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CFO Moves – week ending June 14, 2019

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CFO Moves this week include:

Interpublic Group of Companies Inc. Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment Corporation Keen Decision Systems
Ouster Charah Solutions, Inc. Alliance HealthCare Services, Inc.
Frontier Communications Corporation RRA Capital Payer Compass
One Network Enterprises Thommen Medical USA Kareo
Purple Land Management Revolution Lighting Technologies, Inc. Unum Therapeutics Inc.
MJ Holdings Inc. Pacific Financial Corporation Altimmune, Inc.
IBC Advanced Alloys Corp. Noble Iron Inc. Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines
NV5 Global, Inc. Spark Energy, Inc. Vector
Genesco Inc. Renew Financial GreenLight Biosciences, Inc.
Quanex Building Products Corporation Verus International, Inc. Veeam Software

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Ellen Johnson

Interpublic Group [New York] (NYSE: IPG) announced that Frank Mergenthaler, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, has elected to retire effective December 31, 2019. Mr. Mergenthaler will continue with the company in an advisory role through March 31, 2020. Mr. Mergenthaler became IPG’s Chief Financial Officer in August 2005. The company also announced that Ellen Johnson, currently the company’s Senior Vice President of Finance and Treasurer, and Global Chief Financial Officer of IPG Mediabrands, will succeed Mr. Mergenthaler, to become Interpublic’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer on January 1, 2020. Ms. Johnson joined IPG’s treasury group in 2000, and prior to that, held senior finance leadership roles at Revlon.

Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment Corporation [FARMINGDALE, NJ] (NYSE: CHMI) announced the promotion of Michael Hutchby to Chief Financial Officer, from Controller. Hutchby succeeds Martin Levine, who will remain in his role as President of Aurora Financial Group, Inc., Cherry Hill’s wholly-owned mortgage servicing subsidiary. Prior to joining Cherry Hill, Hutchby was Vice President of Capital Markets for Freedom Mortgage Corporation, specializing in M&A, corporate development and capital raising. Before Freedom Mortgage, he held multiple positions within the investment banking and financial consulting sectors at Sterne, Agee & Leach, Madison Place Partners and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Hutchby worked at Sungard Energy Systems (SES) as a Senior Consultant, Product Manager and Quality Assurance Specialist, managing the development, deployment and support of complex energy commodities trading and risk analysis systems.

Keen Decision Systems [DURHAM, NC] announced Ellen Grantham has been named the company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to joining Keen Decision Systems, Grantham served as CFO of K4Connect.

Ouster [SAN FRANCISCO] announced that it has appointed Oliver Hutaff as its first Chief Financial Officer. Hutaff was previously COO/CFO at Electric Imp from 2013 to 2019 and CFO at Roku Inc. from 2010 to 2012.

Charah Solutions, Inc. [LOUISVILLE, KY] (NYSE: CHRA) announced the appointment of Roger D. Shannon as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Treasurer, effective June 17, 2019. Current Interim CFO and Treasurer, Nicholas Jacoby, will remain with the Company as Vice President of Finance. Shannon joins Charah Solutions from ADTRAN, where he held various roles including CFO, Senior Vice President of Finance, Treasurer and Head of Corporate Development since 2015. Prior to his time at ADTRAN, Shannon served as CFO and Treasurer for Steel Technologies for more than nine years. Earlier in his career, he performed a variety of senior finance roles at Brown-Forman and British American Tobacco, as well as accounting positions at Vulcan Materials Company, Lexmark International and KPMG.

Alliance HealthCare Services, Inc. [IRVINE, CA] announced the appointment of Bill Larkin as Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer. Larkin takes on the chief financial officer role from Rhonda Longmore-Grund, who was promoted to chief executive officer in November of 2018. Over the last ten years, Bill has served as chief financial officer of both public and privately held companies at Fuel Systems Solutions, Westport Innovations and SouthWest Dealer Services Inc.

Frontier Communications Corporation [NORWALK, CT] (NASDAQ: FTR) announced that Sheldon Bruha has been named permanent Chief Financial Officer, effective June 3, 2019. Bruha joined Frontier in February 2018 as Senior Vice President and Treasurer and had been serving as interim Chief Financial Officer since September 1, 2018. Prior to joining Frontier, Bruha’s career in global finance included positions at CDI Corp. and senior financial positions heading corporate finance, treasury, tax, and investor relations for Cable & Wireless Communications in Miami and London. He started his financial career at Lehman Brothers, and held senior investment banking positions in its New York and London offices, focusing on the telecommunications industry.

RRA Capital [PHOENIX] named Bill Stasiulatis as Chief Financial Officer. Stasiulatis joins RRA Capital after 20 years at Torchlight Investors, where he served as a Partner and Portfolio Manager, as well as a member of the Board of Directors, Operating Committee, and Investment Committee.

Payer Compass [PLANO, TX] announced the appointment of Matthew Thompson as Chief Financial Officer. Thompson most recently served as CFO of HealthSmart Holdings. Prior to that, he served as CFO of American CareSource Holdings, Inc. He also held financial management positions with Tyler Technologies, Inc. and started his career with Ernst & Young LLP.

One Network Enterprises [DALLAS, Texas] announced that Robert Curry has been named chief financial officer (CFO). Prior to joining One Network, Robert served as Managing Director for vcfo. Previously, he held CFO and COO positions with a variety of companies, such as ThinkTank, Inc., ProofHQ Limited, Adgile, Inc., and HRSmart, Inc. He started his career as an auditor and tax accountant with Ernst & Young.

Thommen Medical USA [CLEVELAND, Ohio] announced that Joe Galea has joined as Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of Finance and Operations.  Galea was most recently the Corporate Controller of a durable medical equipment company in the Cleveland area.

Kareo [IRVINE, CA]announced the appointment of David Justus to chief financial officer. Prior to joining Kareo, Justus served as CFO of Avetta. Prior to that, he was CFO of The Retail Equation.

Gregg Taylor

Purple Land Management [FORT WORTH, TX] announced the addition of Gregg Taylor as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Most recently, Taylor served as Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Treasurer for Energy Alloys. He also served as Vice President of Finance and Chief Accounting Officer for GSE Environmental.

Revolution Lighting Technologies, Inc. [STAMFORD, CT] (NASDAQ: RVLT) announced that Joan Nano has agreed to serve as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, effective as of June 14, 2019. Nano has served as a financial consultant to the Company since March 27, 2019. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Nano served as Managing Director of Finance Solutions, LLC, since 2008. From 2001 to 2007, Nano served as the Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer at Crane Co.

Unum Therapeutics Inc. [CAMBRIDGE, MA] (NASDAQ: UMRX) announced that Matthew Osborne will be joining as Chief Financial Officer, effective June 24, 2019. Most recently, he was vice president of corporate affairs, communications and investor relations at Voyager Therapeutics, and he also served as global head of investor relations at Shire plc (now Takeda) during its acquisitions of Baxalta Inc. and Dyax Corp., vice president of corporate communications and investor relations at Synageva BioPharma from its public inception through its acquisition by Alexion Pharmaceuticals, and investor relations at Vertex Pharmaceuticals as part of an Institutional Investor highly-ranked investor relations team. He also worked on Wall Street at Lazard Capital Markets and Leerink Swann (now SVB Leerink).

MJ Holdings Inc. [LAS VEGAS, NV] (OTC: MJNE) appointed Laurence Ruhe as its new Chief Financial Officer.  Ruhe joins MJ Holdings with over 30 years of finance experience, most recently as the CFO of Freedom Leaf. Ruhe previously held senior finance positions at BMM International, Progressive Gaming and Konami Gaming. Mr. Ruhe has also worked in international banking, including positions at Wells Fargo, Deutsche Bank and Banca CRT. Ruhe is replacing Rocky Wheeler who resigned from the Company at the end of May.

Pacific Financial Corporation [ABERDEEN, Washington] (OTCQB: PFLC), the holding company for Bank of the Pacific, announced that Douglas Biddle will retire from his position as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective August 31, 2019.

Altimmune, Inc. [GAITHERSBURG, MD] (NASDAQ: ALT) announced it has appointed Will Brown as Chief Financial Officer. Brown has been serving as the Acting Chief Financial Officer since May 2018. Brown has been a consultant to several private and public companies in a variety of accounting and tax matters both independently and as the managing partner of Redmont CPAs. Prior to his consulting role, he was an audit manager at PwC and a Division Controller at Rheem.

IBC Advanced Alloys Corp. [FRANKLIN, Indiana] (TSX-V: IB, OTCQB: IAALF) announced the appointment of Toni Wendel to the position of Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) and Corporate Secretary.  Ms. Wendel has served as IBC’s Corporate Controller since December of 2018, and replaces James Taylor, who has served as IBC’s Interim CFO since January of 2018.  Before serving as IBC’s Corporate Controller, Ms. Wendel served as Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Treasurer for North American operations for PMG Corp., a joint venture of the powder metal divisions of Plansee and Mitsubishi Materials Global.  Prior to that, she spent 15 years in various positions overseeing the finance activities of Diamet Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Materials.

Noble Iron Inc. [SAN FRANCISCO] (TSX-V: NIR) announced the appointment of Mariam Chaudhry as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Mariam joined Noble Iron as a Controller in November 2018, and previously worked in senior finance roles at companies in business process outsourcing, digital media, real estate and property management.

Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines [DES MOINES, IA] announced the promotion of Joelyn Jensen-Marren who was named Chief Financial Officer (CFO). The change in leadership follows an announcement made earlier this year that Joseph E. Amato, executive vice president and CFO, will be leaving the Bank. Jensen-Marren has been a part of the FHLB Des Moines team for the last 20 years. Her previous responsibilities included supporting the mortgage lending and other needs of members, including risk management. She began her tenure with the Bank as a Senior Risk Analyst and has experience in market risk, financial risk and most recently portfolio strategy.

NV5 Global, Inc. [HOLLYWOOD, FL] (NASDAQ: NVEE) announced the appointment of Edward Codispoti as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

Spark Energy, Inc. [HOUSTON, TX] (NASDAQ: SPKE) announced the appointment of James G. Jones II as Chief Financial Officer of the Company, following Mr. Jones’ resignation from Spark’s Board. He will also assume the role of Spark’s Chief Risk Officer. Jones and has served on Spark’s Board and chaired the Audit Committee and Special Committee since our IPO in 2014..

Stephanie Koster

Vector [TUCSON, AZ] announced Stephanie Koster will join the team as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Koster joins Vector from Blue Origin where she spent nearly seven years as Director and Treasurer of its domestic and international affiliates. Koster has also held senior leadership roles at The Boeing Company.

Mel Tucker

Genesco Inc. [NASHVILLE, TN] (NYSE: GCO) announced that it has appointed Mel Tucker senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer, effective June 24, 2019.  Tucker succeeds Mimi E. Vaughn, who recently was promoted to chief operating officer.  Most recently, Tucker served as chief financial officer of New York-based Century 21 Department Stores. In addition, he was chief financial officer at Bass Pro Shops, senior vice president of finance with PetSmart, and vice president of financial planning and analysis with Circuit City.  He began his career with Home Depot where he held various progressively more responsible corporate accounting and finance positions from 1990 to 2005, including vice president of finance.

Renew Financial [OAKLAND, CA] announced that Mary Kathryn Lynch, who was previously serving as Renew Financial’s Executive Vice President of Finance, was officially named Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Lynch spent ten years in the clean energy industry, working with organizations such as Sunrun and VoteSolar. Prior to that, she worked at UBS Investment Bank, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank, as well as other institutions.

GreenLight Biosciences, Inc. [MEDFORD, MA] welcomes Susan Keefe as chief financial officer. Most recently, she served as financial consultant to a range of life science companies with Danforth Advisors. For five years, Susan worked with Aushon Biosystems, Inc., as vice president of finance and administration and corporate treasurer. Her experience also includes roles at SeraCare Life Sciences, Inc., Procter & Gamble, and PwC.

Quanex Building Products Corporation [HOUSTON, TX] (NYSE: NX) announced that Scott M. Zuehlke, the Company’s current Vice President – Investor Relations and Treasurer, has been named interim Chief Financial Officer, replacing Brent L. Korb.

Verus International, Inc. [GAITHERSBURG, MD] (OTC: VRUS) announced that Christopher Cutchens has been appointed as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Chris served as the Managing Partner of Cutchens Group, LLC, and Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of DirectView Holdings, Inc. In addition, Chris has served in various leadership positions at private companies, including: Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Financial Officer of MidAmerica Administrative & Retirement Solutions, LLC; and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Aspire Financial Services, LLC. Chris has also held various leadership positions at public companies, including: Corporate Controller of Watsco, Inc.; and Director of Corporate Accounting and Financial Reporting at MarineMax, Inc.

Chuck Garner

Veeam® Software [BAAR, Switzerland and ATLANTA, Georgia] announced that it has appointed Charles O. Garner as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO).  Before joining Veeam, Mr. Garner served as the CFO of Blackhawk Network. Mr. Garner’s experience includes having served as: the CFO and later the Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer of MedAssets; a management consultant with Bain & Company; and, in software design and business development roles at American Management Systems (now CGI).

CFO Moves – week ending May 31, 2019

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CFO Moves this week include:

CF Industries Holdings, Inc. MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. OrthoLite
Bento for Business Ametros TFF Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Harrison Poultry D.A. Davidson Companies Buchanan & Edwards Inc.
StorONE Semma Therapeutics, Inc. Blue Canyon Technologies
Regulatory DataCorp, Inc. Pelican Products, Inc. Intelsat
Fluor Corporation LyondellBasell Emmaus Life Sciences, Inc.
Protagonist Therapeutics, Inc. Vistra Energy Corp. Sirnaomics, Inc.
Conn’s, Inc. Neology, Inc. Lamar Advertising Company
Capsule8 Crestline Hotels & Resorts TrueCar, Inc.
Stay Alfred Frank’s International N.V. CSX Corporation
Navigating Cancer Dentsply Sirona Inc. Cipherloc Corporation
Liquidia Technologies, Inc. DiamondRock Hospitality Company

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CF Industries Holdings, Inc. [DEERFIELD, IL] (NYSE: CF) announced that Dennis P. Kelleher, senior vice president and chief financial officer, has informed the company he will retire from CF effective September 1, 2019. Christopher D. Bohn, senior vice president, manufacturing and distribution, has been selected to succeed Kelleher as chief financial officer effective September 1, 2019. Bohn has held roles of increasing responsibility at CF including senior vice president, supply chain, and vice president, corporate planning. Prior to joining CF, Bohn served as chief financial officer for Hess Print Solutions. Earlier in his career, he was vice president, global financial planning and analysis for Merisant Worldwide, Inc.

MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. [LOWELL, MA] (NASDAQ: MTSI), announced the appointment of John F. Kober as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Kober has over 25 years of accounting and finance experience, and has served as MACOM’s Vice President and Corporate Controller since 2015. Prior to that, he served as Vice President, Corporate Controller and Treasurer at CIRCOR International Inc.

