CFO Moves – week ending May 10, 2013

CFO Moves this week include:

Microsoft Corp. American Express The Wendy’s Company
GoDaddy KeyCorp Citrix Systems, Inc.
FelCor Lodging Trust Incorporated WANdisco Direxion
Terreno Realty Corporation Saba AAR Corp.
Citizens Community Bank NGL Energy Partners LP Retrophin, Inc.
Coeur d’Alene Mines Corporation Eli Lilly and Company Comstock Resources, Inc.
Egalet Ltd. Pegasus Solutions Hampshire Group, Limited
Camden Property Trust Appirio Parker Drilling Company
Siemens Enterprise Communications Healthcare Corporation of America magicJack VocalTec Ltd.
BlackRock, Inc. Acorn Energy, Inc. Ambient Corporation
SeaChange International Riverbed Technology, Inc. Midas Medici Group Holdings, Inc.
Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. Layne Christensen Company Vornado Realty Trust
Serena Software, Inc. Steele Resources Corporation Checkpoint Systems, Inc.
Oleen Pinnacle Healthcare Consulting Calvin B. Taylor Bankshares, Inc. WebMD Health Corp.
Craig Wireless Systems Ltd.

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Microsoft Corp. announced that Amy Hood was named Microsoft chief financial officer, succeeding outgoing CFO Peter Klein who will remain at Microsoft through the end of June to ensure a smooth transition. Hood joined Microsoft in December 2002 and currently serves as CFO of MBD. Previously, Hood served as chief of staff in the Server and Tools group, then ran the strategy and business development team in MBD before becoming CFO of the division in January 2010. Before joining Microsoft as a part of the investor relations group, she worked at Goldman Sachs in various roles including investment banking and capital markets groups.

American Express (NYSE: AXP) announced that its Chief Financial Officer, Dan Henry, has announced his planned retirement. Mr. Henry plans to stay with the company as CFO until his successor is in place. Todd Penegor

The Wendy’s Company (NASDAQ: WEN) announced that Todd Penegor, most recently President of the Kellogg Company’s U.S. Snacks Division, will join Wendy’s in June. Following a transition period, Penegor will succeed Steve Hare as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer on September 1 and Hare will retire from the Company.  Penegor has been Vice President, Kellogg Company, and President of the $4 billion in sales U.S. Snacks division for the past 4½ years. He was also a member of Kellogg’s North America leadership team and is the executive sponsor of the Kellogg African American Resource Group.  Penegor joined Kellogg in 2000 as Senior Director, Global Financial Strategy and Planning. He was promoted to Vice President, Finance, Corporate Financial Planning in 2001. In February 2002, he was promoted to VP and CFO, Kellogg USA and in May 2002, was appointed VP and CFO for Kellogg’s Snacks. In 2007, he was promoted to VP and CFO for Kellogg Europe. Prior to joining Kellogg, Penegor spent 12 years with Ford Motor Company in various positions, including strategy, M&A, the controller’s office and treasury.

GoDaddy announced its new Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer Scott Wagner. Wagner was a KKR Capstone Member and the leader of KKR’s portfolio operations team in North America, who stepped in as GoDaddy’s interim CEO last summer. Wagner began working with GoDaddy a short time after KKR, Silver Lake Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures made strategic investments in the company in 2011.

KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY) announced that Jeffrey B. Weeden, Chief Financial Officer, has informed the Company of his plan to retire after nearly 11 years in the role.

Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS) announced the appointment of a new director, Robert (Bob) D. Daleo, who served as vice chairman of Thomson Reuters Corporation in 2012 and as executive vice president and chief financial officer from November 1998 to January 2011, to its board of directors. Daleo began his career with Thomson in 1994 when he joined Thomson Newspapers as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Beginning in 1996, he served as chief operating officer of Thomson Newspapers, and was responsible for a significant portion of its U.S. operations. In 1997, he was appointed senior vice president of Thomson Corporation responsible for finance, operations, business development and strategy. Prior to joining The Thomson Corporation, he held various financial and operations positions with McGraw-Hill and Automatic Data Processing. Daleo is also a member of the board of directors for Equifax, is chairman of the Fordham University Board of Trustees, and is Chairman of the New Jersey Community Development Corporation.Michael Hughes

FelCor Lodging Trust Incorporated (NYSE: FCH) announced the appointment of Michael C. Hughes as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, effective July 1, 2013. Mr. Hughes succeeds Andrew J. Welch, who is leaving the company after 15 years of service. Mr. Welch will remain with FelCor through December 31, 2013 to facilitate the transition. Before undertaking his new role, Mr. Hughes served as FelCor’s Senior Vice President, Finance and Treasurer. He joined the company in 2006 as Vice President, Finance and assumed additional responsibilities as the company’s Treasurer in 2009. Mr. Hughes has more than 15 years of experience in finance, having also served as the Vice President of Corporate Finance for Wyndham International, Inc. (which he joined in 2002) and as a business consultant with Maverick Management LLC.

WANdisco (LSE: WAND) announces the appointment of Paul Harrison as the Company’s new Chief Financial Officer. Mr Harrison, who will be based in California, joins WANdisco from The Sage Group plc. Mr Harrison joined Sage in 1997 from Price Waterhouse to become Group Financial Controller. He joined the Board of Sage in April 2000 as Chief Financial Officer. In May 2007, he was appointed to the Board of Hays plc as a Non-Executive Director and, in November 2011, became its Senior Independent non-executive director. Mr Harrison’s appointment will take effect from 1 September 2013.

Direxion announced that Patrick Rudnick has been appointed Chief Financial Officer of Direxion. Mr. Rudnick was most recently a Vice President in the Fund Administration division of U.S. Bancorp Fund Services. Mr. Rudnick began his career as a Fund Accountant at U.S. Bancorp. Mr. Rudnick served as an Audit Manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers before rejoining U.S. Bancorp in 2006.

Terreno Realty Corporation (NYSE: TRNO) announced the promotion of Jaime J. Cannon to Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Cannon joined Terreno Realty Corporation in March 2010 and currently serves as Senior Vice President overseeing finance and accounting. Prior to joining Terreno Realty Corporation, he worked at AMB Property Corporation (now Prologis), from 2003 to 2010 in various capacities, most recently as Vice President, Treasury.

Saba (OTC: SABA) announced the appointment of Mark W. Robinson as Chief Financial Officer. Saba anticipates that Mr. Robinson will assume his new position with the Company on or prior to June 3, 2013. He joins Saba after spending nearly five years with Calypso Technology, Inc., where he served as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Calypso Technology, Inc., he served as Chief Financial Officer of Discus Dental. He was previously Chief Financial Officer of Q Comm International. He also served in several other management roles at companies including Prometrix/KLA-Tencor and Hewlett Packard Corporation.

AAR Corp. (NYSE: AIR) announced that John Fortson will join the Company on July 1, 2013, as Vice President of Finance. Fortson will then become Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer on July 19, 2013, or as soon as possible following the filing of the Company’s Form 10-K for its fiscal year ending May 31, 2013. Mr. Fortson joins the Company from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he held the position of Managing Director, Investment Banking. Fortson joined Merrill Lynch in 1998 and was promoted to Managing Director in 2007.  Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Fortson served for seven years as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army, with his final assignment as a company commander in the storied 82d Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.Vera Primm

Citizens Community Bank (OTC: CZYB) announced the addition of Vera H. Primm as its new Chief Financial Officer. She succeeds James R. Black following his promotion to Bank President and CEO last November. Primm previously served as Chief Financial Officer at Bank of Virginia, Peoples Bank of Virginia and F&M Bank.

NGL Energy Partners LP (NYSE:NGL) announced that Atanas H. Atanasov has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Most recently Mr. Atanasov was the Senior Vice President of Finance and Treasurer. Prior to joining NGL Energy Partners in November 2011, Atanasov spent 9 years at GE Capital both in lending and leveraged equity. Prior to GE Capital, he was with the Williams Company.

Retrophin, Inc. (OTC: RTRX) announced that it has named Marc L. Panoff as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer. Most recently, Mr. Panoff was a Senior Partner and Vice President of Finance at GroupM North America. Previously, he was Chief Financial Officer of Neurologix Inc. and Nephros, Inc. Earlier in his career, he was Corporate Controller for Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation.

Coeur d’Alene Mines Corporation (NYSE: CDE) announced that Peter C. Mitchell has been appointed to Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer effective June 3, 2013. Mr. Mitchell has served as Chief Financial Officer of Taseko Mines Limited since September 2008. Previously, Mr. Mitchell has served as President of Florida Career College; President and Chief Executive Officer of Vatterott Educational Centers, Inc.; Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Von Hoffmann Corporation; Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Crown Packaging Ltd.; and Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Paperboard Industries Corporation.

Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) announced that John C. Lechleiter, Ph.D., chairman, president, and chief executive officer, will be taking a medical leave of absence. Derica W. Rice, executive vice president, Global Services and chief financial officer, will assume the additional role of acting chief executive officer during Lechleiter’s leave.  Rice has more than 22 years of service with Eli Lilly and Company, including leadership roles in finance and general management. He became chief financial officer in 2006 and assumed leadership of the company’s global services organization in 2010.

Comstock Resources, Inc. (NYSE: CRK) announced the appointment of Roland O. Burns as President.  Mr. Burns has been with Comstock since 1991.  Mr. Burns will retain his responsibilities as Chief Financial Officer.

Egalet Ltd. announced the appointment of Stan Musial as chief financial officer (CFO). Stan most recently spent six years as vice president of finance and administration, chief financial officer, treasurer and secretary of Prism Pharmaceuticals, which was successfully sold to Baxter Healthcare in 2011.  Prior to joining Prism he held the position of vice president, finance, and CFO for Strategic Diagnostics, Inc.  He began his career with KPMG LLP. Temple Weiss

Pegasus Solutions has named Temple Weiss chief financial officer. Most recently, Weiss served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of ACE Cash Express, Inc. in Irving, Tex. Prior to that, he was with LQ Management and La Quinta Corporation for more than 10 years. At La Quinta Corporation, he held various finance positions, ultimately serving as vice president, development. With LQ Management, he held the role of executive vice president, development and acquisitions, and later, executive vice president and chief financial officer. He began his career with Bristol Hotels & Resorts in Dallas.

Hampshire Group, Limited (OTC: HAMP) announced that Maura McNerney Langley, Hampshire’s Chief Financial Officer, has resigned to pursue another opportunity.

Camden Property Trust (NYSE: CPT) announced the appointment of Alexander J. Jessett as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Jessett succeeds Dennis M. Steen, who is retiring after serving as Camden’s Chief Financial Officer since 2003. Mr. Jessett joined Camden’s Finance department in 1999 and has served as Senior Vice President – Finance and Treasurer since 2009.

Appirio announced the appointment of Jeff Epstein to its Board of Directors. Jeff will chair Appirio’s Audit Committee and is the company’s second independent board director. Jeff brings more than 25 years of financial expertise to Appirio, and is currently an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. He serves on multiple boards, including priceline.com, Kaiser Permanente and Shutterstock. Jeff most recently served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Oracle. Earlier, Jeff Epstein was executive vice president and chief financial officer of DoubleClick.Chris Weber

Parker Drilling Company (NYSE: PKD) announced that Christopher T. (Chris) Weber has been selected as senior vice president and chief financial officer.  Mr. Weber most recently served as vice president and treasurer of Ensco plc.

Siemens Enterprise Communications announced Mark Greenquist has joined the company in the role of Chief Financial Officer. Greenquist joins Siemens Enterprise Communications from Telcordia Technologies, Inc., where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer, and, previously, as CFO. Greenquist has a track record of success in senior financial positions at Symbol Technologies, Agere Systems and General Motors Europe. Greenquist takes over from Ray Leclercq, who had served as CFO in an interim capacity. Leclercq will remain with Siemens Enterprise Communications leading internal transformation programs, as well as his role within the Gores Group, Siemens Enterprise Communications’ principal shareholder.

Healthcare Corporation of America (OTC: SWCAL) has named Yoram Bibring its chief financial officer, effective June 3. Mr. Bibring was most recently at financial-software company Fundtech from 2001 through 2012. Prior to joining Fundtech, Mr. Bibring was CFO at ViryaNet.

magicJack VocalTec Ltd. (NASDAQ: CALL) announced that Jose Gordo has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Gordo joined magicJack in early 2013. In 2011, he co-founded Southcap Partners. Prior to that, Mr. Gordo was a Managing Director of a private equity firm and was a partner at the national law firm of Akerman Senterfitt. Peter Russo, magicJack’s former Chief Financial Officer, is remaining with the company as a consultant.

BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) announced Ann Marie Petach transitioned from the role of Chief Financial Officer and joined the Company’s BlackRock Solutions® group as Senior Managing Director in the Client Solutions business and that Gary S. Shedlin became Chief Financial Officer of the Company.

Acorn Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACFN) announced that Joe Musanti has been named President and CEO of GridSense™. Mr. Musanti was named COO/CFO of GridSense in January 2013, following his resignation from the Acorn Energy Board of Directors, where he served from September 2007 until December 2012. He previously served in various positions including President, General Manager and CFO of Main Tape.  Prior to that, Mr. Musanti was Vice President Finance of Rheometric Scientific, Inc.

Ambient Corporation (NASDAQ: AMBT) announced that Mark Fidler has resigned from the positions of Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Vice President in order to pursue other opportunities.  The company appointed Stacey Fitzgerald as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Fitzgerald has been Controller of the Company since July 9, 2012.  Prior to joining Ambient, from February to June 2012, Ms. Fitzgerald worked as an independent consultant at Accounting Management Solutions. From February 1998 to December 2006, she served as Vice President of Finance, as well as other senior finance positions at RSA Security.

SeaChange International (NASDAQ: SEAC) announced that Michael Bornak has resigned as Chief Financial Officer, effective May 31, 2013, to accept a position at another publicly traded company. Effective June 1, 2013, Anthony Dias, SeaChange’s Chief Accounting Officer, has been promoted to Senior Vice President and will serve as interim Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Dias joined SeaChange in 2007 as Vice President of Finance and Corporate Controller. He became Chief Accounting Officer in 2012. Previously, he served as Corporate Controller at LeMaitre Vascular, Inc. and also held various senior finance positions with Candela Corporation, Globalware, Inc. and Aldiscon, Inc.

Riverbed Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: RVBD) appointed Ernest E. Maddock as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Maddock will serve as Riverbed’s Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer. As previously announced, Randy S. Gottfried resigned as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer (including Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) of Riverbed. Mr. Maddock had previously served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Lam Research Corporation. From October 2003 to September 2008, Mr. Maddock served as Senior Vice President of Global Operations of Lam Research.

Midas Medici Group Holdings, Inc. (OTC: MMED) announced that Johnson Kachidza resigned as President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Mr. Kachidza will continue to serve as a member of the Company’s board of directors. On an interim basis, to help facilitate the transition and assist the Company until a new Chief Financial Officer is identified, board member and Audit Committee Chairman Hank Torbert will serve as a consultant to the Company.

Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. (OTC: APNT) announced that it is seeking a new CEO, to replace Doug Baker. Mr. Baker will remain the company’s Chief Financial Officer.

