The Washington Roundtable board is comprised of senior executives of major private sector employers in Washington state. Our members work together to effect positive change on public policy issues that they believe are most important to supporting state economic vitality and fostering opportunity for all Washingtonians.

    • The Roundtable applies the knowledge, creativity and expertise of Washington’s senior business leaders to the policy issues that matter most to our state and its citizens. Our board members are the senior executives of Washington companies or ranking executives of companies headquartered elsewhere that have significant presence here. A select number of board seats are reserved for citizen members and other business leaders who bring unique experience, knowledge or expertise.

      Jeff Roe *, Roundtable Chair
      CEO & President, Premera Blue Cross

      Kerri Schroeder *, Roundtable Vice Chair
      Pacific Northwest Regional Chair & Region Manager - Middle Market Banking, JPMorganChase

      Mary Kipp *, Roundtable Secretary/Treasurer
      President & CEO, Puget Sound Energy

      Dean C. Allen
      CEO
      McKinstry Co. LLC

      Beverly Anderson
      President and CEO
      BECU

      Frank Armijo
      President
      Armijo Group

      Chuck Arnold
      President
      Seattle Seahawks and First & Goal, Inc.

      Brent Beardall
      President & CEO
      WaFd Bank

      Ryan Blethen
      Publisher
      The Seattle Times

      Zach Buchwald
      Chairman & CEO
      Russell Investments

      Tyler Burkland
      Market President
      U.S. Bank

      Dominic Carr
      Executive VP & Chief Communications & Corporate Affairs Officer
      Starbucks Coffee Company

      Tony Christensen
      CEO
      Christensen, Inc.

      Betsy Cowles
      Chair
      Cowles Company

      Craig Dawson *
      President & CEO
      Retail Lockbox, Inc.

      Preston Feight
      CEO
      PACCAR, Inc.

      Daniel S. Fulton **
      CEO, Retired
      Weyerhaeuser Company

      Ariane Gorin
      CEO
      Expedia

      Deb Gracio
      Laboratory Director
      PNNL

      Ada Healey
      Chief Real Estate Officer
      Vale Group (Vulcan Real Estate)

      Brad Jackson
      CEO & Co-Founder
      Slalom Consulting

      Mary A. Knell
      CEO, Pacific Northwest & Western Canada
      Wells Fargo

      Tod Leiweke
      CEO
      Seattle Kraken

      Howard C. Lincoln **
      Chairman & CEO, Retired
      Seattle Mariners

      Christopher Longhurst, MD, MS
      CEO
      Seattle Children’s

      Jeremy Lott
      President & CEO
      SanMar

      Thomas J. Lynch Jr., MD
      President & Director
      Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

      Brian Marlow
      Washington Market President
      KeyBank

      Kevin Martinez
      President Business Operations
      Seattle Mariners

      Stanley B. McCammon
      Chairman, President & CEO
      Joshua Green Corporation

      Brian McGuigan
      CEO
      Laird Norton Company

      Stan W. McNaughton
      President & CEO
      PEMCO Mutual Insurance Company

      Margaret A. Meister *
      President & CEO
      Symetra

      Karen Miller
      Vice President Refining at Cherry Point
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      Ben Minicucci
      CEO
      Alaska Air Group

      Mark Mitchke
      President & CEO
      Delta Dental of Washington

      Jim Morehead
      President, Seattle
      Bank of America

      Jean Noonan
      Chief Financial Officer, Optum Pacific Northwest
      Optum Care, Washington

      Erik Nordstrom
      CEO
      Nordstrom, Inc.

      Matt Oppenheimer
      Co-founder & CEO
      Remitly

      Uffe Ostergaard
      CEO
      Carrix, Inc. / SSA Marine, Inc.

      Earl Overstreet
      President, Retired
      General Microsystems Inc.

      Stephanie Pope
      President & CEO
      Boeing Commercial Airplanes

      Devon Pritchard
      President & COO
      Nintendo of America, Inc.

      Mary Pugh *
      CEO & Chief Investment Officer
      Pugh Capital Management

      Douglas Reed
      President & Chair
      Green Diamond Resource Co.

      Bart Ricketts *
      CEO
      Lease Crutcher Lewis

      Chad Robins
      CEO, Co-Founder, & Chairman
      Adaptive Technologies

      Heather Rosentrater
      President & CEO
      Avista

      Julie Sandler *
      Co-Founder & General Partner
      PSL Ventures

      Michael Senske *
      President & CEO
      Pearson Packaging Systems

      Mike Sievert
      Vice Chairman
      T-Mobile

      Brad Smith *
      Vice Chair & President
      Microsoft Corporation

      Olumide Soroye
      President & CEO
      Fortive Corporation

      John W. Stanton **
      Managing Partner
      Trilogy Partnership

      Dave Stewart
      Senior Vice President, General Counsel, & Chief Ethics Officer
      Saltchuk

      Devin W. Stockfish
      President & CEO
      Weyerhaeuser Company

      Keith Turner
      Regional Senior VP, Pacific NW Region
      Comcast Cable Communications

      Jeffery S. Vincent **
      President & CEO, Retired
      Laird Norton Company

      Elizabeth Wako, MD
      President and CEO
      Swedish Health Services

      Mike Warjone
      CEO
      Port Blakely

      Geoff Wood
      CEO & Co-President
      Windermere

      Howard Wright
      Chairman & Founder
      Seattle Hospitality Group

      David Zapolsky
      Chief Global Affairs and Legal Officer
      Amazon

      Harold Zeitz
      CEO
      Ziply Fiber

      * Executive Committee
      ** Council of Former Directors

    • How does the Roundtable determine the issues it will focus on?

      We focus on a select number of issues that our members believe are most important to supporting economic vitality and fostering opportunity for all Washingtonians. We consider issues possibly under consideration by state leaders, and where we believe the knowledge and expertise of our members can most affect positive change.

      How does one become a member of the Washington Roundtable?

      Candidates for membership must be the senior executive of a Washington state company or the ranking executive of a company headquartered elsewhere that has significant business presence here. A select number of board seats are reserved for citizen members and other business leaders who bring unique experience, knowledge or expertise.

      Is the Washington Roundtable a government organization?

      No. Although we work to address state policy issues, we are not affiliated with or supported by the public sector.

      Does the Washington Roundtable endorse candidates or sponsor bills or ballot measures?

      We focus on policy, not politics. We work closely with elected officials and policymakers to support sound policy and affect positive change via the legislative process. In select cases, we will play an active role in ballot measure campaigns that directly relate to our core areas of focus. We do not engage in political races, endorse or support candidates running for elective office.

      Are there Roundtables in every state and are they organized the same way?

      There are state roundtables in one form or another in many states. Each is organized and has a membership reflective of its needs and mission. We often share information and ideas with other state roundtable organizations, but we have no formal affiliations.

    • Partnership for Learning – www.partnership4learning.org

      Partnership for Learning, the education foundation of the Washington Roundtable, is a statewide nonprofit organization that communicates the need for all Washington’s students to graduate from high school ready for career and college. As a trusted source of information, Partnership for Learning makes complex education issues accessible.