OrthoLite [AMHERST, MA] announced the hiring of Milton Brice as Chief Financial Officer. Brice has previous experience in managing emerging markets both in Asia and South America with The Hershey Company. He also held international and domestic positions with brands such as DICK’s Sporting Goods, Nike and Under Armour, among others.

Bento for Business [CHICAGO & SAN FRANCISCO] announced the appointment of Paula Bachman as Chief Financial Officer. Bachman comes to Bento from Networked Insights.

Nicole Sauk

Ametros [WILMINGTON, MA] has promoted Nicole Sauk to Chief Financial Officer. Sauk joined Ametros in 2014; most recently she served as the Senior Vice President of Finance and Operations.

TFF Pharmaceuticals, Inc. [AUSTIN, TX] announced the appointment of Kirk Coleman as Chief Financial Officer. Since 2012, Mr. Coleman has also served as an executive officer of Steelhead Capital Management, LLC, and Bios Partners, LP. From 1998 to 2008, he was Treasurer for EFO Holdings, LP.

Jamie Vincent

Harrison Poultry [BETHLEHEM, GA] announced James I. Vincent has joined as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Before joining Harrison Poultry, Vincent was the Controller for Wayne Farms LLC. Before joining Wayne Farms, Vincent spent ten years at ChoicePoint, Inc. in positions of increasing responsibility, including serving as VP and CFO of the company’s Government Services Segment and of its Public Records Group. Before joining ChoicePoint, Vincent was with Equifax, Inc. for five years, and before that spent five years with Arther Andersen LLP.

D.A. Davidson Companies [SEATTLE] announced that Scott Witeby has been named the company’s chief financial officer and a member of D.A. Davidson’s executive leadership team. Witeby joins D.A. Davidson from Lincoln Financial Group, where he served as CFO of Lincoln Financial Network, Lincoln’s retail wealth management business. He previously held senior finance roles during 10 years with LPL Financial, and began his career as a public accountant with Ernst & Young. Witeby replaces Tom Nelson, who has announced his plan to retire in 2020. Nelson has served as the firm’s CFO since 2001.

Buchanan & Edwards Inc. [WASHINGTON] announced that it has appointed Carter Wood as chief financial officer. Most recently, Wood was director of financial reporting for Cognosante. Earlier, Wood served as CFO with Buchanan & Edwards from 2010 to 2015. Prior positions include director of accounting for CGI and working as a public accountant and senior auditor with Deloitte.

StorONE [NEW YORK] named Gil Vassoly as its new CFO. Vassoly comes to StorONE from Gibbs International Inc., where he served as the COO and CFO. Prior to Gibbs International, he served as a principal The Gore Group. Previously, Vassoly worked in a variety of management and executive positions within KLA and was an audit manager at PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Semma Therapeutics, Inc. [CAMBRIDGE, MA] announced that it has expanded its leadership team with the addition of Mary Kay Fenton as Chief Financial Officer. Fenton most recently was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Achillion Pharmaceuticals. Prior to joining Achillion, Fenton was with PricewaterCoopers LLP.

Blue Canyon Technologies [BOULDER, CO] announced the appointment of Sam Francis as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to AVL he was a principal at Tatum, LLC.

Regulatory DataCorp, Inc. [KING OF PRUSSIA, PA] announced the hiring of Fabrizio Ferronato as Chief Financial Officer. Ferronato joined RDC following two years as the Chief Financial Officer at BridgeTower Media and numerous finance leadership roles at Thomson Reuters.

George Platisa

Pelican Products, Inc. [TORRANCE, CA] announced that George Platisa has been hired as Chief Financial Officer. Platisa has worked at companies such as Belkin International, Price Waterhouse, Walt Disney Company, Broadband Sports, and Ascent Media Corporation.

Intelsat [LUXEMBOURG & MCLEAN, VIRGINIA],(NYSE: I) announced the appointment of David M. Tolley as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Tolley most recently served as the Chief Financial Officer of OneWeb. Prior to OneWeb, Tolley served as a Senior Managing Director in the Private Equity Group at Blackstone, where during this period he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of NewSkies Satellites N.V. Prior to Blackstone, he was a Vice President at Morgan Stanley in the Investment Banking Division. Tolley currently serves on the board of directors of ExteNet Systems and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Tolley replaces Jacques Kerrest, the retiring CFO.

Michael Steuert

Fluor Corporation [IRVING, TX] (NYSE: FLR) announced that D. Michael Steuert has been appointed chief financial officer (CFO) , succeeding Bruce Stanski, who will support the office of the chief executive officer (CEO) focused on analyzing the company’s investments and joint ventures in line with the previously announced strategic review. Steuert served as Fluor’s CFO from 2001 to 2012. Prior to his previous stint at Fluor, Steuert served as SVP and CFO of Litton Industries, and as CFO of GenCorp, Inc. from 1990 to 1999. He was formerly a member of the National Financial Executives Institute and the Carnegie Mellon Council on finance.

LyondellBasell [HOUSTON and LONDON] (NYSE: LYB) announced that Thomas Aebischer, executive vice president and chief financial officer, has announced his intention to retire at the end of 2019. Aebischer joined LyondellBasell in January 2016.

Emmaus Life Sciences, Inc. [TORRANCE, CA] announced the appointment of Joseph “Jay” C. Sherwood III to succeed Kurt Kruger as Chief Financial Officer. Kruger will stay on as a consultant to the company. Mr. Sherwood has over 30 years of investment banking experience, most recently as the Los Angeles Partner at G.C. Andersen Partners, LLC. Prior to joining G.C. Andersen Partners, Mr. Sherwood was Senior Managing Director at McGladrey Capital Markets. Prior to McGladrey, he was Senior Managing Director at FTI Capital Advisors, a subsidiary of FTI Consulting, Inc.

Protagonist Therapeutics, Inc. [NEWARK, CA] (NASDAQ: PTGX) announced the appointment of Don Kalkofen as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining the Protagonist Therapeutics team, Kalkofen served in an advisory role as Senior Advisor, Finance, to the Company. Kalkofen has had an extensive consulting career and held positions including the Chief Financial Officer at App Annie; Assistant Controller at Align Technology; Vice President of Finance at Simplifier Corporation and Chief Financial Officer of Innovative Bank. Earlier in his career, Mr. Kalkofen served as the Chief Financial Officer for West Coast Bancorp, Pinnacle Bank and DecisionPoint Applications. He started his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Vistra Energy Corp. [IRVING, TX] (NYSE: VST) announced the appointment of David A. Campbell as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Campbell replaces outgoing CFO, J. William “Bill” Holden, who has announced his resignation to pursue other opportunities. Campbell previously worked for Vistra’s predecessor companies. Campbell most recently served as the president and chief executive officer of InfraREIT, Inc., from August 2014 through May 2019. Prior to his role at InfraREIT, he was president and chief operating officer of Bluescape Resources. Campbell also previously served as chief executive officer of Luminant when it was a subsidiary of Vistra’s predecessor parent company, Energy Future Holdings. He originally joined TXU Corp., the predecessor to EFH, in 2004 as executive vice president of corporate planning, strategy, and risk, and became chief financial officer of TXU in 2006. Prior to joining TXU, Mr. Campbell was a principal in the Dallas office of McKinsey & Company.

Sirnaomics, Inc. [GAITHERSBURG, MD] announced the appointment of Allan L. Shaw as the company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Shaw currently serves on the board of directors of Vivus Inc., as well as being involved with a portfolio of healthcare activities. Previously Mr. Shaw took Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc. public as its Chief Financial Officer and also served as Managing Director of Alvarez & Marsal, and led their biopharmaceutical consulting practice.  Mr. Shaw has also served as the Chief Financial Officer of Serono S.A., NewLead Holdings Ltd. and Viatel, Inc.

Conn’s, Inc. [WOODLANDS, TX] (NASDAQ: CONN) announced that Lee Wright has been named Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Wright joined Conn’s in June 2016 as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. George Bchara was promoted to Chief Financial Officer. Bchara joined Conn’s as Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer in December 2016. Prior to joining the Company, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of BankUnited, from March 2013 to December 2016, and served as Vice President and Loan Controller from June 2011 to February 2013. Prior to BankUnited, Bchara was a Manager with the global professional services firm, PwC, where he worked from January 2007 until May 2011.

Neology, Inc. [SAN DIEGO] announced the appointment of Charles Padgett as Chief Financial Officer and Member of its Board of Directors. Prior to joining Neology, Padgett was the Chief Financial Officer for Verimatrix, Inc. Padgett has held executive positions at Kofax, EMC, Captiva, Boeing, Wireless Facilities, Inc., The Walter Group and KPMG.

Lamar Advertising Company [BATON ROUGE, LA] (NASDAQ: LAMR) announced that Jay Johnson has been appointed Chief Financial Officer effective October 1, 2019. Johnson has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of DiamondRock Hospitality Company (NYSE: DRH) since April 2018. Prior to joining DiamondRock, Mr. Johnson served as Senior Vice President and Treasurer at Host Hotels & Resorts (NYSE: HST). Johnson will succeed Keith Istre, who announced in January his intent to retire from Lamar on December 31, 2019. Istre will become Chief Financial Officer Emeritus on October 1, 2019. Prior to Host Hotels & Resorts, Johnson served in a variety of banking roles at KeyBank Real Estate Capital and Bank of America. Prior to those roles, he was in the management consulting practice of Deloitte & Touche LLP, the investment banking group at Prudential Securities and the industrial markets trading division of Enron Corporation.

Capsule8 [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Scott Kenerly as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Kenerly joins from Argyle Executive Forum, LLC, where he most recently served as the firm’s CEO. Previously, Scott had successful tenures at several companies, including with ThreatGRID, Inc. (acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc.).

Ed Hoganson

Crestline Hotels & Resorts [FAIRFAX, VA] announced the appointment of Edward Hoganson as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Chief Investment Officer for the Company.  Ed rejoins Crestline from Hospitality Investors Trust, Inc. (HIT) where he served as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Ed began his career with Deloitte & Touche before joining Marriott International where he held various finance positions.

Noel B. Watson

TrueCar, Inc. [SANTA MONICA, CA] (NASDAQ: TRUE) announced that Noel B. Watson has been appointed EVP and Chief Financial Officer. Watson joins TrueCar after spending the last thirteen years with TripAdvisor, where his current role is VP Finance & Chief Accounting Officer. Watson began his career as a CPA at Arthur Andersen and subsequently held management positions at ArrAy Inc. and Way Systems prior to joining TripAdvisor in 2006.

Steve Helmbrecht

Stay Alfred [SPOKANE, WA] announced the addition of Steve Helmbrecht as President and CFO. Helmbrecht is former CFO of Itron, Inc.

Frank’s International N.V. [HOUSTON] (NYSE: FI) announced that Melissa Cougle has been named Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”). She succeeds Kyle McClure, who has decided to leave the Company to pursue other opportunities. Cougle most recently served as CFO of National Energy Services Reunited (NESR). She previously worked 13 years for Ensco plc (ESV), where she held multiple senior positions in treasury, capital management, finance and administration, corporate accounting, internal audit, management reporting and financial systems. Cougle began her career in the audit and consulting practices of Arthur Andersen LLP which became Protiviti.

CSX Corporation [JACKSONVILLE, FL] (NASDAQ: CSX) announced the departure of executive vice president and chief financial officer, Frank A. Lonegro. The company appointed Kevin Boone as interim chief financial officer. Boone joined CSX in September 2017 as vice president of corporate affairs and chief investor relations officer and most recently was vice president of marketing and strategy. Boone has held various positions in organizations such as Janus Capital, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Ernst & Young.

Dentsply Sirona Inc. [CHARLOTTE, N.C.] (NASDAQ: XRAY) announced that Nicholas W. Alexos, the Company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will be leaving the Company in connection with the relocation of its headquarters.

Cipherloc Corporation [AUSTIN, TX] (OTCQB: CLOK) announced the appointment of Gino J. Mauriello as Chief Financial Officer. Mauriello replaces Jim Sullivan, who resigned as CFO. Mauriello has run his own CPA firm since 2003. He previously served as a Director and CFO for Cipherloc during 2016 and 2017. He is currently Cipherloc’s controller.

Liquidia Technologies, Inc. [RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.] (NASDAQ: LQDA) announced the appointment of Dr. Richard D. Katz as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Most recently, he served as CFO at Argos Therapeutics.  Prior to his time at Argos, Dr. Katz served as CFO at several biopharmaceutical companies including Viamet Pharmaceuticals and Icagen, Inc. Dr. Katz had worked as a vice president in the healthcare group of the investment banking division of Goldman, Sachs & Company.

DiamondRock Hospitality Company [BETHESDA, Md.] (NYSE: DRH) announced that Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Jay Johnson, will be stepping down from his role effective August 31, 2019, in order to assume the position of Chief Financial Officer of Lamar Advertising Company. Johnson has served as DiamondRock’s Chief Financial Officer since April 1, 2018.

CFO Moves – week ending May 24, 2019

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CFO Moves this week include:

Schindler Elevator Corporation Unum Group Empire State Realty Trust, Inc.
Legacy Education Alliance, Inc. Munich Re Life US Kymeta
Snap Inc. DentaQuest DNAnexus, Inc.
GeoStabilization International Lannett Company, Inc. Speakap
Western Industries Plastic Products LLC Vitamin Shoppe, Inc. Socket Mobile, Inc.
Towerstream Enfission Finjan Holdings, Inc.
Skyword Colony Bankcorp, Inc. Cure Pharmaceutical
Cantel Medical Corp. Oracle Elevator AKHAN Semiconductor
L&R Distributors Pine Brook RentPath
Bertram Capital First Sound Bank Canterbury Park
Centage Corporation

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Schindler Elevator Corporation [MORRISTOWN, NJ] announced that Sneh Virdi has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer for its US Operations. Ms. Virdi joins Schindler from Legrand, where she was Vice President Finance, Electrical Wiring Systems, North and Central America. Prior to Legrand, she held various positions with United Technologies.

Unum Group [CHATTANOOGA, TN] (NYSE: UNM) announced that John F. “Jack” McGarry, executive vice president and chief financial officer since 2015, will retire from the company effective October 31, 2019. Steven A. Zabel, president of Unum’s closed block of business, will assume the role of executive vice president and chief financial officer effective July 1, at which time McGarry will move into a role supporting a smooth transition until his retirement. Zabel joined Unum in 2013 as senior vice president and chief risk officer. He became president of Unum’s closed block of business in 2015. He began his career with Ernst & Young as an auditor of life and health insurance companies, then moved to Americo Life where he was responsible for financial reporting. Later he spent more than 9 years with Genworth Financial in senior finance roles, including chief financial officer for insurance products.

Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. [NEW YORK, NY] (NYSE: ESRT) announced that David A. Karp will be stepping down from his role as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for personal reasons, effective August 1, 2019. In accordance with the Company’s bylaws, Andrew J. Prentice, Chief Accounting Officer and Treasurer, will serve as acting chief financial officer while the Company conducts a search for a permanent successor.

