SB Profiles
Executive Q & A: Itron CEO Philip Mezey
In January, Philip Mezey became CEO of Itron, a company with $2.4 billion in sales last year. Mezey, who has a background in history and software, is intent on transforming the Spokane-area maker of smart meters into a technology-intensive business with an expertise in smart grids and smart cities. EDUCATION: I studied history at the…
Executive Q & A: Chris Schmidt, chairman & CEO of Moss Adams
This month, Chris Schmidt takes the helm of Moss Adams, an enterprise with 2,000 employees and record revenues last year of $343 million. The company is the largest accounting firm in Washington and Oregon and among the largest in California and Arizona. It also has offices in New Mexico and Kansas. EARLY YEARS: I grew…
Executive Q&A: UW Medicine CEO Paul Ramsey, M.D.
As head of a sprawling medical institution with a $3.2 billion budget and a strong, globally respected presence in medical education, health service and research, Paul Ramsey has navigated rapid changes in the way medicine is researched, taught and delivered. YOUTH: I was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. My father was a CPA at American Standard,…
Talking Points: Robert Peters Washington state president, Bank of America
Bob Peters took over the Washington operations of Bank of America in 2009, just as the bank faced a subprime mortgage crisis tied to its acquisition of troubled Countrywide Financial. Now, Peters is leading a drive to get the bank, which built its dominant local presence through the acquisition of Seafirst Bank in 1983, to…
Executive Q&A: Stephen A. White President/CEO, Milliman
YOUTH: I was born in Oregon but came to Seattle when I was 4. My dad was the city manager of Mountlake Terrace for over 25 years. I was the numbers guy in the family. I went to ODea High School, then the University of Notre Dame, where I was a walk-on on the football…
J. Gregory Seibly President and CEO, Sterling Financial Corporation
YOUTH: When I was a kid, my father worked as general counsel for a horseshoe manufacturing company in Lodi, California, near Sacramento. He had been a horse racing fan all his life. I went to plenty of horse races and my dad still owns interest in a couple of horses, but Im just a watcher….
Executive Q&A: Maud Daudon, President/CEO, Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce
EARLY YEARS: I grew up outside Chicago, where my father was a corporate lawyer. He loved the law, and was a huge participant in civic lifevery involved in United Way. My mother was on the board of Planned Parenthood for years. My parents were both Republicans in the days when Republicans were centrists, like Dan…
John Jastrem, Chairman & CEO, Callison
EARLY LIFE: I was raised in Plains, Pennsylvania. My father was involved in the Manhattan Project during World War II. He was in the military police and also cooked for some of the guys. He knew all the scientists. FIRST JOB: My uncles were entrepreneurs who believed in child labor so I started working very…
Cover Story: Kemper Freeman Jr.
Ever since Miller Freeman moved from Seattle to the rural Eastside in 1927, his family’s fate and fortune have been closely entwined with Bellevue’s. Miller Freeman’s son and grandson helped transform the farming hamlet into a bedroom community and then into a major commercial center with its own bustling malls and skyscrapers. Now, as Bellevue…
Jay Inslee’s uphill battle
At the annual Kitsap County Democratic dinner in February, Nancy Nystrom pushed through the crowd looking for Jay Inslee, the seven-term congressman and Democratic candidate for governor of Washington. When Nystrom spotted him, she marched up, her head barely reaching Inslees shoulders, and laid out why Kitsap County needs a four-year college. Inslee listened intently…
Executive Q&A: Bernt Bodal
The Norway-born executive achieved national prominence earlier this year when he appeared on an episode of CBS’s Undercover Boss, taking on tough assignments like hauling fish on board a catcher-processor in the Bering Sea and cleaning fish guts from equipment at a processing factory in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Bodal is no stranger to hard work….
Executive Q&A: Peter McLoughlin
President, Seattle Seahawks, Seattle Sounders FC, First & Goal Inc.
Peter McLoughlin, president, Seattle Seahawks, Seattle Sounders FC, First & Goal Inc. In September 2010, Peter McLoughlin succeeded Tod Leiweke as president of Paul Allen’s Seattle sports operations. McLoughlin is responsible for all financial and business aspects of the Seahawks football team and Sounders soccer team. As head of First & Goal, he also oversees…
Executive Q & A: Michael Garvey
YOUTH: My dad was born and raised in Washington state. He was a longshoreman and a staunch union supporter. In the famous 1934 dock strike, the bloodiest strike on the West Coast, he was on the tough-guy squad that threw scabs off the ships. He got beat up. My mothers father was a coal miner….