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CFO Moves – week ending June 5, 2020

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CFO Moves this week include:

Acacia Research Corporation fuboTV Moderna, Inc.
ShootProof 3M Eckhart
Current Health NOW Inc. Reliant Bancorp, Inc.
Camping World Holdings, Inc. First Foundation Inc. TriSalus Life Sciences
TherapeuticsMD, Inc. DoiT International Tasty Restaurant Group
WideOpenWest, Inc. Nevro Corp. Spectrum Gaming Group
Assembly Nielsen Group 1 Automotive, Inc.
Sunoco LP iRhythm Technologies, Inc. 22nd Century Group, Inc.
Anika Therapeutics Inc. Freddie Mac Navient Corporation
Flexera RLH Corporation SAExploration
Reltio Sonic Foundry Aligos Therapeutics
Slinger Bag Inc. Applied Research Associates, Inc. AnPac Bio-Medical Science Co., Ltd.
Surgical Notes 1901 Group, LLC

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Acacia Research Corporation [NEW YORK] (NASDAQ: ACTG) announced that Richard Rosenstein was named Chief Financial Officer. Rosenstein has served in several CFO roles, most recently as CFO of CLEAR since 2017. This follows over 15 years of experience as a research analyst at Goldman Sachs and Baron Capital.

FaceBank Group, Inc. (d/b/a fuboTV) [NEW YORK] (OTCQB: FUBO) announced it named Simone Nardi as chief financial officer. Prior to fuboTV, Nardi served as SVP and CFO, international for Scripps Networks Interactive. He was also a member of the board of directors of Scripps’ joint ventures with the BBC in the UK and with Corus Entertainment in Canada. Previously, Nardi served as SVP and CFO for NBC Universal’s international channels and television production businesses. Previously, he served as CFO of NBC Universal’s business development division in New York. Nardi began his career with General Electric in Italy and the United States.

Moderna, Inc. [CAMBRIDGE, MA] (NASDAQ: MRNA) announced that David Meline has joined Moderna as Chief Financial Officer. Meline joins Moderna from Amgen where he served as Chief Financial Officer and EVP from 2014 through 2019. Prior to Amgen, Meline spent six years at 3M Company, where he most recently served as CFO and Senior Vice President. Previously, Meline held numerous leadership positions at General Motors, including Vice President and CFO for GM North America.

Tom McDermott

ShootProof [ATLANTA] announced the appointment of Tom McDermott as its Chief Financial Officer. McDermott most recently served as Chief Financial Officer at Gather Technologies. Prior to Gather, McDermott spent nearly a decade at NCR Corporation, where he held various positions culminating as Chief Financial Officer for their Retail Business Unit.

3M [ST. PAUL, MN] (NYSE: MMM) announced that Monish Patolawala is appointed senior vice president and chief financial officer, effective July 1, 2020. Patolawala will succeed Nick Gangestad, who has announced his intention to retire. Patolawala is currently at GE Healthcare, where he has served as chief financial officer since 2015. He has also been working as vice president of operational transformation at GE.

Eckhart [WARREN, MI] named Michael (“Mike”) Stob as Chief Financial Officer. Stob most recently served as Corporate Controller at JR Automation Technologies. Prior to JR, he served as Controller at Century Technology Group/Data Strategy after beginning his career with positions at Meridian Automotive Systems and Plante Moran.

John McLean

Current Health [BOSTON] announced that it has appointed John McLean as its Chief Growth & Chief Financial Officer. McLean joins Current Health from Kyruus. Before Kyruus, McLean served as CFO at Best Doctors.

NOW Inc. [HOUSTON] (NYSE: DNOW) announced that upon the promotion of David (Dave) Cherechinsky to lead the company as Chief Executive Officer, the company selected Mark Johnson to succeed Cherechinsky as Chief Financial Officer. Johnson has served as DNOW’s Chief Accounting Officer and Vice President, Corporate Controller since 2018. Prior to that, he served as the Company’s Vice President of Finance and Assistant Corporate Controller after the 2014 spin off. He joined NOV in 2008 after working in public accounting and served as Vice President of Finance for the NOV Distribution business group from 2012 until it was spun off in 2014.

Reliant Bancorp, Inc. [BRENTWOOD, TN] (NASDAQ: RBNC), the parent company for Reliant Bank, announced that James Daniel Dellinger has resigned as Chief Financial Officer of the Company and Reliant Bank in order to pursue other personal business interests. The Company also announced that Gerald (“Jerry”) Cooksey, Jr. has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer of the Company and Reliant Bank to succeed Dellinger. Prior to joining the Company and Reliant Bank as Chief Administrative Officer following the Company’s acquisition of First Advantage Bancorp, Cooksey served as Chief Financial Officer of First Advantage Bancorp and First Advantage Bank.

Camping World Holdings, Inc. [LINCOLNSHIRE, IL] (NYSE: CWH) announced the promotion of Karin Bell to the position of Chief Financial Officer, succeeding Melvin Flanigan, who is resigning from the Company for personal reasons. Flanigan’s resignation will be effective June 30, 2020. Bell’s promotion to the role of Chief Financial Officer will be effective July 1, 2020. Currently, Bell serves as Chief Accounting Officer, a position she has held since September 2019. Bell started with the company in May 2003 as the Chief Accounting Officer and Secretary/Treasurer for FreedomRoads, LLC, a subsidiary of CWH, and became its Chief Financial Officer and Secretary/Treasurer in December 2018. Prior to joining FreedomRoads, Bell was the Senior Vice President and Treasurer of First Security Holding LP from 1992 to 1998. Bell has also held positions with Laventhol & Horwath and Altschuler, Melvoin & Glasser, from 1982 thru 1992 leaving public accounting as a Senior Manager.