Legacy Education Alliance, Inc. [CAPE CORAL, FL] (OTCQB: LEAI) announced it has appointed Michael English as its Interim Chief Financial Officer (“ICFO”). Mr. English succeeds Christian A.J. Baeza, former Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, whose employment with the Company terminated on May 20, 2019. Since October 2016 through April 2019, English served in a variety of CFO and CFO consulting roles including, CFO advisory partner at Aventine Hill Partners, Alternate Health Corp., and Peak Health Corp. From July 2011 to July 2016, he served as CFO for Zix Corporation and Controller from June 2007 to June 2011. Prior to that, Mr. English was Vice President of Finance for Advanced Fiber Communications from March 2004 through June 2005, and Vice President of Finance for Marconi, PLC from June 1999 to February 2004. Previously, he served as Division Controller for the Access Division of RELTEC Corporation, Division Controller at Rockwell Automation and Division Controller at Reliance Electric Company.

Munich Re Life US [NEW YORK, NY] announced that Quentin Marsh has been appointed Chief Financial Officer, US Life and Health. Marsh most recently was Vice President in the Global Financial Solutions unit of Reinsurance Group of America (RGA). Marsh began his career at EY, in the company’s Global Insurance Center and progressed through successive leadership positions before joining RGA in 2012.

Kymeta [REDMOND, Washington] announced that Walter Z. Berger has been hired as President, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and Chief Operating Officer (COO). Berger most recently served as COO and CFO of Nuvectra, Before joining Nuvectra, he served in senior executive positions at AppDynamics, which was acquired by Cisco. He also held senior executive positions at SoftLayer, which was acquired by IBM, and Leap Wireless. Additionally, he has held several executive operating, financial, and general leadership roles in various industry verticals.

Derek Andersen

Snap Inc. [SANTA MONICA, CA] (NYSE: SNAP) announced the appointment of Derek Andersen, currently Snap’s Vice President of Finance, as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Andersen will take over the responsibilities of interim CFO Lara Sweet. Snap also announced the appointment of Lara Sweet as Chief People Officer. In this new role, Ms. Sweet will continue as Chief Accounting Officer until a replacement is named. Andersen has served as Snap’s Vice President of Finance since July 2018. Andersen was previously employed at Amazon.com, Inc., serving in a variety of roles over seven years, most recently as Vice President of Finance supporting Amazon’s digital video business. Andersen also previously served in roles at Fox Interactive Media, including as Senior Vice President, Finance and Business Operations for IGN, and as Vice President, Finance.

Akhil Sharma

DentaQuest [BOSTON, MA] announced that Akhil Sharma recently became Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. Before joining DentaQuest, Sharma was Co-President and CFO of North American Dental Group. Prior to that, he was the President and CFO of Enlivant. He also spent eight years with Fortress Investment Group, primarily focusing on their senior living private equity investments. Sharma started his career in investment banking at Lazard.

DNAnexus, Inc. [MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA] announced the appointment of Scott Gibson as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining DNAnexus, Gibson served as CFO at Conviva. Previously, he was CFO at several semiconductor, semiconductor equipment, and networking companies.

GeoStabilization International (“GSI”) [DENVER, CO] announced the appointment of Chris Howard as Chief Financial Officer. Howard was most recently Vice President, Finance at Accudyne, with financial oversight for the Sundyne division. Prior to Accudyne, he spent five years in senior financial positions at Technip FMC plc, ultimately serving as Finance Director for the Surface International business. Previously, Howard held senior finance roles at Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. and Precision Castparts Corporation, among other leading industrial companies.

Lannett Company, Inc. [PHILADELPHIA, PA] (NYSE: LCI) announced that the company’s chief financial officer (CFO), Martin Galvan, will retire on August 30, 2019, following the planned submission of the company’s Form 10-K for fiscal year 2019. Galvan will continue in his role as CFO until then and thereafter serve as a consultant, as necessary.

Speakap [NEW YORK, NY] announced the addition of Ralph De Kleermaeker, who will serve as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. De Kleermaeker most recently served as CFO and COO at Bynder. Prior to Bynder, Ralph was active in private equity for a period of 8 years.

Western Industries Plastic Products LLC [WINFIELD, KS] announced the appointment of Gage Hotchkiss as Chief Financial Officer. Hotchkiss most recently served with Alpha Guardian as Director Manufacturing FP&A and prior to that he was with Sensata Technologies for two years as Director of Finance.  From 2006 to 2016 he served in a series of senior finance roles with CoActive Technologies, most recently as Controller.

Vitamin Shoppe, Inc. [SECAUCUS, NJ] (NYSE: VSI) announced that Charles Knight has been appointed Executive Vice President – Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Knight was most recently Interim Chief Financial Officer for The Vitamin Shoppe, a role he assumed on April 8, 2019.  He joined The Vitamin Shoppe in July 2018 as Senior Vice President – Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller.  Prior to joining the Vitamin Shoppe, Mr. Knight was most recently Senior Vice President-Corporate Controller (2010-2018) at Toys “R” Us, Inc.  He was employed at Toys “R” Us for approximately 28 years, starting as Special Project Analyst in 1990, and held positions of increasing responsibility, including Vice President Controller Toysrus.com (2001-2002), Vice President of Toys “R” US Corporate Accounting (2002-2004), Vice President Corporate Controller, Toys “R” Us, Inc. (2004-2010).  Prior to joining Toys “R” Us, he was a Senior Accountant at Deloitte & Touche LLP starting in 1986.

Socket Mobile, Inc. [NEWARK, CA] (NASDAQ: SCKT) announced that Lynn Zhao has been appointed to the position of Vice President of Finance and Administration, Secretary and Chief Financial Officer.  Ms. Zhao has served as the Company’s Controller since January 2015 and was appointed as Vice President and Controller in September 2017. Ms. Zhao previously served as the Company’s General Accounting Manager from December 2000 through January 2015.

Towerstream Corporation [MIDDLETOWN, RI] (OTCQB:TWER) announced that John “Jack” Macdonald, Chief Financial Officer, has resigned effective June 7, 2019, to pursue another career opportunity.

Enfission LLC [RESTON, VA],  a joint venture of Lightbridge Corporation (NASDAQ: LTBR) and Framatome, announced the appointment of Eugene Dongweck as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Enfission, Mr. Dongweck held a variety of senior roles at Framatome, and currently serves as Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis. Previously, Mr. Dongweck served as Audit Manager and Senior Accountant at Deloitte.

Finjan Holdings, Inc. [EAST PALO ALTO, CA] (NASDAQ: FNJN) announced that Jevan Anderson will join the company on June 3, 2019 as Chief Financial Officer, replacing Michael Noonan who is departing to explore new pursuits. Anderson recently was Senior Vice President, Corporate Advisory for Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (JLL). Prior to JLL, Jevan spent 10 years as a Managing Director and Co-Head of Technology Mergers & Acquisitions for Wells Fargo and RBC Capital Markets. Prior to his 17 year investment banking career, Jevan held roles in management consulting, strategic planning, corporate development and investor relations.

Roger Blanchette

Skyword [BOSTON, MA] announced it has appointed Roger Blanchette as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Blanchette joins Skyword from NuoDB, a database cloud provider, where he served as Chief Financial Officer. Blanchette was also the Chief Financial Officer of Ektron. Blanchette also has served as CFO at medical device companies, Dune Medical and Cadent. Prior to Cadent, he was CFO of DataSynapse. Blanchette succeeds Tyler Hoffman who has served as Chief Financial Officer of Skyword since 2010.

Colony Bankcorp, Inc. [FITZGERALD, GA] (NASDAQ: CBAN) announced that Terry L. Hester, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of the Company, has informed the Company that he intends to retire on December 31, 2019, after 42 years of service to Colony. Anticipating his decision, Colony has completed an executive search and has named Tracie Youngblood as Hester’s successor. Youngblood is expected to join the Company in mid-June 2019. Youngblood was most recently Senior Vice President and Controller of Fidelity Bank in Atlanta, which is being acquired by Ameris Bank. She has held similar positions with Square 1 Bank in Durham, North Carolina, and Ameris Bank in Moultrie, Georgia, and Georgian Bank in Atlanta.

CURE Pharmaceutical [OXNARD, CA] (OTC: CURR) announced the addition of Michael Redard, who will serve as CURE’s Chief Financial Officer. Prior to CURE, Redard held CFO, vice president and general manager positions with several venture capital and private equity-backed companies, including Inogen, Medical Analysis Systems (acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific), CDTi Advanced Materials and Abrisa Technologies.

Cantel Medical Corp. [LITTLE FALLS, N.J.] (NYSE: CMD) announced that Peter Clifford has been promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. As part of this change in leadership, Shaun Blakeman has been appointed as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Clifford served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for the Company. As a result of Mr. Clifford’s promotion, Blakeman will take on the role of SVP and Chief Financial Officer. Blakeman worked for Cantel from 2016 to 2018 as VP of Finance for Cantel’s Medical division. Most recently, Shaun was Senior Finance Director at Medtronic. Prior to working at Cantel, he held leadership roles with increasing responsibility for almost five years at IDEX Corporation.

Oracle Elevator [TAMPA, Fla.] announced that Rick Morris joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Rick’s background includes five years of consulting as Interim CFO to various companies across the US and England preceded by 12 years as CFO to private equity backed companies in multiple industries. Earlier in his career he held senior finance roles in large multinational companies where he lived and worked in the US, Europe and Asia.

AKHAN Semiconductor [CHICAGO] announced that Robert Mohr will join AKHAN in the role of Chief Financial Officer. Mohr joins AKHAN from his current role of Consultant at CFO Express International.

L&R Distributors [BROOKLYN, N.Y.] hired Craig Zumbo as Chief Financial Officer. His expereince includes Senior Vice President of Finance at Drive Devilbiss Healthcare.

Pine Brook [NEW YORK] announced that Joseph Kopilak has joined the firm as chief financial officer. He is also the chief compliance officer and a partner of the firm. Prior to joining Pine Brook, Kopilak was CFO and CCO of Roundtable Investment Partners/Truvvo Partners. Previously, he spent six years at J.P. Morgan, most recently as the CFO of J.P. Morgan Partners Global Investors fund.

RentPath [ATLANTA] announced that Richard (Rick) Martin, who most recently served as CFO of Symphony Health Solutions, replaces Kim Payne as Chief Financial Officer of RentPath. Martin also held the CFO role at Delta Career Education Corporation. Martin previously served as CFO of several other private-equity-backed companies including DecisionOne Corporation, General Fiber Corporation and Strategic Distribution, Inc. Prior roles include Vice President Finance, Treasurer, Principal Accounting Officer for Maxxim Medical, Inc. and Vice President Finance, Treasurer, Secretary (and interim CFO) for Pameco Corporation.

Ivy Ono

Bertram Capital [FOSTER CITY, Calif.] announced the promotion of Ivy Ono to Chief Financial Officer. Ono, previously the Controller at Bertram, has been with the firm for more than 10 years. Bertram also announced the retirement of Partner and Managing Director Ingrid Swenson, effective June 3, 2019.  Ms. Swenson served as both Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer for the firm. Ono joined Bertram in 2008 as the firm’s Assistant Controller.  Prior to Bertram, Ms. Ono was a Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Investment Management audit practice. Previous to PricewaterhouseCoopers, she was at Novogradac and Company, LLP where she focused on audit and tax work for real estate investments.

First Sound Bank [SEATTLE] (OTCBB: FSWA) announced that Debby K. McDaniel has joined the bank as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.  McDaniel most recently served as CFO of The Bank of Washington. Before her time at The Bank of Washington she was with Mission Bank in Bakersfield, California where she served in the capacity of Senior Vice President of Operations and Information Technology. Prior to her time at Mission Bank, she was with Eastside Commercial Bank in Bellevue as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer/Chief Operating Officer.  In addition, she previously served as the CFO of NCW Community Bank in Wenatchee.

Canterbury Park [SHAKOPEE, Minn.] (NASDAQ: CPHC) announced the hiring of Randy J. Dehmer as Chief Financial Officer. Dehmer returns to Canterbury Park where he was employed from 2007 to 2013, serving as controller from March 2012 to August 2013. Dehmer will be leaving a position as financial controller at Clearfield, Inc. to join Canterbury on May 30, 2019. Dehmer began his career at Ernst & Young, serving there as senior accountant until he first joined Canterbury Park.

Centage Corporation [NATICK, Mass.] announced that Jason Lin has joined as chief financial officer. Lin takes over from John Orlando, who recently announced his retirement from the company where he served over 15 years as CFO and executive vice president. Prior to joining Centage, Lin held financial leadership positions at Zoominfo, Monster Worldwide, IkaSystems and TripAdvisor.

CFO Moves – week ending May 10, 2019

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CFO Moves this week include:

Centrify Pulmonx Corporation SailPoint Technologies Holdings, Inc.
BitPay Coca-Cola Beverages Florida, LLC Office Properties Income Trust
Five Star Senior Living Inc. Rani Therapeutics Digi International
MDC Partners Inc. The National Capital Bank of Washington Aflac Incorporated
ChannelAdvisor Corporation Empire National Bank W. R. Grace & Co.
Green Plains Inc.; Green Plains Partners LP Bobit Business Media California BanCorp
FRP Holdings, Inc. Revolution Lighting Technologies, Inc. iCAD, Inc.
Saia, Inc. C. H. Fenstermaker & Associates, L.L.C Amerisure Mutual Insurance Company
DFO Global Performance Commerce Harness NBT Bancorp Inc.
Hitachi Vantara The Home Depot Image Sensing Systems, Inc.

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Mark Oldemeyer

Centrify [SANTA CLARA, CA] announced the company has hired Mark Oldemeyer as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Mr. Oldemeyer steps into the role previously held by current Centrify CEO, Tim Steinkopf. Oldemeyer joins Centrify from PowerSchool where he served as CFO.

Pulmonx Corporation [REDWOOD CITY, CA] announced the hiring of Derrick Sung as its Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Pulmonx, Derrick was Executive Vice President, Strategy & Corporate Development at iRhythm Technologies, Inc. Prior to iRhythm, Derrick spent seven years on Wall Street as the senior equity research analyst covering the medical device sector for Sanford C. Bernstein & Company. Previously, Derrick was Director of Marketing and Business Development in Boston Scientific Corp.’s Neuromodulation Division; a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group; and he started his career as an R&D engineer designing heart catheters for Guidant Corporation, now a part of Abbott Vascular.

SailPoint Technologies Holdings, Inc. [AUSTIN, TX] (NYSE: SAIL) announced that Cam McMartin will transition from Chief Financial Officer to Chief Operating Officer. Jason Ream will join the organization as incoming Chief Financial Officer, effective June 10, 2019. Ream most recently served as CFO for Mitratech, Relativity and SolarWinds.

