• January 4, 2008

Seattle-based Jones Soda Co. has hired Joth Ricci as its COO. Ricci is currently general manager of Portland, Ore.-based Columbia Distributing Co. He will join Jones Soda on Monday.

Ricci, 39, will report to Stephen Jones. Reporting to Ricci will be sales, operations and customer service, including the company's relationship with National Beverage Corporation, and human resources.

Before joining Columbia Distributing he spent nearly 10 years with McNeil Consumer Healthcare/Johnson & Johnson. Positions there included director of customer marketing.

--Karl Greenberg