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Board of Directors, 2009-10
Annette Jacobs*
 President
Annette Jacobs is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer for Door To Door Storage and Moving, Inc. in Kent, Washington. Door To Door pioneered an environmentally-friendly container design to provide a convenient, secure and cost-effective alternative to traditional self-storage and household moving. Today, Door To Door operates in more than 20 U.S. metropolitan markets and her leadership will position the company for growth and expansion.
Previously, Ms. Jacobs served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SafeHarbor Technology Corporation in Seattle, Washington. During her tenure, SafeHarbor transformed from a dot-com company to a technology leader serving Fortune 100 enterprise clients. Its primary solution, SmartSupport™, developed under Ms. Jacobs’ leadership, combined software and business services to dramatically improve Web product support and was recognized with more than 16 industry distinctions. SafeHarbor received a Stevie Award for “Best Overall Company” in June 2007, while Ms. Jacobs was honored with 2 Stevie Award finalist distinctions as CEO and Chairman of the Year.
In addition, Ms. Jacobs had a 24-year executive career, managing multi-billion dollar business units in wireless and telecom with GTE Wireless, Verizon Wireless, Qwest Communications and AT&T. Ms. Jacobs' positions, as well as her board involvement, have spanned the country. She is currently lead independent director for Alaska Communications Systems (NASDAQ:ALSK), serves on the board executive committees for the National Association of Corporate Directors-Northwest (NACD) and the Seattle Humane Society. She is a member of the Dean’s Executive Advisory Board for the Albers School of Business and Economics and has been an adjunct professor for Seattle University.
G. Scott Greenburg*
 Chairman, Treasurer and Chair 2010 Corporate Director of the Year Event
Scott Greenburg is a co-founder and was the initial President of the Seattle-Northwest Chapter of the NACD. In additon to serving on the the Chapter Board, he chairs both the regional and national Director of the Year events for the NACD, and he currently serves as a director for private companies Sahale Snacks, Inc., InSpa Corporation, and Calidora Skin Clinics, Inc.. Between 1986 and 2000 he was outside general counsel and corporate secretary to Starbucks Corporation.
Mr. Greenburg remains a practicing corporate/securities partner at the law firm K&L Gates, with more than 25 years experience in venture capital, public offerings, intellectual property and technology issues, mergers and acquisitions, complex commercial transactions and international product distribution. Among the companies that he has represented in well over 100 corporate transactions are Starbucks; VoiceStream Wireless; Westin Hotels; Sur La Table; Aventail; Maveron; HaloSource; Seattle SuperSonics; Classmates.com; Oh Boy! Oberto; Cucina! Cucina!; and Sambazon. He has been recognized by Lawdragon Magazine as one of the 500 Best Lawyers in the United States, by Chambers USA as one of “America’s Leading Business Lawyers--Corporate/M&A,” by Best Lawyers in America for Corporate Governance, and by Washington Law & Politics as a “Super Lawyer.”
Catherine L. Walker*
 Secretary and Past President
In 2003, Catherine Walker co-founded the Seattle-Northwest Chapter of the NACD and currently serves as President. She is Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary for Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI) in Kent, WA, the largest consumer co-operative in the U.S. Prior to joining REI, she was Vice President for Administration/ University Counsel for Seattle University and Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary for Westin Hotels & Resorts.
While at Westin and Seattle University, Catherine served for nearly eight years on REI’s Board of Directors, chairing the Nominating & Governance Committee and the Audit & Finance Committee and serving as Vice Chair of the Board. She also served as a mayoral appointee for nine years to the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission, chairing that board twice during her tenure.
Catherine is co-founder and director of Plymouth Healing Communities, a non-profit human services organization; she also served six years as the founding Board Chair. Catherine earned her BS degree from the UW and her JD degree, cum laude, from Seattle University. She holds a certificate from Seattle University’s Executive Leadership Program.
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Edward J. Borey
 Ed Borey is an experienced Chairman, CEO and Board Member that has focused on growth and turnaround opportunities in a variety of global technology companies. He is the Past Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of WatchGuard (WGRD) Technologies. Prior to that Ed served as Chief Executive Officer of PSC (PSCX), Chief Operating Officer of Intermec (UNA) and in a variety of Executive positions in General Management, Marketing and Finance. Currently, Ed serves on the Board of AROTECH (ARTX). Prior Public Board experience includes WatchGuard (WGRD), PSC (PSCX) and MBrane (CNRT). This is augmented by experience in the Snohomish County YMCA Board of Trustees and participation in a number of Advisory Boards.
