BOARD
James B. Potter
James B. Potter is the owner and chairman of Kauri Investments, Ltd. He has more than 30 years experience in the real estate business and established Kauri Investments, Ltd. in 1987. Kauri Investments is a mixed-use and multifamily housing developer focusing on the Puget Sound region. Jim also is the owner and president of La Serena Holdings Inc., an investor in commercial and multifamily properties. His areas of expertise include acquisition and development, the City of Seattle Zoning Code, investment strategies, permit processing, construction, building rehabilitation and property management. He continues to focus his interests on major real estate projects in the greater Seattle area.
Potter, a native of Seattle, graduated with a BA in business administration with a concentration on finance and urban development from the University of Washington. He married Rebecca Ann Potter in 1980 and have three children: Wesley, Jayred and Lisa and currently reside in North Seattle.
Potter serves on the board of the Master Builders of King and Snohomish Counties as immediate past president, the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, the Advisory Board of the Academy of Finance and is a Seattle Rotarian with area of service in the Youth & Schools Committee. He also is involved with the Boy Scouts of America and has served, since 2000, as the scoutmaster at troop 338 located in north Seattle.
Bill Brammer
Bill Brammer is director of executive communications in the Windows Client Group at Microsoft. Brammer began his career as a design engineer at Texas Instruments, later working for Tektronix and DEC before joining Microsoft's sales organization in Missouri in 1995. After managing Microsoft sales to both large and small customers, he was promoted to Director of Executive Relations in Redmond in 1999. Brammer became Director of the HP Alliance in 2001, responsible for building services business with Hewlett Packard and Compaq during their merger. Most recently he was responsible for Microsoft's Public Sector sales and marketing strategy in the mid-market. He currently manages Microsoft's new client product Windows Vista.
Bob Cottingham
Bob Cottingham is one of the pioneers of bioinformatics, having begun his career in the field in the 1970s as a software developer on some of the first genetic analysis programs. Prior to co-founding VizX Labs, he was Vice President of Computing at Celltech Chiroscience, a UK biopharmaceutical company with a market capitalization of $5 billion, developing drugs based on targets found through gene discovery. His previous positions include Assistant Professor and Operations Director of the Genome Database at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Co-Director of the Informatics Core in the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Center, where he lead the development of software tools which made it possible to map increasingly large and complex data sets in genetic linkage analysis; and Directeur Informatique at Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain in Paris, France, where he was responsible for overseeing the CEPH family genotypes database, a resource used to construct some of the first maps of the human genome.
William P. Hammond
William P. Hammond, MD, FACP, was most recently president, medical director and CEO of the prestigious Hope Heart Institute in Seattle, WA. Under his leadership the institute nearly doubled in size as it successfully redirected its scientific mission. Previously, Hammond was director of medical education at Seattle's Providence Medical Center. He has conducted core research programs in hematopoiesis and stem cell biology using animal models of genetic disease as a faculty member at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine. His MD is from Tufts University and his BA from Harvard.
Ray Crerand
Ray Crerand recently retired as the CEO of Providence Everett Medical Center, the tenth largest hospital in Washington. He has been a leading figure for more than 20 years in hospital management in the Northwest and nationally. He is a former chairman of the Washington State Hospital Association and a board member of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Crerand served as the CEO of Everett's Providence Hospital from 1988 to 1993. Providence merged with General Hospital Medical Center in March 1994. He played a crucial role in bringing the two formerly fierce competitors together, and as CEO guided the hospital through tumultuous labor troubles and an employee strike in 2000.