Layne Christensen Company (NASDAQ: LAYN) announced that James R. Easter has been named Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Easter most recently served as Chief Financial Officer of SEH Offshore Ventures. In 2010, he accepted the position of Chief Financial Officer at Seahawk Drilling. The following year, Mr. Easter was appointed President and CEO of Seahawk. From 2002-2008, Mr. Easter was Vice President of Finance and Treasurer, and then Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategic Planning at McDermott International. Prior this, Mr. Easter was Vice President, Transaction Development and Support, at Reliant Energy Solutions, Inc., part of Reliant Energy.

Vornado Realty Trust (NYSE:VNO) announced that Joseph Macnow has been appointed as the Company’s Chief Administrative Officer, in addition to continuing his role as Executive Vice President – Finance.  Mr. Macnow served as Vornado’s Executive Vice President – Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer since 1985. The Company also announced today that Stephen W. Theriot has been appointed as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer (principal financial officer and principal accounting officer).  Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Theriot had been a partner of Deloitte & Touche LLP–having been with Deloitte & Touche LLP since 1986.  Mr. Theriot most recently served as the Managing Partner of Deloitte’s Northeast real estate practice.

Serena Software, Inc. announced that Joseph Passarello’s employment as Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Serena terminated. The company also announced that Edward Malysz was appointed as Serena’s acting chief financial officer and principal accounting officer. Mr. Malysz joined Serena in April 2006 as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. Mr. Malysz served as Vice President, Legal of Symantec Corporation, a security and storage software company, from July 2005 to April 2006. From April 2002 to July 2005, Mr. Malysz served in various legal roles at VERITAS Software Corporation, including Vice President, Corporate Legal Services. From June 1999 through October 2001, Mr. Malysz served in a variety of roles with E-Stamp Corporation, including Acting Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel. From July 1993 to June 1999, Mr. Malysz held various legal positions with Silicon Graphics, Inc.

Steele Resources Corporation (OTC: SELR) announced that John J. Ryan resigned as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors.

Checkpoint Systems, Inc. (NYSE: CKP) announced the appointment of Jeff Richard as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Richard will replace Raymond D. Andrews who is retiring from Checkpoint on July 31, 2013. Mr. Richard most recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Safety-Kleen Systems, Inc. from 2010 to 2013. From 2006 to 2010, Mr. Richard served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Pavestone Company. Previously, Mr. Richard was Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis at Electronic Data Systems Corp. and Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Americas Operations at Jacuzzi Brands, Inc. Earlier in his career he worked in a variety of financial positions at Tyco International Ltd., ultimately serving as Chief Financial Officer for Tyco’s $2.2 billion Plastics & Adhesives segment.

Oleen Pinnacle Healthcare Consulting announced that Mark Baer has joined as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Oleen Pinnacle, Baer led payroll administration and corporate tax for Allied Wireless Communications Corporation. Baer’s experience also includes tax and accounting leadership roles at Verizon Wireless, Alltel Corporation and Alltel Information Services.

Calvin B. Taylor Bankshares, Inc. (OTC: TYCB) and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Calvin B. Taylor Banking Company of Berlin, Maryland (the “Bank”), appointed M. Dean Lewis  as Principal Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company, and Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Vice President  of the Bank.  Mr. Lewis succeeds William H. Mitchell who retired from the positions of Principal Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company, and Chief Financial Officer of the Bank.  Mr. Mitchell will remain a Vice President of the Company and Executive Vice President of the Bank, and was appointed as Chief Operating Officer of the Bank, a newly created position. Mr. Lewis joined the Bank in December 2011 as Financial Officer.  Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Lewis was employed by the public accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from 2002 to 2010 and served clients in various industries including banking, and most recently held the position of Tax Director.  From 2010 to 2011, Mr. Lewis was the Controller of MaTech Solutions, Inc.

WebMD Health Corp. (NASDAQ: WBMD) announced that the Board had appointed Peter Anevski to serve as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Anevski has served in senior finance and operations roles at WebMD and its predecessor companies for 14 years, most recently as Senior Vice President, Finance for more than five years. Mr. Anevski succeeded Anthony Vuolo, who remains a member of senior management of WebMD, serving as Senior Vice President, focusing on strategic projects.

Craig Wireless Systems Ltd. (TSX: CWG) reported that its Chief Financial Officer, Murray Bamforth’s contract will not be renewed and that Mr. Bamforth will be leaving Craig Wireless effective July 15, 2013.

CFO Moves – week ending May 3, 2013

CFO Moves this week include:

Time Warner Cable Comcast Corporation Yodlee
BioTime, Inc. PDL BioPharma, Inc. Cyalume Technologies Holdings, Inc.
Clean Power Finance bebe stores, inc. AmeriGas Propane Inc.
GEO Semiconductor Inc. Bulova Technologies Group, Inc. ENSERVCO Corporation
FacilitySource Community Trust Bancorp, Inc. SBT Bancorp, Inc.
UQM Technologies, Inc. AdCare Health Systems, Inc. Schedulicity, Inc.
Capital Group Holdings, Inc. FreightCar America, Inc. K12 Inc.
Contec Holdings, Ltd. DICK’s Sporting Goods, Inc. Brand USA
SnapLogic Callidus Software Inc. CVS Caremark Corporation
CKX Lands, Inc.

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Time Warner Cable announced that Arthur T. Minson, Jr. has been named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. The company also announced that Irene M. Esteves will be leaving the company. Mr. Minson rejoins Time Warner Cable from AOL Inc., where he served since 2009 in a number of senior management roles, including Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial and Administrative Officer. Mr. Minson joined Time Warner Cable in 2006 as Senior Vice President of Finance and became Executive Vice President and Deputy CFO in 2007. Prior to that, Mr. Minson was Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance and Development at AOL. He’s also held senior finance positions at AMC Networks (formerly Rainbow Media Holdings, Inc.) and Time Warner Inc.

Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA, CMCSK) announced that it has promoted Cathy Avgiris to Chief Financial Officer of Comcast Cable, effective July 1, 2013. Ms. Avgiris is a 21-year Comcast veteran. She succeeds Dave Scott, who is retiring after twenty years with the Company. Prior to joining Comcast in 1992, Ms. Avgiris spent 11 years in finance, serving as Chief Financial Officer of Drexel Industries, Inc., a publicly held company, and as an Audit Manager with Deloitte & Touche.

Yodlee announced that Mike Armsby has been appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Marc Blouin, who has served as interim CFO since October, will transition into his new role as Senior Vice President of Finance. Mike Armsby joins Yodlee after serving as CFO for View, Inc. – formerly Soladigm. Armsby’s professional experience spans 20 years and includes positions at Price Waterhouse, Bain & Company, Synopsys and the position of CFO for PowerLight.

BioTime, Inc. (NYSE: BTX) announced that its Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Robert W. Peabody, will reassume the additional role of Chief Financial Officer. BioTime’s current Chief Financial Officer, Peter S. Garcia, has resigned his position with BioTime and its subsidiaries effective May 10, 2013. Mr. Peabody previously served as BioTime’s Chief Financial Officer in 2010 and 2011. His experience includes public accounting with Ernst & Young, and as a financial executive for a Fortune 500 specialty chemical manufacturer, and as Vice President of a public biotechnology company.

PDL BioPharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: PDLI) announced that the Company has appointed Peter S. Garcia to the position of vice president, chief financial officer (CFO) and acting chief accounting officer. Mr. Garcia joins PDL from BioTime, Inc. (NYSE: BTX) where he served as CFO since 2011. Between the years of 1996 and 2011, Mr. Garcia was CFO of six biotech and high-tech companies, including Marina Biotech, Nanosys, Nuvelo, Novacept, IntraBiotics Pharmaceuticals and Dendreon Corporation. From 1990 to 1996, he was a finance executive with Amgen.

Cyalume Technologies Holdings, Inc. (OTC: CYLU) announced that it has appointed Michael J. Pellicci as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Pellicci will succeed Michael Bielonko, who will assume the responsibilities of Vice President of Finance. Pellicci most recently held the positions of President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Tropical Shipping and Construction Company Limited. He joined Tropical in March 2006 as its Chief Financial Officer. Prior to Tropical, he was Senior Vice President – Finance and Planning, Treasurer & Chief Accounting Officer at Seabulk International, Inc. Previously, he held several financial positions including Director of Corporate Finance and Corporate Controller at Caraustar Industries, Inc.

Clean Power Finance announced the appointment of Michael Pope as chief financial officer (CFO). Before joining the company, Michael was the COO and CFO of MarketTools.com. Prior to MarketTools.com, Michael served as VP for the office of the CEO of BearingPoint and as president and COO of Network General, which was acquired by NetScout Systems. Before that, he was president and CEO of DigitalThink, EVP and CFO of Dionex, and a bank examiner at the New York Federal Reserve.

bebe stores, inc. (NASDAQ: BEBE) announced that it has promoted Liyuan Woo to the position of Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”). Ms. Woo, who currently serves as the Company’s Principal Accounting Officer and Vice President-Corporate Controller, has been with bebe stores since 2010. As CFO, Ms. Woo will succeed Walter J. Parks, Chief Operating Officer (“COO”) and Chief Financial Officer, who is departing the Company effective May 3, 2013. Prior to joining bebe, Ms. Woo held a Senior Manager position with the accounting firm Deloitte & Touche, LLP in its Mergers and Acquisitions Transaction Services Group.

AmeriGas Propane Inc., general partner of AmeriGas Partners, L.P. (NYSE:APU) announced that Hugh J. Gallagher has been elected vice president – finance and chief financial officer of AmeriGas Propane, Inc. Mr. Gallagher will also continue to serve as treasurer of UGI Corporation and AmeriGas until a successor is named to that position. Mr. Gallagher will succeed John Iannarelli, who previously announced his intention to leave the company. Mr. Gallagher joined UGI Corporation in 1990 and has served both UGI and AmeriGas in various finance, accounting and operations roles including treasurer, director of treasury services and investor relations, director – business development and director – financial planning and analysis.

GEO Semiconductor Inc. announced that Eric Erdman has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Erdman most recently served as CFO at ViXS Systems Inc., and previously served as CFO and interim CEO at Genesis Microchip as well as CFO at Silicon Optix Messrs.

Bulova Technologies Group, Inc. (OTC: BLVT) announced that C. William Colburn resigned as Chief Financial Officer of the Company. William McMillen was appointed to serve as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company.

ENSERVCO Corporation (OTCQB: ENSV) announced Robert Devers has been appointed chief financial officer. Devers most recently was an independent consultant to public companies in the mining and beverage distribution industries. From 2007 to 2011 he served as chief financial officer of Silver Bull Resources. Devers also served as senior director of financial analysis and internal audit of The Broe Companies Inc. Devers assumes the CFO role from Rick Kasch, who has been serving dual roles as both president and CFO since July 2011. Kasch will continue in his role as president.

FacilitySource announced the appointments of Amy Bobbitt to the role of Chief Financial Officer. Bobbitt, formerly a manager at Deloitte, has held multiple senior leadership positions over the past 20 years, including that of CFO at Cranial Technologies, Inc., COMSYS IT Partners, Inc., and Pima Capital Development Company, as well as the Corporate Controller position at Amkor Technologies and Rockford Corporation.

Community Trust Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTBI) announced that Kevin J. Stumbo has been promoted to the position of Chief Financial Officer. In addition, Mr. Stumbo serves as Executive Vice President and Treasurer of Community Trust Bancorp, Inc., Executive Vice President of Community Trust Bank, Inc., and Vice President of Community Trust and Investment Company. Mr. Stumbo has been with Community Trust for more than 18 years. During that time, his positions have included General Accounting Manager and Controller. Prior to working for Community Trust, Mr. Stumbo was CFO of Our Lady of the Way Hospital and CFO of First Guaranty Bank.

SBT Bancorp, Inc. (OTC: SBTB), the holding company for The Simsbury Bank & Trust Company, announced today that Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Anthony F. Bisceglio has informed the company of his plans to retire in 2014.

UQM Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: UQM) announced that it has appointed David I. Rosenthal as Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Rosenthal was a director and served as Interim President and Chief Executive Officer of Cyanotech Corporation. Prior to that Mr. Rosenthal served as Chief Financial Officer for Sanz, Inc. and Hickory Farms, portfolio companies of the private-equity firm Sun Capital Partners. Earlier in his career, Mr. Rosenthal served as the Chief Financial Officer of publicly-traded companies including Spectralink Corporation, Startek, Inc., Celestial Seasonings and Hauser, Inc. Mr. Rosenthal will replace Donald A. French, who is retiring after 25 years as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer.

AdCare Health Systems, Inc. (NYSE: ADK) announced that Ronald W. Fleming will join AdCare’s senior management team as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently Mr. Fleming held the position of CFO for the largest oncology physician practice in Georgia.  Prior to that, he was CFO of a skilled nursing startup. The bulk of Mr. Fleming’s experience was as Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of Mariner Health Care, Inc.

Schedulicity, Inc. announced the appointment of Joshua Spitzer as CEO. Spitzer previously served as Schedulicity’s COO and CFO.

Capital Group Holdings, Inc. (OTC: CGHC) announced the appointment of Thomas P. Meola as acting Chief Financial Officer and Director of the Company. Mr. Meola is a certified public accountant in Arizona and is the managing member of Tailor Made Business Solutions PLLC (TMBS). Prior to his appointment at Capital Group, Mr. Meola was Vice President of Financial Operations for Vulcan, Inc., between 2006 and 2010. From 2000 to 2004 Mr. Meola served as Senior Vice President of Financial Systems and Global Purchasing for MasterCard International. Prior to MasterCard, Mr. Meola was Vice President of Finance and Corporate Controller of Bowne & Co.

FreightCar America, Inc. (NASDAQ: RAIL) announced the appointment of current Chief Financial Officer Joseph (Joe) E. McNeely to the position of President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. McNeely has extensive railcar industry experience and has held the position of Vice President of Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer since 2010. Mr. McNeely joined FreightCar America in 2010 from Mitsui Rail Capital, LLC., where he was Vice President Sales and Marketing. Previously, Mr. McNeely held positions at GATX Corporation, including Vice President Finance for GATX Rail.

K12 Inc. (NYSE: LRN) announced that James Rhyu become Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in early June. Mr. Rhyu joins K12 from Match.com, where he has served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer since 2011. Prior to his roles at Match.com, Mr. Rhyu was a Senior Vice President of Finance at Dow Jones & Company. Previously, Mr. Rhyu served for three years as the Corporate Controller of Sirius XM Radio Inc. and its predecessor company, XM Satellite Radio, as well as serving in the same role for Graftech International.

Contec Holdings, Ltd. announced the appointment of Jochen Vogt as its new Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Contec, Mr. Vogt served as Vice President Operations Finance at Verifone (NYSE:PAY). Prior to that time, Mr. Vogt served in a number of Controller and finance positions at Sanmina-SCI, and Nortel Networks.

DICK’s Sporting Goods, Inc. (NYSE: DKS) announced that Andre J. Hawaux will join the company in June, 2013 as Executive Vice President–Finance, Administration and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Hawaux was most recently as President, Consumer Foods at ConAgra Foods, Inc.. Previously, he served as ConAgra Foods’ Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer from 2006 to 2009. Prior to ConAgra Foods, Mr. Hawaux served as general manager of a large U.S. division of PepsiAmericas and previously served as Chief Financial Officer for Pepsi-Cola North America and Pepsi International’s China business unit. Mr. Hawaux succeeds Timothy Kullman, who is retiring as previously announced.