First Foundation Inc. [IRVINE, CA] (NASDAQ: FFWM) announced the appointment of Kevin Thompson as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining First Foundation, he was the Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer for Opus Bank. Before then, he served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer for Midland States Bank, and Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance for Zions Bancorporation. He began his career by serving in senior financial roles as a consultant, auditor, and international controller, before joining American Express Centurion Bank as the Controller. He then went on to become the bank’s Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer.

Rajesh B. Mistry

TriSalus Life Sciences [DENVER] announced the appointment of Rajesh B. Mistry as Chief Financial Officer. Mistry most recently served as head of Corporate Development at Option Care Health. Prior to Option Care Health, Mistry drove strategic finance, capital raising and M&A efforts at Melinta Therapeutics. In addition, Mistry held various corporate finance and M&A roles of increasing responsibility at Baxter International, and began his career in healthcare investment banking at A.G. Edwards Capital Markets. 

TherapeuticsMD, Inc. [BOCA RATON, FL] (NASDAQ: TXMD) announced the appointment of James C. D’Arecca as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. D’Arecca succeeds Daniel A. Cartwright, who has retired from his position as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. D’Arecca most recently was Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of Allergan plc. Prior to joining TherapeuticsMD, D’Arecca served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of Allergan plc (formerly known as Actavis plc) from August 2013 until its merger with AbbVie Inc. in May 2020. D’Arecca joined Actavis from Bausch & Lomb, where he served as its Chief Accounting Officer. Prior to Bausch & Lomb, he served in various roles of increasing responsibility at Merck & Co. Inc. and Schering-Plough in finance and business development. He also spent 13 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

DoiT International [SANTA CLARA, CA] announced the expansion of its leadership team with the naming of Giridhar Premsingh as Global Chief Financial Officer. Premsingh held senior finance roles at both public and private technology companies including as Chief Financial Officer at Onica, Chief Financial Officer at REAN Cloud, and as a senior finance leader at Virtustream Inc.

Tasty Restaurant Group [LOS ANGELES] announced the appointment of Neil Thomson as chief financial officer. Thomson previously served as CFO at Del Frisco’s Restaurant Group. Prior to Del Frisco’s, Thomson spent 15 years working in various senior capacities at Yum! Restaurants International, and its affiliated brands, Pizza Hut and KFC.

WideOpenWest, Inc. [ENGLEWOOD, CO] (NYSE: WOW) announced the appointment of John S. Rego as chief financial officer. Rego recently was CFO for Telaria, Inc. (sold to the Rubicon Project), and prior to that was CFO for Virgin Galactic. He also served as executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer for Vonage Holdings Corp. for nearly eight years. Rego assumes his role at WOW! on June 29.

Nevro Corp. [REDWOOD CITY, CA] (NYSE: NVRO) announced the appointment of Roderick (“Rod”) MacLeod as Chief Financial Officer, effective June 15, 2020. MacLeod succeeds Andrew Galligan, who is retiring. Most recently MacLeod served as Vice President of Finance of Stryker Endoscopy. Prior to this role, MacLeod was Controller for Stryker Endoscopy. Previously, MacLeod was Vice President of Finance and Administration at Lumenare Networks. Earlier in his career, MacLeod was Financial Manager/Controller at United Airlines and was a Senior Operational and Audit Consultant at Arthur Andersen & Co.

Spectrum Gaming Group [HORSHAM, PA] announced that Juliann Barreto has been named Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrator. Barreto started with Spectrum Gaming Group in 2018. Prior to working at Spectrum Gaming Group, Barreto was the Chief Financial Officer for Aoki Group, Inc. Barreto started in the gaming industry in 2007 working for Ernst & Young.

Assembly [LOS ANGELES] announced that Ben Warner has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Warner most recently served as VP of Finance at Clutter. Prior to Clutter, Warner served as VP of Finance at Omaze.

Nielsen [NEW YORK] (NYSE: NLSN) announced the appointment of Chandler Bigelow as Chief Financial Officer for the Nielsen Global Connect business. Bigelow joins Nielsen Global Connect from Tribune Media Company where he served as the company’s CFO.

Group 1 Automotive, Inc. [HOUSTON] (NYSE: GPI) announced the appointment of Daniel McHenry as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) effective August 15, 2020. He will replace long time Group 1 CFO John Rickel, who has elected to retire from the company at the end of this year after almost 15 years of service. McHenry has served as Group 1’s UK Finance Director since 2007. McHenry joined Group 1 in 2007 as part of the acquisition of Chandlers BMW in southern England, Group 1’s first venture in the UK. Prior to entering the auto retail business, McHenry had five years of experience with KPMG in the UK.

Sunoco LP [DALLAS] (NYSE: SUN) announced that Thomas R. Miller, Chief Financial Officer, will retire from Sunoco GP LLC, the general partner of Sunoco LP, as of September 1, 2020.

iRhythm Technologies, Inc. [SAN FRANCISCO] (NASDAQ: IRTC) announced that Douglas Devine has been appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective June 22, 2020. Devine will succeed Matthew Garrett, who has decided to step down from the role. Devine joins the company from GlobalFoundries, where he has been the Chief Financial Officer.

