Appointments, promotions and awards in the business community.
Seattle area
Accounting: Melissa Lane was hired as a tax manager, and Jessica Li and Ian Simpson as audit seniors at Peterson Sullivan.
Aerospace: Frederick Kiga was named vice president, state and local government relations and global corporate citizenship, for Boeing’s Northwest region.
Banking: Josh Williams was named Seattle Metro Business Banking manager at Wells Fargo’s Seattle Metro BBG office.
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Consulting: Parag Vaish was named vice president of marketing at Atlas Accelerator.
Health care: Dr. Milah Blinka Frownfelter, Dr. Tammy Meehan and Dr. Daniel Garnett joined The Polyclinic.
Investment: Tony Scherrer was named senior vice president and portfolio manager at Smead Capital Management.
Law: Barbara West joined Short Cressman & Burgess as a partner. Emily Woodson Wagner and Qing (Becky) Lin were elected partners at Seed Intellectual Property Law Group.
Newspapers: Rob Frerichs was named director of online sales at The Seattle Times Co.
Organizations: Cynthia Welti was appointed executive director of the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust.
Ports: Elaine Ko was appointed director of the Office of Social Responsibility at the Port of Seattle.
Eastside
Finance: Stephen Roche was hired as president and chief operating officer of Guidant Financial Group, Bellevue.
Retail: Craig Andrews was hired as a national sales manager, Colby Mclellan as a marketing manager and Anthony Kane as regional sales manager at Weider Global Nutrition, Issaquah.
Software: Tom Pietryga was named vice president of worldwide sales at SchemaLogic, Kirkland.
Wealth management: Detlef Schrempf joined the business-development team at Coldstream, Bellevue.
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