BitPay [ATLANTA, GA] announced it has hired Glen Braganza as its Chief Financial Officer. Braganza joins from Worldpay US where he served as Chief Financial Officer. Before Worldpay, Mr. Braganza spent most of his career executing Mergers & Acquisitions for financial services organizations, initially working at Lloyds Banking Group in the UK and then joining Jefferies & Co in London.

Duane Still

Coca-Cola Beverages Florida, LLC [TAMPA, FL] has named Duane Still as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Still joins Coke Florida having recently served as the Chief Financial Officer/Senior Vice President of Finance at CSM Bakery Solutions. Prior to his role at CSM, he completed a thirty-year career in the Coca-Cola system with experience in various CFO roles. He held roles as the CFO for Coca-Cola North America, Coca-Cola Refreshments and for Coca-Cola International.

Office Properties Income Trust [NEWTON, MA] (NASDAQ: OPI) announced that Matthew C. Brown has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer effective June 1, 2019. Brown joined The RMR Group in 2007 and is responsible for accounting and finance matters affecting RMR and its managed companies, where he directs property accounting and a majority of the RMR accounting department. Prior to joining RMR in 2007, Mr. Brown worked in the audit practice of Wolf & Company, P.C. Brown succeeds Jeffrey C. Leer, who has been appointed as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Five Star Senior Living Inc., effective June 1, 2019. Brown also will be promoted to Senior Vice President of RMR effective June 1, 2019. Office Properties Income Trust is managed by the operating subsidiary of The RMR Group Inc. (NASDAQ: RMR).

Five Star Senior Living Inc. [NEWTON, MA] (NASDAQ: FVE) announced that Jeffrey C. Leer has been appointed as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, effective June 1, 2019. Mr. Leer joined The RMR Group in 2013 and is currently Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Office Properties Income Trust, and Senior Vice President of RMR. Previously, Mr. Leer served in various RMR accounting leadership functions with a primary focus on operations. Prior to joining RMR, Mr. Leer held accounting and finance positions at several multi-national public companies, including Dell Technologies, Whole Foods Market and Boston Scientific as well as practiced for several years in public accounting. Leer succeeds Richard A. Doyle, Jr. who is stepping down as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, effective May 31, 2019. To ensure a smooth transition, Mr. Doyle’s separation agreement provides that he will remain a non-officer employee of Five Star and RMR following May 31, 2019 and until December 31, 2019. Mr. Doyle has been with Five Star most recently since 2016 and previously served as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Senior Housing Properties Trust from 2007 to 2016.

Rani Therapeutics [SAN JOSE, CA] announced that Svai Sanford has joined the company as its first Chief Financial Officer. Sanford brings more than two decades of experience as a finance and operations executive at companies including SFJ Pharmaceuticals, VIVUS Inc. and Elan Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Perrigo Co.).

Digi International  [HOPKINS, MN] (NASDAQ: DGII) announced the appointment of James “Jamie” J. Loch to the role of Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Treasurer of the company. Loch is the former Senior Vice President and CFO of Nilfisk, Inc. Previously, Loch served as CFO (Americas) for Honeywell Building Solutions, a division of Honeywell International. Loch replaces Brian Ballenger, Interim Treasurer and Acting Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer, who will resume his role as Vice President of Finance and Accounting.

MDC Partners Inc. [NEW YORK, NY] announced that Frank Lanuto will take on the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, replacing outgoing CFO David Doft.  Most recently, he was Vice President, Corporate Controller at Movado Group, Inc. Prior to joining Movado Group, he served as Chief Financial Officer at Ranstad USA. Previously, Lanuto spent over 15 years overseeing global financial functions and operations activities in the advertising, marketing and media services industries, most recently serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Initiative Media Worldwide. He also led Publicis Healthcare Communications as Chief Financial Officer, after integrating the acquisition of Bcom3 Group, Inc., and he served as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Rapp Collins Worldwide in New York, part of Omnicom.

Randal J. Rabe

The National Capital Bank of Washington (NCB) [WASHINGTON, DC] announced that Randal J. Rabe has been appointed Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. Rabe joins NCB’s executive management team with over 30 years of financial accounting and financial services experience in a number of senior level management positions with community banks in Michigan and Georgia.

Aflac Incorporated [COLUMBUS, GA] (NYSE: AFL) announced that Steven K. Beaver has been named senior vice president; chief financial officer, Aflac U.S. Beaver joined Aflac in 2012 as vice president of Corporate Tax. He was promoted to deputy chief accounting officer in 2015, responsible for overseeing Aflac’s SEC and statutory financial reporting, treasury services and tax functions. In January 2017, he was named senior vice president of Global Strategic Projects, responsible for overseeing the conversion of Aflac’s Japan branch to a subsidiary and monitoring the U.S. tax reform. In 2018, Beaver was named senior vice president of corporate financial planning and analysis.  Prior to joining Aflac he was vice president of Corporate Tax for Nationwide.

ChannelAdvisor Corporation [RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC] (NYSE: ECOM) announced the retirement of Chief Financial Officer, Mark Cook. The Board of Directors has appointed Richard Cornetta, ChannelAdvisor’s Vice President, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer to succeed Cook as Chief Financial Officer.  Cornetta joined ChannelAdvisor in 2013 as Corporate Controller and has served as Vice President, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer since 2015.  Prior to joining ChannelAdvisor, Mr. Cornetta served in financial leadership positions at Dex Media, Inc. and UST Inc. and began his professional career with Ernst & Young.

Empire Bancorp, Inc. [ISLANDIA, NY] (OTCQX: EMPK), the parent holding company of Empire National Bank, announced that Chief Financial Officer Janet T. Verneuille plans to depart the company to explore other opportunities, effective May 17, 2019.  President Thomas M. Buonaiuto will assume the role of Chief Financial Officer on an interim basis. Before becoming President of Empire Bancorp and Empire National Bank, Mr. Buonaiuto served as Chief Financial Officer of Union State Bank, and prior thereto, as Chief Financial Officer of Long Island Commercial Bank, and its holding company Long Island Financial Corp.  He began his business career as an audit manager for KPMG.

William C. Dockman

W. R. Grace & Co. [COLUMBIA, MD] (NYSE: GRA) announced that it appointed William C. Dockman as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Dockman had been serving as interim CFO since May 2018. Dockman most recently was Vice President, Controller, and Chief Accounting Officer. Previously, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Advanced Refining Technologies (ART), Grace’s joint venture with Chevron, and before that as Director, Financial Planning and Analysis. Prior to joining Grace in 1999, Mr. Dockman held finance leadership roles at MedStar Health, KPMG, and the University of Maryland Medical System.

Green Plains Inc. [OMAHA, NE] (NASDAQ: GPRE) announced that Patrich Simpkins, Chief Development Officer, will take over as Chief Financial Officer of Green Plains and Green Plains Partners LP (NASDAQ: GPP). Mr. Simpkins promotion to Chief Financial Officer comes as current CFO John Neppl, has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Bunge Limited. Simpkins has served as Chief Development Officer since October 2014, previously serving as Chief Risk Officer from October 2014 through August 2016 and as Executive Vice President of Finance and Treasurer from May 2012 to October 2014.  Prior to joining Green Plains, Mr. Simpkins held a number of senior management positions with SensorLogic, Inc., TXU Corporation, Duke Energy Corporation, and Louis Dreyfus Energy.

Bobit Business Media [TORRANCE, CA] announced that Anthony Shepherd has joined the company as its Chief Financial Officer.  Shepherd joins Bobit from Cal Net Technology Group where he also served as CFO.  Prior to being CFO of Cal Net Technology, Shepherd held similar positions in various industries including IT Services, Manufacturing, Value-Added Distribution, and High-Tech Equipment.  Shepherd started his career with Price Waterhouse specializing in forensic accounting in the firm’s Corporate Recovery group.

California BanCorp [OAKLAND, CA] (OTCQX: CALB), the holding company for California Bank of Commerce, named Thomas A. Sa as its next Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer effective May 20, 2019. Current Chief Financial Officer Randall Greenfield, who has served at the Bank since its inception in 2007, will continue through an interim transition period prior to his retirement. Sa most recently served as Chief Risk Officer at Western Alliance Bank. Sa was the founding Chief Financial Officer for Bridge Bank, NA and its holding company, Bridge Capital Holdings. Previously, Sa served in senior financial management roles in banking, leasing and software companies.

FRP Holdings, Inc. [JACKSONVILLE, FL] (NASDAQ: FRPH) announced that John D. Milton, Jr. is stepping aside as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer and the Board has elected John D. Baker III to be the new CFO and Treasurer. Mr. Milton will remain as Executive Vice-President, Secretary and General Counsel. Baker started his employment with the company in 2012 prior to the spin-off as a management trainee dispatching fuel trucks.  In 2013, he transitioned to the finance department as an analyst.

Revolution Lighting Technologies, Inc. [STAMFORD, CT] (NASDAQ: RVLT) announced that James DePalma, a director and the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, resigned for personal reasons. In the interim, Robert V. LaPenta, Chairman, CEO and President of the Company, will assume Mr. DePalma’s duties as principal financial officer and principal accounting officer until the Company identifies an interim or permanent chief financial officer.

iCAD, Inc. [NASHUA, NH] (NASDAQ: ICAD) appointed R. Scott Areglado as Chief Financial Officer. Areglado has served as interim Chief Financial Officer since December 2018.  Prior to this, he was Vice President and Corporate Controller from May 2011, and previously held the role of interim Chief Financial Officer from September 2016 to November 2016. From 2005 to 2010, Mr. Areglado served as Vice President and Controller at AMICAS, Inc.

Saia, Inc. [JOHNS CREEK, GA] (NASDAQ: SAIA) announced that Rob Chambers has been named the company’s new Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Chambers most recently served as the Vice President of Commercial Finance for Americold Logistics LLC. Prior to that, he served in financial leadership roles with Ceva Logistics following a tenure at KPMG. Fritz Holzgrefe, Saia’s CFO since 2014, will continue in his role as Saia’s President and COO.

Matthew P. Manning

C. H. Fenstermaker & Associates, L.L.C. [LAFAYETTE, LA] appointed Matthew P. Manning as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Manning served as Treasurer & Director of Planning for Waitr, Inc. Prior to joining Waitr, Mr. Manning held various positions at Stone Energy Corporation including Controller, Finance Manager, Planning Team Lead and Internal Audit Manager during his ten years with the company.

Amerisure Mutual Insurance Company [FARMINGTON HILLS, MI] announced the hire of its new chief financial officer (CFO) and treasurer, Robert Bateman,. Current CFO and treasurer Matthew Simon is retiring after 21 years of service. Bateman joins Amerisure after holding the role of CFO with Infinity Property & Casualty Corporation. Prior to that, he served as CFO at Country Financial. Bateman also held numerous leadership roles at The Hartford — including the CFO of the company’s commercial insurance businesses, before becoming corporate controller.

DFO Global Performance Commerce [NEW YORK, NY] announced the appointment of Ramona C. Hark as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Hark most recently served as the Vice President of Financial Operations and Chief of Staff at Cylance. Prior to her time at Cylance, Ms. Hark was the Vice President of Accounting at Alien Vault.

Harness [SAN FRANCISCO, CA] announced that John Bonney has joined as Chief Financial Officer. Bonney most recently was the CFO at Mapbox as well as FinancialForce. Prior to that, he was the Division CFO of the Cloud Business unit at SAP. Bonney joined SAP from Ariba as a senior finance executive.

NBT Bancorp Inc. [NORWICH, NY] (NASDAQ: NBTB) announced that, Michael J. Chewens is stepping down from his position as Chief Financial Officer effective December 31, 2019 and will be retiring from the Company on March 31, 2020. Mr. Chewens will continue in his role as Chief Financial Officer until December 31, 2019 and then will remain with the Company during a transition period until his retirement date.

Hitachi Vantara [SANTA CLARA, CA], a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), announced it has appointed Catriona Fallon as chief financial officer. Most recently, Fallon was the CFO of Silver Spring Networks during a time of significant business growth and led the company through its 2018 acquisition by Itron, later serving as the acquired company’s general manager. Previously, Fallon held senior finance leadership roles at major high-tech brands including Hewlett-Packard Company, Cognizant Technology Solutions and Marin Software Incorporated. Fallon began her career as a consultant at McKinsey & Company and spent several years as an equity analyst at Piper Jaffray & Company and Citigroup.

The Home Depot [ATLANTA, GA] announced that Carol Tomé, Chief Financial Officer and executive vice president of Corporate Services, has decided to retire on August 31, 2019 after 24 years of service to the company. The company also announced that Richard McPhail, senior vice president of Finance Control and Administration, will be promoted to executive vice president and Chief Financial Officer following Carol’s retirement.  Since joining the company in 2005, Richard has held a number of roles of increasing responsibility within the finance organization including director of Strategic Business Development, vice president of Strategic Business Development, and senior vice president of Finance.

Image Sensing Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISNS) today announced that Ted Johnson resigned as its Interim Chief Financial Officer.  The Board of Directors has appointed Frank G. Hallowell as Chief Financial Officer. Hallowell most recently served as CFO at Wipaire Inc. Prior to Wipaire, Mr. Hallowell served in senior financial positions at several organizations including Logic PD, Inc., Harland Clarke Corporation, Pearson Plc, ExpressPoint Technology Services, and BellSouth Corporation.

CFO Moves – week ending May 3, 2019

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CFO Moves this week include:

Kellogg Co. Synchrony Financial RLI Corp.
ServiceNow, Inc. Splunk Inc. American Water Works Company, Inc.
Cherwell Software, LLC Repare Therapeutics Inc. Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Netsmart Inscripta MSCI Inc.
Trinseo Arm Kindbody
PicMonkey Ryan Companies US, Inc. Consolidated Container Company
Ramaco Resources, Inc. Kewaunee Scientific Corporation Immunic, Inc.
Keweenaw Land Association Ltd. Assembly Biosciences, Inc. Stericycle, Inc.
Premera Blue Cross Landstar, Inc. Globe Photos, Inc.
OG DNA Genetics Inc. Veracode Applied Therapeutics
ORIS Intelligence ABLE Equipment Rental Inc. Mobicard, Inc.
Freightcar America, Inc. Allegiant Talos Energy Inc.
B-Stock Shenandoah Telecommunications Company Twinlab Consolidated Holdings, Inc.

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Kellogg Co. [BATTLE CREEK, MI] (NYSE: K) announced that its Chief Financial Officer, Fareed Khan, is leaving the Company on July 1. He will be succeeded by Amit Banati, who is currently President, Kellogg Asia Pacific, Africa & Middle East (“AMEA”). Banati joined Kellogg in March, 2012, as President Asia Pacific, and his responsibilities expanded into the broader AMEA region in July, 2018. Prior to Kellogg, he began his career in finance at Procter & Gamble, before moving to Cadbury Schweppes, where he was the chief financial officer of Cadbury Schweppes Asia Pacific. Thereafter, he served in a variety of general management roles at Cadbury Schweppes, Kraft Foods and Mondelez.