22nd Century Group, Inc. [WILLIAMSVILLE, NY] (NYSE American: XXII) announced that John Franzino has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining 22nd Century Group, Franzino served as Chief Financial Officer of the West Point Association of Graduates. Additionally, he has experience serving as Vice President of Finance and Controller at Bard College; as Chief Financial Officer of Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, a subsidiary of Reynolds American, Inc.; and as Chief Financial Officer of Labatt USA.

Anika Therapeutics Inc. [BEDFORD, MA] (NASDAQ: ANIK) announced that Sylvia Cheung, Chief Financial Officer, has informed the Board of Directors of her decision, following a period of transition, to step away from her role at Anika effective August 21, 2020.

Freddie Mac [MCLEAN, VA] (OTCQB: FMCC) announced the appointment of Christian M. Lown as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective June 15, 2020. Lown was previously EVP and CFO at Navient Corporation. He succeeds Donald F. Kish, who has served as Interim CFO since December 2019. Kish will continue serving as Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer. Prior to joining Navient in 2017, Lown was Managing Director, Financial Institutions Group at Morgan Stanley, where he co-led the Global FinTech and North America Banks and Diversified Finance investment banking practices.

Flexera [ITASCA, IL] announced David Zwick as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), taking the reins from retiring CFO Joe Freda. Zwick joins Flexera from Transworld Systems Inc., where he served as CFO for four years. In addition to Transworld Systems, he held CFO positions at Hilco Global and Inteliquent, Inc.  Prior to that, he was a senior investment banker at Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers.  He began his career at Arthur Andersen & Co.

RLH Corporation [DENVER] (NYSE: RLH) announced the appointment of Gary A. Kohn as its Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Red Lion, Kohn was the founder and principal of GAK Advisors.  From April 2016 until December 2018, Kohn held the roles of Chief Financial Officer and Vice President Investor Relations at Westmoreland Coal Company, and served as the Vice President, Investor Relations and Treasurer for Intrepid Potash from January 2013 until April 2016.  Kohn has held leadership positions at companies including First Data, Western Union, and Ciber.

John A. Simmons

SAExploration [HOUSTON] (NASDAQ: SAEX) announced the appointment of John A. Simmons as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). John previously served as Chief Financial Officer of Dauphine Energy, a privately held oil and gas company. Prior to that, Mr. Simmons spent 17 years with BHP Petroleum where he held various positions including serving as member of the Executive Leadership Team, Head of Global Planning and Chief Financial Officer of Petrohawk Energy following its acquisition by BHP Petroleum.

Reltio [REDWOOD CITY, CA] announced the appointment of Matt Gallatin as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to Reltio, Gallatin served as the Chief Financial Officer at Drawbridge, Inc. He also worked in the Corporate Finance group at Yahoo!, and Applied Materials, and began his career at Merrill Lynch & Co.

Sonic Foundry [MADISON, WI] announced that Kelsy Boyd has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer. ­ Boyd joined the company in January as senior vice president of finance. Boyd was CFO of Sani-Matic from 2006 to 2014, and as finance director for the Village of McFarland from September 2015 to October 2017.  She has extensive knowledge of Sonic Foundry’s history, having worked at the company from 1998 to 2001 as the controller and working her way up to senior director of operations until 2003.

Aligos Therapeutics [SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA] announced the appointment of Lesley Ann Calhoun as chief financial officer. Previously, Calhoun served as vice president of finance at Hyperion Therapeutics Inc. Prior to her time at Hyperion, she served as senior director of finance/corporate controller at Theravance, Inc. Calhoun has also held roles of increasing financial responsibility at Cell Genesys, Inc., Snap Appliances, Inc., Inktomi Corporation and Silicon Graphics, Inc. and was a member of the audit practice of Deloitte & Touche LLP.

Slinger Bag Inc. [BALTIMORE, MD] (OTC: SLBG) named Paul McKeown as chief financial officer. Most recently, McKeown served as vice president of finance for Precor Fitness, a wholly owned subsidiary of Amer Sports Company. Previously, McKeown served as director of Process Integration & Development for North America for Amer Sports Company’s Financial Shared Service operation in Poland and vice president of finance and operations for Wilson Canada. He began his career with 10 years leading the finance, IT and operations teams at Wilson Canada.

Mike Royer

Applied Research Associates, Inc. [ALBUQUERQUE, NM] announced that Mike Royer has been selected as ARA’s new Chief Financial Officer, following the upcoming retirement of Jeff Wilkins. Royer has served as Vice President of Finance for the L-3 Communications Services Group, CFO for SENTEL Corporation, as well as CFO for several small and mid-size GovCon companies.

AnPac Bio-Medical Science Co., Ltd.  [SAN JOSE, CA] (NASDAQ: ANPC) announced the appointment of Jinqiu (Edwards) Tang as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Tang will succeed to Yu (Rain) Zhang, who resigned as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company for personal reasons. Tang has served as AnPac Bio’s Corporate Controller since October 2019. Prior to joining AnPac Bio, Tang served as a global internal auditor at Natuzzi S.p.A (Italy) from 2016 to 2019. Previously, he worked for Beijing Dongshen CPAs from 2013 to 2016 and Shanghai De’an CPAs from 2011 to 2013.

Surgical Notes [DALLAS] announced that John M. Carradine, who held financial and operational leadership positions at A-LIGN, HealthAxis, Micrografx, and Intellicall, has been named chief financial officer.

1901 Group, LLC [RESTON, VA] announced that Steve Hamric has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Hamric most recently served as the CFO of TeraThink Corporation prior to its acquisition by CGI Federal. Hamric held executive positions serving as Senior Vice President and CFO at MA Federal, Inc (iGov). He also served as the CFO at Athena Technologies, Inc. (now Rockwell Collins).