Brand USA announced Donald Richardson has joined the organization as chief financial officer.  A former partner with KPMG, Richardson was responsible for spearheading service delivery to several non-Department of Defense (DoD) U.S. government agencies, including the Executive Office of the President, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and the Department of Agriculture. Following the spinoff of KPMG to BearingPoint, Richardson served as managing director and partner.  Richardson currently serves on the boards of the DC Public Library Foundation, the YMCA of Metropolitan Washington, the District of Columbia Urban League Finance Committee, and the Shiloh Baptist Church.

SnapLogic announced the appointment of Spencer Punter as chief financial officer. Punter joined SnapLogic from Capital Dynamics where he was managing director, head of US venture capital and responsible for oversight of the firm’s West Coast office. Previously, he held venture capital investment positions with Bay Partners, Bowman Capital and Integral Capital Partners. Earlier in his career, he worked in the technology investment banking group at Morgan Stanley. Punter was also co-founder and chief executive of ApexMD.

Callidus Software Inc. (NASDAQ: CALD) announced the appointment of Bob L. Corey to serve as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, effective as of May 31, 2013. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Corey served as the chief financial officer of FrontRange Solutions USA Inc. since May 2012. Prior to FrontRange, he served in various roles at Extreme Networks, Inc. from July 2009 to March 2011, ultimately as interim chief executive officer and executive vice president and chief financial officer. Prior to Extreme Networks, Mr. Corey held a variety of executive positions, including executive vice president and chief financial officer, at Thor Technologies, Inc. from May 2003 to January 2006. Mr. Corey currently serves as a member of the board of directors and as chairman of the audit committee for Apigee Corporation. Mr. Corey is replacing Ronald J. Fior, who has served as the Company’s Senior Vice President, Finance & Operations and Chief Financial Officer for the past ten years.

CVS Caremark Corporation (NYSE: CVS) announced that Laird K. Daniels, formerly Senior Vice President – Controller and Chief Accounting Officer, has assumed the role of Senior Vice President – International Operations and Business Development. In his new role Mr. Daniels will report directly to the Registrant’s President and Chief Executive Officer. The Company also announced that David M. Denton, the Registrant’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, has assumed the additional roles of Controller and Chief Accounting Officer.

CKX Lands, Inc. (NYSE : CKX) announced that Brian R. Jones was elected Chief Executive Officer and President of CKX Lands, Inc. Mr. Jones also serves as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of CKX Lands, Inc. and has served in this capacity since 2006. Mr. Jones is a certified public accountant and certified fraud examiner and managing member of Brian R. Jones CPA, LLC

CFO Moves – week ending April 26, 2013

CFO Moves this week include:

The Hershey Company Chiquita Brands CNBC
Vonage Holdings Corp. Nutrisystem Avid
Health Revenue Assurance Holdings Inc. EnerNOC, Inc. MicroVision, Inc.
K12 Inc. The RealReal Cox Enterprises, Inc.
Visible Technologies Lumeta Corporation CoverMyMeds, LLC
WebiMax Global Partners LP Datawatch Corporation
Vringo, Inc. The Children’s Place Retail Stores, Inc. Naugatuck Valley Financial Corporation
JGWPT Holdings LLC Viewster Safeguard Scientifics, Inc.
Kastle Systems International Kirby Corporation Champions Oncology, Inc.
Avantair, Inc.

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The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) announced that Humberto P. Alfonso, will become President, International. Alfonso currently serves as Hershey’s Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer. The company also announced that David W. Tacka, will become Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. Tacka has held senior executive positions within the company, including Chief Accounting Officer.

Chiquita Brands (NYSE: CQB) announced the appointment of Rick Frier as the company’s senior vice president and chief financial officer.  He will assume his new position immediately upon the filing of the company’s first quarter financial report and will serve as senior vice president, finance, until that time.  He succeeds Brian W. Kocher who, as previously announced, will become chief operating officer (COO) for Chiquita. Prior to joining Chiquita, he served as director, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Catalina Marketing Corp. Before joining Catalina, he served as director, chief financial officer and chief operating officer of Mattress Discounters Inc., a Bain Capital portfolio company

CNBC announced that KC Sullivan has been appointed President & Managing Director, CNBC International, effective 8 May 2013. Sullivan joined CNBC in August 2009 as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer responsible for leading the finance operation globally for CNBC. Prior to joining CNBC, Sullivan served as Global Supply Chain Finance Manager for GE Healthcare Medical Diagnostics. Sullivan joined GE’s Corporate Audit Staff in 2002. Since October 2012 he has been the CFO of the NBC News Group.

Vonage Holdings Corp. (NYSE: VG) announced the appointment of David T. Pearson as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Mr. Pearson joins Vonage from Deutsche Bank, where he spent more than nine years as a Managing Director and was Global Media & Telecom Group Head. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, he worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. for nine years, leaving as a Managing Director in the firm’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications practice.

Nutrisystem (NASDAQ: NTRI) announced that Michael P. Monahan will join the company as Chief Financial Officer effective May 22, 2013. Since 2009 Mr. Monahan has served as Chief Financial Officer of PetroChoice Holdings, Inc. His appointment as Nutrisystem’s CFO represents a return to the company for Mr. Monahan, who served as Nutrisystem’s Vice President of Finance from 2006 to 2009 prior to joining PetroChoice.

Avid (NASDAQ: AVID) announced that John Frederick has become Avid’s executive vice president, chief financial officer and chief administrative officer. Before joining Avid as chief of staff in February 2013, Mr. Frederick was corporate executive vice president and chief financial officer of Open Solutions, Inc., which was acquired in January 2013 by Fiserv, Inc. Ken Sexton will transition from his role as executive vice president, chief financial officer and chief administrative officer to become a consultant with the company. Earlier in his career, Mr. Frederick served as senior vice president and CFO of SafeNet, Inc. Additionally, he held a variety of senior financial, business planning, and analysis roles at organizations including AlliedSignal, now Honeywell, Time Warner – Six Flags, Sunbeam Corporation, and Legrand North America.

Health Revenue Assurance Holdings Inc. (OTC: HRAA) announced the addition of Evan McKeown as Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”). Prior to joining HRAA, Mr. McKeown worked at several companies that include: Perry Baromedical, National Healing Corporation, and Applied Digital.

EnerNOC, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENOC) announced the appointment of Neil Moses as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Moses spent seven years at PTC, which he joined in 2003 as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Following PTC, Moses served as Dunkin’ Brands’ Chief Financial Officer. Prior to PTC, Moses served as executive vice president and chief financial officer at Axcelis Technologies.

MicroVision, Inc. (NASDAQ: MVIS) announced the appointment of Stephen P. Holt, Chief Financial Officer. Holt most recently served as Chief Financial Officer at PixelOptics.

K12 Inc. (NYSE: LRN) announced that Harry T. Hawks, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, has informed the Board of his plans to leave the Company before the end of the fiscal year. Mr. Hawks joined K12 in 2010 with extensive corporate finance and development experience.

The RealReal announced the appointment of Matthew Gustke as Chief Financial Officer. Gustke joins The RealReal from StubHub, an eBay company, where he was CFO and head of strategy. Prior to StubHub, he spent 9 years at eBay in a variety of roles including investor relations, international finance and CFO for eBay SENE markets.

Cox Enterprises, Inc. announced that Jimmy W. Hayes, president and CEO since 2008, will retire from Cox in April, 2014 as part of the company’s long-term, succession plan. Effective May 1, John M. Dyer will be named chief operating officer of Cox Enterprises and will succeed Hayes as president and chief executive officer upon Hayes’ retirement next year. A 36-year Cox veteran, Dyer currently serves as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Cox Enterprises, a position he has held since 2008. He is a member of the Cox Enterprises board of directors. Douglas E. Franklin will succeed Dyer to become executive vice president and chief financial officer of Cox Enterprises, effective May 1.  Franklin currently serves as president of Cox Media Group, a position he has held since 2011.

Visible Technologies announced the appointment of Laurie Cansler as Chief Financial Officer. Previously she was CFO at Likewise Software, Inc. Prior to her tenure at Likewise, Cansler was an analyst with Brueggerman and Johnson, and spent 11 years at AT&T where she was a Director on the Corporate Finance Team.

Lumeta Corporation announced that Kathy Kinnamon has joined as Chief Financial Officer. Kathy comes from AEP Networks where she successfully completed the sale of AEP Networks to Ultra Electronics Holdings, Plc in September 2011.

CoverMyMeds, LLC announced that Theodore W. Frank has been named chief financial officer (CFO). Prior to CoverMyMeds, Frank was COO/CFO of SparkBase. Before SparkBase, Frank was a venture partner for JumpStart.

WebiMax announced the appointment of Michael Gurzo as Chief Financial Officer. Gurzo comes to WebiMax after spending more than four years as the CFO of Dancker, Sellew & Douglas.

Global Partners LP (NYSE: GLP) announced the retirement, effective June 30, 2013, of Thomas J. Hollister as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Director. The company has promoted Treasurer Daphne H. Foster to CFO. Foster joined Global in 2007 and was elected Treasurer in 2010. Her experience in the petroleum products industry includes several years as a Vice President in the Energy and Utilities Division of Bank of Boston. She started her banking career in 1982 at Bank of Boston and later joined Citizens Financial Group, where she oversaw the Loan Officer Development Program.

Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ: DWCH) announced the appointment of James Eliason as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer.  Most recently he served as CFO of Qvidian Corporation.  From 2008 to 2011, he served as CFO of Desktone, Inc.  From 2004 to 2008, he served as CFO of Empirix, Inc.

Vringo, Inc. (NYSE: VRNG) announced that Anastasia Nyrkovskaya will join the Company as the Chief Financial Officer on May 6, 2013. Ellen Cohl will remain Vringo’s Principal Accounting Officer through the filing of the Company’s quarterly report for the first quarter of 2013 on Form 10-Q on or before May 15, 2013. Ms. Nyrkovskaya has over fifteen years of accounting experience, and most recently served as Vice President and Assistant Global Controller at NBCUniversal. Previously, she was Vice President, Corporate Finance and Business Development, where she structured M&A transactions and partnerships.

The Children’s Place Retail Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCE) announced that Michael Scarpa, Chief Financial Officer, has also been appointed Chief Operating Officer, effective immediately. Prior to joining The Children’s Place, Mr. Scarpa had more than 30 years of financial and operational management experience, most recently as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of The Talbots, Inc. Prior to Talbots, Mr. Scarpa was Chief Operating Officer of Liz Claiborne, Inc.

Naugatuck Valley Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: NVSL), the holding company for Naugatuck Valley Savings and Loan (the “Bank” or “Naugatuck Valley”), announced the appointment of James Hastings as Chief Financial Officer of both the Company and the Bank. Thomas Van Lenten had been serving as Interim Chief Financial Officer of both the Company and the Bank. Mr. Hastings will also serve as an Executive Vice President of both the Company and the Bank. Mr. Hastings joins Naugatuck Valley from Southern Community Financial Corporation, the holding company for Southern Community Bank and Trust (Winston Salem, North Carolina), where he served as Chief Financial Officer. Earlier in his career he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Federal Savings Bank (Dover, New Hampshire), Senior Vice President and Director of Mortgage Banking of Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank (Orleans, Massachusetts), Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Heritage Financial Corporation (Seattle, Washington), Vice President – Finance, Real Estate Group of Seafirst Corporation (Seattle, Washington), and Controller of Seafirst Community Banking Corporation (Seattle, Washington).

JGWPT Holdings LLC, the holding entity for the J.G. Wentworth and Peachtree Financial Solutions companies, announced the appointment of John R. Schwab as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. John comes to JGWPT Holdings from Expert Global Solutions, Inc., formally NCO Group, Inc., from 2004 until 2012 where he held senior positions including Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy.

Viewster appointed Helen Biggart as CFO. Biggart previously worked at Touch Clarity. Before this, Helen worked at GE Capital Europe in the corporate acquisitions team and then moved to the private equity group.

Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. (NYSE:SFE) announced that Jeffrey B. McGroarty, who joined the Company in 2005 as Vice President and Corporate Controller, was named Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. McGroarty succeeds Stephen T. Zarrilli who was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Safeguard in November 2012. Prior to joining Safeguard in December 2005, Mr. McGroarty was interim Controller at Cephalon, Inc. Before that, he was Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis at Exide Technologies.

Kastle Systems International announced that they have appointed Steve Yevich as their Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Yevich previously served as the ranking finance executive with Brink’s Home Security, becoming Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Brink’s Home Security Holdings, Inc. until it was acquired by Tyco International in 2010.

Kirby Corporation (NYSE: KEX) announced that Joe Pyne, Kirby’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, announced that he has decided to step down as Chief Executive Officer early next year. The company plans that David Grzebinski, Kirby’s current Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Will be the new CEO at that time.

Champions Oncology, Inc. announced that its Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President, Gary G. Gemignani, informed the company of his intention to resign. Mr. Gemignani has agreed to remain as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer for a transition period while the Company searches for a new Chief Financial Officer.

Avantair, Inc. announced that Bret A. Holmes was appointed Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Holmes was the Chief Financial Officer at Eleets Transportation Co., Inc. and related entities from June 2009 through December 2012. Mr. Holmes served as Chief Financial Officer for Aslan Development from March 2006 to June 2009 and Chief Financial Officer at Watson Custom Home Builders from October 2004 to March 2006.

CFO Moves – week ending April 19, 2013

CFO Moves this week include:

Microsoft Logitech International Roku Inc.
Ingersoll-Rand plc Plantronics, Inc. The Weather Company
Pluralsight Logicalis MDC Partners
RLJ Lodging Trust Financial Institutions, Inc. Superior Industries International, Inc.
Envysion, Inc. ProVest Midway Gold Corp.
Great American Group, Inc. Fortinet CTPartners Executive Search Inc.
Destination Hotels & Resorts Kaman Corp. Broadway Financial Corporation

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Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced that Microsoft CFO Peter Klein will leave the company at the end of the current fiscal year, after nearly four years in role and 11 years at the company. Microsoft will be naming a new CFO from its finance leadership team in the next several weeks.

Logitech International (NASDAQ: LOGI) announced that Erik K. Bardman, senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer, will leave Logitech, effective April 26, 2013. Mr. Bardman, who has been with Logitech since October 2009, will join Roku as chief financial officer.

Roku Inc. announced that Erik Bardman will join the company as Chief Financial Officer. Bardman was appointed Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Logitech International (NASDAQ: LOGI) in September 2009 and will depart the company this month. Bardman was elected to Trulia’s Board of Directors in June 2012 and will continue to hold that seat while at Roku. Prior to Logitech, Bardman spent six years at eBay and served as the Chief Financial Officer for eBay Marketplaces, the company’s largest portfolio of businesses. Prior to joining eBay, he was with General Electric for 15 years in a variety of roles.

