprise to corporate subsidiary while keeping an eye on growth.
Elena Donio became a Concur employee in 1998 when it acquired the company she was working for at the time. She became president of the Bellevue-based provider of travel-and-expense management solutions in 2014 when Concur was acquired by the multinational software firm, SAP. Since that acquisition, Donio has guided Concurs integration into SAP while maintaining…
Executive Q&A: Seller in Chief
Former Governor Christine Gregoire takes on new responsibilities as CEO of Challenge Seattle.
Since ending her term as governor of Washington in 2013, Christine Gregoire has lived a somewhat less public life taking care of grandchildren, chairing the 2015 advisory committee of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, and serving on the boards of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the William D. Ruckelshaus Center. She…
Executive Q&A: Concur President Elena Donio
Elena Donio became a Concur employee in 1998 when it acquired the company she was working for at the time. She became president of the Bellevue-based provider of travel-and-expense management solutions in 2014 when Concur was acquired by the multinational software firm, SAP. Since that acquisition, Donio has guided Concurs integration into SAP while maintaining…
Executive Q&A: Seller in Chief
Since ending her term as governor of Washington in 2013, Christine Gregoire has lived a somewhat less public life taking care of grandchildren, chairing the 2015 advisory committee of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, and serving on the boards of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the William D. Ruckelshaus Center. She…
Executive Q&A: A Sense of Place
King County Executive runs an enterprise with a $9 billion biennial budget.
Raised in West Seattle, and with degrees in law and urban planning from the University of Washington, King County Executive Dow Constantine is intent on building a county government in which public employees think creatively to find ways to more efficiently take on such tough challenges as transportation, sustainability and early childhood development. EARLY YEARS:…
Executive Q&A: Brett Brinton of Zonar Systems
Brett Brinton studied premed in college, did coursework at Harvard and even cofounded his own company, but his prospects looked grim in 1989 after he turned 26. Thats when B & B Software Engineering, the Southern California business he founded with his brother, William, exploded quite literally. Authorities going through the wreckage learned the two…
Executive Q&A with Michael Schutzler
An engineer, a fan of Roman history and an entrepreneur, Michael Schutzler is intent on making the WTIA a vital force in the regions tech sector. Family: My father was a geographer from Lithuania. He escaped to East Berlin, then over the wall to West Berlin. He worked for West Germanys mapping division, where he…
Executive Q&A: Growing Organically
As the new CEO of the nations largest grocery cooperative founded in 1953 as Puget Consumers Co-op Cate Hardy oversees an enterprise encompassing 10 stores, nearly 1,300 employees and more than $250 million in revenues this year. For the foreseeable future, she plans to add a new PCC Natural Markets store every year to promote…
Executive Q&A: Howard S. Wright III
Howard Wright bears the same name as his great-grandfather, who launched the eponymous construction company responsible for building such regional landmarks as the Grand Coulee Dam and Columbia Tower. He is a partner in multiple family businesses that own and operate such diverse assets as Chihuly Garden and Glass, the Seattle Space Needle and the…
Executive Q&A: Mike Metzger
Last year, the private equity firm Warburg Pincus recapitalized PayScale with a majority investment of up to $100 million. With that infusion, CEO Mike Metzger now sees PayScale poised to have an even greater impact in helping companies make transparent, well-informed salary decisions for millions of employees around the world. YOUTH: I grew up in…
Executive Q&A: Mark Anderson’s Predictable Behavior
During the past 20 years from his home on San Juan Island, Mark Anderson, founder and CEO of Strategic News Service, has built up a newsletter that is as respected for its high-octane subscribers they include the likes of Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Michael Dell, Elon Musk and Paul Jacobs as it is for its…
Executive Q&A: The Turnaround Guy
Mark Mason is chairman, president and CEO of HomeStreet Bank. A turnaround wizard, he took control of the Seattle-based bank in 2009 and transformed it from an institution in danger of failing to the states largest provider of mortgages for homebuyers. EARLY YEARS: My father ran a series of funeral homes in Southern California, and…
Executive Q&A: The UW’s Ana Mari Cauce
Ana Mari Cauce was named interim president at the University of Washington after Michael Young abruptly departed for Texas A&M last winter. While her title may suggest impermanence, her devotion to the UW for nearly 30 years speaks to her long-standing dedication to making the UW accessible and exceptional. After a 28-year career at the…