CFO Moves – week ending May 15, 2020

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CFO Moves this week include:

Covetrus Genesee & Wyoming Inc. Casey’s General Stores, Inc.
Atlas Technical Consultants, Inc. Life360, Inc. New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co., Inc.
Nucleix Criteo S.A. Mapp
Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc. IsoPlexis AbSci
Red Lion Hotels Corporation Vx Capital Partners Calavo Growers, Inc.
CorMedix, Inc. Reliance Partners Dril-Quip, Inc.
Output Services Group Bolt Biotherapeutics, Inc. NatureSweet® Tomatoes
AgJunction Iron Vine Security

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Matthew Foulston

Covetrus [PORTLAND, ME] (NASDAQ: CVET) announced that Matthew Foulston will become global chief financial officer effective June 1, 2020, replacing Stuart Gleichenhaus, who has been serving in that role on an interim basis since December 2019. Foulston most recently was the chief financial officer for Treehouse Foods and Compass Minerals. Foulston spent the earlier part of his career at Ford, Mazda and Navistar.

Thomas D. Savage

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W) [DARIEN, CT] announced the appointments of Thomas D. Savage as Chief Financial Officer. Savage was previously Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Treasurer. He has worked in finance and mergers & acquisitions since joining G&W in 2005 and has been responsible for G&W’s treasury functions since 2012. Savage succeeds Timothy J. Gallagher, who departed G&W following its sale to Brookfield Infrastructure and GIC, which resulted in G&W becoming a private company.

Steve Bramlage

Casey’s General Stores, Inc. [ANKENY, IA] (NASDAQ: CASY) announced the appointment of Steve Bramlage as chief financial officer, effective June 1, 2020. Bramlage succeeds former Chief Financial Officer Bill Walljasper, who announced his retirement earlier this year. Bramlage was most recently the CFO at Aramark. Prior to Aramark, Bramlage was CFO at Owens-Illinois, and held several financial leadership roles at PPG Industries, Eli-Lilly and Ernst & Young.

David D. Quinn, Sr.

Atlas Technical Consultants, Inc. [AUSTIN, TX] (NASDAQ: ATCX) announced that David D. Quinn, Sr. has been appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Quinn has served as Atlas’ Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs since September 2019. Quinn will succeed Walter Powell, who will relinquish his previous dual roles as CFO & Chief Accounting Officer (CAO) and retain his role as CAO. Prior to joining Atlas, Quinn held multiple executive level roles at the Shaw Group and Atkins North America, most recently in Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer capacities.

Russell Burke

Life360, Inc. [SAN FRANCISCO] (ASX: 360) announced Russell Burke as its chief financial officer. Prior to joining Life360, he held roles as chief financial officer of Mandalay Media Inc., chief executive officer of Weight Watchers Australia and New Zealand, as well as Pressplay and Magic Leap.

New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co., Inc. [NEW ENTERPRISE, PA] announced the planned May 31, 2020 retirement of Al Stone, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. In the interim, the CFO role will be shared by Paul Detwiler, III, President and CEO, together with several members of the Company’s accounting and finance staff, led by Daryl Black, the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer, who has been with the Company for 9 years.

Nucleix [SAN DIEGO & REHOVOT, ISRAEL] announced the appointment of Todd Myers as chief financial officer. Prior to joining Nucleix, Myers was the chief financial officer of Astute Medical, which was acquired in 2018 by bioMérieux. Prior to Astute, Myers was the chief financial officer at SGX Pharmaceuticals, until its acquisition by Eli Lilly & Company. He was also the Director of Finance at CombiChem, Inc., which was acquired by DuPont Pharmaceuticals. Myers began his career as an auditor in the San Diego office of Ernst & Young.

Criteo S.A. [NEW YORK] (NASDAQ: CRTO) announced the appointment of Dave Anderson as interim Chief Financial Officer for a six-month engagement in replacement of Benoit Fouilland. Anderson was the prior CFO of Nielsen Holdings and Honeywell International.

Jamie Gunn

Mapp [SAN DIEGO and LONDON] announced the appointment of Jamie Gunn as Chief Financial Officer. Gunn joins Mapp from SmartFocus, where he worked as Chief Operating Officer / Chief Financial Officer for three years. Previous to SmartFocus, Gunn worked in leadership positions at Realeyes, Masternaut Group, and Picsolve.

Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc. [WASHINGTON, DC] (NASDAQ: CCOI) announced that Sean Wallace has been appointed Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Cogent. Thaddeus G. Weed, stepped down from his role of Chief Financial Officer. To facilitate an orderly transition, Weed will remain with Cogent as Senior Vice President – Audit & Operations. Jean-Michel Slagmuylder, who had been serving as Acting Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Cogent since March 17, 2020 during Weed’s temporary medical leave of absence, stepped down from that role on May 11, 2020 and will return to his position of Chief Financial Officer for European Operations. Prior to joining Cogent, Wallace was an investor and operator of residential and industrial real estate projects from 2015. He was also, from 2008 to 2015, a senior manager at Standard Chartered Bank where he led their Corporate Finance and Wholesale Origination efforts on a global basis. He also worked at J.P. Morgan from 1998 to 2007 where his roles included being Co-Head of their Investment Banking efforts in the Asia Pacific region as well as leading their North American Telecom Banking efforts.

