HIRES/PROMOTIONS
AUTOMOTIVE
Kay Parks/Dan Meyer Auto Rebuild, Inc., in Tacoma, has recently promoted Bruce Fraser to operations manager. He has been with the company for 21 years. Fraser is a graduate of Clover Park Technical College and is an accredited automotive manager by the Automotive Management Institute.
BANKING/FINANCE
AmericaHomeKey Inc. in Puyallup has added Leah Merritt to its mortgage lending team. She has more than 10 years in professional lending experience in the finance industry. Merritt is a graduate of the University of Phoenix.
HEALTH CARE
Dr. Terrill Utt will join Summit View Clinic Family Physicians in the practice of family medicine in January. He graduated from Loma Linda School of Medicine, completed his family practice residency at Madigan Army Medical Center and has been board-certified since 1983. Prior to completing his Army medical service as a major, he served as a family physician, flight surgeon and family practice resident teacher.
NONPROFIT
Malcolm Russell has been named president of Keep Lakewood Beautiful. He will be responsible for promoting the nonprofit in its projects to secure funding and other support to carry out the strategic plans and policies established by the board of directors. Russell is a business marketing and fund development professional with more than 10 years’ experience.
DATA STORAGE
West Coast data center owner, The Benaroya Co., recently named Garrick Sturgill as its new facility manager for its South Hill Data Center and Boise Data Center. He previously was general manager and operations manager of CoreLink Data Centers’ Seattle operations. Sturgill also held key management and sales engineering positions at The Westin Building, Peer1 Network; Time Warner Telecom and Metro Media Fiber.
Compiled by Mary Anderson, Staff writer
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