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Director of Community and External Relations, Special Advisor to the A.D. – UW Athletics Born in Yakima, Washington, Huard was raised southeast of Tacoma in Puyallup, where his father Mike was a high school teacher and head football coach. He was the first to hold a snap for kicker [...]

Artistic Director Adam Immerwahr comes to Village Theatre from Washington DC, where he served as Artistic Director of Theater J, the nation’s premier Jewish theater. He has previously served as the Associate Artistic Director at McCarter Theatre, a Tony Award-winning theater in Princeton NJ, and as Resident Director of [...]

Under Marsh’s leadership, Overlake has continued to advance its patient safety and care quality, expanded partnerships and acquisitions, launched Project FutureCare, the hospital’s largest campus renewal project that will be completed in early 2023, grown its workforce to some 3,500 employees and introduced performance excellence to improve all facets [...]

Mary Bacarella joined the Market in January 2018 and serves as the Executive Director of the Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority (PDA). In her role at Pike Place Market, Bacarella is responsible for the overall business including commercial and residential property management, facilities management, marketing and the [...]

Dr. Sean Murphy is an accomplished cybersecurity executive with more than 20 years’ experience leading information security and risk management in highly regulated industries and fast-paced organizations in the military, healthcare, and financial services space.  In his current role as SVP, CISO at BECU, he is responsible for providing [...]

Jerry Chiang is General Counsel at DistroKid, a SaaS unicorn valued at $1.3 billion dollars and the world’s largest distributor of independent music (one out of every three new songs on Spotify comes from DistroKid). Prior to DistroKid, Jerry began his legal practice in the music industry by working [...]

Co-Founder & Managing Broker – Team Foster Compass Builder + Developer Michael Orbino is the Co-Founder of and Managing Broker for Team Foster Compass Builder + Developer Services in Downtown Bellevue. Michael brings 20 years of real estate sales, marketing, and consulting experience to every client relationship. He holds [...]

President/CEO, Petosa Accordions, Inc. Joseph Petosa, Jr is President/CEO of Petosa Accordions, Inc. The company is located in Lynnwood and is celebrating its centennial anniversay this year. Joe began learning to play the accordion at age seven and played professionally for 15 years. He began working in the family [...]

Lt. Governor Denny Heck Denny Heck was elected Washington’s 17th Lieutenant Governor in 2020. As the state’s Chief Opportunity Officer, Lieutenant Governor Heck brings a lifetime of experience in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. As Lieutenant Governor, he is the President of the Washington State Senate [...]

CEO/Founder – Pacific Northwest Bio Nicole Norman is a biohazard industry professional with more than seven years of field and management experience in all types of biohazard cleanup. She founded Pacific North West Bio in 2019. The company provides cleanup and remediation services in both residential and commercial settings [...]