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CFO Moves – week ending January 11, 2019

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CFO Moves this week include:

Rand Logistics, Inc. Armstrong Flooring, Inc. Target Corporation
UiPath Coty Inc. Cummins Inc.
Agero, Inc. Destination Maternity Corporation Angel Island Capital
Lamar Advertising Company VSBLTY Welty Building Company
Perfecta Jackson Healthcare AST
Bioasis Technologies Inc. Cyanotech Corporation Realty ONE Group
Carousel Industries Vertical Chanticleer Holdings, Inc.
Woodward, Inc. CBRE Group, Inc. Senseonics Holdings, Inc.
Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. ChemioCare USA Inc. Doximity
Gongos, Inc. RealPage, Inc. Alta Mesa Resources, Inc.
Insulet Corporation NCI Building Systems, Inc. Chase Corporation
BankMobile HireVue The AZEK Company

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J.D. Kern

Rand Logistics, Inc. [Jersey City, NJ] recently hired J.D. Kern as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Kern spent four years at FlexiVan, Inc. as its Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Among his earlier positions, Mr. Kern spent three years as a Controller at Archive Systems and four years as Corporate Controller at Amber Road. His career also includes positions at PTC Therapeutics, Sara Lee Corporation and Deloitte & Touche LLP.

Armstrong Flooring, Inc. [LANCASTER, Pa.] (NYSE: AFI) announced that Douglas B. Bingham, Vice President, Treasury and Investor Relations, has been promoted to Senior Vice President, CFO & Treasurer, effective January 4, 2019. Bingham succeeds Ronald D. Ford, who resigned from the Company on January 4, 2019 to pursue other interests. Bingham has served as the Company’s Vice President, Treasury and Investor Relations since its separation from Armstrong World Industries, Inc., on April 1, 2016. He also managed the Company’s finance teams in China and Australia. Prior to the separation, he served as AWI’s Director, Treasury, and Risk Management since 2014, and as General Manager, Finance, Building Products Asia Pacific from 2011 to 2014. He joined AWI in 2007.

Target Corporation [MINNEAPOLIS] (NYSE: TGT) announced that Chief Financial Officer Cathy Smith will be retiring from the Company. Smith will continue in her role as Chief Financial Officer until her successor is named, and then move to an advisory role until May 2020 to ensure a smooth transition.

Marie Myers

UiPath [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Marie Myers as its chief financial officer. Myers joins UiPath from HP where she served as the global controller and executive officer. She has spent the majority of her career at HP and Compaq, holding several leadership positions including vice president finance operations, printing and PC division and chief audit executive. UiPath’s previous CFO Mihai Faur will become corporate controller and chief accounting officer.

Coty Inc. [NEW YORK] (NYSE: COTY) announced Pierre-André Terisse has been appointed Chief Financial Officer, effective February 1, 2019. He spent the majority of his career at Danone, most notably as Group CFO of Danone for seven years and was General Manager of Danone’s Africa Division for three years. Pierre-André will be based in London.

Cummins Inc. [COLUMBUS, Ind.] (NYSE: CMI) announced that Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Pat Ward is retiring after 31 years and Mark Smith is succeeding him. Both moves are effective March 31, 2019. Mark Smith most recently serving as the Vice President of Financial Operations. In addition, Smith led the Investor Relations, Business Planning and Analysis, and Capital Management functions at Cummins.

Bill Gerraughty

Agero, Inc. [MEDFORD, Mass.] announced the appointment of Bill Gerraughty as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Agero, Bill filled the CFO role at several Boston-area technology companies. Most recently, he was CFO at OnProcess Technology. Prior to that, Bill held various finance-related leadership positions at Sparta Systems, NMS Communications, Infinium Software and others. Bill began his career at PwC in Boston and is currently a board member of LiveData, Inc.

Destination Maternity Corporation [MOORESTOWN, N.J.] (NASDAQ: DEST) announced the appointment of Dave J. Helkey to the position of Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, effective January 21, 2019. Mr. Helkey brings more than 20 years of financial and operating expertise to the role, most recently serving as the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Things Remembered. Previously, he was the Chief Financial Officer of two health care companies and worked in the finance department of Limited Brands.

Angel Island Capital [SAN FRANCISCO] announced the appointment Robert Ryan as Chief Financial Officer. Ryan was previously Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Archview Investment Group. Prior to that, he served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Ketchem Creek Capital Management LP, Chief Financial Officer of Funds at Chilton Investment Company LLC, and spent over seven years as the Controller at Satellite Asset Management LP.

Lamar Advertising Company [BATON ROUGE, La.] (NASDAQ: LAMR) announced that Keith A. Istre, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, has informed Lamar of his intent to retire from the company effective December 31, 2019, after more than 40 years of service.

VSBLTY [PHILADELPHIA] announced that Laurette J. Pitts has been named Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining VSBLTY, she worked in the gaming and hospitality industry for 26 years. She held various senior level positions with both public and private companies.

Mary Taylor

Welty Building Company [AKRON, Ohio] announced that Mary Taylor, Lieutenant Governor of the State of Ohio, will join the company January 14 as its Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Her term as Lieutenant Governor ends January 13. Don Taylor, Mary’s husband of 31 years, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the company. Mary Taylor is a recognized tax and auditing expert who, prior to serving as an elected official at the local, state and executive branches of Ohio government, spent 16 years in the private sector, including 12 years with current Welty auditing firm Bober Markey Fedorovich.

Perfecta [SPRINGFIELD, Va.] announced the appointment of Paul Mamros as Chief Financial Officer. Mamros joins Perfecta from Zippy Shell where he served as Chief Financial Officer since 2017. Previously, Mamros was Vice President of Finance for Career Education Foundation, and Director of Corporate Accounting, Reporting and Analysis for Verizon. Mamros began his career at Nestle Beverage.

Jackson Healthcare [ATLANTA] announced the appointment of Leslie Kurtz as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Kurtz was CFO at MedQuest Associates, and prior to that, she worked with multiple companies in accounting and operational finance leadership roles, including such brands as Right Management, Irwin & Browning and Coca-Cola Enterprises. Kurtz is the successor of prior Jackson Healthcare CFO Douglas Kline, who joined the company in 2005, and retired at the end of last month.

Brett D. Weinblatt

AST [NEW YORK] announced that Brett D. Weinblatt has joined as Chief Financial Officer. He was most recently Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Corporate Risk Holdings (formerly known as Altegrity). Prior to his time at Corporate Risk Holdings, during which he held multiple senior roles, Weinblatt was Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer at Avis Budget Group. Before that, he was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for multiple divisions at Alpharma.

Bioasis Technologies Inc. [GUILFORD, Conn.] (TSX-V: BTI; OTCQB: BIOAF) announced the appointment of Christine Antalik as chief financial officer. Antalik is the managing member of Founders Bridge Advisors, LLC and has served as chief financial officer of Aeromics, Inc. since October 2016. Previously, Antalik served as chief financial officer of SurgiQuest, Inc. Antalik was the vice president of finance and controller at HigherOne, Inc. Prior to HigherOne, Antalik served as controller for Tangoe, Inc. Antalik also previously served as controller and senior manager for Centerprise Advisors, Inc. (currently Marcum, LLP).

Cyanotech Corporation [KAILUA KONA, Hawaii] (NASDAQ CM: CYAN) announced that Brian B. Orlopp has been appointed Vice President Finance and Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary. He replaces Jole Deal, who has held these positions since 2011. Mr. Orlopp was VP-Finance, Asia Pacific from 2012 for Fresh Del Monte Produce based in Manila. Previously, he was CFO for Sumifru Corporation (joint venture with Sumitomo) based in Singapore. Before that, he was Senior VP/Finance for Hawaii Bioenergy LLC in Honolulu and VP/Strategic Planning for Maui Land & Pineapple Company in Kahului.

Gary Fabian

Realty ONE Group [LAGUNA NIGUEL, CALIF.] added Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Gary Fabian. Fabian’s experience includes serving as Senior Vice President of Finance at Bank of America/Countrywide Home Loans and CFO of Stearns Lending.

Carousel Industries [EXETER, R.I.] announced it has welcomed Jason Cherry as the company’s new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Cherry occupied a series of critical roles at General Electric, including Chief Financial Officer. Cherry joins us from Nielsen where he held the role of Chief Financial Officer, Lead Markets, along with Senior Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis.

Bill Sutman

Vertical [LOS ANGELES] announced it has appointed Bill Sutman as executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO). Sutman will succeed Jeff Silver, who continues with the company as a strategic advisor. Sutman’s most recent position was EVP, CFO & Treasurer for TEN: The Enthusiast Network. Prior to TEN, Sutman held CFO and Advisory roles in a number of different private companies. Sutman also served in a series of financial positions with NBC Universal, a division of General Electric, and its predecessor companies. He was EVP & CFO for the Media Works Group of NBC Universal which was responsible for NBC’s Broadcast and Network Operations, Universal’s Studios Production Operations and NBC Universal’s Information Technology. He also served as EVP & CFO for Universal Pictures. Sutman started his professional career in the New York office of Price Waterhouse. He then joined Joseph E. Seagram & Sons where he served as Director, European Treasury Operations and Vice President, Internal Audit until he transferred to Los Angeles upon Seagram’s acquisition of Universal Studios.

Chanticleer Holdings, Inc. [CHARLOTTE, N.C.] (NASDAQ: BURG) announced it has named Patrick Harkleroad as Chief Financial Officer. Harkleroad comes to Chanticleer with over 15 years of CFO experience.  During that time, Harkleroad was a CFO consultant with the Business Enhancement Group of Carolina Financial Group (CFG). Harkleroad served as the Chief Financial Officer for one of CFG’s portfolio companies, Trinity Frozen Foods, LLC.  Prior to his CFO role at Trinity, Harkleroad served as Chief Financial Officer of Landmark Leisure Group.

Woodward, Inc. [FORT COLLINS, Colo.] (NASDAQ: WWD) announced that Robert F. Weber, Jr., Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer has announced his intention to retire effective January 3, 2020, after more than 14 years as the CFO of the company. As part of the company’s succession planning for the Chief Financial Officer role, Jonathan “Jack” W. Thayer has joined the company effective today as Vice Chairman, Corporate Operations. Mr. Thayer will also be appointed to Chief Financial Officer on October 1, 2019, the beginning of Woodward’s fiscal year 2020. Mr. Weber will then transition into a senior consultant role supporting Mr. Gendron and the senior leadership team through his January 2020 retirement date. Thayer served as Chief Financial Officer of Exelon Corporation, from 2012 until his appointment in May 2018 to Chief Transformation Officer. Prior to his role at Exelon, Mr. Thayer served as Chief Financial Officer for Constellation Energy Group, Inc. from October 2008 until its acquisition by Exelon in 2012. Prior to Constellation Energy, Mr. Thayer held financial and investment banking positions at Deutsche Bank and SBC Warburg Dillon Read. Mr. Thayer has also been serving as a member of Woodward’s Board of Directors from 2016 until his resignation, which will become effective January 31, 2019, based upon joining the company’s management team.

