A longtime executive at Foster City-based security software company Qualys, Inc. is stepping down after agreeing to pay $581,000 to settle a federal investigation into insider trading. Amer Deeba, 51, joined Qualys in 2001 as its chief marketing officer, when it was a two-year-old startup. Earlier this month, he stepped down as the company’s chief commercial officer, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said in a statement. Federal investigators claim Deeba caught wind in April 2015 that…

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Labor up, Portland. You’ve only got one more Friday to slog through before a well-earned day off. Put another way, my oh my, where did the summer go? The long run AWS Elemental honored its own Sam Blackman this week a year after his sudden death. The company honored him with its annual race, which drew hundreds of participants. Malia Spencer has the story, for which the PBJ’s photographer Cathy Cheney took pictures. New kid in town Health Share of Oregon’s Janet Meyer has spent 15 years leading…

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Dozens of Boeing’s best-selling aircraft sit unfinished in Seattle and Renton as suppliers struggle to keep up.