Movers & Shakers
Pioneer Title Co. announces new hire
Pioneer Title Co. in Coeur d'Alene is proud to announce the addition of Theresa Williams to our Kootenai County marketing team.
Williams has a decorated sales and marketing career spanning more than 30 years within the lending and title industries both in Idaho and the Midwest. Though her work with Minnesota’s top realtors and their teams was highly rewarding, Williams realized that she missed being near her extended Idaho family and made the decision to move closer to them.
Williams has come full circle and is thrilled to share her expertise, award-winning excellence and personal commitment to customer service as our newest Business Development Representative covering our Kootenai and Bonner County markets.
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Stephens joins TitleOne
Jess Stephens has joined TitleOne as the Coeur d'Alene Title Production Leader. She has nine years of title experience. Jess has an associate of arts degree from Flathead Valley Community College in Kalispell, Mont.
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ALLWEST promotes new leadership from within company
ALLWEST, a 100% employee-owned engineering, environmental and construction materials testing firm with offices in Idaho, Washington and Montana, is announcing leadership changes heading into the new year.
James Thomasson, P.E., assumes the role of chief executive officer in January. Thomasson joined ALLWEST in 2016 as a senior geotechnical engineer and engineering department manager in the firm’s Hayden office. He was promoted to area manager of the Hayden office in 2018 and has served as area manager of the Missoula, Mont., office since it opened in 2019.
Taryn Perry, vice president of business operations, will assume the role of chief operations officer in January. Perry joined ALLWEST in 2019, overseeing the company’s accounting, human resources, information technology and business development operations.
The leadership changes come as the employee-owned company celebrates record success. Over the past five years, ALLWEST’s company-wide revenue has nearly doubled, the firm has expanded to the Montana market and the number of employees has grown to nearly 100.
Thomasson and Perry are replacing ALLWEST’s current President Chris Beck, P.E., and Vice President of Professional Services Marv Kerbs. Beck and Kerbs will transition to advisory roles through 2024. Beck will continue as president of the company’s board of directors during the transition period.
“When I joined ALLWEST, I knew I had found something special,” Thomasson said. “We have an outstanding group of talented, hard-working professionals and I am privileged to be part of the leadership team that will help guide them to manifest their own success as employee-owners.”
Thomasson graduated from the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Engineering Geology and Geotechnics. He spent one-and-a-half years as a contract engineer in the UK before moving to San Clemente, Calif., where he worked for nearly 11 years at a geotechnical firm. He spent three years working at an engineering firm in Missoula prior to joining ALLWEST.
While ALLWEST’s headquarters will remain at the company’s flagship office in Hayden, Thomasson will mainly work from Missoula and travel and serve all five offices. Perry will continue to work from the firm’s Spokane Valley office and also travel to and serve all five offices.
Prior to joining ALLWEST in 2019, Perry worked at Trindera Engineering for nearly 13 years. She graduated from Washington State University with a B.A. in Communications.
“ALLWEST has achieved much success and growth in the past and is poised to enhance that legacy for decades to come,” Perry said. “As an employee-owned company, it is rewarding to see not only ALLWEST succeed, but all the dedicated and talented employees succeed as well. I feel blessed to help lead this team into the bright future ahead.”
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Durbin passes Certified Financial Planner exam
Rick Durbin, owner/managing member of Silver Pine Wealth Management has passed the Certified Financial Planner exam. The seven-hour CFP exam is designed to assess your ability to integrate and apply a broad base of financial planning knowledge in the context of real-life financial planning situations.
There is a reason the Certified Financial Planner certification is considered the gold standard in the financial advice industry: It sets the highest standards and accepts nothing less.
For more than 30 years, the Certified Financial Planner certification has been the standard of excellence for financial planners. CFP professionals take a holistic, personalized approach to bring all the pieces of one’s financial life together. As part of the certification, CFP professionals also have made a commitment to the CFP Board to act as a fiduciary when providing financial advice to a client. This means they have agreed to put their clients’ best interests first, so they can provide them confidence today and a secure tomorrow.
Durbin is a Registered Investment Advisor located in Coeur d’Alene. As a primary fiduciary, Durbin serves committed investors with complex financial needs.
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