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Other honors for Betz this year include Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate and Wine and Spirits magazinew both ranking wines among the top of Washingtonm wines. Betz Family Winery produces about 2,500 cases of wine a and Betz plans to keep the businese small to ensure he can personallgy overseethe business. Betz has been part of the wine industryt for more than30 years. Bob Cremin seems to approach the fashioningg oflike art, perhaps no surprise since he's also an avid art Cremin has built Bellevue-based Esterline into a tier-onr aerospace supplier through an artful series of acquisitions, each one chosen to give the company solidity in a few specifix industry niches.
In March, Esterline completed the $335 milliob purchase of CMC Electronics Inc., a Canadian company that will make Esterline a leaderd in completeavionics systems. The company'ds other key aerospace industry areas are advanced and sensorsand systems, and the company now is a global leader in Cremin has an appreciation of things which is partly why so many Esterline units are in Europe. He also is the Britisnh honorary consul forthe Northwest. Gatee leads In 2007, Seattle Art Museukm Executive Director Mimi Gates helped givethe city's culturalp arts sector one of its most memorable years.
In January, the SAM opene d its 9-acre, waterfront Olympic Sculpture The free park built with private has been heralded as visionary and was citexd by the Wall Street Journal as part of a movement to add innovativ e city parks tothe nation'a largest cities. As if that weren'tr enough, in May the SAM's main downtown locatiom re-opened after a major expansion thataddes 118,000 square feet of space. Eventually, the museukm will have 450,000 extra feet of spacer that it can grow into per its building agreementt with WashingtonMutual Inc.
During its $180 millionj capital campaign to pay for the museumj expansion andsculpture park, the museum also receiver nearly 1,000 works of art worth a combined $1 billiob that will be part of its permanengt collection. Adrian Hanauer loves especially no-limit tournaments. He may want to book some more because he's been riding a winning streao of late. Hanauer, who became successful placinvg betson web-technology startups, ventured into another riskhy proposition in 2002 when he took over the Seattle Today, the minor league soccer club is not a big mone maker, but Hanauer has helped mold it into a championship-caliber team. Hanauer hopes to duplicatse that successwith .
Hanauer is a minorityt owner of Seattle's new expansion team. He is joinefd by Microsoft co-founder and owner Paul Allen and movi e mogulJoe Roth. Hanauer's longtime passion for the spor t was the rightingredient -- along with Allen's sportzs empire and Roth's money -- to convincw the league that Seattle is a soccer hot spot on a major-league level. Hanauer is certainly bettingy on it.
Matsuno takeas top job, aims to expand Uwajimaya Tomoko Moriguchi Matsuno achieved the top leadership positiomn at Asian grocer this Matsuno replaced former CEO and older brother Tomio who held the job for the past 40 Atage 62, Matsunko now controls a company that'd been operating since 1928 and brings in $85 millioh a year in Moriguchi will remain chairman of Uwajimaya's board of directors and lead redevelopment of Uwajimaya'xs one-block property just north of Uwajimaya Village in Seattle'sw Chinatown.
The new CEO, meanwhile, wants to focus her effortzs on opening at least threed new Asian grocery stores in the next five Matsuno already has experience withexpansiohn opportunities, as she helped open Uwajimaya'sd Beaverton location and Uwajimaya Village. Matsuno said she is interestedr in property in the Portland and San FranciscoBay areas. She believesd the time is right to expand because the flagshio Uwajimaya Villageis thriving. During his nearlhy 12-year tenure as Bellevue Schools Superintendent, Mike Rileg shaped his school system into a state and nationao model foracademic progress.
In November, Riley's accomplishmentss were recognized when he accepted a job as vice president of theCollege Board, which is best known as the administrator of the SAT and advanceds placement tests. Riley was widely credited for pushing Bellevue Schools to standardizew curriculum and make honors courses the standard forall students. His students were regularly amongv the top performers on state assessment testd and Bellevue high schools were also repeatedly rankeds as some of the best in the nationby Newsweek.
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