Ingersoll-Rand plc (NYSE:IR) is pleased to announce that Patrick Shannon will serve as senior vice president and chief financial officer for the new, standalone global security company to be created upon its separation from Ingersoll Rand later this year. Shannon currently serves as vice president and treasurer for Ingersoll Rand. Previously, he was vice president of audit services. Prior to audit services, Shannon served as vice president of finance and information technology for Trane Commercial Systems, beginning in September 2008. That appointment followed his stewardship as vice president of strategy and business development. From 2002 to 2005, he served as vice president, finance for the Ingersoll Rand Construction Technologies Sector. Before joining Ingersoll Rand, Shannon served as senior vice president and chief financial officer for OneCoast Network Corporation. Before that, he was senior vice president and chief financial officer for AGCO Corporation. Shannon started his career with Arthur Andersen LLP.Pamela Strayer

Plantronics, Inc. (NYSE: PLT) announced that Plantronics CFO Pamela Strayer will serve as the acting CEO during an unplanned absence of the President & CEO, Ken Kannappan. Pam joined Plantronics in July 2012 as senior vice president and chief financial officer.

The Weather Company announced the appointment of Peter Kuipers as chief financial officer (CFO) effective May 6, 2013. Kuipers joins the company from Yahoo! Inc., where he serves as vice president of finance for the Americas Region. At Yahoo! Kuipers previously served as vice president of finance, global products division, and as vice president of finance, international regions. Kuipers also served as a member of the board of directors for the majority of Yahoo!’s international companies. Prior to Yahoo!, Kuipers held financial leadership roles with Altera Corp. in San Jose, Calif., with General Electric Company both in Mass. and in the Netherlands, and with Akzo Nobel in the Netherlands.

Pluralsight announced the appointments of Greg Woodward as Chief Financial Officer. Woodward was most recently Chief Financial Officer at PermaPlate, and previously as Senior Vice President in the Portfolio Group at Huntsman Gay Global Capital.

Logicalis announced the appointment of Nathan Fong to the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in the United States. Most recently, Fong served as both CFO and COO for Motricity. Prior to Motricity, Fong held the dual roles of CFO and interim CEO for Atrinsic Inc. He also served as both CFO and executive vice president for The Orchard Enterprise Inc.; CFO of Rodale International; CFO and senior vice president of media and entertainment company Discovery Networks International; and divisional vice president of global finance for entertainment and media giant Twentieth Century Fox.

MDC Partners (NASDAQ: MDCA) announced that it has tapped Andre Coste, former Global Chief Financial Officer of Publicis Worldwide, to take on the role of Chief Financial Officer for the MDC Partner Network.  Most recently, Coste served as a key partner to Publicis’ Global CEO in the role of Global CFO, a position he held for five years.

RLJ Lodging Trust (NYSE: RLJ) announced the appointment of Leslie D. Hale to Executive Vice President. Ms. Hale will serve in a dual role of Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. She joined RLJ Development, Inc., the Company’s predecessor, in 2005 as its Director of Real Estate and Finance and was promoted to Vice President in 2006. In 2007, she was promoted to Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President. Prior to Ms. Hale’s tenure at RLJ, she held several positions within General Electric Capital Corporation (“GE”), including Vice President in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group of GE Commercial Finance and Associate Director in the GE Real Estate – Strategic Capital Group. Before GE, Ms. Hale was an investment banker at Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Financial Institutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISI) named Kevin B. Klotzbach as chief financial officer and executive vice president in addition to his current role as treasurer. Karl F. Krebs, who served as the organization’s CFO since October 2009, will remain with the company through a brief transition period.  Mr. Klotzbach has served as senior vice president and treasurer of Five Star Bank since 2001. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Klotzbach was the chief investment officer at Greater Buffalo Savings Bank. Earlier in his career, he held various executive, portfolio management and risk management positions with Key Bank, Empire Federal Savings Bank and Merrill Lynch Asset Management.

Superior Industries International, Inc. (NYSE: SUP) announced the appointment of Kerry A. Shiba to its board of directors. Mr. Shiba is executive vice president and chief financial officer of Superior. Mr. Shiba also is a member of the board of directors of Tulsa-based Ramsey Industries LLC. Prior to joining Superior in 2010 as senior vice president and chief financial officer, he was senior vice president/chief financial & restructuring officer and president of the original equipment business unit of Remy International, Inc. Mr. Shiba previously held senior management positions with Kaiser Aluminum Corporation, including vice president and chief financial officer, and served in senior financial management roles with The BF Goodrich Company.

Envysion, Inc. announced the appointment of Michelle Shewchuk as Chief Financial Officer. Shewchuk brings over 20 years of financial leadership experience to Envysion and comes from Exclusive Resorts. In addition, Shewchuk spent part of her early career working at Berkshire Partners.

ProVest announced it has promoted Caryn Bosworth to CFO. Bosworth was vice president of finance and accounting with the company for more than three years. Prior to joining ProVest, Bosworth was vice president and controller for Catalina Marketing Corp. Before her position at Catalina, Bosworth was director of global financial reporting for Tropicana Products, Inc., and was a supervising senior in the audit department of KPMG.

Midway Gold Corp. (AMEX: MDW) announced that John Labate will be joining the Midway team as the new Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Labate will work with Fritz Schaudies, the Company’s current CFO, to ensure a seamless transition of his Chief Financial Officer duties. Mr. Labate is joining Midway from Behre Dolbear where he has been Managing Director in the management-consulting group. Prior to his consultancy, he was Senior Vice President and CFO of Golden Star Resources. Prior to his tenure with Golden Star, Mr. Labate was Vice President and CFO of Constellation Copper Corporation.

Great American Group, Inc. (OTC: GAMR) appointed Phillip Ahn as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Mr. Ahn previously served as Great American Group’s Senior Vice President, Strategy & Corporate Development from February 2010 to April 2013. Prior to joining Great American Group, Mr. Ahn held private equity investment positions at middle market private equity firms Altpoint Capital Partners and Stone Tower Equity Partners.

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) announced the appointment of Ahmed Rubaie as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Rubaie most recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Ariba Inc. Mr. Rubaie joined Ariba in August 2008. Prior to Ariba, Mr. Rubaie spent nearly eight years at Avery Dennison where he held various senior finance positions, the last one being a global division CFO. Mr. Rubaie also spent nearly six years in various global finance leadership roles at BHP Billiton.

CTPartners Executive Search Inc. (NYSE: CTP) announced the appointment of William J. Keneally as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Keneally spent four years in London with Gullivers Travel Associates by Travelport, then majority-owned by Blackstone Group, as Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President. Previously, he held senior finance and accounting positions at Elizabeth Arden, and Inter-Continental Hotels & Resorts and was a Managing Partner at BDO Seidman. Keneally began his career at Arthur Andersen.

Destination Hotels & Resorts announced the appointment of Mark Hays as Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer. Hays first joined Destination Hotels & Resorts in 2005, where he served as Director of Finance at The Inverness Hotel and Conference Center in Denver, Colo. Soon after, he was promoted to Vice President, Regional Controller in the Destination corporate office. In 2007, Hays was promoted to Corporate Controller. Prior to joining the Destination team, Hays served as Corporate Controller and Regional Controller for Sage Hospitality from 2000 to 2005. Hays also held tenure as General Manager of the Embassy Suites Denver Tech Center and the Holiday Inn Garden of the Gods Colorado Springs, both Meristar Hotels, from 1995 to 2000. Robert D. Starr

Kaman Corp. (NYSE:KAMN) announced that Robert D. Starr has been appointed to the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) effective as of July 1, 2013, upon the retirement of William C. Denninger, Executive Vice President and CFO, on June 30, 2013.  Starr, who joined the Company in 2009, currently serves as Vice President and Treasurer. Prior to joining Kaman, Starr was employed by Crane Co. (NYSE: CR) where he served as Assistant Treasurer.  He also previously served as Managing Director, Corporate Finance at Aetna, Inc., and as Director, Capital Markets and Risk Management at Fisher Scientific International, Inc.  Starr also was an associate at both Salomon Smith Barney in New York and Chase Securities, Inc. in New York and Singapore.  He began his career as an auditor with Laventhol & Horwath in New York.

Broadway Financial Corporation (NASDAQ Capital Market: BYFC), the holding company of Broadway Federal Bank, f.s.b. (“Bank”) announced that Brenda Battey has been approved by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco as Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) of the Company. Her tenure includes Controller/Senior Controller over the past 25 years at First Federal Savings Bank of California, Community Bank and Bank of Manhattan.

CFO Moves – week ending April 12, 2013

CFO Moves this week include:

Burger King Worldwide, Inc. Stryker Corporation DENTSPLY International Inc.
Getty Images Lucas Energy, Inc. Harsco Corporation
Direxion Hooper Holmes Kinetic Concepts, Inc.
Learning Tree International 10gen Turn
Qualstar Corporation West Star Aviation GreenGro Technologies Inc.
Schmitt Industries, Inc. Bunge Limited Titan International, Inc.
Federal Signal Corporation Veracyte, Inc. Sonic Automotive, Inc.
Education Management Corporation Laser Light Engines, Inc. Green Dot Corporation
Hanmi Financial Corporation Zoom Media Group Inc. Eclipse Resources Operating, LLC
PharMerica Corporation UniTek Global Services, Inc.

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Burger King Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:BKW) announced that Chief Financial Officer Daniel Schwartz has been appointed to the role of Chief Operating Officer. In this new role, the company’s senior management team will report directly to Mr. Schwartz. On July 1, 2013, Mr. Schwartz will be appointed to the role of Chief Executive Officer. Since 2010, Mr. Schwartz has served as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining BKW, as a Partner at 3G Capital, Mr. Schwartz was responsible for sourcing, analyzing and executing the firm’s acquisition of BKW. Joshua Kobza will succeed Mr. Schwartz as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Kobza was previously Senior Vice President, Global Finance. He joined the company in June 2012 and will continue to report to Mr. Schwartz.

Stryker Corporation (NYSE: SYK) announced that William Jellison has joined the Company in the position of Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. Dean Bergy, Stryker’s Interim CFO and Vice President, Corporate Secretary, will help support Mr. Jellison in his new role during a transition period through the second quarter of 2013. Mr. Bergy will remain Vice President, Corporate Secretary. Prior to joining Stryker, Mr. Jellison had 15 year tenure at Dentsply International, most recently as the company’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Jellison’s experience at Dentsply included an assignment as a Senior Vice President with full P&L responsibilities over a number of international and domestic operations prior to returning to the CFO role in 2005. Before joining Dentsply, he spent 18 years with Donnelly Corporation.

DENTSPLY International Inc. (NASDAQ: XRAY) announced that Chris Clark, DENTSPLY’s former President and Chief Operating Officer will assume the role of President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Clark joined DENTSPLY in 1993. The Company also announced that William Jellison has resigned as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer to pursue another business interest. Tara Comonte

Getty Images announced the appointment of Tara M. Comonte as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Since 2010, Ms. Comonte has served as Global CFO of McCann Worldgroup, the world’s largest marketing communications business. Previous roles include Global CFO and Chief Operating Officer of Mediabrands; Global CFO of Universal McCann; and Regional CFO for Europe, the Middle East and Africa within the Publicis Groupe.

Lucas Energy, Inc. (NYSE: LEI) announced the appointment of William J. Dale as Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary of the Company. Mr. Dale replaces Anthony C. Schnur in those posts, which Mr. Schnur has held on an interim basis since being named CEO of Lucas Energy in December 2012. Most recently Dale served as a financial consultant for several private equity and independent E&P companies, having previously served as Director of Finance, Planning & Analysis for Global Industries Ltd. Prior posts include CFO and Controller at KD Resources, a private E&P company and CFO, Treasurer and Secretary at Blue Dolphin Energy. He also has prior experience working at Rosetta Resources, Huber Energy, El Paso Corporation, Columbia Energy and Tejas Gas (acquired by Shell Oil). F. Nicholas Grasberger

Harsco Corporation (NYSE: HSC) announced the appointment of F. Nicholas Grasberger as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Grasberger served most recently as the Managing Director of the multinational Precision Polymers Division of Fenner Plc. Prior to joining Fenner, he served as the Chief Financial Officer of Armstrong Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Armstrong World Industries, before serving as CEO of the company’s Building Products division. Previously, Mr. Grasberger served as the Chief Financial Officer for Kennametal, Inc., while earlier in his career, he also served as Corporate Treasurer and director of the corporate planning process at H. J. Heinz Company. He started his career in 1985 with USX Corporation. Mr. Grasberger will succeed Barry E. Malamud, who has been serving in an interim CFO capacity and will now return to his position as Vice President and Corporate Controller reporting directly to Mr. Grasberger.

Direxion announced that Eric Falkeis has been appointed President and Chief Operating Officer of Rafferty Asset Management, the advisor to Direxion Funds and Direxion Shares. He was most recently Chief Financial Officer and Director of Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) Operations at U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, where he worked closely with Direxion for more than a decade. Mr. Falkeis spent more than 15 years at U.S. Bancorp Fund Services.

Hooper Holmes (NYSE: HH) announced that Henry E. Dubois has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer and will become a member of the Company’s Board of Directors. Mr. Dubois has been advising Hooper Holmes on business strategy and financial operations since January 2013. Since 2011, Mr. Dubois has been a partner at Tatum, LLC. In previous roles, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of GeoEye, Inc.; President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of DigitalGlobe, Inc.; Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of an Asia Pacific Telecommunication company; and Senior Vice President of an Asia Pacific conglomerate in Jakarta, Indonesia. He also served as a consultant with Booz, Allen & Hamilton and began his career as an internal auditor and finance supervisor for Exxon Corporation. Mr. Dubois’ appointment follows the departure of Ransom J. Parker, who served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Hooper Holmes since September 2010.

Kinetic Concepts, Inc. announced that Robert Hureau has been appointed Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. Hureau spent the last six years in various leadership roles at Sensata Technology Holdings N.V., including Corporate Controller, Chief Accounting Officer and, for the last two years, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. Previously, he has held other finance leadership positions with Brooks Eckerd Pharmacy, Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. and Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc.

Learning Tree International (NASDAQ: LTRE) announced that David W. Asai has joined Learning Tree International, Inc. as its Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Asai has been serving as Interim CFO since September, 2012. He has served as a CFO Partner in the Mid Atlantic Practice of Tatum, since October 2011. Prior to joining Tatum, Mr. Asai was an independent financial consultant providing services to companies in the for-profit education sector. He has also served as Chief Financial Officer of Voyager Learning Company, Independence Air, and Spirit Airlines.

10gen, the MongoDB company, announced the appointment of Sydney Carey as Chief Financial Officer. Carey held a variety of roles during her nine years at TIBCO, most recently as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. She was promoted from Vice President of Finance to CFO in January 2009. Prior to TIBCO, Carey was CFO at Autonomic Networks (also known as Vernier Networks), and before that at Pacific Broadband Communications, where she directed the company through its acquisition by Juniper Networks. Carey serves on the board of Bazaarvoice.

Turn announced the appointment of Joe Nemeth as its chief financial officer. Nemeth is the former vice president of corporate strategy and finance at Adobe. He previously had a long tenure in the medical device and aerospace industries, working as an engineer, product manager, and business development leader at companies such as Boeing, Boston Scientific and Medtronic.

Qualstar Corporation (NASDAQ: QBAK) announced the addition of Philip G. Varley as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Varley joins Qualstar from the Barrington Group in Denver, Colorado. While at Barrington he held various financial leadership roles including CFO of DemandPoint Inc., and several other private companies in international turnaround situations. Earlier in his career Mr. Varley held various leadership roles in audit, tax, legal and risk mitigation, first with a Big 4 accounting firm and subsequently as a senior financial executive.