Synchrony Financial [STAMFORD, CT] (NYSE: SYF) announced that Brian Doubles has been promoted to from CFO to President. Brian Wenzel, Synchrony’s Deputy Chief Financial Officer, was promoted to succeed Doubles as Synchrony’s Chief Financial Officer. Doubles is a 21-year veteran of Synchrony (which includes the period prior to its separation from GE in 2014) and has served as Chief Financial Officer since 2009.

RLI Corp. [PEORIA, IL] (NYSE: RLI) announced the planned retirement of Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Thomas L. Brown, on July 1, 2019, after eight years of service with the company. Todd W. Bryant, Vice President, Finance & Controller, has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer and will succeed Brown when he retires in July. Bryant joined RLI in 1993 and held various positions in the accounting department before becoming Vice President, Finance & Controller in 2009. Prior to joining RLI, Bryant worked at Arthur Andersen & Co. He brings 25 years of insurance industry experience to his new role.

ServiceNow [SANTA CLARA, CA] (NYSE: NOW) announced that Chief Financial Officer Mike Scarpelli plans to leave the company in the third quarter of 2019, following the release of the company’s second quarter earnings.

Jason Child

Splunk Inc. [SAN FRANCISCO, CA] (NASDAQ: SPLK) announced it has appointed Jason Child as senior vice president and chief financial officer (CFO). Child will succeed Dave Conte, who announced his retirement in November 2018 after more than eight years as CFO at Splunk. Child has served as CFO at Opendoor since 2017. He previously served as CFO at Jawbone from 2015 to 2016; and CFO at Groupon, Inc. from 2010 to 2015. Child also helped Amazon scale the global finance team in a variety of leadership roles around the world from 1999 to 2010.

American Water Works Company, Inc. [CAMDEN, NJ] (NYSE: AWK) announced that executive vice president and chief financial officer Linda Sullivan plans to retire on August 1. Susan Hardwick will join the company on June 3 and will succeed Sullivan as CFO on July 1, ensuring an orderly transition of the position. Hardwick will join the company on June 3 and become CFO on July 1. Most recently, Hardwick served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Vectren, which was recently sold to CenterPoint Energy.

Gary Golden

Cherwell Software, LLC [COLORADO SPRINGS, CO] announced that Gary Golden has been appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO.) Golden joins Cherwell after serving as CFO of Bottle Rocket. Prior to Bottle Rocket, Golden had other CFO roles, including for Westec Intelligent Surveillance and for Sabre’s European region. He has also held senior leadership positions in corporate development, administration, business operations and law.

Repare Therapeutics Inc. [CAMBRIDGE, MA] announced that it appointed Katina Dorton as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Repare, Ms. Dorton was Chief Financial Officer of Avrobio. Prior to Avro, Katina was Chief Financial Officer of Immatics Biotechnologies. Katina was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and a Managing Director at Needham & Co. She practiced law as an M&A and securities law attorney at Sullivan & Cromwell prior to her investment banking career. Katina currently serves as Lead Director at US Ecology.

Gilead Sciences, Inc. [FOSTER CITY, CA] (NASDAQ: GILD) announced that Robin Washington, Executive Vice President (EVP) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), plans to retire from her role, effective March 1, 2020. Ms. Washington will continue as EVP and CFO while the company works to identify a successor. Should a CFO be named before March 1, 2020, Ms. Washington has agreed to remain in an advisory capacity through the completion of the company’s reporting of 2019 financial results to ensure a smooth transition.

Netsmart [OVERLAND PARK, KS] announced that Kevin Kaufman has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer (CFO) following the retirement of current CFO Tony Ritz. Kaufman, who previously served as Chief Business Officer, has worked closely with Ritz for the last several years. Ritz will continue to serve as a strategic advisor to the company and ensure a successful transition.

Inscripta [BOULDER, CO] announced the appointment of Ron McGrath as Chief Financial Officer. Before joining Inscripta, Mr. McGrath held a variety of leadership roles during his 13 years at Illumina, Inc. Before joining Illumina, he held financial leadership roles at Memec, LLC, and dj Orthopedics, LLC.

Linda S. Huber

MSCI Inc. [NEW YORK, NY] (NYSE: MSCI) announced that Linda S. Huber has been appointed Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer and will become a member of MSCI’s Executive Committee, effective May 6, 2019. Andrew C. Wiechmann, who has been serving as the Company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, will assume the newly-created position of Chief Strategy Officer. Huber previously served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Moody’s Corporation from May 2005 to June 2018. Prior to joining Moody’s, she served in several increasingly senior roles in financial services, having served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at U.S. Trust Company, a subsidiary of Charles Schwab & Company, Inc.; Managing Director at Freeman & Co.; Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Development and Assistant Treasurer at PepsiCo.; Vice President of the Energy Investment Banking Group at Bankers Trust Co.; and an Associate in the Natural Resources Group at The First Boston Corp. She also held the rank of Captain in the U.S. Army, where she served from 1980 to 1984.

David Stasse

Trinseo [BERWYN, PA] (NYSE: TSE) named David Stasse as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective July 1. He also will join the Executive Leadership Team. Stasse will replace Barry Niziolek, EVP and CFO, who earlier this year announced his plans to retire, which also will be effective July 1. Stasse joined Trinseo in 2013 from Freescale Semiconductor Inc. (Nasdaq: NXPI), where he served as Vice President and Treasurer 2008-2013 and previously Assistant Treasurer from 2006. Stasse previously served as First Vice President, Debt Capital Markets, at MBNA Corporation, and as Treasury Manager of SPX Corporation (NYSE: SPW). He held numerous financial leadership positions from 1998 to 2004 at Honeywell International (NYSE: HON), last serving as Director of Corporate Finance.

Arm [CAMBRIDGE, MA] announced the appointment of Inder M. Singh as executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO). Singh joins Arm from Unisys, which he joined in March 2016 and served as senior vice president and CFO. Prior to Unisys, Singh was managing director, technology, media and communications at SunTrust Bank. Singh also held financial leadership roles at Comcast Corporation, Cisco Systems and AT&T/Lucent Technologies and has a decade of experience as an equity analyst.

Kindbody [NEW YORK, NY] announced that Debbie Markowitz joined as Chief Financial Officer. Markowitz most recently served as Chief Financial Officer of leading direct-to-consumer fintech company Acorns and has worked previously in the same role at Exhale Spa.

PicMonkey [SEATTLE, WA] announced it has appointed Pearl Chan as chief financial officer. Pearl’s background includes senior finance roles at NetMotion Software, Cheezburger, Isilon Systems, Metawave, PhyCom and Sierra On-Line.

Lisa Kro

Ryan Companies US, Inc. [MINNEAPOLIS, MN] announced that they have named Lisa Kro Chief Financial and Administrative Officer (CAO/CFO). Kro will fill the CAO/CFO position that was vacated last May when Brian Murray was named CEO. Kro most recently was the co-founder and managing partner of Mill City Capital in Minneapolis.

Consolidated Container Company [ATLANTA, GA] announced the appointment of Patrick Lynch as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Lynch will work with CCC’s current CFO, Richard Sehring, through 2019 to assure a smooth transition. Mr. Lynch was most recently the CFO & EVP at Darling Ingredients. Patrick also spent 20 years at Interface where he assumed progressive responsibility in the finance organization, including CFO & SVP for 15 years of his tenure.

Ramaco Resources, Inc. [LEXINGTON, KY] (NASDAQ: METC) announced the appointment of Jeremy Sussman as Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Randall Atkins, the Company’s Executive Chairman who has also been serving as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer since July 1, 2018, will step down as Chief Financial Officer effective upon Mr. Sussman’s appointment. Mr. Atkins will continue to serve as the Company’s Executive Chairman. Most recently, Sussman served as Managing Director – Mining and Metals at Clarksons Platou Securities. Sussman has worked at Clarksons since April 2013. Prior to that Mr. Sussman had worked as a research analyst focusing on the coal space in a variety of other sell-side and buy-side firms.

Kewaunee Scientific Corporation [STATESVILLE, NC] (NASDAQ: KEQU) announced that Donald T. Gardner III has joined the Company as Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer. Thomas D. Hull III, who had continued to serve as Kewaunee’s Chief Financial Officer following his recent promotion, will continue as the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Most recently, Mr. Gardner was Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis of Victra. Prior to that he was the Chief Financial Officer of Component Sourcing International.

Immunic, Inc. [SAN DIEGO, California] (NASDAQ: IMUX) announced the appointment of Tamara A. Seymour as its Interim Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Seymour is a corporate finance veteran with three decades of experience in the biotech and life sciences industries. From 2014 to 2017, she served as Chief Financial Officer of Signal Genetics Inc. (now miRagen Therapeutics, Inc.). From 2010 to 2014, Ms. Seymour served as Chief Financial Officer of Hemaquest Pharmaceuticals, Inc. From 2001 to 2009, Ms. Seymour served as Chief Financial Officer of Favrille, Inc. (now MMR Global, Inc.). Earlier in her career, Ms. Seymour consulted as Chief Financial Officer for a number of biotechnology companies and served for more than eight years in various positions, including audit manager, with Deloitte LLP and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. She is currently a member of the board of directors and audit committee chair of Beacon Discovery, Inc.

Keweenaw Land Association, Limited [IRONWOOD, MI] (OTC US: KEWL) announced that Claudio Nicoletta, Chief Financial Officer, will be leaving the company, effective May 10, 2019, due to personal reasons and to pursue another opportunity.

Assembly Biosciences, Inc. [SAN FRANCISCO, CA] (NASDAQ: ASMB) announced the the departure of Graham Cooper, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Michael Samar, Assembly’s Vice President Finance and Business Operations, has been appointed to serve as principal accounting officer and has assumed certain of Mr. Cooper’s responsibilities.

Stericycle, Inc. [LAKE FOREST, IL] (NASDAQ: SRCL) announced that Janet H. Zelenka has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective June 1, 2019. Zelenka joins Stericycle after 15 years with Essendant Inc., most recently serving as Chief Financial Officer until the company’s acquisition by Sycamore Partners earlier this year. Prior to Essendant, Ms. Zelenka spent 16 years at SBC/Ameritech (AT&T) in a range of IT, financial, and operational roles. As previously announced, Daniel V. Ginnetti, Stericycle’s current CFO, will transition to become Executive Vice President of International when Ms. Zelenka joins the Company.

Michael Trzupek

Premera Blue Cross [MOUNTLAKE TERRACE, WA] announced the hiring of Michael Trzupek as Chief Financial Officer. Trzupek comes to Premera from Providence St. Joseph Health System, where he served as Group Vice President. Prior, he was a corporate finance General Manager at Microsoft, focused on business planning for the company’s hardware products, including Xbox and Surface. He started his financial career at Intel.

LandStar, Inc. [RALEIGH, NC] (OTCPK: LDSR), the parent company of Data443™ Risk Mitigation, Inc. announced the appointment of Steven Dawson to the position of Chief Financial Officer. Dawson has over eighteen years of experience in corporate finance, treasury, financial planning and analysis, tax, strategic planning and risk management along with a deep appreciation for Data443’s commitment to driving innovation in the data security space. Prior to joining Data443, he provided strategic CFO and high-level consulting services for clients across a variety of industries. Dawson also served as the Senior Vice President of Global Finance for Vinventions, LLC, as well as the Corporate Controller for Charles & Colvard, Ltd., and several other finance leadership positions with publicly-traded companies earlier in his career.

Globe Photos, Inc. [LAS VEGAS, NV] (OTCQB: GBPT) appointed Evan Bedell as chief financial officer. Bedell succeeds Shamar Tobias, who will continue as company controller. Bedell was previously the founder and CEO of View Capital. Prior to View Capital, he was co-founder and COO of Silver Pacific Advisors. He earlier served as vice president for the investment banking division of Lehman Brothers. Before Lehman, he was a global manager at KPMG Consulting.

OG DNA Genetics [LOS ANGELES, CA] announced that John Walpuck will be joining the executive team as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining DNA, Mr. Walpuck served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Creative Realities, Inc.

Veracode [BURLINGTON, MA] announced that David Forlizzi has been named Chief Financial Officer. Forlizzi was previously the Chief Financial Officer at Infovista for 11 years.

Applied Therapeutics, Inc [NEW YORK, NY] announced the appointment of Mark Vignola, PhD, as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Applied Therapeutics, Dr. Vignola was Head of Corporate Development & Investor Relations at Intercept Pharmaceuticals. Prior to joining Intercept in 2015, he was an equity research associate at Needham & Company.

ORIS Intelligence [COLUMBUS, OH], announced the appointment of George Troutman to Chief Financial Officer. Troutman is a seasoned technology executive with over 30 years of corporate accounting and management experience, and previously served as CFO of Pinnacle Data Systems, Inc., Pathlore Software Corporation, and Manta Media, Inc.

Thomas Caldaroni

ABLE Equipment Rental Inc. [DEER PARK, NY] announced the appointment of Thomas Caldaroni as Chief Financial Officer. Tom has held several key leadership roles with operational and financial responsibilities for large Fortune 500 companies (including Terex), as well as smaller to medium sized enterprises.

Mobicard Inc. [CAMBRIDGE, MA] (OTC: PTOP) is pleased to announce the appointment of Anthony Mirabito as its Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Mirabito replaces former CFO James Bento.

FreightCar America, Inc.[CHICAGO, IL] (NASDAQ: RAIL) announced that it has appointed Christopher (Chris) J. Eppel as Vice President, Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Eppel will succeed Matthew Kohnke, who has left the Company to pursue new business opportunities. Eppel joins the Company from the AZEK Company, where he has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since November 2015. Prior to joining AZEK, Mr. Eppel served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Allied Specialty Vehicles (now REV Group, Inc.) from 2013 to 2015, and as Corporate Controller and Vice President of Perrigo Company plc from 2006 to 2013. His other work experience includes finance and business development roles at Danaher Corporation and Honeywell International Inc.

Allegiant [LAS VEGAS, NV] (NASDAQ: ALGT) announced that Gregory Anderson has been appointed to serve as executive vice president and chief financial officer. He will also continue as the company’s principal accounting officer, a role he has served since January, 2015. Anderson, who joined Allegiant’s accounting department in 2010, has served as the company’s senior vice president, treasury since January, 2017. Prior to joining Allegiant, he worked in corporate accounting for U.S. Airways. Scott Sheldon, who has served as Allegiant’s chief financial officer since 2010, will continue to serve in his role of executive vice president and chief operating officer.

Talos Energy Inc. [HOUSTON, TX] (NYSE: TALO) announced the appointment of Shannon E. Young, III as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Talos, effective May 16, 2019. Michael L. Harding, II, currently Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer and Treasurer, will continue to serve as the Chief Accounting Officer of the Company on an interim basis for a mutually agreed period. Prior to joining Talos, Young served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Sheridan Production Company, LLC since 2016. Before joining Sheridan, Mr. Young served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Cobalt International Energy, Inc. from September 2015 to July 2016. Prior to joining Cobalt, Mr. Young served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Talos Energy LLC from December 2014 to September 2015. Prior to joining Talos Energy LLC, Mr. Young served as a Managing Director at Goldman, Sachs & Co. from July 2010 to December 2014, and was previously an investment banker at Morgan Stanley from August 1998 to July 2010.

