Bill Weisfield

Bill has more than 40 years of experience setting strategic direction for real estate assets and operating companies, turning around troubled companies, and creating corporate work-out plans. He has led the development of commercial office buildings, condominiums, a marina, and floating homes. Bill has also directed strategy for shopping centers, raw land, a corporate industrial park, restaurants, and a publicly traded company with over 100 retail stores. He was responsible for the liquidation of an $85M portfolio containing more than 90 real estate partnerships and also for the sale of one of the largest amusement parks in the United States. He has served as President and CEO or COO of multiple companies with revenues in excess of $100M and up to 1,000 employees, including:

• The Cornerstone Columbia Development Company | CEO and President (division of Weyerhauser with more than $200MM in assets)
• The Northern Capital Company | COO (a Benaroya company; real estate acquisitions, development, and divestiture)
• Weisfield's Jewelers and Valu-Mart | CEO and President (Fifth largest jewelry retailer in the US with more than 3,000 employees)
• The Northwest Building Company | CEO and President (a Norton Clapp Company with $180MM in assets)
• The Wards Cove Company | CEO (Land development and seafood processing on land with more than 500 employees)
• The Robbins Company | COO (Tunnel boring company that drilled the Chunnel between England and France)
• The Michael Goldfarb Company | CEO (Managed orderly liquidation of an estate with more than $95MM in debt to 28 banks)
• The Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle | Chairman of the Board (Lender to more than 350 Savings and Loans in eight states and Guam)

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Current

• Member and Membership Co-Chairman, Board of Directors of the Downtown Seattle Association
• Advisory Director of the Bayley Construction Company (Revenues of $300 million)
• Advisory Director of the Lindal Cedar Homes Company (Revenues of $20 million)
• Member Washington State Bar Association
• Member Creditor-Debtor Section of the Washington State Bar Association
• Member and Past Chairman of the Young Presidents Organization Northwest Chapter
• Member and Past Chairman of the World Presidents Organization Northwest Chapter
• Member and Past President of the Seattle #4 Rotary Club (the world's largest Rotary Club at the time of Presidency)
• Member Business Leaders of Seattle

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Past‍

• Member of the University of Washington Law School Foundation Board (7 years)
• Member and Vice Chair of the Board of Regents of Seattle University (17 years)
• Chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle (Presidential appointment, four-year term, responsible for eight western states savings and loan banks)
• Chairman of the Board of Directors, Harris Bank---a division of The Bank of Montreal
• Advisory Director Shurgard-To-Go Company (a division of The Shurgard Company, a publicly traded New York Stock Exchange company)
• Member Board of Directors of Hawaiian Airlines (a publicly traded NASDAQ Company)
• CEO and President of Weisfield’s Jewelers and Valu-Mart (a publicly traded NASDAQ Company with operations in eight western states and revenues of $300 million)
• CEO of Quorum Corporation (a restaurant holding company with eight Seattle area restaurants)
• CEO of Northwest Building Company (downtown Seattle office buildings, retail malls, and industrial parks with assets of $180 million)
• CEO of Cornerstone Columbia Development Company (a division of the Weyerhaeuser Company with office buildings, hotels, restaurants, retail outlets, and parking lots in the Northwest with assets of $200 million)
• CEO and Chairman of Utilx, Inc. (a publicly traded NASDAQ construction company with $100 million in revenues)
• COO and President of The Robbins Company (world class tunnel boring machine developer with $75 million in revenues)
• COO of Northwest Capital Corporation (real estate investments and handled liquidation of Boblo Island Amusement Park, the fourteenth largest in the country)
• CEO of Brittsport Ltd. (Hong Kong based producer of Brittania jeans and sportswear with $300 million in revenues)
• CEO of Wards Cove Seafoods (Alaskan producer of crab and pollock based seafood, grocery business and real estate development including a marina and floating homes on Lake Union with $150 million in revenues.)

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