Ed received his BS in Economics and Political Science from State University of New York, College at Oswego; a Master of Arts, Public Administration from the University of Oklahoma; and, a MBA from Santa Clara University.
Craig Cole
Craig Cole is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Brown & Cole Stores of Bellingham, Washington, the oldest grocery company in the region. Brown & Cole is a regional supermarket chain of 31 stores and approximately 2,000 employees, and one of Washington's largest privately-held companies.
Mr. Cole graduated from Western Washington University's Fairhaven College. He was a state legislative aide and held management ositions with the State of Washington and Foss Launch and Tug Company before joining Brown & Cole as Vice President in 1979, becoming its President and CEO in 1989. Mr. Cole has been a local elected official and has received several assignments from Washington's Governors, including appointment to the Governor's "Kitchen Cabinet", the State Human Rights Commission, Board of Trustees of Western Washington University, Governor Commission on Early Learning and the Governor's Commission on Employment of the Handicapped. He has also served on a blue ribbon panel on state school construction funding, on the State Public Lands Advisory Committee, and on the Washington State Energy Strategy Advisory Committee. In his home area of Whatcom County, he led a citizen task force in developing and implementing a long-range plan for preserving highly valued natural areas.
Craig serves on the Board of Directors of Puget Energy (Washington's largest energy utility), on the Board of Regents of the University of Washington, and on the Washington Roundtable, an organization of 40 CEOs of Washington's top companies who are involved in shaping public policy. Craig also has served as Chair of the Board of Directors of Associated Grocers of Seattle, the region's largest grocery wholesaler. Brown & Cole is its largest shareholder. In addition, he serves on the Board of Directors of the Food Marketing Institute (Washington, DC).
Brown & Cole is the recipient of numerous local, state, and national awards for entrepreneurship, strategic leadership, and public service. Craig has been named Citizen of the Year (Whatcom County Board of Realtors), Business Newsmaker of the Year (Bellingham Herald), Businessperson of the Year (Whatcom County Business Pulse Magazine), one of 100 newmakers in a Century of Community History (Bellingham Herald), and Western Washington University's 18th Distinguished Alumnus (2002). He was also awarded the prestigious Spirit of America Award for Washington State for civic leadership (National Grocers Association); and, in 1994, he was spokesperson for a delegation of business leaders who met at the White House with President Clinton on the topic of healthcare reform.
Anne Farrell
Anne Farrell, President emerita and former President and CEO of the Seattle Foundation. Service on the boards of REI, Washington Mutual, Blue Cross and Girl Scouts of USA. Enjoys skiing, hiking and sailing.
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Robert F. Felton
Bob Felton is a Director Emeritus of McKinsey & Company, Inc. Prior to retiring on August 1, 2005, he managed the Firm’s Seattle office, and he managed the Seoul, Korea office from 1996 to 2001. He previously was a leader in the Los Angeles office from 1974 to 1996. During his time with the Firm, Mr. Felton has served companies in a number of industries, most notably energy, industrial, consumer, and financial services. He has helped these companies on a wide range of issues including sustaining profitable growth, business restructuring, operations improvement, strategy, organization, international growth, compensation/incentive systems, M&A, and board/corporate governance. He has worked extensively in North America and Asia, and has a great deal of experience in Europe, South America, and the Middle East.
He started the McKinsey’s Board Governance practice in the early 1990’s and until recently lead the Firm’s governance activities globally. In this content, he has helped boards of directors on a wide range of issues, including board organization and processes; board recruiting; board roles in strategy, leadership development and risk assessment; director recruiting; and CEO recruiting, development and evaluation. While in Korea, he helped a number of boards, including POSCO’s, improve their activities.
Mr. Felton writes and speaks frequently on the topic of corporate leadership and board governance. In the past year he has had articles published in Directors and Boards, Directorship, ISSue Alert, and the McKinsey Quarterly. He has been quoted in Business Week, Fortune, New York Times, The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal and a number of other publications on corporate leadership and board governance matters. Lastly, in 2003 Consulting Magazine named him one of the twenty-five most influential management consultants in the world.