IsoPlexis [BRANFORD, CT] announced the appointment of John Strahley as Chief Financial Officer. Strahley previously served as a Managing Director of Ironwood Capital. Prior to Ironwood, Strahley was a Senior Vice President at Webster Bank. He was also a Principal at a high-growth venture finance company where he managed the sales and credit operations.

AbSci [VANCOUVER, Washington] announced the appointment of Greg Schiffman as Chief Financial Officer. Schiffman’s track record includes his previous role as CFO at publicly-traded biotechnology companies including Iovance, StemCells, Inc., Dendreon, and Affymetrix, as well as his role as CFO at Vineti. Schiffman also headed up a variety of global finance and manufacturing operations at Hewlett Packard. He is on the board of directors of BioEclipse, Nanomix and DropCar.

Red Lion Hotels Corporation [DENVER] (NYSE: RLH) announced that its current Chief Financial Officer, Nate Troup, is leaving the Company to join Twilio as its Vice President, Global Controller. Troup’s last day with the Company will be May 29, 2020. RLHC has engaged Gary A. Kohn, a financial consultant with extensive public company chief financial officer experience, as interim CFO.

Vx Capital Partners [SAN FRANCISCO] announced the appointment of Sean Sullivan as its Chief Financial Officer. Sullivan was previously Head of Americas at AerCap. Sullivan previously held senior positions at International Lease Finance Corporation, Allco Finance Group, and Bank of America Leasing and Capital.

Kevin Manion

Calavo Growers, Inc. [SANTA PAULA, CA] (Nasdaq-GS: CVGW) announced that Kevin Manion, a veteran finance executive, has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Calavo, Manion held financial leadership positions with companies including Century Snacks, Young’s Market Company, Bolthouse Farms, Hostess Brands, Nestle USA and Kraft General Foods.

CorMedix, Inc. [BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ] (NYSE American:  CRMD) announced that it has appointed Matt David, M.D. as the Company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. David was most recently Head of Strategy at Ovid Therapeutics. David has more than 15 years of experience in finance as a healthcare investment banker and earlier as an equity analyst covering the pharma sector.

Reliance Partners [CHATTANOOGA, TN] announced the addition of Thom Albrecht as Chief Financial Officer & Chief Revenue Officer. Albrecht served most recently as Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Financial Officer with Celadon Group. He previously served as President of Sword & Sea Transport as well as Managing Director at BB&T Capital Markets.

Dril-Quip, Inc. [HOUSTON] (NYSE: DRQ) announced the promotion of Raj Kumar to Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Kumar has served as Dril-Quip’s Vice President – Finance and Chief Accounting Officer since February 2019, prior to which he was Vice President and Treasurer since he joined the Company in June 2017.

Davinder Athwal

Output Services Group (OSG) [RIDGEFIELD PARK, NJ] announced that Davinder Athwal has joined OSG as the company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to joining OSG, Athwal served as CFO at Blucora. Previously, he was CFO at UGI International. He began his career at PwC in Silicon Valley and then held progressively senior financial roles at IBM and Nortel.

William P. Quinn

Bolt Biotherapeutics, Inc. [REDWOOD CITY, CA] announced the appointment of William P. Quinn as chief financial officer. Prior to joining Bolt, Quinn served as the chief financial officer and senior vice president, finance and corporate development, of Sunesis (SNSS). Prior to Sunesis, Quinn served as the chief executive office of Bullet Biotechnology. Quinn was with Jazz Pharmaceuticals as head of corporate development. Before Jazz, Quinn was the chief financial officer and chief operating officer of Novation Biosciences.

Frederic Steunou

NatureSweet® Tomatoes [SAN ANTONIO, TX] announced that Frederic Steunou joined as Chief Financial Officer. Frederic joins NatureSweet® from Mars, where he was CFO for Latin America Petcare. Steunou also serves as a board member and Shareholder for ASG Studio.

AgJunction Inc. [SCOTTSDALE, AZ] (TSX: AJX) announced that it has reappointed Peter Newton as Interim Chief Financial Officer of the Company, replacing Deborah Mack who has left the Company. Newton served as Interim Chief Financial Officer of the Company from May 11, 2019 to November 15, 2019.

Iron Vine Security [WASHINGTON] announced the appointment of Jim Brinkman as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Iron Vine, Brinkman served as CFO at Clark Enterprises.

CFO Moves – week ending April 17, 2020

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CFO Moves this week include:

Mohawk Industries, Inc. Shutterfly, Inc. Lexmark
Altria Group, Inc. Momentive Performance Materials Immunic, Inc.
Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. Incident IQ, LLC Wheel
U.S. Oral Surgery Management Motus Altamira Technologies Corporation
Beacon Controlled Contamination Services Potbelly Corporation
MOD Super-Fast Pizza Holdings, LLC Woodward, Inc.

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Mohawk Industries, Inc. [CALHOUN, GA] (NYSE: MHK) announced the appointment of Frank H. Boykin as chief financial officer. Boykin previously served as Mohawk’s chief financial officer from 2005 to 2019. He initially joined the Company as corporate controller in 1993. Boykin retired in 2019 and has continued to support the business as a senior consultant for the past year. Glenn Landau, former chief financial officer, left the Company to pursue other interests.

