— Ron Markezich will succeed Brian McManus as CEO of Seattle-based Lighthouse, which supplies digital discovery merchandise and different providers to authorized and compliance groups.
Markezich beforehand was at Microsoft, most lately as company vp in international industrial pricing and licensing. He has been a member of Lighthouse’s board of administrators since 2019.
McManus led Lighthouse for 11 years, overseeing growth from 50 to 1,000 workers and a 40-fold income enhance, he stated in a LinkedIn put up. McManus will stay as government vice chair.
— Eight months after Seattle’s Vera Entire Well being mixed with San Francisco digital healthcare firm Castlight Well being, the enterprise has a brand new CEO: former Cerner Company president Donald Trigg. The mixed firm additionally has a brand new identify, Apree Well being.
Trigg beforehand was chief income officer for digital well being startup CodeRyte, which was acquired by 3M, and director of the workplace of coverage on the U.S. Division of Commerce.
Vera was based in 2008 by Ryan Schmid, who till lately served as its CEO and is now president of Apree Well being. Details about the situation of Apree’s headquarters just isn’t but out there, stated a spokesperson.
Different key personnel strikes throughout the Pacific Northwest tech business:
- The Seattle Mariners employed their first senior vp of enterprise technique and analytics, Chris Kennedy, beforehand senior director of presidency options at well being firm Accolade, and a supervisor at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
- Schooling firm eSpark Studying employed Eric Dahlberg as CEO. Dahlberg, based mostly within the Seattle area, was beforehand president at distant Ok-12 digital curriculum firm MobyMax, chief income officer at authorized market Avvo, and served numerous roles at Microsoft.
- Reforestation startup DroneSeed employed Woolsey McKernon, former exec at Bayview Asset Administration, as head of company growth and capital markets, and Jonathan Loevner, former director at New Forests, as vp of carbon markets.
- Expense administration software program startup Heart employed Samantha Bergin as chief advertising officer. She beforehand held the identical position at Seattle well being firm 98point6.
- Seattle-based Perkins Coie employed former federal decide Abdul Kannon as a companion in Seattle, the place it’s headquartered.
- Pearl Leung, head of neighborhood affairs in Bellevue, Wash., for Amazon, joined the Bellevue Chamber of Commerce’s new board of administrators.
- Vancouver, Wash.-based development labor market Toolbelt employed Mark Raines as chief working officer. Raines beforehand labored at EagleView, a Bellevue, Wash.-based geospatial software program, aerial imagery and analytics firm.
- Saman Zarandioon is now director of engineering at well being knowledge startup Truveta, the place he was beforehand principal AI/machine studying engineer. Earlier than becoming a member of Truveta, Zarandioon was a senior software program engineer at Amazon.