West Star Aviation announced that Mike Shonka will be joining their team as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Mike has had an extensive career as a financial executive in financial services and aviation, including Cessna Aircraft Company, where he was the Chief Financial Officer for 14 years.

GreenGro Technologies Inc. (PINK: GRNH) announced the appointment of Owen Naccarato to GreenGro’s Board of Directors. Mr. Naccarato has also accepted the position of Chief Financial Officer at GreenGro Technologies. Owen Naccarato is a practicing attorney with a practice specializing in securities and corporate law. He also holds an MBA in Finance and prior practicing CPA. He is currently a board member for several publicly listed companies.

Schmitt Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMIT) announced that Ann M. Ferguson has been named Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company. Ferguson is a former partner with Deloitte & Touche, LLP in Portland, where she spent over twenty years in public accounting. She replaces Jeff Siegal.

Bunge Limited (NYSE: BG) announced the appointment of Todd Bastean to the position of CEO, Bunge North America, effective June 1. Mr. Bastean is currently CFO, Bunge North America. Mr. Bastean started his career at Bunge in 1994 and became CFO of Bunge North America in 2010. Before assuming that role he served as vice president & general manager of the operating company’s milling and biofuels business units, and as vice president and chief administrative officer of its grain and milling business units. He also held positions in strategic planning and auditing.

Titan International, Inc. (NYSE: TWI) announced that Keith Fuglaar has been hired as Vice President of Finance for North America. Mr. Fuglaar joins Titan International from The Egging Company, where he served as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to this, he was VP-Finance for ARC Automotive, Corporate Controller at HNTB Corporation and Director-FP&A with McLeodUSA.

Federal Signal Corporation (NYSE: FSS) announced the appointment of Brian S. Cooper to the position of senior vice president and chief financial officer, effective May 28, 2013. Mr. Cooper will replace Braden Waverley , who has served as interim chief financial officer since October 2012. Mr. Cooper has served since 2009 as chief financial officer of Westell Technologies, Inc. Prior to Westell, Mr. Cooper served as chief financial officer and treasurer of Fellowes, Inc. from 2007 to 2009. Before joining Fellowes, he served as senior vice president and treasurer since 2001 of United Stationers Inc. Prior to joining United Stationers, Mr. Cooper served as treasurer of Burns International Services Corporation, and held various financial positions during his 12 year tenure with Amoco Corporation.

Veracyte, Inc. announced the appointment of Shelly D. Guyer as chief financial officer. Ms. Guyer previously was chief financial officer and executive vice president of finance and administration at iRhythm Technologies. Prior to that, she served on the management team and as vice president of business development and investor relations at Nuvelo. Ms. Guyer began her business career at J.P. Morgan Securities and its predecessor companies, where for over 17 years she held various positions, including principal and vice president of health care banking for the West Coast.

Sonic Automotive, Inc. (NYSE: SAH) announced that the Company has promoted Heath R. Byrd from Chief Information Officer to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Byrd joined Sonic in November of 2007 as CIO. Before joining Sonic Automotive, Mr. Byrd held several positions at HR America including President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to his tenure at HR America, Mr. Byrd was a manager at Ernst & Young where he consulted in financial strategy and mergers & acquisitions.

Education Management Corporation (NASDAQ: EDMC) announced that Mick J. Beekhuizen will join the Company as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Mr. Beekhuizen left Goldman Sachs where he was a Managing Director within the Merchant Banking Division in New York. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2000 as a financial analyst in Investment Banking in Frankfurt, Germany, and joined Merchant Banking in 2004 when he moved to New York. In 2010, Mr. Beekhuizen was named a Managing Director. He has also served on the board of EdgeMarc Energy Holdings, LLC and, since October 2009, on the board of Education Management, a position he will relinquish to assume his new role as CFO of the Company.

Laser Light Engines, Inc. announced that David J. Parent has been appointed Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer. Previously he served as CFO at Aegis Lightwave, Inc. Parent also served as Director of Finance & Controller for Integral Access, Inc. Parent began his career with numerous accounting and finance positions at National Semiconductor Corp.

Green Dot Corporation (NYSE: GDOT) announced that John Keatley, Chief Financial Officer, has notified Green Dot that he would be leaving the company effective September 1, 2013. Mr. Keatley will be leaving Green Dot in order to relocate his family to Sweden, his wife’s original home, where he will serve as chief financial officer for a Stockholm-based technology company. Mr. Keatley has committed to continue to serve full time as Green Dot’s Chief Financial Officer through September 1, 2013 and will additionally assist in recruiting a new Chief Financial Officer.

Hanmi Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: HAFC), the holding company for Hanmi Bank, announced that Shick “Mark” Yoon was appointed as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Yoon has served at Hanmi since 2008, and previously held the positions of interim Chief Financial Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, Deputy CFO, Treasurer and Senior Planning Officer. Prior to joining Hanmi, he was a financial and management consultant to a number of middle-market companies, and served as an auditor with Deloitte & Touche.

Zoom Media Group Inc. announced the appointment of Samuel Recenello as its Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Recenello has spent his career with such companies as: Dowden Health Media, Carat/Aegis Media Americas and McCann Erickson WorldGroup.

Eclipse Resources Operating, LLC announced that Matthew DeNezza has joined as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Eclipse Resources, Mr. DeNezza served as a Managing Director in the Global Natural Resources Group for over ten years at Deutsche Bank. Prior to his role with Deutsche Bank, Mr. DeNezza worked in the Corporate Finance Group at Janney Montgomery Scott LLC and before entering the banking industry, Mr. DeNezza held the position of Lieutenant in the United States Navy.

PharMerica Corporation (NYSE: PMC) announced that the Company has appointed David W. Froesel, Jr. as interim Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Froesel succeeds Michael J. Culotta, who by mutual agreement with the Company, is stepping down to pursue other interests. Mr. Froesel was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Omnicare, Inc., from 1996 to 2009. Prior to that, he was Vice President, Finance & Administration and Corporate Controller of subsidiaries of Mallinckrodt Group, Inc.

UniTek Global Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: UNTK), announced that Ronald J. Lejman, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, has been terminated. UniTek has engaged Kenneth J. Cichocki of Pillar Solutions Group, to serve as the Company’s interim Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Cichocki has served as chief financial officer for both public and private companies.

CFO Moves – week ending April 5, 2013

CFO Moves this week include:

Cargill Eventbrite Atmel Corporation
Pall Corporation Opexa Therapeutics, Inc. SYNNEX Corporation
Rocket Software Onconova Therapeutics, Inc. Contegix
ADS Tactical, Inc. SUPERVALU Inc. Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc.
Orthofix International N.V. The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company ShopRunner
My Alarm Center Dresser-Rand Group Inc. Tides
Consolidated Precision Products Corp. Vystar Corporation ViaSat Inc.
Aztec Oil & Gas, Inc. TIBCO Software Inc. Evolution Fuels, Inc.
Cytomedix, Inc. Farmer Bros. Co. Hudson Valley Holding Corp.
AssureRx Health, Inc.

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Cargill announced that former Sara Lee executive, Marcel Smits, is its new chief financial officer. Smits, a native of the Netherlands, served in a variety of financial management positions for Unilever in Europe, Latin America and Asia throughout the mid-1980s and 1990s, lastly as senior vice president of finance for China. He subsequently served as CFO for two Dutch listed companies, first for Vendex KBB, a retail group, then for KPN, the country’s leading telecommunications service provider. Smits became CFO of Sara Lee in 2009 and was appointed CEO in early 2011. Cargill’s CFO position was vacated in November 2012 when Sergio Rial left the company to return to his native Brazil. Cargill President and Chief Operating Officer David MacLennan had added the duties of interim CFO to his responsibilities up until now.

Eventbrite announced it has hired Mark Rubash to be the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Formerly the CFO at Shutterfly and senior member of the Finance leadership teams at eBay and Yahoo!, Rubash is the first c-level executive hired from outside the company. Rubash currently serves on the Boards of Intuitive Surgical, Iron Planet and Line 6, and has also served in executive roles at HeartFlow, Rearden Commerce and Critical Path.

Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML) announced that Steve Skaggs, who currently serves as Atmel’s Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy & Development, has also been appointed interim Chief Financial Officer of Atmel. This appointment follows Stephen Cumming’s decision to resign as Atmel’s Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Cumming will remain with Atmel for a short period to facilitate the transition. Mr. Skaggs joined Atmel in 2010. He worked previously at Lattice Semiconductor, where he served as President and CEO and also as CFO. Prior to Lattice, Mr. Skaggs was employed by Bain & Company.

Pall Corporation (NYSE: PLL) announced the appointment of Akhil Johri as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective May 1, 2013. Mr. Johri is currently Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer for United Technologies Corporation’s (UTC) Propulsion & Aerospace Systems group. Prior to his current role, he served as CFO for UTC’s Carrier Transicold and UTC’s Fire & Security units as well as for Carrier Asia Pacific Operations. He led Corporate Investor Relations for UTC and has been very involved with UTC’s Financial Leadership Development program. Pall President and CEO Larry Kingsley, who was recently named interim CFO, will continue in that role until Mr. Johri officially joins Pall.

Opexa Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPXA) announced the appointment of Karthik Radhakrishnan as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Radhakrishnan most recently was a Vice President at ING Investment Management in New York. Previously he was the senior analyst at Eagle Asset Management. Prior to this, Mr. Radhakrishnan started his financial career at The Dow Chemical Company. He replaces David Jorden, Opexa’s Acting CFO, who will continue to serve as a Director of the Company.

SYNNEX Corporation (NYSE:SNX) has appointed Marshall W. Witt as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Witt will be assuming the role from Thomas Alsborg who announced his retirement last year. Most recently, Mr. Witt was Senior Vice President of Finance and Controller with FedEx Freight, a $5.3 billion subsidiary of FedEx Corporation (NYSE:FDX).

Rocket Software announced that Paul Walsh has joined the company as vice president and chief financial officer. Prior to joining Rocket, he served as CFO at Silicon Laboratories; previously he held various operational, finance, controller, and management roles at PerkinElmer, Teradyne and Analog Devices. He serves on the board of directors of Nitero, and previously served on the board of Grande Communications & Rio Holdings.

Onconova Therapeutics, Inc. announced the appointment of Ajay Bansal as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Bansal most recently served as Chief Financial Officer at Complete Genomics. Prior to Complete Genomics, Mr. Bansal served as the CFO and EVP, Corporate and Business Development, at both Lexicon Therapeutics and Tercica, Inc. Tercica was acquired by Ipsen in 2008. He also served as the CFO of Nektar Therapeutics from 2003-2006.

Contegix announced that it has hired Michael Wylie as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Wylie held the role of Chief Financial Officer at Pulse Broadband. Prior to that, Wylie held roles as the Chief Financial Officer for Broadstripe Cable and Chief Accounting Officer for Suddenlink Communications.

ADS Tactical, Inc. announced that Karan Rai has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President replacing Patricia Bohlen. Mr. Rai joined ADS in August 2012 serving in various roles, including Vice President of International Strategic Development, and, more recently, as the Vice President of Corporate Development. Prior to joining ADS, Mr. Rai was a Vice President in JPMorgan’s Investment Bank where he spent seven years covering Defense/Aerospace companies in the Leverage/Acquisition Finance Group.

SUPERVALU Inc. (NYSE: SVU) announced that Sherry Smith, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will leave the company at the end of May. Smith has served as the company’s CFO since her appointment in December 2010. She has spent 26 years with SUPERVALU and previously served as senior vice president, finance.

Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. announced that Myles R. Itkin has left the Company as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company. Captain Ian T. Blackley will serve as the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company effective immediately. Captain Blackley has been the Senior Vice President and Head of International Shipping Operations.

Orthofix International N.V. (NASDAQ: OFIX) announced that it has appointed Emily Buxton as its Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Buxton had been serving as the Company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer since October 2012. Ms. Buxton joined Orthofix’s corporate finance group in 2003 as a Senior SEC and Consolidations Accountant. After advancing to the position of Vice President, Controller, she served as Chief Financial Officer of Global Orthopedics for Orthofix from 2010 to the time of her appointment as Interim Chief Financial Officer.

The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (NYSE: SMG) announced that Larry Hilsheimer has been named executive vice president and chief financial officer. Hilsheimer was executive vice president and chief financial officer of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company from 2007 through 2009. He then served as president and chief operating officer of Nationwide Direct & Customer Solutions and most recently was president and chief operating officer of Nationwide Retirement Plans. Prior to Nationwide, he was vice chairman and regional managing partner for Deloitte & Touche USA, LLP and served on the board of directors of the Deloitte Foundation.

ShopRunner announced that Scott Simmons has joined the company as its chief operating and financial officer (COO/CFO). Scott joins ShopRunner after most recently serving as president of NexTag Inc. At NexTag, Simmons served in a variety of roles beginning with vice president of finance and extending to vice president of business development; vice president and general manager, services shopping; SVP marketing and ultimately president of NexTag. Prior to his tenure at NexTag, Simmons held a variety of financial positions with Real Time Data and Prudential Investment Corporation. Scott Peterson

My Alarm Center announced that it has welcomed Scott Peterson as its new Chief Financial Officer.  Most recently, Mr. Peterson served as the CFO for Eyewitness Surveillance. He has also been CFO at PS Energy Group Inc., and Integrated Excellence, LLC; VP for the New England Division of Wind River Environmental; and CFO and VP of Residential Operations for Smith Alarm Systems, Inc.

Dresser-Rand Group Inc. (NYSE: DRC) announced that Jan Kees van Gaalen will become Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Dresser-Rand, effective May 1, 2013. Mr. van Gaalen succeeds Mark Baldwin, whose impending retirement was previously announced. Mr. van Gaalen joins Dresser-Rand from Baker Hughes Inc., where he served as Vice President and Treasurer. Before joining Baker Hughes, he was the Chief Financial Officer and Vice President Finance for PT Inco Tbk based in Jakarta, Indonesia, the publicly traded Indonesian subsidiary of Vale Inco Ltd. Prior to this he held a variety of finance positions with Anglo American plc, Carlton Communications plc and Schlumberger Ltd. in France, the United Kingdom,Venezuela, Brazil and South Africa.

Tides announced that Judith Hill will join as CFO effective May 1st, 2013. Hill was the Chief Financial Officer at Envision Education Foundation. Hill has held senior financial leadership positions at the Excel Group, San Francisco Art Institute, and Heald College.

Consolidated Precision Products Corp. announced the appointment of Andy Klaus as Chief Financial Officer. Klaus, who assumes CFO responsibilities from Ron Hamilton, who has been appointed as the Vice President of CPP’s Structural Investment Casting Group. Mr. Klaus recently joined from JMC Steel Group where he served as Corporate Controller.  Previously, Mr. Klaus served in various financial and accounting roles at companies including Royal Appliance Manufacturing and TTI Floor Care North America.