Vivian Liu

Shutterfly, Inc. [REDWOOD CITY, CA]  announced the appointment of Vivian Liu as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Most recently, Vivian was senior vice president and chief financial officer at Lexmark International. Prior to Lexmark, Vivian served as vice president of finance, Enterprise BG, for Huawei Technology Inc. Before that, Vivian spent eight years in finance positions with Cisco Systems based in the Silicon Valley, most recently as director of finance, U.S. Enterprise Segment Sales and Service. Earlier in her career, Vivian held finance positions with Deloitte Financial Advisory Services, Goldman Sachs, and Deloitte & Touche LLP in Connecticut, New York and San Francisco. She began her career with China Merchants Bank in Shanghai.

Chuck Butler

Lexmark [LEXINGTON, KY] announced that Chuck Butler has been named senior vice president and chief financial officer. Butler succeeds Vivian Liu, who has decided to pursue another opportunity outside Lexmark. Most recently Butler served as vice president of Financial Planning and Analysis. Prior roles include vice president of Sales Operations and Business Analytics, director of Corporate Finance, and senior manager of Financial Planning and Analysis. He joined Lexmark in 2004 as a senior financial analyst. Prior to joining Lexmark, Butler worked in finance roles at Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, LG&E and KU Energy, and the J. Peterman Company.

Altria Group, Inc. [RICHMOND, VA] (NYSE: MO) announced that upon the promotion of Billy Gifford to serve as Altria’s CEO from his most recent role as Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer, the company appointed Salvatore Mancuso Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Most recently Manucuso was Senior Vice President, Finance and Procurement.

Momentive Performance Materials [WATERFORD, NY] named Cris Barros as its new Chief Financial Officer. Barros came to Momentive after 12 years with The Mosaic Company, most recently serving as VP of Finance, responsible for Controllership and Financial Planning & Analysis. Prior roles include Business Unit CFO, VP – Finance for Commercial, VP – Corporate Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, and Director of Business Development. Before Mosaic, Cris held multiple finance and business roles with companies such as Carval Investors, Cargill, Banco Boavista Interatlantico, and BancoFrances e Brasileiro.

Immunic, Inc. [NEW YORK] (NASDAQ: IMUX) announced the departure of Chief Financial Officer Sanjay S. Patel who has resigned to pursue opportunities in the nonprofit sector. Glenn Whaley, Principal Accounting Officer and Controller, has been promoted to the position of Vice President Finance.

Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. [DULUTH, GA] (NYSE: ABG) announced that Patrick (“PJ”) Guido will join the company as its Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer effective May 11, 2020. Guido joins the Company from lululemon athletica inc., where he served as Chief Financial Officer since April 2018. Prior to that, Guido spent seven years at VF Corporation. During his seven-year tenure at VF Corporation, he served as Treasurer and Vice President of Corporate Development. Previously, Guido served in roles of increasing responsibilities at The Home Depot, Inc. and Saks Incorporated.

Incident IQ, LLC [ATLANTA] announced that Mike Hickey has been named to the company’s executive team as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Incident IQ, Hickey worked for ScanSource where he served in various leadership roles for the last 20 years. Previously, Hickey co-founded a cloud tech company—the startup was later acquired by ScanSource. Prior to these experiences Hickey began his career in finance as an accountant for a Manhattan CPA firm.

Wheel [AUSTIN, Texas] announced the addition of chief financial officer Chris Donus. Donus comes to Wheel from Lyft and Silvercar, where he served as Vice President of Express Drive and President and Chief Operating Officer, respectively.

Henry H. Moomaw III

U.S. Oral Surgery Management (USOSM) [IRVING, TEXAS] named Henry H. Moomaw III as chief financial officer. Previously, Moomaw served as CFO for Excalibur Resources and TEAK Midstream in the energy sector. Prior to that, he spent 13 years as VP controller for Animal Health International. Moomaw also served as controller for Fireboard Corp, assistant controller for Hadson Corp, a senior analyst for Electronic Data Systems and an auditor with Arthur Andersen.

Motus [BOSTON] announced it has appointed Karen O’Byrne as Chief Financial Officer. O’Byrne joins Motus following former CFO Tim Brown’s transition to Chief Corporate Development Officer at Motus earlier this year.

Altamira Technologies Corporation [MCLEAN, VA] announced that Adam Omar has joined as Chief Financial Officer. Adam has been the CFO at two successful equity-backed companies and held leadership positions at large systems integrators and software firms, including SAIC, Software AG, and LexisNexis.

Beacon [HERNDON, VA] (NASDAQ: BECN) announced the appointment of Frank A. Lonegro as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Lonegro will join Beacon on April 20, 2020 and assume his role as Chief Financial Officer on or about May 15, 2020 as current Chief Financial Officer Joseph Nowicki transitions his duties. Prior to joining Beacon, Lonegro had a career at CSX Corporation, where he served for nineteen years, culminating as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 2015-2019. Prior to joining CSX, Lonegro practiced law for seven years.

Chris Reinmiller

Controlled Contamination Services [SAN DIEGO] announced Chris Reinmiller as the new Chief Financial Officer for the company. Reinmiller comes to CCS from CW Wright Construction where he served as the CFO. Prior to that Reinmiller was the Vice President of Business Operations for PrimeLine Utility Services. Chris also worked for Microsoft’s Data Center Construction group.

Potbelly Corporation [CHICAGO] (NASDAQ: PBPB) announced that Steven W. Cirulis joined as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Strategy Officer. Cirulis has been with Potbelly since December 2019, serving in a strategic planning, finance and analytical consulting role. Most recently, Cirulis served as Senior Vice President, Strategic Projects at Panera Bread. Prior to his role at Panera Bread, Cirulis was the Global Vice President, Corporate Strategy at McDonald’s, Senior Director of Strategy, Business Development and Insights, Gap Brand at Gap, Inc., and was Associate Partner at Prophet, Inc.

