Seattle Business Networking Blog

Bruce Lingle of Collision Clinic CARSTAR recently gave his Classification Talk. He spoke about his 30 years of business in Auto Body Collision Repair. Execs members shared testimonials about the quality of service Bruce and his crew provides.

DataSite Business Archives is your local Northwest source for Record Storage and Shredding. Dave Heric recently stressed the importance of knowing your business' record retention schedule and the importance of shredding to protect you from identity theft.

Congratulations to Lisa Combs of Duke's Truck Repair. She received her Membership Plaque at our June 19 meeting.

Lisa is your contact for Commercial Truck Repair. Her mentor, Bruce MacKintosh of Centennial Home Inspection Services, was "thrilled" to see her become a full member.

Jack Goldberg of Personnel Management Systems recently gave his Classification Talk. He spoke about how to be a “good or best employer”. Some attributes of a “good or best employer” are accountable managers, employees feeling valued and cared for and employees having job pride and satisfaction.

At our latest meeting, we heard about theProfit Mastery Class offered by Dan Cote' of CFO2Go. Dan excels in the development of the corporate profit planning function.

Dan has over 20 years experience in financial policy administration and implementation. He is experienced in multi-location operations ranging from $250,000 to $120 million revenue per year and has extensive experience in both service and manufacturing environments. Having owned and operated a manufacturing and contracting business, he understands the issues that most business owners confront on a day-to-day basis.He has also been instrumental with companies in the origination and implementation of accounting policies, procedures and controls and has been closely involved in the financial reorganization (Chapter 11) of both large and small companies. Dan has also instructed accounting and finance courses for City University undergraduate and MBA programs.

Alan Sidel of Don's Group Attire recently gave his company's classification talk. He spoke about how the 67 year old company evolved from a menswear shop to a logo apparel company.

Seattle Executives Association Associate Member Mackenzie Schwartz of Schwartz Brothers Restaurants recently spoke to the group about the 43 year history of the company.

Congratulations to Tom Ritter of Axia Home Loans. He received his Membership Plaque at our June 5 meeting.

Tom is your alternate contact for Residential Mortgage Lending. His mentor was Cameron Smock of Bonney-Watson.

Board elections were held at the SEA meeting on May 29th. 2nd Vice President is Tracy Johnson of Brown & Brown of WA, Inc. and new board members are Patricia Bennett of PC Bennett Consulting, Kelly Cudworth of The Cartridge Family and Doug Jordan of DataSite Business Archives.

Grant McDonald of TRUEbenefits and Jared Stewart of Jared T.Stewart, Attorney at Law were awared their membership plaques at the May 15th Seattle Execs luncheon.