CBRE Group, Inc. [LOS ANGELES] (NYSE: CBRE) announced plans to divide the responsibilities of its Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Investment Officer (CIO) into two senior executive positions. Jim Groch, who has led both financial management and capital deployment functions since early 2014, will transition to focus full-time on capital allocation and deployment. Groch will continue to serve as CFO until a successor is transitioned into the role.

Senseonics Holdings, Inc. [GERMANTOWN, Md.] (NYSE American: SENS) announced the appointment of Jon D. Isaacson as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Concurrently, and as previously announced, R. Don Elsey has stepped down from the position and will continue in an advisory role to ensure an orderly transition and completion of the company’s annual SEC filings for the 2018 fiscal year. Most recently Isaacson served as Chief Financial Officer of Edelman Financial Services. Prior to this role, Mr. Isaacson was a Managing Director at a private equity firm where he led the East Coast healthcare practice.

Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. [ALEXANDRIA, Va.] named Darla Moon as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining SPA, she served as CFO for the Patriot Group. Before that, Ms. Moon served as Senior Vice President, Business Operations and CFO at ManTech International Corporation

ChemioCare USA Inc. [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Chris Chipman as its Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Chipman has been a managing member of Chipman & Chipman, LLC, since November 2000. Mr. Chipman was Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of Capital Gold Corporation from 2006 to June 2011.

Doximity [SAN FRANCISCO] announced the appointment of James (Jim) S. Cox as the company’s chief financial officer (CFO). Cox joins Doximity from Glassdoor. Prior to Glassdoor, Cox was CFO at Lithium Technologies and Advent Software.

Debie Pomorski

Gongos, Inc. [ROYAL OAK, Mich.] names Debie Pomorski Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Pomorski has operated as Vice President, Finance & Administration since joining the company in 2012.

RealPage, Inc. [RICHARDSON, Texas] (NASDAQ: RP) announced the appointment of Tom Ernst as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Prior to joining RealPage, Ernst founded Tom Ernst Advisory (TEA) in 2015. Prior to TEA, Ernst led the Goldman Sachs Software Investment Banking Team globally and the Deutsche Bank Software U.S. Equity Research Team. He served as a Nuclear Engineer and Submarine Warfare Officer as well as other positions in the U.S. Navy.

Alta Mesa Resources, Inc. [HOUSTON] (NASDAQ: AMR) announced the appointment of John C. Regan as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Most recently he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Vine Oil and Gas LP. Previously, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Quicksilver Resources Inc., after having served as their Chief Accounting Officer. Mr. Regan was also employed by Flowserve Corporation where he held various financial positions of increasing responsibility.

Insulet Corporation [ACTON, Mass.] (NASDAQ: PODD) announced that Wayde McMillan has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective March 1, 2019, succeeding Michael Levitz. To ensure a smooth and successful transition, Mr. McMillan will join the Company in February and Mr. Levitz will continue with the Company in an advisory capacity for a period following the succession effective date. Most recently, Mr. McMillan served as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance of the Minimally Invasive Therapies Group at Medtronic. Prior to Medtronic’s acquisition of Covidien, he held a variety of leadership positions at Covidien, including Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance of the Medical Devices Group & U.S., Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance of the Surgical Solutions Business Unit, and Vice President of Finance and Controller of the Respiratory and Monitoring Solutions Business Unit.

NCI Building Systems, Inc. [CARY, N.C.] (NYSE: NCS) announced that Shawn K. Poe, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer has informed the Company of his plans to retire from his position, effective May 31, 2019.

Chase Corporation [Westwood, MA] (NYSE American: CCF) announced that Kenneth J. Feroldi, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer, has retired and that Christian J. Talma will be appointed Chief Financial Officer effective with our annual shareholders meeting scheduled for February 5, 2019. Talma was appointed Chief Accounting Officer in August 2018.

Bob Ramsey

BankMobile [New York] a division of Customers Bank, named Bob Ramsey as Chief Financial Officer. Ramsey joined Customers Bancorp in 2017 serving as Director of Strategic Planning and Investor Relations. Prior to joining Customers Bancorp, Ramsey served as senior equity research analyst at FBR Capital Markets. He previously worked at Wachovia Securities.

HireVue [SALT LAKE CITY] announced that David Bedell has joined the company as its Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Bedell was Vice President of Finance and Investor Relations at Instructure. Previously, he spent more than 13 years at Intuit, serving as Business Unit CFO for its payroll business unit and then as Head of Operational Finance for the company’s QuickBooks business. Earlier in his career, Bedell was a Senior Financial Analyst at Gateway, Inc.

The AZEK®Company [Chicago, Ill.] announced the appointment of Ralph Nicoletti as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Nicoletti was previously Senior Vice President and CFO at Newell Brands, Inc. He has also held positions at Tiffany & Company, Cigna Corporation, Alberto-Culver Company and Kraft Heinz.

CFO Moves – week ending December 21, 2018

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CFO Moves this week include:

McGraw-Hill Teladoc Health Seagate Technology
The Kroger Co. Stein Mart, Inc. Editas Medicine, Inc.
Combined Insurance Urban Commons Wind River
Social Reality, Inc. Compass Therapeutics Maya Cinemas
AutoWeb, Inc. Generation Bio Trinity Industries, Inc.
Agilence, Inc. Bovie Medical Corporation SeriousFun Children’s Network
SPX FLOW, Inc. NorthStar Medical Technologies, LLC Incipio® Group
Cuentas, Inc. Praxsyn Corporation ThreatX
New Senior Investment Group Inc.

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Mike Evans

McGraw-Hill [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Mike Evans as the company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective January 1, 2019. Previously, he served as chief operating officer and CFO at Renaissance and as CFO at Ruffalo Noel Levitz. Before that, Mr. Evans led Pearson’s K-12 literacy and math businesses as well as their Student Information business and K-12 technology organization. Before joining Pearson, Mr. Evans held senior positions at BigChalk, The Food Network and Primedia, Inc.

Teladoc Health [PURCHASE, NY] (NYSE: TDOC) that Mark Hirschhorn has resigned as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer for Teladoc Health, effective January 1, 2019. Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer, and Controller Gabriel Cappucci will coordinate all finance activity, until a permanent replacement is named.

Seagate Technology [CUPERTINO, Calif.] (NASDAQ: STX) announced that Gianluca Romano has been appointed executive vice president and chief financial officer. Romano will join Seagate January 7th, 2019. Gianluca most recently served as corporate vice president, business finance & accounting at Micron Technology. Prior to that, he held executive positions at Numonyx and STMicroelectronics.

Gary Millerchip

The Kroger Co. [CINCINNATI] (NYSE: KR) announced its succession plan for Chief Financial Officer. J. Michael Schlotman, Kroger’s Chief Financial Officer since 2000, has decided to retire in December of 2019. Mr. Schlotman will continue as CFO through the end of Kroger’s fiscal 2018 and up to April 3, 2019. He will then remain an executive vice president of the company and continue to sit on the senior leadership team to support the company during this transition period until December 28, 2019. Gary Millerchip, CEO of Kroger Personal Finance, will succeed Mr. Schlotman as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Kroger, effective April 4, 2019. Mr. Millerchip came to Kroger in 2010 from Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to lead Kroger Personal Finance. Prior to that, Mr. Millerchip was responsible for the Royal Bank of Scotland Personal Credit Card business in the UK. Mr. Millerchip joined RBS in 1987 and held leadership positions in multiple disciplines during his time there.

Stein Mart, Inc. [JACKSONVILLE, Fla.] (NASDAQ: SMRT) announced the appointment of James B. Brown as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”). Mr. Brown joins Stein Mart from Adrianna Papell Group, where he was CFO. He previously held CFO positions at Gordmans Stores and Hancock Fabrics and was Senior Vice President, Finance with Fred’s, Inc. Mr. Brown succeeds Gregory W. Kleffner, whose pending retirement was announced in October.

Editas Medicine, Inc. [CAMBRIDGE, Mass.] (NASDAQ: EDIT) announced that its Chief Financial Officer, Andrew Hack, will be stepping down from the Company, effective March 1, 2019, to return to the investment industry.

Combined Insurance [CHICAGO] a Chubb company, announced Chris Anderson as the company’s new Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. Anderson previously held the role of Controller at Combined Insurance. Anderson joined Combined Insurance four years ago and has 30 years of professional accounting and finance experience at a major accounting firm.

Salvatore G. Takoushian

Urban Commons [LOS ANGELES] announced the appointment of Salvatore G. Takoushian, as President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Takoushian was hired ahead of the acquisition of The Wagner at the Battery, New York City (formerly known as The Ritz-Carlton New York, Battery Park). Before Urban Commons, Mr. Takoushian was Managing Director in the Real Estate and Lodging Investment Banking Division at Jefferies Group LLC. At Jefferies, he served as trusted advisor to Urban Commons. Prior to Jefferies, Mr. Takoushian spent 11 years within the investment banking division of Citigroup Global Markets where he had similar responsibilities.

Wind River [ALAMEDA, Calif.] announced the appointment of Bryan LeBlanc as chief financial officer. Most recently, he served as CFO of startup Spire Global Inc., a space to cloud analytics company. Prior to Spire, Bryan was CFO of Jive Software for nine years. Previous to Jive, LeBlanc served in various finance positions at companies including Webtrends Inc., Mercury Interactive Corporation, and inSilicon Corporation.

Social Reality, Inc. [LOS ANGELES] (NASDAQ: SRAX) named Michael Malone as its new Chief Financial Officer. Malone most recently served as VP of Finance for Westwood One, LLC. Prior to Westwood, Malone held positions of rising responsibility at Cumulus Media and Citadel Broadcasting.

Compass Therapeutics [CAMBRIDGE, Mass.] announced the appointment of Lynne Sullivan as chief financial officer. Ms. Sullivan most recently served as senior vice president, finance at Biogen. Prior to Biogen, Ms. Sullivan served as a vice president overseeing tax function for Merck KGaA’s North American operations and was Serono’s Vice President, Tax, Americas and International for seven years. She was a tax partner in the Boston office of Arthur Andersen prior to joining Serono. She currently serves as director and chair of the audit committee for both resTORbio and Solid Biosciences.