B-Stock [BELMONT, CA] announced the addition of Marcus Shen, as CFO. Before joining B-Stock, Shen was CFO and Head of Operations of Content Analytics. Prior to that, he spent over five years at Yahoo!, where he was Vice President of Corporate Development. In his time at Yahoo!, Shen led or worked on deals and integrations across media, commerce, data, and marketing software, including Alibaba, Yahoo! Japan, Flickr, Interclick, Hortonworks, Dialpad, and others. Shen is also an advisor to KKR & Co, a global investment firm.

Shenandoah Telecommunications Company [EDINBURG, VA] (NASDAQ: SHEN) announced that Senior Vice President-Finance and Chief Financial Officer James F. Woodward will be resigning from the Company. Woodward will remain in his position until June 28, 2019 to assist in the orderly transition of his responsibilities. Mr. Woodward joined Shentel in 2017, following a period of rapid growth for the Company.

Twinlab Consolidated Holdings, Inc. [BOCA RATON, FL] (OTCPK: TLCC) has promoted senior vice president of finance, Carla Goffstein to chief financial officer (CFO). For the past seven months she has been serving as the company’s interim CFO, following Al Gever’s term. Goffstein joined Twinlab in January 2018, after a 22-year career with Procter & Gamble serving in different financial management roles and most recently serving as their associate director of finance for global business services.

CFO Moves – week ending April 27, 2019

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CFO Moves this week include:

Hibbett Sports, Inc. OneMain Holdings, Inc. Gordian
PTC Imperva, Inc. Park West Gallery
Performance Trust Capital Partners Bitvore Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc.
VITAS Healthcare Kraton Corporation Private Bancorp of America, Inc.
VIQ Solutions Inc. Adverum Biotechnologies, Inc. Jobcase
Veritas Farms, Inc. Sunstates Security Travelex
Cipherloc American Jewish University Skyn ICELAND

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Hibbett Sports, Inc. [BIRMINGHAM, Alabama] (NASDAQ/GS: HIBB) announced that Christine Skold is temporarily joining the Company as Interim Chief Financial Officer effective April 26, 2019, succeeding Scott Bowman, whose resignation was announced previously. Skold served 15 years with retail company Tractor Supply Company, holding several progressive positions in accounting. She additionally held the positions of Vice President Internal Audit and Vice President Strategy and Continuous Improvement, with her final position at Tractor Supply Company being Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications. Previously, Ms. Skold was Assistant Controller at Moll Industries and worked eight years at Arthur Andersen, LLP.

OneMain Holdings, Inc. [NEW YORK] (NYSE: OMF) announced the appointment of Micah Conrad as the company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Conrad previously served as the company’s Acting CFO. Before being appointed Acting CFO last month, Conrad served as OneMain’s Deputy CFO after Springleaf’s acquisition of OneMain Financial from Citigroup in 2015. Conrad was CFO of OneMain before the acquisition. Prior to his time at OneMain, Conrad was a managing director at Citigroup and served in a variety of senior finance roles within Citi Holdings, Global Wealth Management and Institutional Clients Group.

Gordian [GREENVILLE, SC] announced that Kate Morgan joined Gordian’s Executive Team as Chief Financial Officer. Kate joins Gordian after serving as the Vice President of Finance at Veeder-Root, a sister company also owned by Fortive. Prior to joining the Fortive family, Kate held a variety of finance positions at Eaton and the UTC/Carrier Corporation.

PTC [BOSTON, Massachusetts] (NASDAQ: PTC) announced the appointment of Kristian Talvitie as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective May 15, 2019. Talvitie previously worked at PTC from 2008 to 2016. From 2002 to 2008, Talvitie worked at electronics contract manufacturer Plexus in roles as market sector vice president, leading sales and business development, and vice president of corporate marketing. He joined PTC in 2008 and served in various executive finance roles. He left PTC in 2016 to become CFO at SaaS and subscription company Sovos, and in 2018 joined software company Syncsort as CFO. Talvitie replaces Andrew Miller, who announced in January 2019 his intention to retire by the end of fiscal 2019.

Imperva, Inc. [REDWOOD SHORES, California] announced the appointment of Jim Dildine as chief financial officer. Prior to joining Imperva, he held key financial leadership roles at Blue Coat Systems and Symantec’s Enterprise Security division, where he served for the past two and a half years.

Performance Trust Capital Partners, LLC [CHICAGO, Illinois] announced that Jason Carver joined as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, he served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for the Global Trading division of FIS.

Bill Ruehle

Bitvore [IRVINE, California] announced it has named Bill Ruehle as CFO. Ruehle became CFO of Silicon Valley-based SynOptics Communications led the merger with Wellfleet that created Bay Networks. Following that, he joined Broadcom Corporation. Since leaving Broadcom, Ruehle has worked with a number of tech companies through his own advisory business. Most recently, he was CFO of ClariPhy through its successful sale to Inphi Corporation. Since that transaction he has been a member of the Board of Inphi.

Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc. (IAA), [WESTCHESTER, Illinois] a business unit of KAR Auction Services (NYSE: KAR), announced the appointment of Vance Johnston as chief financial officer. Most recently, Johnston served as chief financial officer for SP Plus Corporation. Prior to SP Plus, Johnston was chief financial officer for Furniture Brands International and held various positions at leading companies, such as Miami Jewish Health Systems, Royal Caribbean International, Burger King and OfficeMax. He started his career at Ernst & Young in the firm’s audit division.

VITAS® Healthcare [MIAMI, Florida] appointed Jeffrey M. Kreger as executive vice president (EVP) and chief financial officer (CFO). Kreger succeeds President and CFO David Wester who announced his retirement in early 2019 after a 22-year career at VITAS.

Kraton Corporation [HOUSTON, Texas] (NYSE: KRA) announced that it has appointed Atanas H. Atanasov to serve as the Company’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective May 6, 2019. Mr. Atanasov will assume the Chief Financial Officer role from Christopher H. Russell, the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer, who has also served as Interim Chief Financial Officer since November 2018. Atanasov most recently served as a Chief Financial Officer of Empire Petroleum Partners, LLC. Prior to joining Empire Petroleum Partners LLC in 2016, he served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of NGL Energy Partners. Mr. Atanasov also spent nine years with GE Capital in various finance roles of increasing responsibility.

Private Bancorp of America, Inc. [LA JOLLA, California] (OTCQX: PBAM) announced that Richard Pimentel will become the Chief Financial Officer of CalPrivate Bank effective May 1, 2019.

VIQ Solutions Inc. [PHOENIX, Arizona] (TSX-V: VQS) announced the appointment of Alexie Edwards as Chief Financial Officer, following the upcoming retirement of George Kempff. For the past six years he was Vice President Finance at Jonas Software. Jonas Software is one of the largest software divisions of Constellation Software.

Adverum Biotechnologies, Inc. [MENLO PARK, California] (NASDAQ: ADVM) announced the appointment of Thomas Leung as chief financial officer. Leung was most recently vice president, business operations at Counsyl, which was recently acquired by Myriad Genetics. Previously, he was a vice president at TPG Capital in San Francisco and Hong Kong. Leung began his career in investment banking at Morgan Stanley.

Beth Clymer

Jobcase [BOSTON, Massachusetts] announced the appointment of Beth Clymer as the company’s Chief Financial Officer effective May 2019. Clymer was most recently an Operating Partner at Bain Capital Private Equity. Prior to joining Bain Capital Private Equity, Clymber was a consultant at the Parthenon Group.

Veritas Farms, Inc. [FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida] (OTCQB: VFRM) announced the appointment of Michael D. Pelletier as its Chief Financial Officer. Pelletier was most recently Chief Financial Officer of Inter-Continental Cigar Corp. (ICCC) for over 20 years, from 1997 until joining the Company. Prior to his long career in the cigar industry, Mr. Pelletier held other senior accounting and finance roles, including Assistant Controller of Gold Coast Media, from 1995 to 1997, and Controller – Southeast of Hunter Douglas, Inc., from 1990 to 1995. Earlier in his career, Mr. Pelletier spent more than 4 years with Pelletier & Veal CPA’s.

CBRE Group, Inc. [LOS ANGELES, CA], (NYSE: CBRE) announced that Leah C. Stearns will join the company as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Ms. Stearns, who assumes her new role on May 15, was previously Senior Vice President and CFO for American Tower Corporation’s U.S. division. Stearns’ appointment enables Jim Groch to focus full time on his responsibilities as the company’s Global Group President and Chief Investment Officer. Stearns also previously served as Chief Executive Officer of American Tower’s EMEA division. American Tower.

Robert Thurman

Sunstates Security [RALEIGH, North Carolina] announced the promotion of Robert Thurman from Vice President of Finance to Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

TRAVELEX [LOS ANGELES, CA] announced the hiring of Subodh Karnad to the North American management team as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently he was the CFO for Nokia’s emerging consumer product business unit. Prior to Nokia, Subodh led Finance for PayPal’s Global Product and Technology function. Prior to PayPal, Subodh was Vice President of Finance at VISA, this after spending several years in his early career across various finance roles at PayPal and Wells Fargo.

Cipherloc Corporation [AUSTIN, TX] (OTCQB: CLOK) announced the appointment of James Sullivan as Chief Financial Officer. Sullivan previously served as CFO of two Nasdaq-listed companies: MoSys Inc. and 8×8, Inc. He also served as CFO of Apptera, Inc.

American Jewish University [LOS ANGELES, CA] announced the appointment of Adrian Breitfeld as the university’s next Vice President of Finance and Administration/Chief Financial Officer effective June 1st. Breitfeld is currently the Chief Financial Officer of the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. During his career, Breitfeld also held the position of Controller at the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, as well as a five-year stint as Controller of Jewish Family Service of Greater Los Angeles. Breitfeld will succeed Zofia Yalovsky who is retiring after 22 years of service to AJU as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial, Administration and Technology Officer.

Skyn ICELAND [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Linda Esposito to the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Esposito’s most recent roles were Senior Vice President Finance at L’Oréal Paris and Chief Financial Officer of Kiehl’s. Prior to her role at L’Oréal Paris, Ms. Esposito was the SVP, Finance at IT Cosmetics.

CFO Moves – week ending April 19, 2019

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CFO Moves this week include:

Western Digital Corp. PRIDE Industries JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Pier 1 Imports, Inc. deepwatch, Inc. Ensysce Biosciences Inc.
KSQ Therapeutics One Madison Corporation J.Jill, Inc.
SunTrust Banks Inc. Georgia Power CenterPoint Energy, Inc.
Tweddle Group OpenWorks The Millennia Companies
The Hershey Company Funko, Inc. StoneMor Partners L.P.
InCloudCounsel CMI/Compas Unisys
Rennova Health, Inc

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Western Digital Corp. [SAN JOSE, CA] (NASDAQ: WDC) announced the appointment of Robert Eulau as executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO). Eulau will formally take over the CFO role from Mark Long on May 9, 2019, who will be leaving the company in June 2019. Eulau was most recently CEO at Sanmina Corporation where he previously served for eight years as CFO. Previously, Eulau held chief financial officer positions at Alien Technology Corporation and Rambus Incorporated, and held a number of financial leadership roles at Hewlett-Packard Company.

Everett Crane

PRIDE Industries [ROSEVILLE, CA] announced the appointment of Everett Crane as Chief Financial Officer. Everett Crane is succeeding Jeff Dern, who was promoted to President of PRIDE Industries in 2018. In his prior position, Crane served as the CFO of the Young Automotive Group in Layton, UT.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. [NEW YORK, NY] (NYSE:JPM) announced that Jennifer Piepszak, currently Chief Executive Officer of its Card Services business, will become Chief Financial Officer for the company and a member of its Operating Committee, effective May 1, 2019. Ms. Piepszak succeeds Marianne Lake, who will become Chief Executive Officer of Consumer Lending, which includes Card Services, Home Lending and Auto Finance. Prior to heading Card Services, Ms. Piepszak served as CEO of the firm’s Business Banking unit, and prior to that she held a variety of other senior roles, including CFO of Mortgage Banking and Controller of Mortgage Banking and Retail Financial Services. She joined JPMorgan Chase in 1994 and held a variety of roles in the Corporate & Investment Bank as well.

Pier 1 Imports, Inc. [FORT WORTH, TX] (NYSE: PIR) announced that Deborah Rieger-Paganis will assume the role of Interim Chief Financial Officer. Her appointment follows Nancy Walsh’s departure from the Company. Ms. Rieger-Paganis is employed as a managing director at global consulting firm AlixPartners, where she has served as both an advisor and interim Chief Financial Officer to a range of companies, including Aritzia, Toms Shoes, Harris Interactive and Cirque du Soleil. Earlier in her career, she served as senior vice president of financial planning and analysis at MasterCard and as vice president of finance at Ann Taylor.

deepwatch, Inc. [DENVER & ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.] announced that Ron Peele has joined as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Peele was CFO at Revolution Health, AOL Greenhouse and EZ Communications. He held leadership roles at AOL/Time Warner Ventures and has served on the Boards of RedClinic, Surefire Local and InfuSystem. Reskusic was VP, Controller at Vivisimo which was acquired by IBM and more recently at Fidelis Cybersecurity. He also held finance leadership roles at Kastle Systems and RealNetworks.

Ensysce Biosciences Inc. [SAN DIEGO, CA] announced that Kurt Schmidt has been appointed as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. Schmidt recently held positions at healthcare companies MDxHealth and Agendia where he was CFO.

Doug Pagan

KSQ Therapeutics [CAMBRIDGE, MA] announced the appointment of Douglas Pagán as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining KSQ, Mr. Pagán was Chief Financial Officer of Paratek Pharmaceuticals. Prior to Paratek, Mr. Pagán served as Vice President, Finance at Acceleron Pharma Inc. Prior to working at Acceleron, he served in strategic and financial management roles at Biogen Idec and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Previously, Mr. Pagán worked in healthcare investment banking at J.P. Morgan, as well as pharmaceutical operational roles at Johnson & Johnson.

One Madison Corporation [NEW YORK, NY] (NYSE: OMAD, OMAD.U, OMAD.WS) and Ranpak Corp. today announced the appointment of Trent Meyerhoefer as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), effective as of, and contingent on, the consummation of the business combination between One Madison and Ranpak, which is expected to occur in the second quarter of 2019. Meyerhoefer comes to the Company following a 24-year career at Eaton Corporation, where he served most recently as Senior Vice President and Treasurer. During his time at Eaton, Mr. Meyerhoefer also served as Vice President and Assistant Treasurer; Director, Capital Markets; Director, Corporate Planning; Director, Business Development; and Manager, Strategic Planning. Prior to joining Eaton, he was a Senior Consultant at Accenture Ltd. (then doing business as Andersen Consulting).