Vystar Corporation (OTC: VYST) announced that Dean Waters has been appointed as the Company’s new full-time Chief Financial Officer. Dean Waters is an active member of Vystar’s Board of Directors since his appointment in 2008, chairing the Audit Committee and serving on the Compensation Committee. He was the Founder and Managing Director of FiveFold Capital.  Prior to founding FiveFold Capital, Mr. Waters was Senior Vice President of Commerce Street Capital’s bank development group. Prior to Commerce Street, Mr. Waters was a Managing Partner of Poseidon Capital Investments, LLC.  He was also Senior Vice President, Director and one of the founding members of the Capital Markets Group within GMAC Commercial Finance’s Equipment Finance Division. Before that, he was Managing Director of Equity Distributions of Bank of America Leasing & Capital Group.

ViaSat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) announced that Bruce Dirks has agreed to join as Chief Financial Officer. Shawn Duffy, who has served as interim CFO since August 2012, will continue in her position as Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller of the company. Mr. Dirks has served as a portfolio manager at Fidelity Management & Research Company since 2000. Prior to joining Fidelity, Mr. Dirks was vice president – Investments at TRW Investment Management Company from 1993 to 2000. Mr. Dirks began his career at Raytheon Company as a financial analyst and also worked on the corporate finance team at General Dynamics Corporation.

Aztec Oil & Gas, Inc. (OTC: AZGS) (“Aztec”) announced that its long time CFO, Larry Hornbrook , is retiring effective April 30, 2013. Upon retirement, Mr. Hornbrook will be replaced by John Smith, a Senior Partner of Schmuck, Smith, Tees & Company, P.C.

TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) announced that Sydney Carey, TIBCO executive vice president and chief financial officer, has decided to leave the company to pursue an opportunity with a private, venture-backed technology company. Murray Rode, TIBCO chief operating officer and whose current responsibilities include the finance organization, will take on the added responsibilities of interim CFO until a permanent replacement is found. Mr. Rode previously served as CFO from late 2005 through 2008.

Evolution Fuels, Inc. (PINK: EVFND) announced that Pun Mo Chung has been appointed as a member of the Board of Directors of the Company as well as to serve as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Since 2007, Mr. Pun has served as the General Manager of Candid Global Resources H.K. Ltd. Tan Yuen Hing resigned as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer but will continue to serve as a member of its Board of Directors.

Cytomedix, Inc. (OTC: CMXI) announced the appointment of Steven A. Shallcross as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Treasurer, effective as of May 10, 2013. Mr. Shallcross replaces Andrew Maslan, who has served as Chief Financial Officer of Cytomedix since 2005 and will resign effective May 10, 2013 to pursue further career opportunities. Mr. Shallcross presently serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Empire Petroleum Partners, LLC. Previously, he served as Acting Chief Financial Officer for Sensors for Medicine and Science, Inc. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Innocoll Holdings, Inc. Mr. Shallcross also held Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer positions at Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and at MiddleBrook Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (formally Advancis Pharmaceutical Corporation).

Farmer Bros. Co. (NASDAQ: FARM)  announced that Mark J. Nelson will join the Company as Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer. Since 2010, he has been serving as Vice President, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of Newport Corporation. From 2004 to 2010, Mr. Nelson held various senior financial roles at Newport Corporation as Vice President and Controller, Vice President and General Manager of its Optical Components division and Finance Director of its Photonics division. Prior to Newport Corporation, he held the positions of Finance Director in Thermo Electron Corporation, Cost and Budget Manager at C.R. Bard, Inc., co-owner and Chief Financial Officer of Western Energy Services, Inc. and Financial Management Program Trainee with the General Electric Company. Jeffrey A. Wahba, the Company’s Interim Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer, will assist with the executive transition.

Hudson Valley Holding Corp. (NYSE: HVB) announced that the Company has named William E. Whiston, Chief Financial Officer of the Archdiocese of New York, to the Board of Directors of the Company and Hudson Valley Bank, N.A. Mr. Whiston has been Chief Financial Officer of the Archdiocese of New York since 2002. During his tenure he served as President of the Catholic Umbrella Pool, a casualty/liability reinsurance vehicle for forty dioceses. Prior to joining the Archdiocese of New York, Mr. Whiston spent 29 years at Allied Irish Bank, where he served in a number of executive positions in areas including lending, product development and operations/compliance.

AssureRx Health, Inc. announced the appointment of Stephen A. Stamp as Senior Vice President & CFO. Stephen has served as Chief Financial Officer of EZCORP, Inc.; Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Executive Vice President Business Development at Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Group Finance Director at Regus PLC; and Group Finance Director at Shire PLC. Earlier in his career, Stephen was an investment banker with Lazard in London,

CFO Moves – week ending March 29, 2013

CFO Moves this week include:

Xerox The ADT Corporation Martifer Solar USA
Modus Accenture Revance Therapeutics, Inc.
Minnetronix, Inc. Xtime Johns Manville
GreenBytes®, Inc. Moovweb NaviNet, Inc.
ISC8 Inc. Quantum Health General Employment Enterprises, Inc.
First American Financial Corporation GenoSpace, LLC Key Energy Services, Inc.
Glowpoint Inc. Mashable ThermoGenesis Corp.
Flash Global Logistics Qualis Health Recorded Future
Corvias Group OCZ Technology Group, Inc. Edmund Optics
Ashland Inc. Randolph Savings Bank HookLogic

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Xerox (NYSE: XRX) announced the appointment of Kathryn Mikells as chief financial officer and an executive vice president of the corporation. Mikells is currently CFO of The ADT Corporation, a position she assumed in April 2012 following financial leadership roles at Nalco and UAL Corporation. She joins Xerox on May 2. Prior to joining ADT, Mikells was chief financial officer of Nalco. She joined Nalco in 2010 from UAL Corporation, the parent company of United Airlines, where she served as executive vice president and chief financial officer. During her 16 years with UAL, Mikells held a variety of senior leadership roles, including head of investor relations, vice president of financial planning and analysis, and treasurer. Before joining UAL, Mikells spent six years in the financial services industry at GE Capital, Household International and CIBC. Mikells serves on the board of directors for The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.

The ADT Corporation (NYSE: ADT) announced that Kathryn Mikells, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, is leaving the company, effective May 2, 2013, to assume the role of chief financial officer at Xerox.Klaus Bernhart

Martifer Solar USA announced that it has appointed Klaus Bernhart as its new Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Bernhart has more than 35 years of international experience in both commercial and investment banking in Europe and the U.S.

Modus announced that it appointed Stewart Curley as CFO. Stew served as an adviser to the Company for the last six months before assuming his new position. Most recently, Stew served as COO and CFO for Secure Info Corporation, which was sold to Kratos Defense and Security Solutions. Previously Curley held key positions with several high tech companies including Orbital Sciences Corp, Rivermine and POMS Corporation, which was sold to Honeywell, Inc.David Rowland

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) announced that Pamela J. Craig has decided to step down as chief financial officer on July 1 and retire from the company on Aug. 31, 2013. David P. Rowland, senior vice president – Finance, will become chief financial officer, effective July 1, 2013. Mr. Rowland is a member of Accenture’s Global Management Committee and serves on the board of directors for Avanade, a joint venture of Accenture and Microsoft. Mr. Rowland began his career with Accenture in 1983.

Revance Therapeutics, Inc. announced the appointment of Lauren Silvernail as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Corporate Development. Ms. Silvernail succeeds David Styka, who will transition to Senior Vice President Finance & Administration. Mrs. Silvernail was most recently the Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Corporate Development at ISTA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Prior to ISTA, Mrs. Silvernail served in various operating and corporate development positions for Allergan, most recently as Vice President of Business Development.Phil Ankeny

Minnetronix, Inc. announced today that Phil Ankeny will join the company as Chief Financial Officer. Ankeny most recently served as CFO and interim CEO of SurModics, Inc. Prior to SurModics, he held positions as CFO of Internet startup Cognicity. Ankeny’s experience also includes venture capital, having served as a partner at Sherpa Partners; investment banking at Roberston, Stephens and Morgan Stanley; and other management roles at Shiva and IBM.

Xtime announced that it has named Jim Doehrman as its new Chief Financial Officer. Doehrman joins Xtime from Gracenote, Inc. Doehrman also served as CFO of ADP’s Automotive Claims Management software division, and before that as Chief Operating and Financial Officer for Versata. He also served at the financial helm of Octane. Prior to joining Octane, Doehrman, as CFO, led a successful initial public offering for IDG Books, which leveraged his more than 15 years of prior financial and operational experience with companies such as Viacom (Simon & Schuster); Federated Department Stores and Arthur Andersen & Co.Greg Clarke

Johns Manville, a Berkshire Hathaway company, announced that it has hired H. MacGregor (Greg) Clarke as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Clarke most recently was CFO of AeroGrow International, Inc. in Boulder, Colo. Prior to that he was president and CEO of Ankmar, LLC, and earlier in his career held financial leadership and strategic planning roles with The Coleman Company, Inc.; PepsiCo, Inc.; and Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company. From 1997 to 2002, Clarke was Director of Finance for JM’s Insulation Group, followed by vice president and general manager for JM’s Building Insulation and Commercial & Industrial Insulation Divisions.

GreenBytes®, Inc. named Kevin Brown as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Brown joins GreenBytes from Filterfresh where he served as CFO. Prior to Filterfresh, Brown held positions at Surebridge, Storability, Arthur Anderson LLP, and KPMG Peat Marwick, LLP.Tony Russo

Moovweb announced that Tony Russo has been hired to lead the company into the next phase of growth as its new Chief Operating and Financial Officer Tony Russo. Most recently, Russo served as CFO at Efficient Frontier, a company that was acquired by Adobe last year.

NaviNet, Inc. announced that it has appointed Daniel Timblin Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Timblin was a member of BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee’s leadership team.

ISC8 Inc. (OTC: ISCI) announced that it has appointed John Vong as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Vong most recently served as the corporate controller for Spectrum Group International, Inc. from 2010 to 2013. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Finance for Clean Energy Fuels Corp. and the corporate controller for Fuel Systems Solutions, Inc. As part of a planned transition, Mr. Vong will succeed Edward J. Scollins, the Company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer.

Quantum Health is pleased to announce the appointment of Wayne R. Lorgus as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Mr. Lorgus had served as interim CFO for the company since February 2012. Prior to joining Quantum Health, Mr. Lorgus was a partner at B2B CFO. Previously he was CFO for Cordex Pharma Inc., Prestige International, AvidLearn Inc., Unidyne Corporation, and Sandberg & Sikorski Corporation. He was also a business unit manager with Campbell Soup Company earlier in his career.

General Employment Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: JOB) announced that it has appointed Andrew J. Norstrud as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Norstrud joins General Employment Enterprises, Inc. from Norco Accounting and Consulting.  Prior to Norco, Mr. Norstrud served as Chief Financial Officer for Jagged Peak Inc. and Segmentz Inc.

First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF) announced that Mark E. Seaton has been named chief financial officer. Seaton began his career with First American in 2006 and until his appointment served as senior vice president of finance, will replace current Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Max O. Valdes, who is retiring after 25 years with the company. Valdes will remain with the company until March 2014 to assist with the transition. Prior to joining First American, Seaton worked in private equity and in the investment banking industry.

GenoSpace, LLC announced the addition of Daniel Meyer as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Meyer covered the healthcare portfolios at Arboretum Ventures and Point Judith Capital, where he focused on investments in life science tools, medical devices, healthcare information technology and services. Prior to his work investing in early stage companies, Mr. Meyer was a member of the health care investment banking team at Credit Suisse First Boston. He was also a co-founder and the General Manager of a medical device startup from inception through prototype development.

Key Energy Services, Inc. (NYSE: KEG) announced that John Marshall Dodson has been promoted to Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Dodson joined the Company in 2005 as Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer and served in that capacity until his appointment as Vice President and Treasurer in 2009. The Company also announced that T.M. “Trey” Whichard, III has retired from the Company as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Whichard will remain available until June 24, 2013 to provide transitional support.

Glowpoint Inc. (NYSE: GLOW) announced the appointment of David Clark as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Mr. Clark succeeds Tolga Sakman , who resigned as CFO. Mr. Clark most recently served as Vice President of Finance, Treasurer and acting CFO for Allos Therapeutics. Prior to his appointment at Allos, Mr. Clark was the CFO for an e-commerce managed services company.  He began his career serving technology companies in the audit practice of Price Waterhouse LLP.

Mashable announced that Michael Kriak has become the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Kriak worked for Haymarket Media for the past ten years. He served as the company’s Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary. Before that, he was head of finance at RxCentric,. Kriak began his career at Arthur Andersen LLP in the technology audit practice in Boston and Pittsburgh.

ThermoGenesis Corp. (NASDAQ: KOOL) said that Dan T. Bessey has joined the Company as Chief Financial Officer. Bessey was most recently Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of SureWest Communications. Bessey joined SureWest in 1995 and held several senior finance management positions including Director, Corporate Finance; Controller; and Vice President, Finance, before being named Chief Financial Officer in 2008.

Flash Global Logistics has appointed Gregory Castello as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Flash, Castello was Vice President, Finance at ITG Investment Research, Inc. Greg previously worked for a variety of companies including Vaultus Mobile Technologies and Zephyr Communications.

Qualis Health announced that Margaret Griffiths has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Griffiths previously was in strategic leadership positions at Pricewaterhouse Coopers and PhenoPath Laboratories.

Recorded Future has hired former AisleBuyer chief financial officer Scott Almeida as its new CFO. AisleBuyer, was acquired in April 2012 by Intuit. Almeida had served as finance and business development lead for Intuit’s QuickBase online database software following the acquisition.

David RozenCorvias Group announced that Senior Vice President of Finance, David Rozen, has been promoted to SVP and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Rozen joined Corvais Group in 2004.

OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: OCZ) announced the appointment of Rafael Torres as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Torres replaces Arthur Knapp who is leaving the Company to begin his retirement. Prior to joining OCZ, Torres served as CFO and Vice President of Finance for Capella Photonics. Before joining Capella, Torres was the CFO and Vice President of Finance for Power Integrations. Prior to that, Torres was CFO and Vice President of Finance for PLX Technology.Jason Mulliner

Edmund Optics announced the promotion of Jason Mulliner to Chief Financial Officer. Mulliner will be advancing from his current position as Executive Vice President of Finance to take on the new responsibilities of the CFO.

Ashland Inc. (NYSE: ASH) announced that Lamar M. Chambers, senior vice president and chief financial officer, will retire in July. The board of directors has elected J. Kevin Willis to succeed Chambers as senior vice president and chief financial officer, effective May 3, 2013. Willis joined Ashland in 1987 as an associate auditor. Among the positions he previously held were treasurer and general auditor at Ashland.

HookLogic announced the appointment of Kimberly Bambach as Chief Financial Officer. Bambach was previously with Ice.com. Earlier in her career she handled strategic planning at Comedy Central, before a 10 year stint at United Media, a wholly owned subsidiary of E.W. Scripps. Bambach set her sights on the startup world as a CFO for Vindigo, Inc. a mobile application company, XpresSpa a Spa/Retail start-up, and Jingle Networks. James McDonough

Randolph Savings Bank announced that James McDonough has been elected President and CEO. He succeeds Jack Doyle who is retiring. McDonough most recently served as Chancellor and Chief Financial Officer of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston and currently sits on the Board of Directors of Century Bank. Prior to that he served as President and CEO of Abington Savings Bank for 12 years.