Marc Walton

Maya Cinemas [PASADENA, Calif.] recently named Marc Walton as their new Chief Financial Officer. Previous to Maya, Marc worked for Millennia Housing Management, Ltd as their Chief Accounting Officer and for GK Management Co., Inc. as their Chief Financial Officer. Marc’s cinema exhibition experience includes 10 years at Reading International, Inc.

AutoWeb, Inc. [IRVINE, Calif.] (NASDAQ: AUTO) appointed J.P. Hannan as executive vice president, chief financial officer. Hannan succeeds Interim CFO Wes Ozima, who will remain at AutoWeb in his prior role as senior vice president, controller. Hannan is a media veteran with more than 20 years of public and private CFO experience across various organizations, including Social Reality (SRAX), Cumulus Media (CMLS), Modern Luxury Media and Lincoln Financial Media Company (LNC). Hannan has served on the board of directors for several technology and media companies, including Asian Media, Regent Communications (RGCI), Bullpen Ventures and iBlast Networks. He also currently serves as the chairman of the board of Barefoot Luxury.

Generation Bio [CAMBRIDGE, Mass.] announced that Tom Graney will be appointed chief financial officer (CFO). Tom joins the Generation Bio team from Vertex Pharmaceuticals where he served as CFO. Prior to Vertex, at Ironwood, he was responsible for finance, accounting, corporate strategy, corporate development, quality, supply chain, IT, corporate communications and investor relations. Before Ironwood, he spent 20 years with Johnson & Johnson, serving in various roles in the U.S. and abroad, most recently as worldwide vice president of finance and CFO for Ethicon Surgical Care. Graney serves on the board of directors of AC Immune SA.

Trinity Industries, Inc. [DALLAS] (NYSE: TRN) announced that James E. Perry, the Company’s current Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, has notified the Company of his decision to transition from employment with the Company to pursue other opportunities. Mr. Perry will remain in the Chief Financial Officer role until Trinity has filed its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018. The Company also announced that Melendy Lovett will assume the role of Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer following the filing of the Company’s 2018 Form 10-K. Ms. Lovett’s current role with the Company is Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, and she has oversight of the Company’s railcar leasing business. Prior to joining Trinity as an executive, Ms. Lovett was a member of Trinity’s Board of Directors and had a 20-year career with Texas Instruments (“TI”), most recently as Senior Vice President and President of TI’s education technology business. Prior to joining TI, she was a senior manager with Coopers & Lybrand.

Bruce F. Katz

Agilence, Inc. [MOUNT LAUREL, N.J.] announced the addition of Bruce F. Katz as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Agilence, Bruce held financial leadership positions with a number of technology companies including Datapipe and EnterpriseDB.

Bovie Medical Corporation [CLEARWATER, Fla.] (NYSE: BVX) announced the appointment of Tara H. Semb as Chief Financial Officer, effective January 2, 2019. Prior to joining Bovie Medical, Ms. Semb was the Chief Financial Officer for AVAIL Vapor LLC, from 2015 until 2018. Ms. Semb previously worked for Amsted Industries, in multiple positions of increasing responsibility from 2006 until 2015, culminating in her promotion to Director of Finance for the company’s rail bearings division in 2013. Before joining Amsted Industries as Director of Internal Audit in 2006, she held financial and operational roles at Blyth Industries, and Anixter International. She began her career in 1991 as an auditor at Price Waterhouse.

SeriousFun Children’s Network [WESTPORT, Conn.] named Justin Fusaro as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Over the last 11 years, Fusaro has served in a number of roles at New York University, most recently as Senior Director, Budget and Planning.

SPX FLOW, Inc. [CHARLOTTE, N.C.] (NYSE: FLOW) announced the appointment of Jaime Easley as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Easley will succeed Jeremy Smeltser who has resigned from the company after serving as Vice President and CFO over the past three years. Easley served as Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer since the company’s spin off from SPX Corporation in September 2015. He joined SPX in 2011 and served as Director of Internal Audit for three years and as Chief Financial Officer of the Industrial Products and Services segment of SPX Corporation from June 2014 through September 2015. He began his career in 2000 at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Paul Estrem

NorthStar Medical Technologies, LLC [BELOIT, Wis.] announced the appointment of Paul Estrem as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining NorthStar, Mr. Estrem served as CFO at Melinta Therapeutics, Inc. Previously, he was with Baxter International, Inc. for more than 20 years, where he held both financial and non-financial positions of increasing responsibility. During his tenure at Baxter, his experiences included divisional CFO for various divisions of Baxter, CFO of Baxter’s operations in Japan and serving as the Vice-President of Integration for a large acquisition. Prior to Baxter, Paul was a public accountant with Arthur Andersen & Co.

Incipio Group [IRVINE, Calif.] announced the appointment of Stephen ‘Steve’ Finney as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Finney served as CFO for KCD Brands, the division of Sears Holdings Corporation. From 2012 to 2015, Finney was the leader for retail businesses in North America markets for Quiksilver. Prior to Quiksilver, Finney had a career of more than 21 years with The Walt Disney Company where he held global positions in global business development, operations, finance and controllership across multiple divisions. At the start of his professional career, Finney held finance and accounting positions in the hotel design and construction divisions with Marriott Corporation and with Clark Construction Group.

Cuentas, Inc. [MIAMI] (OTCQB: CUEN) announced the appointment of Ran Daniel to serve as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. Since June 2018, Mr. Daniel has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Maayan Ventures Ltd. Mr. Daniel has also served as the Chief Financial Officer of Blue Sphere Corporation from April 2016 through April 2018. From August 2014 to March 2016, Mr. Daniel served as the General Counsel and Head of the Family Office of Elie Tahari Ltd., and from December 2012 to August 2014, he has served as Executive Vice President of IDH Properties LLC, an affiliate of the Elad Group.

Praxsyn Corporation [LAS VEGAS, NV] (OTCPK: PYXN) announced that Maxwell J. Korbin, II has agreed to accept the dual positions of Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer as Executive Vice President.

ThreatX [DENVER] announced that David Roshak joined as CFO. Roshak joins ThreatX from Optiv.

New Senior Investment Group Inc. [NEW YORK] (NYSE: SNR) announced the appointment of David Smith as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective January 1, 2019. Mr. Smith brings 15 years of REIT experience to the Company. Prior to his appointment as Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Smith served as a Managing Director in the Private Equity Group of Fortress Investment Group LLC. Prior to joining Fortress, Mr. Smith held various finance, capital markets and investor relations roles at Ventas and Omega Healthcare Investors, and began his career in the real estate investment banking group at A.G. Edwards.

CFO Moves – week ending December 14, 2018

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CFO Moves this week include:

Avon Lockheed Martin Gentherm
Myers Industries, Inc. Bellicum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Owens & Minor, Inc.
Coeur Mining, Inc. TeamSupport Mr. Cooper Group Inc.
Alder BioPharmaceuticals, Inc. Casa Systems, Inc. The Madison Square Garden Company
Spirit AeroSystems Oil-Dri Corporation of America Visioneering Technologies
Nkarta Therapeutics Summit Midstream Partners, LP Sonoma Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
GlobalTranz Enterprises, Inc. Wizeline Act-On Software
Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. PAS Global LLC Midas
Westmoreland Coal Company Freed-Hardeman University Kenwal Steel Corp.
Franklin Financial Network, Inc. Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. Medallia, Inc.
Cromedy Construction Corporation

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Gustavo Arnal

Avon [LONDON] (NYSE: AVP) announced that Gustavo Arnal has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective during Spring 2019. Jamie Wilson, Avon’s current Chief Financial Officer, has chosen to step down. Gustavo joins from Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), where he has served as Senior Vice President, CFO of International Divisions and Global Functions. Prior to WBA, Mr. Arnal worked for over 20 years with Procter & Gamble (P&G). His responsibilities at P&G included Vice President, CFO India, Middle East and Africa. He was Vice President, CFO of Global Fabric & Home Care. Mr. Arnal was CFO of Global Personal Beauty Care. He was the Finance Director of P&G’s worldwide Financial Planning & Analysis department. Earlier, Mr. Arnal was CFO for all of P&G’s categories in Brazil and was Finance Manager in Mexico for Health and Beauty Care products.

Lockheed Martin [BETHESDA, Md.] appointed Kenneth R. Possenriede as executive vice president and chief financial officer, succeeding Bruce L. Tanner, who intends to retire in mid-2019. Possenriede’s appointment is effective Feb. 11, 2019. Possenriede is currently vice president of Finance and Program Management at Aeronautics. Prior to his current role, Possenriede was vice president and treasurer for Lockheed Martin from 2011 to 2016. Previously, he served as vice president of Finance and Business Operations for the corporation’s former Electronic Systems business area; vice president of Finance and Business Operations for Space; and vice president of Finance and Business Management for the prior Mission Systems and Solutions (MS2) line of business. He also served as chief financial officer for Lockheed Martin United Kingdom and from 2001 to 2003 Possenriede was seconded as Interim CEO and EVP CFO at Exostar.

Gentherm [NORTHVILLE, Mich.] (NASDAQ: THRM) announced that Matteo Anversa will join the Company’s leadership team as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer on January 1, 2019. Anversa succeeds Barry Steele as Gentherm’s CFO. Steele will step down as the Company’s Vice-President of Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer effective upon Anversa’s start date. Steele will provide transition services through February 15, 2019. Anversa joins Gentherm from Myers Industries, Inc. where he was Executive Vice President, CFO since December 2016. Prior to Myers Industries, he was the Vice President, Group FP&A for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. since April 2015. He joined FCA in 2013 as the CFO for Ferrari SpA. Anversa began his career with General Electric Corporation where he held various leadership roles during his 16-year tenure, including CFO, GE Gas Engines; Global FP&A Manager, GE Transportation; and CFO, GE Consumer & Industrial, Asia Pacific.

Myers Industries, Inc. (NYSE: MYE) [AKRON, Ohio] announced that Kevin Brackman, former Chief Accounting Officer of the Company, has been promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Brackman succeeds Matteo Anversa, who is leaving the Company to accept another professional opportunity. Brackman began his career at Coopers & Lybrand LLP in its audit group before moving to Chiquita Brands International. While at Chiquita, Mr. Brackman held various finance and operational roles for more than 10 years. Prior to joining Myers, Mr. Brackman spent six years at Ingersoll Rand, where he oversaw the technical accounting and financial reporting group and later the financial planning and analysis division. Mr. Brackman joined Myers Industries as Vice President, Corporate Controller in 2015 and was promoted to Chief Accounting Officer in 2017.