J.Jill, Inc. [QUINCY, MA] (NYSE: JILL) announced the appointment of Mark Webb as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, effective May 1, 2019. The company had previously announced that Chief Financial and Operating Officer Dave Biese will be leaving the company on April 30, 2019. Most recently, Mr. Webb was Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Planning & Analysis and Treasury Officer at Hudson’s Bay Company. He previously was with Gap, Inc. from 1995 through 2017 in multiple leadership roles including Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Gap Brand and Intermix.

SunTrust Banks Inc. [ATLANTA, GA] (STIS), said CFO Allison Dukes plans to resign following the closing of the bank’s planned merger with BB&T Corp. Ms. Dukes will remain in her current role until the merger is closed and will continue to have a key role in integration planning.

David Poroch

Georgia Power [ATLANTA, GA] appointed David Poroch as executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer. Poroch began his career with Southern Company in 2012 as vice president and chief audit executive for Southern Company Services. Most recently, he has served as Georgia Power vice president and comptroller since 2014. Prior to joining Southern Company, he was a partner with Deloitte & Touche LLP.

Xia Liu

CenterPoint Energy, Inc. [HOUSTON, TX] (NYSE: CNP) announced the appointment of Xia Liu as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Liu joins CenterPoint Energy from The Southern Company and its subsidiary companies where she held roles of increasing responsibility over the past 20 years. Most recently, Liu served as executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer of Georgia Power Company. Prior to this role, Liu was vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer for Gulf Power Company. She also served as senior vice president of finance and treasurer for Southern Company.

Archie Meyers

Tweddle Group [CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich.] named Archie Meyers new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). He previously served as CFO for Metal Powder Products, LLC and Revere Plastics Systems, LLC.

Bryan McMahon

OpenWorks [PHOENIX] welcomed Bryan McMahon as its new Chief Financial Officer.

 

Jim Brady

The Millenia Companies [CLEVELAND, OH] announced Jim Brady as chief financial officer (CFO). Brady is succeeding John W. McGinty, who is remaining with the organization. Most recently, Brady served as vice president of financial planning and analysis for Forest City Realty Trust and as chief financial officer of the residential and commercial group for Forest City Enterprises.

Steve Voskuil

The Hershey Company [HERSHEY, PA] (NYSE: HSY) announced the appointment of Steve Voskuil as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. Voskuil will join Hershey on May 13. Voskuil joins Hershey from Avanos Medical, where he has served as Chief Financial Officer since 2014. He previously served as a senior finance executive at Kimberly-Clark. Voskuil succeeds Patricia Little, who, as previously announced, will retire in May.

Funko, Inc. [EVERETT, WA] (NASDAQ: FNKO) announced that Russell Nickel, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer since 2013, intends to leave the Company at the end of 2019.

StoneMor Partners L.P. [TREVOSE, PA] (NYSE: STON), announced that Garry P. Herdler has been appointed Senior Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Herdler will succeed Mark Miller, who is retiring from the Partnership. Most recently, Herdler was the Chief Financial Officer of QuadReal Property Group. Prior to his CFO role at QuadReal, Mr. Herdler was a Senior Director in the Private Equity Performance Improvement Group of Alvarez & Marsal Consultants in New York. Previously, Mr. Herdler acted as a financial consultant and CFO for various private equity-owned companies, responsible for operational improvements, business integration and turnarounds. He also has nearly ten years of investment banking experience in leveraged finance and equities with Deutsche Bank Securities/Bankers Trust and CIBC World Markets, primarily in New York, where he completed transactions in several industries, including deathcare.

InCloudCounsel [SAN FRANCISCO, CA] announced the hire of Jeff Bohl as its Chief Financial Officer. Jeff joins InCloudCounsel from H.I.G. Capital, where he served as Managing Director. Prior to H.I.G. Capital, he worked as an investment banker in JPMorgan’s technology division.

CMI/Compas [KING OF PRUSSIA, PA], part of WPP (NYSE: WPP) announced that John Donovan, has been promoted to President, Compas. He was formerly Chief Financial Officer. James Woodland has been appointed Chief Strategy and Financial Officer. He was formerly Chief Operating Officer.

Unisys Corporation [BLUE BELL, PA] (NYSE: UIS) announced that Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Inder M. Singh has decided to resign from the company effective April 26 to serve as CFO with another company. Unisys has appointed Mike Thomson, corporate controller and principal accounting officer, as interim CFO. Thomson joined Unisys in December 2015. Prior to joining Unisys, Thomson served as principal accounting officer and controller of Towers Watson & Company, and has worked in various accounting and financial reporting roles for more than 25 years across a diverse set of business operations.

Rennova Health, Inc. [WEST PALM BEACH, FL] (OTC: RNVA, RNVAW) announced that it has appointed Jonathan Immordino to the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Immordino has held senior level healthcare executive roles in finance and operations for the past 20 years in both public and privately held companies, including seven years as Chief Financial Officer at Saint John’s Episcopal Hospital, NY. Prior to his appointment with Rennova, Mr. Immordino was interim CFO at MRI Network/Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital.

CFO Moves – week ending April 12, 2019

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CFO Moves this week include:

MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. Blueknight Energy Partners, L.P. Akili Interactive
GoGuardian Majesco Cognex Corporation
Graybar Allbridge Palladin Consumer Retail Partners, LLC
Global Knowledge Canterbury Park Holding Corporation Ostrow Reisin Berk & Abrams, Ltd. (ORBA)
Silver Bullet Water Treatment Alico, Inc. Hallmark Financial Services, Inc.
PinnacleART Sportsman’s Warehouse Holdings, Inc. Unifi Software Inc
CPS Technologies Corp. C&A Industries Inc. Curion Insights
BackOffice Associates Aceable Plus Products Inc.
Ventura Foods Anritsu Corporation The Hennessey Group
Drexel Hamilton Grow Capital ClickBank
Owens-Illinois

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MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. [LOWELL, MA] (NASDAQ: MTSI) announced that Robert McMullan, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), has submitted his resignation. The company also announced Conor Hegarty, Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis has been appointed to the role of principal financial officer and principal accounting officer. Mr. Hegarty has been with MACOM for 22 years and has served as Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis of MACOM, since August 2016. Previously, he served as Senior International Finance Director from March 2011 to August 2016.

Blueknight Energy Partners, L.P. [OKLAHOMA CITY, OK] (NASDAQ: BKEP, NASDAQ: BKEPP) named Andrew Woodward as the new Chief Financial Officer. Woodward will begin his new role on April 29. Prior to joining Blueknight Energy Partners, Woodward served as Vice President, Finance and Treasurer of Andeavor Logistics. Before his appointment, Woodward led investor relations for ANDX and started his career with Andeavor, now Marathon Petroleum. Woodward also served as Vice President at RBC Capital Markets within its energy investment banking group.

Santosh Shanbhag

Akili Interactive [IRVING, TX] announced the addition of Santosh Shanbhag as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Akili, Shanbhag held senior finance leadership roles at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, most recently as Vice President and Head of International Finance and Accounting. Prior to Vertex, Shanbhag served in positions of increasing responsibility at Capgemini Consulting and Texas Instruments.

GoGuardian [EL SEGUNDO, CA] announced that Mike Jonas has joined its executive team as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Jonas most recently served as the CFO of ThriftBooks. Prior to that position, Mr. Jonas was at Microsoft for 14 years where he held various senior financial and operational roles across the company in corporate finance and Microsoft Office and Bing business units.

Majesco [MORRISTOWN, NJ] (NASDAQ: MJCO) announced the appointment of Wayne Locke as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Wayne joins the company from Capgemini, where he was responsible for financial and operational consulting services for insurance organizations. Prior to that he was the President of WEL Consulting LLC firm. Over the course of his career, he worked with companies including AIG, Deloitte Consulting, GE Capital, BNY and Swiss Re.

Cognex Corp. [NATICK, MA] (NASDAQ: CGNX) said its senior vice president of finance and administration and chief financial officer, John Curran, will resign, effective May 3.

Scott Clifford

Graybar [CLAYTON, MO] announced the appointment of Randall R. Harwood to Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer and Scott S. Clifford to Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective June 1, 2019. Harwood currently serves as Graybar’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, a position he has held since 2013. Harwood has more than 40 years with Graybar and has a strong track record of leadership in both field and corporate executive roles. Clifford currently serves as Senior Vice President – Supply Chain Management, a position he has held since 2015. In his 25 years with Graybar, Clifford has successfully held senior leadership roles in finance, IT, strategy and supply chain management. As he moves into his new position as Chief Financial Officer, he will continue to lead Graybar’s IT and supply chain organizations. Both Harwood and Clifford also serve on Graybar’s board of directors.

Allbridge [RALEIGH, NC] announced that Mike Schaffer has joined as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Most recently, Schaffer was the CFO for SICOM Systems, Inc. Prior to SICOM, Schaffer held multiple executive level positions including CFO for Scala; CFO and Founder of Annexus Mobile Solutions; and Sr. Vice President for GE Capital.

Palladin Consumer Retail Partners [BOSTON, MA] announced the recent hire of a new Chief Financial Officer & Chief Compliance Officer, Mary Courtney-O’Sullivan. John Lawrence has transitioned from CFO & CCO to Finance Partner. Most recently, Mary was Vice President of Finance and Assistant Treasurer at Advent International. Prior to Advent, Mary worked at The Bank of New York Mellon and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Global Knowledge [CARY, NC] appointed William Garrett as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Garrett joins Global Knowledge from his most recent position as CFO with Hybrid Enterprises.

Canterbury Park Holding Corporation [SHAKOPEE, MN] (NASDAQ: CPHC) announced that Robert M. Wolf has resigned as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance, effective April 19, 2019, to accept a position at NXC Imaging. Canterbury Park Chief Executive Officer and President Randy Sampson will serve as Interim CFO until a successor is found.

Cara Sample

Ostrow Reisin Berk & Abrams, Ltd. (ORBA) [CHICAGO, IL] announced the appointment of Cara Sample as Chief Financial Officer. She has more than 14 years of experience in both public and corporate accounting.

Silver Bullet Water Treatment [DENVER, CO], LLC announced that it has chosen Bradley “Brad” Walsh as the organization’s chief executive officer and board member. Brad previously served as Silver Bullet’s chief operating officer and chief financial officer. Brad joined Silver Bullet Water Treatment in January 2016. He started his career in 1993 and has worked for multiple Fortune 500 companies.

Alico, Inc. [FORT MYERS, FL] (NASDAQ: ALCO) Effective July 1, 2019, John E. Kiernan, who has served as Alico’s Chief Financial Officer for the last four years, will become Chief Executive Officer. Richard Rallo, who has served as Alico’s Chief Accounting Officer for the last two years, will succeed Mr. Kiernan as Chief Financial Officer. Before joining Alico, Mr. Kiernan was the CFO of Greenwich Associates, and held senior roles with Global Crossing, Misys plc, IBM and Bear Stearns. Mr. Rallo was previously employed as COO and CFO at American Medical Alert Corp., CFO at Tradewell, Inc., and Controller at Connoisseur Communications Partners LP.

Hallmark Financial Services, Inc. [FORT WORTH, TX] (NASDAQ: HALL) announced the appointment of Jeffrey Passmore as Chief Financial Officer. Passmore was promoted from his most recent position as Chief Accounting Officer for Hallmark Financial. He joined the company in 2002 and brings over 25 years of experience in finance and accounting leadership in the insurance industry.

PinnacleART [PASADENA, TX] announced the appointment of Andrew Susman as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to joining PinnacleART, Susman served as Vice President Upstream Financial Planning & Analysis at BP Upstream. Susman has over 18 years of experience in the energy sector and has held a variety of finance roles, including Deepwater Area Planning & Commercial Manager; Director, Portfolio Upstream; and E&P Portfolio Advisor.

Robert Julian

Sportsman’s Warehouse Holdings, Inc. [MIDVALE, UT] (NASDAQ: SPWH) announced the appointment of Robert K. Julian as Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), effective April 24, 2019. Kevan Talbot will continue to serve as Chief Financial Officer until the effective date of Mr. Julian’s appointment and will then assist in the transition of responsibilities to Mr. Julian until a date to be determined between Mr. Talbot and the Company. Julian most recently served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer for Deluxe Entertainment Services Group from July 2017 to June 2018. Prior to that, Mr. Julian served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Callaway Golf Company from May 2015 to April 2017, and as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Lydall Inc. from October 2012 to May 2015. Previously in his career, Julian held senior financial roles at Rockwell International, Honeywell, Cisco Systems, and Fisher Scientific.

Unifi Software [SAN MATEO, CA] announced that Intekhab Nazeer has joined as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Unifi, Nazeer was the COO and CFO at Tribal Planet. Nazeer started his career with HCL group. He served as global finance head for Solix Group before holding leadership positions at Platfora (acquired by Workday), Greenplum (acquired by EMC), Appcelerator (acquired by Axway) and Pelikan Technologies.

CPS Technologies Corporation [NORTON, MA] (NASDAQ: CPSH) announced that Charles K. Griffith Jr. will be joining CPS as Chief Financial Officer upon the retirement of Ralph Norwood. Griffith’s appointment as CFO will be effective May 6, 2019. Griffith was most recently the CFO of SPRI Clinical Trials Global, LLC. Prior to joining SPRI, Mr. Griffith was the Vice President-Finance at Vertex Distribution (previously known as Pawtucket Fasteners and Bell Fasteners). He was at Vertex for 27 years.

Mike Morgan

C&A Industries Inc. [OMAHA, NE] announced the hiring of Mike Morgan as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining C&A, he served as Sr. Vice President of Finance with West Corporation; Chief Financial Officer with Streck; Chief Financial Officer with DRM, Inc.; and as Vice President of Finance with First Data. Morgan began his finance career with accounting firm Seim Johnson.

Curion Insights [CHICAGO, IL] announced that Mike Garibaldi has been named COO/CFO.

Melanie Payne

BackOffice Associates [SOUTH HARWICH, MA] announced that it has named Melanie Payne as its new Chief Financial Officer. In Payne’s most recent role, she served as Vice President of Strategy and Operations at Dell. Prior to this role, Payne served as Chief Audit Executive and as Senior Director of Global Services Operations and Strategy at EMC Corporation.

Justin Kvasnicka

Aceable [AUSTIN, TX] announced the hiring of Justin Kvasnicka as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Aceable, Kvasnicka spent over five years at RetailMeNot, Inc. where he served as Vice President, Corporate & Business Development, as well as the CFO of the company’s Gift Card segment. He also worked at Capital Southwest Corporation, and at J.P. Morgan, where he was an Investment Banking Analyst.

Plus Products Inc. [SAN MATEO, CA] (“PLUS” or the “Company”) (CSE: PLUS) (OTCQB: PLPRF) announced that Jon Paul has been appointed as PLUS’ Chief Financial Officer. The Company also announces that Craig Heimark has resigned as the Chief Financial Officer and has been appointed as the Chief Strategy Officer, and will remain as Chairman, Secretary and a Director.