CFO Moves – week ending March 22, 2013

CFO Moves this week include:

New York Life FIS™ Innotrac Corporation
Illinois Tool Works Inc. Monster Offers™ Sionix Corporation
24/7 Media Devicescape Pelion
Sabre Holdings® Energy Automation Systems, Inc. Relay Foods
Acronis New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co., Inc. Pacific Power Products Holdings, Inc
NBC Entertainment USHEALTH Group The Davey Tree Expert Company

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New York Life announced that John Fleurant has been elected executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective July 1, 2013. Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Michael Sproule will retire as scheduled on June 30, 2013, at which time Mr. Fleurant will begin serving as the company’s chief financial officer. Mr. Fleurant currently serves as Deputy CFO, a position he has occupied since October 2012 when the role was added to his other positions as senior vice president for finance and controller. Immediately prior to joining the company, Mr. Fleurant served as controller at Prudential Financial. After joining Prudential in 1995, he held positions of increasing responsibility, including chief financial officer for domestic businesses. James Woodall

FIS (NYSE: FIS) announced that Woody Woodall has been named Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Woodall has served as senior vice president, chief accounting officer and controller for FIS since July 2008. Prior to joining FIS, Woodall served as executive director and controller of AT&T’s southeast region. Prior to AT&T, Woodall was a senior manager in the audit practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers serving technology and communications clients.

Innotrac Corporation (NASDAQ: INOC) announced the appointment of Steve Keaveney as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to joining Innotrac, Keaveney served as CFO for BeavEx.

Illinois Tool Works Inc. said its Chief Financial Officer Ronald Kropp will step down in August.

Monster Offers (OTC: MONT) announced the addition of Brandon M. Graham as its new Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Monster Offers, Mr. Graham was responsible for leading the FP&A department for Tutor Perini Corp. Mr. Graham also served at AECOM Technology Corp as a Senior Analyst in Investor Relations and Corporate Development.

Sionix Corporation (OTC: SINX) announced the appointment of Joseph W. Autem as its Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Autem is a founder of CFO Partners from its inception in September of 2009. His clients at CFO Partners have included drilling companies and exploration and production companies in the states of Texas and Oklahoma. Prior to his association with CFO Partners, he has held CFO positions with leading companies including Rainwater, Inc., Natural Gas Partners, Broadcast.com, and TieTek.  Mr. Autem currently serves on the Board of Directors of ViewCast Corporation; a Dallas based technology company and is the chairman of the audit committee.

24/7 Media announced that Christina Van Tassell has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently she was Chief Financial Officer at Centurion Holdings in New York, a position she held for 9 years. Previously, she held senior roles with PricewaterhouseCoopers Transaction Services in New York and London, and PwC Global Capital Markets in Sweden.

Devicescape announced the appointment of Jeff Baeth to the position of Chief Financial Officer. Baeth comes to Devicescape from JAJAH, Inc., where he served as Chief Financial Officer and helped facilitate the company’s acquisition by Telefónica S.A. in 2010. Prior to joining JAJAH, Inc. in 2007, Baeth was senior vice president at VeriSign Inc. Prior to joining VeriSign, Baeth served in finance and accounting roles for Adobe Systems Inc., KLA-Tencor, and KPMG.

Pelion has named Richard Skelly as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Pelion, Skelly served as the Executive Vice President/Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President and Treasurer for Golden Living formerly Beverly Enterprises (NYSE: BEV). Previously, he was Senior Vice President, Treasurer of OfficeMax.  At The Grand Union Company, he served as Treasurer and Acting Chief Financial Officer.SABRE SIMONSON

Sabre Holdings® has appointed Rick Simonson as executive vice president (EVP) and chief financial officer (CFO). Simonson most recently served as CFO and president, business operations at Reardon Commerce.  Prior to that he spent nearly 10 years in several global roles at Nokia, including EVP and general manager of Nokia’s Mobile Phones division, and EVP and CFO, which he held for over five years. He was also with Barclays Capital and Bank of America Securities serving the telecom, media, and technology industries.  He currently serves on the boards of Electronic Arts and Silver Spring Networks. Simonson replaces CFO, Mark Miller , who is leaving the company to explore opportunities with other portfolio companies of TPG or Silver Lake, the two private equity firms that own Sabre.

Energy Automation Systems, Inc. (EASI) announced that Mary-Beth Army has been named chief financial officer. Army was most recently in a senior finance position with Healthtech Holdings. She has also served as CFO for Hobby Lobby International.

Relay Foods announced that Jill Douthit has joined the company as its new chief financial officer. Prior to joining Relay Foods, Douthit served as vice president of finance at a software-as-a-service provider. Before that, Douthit excelled in a variety of leadership roles at a procurement and supply chain management enterprise serving the hospitality industry. Douthit’s earlier career experience includes a planning and forecasting role with a major North American retail company and associate and analyst positions with a private equity fund.

Acronis announced that Craig Dynes has joined the Executive Team as chief financial officer (CFO). Prior to joining Acronis in March 2013, Mr. Dynes served as CFO and senior vice president of Pegasystems. He joined Pegasystems in 2006. From 2004 to 2006, Mr. Dynes served as CFO of Demandware. Prior to that, he served as President and CEO of Narad Networks from 2003 to 2004. From 1997 to 2002, Mr. Dynes served as CFO of SilverStream Software, Inc., an application development software company. He has held senior financial positions at Sybase Inc. and Powersoft Corp.

New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co., Inc. announced that it has appointed Paul I. Detwiler, III as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Detwiler will continue his role as President, Secretary and a director of the Company. In connection with his appointment, Paul I. Detwiler, III will cease to act as Chief Financial Officer of the Company. The Company also announced that it has appointed Albert L. Stone as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Stone previously served as U.S. Chief Financial Officer of Aggregates Industries, a position he held since 1997.

Pacific Power Products Holdings, Inc. announced that Dennis Bunday has been named president and chief financial officer.  Bunday succeeds Mark Dawkins, who was recently named the company’s new chief executive officer. Bunday most recently served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Williams Controls, Inc. from 2001 to 2012. Bunday also served as a board member of Southwall Technologies. Bradley Melnick

NBC Entertainment announced that Bradley Melnick has been promoted to executive VP and CFO. Melnick is a company veteran who most recently has been senior VP and CFO for the West Coast Television Group. Melnick joined NBC Universal in 1998 and has held positions in news, cable and production. He also has worked for Golden Books Family Entertainment and the accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand.

USHEALTH Group announced the promotion of Cynthia B. Koenig to serve as the insurance holding company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Koenig joined the company in March 1999 as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Before coming to USHEALTH Group, Ms. Koenig served in various senior accounting management capacities with multi-line property and casualty insurance companies including TIG Holdings, Inc. and Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company. Joseph Paul

The Davey Tree Expert Company has announced the promotion of Joseph Paul to CFO and secretary. David Adante, Davey’s former executive vice president, Chief Financial Officer and secretary, officially retired as of March 22, after more than 33 years at the company. Paul served most recently as vice president and treasurer at Davey. He began his Davey career in 2005 as treasurer, and his previous work experience includes Deloitte & Touche and AccessPoint Openings, LLC.

CFO Moves – week ending March 15, 2013

CFO Moves this week include:

Ping Identity iRobot Corp. Natus Medical Incorporated
Intersil Corporation Venari Resources LLC Vail Resorts
Amedica Corporation charming charlie Ulta Beauty
Cablevision Systems Corporation Hancock Fabrics, Inc. Callidus Software Inc.
ROBLOX CRGT Inc. Quest Diagnostics
MicroTech Flotek Industries, Inc. Merchant Cash and Capital, LLC
Twin-Star International First Choice Emergency Room Angie’s List, Inc.
The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra MagicalButter.com

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Ping Identity announced the addition of Michael J. Sullivan as chief financial officer (CFO). Sullivan recently served as executive vice president and CFO of IHS, Inc. Prior to IHS, Sullivan served as the director of financial planning and analysis for Coors Brewing Company. Sullivan spent ten years as senior manager of the M&A transaction support and audit practice for Price Waterhouse, LLP.Alison Dean

iRobot Corp. (NASDAQ: IRBT) announced the appointment of Alison Dean as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Prior to joining iRobot, she held several senior positions at 3Com Corporation, most recently as corporate controller. Dean succeeds John Leahy, who is stepping down after four years to join a late-stage private company.

Natus Medical Incorporated (NASDAQ: BABY) announced it has named Jonathan Kennedy, former Chief Financial Officer of Intersil Corporation, to the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Kennedy has been Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Intersil Corporation since April 2009. Prior to that, he was Intersil’s Corporate Controller since 2005 and Director of Finance since 2004. Before joining Intersil, Mr. Kennedy held management roles in Finance and IT with Alcon, Inc. and Harris Corporation. Mr. Kennedy is expected to join Natus on April 8, 2013. At that time he will assume the CFO role currently held by Steven J. Murphy, who will remain with the Company as Vice President Finance, a position he has held since 2003.

Intersil Corporation (NASDAQ: ISIL) announced that Jonathan Kennedy, Intersil’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will be leaving the company to pursue another opportunity outside of the semiconductor industry. Mercedes Johnson will join the management team as interim CFO. Ms. Johnson, an Intersil director since August 2005, was previously Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Avago Technologies from November 2005 until her retirement in August 2008. Prior to that, she worked for Lam Research Corporation, serving as its senior vice president of finance from June 2004 to January 2005 and its chief financial officer from April 1997 to May 2004. She has served as a member of the board of directors of Micron Technology, Inc. since June 2005 and has served as a member of the board of directors of Juniper Networks since May 2011. Ms. Johnson also served on the board of directors for Storage Technology Corporation from January 2004 to August 2005 when the company was sold to Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Venari Resources LLC announced the appointment of Bruce W. Busmire as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Busmire recently joined Venari from Anadarko Petroleum Corporation where he initially started in 2006 as their Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer. In 2008, he was appointed Vice President of Finance, Treasurer. Mr. Busmire also served as Vice President of Investor Relations for Ocean Energy. In the first 20 years of his career, he held various positions of increased responsibility in accounting and senior management at Amoco Corporation.

Vail Resorts (NYSE: MTN) announced the appointment of Michael Barkin to the role of executive vice president and chief financial officer of the Company. Mr. Barkin joined the Company on July 30, 2012 as vice president of strategy and development. Prior to joining Vail Resorts, Mr. Barkin was a principal at KRG Capital Partners, where he was a member of the investment team since 2006. Prior to KRG, he worked at Bain Capital Partners and Bain & Company.

Amedica Corporation announced that Karl Farnsworth has been named Chief Financial Officer (CFO). He most recently served as the Senior Vice President and Treasurer with Energy Solutions, Inc. Prior to joining Amedica, Mr. Farnsworth  served as CFO for Alcan Products Corporation, part of Alcan Inc., which was acquired by Rio Tinto Corporation in 2007. Additionally, Mr. Farnsworth was appointed and served as a Director on the following corporate boards: Alcan Cable (Canada), Inc.; Stabiloy De (Mexico); EPA Holdings Ltd. (Hong Kong); APC Holding Corporation (USA); and, Alcan (Tianjin) Alloy Products Corporation (China).

charming charlie announced that Tom Fitzgerald has joined the company as EVP, CAO and CFO. Tom most recently was the CAO of Sears Canada. Prior to his role at Sears Canada, Tom held several leadership positions at Liz Claiborne, Inc., was COO of Bath & Body Works, and spent the first 16 years of his career at PepsiCo.

Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ: ULTA) announced the appointment of Scott Settersten as Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary. Mr. Settersten has been Acting Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary since October 2012. He previously served as Vice President of Accounting since 2010. He joined Ulta Beauty in January 2005 as Director of Financial Reporting. Gregg Seibert

Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC) announced the appointment of Gregg Seibert to vice chairman. In addition to this new leadership position, he will continue to serve as the company’s chief financial officer. Before joining Cablevision in 2009, Mr. Seibert spent two decades at Merrill Lynch. Mr. Seibert’s last position prior to joining Cablevision was senior vice president and vice chairman of Merrill Lynch, which he joined in 1989 as a managing director and head of the Global Media Group.

Hancock Fabrics, Inc. (OTC: HKFI) announced that James B. Brown has joined Hancock Fabrics as Executive Vice President and CFO. Prior to joining Hancock, James was employed by Fred’s, Inc., where he served as Senior Vice President, Finance from November 2011 to March 2013, being promoted from his earlier positions of Vice President, Planning and Analysis which he held from June 2008 to November 2011 and Assistant Controller, which he held from February 2006 to May 2008.

Callidus Software Inc. (NASDAQ: CALD) announced that Chief Financial Officer Ron Fior will be departing the Company. Mr. Fior will remain with the Company through July 31, 2013, to help ensure a smooth transition. Scott Baumgartner, the Company’s Vice President of Finance, will assume the role of interim Chief Financial Officer.

ROBLOX announced that Michael Poon has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Michael comes to ROBLOX after holding the position of CFO at Crystal Dynamics.

CRGT Inc. announced the appointment of Chuck Cosgrove as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Mr. Cosgrove was previously the CFO of Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, and has held senior positions with several government-focused services companies, including KBR, Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) and Planning Research Corporation.

Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX) announced that Robert A. Hagemann , Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, plans to leave the company at the end of May 2013.

MicroTech has hired Lynn Wasylina as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Before signing on with MicroTech as CFO, Wasylina worked as the Corporate Controller for PAE, a private government contractor. Prior to that, as the Director of Finance, Accounting, Policy & Governance at BAE Systems. Her previous CFO roles include PAC, an IT consulting and staffing business, and the Economic Development Corporation of Los Angeles County.

Flotek Industries, Inc. (NYSE: FTK) announced the appointment of H. Richard Walton as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Walton, named as the Company’s interim Chief Financial Officer in February, has spent his entire career in public accounting spanning over three decades, including 20 years as an audit partner in the Houston office of KPMG.

Merchant Cash and Capital, LLC announced the hiring of Jeffrey Beckwith to serve as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Beckwith was most recently with The Patriot Group, LLC where he was Head of Asset Funding Solutions and Senior Portfolio Manager. He began his career in finance with the Asset Backed Finance Group at Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc.Peter Harper

Twin-Star International has hired Peter Harper as chief financial officer, a new position at the company. He was most recently CFO at Ironshore Insurance Co. and CFO and treasurer of Scottsdale Insurance Co. and Suntron Corp.

First Choice Emergency Room announced Tim Fielding as the new Chief Financial Officer. Fielding previously served as the Chief Financial Officer for Pacific Interpreters Incorporated. Fielding’s prior experience also includes serving as the Chief Financial Officer at Solis Women’s Health as well as at Snelling Staffing Services. Additionally, he was the Chief Accounting Officer at Wyndham International for over 10 years.

Angie’s List, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANGI) announced today that Robert R. Millard will step down as Chief Financial Officer at the end of this quarter and will remain an employee through June 28, 2013. Charles Hundt, the Company’s Controller, will assume the role of interim Chief Financial Officer during the transition period and will work with Mr. Millard to ensure a smooth transition. Mr. Hundt has served as the Company’s Controller since August 2007.Robert Q. Reilly

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC) announced that Robert Q. Reilly will succeed Richard J. Johnson as chief financial officer. Reilly has led PNC’s Asset Management Group (AMG), which includes its Wealth Management, Capitol Advisors and Hawthorn asset management units, since 2005. He will assume his new position upon the retirement of Johnson, who has announced his plan to leave PNC in the third quarter. Reilly joined PNC Bank in 1987 and has held numerous management positions in investment and commercial banking, including serving as executive vice president for PNC’s Corporate Banking business. Prior to assuming his current role, Reilly was deputy head of PNC Advisors. Reilly serves on the board of directors for RAF Industries, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and the Delaware Valley Community Reinvestment Fund Investment Committee.