Atabak Mokari

Bellicum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. [HOUSTON] (NASDAQ: BLCM) announced the appointment of Atabak Mokari as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Mokari joins Bellicum from IRIDEX Corporation where he served as Chief Financial Officer and VP Corporate Development. Prior to that, Mr. Mokari served as a senior healthcare investment banker at Wells Fargo Securities from September 2013 to July 2016, at UBS from September 2009 to July 2013, and at Credit Suisse from July 2005 to February 2009. Earlier in his career, Mr. Mokari served as an analyst at private equity firm Olympus Partners, and investment banking firm Bowles Hollowell Conner & Co.

Owens & Minor, Inc. [RICHMOND, Va.] (NYSE: OMI) announced the appointment of Robert K. Snead as Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer. Snead has served as Interim Chief Financial Officer since June 2018. Snead joined Owens & Minor in 2010 as Vice President of Corporate Development. Snead also served as Treasurer of the company. Most recently, Snead served Owens & Minor as Group Vice President, Finance for the Global Solutions Strategic Business Unit. Before joining Owens & Minor, Snead served as a director in the mergers and acquisitions group of Barclays Capital in New York.

Coeur Mining, Inc. [CHICAGO] (NYSE: CDE) announced the appointment of Thomas S. Whelan as Senior Vice President (“SVP”) and Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), effective January 1, 2019. Mr. Whelan will succeed Peter C. Mitchell, who has served as SVP and CFO since 2013. Prior to joining Coeur, Mr. Whelan served as CFO of Arizona Mining Inc. from September 2017 to August 2018, when the company was acquired from South32 Limited. Previously, Mr. Whelan served as CFO for Nevsun Resources Ltd. from January 2014 to August 2017.

TeamSupport [DALLAS] announced that Corbin Baumel has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining TeamSupport, he served in key financial leadership positions at high-growth companies, most recently as Vice President of Finance at RealPage, Inc., where he served as Divisional CFO of the company’s Asset Optimization business after engineering the acquisition of Axiometrics, where he served as CFO. Before that, Baumel held critical leadership roles at Platinum Training, Ecova, and LPB Energy Management.

Christopher Marshall

Mr. Cooper Group Inc. [DALLAS] (NASDAQ: COOP) announced the appointment of Christopher Marshall as Vice Chairman, a newly created officer position, effective January 2, 2019 and as Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately following the filing of the company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for fiscal year 2018. Marshall most recently served as co-founder and CFO of Capital Bank Financial Corp. since 2009. Previously, Marshall served as Chief Restructuring Officer and Senior Advisor to the CEO at GMAC, Inc. and as CFO at Fifth Third Bancorp. Prior to that, Marshall was a member of the management operating committee at Bank of America and held key leadership roles including CFO of the Consumer Products Group and Chief Operating Officer of the Global Consumer and Small Business Bank. Marshall will succeed Amar Patel, who has been serving as interim CFO since March 2017.

Alder BioPharmaceuticals, Inc. [BOTHELL, Wash.] (NASDAQ: ALDR) announced the appointment of Carlos Campoy as Chief Financial Officer. Campoy served as Vice President of Finance, International at Allergan plc. Prior to joining Allergan, Campoy had an 18-year tenure at Eli Lilly and Company, where he held a number of senior financial leadership positions including Chief Financial Officer, Eli Lilly Japan K.K.  He also served as U.S. Senior Director of Finance and Chief Financial Officer for the U.S. Specialty sales and marketing team.  He most recently served as Partner of Think Forwards.

Casa Systems, Inc. [ANDOVER, Mass.] (NASDAQ: CASA) announced that it has appointed Maurizio Nicolelli as its Chief Financial Officer, beginning in January 2019. Before joining Casa Systems, Nicolelli served as Principal and Chief Financial Officer of FactSet Research Systems Inc. since October 2009. Nicolelli joined FactSet and its finance group in 1996 as the Senior Accountant and served as its Chief Accountant from 1999 to 2001. From 2002-2009, he served as Comptroller and Vice President. Prior to joining FactSet, he was employed at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

The Madison Square Garden Company [NEW YORK] (NYSE: MSG) announced that Victoria Mink, the Company’s current Executive Vice President of Finance, will succeed Donna Coleman as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Coleman will retire as Chief Financial Officer as of January 1 and remain with the Company through March to assist with the transition. Before her appointment as Chief Financial Officer, Ms. Mink served briefly as MSG’s Executive Vice President of Finance, where she worked closely with Ms. Coleman. Prior to this, Ms. Mink served as Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer for seven years – first for Cablevision Systems Corporation, which was then bought by Altice USA in 2016, where Ms. Mink continued in her role until joining MSG in October 2018. Ms. Mink joined Cablevision in November 1997 and served in a variety of accounting and finance roles. Before joining Cablevision, Ms. Mink was an audit manager with KPMG LLP.

Jose Ignacio Garcia

Spirit AeroSystems (NYSE: SPR) [WICHITA, Kan.] announced that Jose Ignacio Garcia will join the company as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer effective Jan. 9, 2019. Garcia will succeed Spirit’s current Chief Financial Officer, Sanjay Kapoor, who announced previously his plans to retire in the first quarter of 2019, following a transition period. Garcia’s experience includes CFO roles at GE Energy, GE Latin America, and most recently as VP and CFO of GE Renewable Energy, based in Paris.

Oil-Dri Corporation of America [CHICAGO] (NYSE: ODC) announced that Susan M. Kreh has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Kreh was previously with Johnson Controls International plc, where she served as Chief Financial Officer and VP, Information Technology, of the Power Solutions business, from 2010 to 2017 and Corporate Controller from 2007 to 2010. Prior to Johnson Controls, Ms. Kreh served in finance and operational leadership roles at PPG Industries, Inc. from 1985 to 2007, including Treasurer, General Manager of the global optical materials business and Director, Financial Services and Support of the specialty chemicals business. Ms. Kreh serves on the Board of Directors of TAPCO, Inc.

Visioneering Technologies [ATLANTA] (ASX: VTI) announced that it has named Brian D. Lane as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Most recently he served as CFO with OnePath. Previously, he was Controller of PRGX. Lane began his career with Ernst & Young, LLP.

Nkarta Therapeutics [SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.] announced that Matthew Plunkett has joined as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Dr. Plunkett was most recently chief financial and business officer of Medeor Therapeutics. Prior to Medeor, from September 2012 to August 2017 he held positions as chief business officer and executive vice president, Corporate Development at CTI BioPharma. He was chief financial officer of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine from November 2011 to August 2012. Dr. Plunkett was the vice president and chief financial officer of iPierian, Inc. from July 2009 to April 2011. From December 2000 to July 2009, Dr. Plunkett held positions at Oppenheimer & Co. and its U.S. predecessor, CIBC World Markets Corp., including serving as managing director, head of West Coast Biotechnology from December 2008 to July 2009, and executive director, head of West Coast Biotechnology from January 2008 to December 2008.

Summit Midstream Partners, LP [THE WOODLANDS, Texas] announced that Matthew Harrison, the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Summit Midstream Partners, LLC and Summit Midstream GP, LLC will be departing the Company to pursue other interests. Mr. Harrison’s employment with the Company will terminate effective January 4, 2019. Summit Investments announced that it is promoting Marc Stratton to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company.  Mr. Stratton joined Summit Investments as a founding member in 2009 and has held various senior management roles at the Company including, since 2015, Senior Vice President of Finance, Treasurer and Head of Investor Relations.

Sonoma Pharmaceuticals, Inc. [PETALUMA, Calif.] (NASDAQ: SNOA) announced that Frederick (Bubba) Sandford as Sonoma’s Chief Executive Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Mr. Sandford transformed Command Center, Inc. Sonoma also announced that Bob Miller resigned from his position as CFO.

GlobalTranz Enterprises, Inc. [PHOENIX] announced the promotion of Lara Stell to CFO. Stell joined GlobalTranz as VP of finance in October of 2014. Prior to GlobalTranz, she worked with Krug at Swift Transportation and Clear Channel Outdoor. Earlier in her career she was an audit professional at PwC.

Wizeline [SAN FRANCISCO] announced the appointment of Anthony Conte as Chief Financial Officer. Conte joins the Company from EPAM Systems, where he previously served as CFO, SVP, and Treasurer.

Act-On Software [PORTLAND, Ore.] announced Roger Rowe as its new Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Act-On, he served as Principal of RR CFO Services where he provided fractional CFO Services to multiple growth focused companies. Mr. Rowe previously worked as CEO and CFO for TigerLogic Corporation and held CFO positions with other companies such as Agilyx, as well as at technology companies including Merchandising Technologies, Inc., InFocus Corporation, and Preview Systems.

Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. [PHILADELPHIA] (NYSE: AXTA) announced that it has named Sean Lannon as Chief Financial Officer on a permanent basis. He had been serving as Vice President and Interim Chief Financial Officer since October 2018. Before that, he served as Vice President, Corporate Finance and Global Controller of Axalta since 2016, and was Vice President and Global Controller from 2013 until that promotion. He was previously Vice President, Global Controller of Trinseo. Before joining Trinseo in 2011, he was the Senior Manager, Financial Reporting at Endo Pharmaceuticals.

PAS Global LLC [HOUSTON] announced the appointment of Tim Taylor as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Tim was at Paradigm, an Emerson company, where he held various leadership roles including Vice President of Finance and Vice President of Sales Management.

Midas [CAPITAL HEIGHTS, Md.] announced the hiring of Pierre-Luc Chicoine as Chief Financial Officer. Chicoine assumed his role in early fall. Chicoine came to Midas from Canam Steel Corporation, where he was Controller for the Heavy Business Unit.

Westmoreland Coal Company [ENGLEWOOD, Colo.] (OTCMKTS: WLBAQ) announced that Gary Kohn has informed Westmoreland that, for personal reasons, he is resigning from his position as chief financial officer effective January 4, 2019.

Jeff Loyd

Freed-Hardeman University [HENDERSON, TENN.]  announced the hiring of Jeff Loyd as the university’s chief financial officer. Loyd will begin his new role Jan. 14, 2019. Loyd has worked in financial leadership positions with American Axle Manufacturing, Coca-Cola, Hertz Corporation, Alcoa/Kawneer, Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Laura Kowalchik

Kenwal Steel Corp. [DEARBORN, Mich.] announced that Laura Kowalchik has been named CFO. Kowalchik replaces Frank Jerneycic, who retires from Kenwal at the end of this year after 10 years of service. Kowalchik most recently served as CFO of Urban Science. She previously served as vice president, corporate controller, and chief accounting officer of Kaydon Corp., and Dura Automotive Systems LLC, where she held the same title.

