Adler named BCC Foundation board president

Peter Adler, Senior Vice-President of Bellevue-based PeaceHealth and CEO of its HealthVentures subsidiary, has been named president of the Bellevue Community College Foundation Board of Directors.

Adler has been a member of the board since 2006 and previously chaired its Development and Strategic Planning committees.

Adler succeeds Mike Humphries, Managing Principal of Waldron & Company, who remains on the board and executive committee.

Other Foundation officers and executive committee members for the coming year include:

President elect: Rob McKenna, Washington State Attorney General; Secretary: Paul Swegle, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Sharebuilder; Treasurer and Finance Committee chair: Ramesh Rao, Principal, The Reserve at Gearhart, LLC.

Directors Committee chair: Dale King, Principal (Interior Special Projects Division), GLY Construction; Development Committee chair: Lisa Sims, community volunteer; Scholarship Committee chair: Robin Nelson, community volunteer; Marketing Committee chair: Kass Sells, Managing Director and Global Client, Lead, The Wunderman Network; Strategic Planning Committee chair: Carol Taylor, medical center administrator.

Other board members include:

Bob Alexander, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Underwriting, Alaska National Insurance Company; Shiv Batra, President, INCA Engineers, Inc.; Christine Benson, Assistant Vice President and Fiduciary Officer, BNY Mellon Wealth Management; Marty Bentrott, Vice President, Middle East and African Sales, The Boeing Company;

David Call, Senior Vice President and Branch Manager, Citi Smith Barney; Courtney Courter, Political Affairs/Public Relations, Honda Auto Center of Bellevue; Don Grant, Senior Vice President and Regional Manager, Wells Fargo Bank; Crystal Hochhaus, Creative Director, QC Graphics; Michael Kalian, Managing Director, Seattle Home Show; Bill Kent, Construction Executive, M.A. Mortenson Company;

Johan Lysne IV,AVP & Branch Manager, HomeStreet Bank; Malpartida Smith Cisco, Product Manager, Member Strategies, BECU; Dave Mentz, Vice President and Director, Human Resources, Medtronic Physio-Control; Gary Pruitt, Chief Executive Officer, Univar

Stan Rosen, Principal, Rosen-Harbottle Commercial Real Estate Catherine Springman, Catherine Springman, Inc.

The Bellevue Community College Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 1978 to raise funds to enhance educational opportunities at BCC.

Through a combination of individual, foundation and corporate donations, the Foundation provides funding for scholarships, program enhancements and special projects at BCC.

The foundation holds assets of $4.3 million and has raised more than $20 million on behalf of Bellevue Community College.

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