Join WPC Young Professionals at our South Sound Happy Hour event and meet two of the regions key business and political leaders! This event will feature special guests, Senator Hans Zeiger and Jim Boulanger, President of Patriot Fire.

Your ticket includes first drink and and heavy appetizers. Please register below – this event will sell out.

About our speakers:

Senator Hans Zeiger:

Senator Hans Zeiger began representing Pierce County residents in 2011, serving three terms in the state House of Representatives before 25th District voters elected him to the Washington State Senate in 2016. Hans represents the communities of Puyallup, Fife, Midland, Parkland, South Hill, Summit and Waller. Believing that the best solutions to today’s problems come from neighbors working together, Hans strives to build up our communities, not our bureaucracies.

Zeiger serves as ranking member of the Senate Early Learning and K-12 Education Committee. He is also a member of the Senate Transportation Committee and a member of the Senate State Government, Tribal Relation and Elections Committee.

In the House Zeiger worked to secure funding to complete State Route 167 and took a lead role in higher education policy. He gained a reputation as a bipartisan collaborator, being named by the National Institute for Civil Discourse as co-recipient of the Gabrielle Giffords Award for Civility in State Governance in 2015.

Jim Boulanger,
President of Patriot Fire Protection, Inc: 
Jim’s career started in the in the late 1970s working in the field during the summers while attending Washington State University. Graduating in 1978 with Bachelor of Science in Building Theory, he began his career as a sprinkler designer with the family business, Sentry Automatic Sprinkler in Tacoma, Washington.

The early career spanned from sprinkler designer to estimator then to Special Hazards manager for Wormald Fire Systems, and eventually Northwest Region Manager in 1986. In 1990 leaving Tyco / Wormald he ventured out to create a startup with the help of family and former managers.  The new company became Patriot Fire Protection.

Jim was the first President of the new company and still holds that title today.  Patriot continues to be the industry leader in design and installation of fire sprinkler systems throughout the Pacific Northwest, serving hundreds of regional and national clients.
 
Mr. Boulanger has been active over his entire career in the local chapter of the National Fire Sprinkler Association as well as the Washington State Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee, where he has served as Chair for many years. He has also served as a member of the National Fire Sprinkler Association Board of Directors for the past 10 years representing the five Northwest states.  Since 2010, he has been on the Executive Committee, holding the position of Treasurer.