MOD Super-Fast Pizza Holdings, LLC [SEATTLE] announced the appointment of Josh Guenser as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Guenser joins MOD after spending the last 10+ years at Starbucks, most recently serving as Senior Vice President, Finance, Americas. During his tenure at Starbucks, he also held vice president and director-level roles in finance – focused on retail operations, global supply chain and reporting. Prior to Starbucks, Guenser was at KPMG for over seven years.

Woodward, Inc. [FORT COLLINS, CO] (NASDAQ: WWD) announced that Robert (“Bob”) F. Weber, Jr., resumed the role of Vice Chairman, Chief Financial Officer. Concurrently, Jonathan (“Jack”) W. Thayer, the Company’s current Chief Financial Officer, will depart the Company. Weber has 15 years of service with Woodward and over 40 years of industry experience. He served as Chief Financial Officer from August 2005 until September 2019 and as Vice Chairman since October 2011. Mr. Weber previously announced his intention to retire in 2020, but in January 2020, the Company announced that he had postponed his retirement indefinitely, and he remained with the Company as Vice Chairman.

CFO Moves – week ending April 3, 2020

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CFO Moves this week include:

SiFive, Inc. Nine Energy Service, Inc. Valmont Industries, Inc.
Bloom Energy Hibbett Sports, Inc. Forestar Group Inc.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc. Pulse Systems BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Homeowners Trinity Industries, Inc. Aviat Networks, Inc.
Pure Cycle Corporation Contegix Unique Fabricating, Inc.
VisitPay Footprint Surge Holdings, Inc.
CenterPoint Energy, Inc. TapClicks

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Shubham Maheshwari

SiFive, Inc. [SAN MATEO, CA] announced that Shubham “Sam” Maheshwari has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Before SiFive, he served for 6 years as CFO and later as CFO & COO of Veeco. Previous notable positions also include SVP, Finance, for Spansion. Maheshwari was also VP of mergers and acquisitions for KLA-Tencor and served as Corporate Controller.

Nine Energy Service, Inc. [HOUSTON] (NYSE: NINE) announced that Clinton Roeder, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer has departed the Company by mutual consent. Guy Sirkes, Vice President, Strategic Development, has assumed the role of Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining the Company in March 2019, Sirkes was an Executive Director with J.P. Morgan’s Energy Investment Banking Group.

Avner Applbaum

Valmont Industries, Inc. [OMAHA, NE] (NYSE: VMI) announced that Avner Applbaum joined the Company as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Applbaum succeeds Mark Jaksich, who previously announced his plans to retire and will remain with the Company until December 26, 2020 to ensure a smooth transition. Applbaum joins Valmont having most recently been the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer for Double E Company. In addition to holding several CFO roles for private equity-backed companies, he also spent over 15 years in senior financial and operational roles in publicly traded manufacturing companies, including Ametek, Belden, and TE Connectivity, formerly Tyco Electronics. Earlier in his career, Mr. Applbaum worked for Ernst & Young.

Bloom Energy [SAN JOSE, CA] (NYSE: BE) announced the appointment of Gregory Cameron as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Cameron will replace Bloom Energy’s EVP and CFO Randy Furr, who previously announced his intention to retire. Cameron was most recently president and CEO, Global Operations, GE Company. Previously, Cameron held a number of other senior executive roles at GE, including serving as president and CEO, Global Legacy Solutions for GE Capital, and CFO, Americas for GE Capital. In the earlier stages of his career with GE, Cameron held roles as CFO of GE Capital Solutions, CFO of Corporate Financial Services, and CFO of Healthcare Financial Services. He also held multiple roles in FP&A, served on the Corporate Audit Staff, and was an associate of the Financial Services Training Program.

Hibbett Sports, Inc. [BIRMINGHAM, AL] (NASDAQ/GS: HIBB) announced the upcoming appointment of Robert J. Volke as its new Chief Financial Officer. Volke’s employment with the Company will begin April 13, 2020 in the position of Senior Vice President of Accounting and Finance. Immediately following the filing of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 1, 2020, he will become the Chief Financial Officer. Volke will replace Scott R. Humphrey, who has been serving as the Company’s interim Chief Financial Officer. Volke was most recently employed with Fleet Farm, LLC since August 2018, most recently serving in the role of Interim Chief Financial Officer, and prior to that, as its Vice President, Accounting and Corporate Controller. Prior to his service at Fleet Farm, Volke held various positions of increasing responsibility with Tractor Supply Company from May 2007 to August 2018, serving most recently as its Vice President and Controller from March 2017 to August 2018.

Forestar Group Inc. [ARLINGTON, TX] (NYSE: FOR) announced that James (Jim) D. Allen has been named Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Forestar. Allen most recently served as a Senior Operating Partner at Palm Beach Capital. Prior to joining Palm Beach Capital, he served as CFO of Hollander Sleep Products and held a variety of executive roles at both private and public companies, including Operating Vice President and Group CFO at Sun Capital Partners, Chief Administrative Officer at Mattress Firm Inc. and a variety of C-Suite roles at Tandycrafts Inc. after spending 10 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he began his career.

Jefferies Financial Group Inc. [NEW YORK] (NYSE: JEF) announced that Peg Broadbent, the CFO of Jefferies Group LLC, has passed away from coronavirus complications. Teri Gendron, CFO of Jefferies Financial Group, has been appointed as the interim CFO and Chief Accounting Officer of Jefferies Group LLC.