Prior to joining McKinsey, Mr. Felton worked for General Electric Company for several years in engineering and manufacturing positions. He has an M.B.A. with distinction from the Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Washington State University. He grew up in a small farming town in Eastern Washington.
Rick Fox
Rick is an independent director of companies in diverse industries. In addition he provides consulting services to entrepreneurs and the financial services industry. Rick previously held executive, operational and financial positions at CyberSafe, Wall Data and PACCAR and is the former Managing Partner of Ernst & Young’s Seattle office. He is the Treasurer and a member of the board of directors of The Seattle Foundation and a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Visitors of the Fuqua School of Business, DukeUniversity. He serves on the board of directors of Premera Blue Cross, a Northwest managed care company, Flow International (NASDAQ – FLOW), a machine tool manufacturer, Orbitz Worldwide (NYSE: OWW), an online travel service and Univar Inc., an international chemical distributor as well as several private equity backed technology companies. He served on the board of Shurgard Self Storage (NYSE – SHU), an REIT until August 2006 when it was sold to Public Storage (NYSE – PSA) and aQuantive (NASDAQ – AQNT), an on line marketing company, until it was sold to Microsoft (NASDAQ – MSFT) in August 2007.
Rick has an undergraduate degree in business with a major in Accounting from OhioUniversity, an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business, DukeUniversity and is a CPA in WashingtonState. He is married and has two adult children and two grandchildren.
Chuck Gottschalk
Chuck Gottschalk is a VP – Financial Advisor at Bernstein Global Wealth Management. He also is currently President of the Seattle chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth. For the seven years prior to joining Bernstein he was a Managing Partner for Tatum, a national financial and technology executive services firm, where he led the Pacific NW practice from start-up to 50 professionals and one of the firm’s consistently top performing markets. Earlier in his career Chuck was a senior executive in three venture-backed emerging technology companies (CEO in two and CFO in one), where he successfully led equity and debt financings, strategic partnering initiatives, the spin-out of a corporate division (that ultimately went public), and the sale of two of the businesses to publicly-traded companies. He spent the first 15 years of his career at Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers).
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Linda Killinger
Linda Killinger is the President of Olympic Consulting Partners, a venture capital and consulting firm. She is also teaching classes at the MBA school at the University of Washington. Before moving to Seattle she was the Executive Vice President of the Mercy Health Network (a 24-hospital firm), and Managing Director of Consulting Services for Deloitte & Touche LLP.
Recently she was also Vice Chair of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines, a for-profit $45 Billion AAA rated GSE. She served as Chair of the Audit and Compensation Committees.
She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Seattle Art Museum, the Board of Directors of the University of Washington Foundation, Board of Trustees of the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, the Board of Governors of the Iowa State University Foundation, and a member of United Way's Million Dollar Roundtable.
She has completed post graduate work at the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, has an MBA from Drake University, and a Bachelor of Science from Iowa State University. She is a Certified Compensation Professional (CCP), a Certified Benefits Professional (CBP), a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), and a certified design professional (IIDA).
Timothy P. Leybold
Mr. Leybold is Exec. Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Coast Crane Company.
Mr. Leybold previously held CFO or board positions with The Port Blakeley Companies, RLC Industries and The Cutler Investment Group. He practiced public accounting with the Seattle office of an international firm until 1986. Mr. Leybold holds an MBA from the University of Oregon and graduated maxima cum laude from the University of Portland.
He is a founding director of the Seattle Chapter of NACD, serves on the board of Ambia LLC, and is a member of Financial Executives International.
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Neil L. McReynolds
Mr. McReynolds is President of McReynolds Associates, a board governance consulting firm established in Seattle in 1999. The firm has consulted with the boards and the CEO’s of for-profit, nonprofit, trade associations and higher education organizations. For the past nine years he has been an adjunct professor, teaching board governance in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Washington. He also has written and spoken extensively on board governance.