Franklin Financial Network, Inc. [FRANKLIN, Tenn.] (NYSE: FSB), the parent company of Franklin Synergy Bank, announced the promotion of Chris Black to Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Franklin Financial Network and Franklin Synergy Bank. Black joined the Company on November 16, 2018, as Executive Vice President, Strategy. The Company also announced that Sarah Meyerrose, who is stepping down as Chief Financial Officer, intends to retire from the Company on January 15th. Before joining Franklin Financial Network, Black most recently served as Senior Vice President and CFO, Banking, for Nashville-based FirstBank, having joined FirstBank in May 2016. Previously, Black worked in the investment management and investment research industries, specializing in the banking sector while at Merrill Lynch & Co. and ISI Group, both based in New York City. Prior to working in the private sector, Black served for over nine years as an Officer and pilot in the United States Air Force.

Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. [JERICHO, N.Y.] (NASDAQ: ESQ) announced that it has hired Michael Lacapria as its new Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President. Most recently, Mr. Lacapria served as the Chief Financial Officer of Deutsche Bank Trust Corporation.  From 2014 to 2016, Mr. Lacapria served in various positions at Cantor Fitzgerald, including as a Director and head of the accounting and finance function for Cantor Commercial Real Estate.  From 2000 to 2014, Mr. Lacapria served in various management capacities for KPMG’s financial services group in New York.

Medallia, Inc. [SAN MATEO, Calif.] hired Roxanne Oulman as Chief Financial Officer. During her 25-year career in finance, Oulman served in leadership roles at CallidusCloud, Thoratec and Zomax. She currently serves on the Board of Directors at CalAmp as an Audit Committee member. Oulman replaces former CFO Mike Kourey.

Cromedy Construction Corporation [PHILADELPHIA] announced that Joseph T. Waninger has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Waninger joined CCC on December 3rd, 2018.

CFO Moves – week ending December 7, 2018

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CFO Moves this week include:

Sonoco E*TRADE Financial Corporation Everbridge, Inc.
American International Group (AIG) Machine Zone The Nature’s Bounty Co.
ETQ 3PEA International, Inc. MEGA International
MedMen Enterprises Inc. Prevail Therapeutics, Inc. IRIDEX Corporation
Dropoff Harvest Health & Recreation Inc. Senseonics Holdings, Inc.
Potbelly Corporation Cidara Therapeutics, Inc. CenterPoint Energy, Inc.
Newgioco Group, Inc. Digital Media Solutions Orchestra BioMed, Inc.
Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, Inc. TricorBraun IsoRay, Inc.
KEMET Corporation

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Julie Albreicht

Sonoco [HARTSVILLE, S.C.] (NYSE: SON) announced Barry Saunders, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, has announced his plans to retire after nearly 30 years with the Company, effective March 1, 2019. Sonoco also announced plans to appoint Julie Albrecht who will be named Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective following Saunders’ retirement. Albrecht joined Sonoco in March 2017 and has served as Corporate Vice President, Treasurer and Assistant CFO. Albrecht spent nearly 20 years at Goodrich Corporation/United Technologies Aerospace Systems, progressing through several finance positions, including Assistant Treasurer while at Goodrich. In 2012, Goodrich was acquired by United Technologies, and Albrecht became Finance Director of an $800 million business unit and also led financial planning and analysis for its aftermarket business. Prior to joining Sonoco, she was Vice President, Finance, Investor Relations and Treasurer for Esterline Technologies. Albrecht began her career in public accounting with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

E*TRADE Financial Corporation [NEW YORK] (NASDAQ: ETFC) announced that Chad Turner will assume the role of Chief Financial Officer for the Company. An E*TRADE veteran with nearly two decades in leadership roles in finance and beyond, Mr. Turner currently oversees the forecasting and performance analysis functions that drive the Company’s strategic direction. Prior to this role, Mr. Turner served as Vice President, Accounting. Prior to joining E*TRADE, Mr. Turner served as Controller for Verestar, Inc. He started his career in public accounting at Arthur Andersen.

Everbridge, Inc. [BURLINGTON, Mass.] (NASDAQ: EVBG) announced that Kenneth Goldman, who has served as Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer since April 2015, will retire in mid-2019. Patrick Brickley, Everbridge Vice President of Finance & Accounting, will be promoted to the role of Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer upon Goldman’s retirement. Brickley joined Everbridge in May of 2015 as Vice President of Finance and was promoted to VP Finance & Accounting in 2017. Prior to joining Everbridge, Brickley served as the lead finance partner to tech visionaries pursuing a number of innovation initiatives at Google in the roles of Finance Manager and Controller. Before Google, he held several financial leadership roles at ITA Software, which was later acquired by Google.

Mark D. Lyons,

American International Group (AIG) [NEW YORK] (NYSE: AIG) announced that it has appointed Mark D. Lyons to the role of Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Mr. Lyons succeeds Sid Sankaran, who will remain at AIG in an advisory capacity through the year-end reporting process for fiscal year 2018. Mr. Lyons will remain Chief Actuary, General Insurance, until a successor is named. Mr. Lyons joined AIG in 2018 from Arch Capital Group, Ltd., where he served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer since 2012. He joined Arch in 2002 and served in various capacities within Arch Insurance U.S. operations, eventually rising to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Arch Worldwide Insurance Group. Prior to joining Arch, Mr. Lyons held various positions at Zurich U.S., Berkshire Hathaway and AIG.

Machine Zone [PALO ALTO, Calif.] announced the appointment of Dan Nash as Chief Financial Officer. Before joining MZ, Nash was a Managing Director and Head of Internet Investment Banking at Wells Fargo Securities. Prior to Wells Fargo, he served as Director of Internet Investment Banking at BofA Merrill Lynch. He also held multiple investment banking and finance positions at BofA Merrill Lynch, Riverstone Networks and Intel Corp.

The Nature’s Bounty Co. [RONKONKOMA, N.Y.] announced that Ted McCormick is joining the company as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently Mr. McCormick was CFO of Roland Foods LLC. Prior to Roland Foods, Ted held a number of senior finance roles at Unilever across its global Supply Chain, Foods and Home & Personal Care businesses; most notably as CFO at the Pepsi/Lipton Partnership and CFO at Ben & Jerry’s.

Richard Russo

ETQ [Burlington, MA] announced the appointment of Richard Russo as CFO. Russo comes to the company from Epicor Software Corporation, where he spent 10 years as SVP, Chief Accounting Officer and VP of Finance. Before that, he spent nine years in various financial positions including Senior Director of Corporate FP&A at Solectron Corporation.

3PEA International, Inc. [HENDERSON, Nev.] (NASDAQ: TPNL) has named Mark Attinger as Chief Financial Officer. Attinger began his career at American Express and spent 12 years in various positions in Finance, Performance and Quality Management, and Operations. Subsequently, he held positions as Vice President of Operations at NextCard, Chief Operating Officer at Prudential and Chief Executive Officer of Affina (a business process outsourcer). More recently, Mr. Attinger served as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of start-up Zxerex. Former Chief Financial Officer Brian Polan will resume his prior role at 3PEA as Vice President, Corporate Finance.

MEGA International [BOSTON] appointed Eric Roussel as chief financial officer. Prior to joining MEGA, Roussel served as senior manager in Transaction Advisory Services for EY in both the United States and France.

Michael Kramer

MedMen Enterprises Inc. [LOS ANGELES] (CSE: MMEN, OTCQX: MMNFF) announced the hiring of Michael W. Kramer as Chief Financial Officer. Kramer’s three decades of experience include serving as chief financial officer of Apple Retail as well as Abercrombie & Fitch.

Prevail Therapeutics, Inc. [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Brett Kaplan, M.D., to Chief Financial Officer. Prior to Prevail, Dr. Kaplan was a Managing Director at Evercore. Prior to Evercore, he was an Equity Research Analyst at Cowen. Earlier in his career, Dr. Kaplan held senior positions at Cubist and Lilly focused on corporate and business development.

IRIDEX Corporation [MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.] (NASDAQ: IRIX) announced Chief Financial Officer Atabak Mokari will leave the Company for a senior finance executive role at another company. Mokari will leave the Company effective December 18, 2018.

Dropoff [AUSTIN, TEXAS] announced that Rey Madolora will take on the newly created role of Chief Financial Officer. Madolora was on the founding team at Hangar Technology. Prior to that, he was the CFO/COO of DJI North America.

Harvest Health & Recreation Inc. [PHOENIX] (CSE: HARV) announced the appointment of Leo Jaschke as the chief financial officer (CFO). Jaschke comes to Harvest from WTRMLN WTR™ where he served as CFO. Prior to WTRMLN WTR™, Jaschke served as vice president of finance and then CFO of MBHE Holdings (MBHE) from 2006 to 2016. Previous to that, he was the director of finance, treasury and risk management for Ultimate Electronics.

Senseonics Holdings, Inc. [GERMANTOWN, Md.] (NYSE American: SENS) announced the retirement of Chief Financial Officer, R. Don Elsey. Mr. Elsey has agreed to remain in his current role and to step down when a replacement is appointed.

Potbelly Corporation [CHICAGO] (NASDAQ: PBPB) announced that Thomas J. Fitzgerald joined as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Fitzgerald served as President and CFO at Charming Charlie, where he had previously served as CAO and CFO. Prior to his roles at Charming Charlie, Mr. Fitzgerald was CAO of Sears Canada, held several leadership positions at Liz Claiborne, Inc., was CFO at Burlington Coat Factory, was COO of Bath & Body Works, and spent the first 16 years of his career at PepsiCo, where he held various leadership roles in finance and planning.

Cidara Therapeutics, Inc. [SAN DIEGO] (NASDAQ: CDTX) announced the appointment of James (Jamie) Levine as chief financial officer. Prior to joining Cidara, Levine held senior executive and Board roles at two biotechnology companies, Sapphire Energy and Verenium Corporation. Previously, Levine was a managing director in the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs & Co. in both New York and London.

CenterPoint Energy, Inc. [HOUSTON] (NYSE: CNP) announced that following the close of the pending merger with Vectren Corporation, which is expected in the first quarter of 2019, William (Bill) D. Rogers, currently CenterPoint Energy’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, plans to retire for personal and family reasons. He will remain in his current role through the first quarter of 2019 to help ensure a seamless closing of the pending merger and transition to his successor.

Newgioco Group, Inc. [NEW YORK] (OTCQB: NWGI) announced that Elizabeth J. (Betsy) MacLean has been appointed chief financial officer (CFO) and chief compliance officer (CCO). Ms. MacLean joined Newgioco in September 2018 as Vice President Finance and Accounting. Prior to joining Newgioco, Ms. MacLean had more than 20 years of experience leading Finance teams in a variety of industries in both the United States and the United Kingdom, including serving as Global Lead for Financial Systems and Processes at Progressive Gaming International.

