HOWARD WRIGHT
Founder Howard Wright is an entrepreneur and executive with extensive experience in the transportation, tourism, and hospitality industries. He founded SHG in 2002 to help unlock the full potential of the Pacific Northwest’s most iconic brands in those sectors. Howard is also a managing partner of the Sheraton Grand Seattle, and serves on the boards of several closely held restaurant and hotel ownership groups.
Early in his business career, Howard owned Renton Aviation, the leading global volume retailer of Cessna aircraft, and was a co-owner of Mutual Travel LLC, a business travel management advisory service with $300 million in annual gross revenue.
Howard’s extensive community involvement has centered on two other passions — his hometown of Seattle and Latin America. He is deeply involved in Seattle’s business, arts and education issues. As a board member of the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce of Seattle, he represented employers by co-chairing the City of Seattle's Income Inequality Advisory Committee, which crafted the city’s phased-in $15-per-hour minimum wage law in 2013.
As a member of the Washington State University Board of Governors, Howard helped lead the University’s first $1 billion capital campaign. Mr. Wright also sits on campaigns for PATH and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. He previously served on the boards of the Amigos de las Américas Foundation, the Seattle Symphony Foundation, Intiman Theatre, the U.S. Foundation for Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Vermont Academy, the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, and The Children’s Discovery Foundation, which operates The Funhouse Commons on Orcas Island.
Howard Wright is a graduate of Washington State University and the Harvard Business School’s Owner/President Management Program. He lives in Seattle with his wife and son. In his leisure time, he pursues his passion for flight, piloting vintage airplanes to fly-ins up and down the West Coast.
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CEO AND FOUNDER
MIKE MANSFIELD
Mike Mansfield has over 40 years of tax and business consulting experience. He spent 16 years with Deloitte LLP before joining Moss Adams in 1995. He was a partner with Moss Adams for more than 10 years.
During his time with Moss Adams Mike served as the lead of the Business Owner Succession Services Practice in the Seattle office and he served as a member of the firm’s Tax Committee. He provided merger and acquisitions consulting, tax planning, business planning and financial accounting services to a variety of clients in the financial services, construction/real estate, manufacturing/distribution, and service industries. He provided significant ownership transition and estate planning advice for the clients he served.
Mike left Moss Adams in early 2008 to form his own business: FamilyFortunes, LLC. He provides many of the same services he previously provided, but he works more closely with selective families and business owners to help develop and execute strategic plans, with the goals of enhancing the value proposition and creating a legacy vision for the owners. He focuses on transactional planning, including providing due diligence support, in addition to succession, tax, business, personal, and estate planning. In addition, Mike is the CFO for Pacific Pile & Marine, L.P., and R. Miller, Inc. and he serves as a board member for 1st Security Bank and he has an ownership interest in several privately-owned companies. In 2023, Mike was awarded the Puget Sound Business Journal’s prestigious “Director of the Year” award in recognition of his leadership and guidance across 11 different Boards and Committees.
Mike’s experience also includes significant consulting with closely held and family-owned businesses, including form of entity issues, structural tax planning, techniques to maximize ownership value, personal financial planning, compensation planning, and issues associated with business expansion beyond Washington, including multi-state tax planning.
JEFF PINNEO
Jeff Pinneo has built a record of success as a chief executive and corporate director with strong communication, strategic planning and team-building skills.
He has spent 13 years in President and CEO roles in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors, including eight-plus years at Horizon Air, followed by four years with the Oregon-based global health nonprofit Medical Teams International.
During his 33 years in the airline industry, 29 of which were with Alaska Air Group Companies Horizon and Alaska Airlines, Jeff held various leadership positions in marketing, sales, operations and customer service.
In his current work as a CEO mentor, Jeff partners with C-level leaders to provide guidance and advice as they work to accomplish their objectives and enhance positive impact upon their organizations. He does so by asking questions that lead to great insights and enhanced execution. Deeply influenced by mentors in his own life, he understands the value of a clear, outside, unbiased perspective.
As part of an ongoing commitment to the community, Jeff currently serves as a trustee for the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, a foundation supporting the work of thousands of non-profit organizations throughout the Pacific Northwest. He has also served on several governing and advisory boards in both academia and youth services, including Seattle Pacific University’s College of Business & Economics, the National Board of Advisors at Washington State University’s College of Business, Bellevue Boys and Girls Club, and the Presidential Advisory Board of Point Loma Nazarene University.
Jeff holds a bachelor’s degree in Advertising from the University of Washington and a Master of Business Administration from the Graziadio School of Business & Management from Pepperdine University.
He and his wife, Janey, live in Lake Oswego, Oregon. They enjoy traveling, spending time with family and friends, and engaging in the many outdoor activities offered by the Pacific Northwest.