Pulse Systems [CONCORD, CA] announced the the appointment of Chris Buresch as CFO. Buresch previously served as CFO at Precision Wire Components — now known as TE Connectivity.

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. [RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC] (NASDAQ: BCRX) announced the appointment of Anthony Doyle as senior vice president and chief financial officer (CFO). Doyle joins BioCryst from Worldwide Clinical Trials, where he has served as CFO since 2014. From 2004 to 2012, Mr. Doyle held a series of increasingly responsible roles at General Electric (GE), moving through FP&A, controller, audit, tax and commercial finance rotations in the GE Financial Management and Corporate Audit Staff finance and leadership training programs. He then led risk and pricing for GE Healthcare’s U.S. diagnostic imaging business and served as global program manager for GE Healthcare Solutions. From 2012 to 2014, he was CFO of World Book, a Berkshire Hathaway company.

Homeowners of America Insurance Company (HOAIC) [IRVING, TEXAS] announced that Richard B. Runyan has joined the company as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Runyan joins HOAIC from Centauri Insurance Group where he was CFO. Prior to his most recent position at Centauri Insurance Group, Runyan was Vice President and Controller at Geovera Holdings, Inc. In addition to that position, he’s also held various titles such as Corporate Controller, Director of Accounting, and Division Controller at prior companies.

Trinity Industries, Inc. [DALLAS] (NYSE: TRN) announced that Eric R. Marchetto has been appointed Trinity’s Chief Financial Officer succeeding Melendy E. Lovett, who will return to her previous position as Chief Administrative Officer. Marchetto was previously Group President, TrinityRail. Previous to this, he was Chief Financial Officer of the company.

Aviat Networks, Inc. [AUSTIN, TX] (NASDAQ: AVNW) announced the promotion of Eric Chang to Chief Financial Officer. Chang joined Aviat in February 2016 and most recently served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer. Prior to joining Aviat Networks, Chang served as senior director and corporate controller at Micrel, Incorporated from 2013 to 2016 until it was acquired by Microchip Technology. Before that, Chang served as senior director, assistant corporate controller and business unit controller at Atmel Corporation from 2007 to 2013. Chang was at Ernst & Young LLP from 2003 to 2007, where he last served as senior audit manager.

Pure Cycle Corporation [DENVER, CO] (NASDAQ CM: PCYO) announced the addition of Kevin McNeill as the Company’s Vice President with appointment to Chief Financial Officer effective in early April 2020. McNeill began his career with Ernst &Young in Denver in the Audit and Advisory Business Services group. After being promoted to Audit Manager, McNeill transitioned to corporate accounting and served in various positions including as Controller of Pure Cycle from 2004 through 2012 when he left to be Controller for First Western Financial, Inc. Most recently Mr. McNeill was the VP, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer for a privately held wealth management company in Austin, Texas.

Mike Dunn

Contegix [DULLES, VA] announced that it has named Mike Dunn as its new chief financial officer. Prior to Contegix, Dunn was the CFO of NeoSystems, LLC. Before NeoSystems, Dunn was the CFO of Siteworx. Prior to that, Mike was the CFO of Recovery Point Systems.

Unique Fabricating, Inc. [AUBURN HILLS, MI] (NYSE American: UFAB) announced it has appointed Brian P. Loftus as Chief Financial Officer. For the last 18 months, Loftus served as the Corporate Controller for Wabash National Corporation. Prior to Wabash, Loftus was the Corporate Controller for Horizon Global Corporation. Loftus has also held various positions with TriMas Corporation, including Controller for TriMas’ former subsidiary Cequent Performance Products, Inc., Segment Financial Manager, and Corporate Audit Manager.

Tom Ryden

VisitPay [BOISE, ID] announced the addition of Tom Ryden as chief financial officer (CFO). Most recently, Ryden was chief operating officer of AppDetex. Before AppDetex, Ryden held CFO and similar positions at Mapp Digital, Clarivate Analytics, Thomson Reuters, MarkMonitor and SCP Global Technologies.

Footprint [GILBERT, AZ] announced the appointment of Brad Lukow as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Lukow joins Footprint from Sprouts Farmers Market, where he held the position of interim co-CEO and CFO. Lukow also previously served as executive vice president and CFO of Shoppers Drug Mart. Prior to his experience as CFO, he held roles of increasing responsibility within the financial functions at Shoppers and spent several years in public accounting at Arthur Young International and Ernst & Young.

Surge Holdings, Inc. [MEMPHIS, TN] (OTCQB: SURG) announced the appointment of Anthony Evers as Chief Financial Officer. Evers replaces Brian Speck, who will continue to serve as a consultant to the Company. Most recently, Evers served as Chief Financial Officer for Vista Health System. He has also served as CFO for organizations including Santa Cruz Valley Regional Hospital, KSB Hospital, Norwegian American Hospital, and Horizon Homecare and Hospice.

CenterPoint Energy, Inc. [HOUSTON] (NYSE: CNP)  announced that it has appointed current Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer Kristie L. Colvin as interim Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer to succeed Xia Liu, who will be leaving the company to pursue another career opportunity following a transition period. An over 30-year veteran of CenterPoint Energy and its predecessor companies, Colvin has served as senior vice president and chief accounting officer since September 2014.

TapClicks [SAN JOSE, CA] announced that Kevin Thompson has joined TapClicks as Chief Financial Officer. Previously, Thompson served as CFO of Selligent. He was also CFO for Elastica (acquired by Blue Coat), HEAT Software (acquired by Clearlake Capital), and Vitria Technology.