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra announced the recruitment of Linda Lutz as Chief Financial Officer. Lutz was previously the Finance Director at the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. From 1989-1991, Lutz served as Senior Financial Analyst at Compuware before becoming Controller (and later Chief Financial Officer) of Galco Industrial Electronics. Lutz was named Manager of Business Practices at the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit in 1999 and was promoted to Associate Director of Finance and then Finance Director, a position she’s held since 2004.

MagicalButter.com announced that Nick Ruggeri will be joining the company as Chief Financial Officer. Nick was most recently a partner in a large regional Certified Public Accounting firm for over 15 years.

CFO Moves – week ending March 8, 2013

CFO Moves this week include:

Clarabridge, Inc. Red Roof Inn DoubleVerify
Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Sage North America Crown Holdings, Inc.
Walker & Dunlop, Inc. CRAiLAR Technologies Inc. MortgageDocs
Savi Technology The Valspar Corporation Ocean Canyon Properties
American Traffic Solutions LiveProcess Neumedicines Inc..
Pall Corporation Integrated Diagnostics Cyan
The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company Northstar Healthcare Inc. Vimeo
Specific Media Dresser-Rand Group Inc. Men’s Wearhouse
California High-Speed Rail Authority Lyoness America Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc.
Digital First Media Cadence Health Mercedes-Benz USA
Talmer Bancorp, Inc. Americo Real Estate Northrop Grumman Corporation
Vision Hot Topic, Inc. City of Industry, California
Santa Fe Petroleum, Inc. Sionix Corporation

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Clarabridge, Inc. announced that it has appointed Bas Brukx as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to Clarabridge, Brukx was Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis at Vocus. He has also held financial management positions at Nexchange, WorldPort Communications, and MCI Worldcom.Brendan Foley

Red Roof Innhas named Brendan P. Foley the company’s new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Previously, he served as CFO of Navigator Management Partners, an IT and management consulting firm. Foley has served as Vice President, Financial, Planning & Analysis for The Ohio State University and held an array of integral leadership roles at Wendy’s International, Inc. including his tenure as Senior Vice President, Controller and Principal Accounting Officer.

DoubleVerify announced the appointment of Jack McClunn as Chief Financial Officer of the company. Prior to joining DoubleVerify he served as the CFO of SelectMinds Inc. From 2003 to 2008 he served as the CFO of SpaFinder Inc. Early in his career, Jack was also the Vice President of Finance as well as a co-founder of ePresence Inc..Michael Tomsicek

Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBST) announced the appointment of Michael Tomsicek as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Mr. Tomsicek, who has served as Senior Vice President and Deputy CFO since July 2012, succeeds David McGirr. Mr. Tomsicek joined Cubist in 2010 as Vice President of Corporate Finance. Prior to Cubist, he spent eight years at General Electric Healthcare, initially as Finance Manager of its global operations, and then as CFO of its diagnostic ultrasound business and CFO of its global ultrasound product group. Previously, Mr. Tomsicek served in a variety of financial and operational roles at Motorola.

Sage North America announced the appointment of Marc Scheipe as chief financial officer. Mr. Scheipe was most recently with Ally Financial, Inc. (formerly GMAC) as its chief financial officer of global business functions. Before joining Ally, Mr. Scheipe was the CEO and president of FrontStream Payments, Inc. Mr. Scheipe also spent several years at Bank of America in various sales and operations leadership roles including card services, small business and bank/partner sales.

Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) announced that Timothy J. Donahue will become President and Chief Operating Officer.  Thomas A. Kelly has been appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.  Mr. Donahue was formerly Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, a position he held since 2008.  Prior to that, he had served as Senior Vice President – Finance since 2000 and as the Company’s Controller from 1991 to 2000. Mr. Kelly was formerly Senior Vice President – Finance, a position he held since 2009.  Prior to that, he had served as Senior Vice President – Corporate Controller since 2001.

Walker & Dunlop, Inc. (NYSE: WD) announced that Stephen P. Theobald will join the Company as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer on April 1, 2013.  Mr. Theobald joins Walker & Dunlop from Hampton Roads Bankshares (NASDAQ: HMPR) where he currently serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.  Prior to Hampton Roads, Mr. Theobald held several senior finance positions at Capital One including Chief Financial Officer of Local Banking from 2005 to 2010.

CRAiLAR Technologies Inc. (OTC: CRLRF) has named Ted Sanders to the position of Chief Financial Officer, succeeding Guy Prevost. Mr. Prevost, who has been with the Company since November 2005, will remain with CRAiLAR in the role of Corporate Controller and Compliance Officer. Mr. Sanders was most recently CFO of U.S. Auto Parts (NASDAQ: PRTS), and at PCM Inc. (NASDAQ: PCMI).

MortgageDocs hired Stephen Muller as their Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining MortgageDocs, he held executive positions in prominent real estate companies in Orange County including Koll Development Company and Catellus Residential Group.

Savi Technology named Brian Daum as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Before joining Savi, Mr. Daum was the CFO at Centrifuge Systems, Inc. He also served as Chief Operating Officer/CFO at ARC Second (currently Nikon Instruments, Inc. Brian Daum has provided financial leadership at several organizations, including Multimedia Medical Systems, Sandbox.com and Atlantic Coast Airlines.

The Valspar Corporation (NYSE: VAL) announced today that James L. Muehlbauer has been named Executive Vice President, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer. Muehlbauer will replace Lori A. Walker who will retire in April. Prior to joining Valspar, Muehlbauer was EVP and Chief Financial Officer of Best Buy Company, Inc. Muehlbauer also held leadership positions at The Pillsbury Company and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Ocean Canyon Properties announced the appointment of Bryan Reed as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Reed most recently served as Vice President of Accounting for Equity Lifestyle Properties. Previously he served as Chief Financial Officer for Thousand Trails, which was acquired by Equity Lifestyle Properties in 2008.

American Traffic Solutions has announced that Heather Zorge has been named Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Heather had served as Interim CFO since November 2012, and has been with the company since 2010. Heather is the former Chief Accounting Officer for Petroplus Holdings AG.

LiveProcess announced that Brian LeBlanc has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, he was the Vice President of Finance at Sentillion, Inc. Prior to Sentillion, Mr. LeBlanc held the position of Corporate Controller for Virtual Ink. He was previously with Atex as Controller North America, and with National Computer Systems as Division Controller.

Neumedicines Inc. announced the appointment of David L. Morash to the newly created position of Chief Financial Officer and as a member of the company’s Board of Directors. Mr. Morash has served as a consultant to the company since 2012. Most recently Mr. Morash was Chief Financial Officer of ISE Corporation. Prior to ISE, he served as President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of publicly traded Axesstel, Inc. He also served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of publicly traded Remec. Earlier in his career, he was Executive Vice President of Wireless Knowledge, and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Safeskin Corporation. Mr. Morash serves on the Board of Directors of California Safe Soil, LLC.

Pall Corporation (NYSE: PLL) today named Larry Kingsley, current Pall President and CEO, to serve as interim Chief Financial Officer (CFO) pending the completion of its search process to replace exiting CFO Lisa McDermott. The company also announced that Frank Moschella will resume the positions of Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer (CAO). Mr. Moschella, the Group Financial Officer (GFO) for Pall’s Industrial business, was the company’s Corporate Controller and CAO before transitioning to the GFO role in October of 2012. He is a Certified Public Accountant.

Integrated Diagnostics announced that it has appointed John Bencich as chief financial officer. Prior to joining Indi, he was Allozyne’s chief financial officer. Earlier Bencich served as the vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer of Trubion Pharmaceuticals. Before that he was the director of finance and corporate controller for Onyx Software Corporation.

Cyan announced that it has hired Mike Zellner as vice president and chief financial officer. Zellner joins Cyan from PMC-Sierra where, for the past six years, he served as chief financial officer. Prior to PMC-Sierra, Zellner was senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer at Wind River Systems. Earlier in his career, Zellner held corporate and divisional financial positions of steadily increasing responsibility at Applied Materials. Prior to joining Applied Materials, Zellner served in various financial roles at Unisys Corporation.

The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company announced that the appointment of Susan T. Deakins to Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer.  Prior to being named Chief Financial Officer, she was Vice President and Chief Actuary. Her predecessor, David M. O’Malley , has been appointed Penn Mutual’s Chief Operating Officer.

Northstar Healthcare Inc. announced that Harry Fleming has joined Northstar as its new Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Fleming has been a director at Northstar since 2010. Mr. Fleming is replacing Thomas Foster, who will remain on Northstar’s board of directors and will act as the company’s Chief Tax Counsel.

Vimeo announced the appointment of Mark Pinney as its first Chief Financial Officer.  Most recently, Mr. Pinney held the post of CFO for Lot18. Prior to that, he served as CFO/COO of video network Tremor Video. Mark also served as CFO for Tacoda, and has been a founding member of three companies: Acorda Therapeutics, CanDo and 24/7 Real Media.

Specific Media announced that it has appointed Larry Madden as chief financial officer. Prior to joining Specific Media in September 2012, Larry most recently worked with Robert Sillerman as CFO of SFX Entertainment and with Simon Fuller as CFO of both 19 Entertainment and XIX Entertainment. Larry also served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Weinstein Company. Prior to the Weinstein Company, Larry spent over 10 years as a finance executive and CFO of several media companies in the public and private sectors, including Loudeye, EMAK Worldwide, Atomic Pop, Def Jam Recordings, and PolyGram International.

Dresser-Rand Group Inc. (NYSE: DRC) announced that Mark E. Baldwin , Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, has elected to retire on or before April 30, 2013. The Company expects to announce Mr. Baldwin’s successor in the near-term.  Mark Baldwin has held the position with Dresser-Rand since August 24, 2007.  Prior to joining Dresser-Rand, his career experience included three years as the Executive Vice President, CFO, and Treasurer with Veritas DGC Inc.  Other previous experience included two years as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for NextiraOne, and four years as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer for Pentacon Inc.  He also spent 17 years with Keystone International Inc. in a variety of finance and operations positions, including Treasurer, CFO, and President of the Industrial Valves and Controls Group.

Men’s Wearhouse (NYSE: MW) announced the appointment of Jon W. Kimmins as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer.  Most recently, he held the position of Executive Vice President – Finance and Operations at LF-USA, Inc., a division of Li & Fung Limited. Prior to LF-USA, Kimmins was the Treasurer and Executive Vice President of Toys “R” Us, Inc. Prior to Toys “R” Us, Kimmins held financial management positions at Macy’s from 1980 to 1989. Kimmins replaces Diana Wilson , who acted as Interim Chief Financial Officer, and will continue as Executive Vice President of Finance and Accounting.

The California High-Speed Rail Authority hired Russell Fong as its CFO. Mr. Fong comes to the authority from CalPERS, where he served as the acting CFO and acting deputy executive officer of operations. He previously served as a division chief for CalPERS’ Fiscal Services Division and was the deputy director of the Administrative Services Branch at the California Department of Technology Services. Dennis Trujillo, chief deputy director of the rail authority who previously served as deputy treasurer to state Treasurer Phil Angelides, has been acting CFO.

Lyoness America announced that Efrain Vega has joined the company as its new Chief Financial Officer. Previously, Mr. Vega served as the Controller for Statetrust Bank & Trust. Prior to that he held the position of Chief Financial Officer for the Latin American division of Brightpoint.

Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. (NASDAQ: BECN) announced that Joseph M. Nowicki has accepted the position of Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Beacon. Mr. Nowicki has been the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer for Spartan Motors, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPAR) since June 2009. Prior to his tenure with Spartan, Mr. Nowicki was with Herman Miller, Inc. from 1992 through 2009 where he held progressive financial roles, lastly as Vice President, Investor Relations and Treasurer. Mr. Nowicki also held past financial positions with IBM and General Motors.

Digital First Media named Barbara J. Bennett the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Bennett, has been serving as a presidential appointee as Chief Financial Officer for the Environmental Protection Agency since 2009. She is the former Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Discovery Communications.

Cadence Health announced that John Orsini has been appointed Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President. Mr. Orsini comes to Cadence Health from Presence Health. Mr. Orsini began his career in auditing for the Arizona Department of Health Services. He’s held corporate finance positions at Catholic Healthcare West in Arizona, California and Nevada and served as Corporate Vice President, Finance and Treasurer at Scripps Health in San Diego.Harald Henn

Mercedes-Benz USA announced the appointment of Harald Henn to the position of vice president & CFO.  Henn replaces Herbert Werner who left the company to serve as vice president & CFO for Daimler in South Africa. Henn was most recently vice president & CFO for Mercedes-Benz Japan.  Henn began his career with Daimler at the world headquarters in 1991 and five years later, he joined MBUSA for the first time as manager of sales and profit planning.  In 1999, Henn was appointed deputy project director & controller for the SLR development program with McLaren in the United Kingdom before he became vice president & CFO for Mercedes-Benz Canada in 2004.  Three years later, Harald moved to Michigan where he helped to build the new Daimler Financial Services Company in the United States as vice president of finance for Latin America.  In 2009, he transferred back to Daimler’s world headquarters in Stuttgart and served as the director of program management for finance excellence. Michael Maher

Talmer Bancorp, Inc. announced the appointment of Michael Maher as Executive Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of Mortgage Banking. He joins Talmer from Flagstar Bancorp, where he served as Executive Vice President and Director of Mortgage Banking Servicing and Operations. Previously, he held a variety of senior executive positions in finance, risk management and operations at CitiMortgage and its predecessor firms, ABN AMRO Mortgage, LaSalle Bank, and Standard Federal Bank.

Americo Real Estate announced that that Carrine K. Reilly has joined its Executive team as Chief Financial Officer. Before joining Americo, she was a Partner in the Dallas office of CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, a national CPA firm.Ken Bedingfield

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) announced that it has appointed Kenneth L. Bedingfield vice president of business management and chief financial officer for its Aerospace Systems sector. Bedingfield will take over the position currently held by Chuck Wands, who has announced his plans to retire later this year. Bedingfield comes to this position from Northrop Grumman’s corporate headquarters, where he held the position of corporate vice president, controller and chief accounting officer. Prior to joining Northrop Grumman, he spent more than 17 years at KPMG LLP, most recently as the national client leader of its U.S. aerospace and defense audit practice.

Vision announced the promotion of Dan Noble to president from chief financial officer.

Hot Topic, Inc. announced that George Wehlitz, Jr., formerly the Company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer, was appointed as Chief Financial Officer.

Old Line Bancshares, Inc. announced that Christine M. Rush,  Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary, informed the company of her decision to resign effective May 10, 2013.

Santa Fe Petroleum, Inc. announced that Mark Zouvas resigned from his position as a director of our company and as our Chief Financial Officer and Secretary.

Sionix Corporation announced that David R. Wells resigned from the offices of President and Chief Financial Officer and as a director.

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