Ventura Foods [BREA, CA] announced that Erika Noonburg-Morgan joined the company as Chief Financial Officer on March 11. She joins Ventura Foods from Coca-Cola Beverages Florida. Noonburg-Morgan was a senior member of the leadership team responsible for starting the business and driving the organization’s financial, commercial and operations strategy.

Anritsu Corporation [MORGAN HILL, CA] announced that it has named Donn Mulder President and Chief Financial Officer of Anritsu Company, the United States subsidiary of Anritsu Corporation. Mulder succeeds Toru Wakinaga who held this position, as well as responsibility for the overall sales operations in the Anritsu Americas Sales Region, since September 2017. Mulder joined Anritsu as Product Marketing Manager in 1992, and has served as a Senior Vice President and General Manager of Anritsu Company since 2005.

The Hennessey Group [MIDLAND, TX] appointed Kayce Hyatt to the position of chief financial officer. Kayce joined The Hennessey Group in 2016 as the business manager. In 2017, Kayce became the vice president of operations until her recent promotion to chief financial officer.

Drexel Hamilton [NEW YORK, NY] announced Fred Schwark will be the new Chief Financial Officer. Most recently Fred served as the CFO at CRH Americas Materials.

Grow Capital [HENDERSON, NV] (OTCPK: GRWC) appointed Trevor Hall to serve as Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) of the Company effective now through December 31, 2019. Hall succeeds Wayne Zallen, the Company’s current CFO, who welcomes Hall into the position and who will remain with the Company as Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors. Hall has served as the Managing Partner of Hall & Associates since 2007.

ClickBank [BOISE, ID], announced Ryan Vestal as Chief Financial Officer. Vestal has nearly two decades of experience beginning with KPMG and moving into ascending roles with leading Boise-based companies including KTVB News Group, Bodybuilding.com and most recently as the CFO of Vacasa.

Owens-Illinois [PERRYSBURG, OH] (NYSE: OI) announced that John Haudrich has been appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, as Jan Bertsch has elected to step down and retire after serving as CFO since November 2015. Most recently, Haudrich served as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy and Integration Officer at O-I.

CFO Moves – week ending April 5, 2019

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CFO Moves this week include:

Hibbett Sports, Inc. Cognex Corporation BetterGIS
Applied Insight Sonos Intel Corporation
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Seibels Personalis, Inc.
Alcon Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated Akoya Biosciences, Inc.
C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. The Church Pension Group (CPG) ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Qualcomm Incorporated Alexander & Baldwin FGL Holdings
Karma Automotive Ontario International Airport ORBCOMM Inc.
Teradyne, Inc. Cavco Industries, Inc. SP Plus Corporation
VendEngine Financial Institutions, Inc. Generation NEXT Franchise Brands
Pacific West Bank Jet Edge Stoneweg U.S. LLC

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Hibbett Sports, Inc. [BIRMINGHAM, AL] (NASDAQ/GS: HIBB) announced that Scott J. Bowman, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, is resigning effective April 26, 2019, to pursue another opportunity.

Cognex Corporation [NATICK, MA] (NASDAQ: CGNX) announced that Senior Vice President of Finance & Administration and Chief Financial Officer John J. Curran will resign from Cognex, effective May 3, 2019.

BetterGIS [NOVATO, CA] announced that James Rodisch has been named Chief Financial Officer and a member of the company’s executive management team. Most recently, Rodisch was Vice President of Finance and Administration at the Center of Sustainable Energy. Prior to that, Rodisch was Assistant Dean, Academic Affairs, at DeVry University. Earlier in his career, he was President/COO for Abington Health Alliance Inc. His past experience also included executive positions at University of Phoenix, CompassLearning and Rady’s Children Hospital in San Diego.

Applied Insight [ASHBURN, VA] announced Mehdi Cherqaoui as CFO. Cherqaoui formerly was CFO and COO of Phacil and earlier held senior finance and M&A roles with PAE, URS, PwC and KPMG.

Sonos [SANTA BARBARA, CA] (NASDAQ: SONO) announced that Brittany Bagley will join the company’s executive management team as its new Chief Financial Officer, effective April 22, 2019. Bagley replaces current CFO Mike Giannetto who will retire in June. Bagley was previously a Managing Director at global investment firm KKR & Co., where she has held various roles on the technology, media, and telecom (TMT) private equity team since 2007. Bagley was a member of KKR’s original Sonos investment team in 2012 and has served on the Sonos Board for the past two years. In anticipation of assuming her new role, Bagley is stepping down from the Sonos Board of Directors. Bagley has served as a Director on the boards of Sonos, Savant, Transphorm and WebMD. Prior to joining KKR, Bagley was an analyst at The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Intel Corporation [SANTA CLARA, CA] announced the appointment of George S. Davis as executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO). Davis joins Intel from Qualcomm Inc., where he served as executive vice president and CFO since March 2013. Prior to Qualcomm, Davis served six years as CFO for Applied Materials.

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. [HERCULES, CA] (NYSE: BIO and BIOb) announced the appointment of Ilan Daskal as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Daskal comes to Bio-Rad from Lumileds, where he served as Chief Financial Officer. He has over 25 years of experience in senior financial roles and has held several CFO positions at both public and private companies that include International Rectifier Corporation and Infineon.

Brad Gipson

Seibels [COLUMBIA, SC] announced the appointment of Brad Gipson to Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Most recently, Gipson was Chief Property Actuary at Gulfstream Property and Casualty Insurance and business process services (BPS) client of Seibels. Prior to Gulfstream, Mr. Gipson served as CFO of Enumclaw Insurance Group. Mr. Gipson also worked at Farmers Insurance and 20th Century Insurance Company.

Personalis, Inc. [MENLO PARK, CA] announced the appointment of Aaron Tachibana as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Mr. Tachibana served as Chief Financial Officer of Lumentum Holdings Inc. and led the finance organization following Lumentum’s spin out from JDS Uniphase Corp. Prior to joining Lumentum, Mr. Tachibana was Vice President of Finance at JDS Uniphase (which changed its name to Viavi Solutions Inc. in connection with the spin out of Lumentum).

Alcon [FORT WORTH, TX], a division of Novartis, announced that Timothy C. Stonesifer will join the company as its new Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), in conjunction with the company’s April 9 spinoff from Novartis. David Murray, Alcon’s current CFO, has decided for family reasons to return to Europe and remain with Novartis, where he has served in various finance leadership roles since 2001. Tim was most recently with Hewlett Packard Enterprises (HPE), where he served as Executive Vice President and CFO. Prior to his time at HPE, Tim spent 3 years in Shanghai, China, as the CFO of General Motors International Operations and also spent 18 years at General Electric in a variety of finance roles.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated [BOSTON, MA] (NASDAQ: VRTX) announced the appointment of Charles (Charlie) Wagner as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Wagner replaces interim CFO, Paul Silva, who will continue in his role as Corporate Controller. Wagner joins Vertex from Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, Inc., where he served as CFO and EVP, Finance. Prior to this, Wagner served as CFO for publicly- traded Bruker Corporation, Progress Software Corporation and Millipore Corporation. In addition to his corporate finance roles, Mr. Wagner served as an advisor at Bain & Company and Coopers & Lybrand.

Akoya Biosciences, Inc. [MENLO PARK, CA] announced the appointment of Joseph Driscoll as Chief Financial Officer. Driscoll most recently served as CFO at Quanterix Corporation. He also served as CFO at several other public and private companies, including Verscend, Inc., PC Connection, Inc., Summer Infant, Inc., ACT Electronics, Inc., and Safety 1st, Inc. In addition, Mr. Driscoll held senior management positions at Staples, Inc., and he started his career as an Audit Manager of KPMG Peat Marwick.

C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. [EDEN PRAIRIE, MN] (NASDAQ: CHRW) announced that Scott Hagen, Corporate Controller, will also serve as Interim Chief Financial Officer.

Ellen Taggart

The Church Pension Group (CPG) [NEW YORK, NY] announced the appointment of Ellen Taggart as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and Treasurer. She replaces former CFO Dan Kasle, who retired after 17 years of service to CPG. Prior to her appointment, Ms. Taggart served as Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning and Project Management of CPG. Before CPG, she served as a Senior Vice President of Finance and CFO at Dun & Bradstreet, where she worked for 17 years.

Elena Ridloff

ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc. [SAN DIEGO, CA] (NASDAQ: ACAD) announced the promotion of Elena Ridloff to Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Ridloff joined ACADIA Pharmaceuticals in April 2018 as Senior Vice President, Investor Relations and has served as the company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer since October 2018. Prior to joining ACADIA, she was Vice President, Investor Relations at Alexion Pharmaceuticals and served as a member of the Operating Committee. Additionally, Ms. Ridloff was Chief Executive Officer and Managing Member of BIOVISIO. She was also a Managing Director at Maverick Capital.

Qualcomm Incorporated [SAN DIEGO, CA] (NASDAQ: QCOM) announced that George Davis has decided to leave the company after a six-year tenure, during which he served as CFO and was a member of Qualcomm’s Executive Committee. The company appointed David Wise, SVP and Treasurer, as interim CFO during the search for a permanent replacement. Wise joined Qualcomm in 1997 and has held a variety of roles in Finance, and Corporate Development and Strategy since that time. He has been part of the senior finance leadership team for more than 12 years. Wise is currently Senior Vice President and Treasurer. Previously, Wise led Strategy and Corporate Development for Qualcomm’s non-semiconductor businesses and ran Corporate Finance for several years overseeing Qualcomm’s overall financial planning and analysis.

Alexander & Baldwin [HONOLULU, HI] (NYSE: ALEX) named Brett A. Brown as executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective May 8. Brown will succeed Diana Laing, who will continue as interim chief financial officer through May 7. Brown comes to A&B from PREP Property Group, where he currently serves as chief financial officer and treasurer. Prior to that, Brown served as executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer for IRC Retail Centers/Inland Real Estate Corporation. He also held financial and executive leadership positions with Great Lakes REIT and its predecessor, Equity Partners Ltd.

FGL Holdings [DES MOINES, Iowa] (NYSE: FG) announced that Dennis Vigneau, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO), has decided to retire from F&G at the end of 2019.

Ashoka Achuthan

Karma Automotive [COSTA MESA, CA] announced Ashoka Achuthan as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Achuthan comes to Karma from Westport Fuel Systems Inc., where he was CFO and a senior advisor since 2013. Prior to Westport, Achuthan spent 23 years at Siemens AG in Asia, Europe and North America, where his last position was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He served in similar CFO roles at Cooper Industries Inc., ATC Technology Corp., and Coda Automotive.

John Schubert

Ontario International Airport Authority  [ONTARIO, CA] named John M. Schubert chief financial officer. Schubert had been senior director of finance for the Tucson Airport Authority for the past decade.

ORBCOMM Inc. [ROCHELLE PARK, NJ] (NASDAQ: ORBC) announced the promotion of Dean Milcos to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, upon the resignation of Mike Ford, who previously held that position. Milcos joined ORBCOMM in 2013 and most recently served as ORBCOMM’s Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer since 2013 and Interim Chief Financial Officer from May to September 2018. Prior to joining ORBCOMM, Mr. Milcos served in various accounting roles at Medco Health Solutions, most recently serving as Vice President, SEC Reporting, Technical Accounting and Controls from 2008 to 2013.

Teradyne, Inc. [NORTH READING, MA] (NASDAQ: TER) announced that Sanjay Mehta will join the company on April 25, 2019 as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, replacing Gregory Beecher who announced his planned retirement earlier this year. Mehta joins Teradyne from Qualcomm where he served in senior financial and leadership roles in Qualcomm’s semiconductor group (QCT), including segment Chief Financial Officer from 2010 to 2015. Most recently, he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Compute and XR Business from 2018 and President of QCT China from 2016 to 2018. Prior to joining Qualcomm in 2004, he held several progressive finance and marketing roles at Nortel Networks. Mr. Mehta started his career in 1992 at Price Waterhouse Canada and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1995.

SP Plus Corporation [CHICAGO, IL] (NASDAQ: SP) announced that Vance Johnston, Chief Financial Officer, will be leaving the company, effective April 18, 2019, to pursue another opportunity. Kristopher Roy, the Company’s Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller, will serve as interim Chief Financial Officer and principal financial officer of the Company. Mr. Roy will continue to serve as the Company’s principal accounting officer. Roy joined the Company in 2013 as the Company’s Vice President, Assistant Controller and has served as the Company’s Vice President and Corporate Controller from August 2014 to July 2015. Prior to that, Mr. Roy was the Global Director of Accounting, Consolidation and Financial Systems at CNH Industrial N.V. and its predecessor. Prior to that, Mr. Roy spent 12 years with Ernst & Young, LLP.

Michelle Romano

VendEngine [BRENTWOOD, TN] announced the addition of Michelle Romano as chief financial officer. Prior to joining VendEngine, Romano was a tax accountant at Davis, Brown and Company.

Financial Institutions, Inc. [WARSAW, NY] (NASDAQ: FISI), parent company of Five Star Bank, SDN Insurance Agency, LLC, Courier Capital, LLC, and HNP Capital, LLC, announced that Justin K. Bigham was named Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Kevin B. Klotzbach, former Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer for the Company, was named Executive Vice President, Senior Financial Advisor. Mr. Klotzbach will remain with the Company through December 31, 2019, to ensure a successful transition.

Generation Next Franchise Brands [SAN DIEGO, CA] (OTCQB: VEND) announced Ryan Polk as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of the Company. Polk began working for Generation Next as a consultant in early January. Polk replaces Art Budman as CFO who is leaving the Company. Before joining the Company, Polk served as the CFO and COO of Cellpoint Corporation. The previous six years, he filled executive roles in the portfolio companies owned by LDI, a family office based in Indianapolis. Polk also served as the Vice President Corporate FP&A for Brightpoint, prior to its sale to Ingram Micro.

Jason Wessling

Pacific West Bank [WEST LINN, ORE.] (OTCPK: PWBO) announced today that Jason Wessling has joined Pacific West Bank as its Chief Financial Officer. Mr Wessling’s recent executive role was serving as Chief Financial Officer of Premier Community Bank in Hillsboro, Oregon. Prior experience includes three years at Moss Adams, a regional accounting firm. Prior to Moss Adams, Mr. Wessling spent eight years at both a large regional bank and a local community bank in the Portland metro market.

Jet Edge [VAN NUYS, CA] hired their new Chief Financial Officer, Michael Sanders. Sanders comes to Jet Edge from the consumer product and fashion industries. He started his career at Ernst & Young in their mergers and acquisitions division.

Robert J. Brehl

Stoneweg U.S. LLC [ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.] announced the promotion of Robert J. Brehl to Chief Financial Officer. Rob joined Stoneweg U.S., LLC in April 2018 as the Vice President of Finance. Rob began his career at a “Big Four” public accounting firm before joining a seniors housing owner/management company and then a real estate investment trust as a finance and accounting executive.

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