Digital Media Solutions [CLEARWATER, Fla.] announced Randall Koubek has been named its Chief Financial Officer. Koubek will immediately assume the CFO role from Bryan Glaus, who is retiring. Koubek has held executive level roles as CFO at Bonnier Corporation, Thompson Media Group and most recently, Spectrio.

Orchestra BioMed, Inc. [NEW HOPE, Pa.] announced that it has appointed Evan Ballantyne as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to joining Orchestra BioMed, he most recently served as the CFO at Accera, Inc. Mr. Ballantyne previously served as Executive Vice President and CFO of Clinical Data, Inc. He was also CFO of Synthetic Biologics, Inc., and CFO at Agenus, Inc. He also served as CFO of the private medical technology companies Avedro, Inc. and ZymeQuest, Inc. Before entering the healthcare industry, Mr. Ballantyne served as CFO of Knowledge Impact, Inc., a software company whose technology was ultimately acquired by Oracle, Inc., and as COO and CFO at the ACNielsen Corporation. He also held positions in finance at IMS Health and Dun & Bradstreet Corp.

Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, Inc. [PALO ALTO, Calif.] (NASDAQ: EIGR) announced the appointment of Sri Ryali as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Ryali was most recently at Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc., where he was Vice President of Finance.  Previously, Mr. Ryali led U.S. Financial Planning and Analysis at Jazz Pharmaceuticals and was Head of Corporate Finance at Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., until the company was acquired by Amgen, Inc. in 2013.  Following the acquisition, Mr. Ryali continued as Head of R&D, Technical Operations, and Medical Affairs Finance at Onyx.  Mr. Ryali began his career in biopharmaceutical companies at Amgen Inc., where he held positions of increasing responsibility in the finance organization. In connection with Mr. Ryali’s appointment, James Welch, Eiger’s previous Chief Financial Officer, has left the company.

Declan McCarthy

TricorBraun [ST. LOUIS] appointed Declan McCarthy as Chief Financial Officer. McCarthy joins TricorBraun from PLZ Aeroscience where he served as CFO since 2016. Declan began his career at PepsiCo and held finance leadership roles at several distribution companies, including MSC Industrial, Barnes, Phillips Pet Food, and TruckPro.

IsoRay, Inc. [RICHLAND, WASHINGTON] (NYSE American: ISR) announced that Jonathan Hunt has been named Chief Financial Officer. Before joining IsoRay, Hunt was Chief Financial Officer at Vivid Learning Systems. In addition to his prior experience at IsoRay, where he was Chief Financial Officer from 2006 to 2009, Hunt worked with Hypercom Corporation, where he served as Assistant Corporate Controller from 2005 to 2006.  His financial background also includes positions as a Manager and Director of Financial Reporting and Director of Operational Planning and Analysis for ConocoPhillips and Circle K Corporation and its affiliates from 2000 to 2005 and his work for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from 1992 to 1999.

CFO Moves – week ending November 30, 2018

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CFO Moves this week include:

Sharp Electronics Corporation Summer Infant, Inc. Mohawk Industries, Inc.
Newell Brands Tennant Company Hilton Grand Vacations Inc.
Social Reality, Inc. Carolina Partners in Mental HealthCare Syncsort
RoadSafe Traffic Systems, Inc. Mood Media Gardner Denver Holdings, Inc.
Ellie Mae Evive Team, Inc.
TruWest Companies Liquidia Technologies, Inc. Western Digital Corp.
Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. The Scoular Company ImmunoGen, Inc.
The Amynta Group Freedom Leaf Inc. J.Jill, Inc.
Robinhood Hill International, Inc. Vivos Therapeutics
Seismic Marker Therapeutics, Inc. Customers Bancorp, Inc.

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Moonsun Park

Sharp Electronics Corporation [MONTVALE, N.J.] today announces that Moonsun Park has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer for Sharp Electronics Corporation. After beginning her career with LG Electronics, Moonsun joined Sharp in 1998 as the manager of the Accounting Department and has since worked in various roles with the company. In March 2009, she was named Senior Manager of Revenue Accounting and in 2014 she was promoted to Corporate Controller. Earlier this year, she was elevated to Senior Vice President.

Summer Infant, Inc. [WOONSOCKET, R.I.] (NASDAQ: SUMR) announced that Paul Francese has been appointed as the Company’s new Senior Vice President and CFO. Mr. Francese replaces William Mote, who has resigned to pursue other professional interests. Francese most recently served as Chief Financial Officer of Rain Carbon Inc. which he joined in 2015. From 2012 until 2014, Mr. Francese served as Summer Infant’s CFO and, prior to that, spent eight years as the Chief Financial Officer of OCI Enterprises. During the past 35 years, Mr. Francese has held positions at various levels of increasing responsibility at Cannondale Bicycle Corp., Pitney Bowes, FCI/Berg Electronics Group, Huffy Corporation, Litton Industries, United Technologies, and General Electric.

Mohawk Industries, Inc. [CALHOUN, Ga.] (NYSE: MHK) announced that Frank H. Boykin, chief financial officer, is planning to retire in 2019.  Boykin joined Mohawk in 1993, moving up through various finance roles prior to his appointment as CFO in January 2005.

Newell Brands [HOBOKEN, N.J.] (NYSE: NWL) announced the appointment of Christopher “Chris” H. Peterson as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. The company previously announced current Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Ralph Nicoletti’s plans to retire at the close of 2018. Prior to his role at Newell Brands, Chris Peterson was Chief Operating Officer, Operations at Revlon, Inc. Previously he spent four years at Ralph Lauren, recruited as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and ultimately leaving the company as President, Global Brands, while retaining his CFO responsibilities. Prior to Ralph Lauren, Chris spent 20 years at Procter & Gamble in various roles of increasing responsibility, latest of which was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Global Household Care. He began his professional career in investment banking at Smith Barney Harris Upham & Co, Inc.

Tennant Company [MINNEAPOLIS] (NYSE: TNC) announced the appointment of Keith A. Woodward to the position of Senior Vice President, CFO, effective Dec. 1, 2018. Mr. Woodward replaces Tom Paulson who announced his retirement earlier this year. Mr. Woodward spent the last 26 years with General Mills, Inc., most recently as Senior Vice President, Global Treasurer and prior to that as Senior Vice President, Finance, U.S. Retail for seven years. He currently sits on the Boards of Directors for Seneca Foods Corporation and Phillips Distilling Company.

Hilton Grand Vacations Inc. [ORLANDO, Fla.] (NYSE: HGV) announced the appointment of Daniel J. Mathewes as chief financial officer (CFO). Mathewes joins HGV from Virgin Hotels North America, where he was CFO since 2016. Prior to that role, Mathewes was CFO of The World and previously served as senior vice president of finance and treasury for Kerzner International. During his career, Mathewes also worked in multiple financial leadership capacities with NCL Corporation and Royal Caribbean Cruises. He began his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Social Reality, Inc. [LOS ANGELES] (NASDAQ: SRAX) announced that J.P. Hannan will step down from his role as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Hannan will continue to work for the Company during a yet to be determined transitional period.  After Mr. Hannan’s last day of employment, Christopher Miglino, the Company’s president and CEO will serve as the Company’s principal financial and accounting officer, on an interim basis, until a successor for Mr. Hannan has been identified.

Carolina Partners in Mental HealthCare [DURHAM, N.C.] has hired Rob Oliveri as its Chief Financial Officer. Rob was CFO for Arizona-based NextCare Urgent Care. Subsequently, Rob joined Raleigh-based FastMed Urgent Care as CFO.

Syncsort [PEARL RIVER, N.Y.] announced that Kristian Talvitie has been appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to joining Syncsort, Kristian served as CFO at Sovos Compliance, LLC. Before that, he held a variety of positions at PTC (NASDAQ: PTC).

Joe Scarano

RoadSafe Traffic Systems, Inc. [CHICAGO] announced the appointment of Joe Scarano to Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Mr. Scarano served as CFO for Industrial Container Services. Previously, he spent a long tenure in the solid waste management industry, including the CFO position with WCA Waste Corporation.

Mood Media [AUSTIN, Texas] announced that Stephen Duggan joined as EVP & Chief Financial Officer. Duggan spent the last six years at media giant Viacom and served in various positions, most recently as the Worldwide General Manager of Global Business Services. Duggan began his career at Arthur Andersen. He moved on to become the Chief Operating & Financial Officer of Publishing Group of America, the CEO of Alpha Media Group, and the President & CEO of Athlon Sports Communications prior to joining Viacom in 2012. Tom Garrett, Mood’s current EVP & Chief Financial Officer, will be leaving the Mood business and pursuing new opportunities.

Gardner Denver Holdings, Inc. [MILWAUKEE] (NYSE: GDI) announced that Neil Snyder will succeed Todd Herndon as the company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) effective January 1, 2019. Herndon will stay on with the company to assist in the transition of the CFO role to Snyder. Snyder is currently Senior Vice President of Global Finance, Business Development & Planning. Snyder joined Gardner Denver in March 2016 as Vice President of Strategy & Planning, Industrials Segment. In January 2017, he was promoted to Senior Vice President of Strategy, Business Development & Planning, and in August 2018, he took on expanded responsibilities with the appointment to his current role of Senior Vice President of Global Finance, Business Development & Planning, which includes leadership of the global finance and controllership functions. Prior to joining Gardner Denver, Snyder served at Capital Safety Inc. as its Vice President, Head of Financial Planning and Analysis from June 2012 to January 2016, and President, Europe, Middle East and Africa from September 2013 to May 2014. Before Capital Safety, he held various executive roles of increasing responsibility at United Technologies Corporation from 2007 to 2012. Snyder started his career at Ernst & Young LLP in public accounting. Herndon plans to retire later in 2019. Until then, he will stay with the company in an executive capacity and assist in the transition of the CFO role.

Ellie Mae® [PLEASANTON, Calif.] (NYSE: ELLI) announced that Dan Madden will join the organization as executive vice president and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) on December 20, 2018. Dan currently serves as Chief Financial Officer for Revel Systems. Prior to joining Revel, Dan was the Chief Financial Officer at Cepheid, and VP Finance & Corporate Controller at Symmetricom. Previously, Dan held financial leadership positions at Sonic Solutions, Advanced Fibre Communications, and McKesson. Dan began his career with Ernst & Young.

John McDonnell

Evive [CHICAGO] announced the appointment of John McDonnell to the position of Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Evive, McDonnell served as Chief Financial Officer of Infogix.

Team, Inc. [SUGAR LAND, Texas] (NYSE: TISI) announced that Susan M. Ball has been appointed as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Ball will succeed Greg L. Boane who stepped down as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and will serve as a special advisor to Team’s Chief Executive Officer, to ensure a seamless transition. Prior to joining Team, Ball served for more than 12 years at CVR Energy, Inc. in various roles of increasing responsibility. In 2012, she was appointed as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer for CVR Energy and its subsidiaries, CVR Refining, LP and CVR Partners, LP.