In the business world, Mr. McReynolds has chaired the board of two businesses: Washington Dental Service and Horizon House. He is Director Emeritus of HomeStreet Bank where he served for 23 years. He also served on the board of Adinfonitum, an early-stage company. Currently, he is Strategic Director for Montlake Capital (formerly Buerk Dale Victor), a growth equity firm. For 15 years Mr. McReynolds served first as Vice President and then as Senior Vice President of Puget Sound Power & Light (now Puget Sound Energy). His other management roles included being Editor of the Bellevue American newspaper, Press Secretary and a top aide to Washington Governor Dan Evans, Northwest Regional Manager for International Telephone & Telegraph (ITT), and Vice President of Kaiser Permanente/Group Health for the Northwest.
Mr. McReynolds has chaired the board of many organizations, such as the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the Seattle-King County Economic Development Council and the Eastside Business Roundtable. He has been president of organizations such as the Rainier Club and the Downtown Rotary Club. He has served on more than 50 boards over the years. Among his current responsibilities is his service as a member of the governing board of Eastern Washington University.
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Arnie Prentice
 Founding Chairman
Arlen I. “Arnie” Prentice is Chairman and CEO of Kibble & Prentice, a Pacific Northwest financial services firm providing commercial and personal property and casualty insurance brokerage, a full range of employee benefit services, and investment advisory services to high net worth individuals and qualified retirement plan sponsors.
He also serves on the board of directors of Flow International (nasdaq), Northland Telecommunication Corporation and Pacific Marketing International. Mr. Prentice serves as a member of the USI Executive Management Board. USI is a Goldman Sachs Capital Partners IV Company. He served nineteen years on the Starbucks Coffee Company board of directors and as the non-executive chairman of Percon Inc. (nasdaq) for eight years. He is also a principal of the Prentice Family Partnership which invests primarily in early stage Pacific Northwest companies including the Northwest Drug Emporium franchise (sold to Longs Drugs), Optiva Corporation – maker of the Sonicare toothbrush (sold to Phillips), Wizards of the Coast (sold to Hasbro), Advanced H2O (sold to LaSalle Partners) and Spider Staging (sold to Flow International).
Mr. Prentice is a member of many professional and civic associations at the international, national and local levels, including the Million Dollar Round Table, the Board of Trustees for the Seattle World Trade Center, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Business Alliance and the Methow Conservancy.
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Evelyn Cruz Sroufe
Evelyn Cruz Sroufe is a securities partner with the law firm Perkins Coie, and a frequent speaker and author on corporate governance issues. Ms. Sroufe also serves as a board member of the Virginia Mason Healthcare System.
Ms. Sroufe is past director of Willamette Industries, Inc., Portland, OR, and Past President and CEO of The WebSea Group, Inc. She was a Vice President with Microsoft Corporation and a Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations with Visio Corporation.
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Board of Directors
2010-2011
Portland Board denoted with *
Advisory Boards
2010-11
Seattle Board
Robert Carlile, KPMG
Richard B. Dodd, K&L Gates
Karen Kachele Gottschalk, McGladery
Karin Dow, KD Management
Larry Ganges, Lane Powell
George Greer, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Dan Guy, Kibble & Prentice, Inc.
Lawrence Hile, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Lori Kaiser, Tatum LLC
Barry Kaplan, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Jonathan Karpoff, University of Washington
Dana Leslie, Grant Thornton
Gail McKee, Towers Watson
Charles O'Kelley, Seattle University School of Law
Sharon Philpott, BDO
Jeff Tarbell, Houlihan Lokey
Tim Tasker, Ernst & Young
David Taylor, Perkins Coie
Emory Thomas, Puget Sound Business Journal
James Sense, Robert Half Management
Deborah Watson, Wells Fargo
Portland Board
Jeff Bird, Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt
Brandon Bridwell, Ernst & Young
Richard Callahan, KPMG
Brian Reidy, Towers Perrin
Alexis Dow, RGL-Forensic Accountants
Chris Brisbee, USI
Henry Hewitt, Stoel Rives
John Metcalf, Tatum Partners
Brendan McDonnell, K&L Gates
Tony Parke, Grant Thornton
Milo Petranovich, Lane Powell
Karen Rasmussen, The Rasmussen Group
Brian Reidy, Towers Perrin
Jeff Tarbell, Houlihan Lokey
Roy Tucker, Perkins Coie
Craig Wessel, Portland Business Journal
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