Christopher Free

TruWest Companies [WESTLAKE, Ohio] announced the hiring of new Chief Financial Officer Christopher Free. Free brings over 14 years of experience in financial management, mostly recently serving as Chief Financial Officer at Sandridge Foods. Chris has also served as Group Controller and Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis at Nordson Corporation and has experience in a variety of roles at Ernst & Young LLP.

Liquidia Technologies, Inc. [RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.] (NASDAQ: LQDA) announced that Kevin Gordon, President and Chief Financial Officer, plans to retire from his current role at Liquidia to focus on board and other advisory work. Mr. Gordon has agreed to continue his employment with the company until March 1, 2019.

Western Digital Corp. [SAN JOSE, Calif.] (NASDAQ: WDC) announced that Mark Long, chief financial officer, chief strategy officer and president, Western Digital Capital, has decided he will step down from his current role to pursue opportunities as a private equity investor. Long will remain an active member of the company’s leadership team through June 1, 2019. Long has served as Western Digital’s chief financial officer since 2016. Prior to that, he served as the company’s executive vice president and chief strategy officer since February 2013. Additionally, Long has served as president, Western Digital Capital, a strategic investment fund targeting innovative companies within the data infrastructure and broader technology industry aligned to Western Digital’s strategic plan, since February 2013.

Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. [ALPHARETTA, Ga.] (NASDAQ: PRTH) announced that Michael Vollkommer will be joining the Company as its new Chief Financial Officer and that Bruce Mattox will transition from Chief Financial Officer to a new role as Chief Accounting Officer.  Vollkommer most recently served as the CFO of Vesta Corporation, and before that was the CFO of Mueller Water Products. From 2001 to 2006 Vollkommer was EVP and CFO of Certegy Inc.

The Scoular Company [OMAHA, Neb.] announced that Andrew Kenny will join Scoular as its Chief Financial Officer, effective January 2, 2019. Kenny joins Scoular from Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) where he was based in Switzerland serving as the Vice President and CFO of its Global Trade business. Kenny has served in commercial and finance leadership roles of escalating responsibility with ADM for the last eight years, both in the U.S. and Europe. Prior to joining ADM, Kenny served in domestic and international positions with Deloitte & Touche.

ImmunoGen, Inc. [WALTHAM, Mass.] (NASDAQ: IMGN) announced that David B. Johnston has stepped down as Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Mr. Johnston will remain employed with the Company through the end of 2018 and thereafter will serve as a consultant to provide transitional support. David Foster, Vice President of Finance and Chief Accounting Officer, will continue to oversee ImmunoGen’s Finance and Accounting functions. Mark Enyedy, President and Chief Executive Officer, will serve on an interim basis as the Company’s principal financial officer, as well as lead its Investor Relations function.

The Amynta Group [NEW YORK] announced that Brian Seldess has joined as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Interim CFO Josh Damon will work closely with Brian during a transition period to ensure continuity. Damon will be joining Amynta’s Board of Directors. Seldess joins Amynta from Solera where he was CFO & Regional Managing Director of its Audatex business and the leader of Solera’s global financial planning and analysis function. Prior to Solera, Brian was the Chief Financial and Operating Officer of SunGard Insurance. Brian joined SunGard after many years at Marsh & McLennan Companies where he held various executive positions. Prior to Marsh, he served for ten years as VP Business Development, Analysis and Planning with American Express.

Freedom Leaf Inc. [Las Vegas, NV] (OTCQB: FRLF) announced the promotion of Laurence Ruhe, currently the Company’s Controller, to Chief Financial Officer. Ruhe replaces Richard Groberg, who will remain on the Company’s Board and also serve on the Board’s newly-formed Finance Committee. Mr. Ruhe joined Freedom Leaf in July with over 30 years of finance experience, most recently as SVP of Global Finance at BMM International.  Mr. Ruhe held senior finance positions at Progressive Gaming and Konami Gaming. Mr. Ruhe also worked in international banking, including positions at Wells Fargo, Deutsche Bank, and Banca CRT.

J.Jill, Inc. [QUINCY, Mass.] (NYSE: JILL) announced that Executive Vice President, Chief Financial and Operating Officer Dave Biese will be leaving the company on April 30, 2019.

Jason Warnick

Robinhood [Menlo Park, California] appointed Jason Warnick as Chief Financial Officer. Jason joins from Amazon where he spent nearly 20 years, most recently as VP of Finance and Chief of Staff to their CFO.

Hill International, Inc. [PHILADELPHIA] (NYSE: HIL) announced the appointment of Todd Weintraub as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Mr. Weintraub worked with CFO Outsource, LLC, and prior to that, spent 10 years with Macquarie Infrastructure Corporation, serving as CFO for 7 years. Mr. Weintraub’s business experience includes serving on the Board of Directors for International Matex Tank Terminals, Atlantic Aviation, Macquarie Renewable Energy Holdings, Hawaii Gas, and Parking Company of America, where he was Chair. Mr. Weintraub replaces Interim Vice President and Interim Chief Financial Officer Greg Wolf.

Vivos Therapeutics [DENVER] announced Brad Amman has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Vivos Therapeutics Mr. Amman held executive leadership positions at CereScan and LifeVantage. Most recently, he served as CFO/COO at InLight Medical.

Seismic [SAN DIEGO] named John McCauley as their first Chief Financial Officer. McCauley brings more than a decade of experience in leading financial teams at firms including Illumina and ServiceNow.

Anthony H. Kim

Marker Therapeutics, Inc. [HOUSTON] (NASDAQ: MRKR) announced the appointment of Anthony H. Kim as its new Chief Financial Officer. Michael J. Loiacono, who has served as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer since August 2016, will continue in his role as Marker’s Chief Accounting Officer. Prior to joining Marker Therapeutics, Mr. Kim was an Executive Director in the Healthcare Group at Nomura Securities International, Inc. Before joining Nomura, Mr. Kim was a Senior Vice President at Jefferies in their Healthcare group. Previously, he was an investment banker at Oppenheimer & Co. and J.P. Morgan Securities.

Customers Bancorp, Inc. [WYOMISSING, PA] (NYSE: CUBI), the parent company of Customers Bank. announced that Carla Leibold was appointed to serve as the holding company and bank’s Chief Financial Officer, and as a member of the bank’s Office of the Chair. Leibold joined Customers in 2013 as Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller. Earlier in 2018, Leibold was promoted to Executive Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller. Prior to joining Customers, Leibold served as the principal accounting officer for Farmer Mac where she was the Vice President and Controller from 2010-2013. She also served as the Director of Accounting and Financial Reporting of Farmer Mac from 2007-2010. Leibold started her career in public accounting and held various roles of increasing leadership responsibility at Sallie Mae and Freddie Mac before joining Farmer Mac. Leibold replaces Robert Wahlman who is leaving for personal reasons and to pursue other interests.

CFO Moves – week ending November 23, 2018

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CFO Moves this week include:

ObserveIT Grant Thornton LLP Extreme Networks Inc.
Compass Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. Accuray Incorporated
ServiceTitan EDR KushCo Holdings, Inc.
First National Bank and Trust Company JW Aluminum EPHS Holdings Inc.

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Will Porter

ObserveIT [BOSTON] announced that Will Porter has joined as the new CFO. Prior to joining ObserveIT, he served as CFO of both BlueTarp Financial and Signiant. Before Signiant, Will served as VP of Finance at Phase Forward where he played a leading role in the Company’s IPO.  He has also held roles in finance and accounting at Epsilon Data Management, WebHire, Summit Technology and Arthur Andersen.

Grant Thornton LLP [CHICAGO] promoted Billy Moore from chief financial officer (CFO) to a newly formed role as chairman of the firm’s Operating Committee. Further, the firm has tapped Sam Shaw to succeed Moore as CFO. Shaw joined the firm in 2006 and most recently served as managing director of Finance and Corporate Development.

Extreme Networks Inc. [SAN JOSE, Calif.] (NASDAQ: EXTR) announced that Rémi Thomas will join the company as its new Chief Financial Officer. Thomas comes to Extreme from CA Technologies, where he served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller for the past year and a half. Prior to this role, he served as Vice President of Finance at HPE Software, a business unit of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Thomas also worked for Alcatel-Lucent for close to eight years – mostly in Paris and Shanghai – in various finance leadership roles including CFO for Enterprise and Strategic Industries, CFO for APAC, CFO for Wireless Networks and finally, head of M&A and Corporate Development. Matt Cleaver, Extreme’s Vice President of Finance, has been the interim CFO since September when the company’s CFO left the company. Cleaver will resume his position as part of Thomas’ staff.

Kristen Ankerbrandt

Compass [NEW YORK] announced that Kristen Ankerbrandt will join as Chief Financial Officer. Ankerbrandt was most recently at The Carlyle Group. Prior to Carlyle, Kristen worked at Goldman Sachs in the Investment Banking Division.

Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. [WICHITA, Kan.] (NYSE: SPR) today announced that Sanjay Kapoor, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, plans to retire in the first quarter of 2019. Kapoor has been in this role since he joined the company in August 2013.

Accuray Incorporated [SUNNYVALE, Calif.] (NASDAQ: ARAY) announced that it named Shig Hamamatsu as senior vice president, chief financial officer. Mr. Hamamatsu joined Accuray as its vice president of finance and chief accounting officer in September 2017 before assuming the role of interim chief financial officer on October 1, 2018. Prior to joining Accuray, Mr. Hamamatsu served as Vice President, Corporate Controller at Cepheid. He also served as Vice President, Finance and Corporate Controller at Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. Mr. Hamamatsu began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

David Burt

ServiceTitan [GLENDALE, Calif.] named David Burt as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. David most recently served as Vice President of Content Planning & Analysis and Co-Head of Corporate Development for Netflix. Before joining Netflix, he worked for J.P. Morgan Securities as an Investment Banker and for Bain & Company as a Strategy Consultant.

EDR [SHELTON, CONN.] announced that Jack Walsh has joined the business as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Jack was the CFO of Aptean.

KushCo Holdings, Inc. [GARDEN GROVE, Calif.] (OTCQB: KSHB) announced it has appointed Christopher Tedford as the Company’s new Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”). Jim McCormick, the Company’s current CFO and Chief Operating Officer (“COO”) will transition exclusively into the COO position. From 2016 – 2018, Mr. Tedford served as Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer at Confie. From 2011 – 2016, he worked at Pacific Sunwear of California, first as Senior Director and Corporate Controller before working his way up to Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He also served as Director and Corporate Controller at Clean Energy Fuels Corp. Earlier in his career, he also held senior level positions within KPMG LLP and Deloitte & Touche LLP.

Dan Kittleson

First National Bank and Trust Company (FNBT) [BELOIT, WIS.] announced that Dan Kittleson joined the company as Executive Vice President (EVP) Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Kittleson joins FNBT with more than 25 years of experience in the banking industry, most recently serving as EVP and CFO of Oak Bank in Fitchburg, Wisconsin for 17 years. Prior to that, he worked as CFO for a start-up bank in Appleton, Wisconsin.

JW Aluminum [Goose Creek, South Carolina] announced the appointment of Philip J. Cavatoni as Chief Financial Officer. Cavatoni comes to JW Aluminum from SixAxis LLC where he has served as Chief Financial Officer since 2016. Previously, Cavatoni spent seven years with Alpha Natural Resources, where he held various positions including Chief Financial and Strategy Officer. Prior to that, he was a Managing Director in the Investment Bank at J.P. Morgan. Cavatoni succeeds Rich Caruso, who has served as JW Aluminum’s Chief Financial Officer since 2017.  Caruso will be joining of JW Aluminum’s Board of Directors.

EPHS Holdings Inc. [BOYTON BEACH, FL] (OTCQB: STNN) appointed Stuart R. Ross to serve as its new Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Mr. Ross has served as President and CEO of Cardero Resource Corp. Prior to that he was a Senior Officer and Director of Clearly Canadian Beverage Corp from 1986 to 2003.

CFO Moves – week ending November 16, 2018

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CFO Moves this week include:

Partnerize AmerisourceBergen Corporation Halliburton Company
Cooper Tire & Rubber Company Actian Tidewater Inc.
Sumo Logic Schrödinger Cactus, Inc.
Cancer Genetics Vets First Choice EQUITYMULTIPLE
Cybereason Lifesize Millendo Therapeutics, Inc.
CURE Pharmaceutical Nexus Frederick Wildman and Sons
Flexport Recall Studios, Inc. Bonanza Creek Energy, Inc.
Procare Software Bovie Medical Corporation Allied Universal
SPINS Madwire LLC PCTEL, Inc.
Tenneco Inc. MediXall Group Inc. MedMen Enterprises Inc.
Zapproved LLC Harbor Compliance The Children’s Place, Inc.
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation ContraFect Corporation The Parking REIT, Inc.
Tweddle Group CloudBolt Software, Inc.

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Partnerize [SAN FRANCISCO] announced that it hired Mike Lemberg as Chief Financial Officer. Lemberg joined Partnerize after four years at ServiceSource International. Before ServiceSource, Mike’s experience included being the CFO of EcoSmart Technologies, and the VP Corporate Development and Treasurer at Arbinet.  He has held numerous other CFO and senior finance positions at growth stage and technology companies.

AmerisourceBergen Corporation [Chesterbrook, PA] announced that Tim G. Guttman retired as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and the appointment of James F. Cleary, Jr. as his successor became effective. Mr. Cleary has served as an Executive Vice President since joining the Company in March 2015. Prior to becoming Chief Financial Officer on November 9, 2018, he served as Group President, Global Commercialization Services & Animal Health from June 2017 to November 2018, and as President, MWI Veterinary Supply from March 2015 to June 2017. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Cleary was President and Chief Executive Officer of MWI Veterinary Supply, Inc. from June 2002.

Halliburton Company [HOUSTON] (NYSE: HAL) announced that Lance Loeffler, previously vice president of Investor Relations, has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer. Chris Weber is leaving the company to pursue other opportunities. Mr. Loeffler joined Halliburton in 2014. He served as vice president of Corporate Development for two years before assuming leadership of Investor Relations. Before joining Halliburton, he held director positions at Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. and UBS Investment Bank where he focused on the firms’ oil and gas clients.

Christopher J. Eperjesy

Cooper Tire & Rubber Company [FINDLAY, Ohio] (NYSE: CTB) announced that Christopher J. Eperjesy will join the company as Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer effective Dec. 10. Eperjesy will succeed Ginger M. Jones, who as previously announced, is retiring. Eperjesy joins Cooper from The IMAGINE Group (formerly Imagine! Print Solutions), where he served as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to that role, Eperjesy was Chief Financial Officer for Arctic Cat, Inc., and served as Chief Financial Officer for more than a decade with Twin Disc, Inc. Earlier in his career, Eperjesy held finance leadership positions with Kmart Corporation and Chrysler Corporation/DaimlerChrysler AG. He began his career in public accounting with Coopers & Lybrand, LLP.

Actian [PALO ALTO, Calif.] announced the appointment of Lewis Black as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to joining Actian, Black was the General Manager of Nexmo. He has finance and operational leadership experience working with past companies such as AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Avaya and Citrix.

Tidewater Inc. [HOUSTON] (NYSE: TDW) announced that Quinn P. Fanning has stepped down from his position as Tidewater’s Chief Financial Officer. Tidewater’s board of directors has appointed Quintin V. Kneen, who served as President and Chief Executive Officer of GulfMark prior to the recent business combination, as Tidewater’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

Sydney Carey

Sumo Logic [REDWOOD CITY, Calif.] announced that Sydney Carey, most recently chief financial officer (CFO) of Duo Security, joined Sumo Logic as CFO. Prior to Duo Security, Carey served as CFO of Apttus, Zscaler, MongoDB and TIBCO.

Schrödinger [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Joel Lebowitz as chief financial officer. Before joining Schrödinger, Mr. Lebowitz spent much of his career at Merck, serving most recently as global finance lead, project management.

Cactus, Inc. [HOUSTON] (NYSE: WHD) announced that the Company has appointed Stephen Tadlock, who has served as the Company’s Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, to the position of Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective March 15, 2019. Brian Small, the current Chief Financial Officer, will remain with the Company and transition full-time to a new role as Senior Finance Director. Mr. Tadlock was appointed Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of Cactus in March 2018. He joined the Company in June 2017 as Vice President of Corporate Services. He worked with Cactus Wellhead, LLC, the operating subsidiary of Cactus, since its founding in 2011 as a Board observer on behalf of Cadent Energy Partners. Mr. Tadlock previously worked at Cadent Energy Partners LLC from 2007 to 2017, where he most recently served as a Partner from 2014 to 2017. Prior to joining Cadent Energy Partners LLC, Mr. Tadlock was a consultant to Cairn Capital. Previously he was Associate to the CEO of SoundView. Mr. Tadlock began his career as an analyst at UBS Investment Bank in New York, New York.

Cancer Genetics [RUTHERFORD, N.J.] (NASDAQ: CGIX) announced the appointment of Glenn Miles as Chief Financial Officer, effective November 26, 2018. Miles has been a contractor with Cancer Genetics since July 13, 2018. Prior to joining Cancer Genetics, Glenn served as President and CFO of Catalytic Consulting LLC. Previously, he was Biopharma Controller for Europe, Latin America and U.S. oncology at Pfizer. Prior to joining Pfizer, he held various senior-level finance positions at Lehman Brothers and AT&T Mobility. He began his career as a public accountant at Grant Thornton.

Christine Komola

Vets First Choice [PORTLAND, Maine] announced the appointment of Christine Komola as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Komola joined the company from Staples after approximately two decades of service, where she most recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

EQUITYMULTIPLE [NEW YORK] announced the hiring of Brett Klein as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to EQUITYMULTIPLE, Mr. Klein was a key senior member of Colony Northstar. He served as Managing Director and Head of Alternative Products, as well as Chief Operating Officer for four public, non-traded companies and as a member of the investment committee for seven public, non-traded companies.

Cybereason [BOSTON] hired Russell Stein as Chief Financial Officer. Stein was most recently at Intellectual Ventures where he worked for more than eight years as Executive Vice President, Corporate Development & Investments and Chief Financial Officer. Previously, he spent 15 years at Merrill Lynch in a variety of roles, including CEO of Merrill Lynch Bank, Managing Director, Head of Global Corporate Finance (Investment Banking Division) and Global Treasurer.

Lifesize [AUSTIN, Texas] announced the appointment of Matt Hibbard as chief financial officer. Hibbard brings experience in financial leadership roles from companies such as Distil Networks, Xoom, OpenTable and Ernst & Young.

Millendo Therapeutics, Inc. [ANN ARBOR, Mich.] announced the appointment of Louis Arcudi III as Chief Financial Officer. Until recently, he served as Senior Vice President of Operations and Chief Financial Officer at Idera Pharmaceuticals. Prior to Idera, he served as Vice President of Finance and Administration for Peptimmune, Inc. Before his time at Peptimmune, Mr. Arcudi served as Senior Director of Finance and Administration at Genzyme Molecular Oncology Corporation, after serving as Director of International Finance and Commercial Operations at Genzyme Corporation from 1998–2000. Earlier in his career, he held finance positions with increasing levels of responsibility at Cognex Corporation, Millipore Corporation and General Motors Corporation.

CURE Pharmaceutical [OXNARD, Calif.] (OTC: CURR) announced it has tapped Alex Katz to be the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Recently, he served as a managing partner for ff Venture Capital and Differential Venture Partners.

Dain Parkinson

Nexus [MINNEAPOLIS] selected Dain Parkinson as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Parkinson’s former experience includes CVS, United Health Group, Honeywell, and Morgan Stanley. Before joining Nexus, he served as CFO of Merwin Long Term Care.

Frederick Wildman and Sons [NEW YORK] hired Zaarath Prokop as its new Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Prokop served as director of revenue management at William Grant & Sons, finance director for Disaronno USA and in several commercial finance positions with Remy Cointreau USA. She has held multiple professional finance roles before joining the wine and spirits industry, including with Ford Motor Company.

Flexport [SAN FRANCISCO] announced the addition of Sudhanshu Priyadarshi as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, he was Vice President of Finance for Walmart U.S. eCommerce, driving all retail finance operations for Walmart.com, Hayneedle.com, Shoes.com, Moosejaw.com, Vudu.com, Store No. 8, and Walmart’s partnership with Google. Before Walmart, he was the Global Chief Operating Officer of Cipla and Chief Financial Officer of PepsiCo’s Global Nutrition Platforms and Global R&D.

Recall Studios, Inc. [New York, NY] (OTCQB: BTOP) announced it appointed Anand Gupta, as Recall’s Chief Financial Officer. During his career within the media and entertainment industry, Mr. Gupta has served as the Executive Vice President, Finance and Business Operations at Al Jazeera America; as Vice-President, Business Planning and Operations at HBO; as Vice-President, Financial Planning at Warner Bros.; and as the Head of Finance and Business Development at Eidos Interactive.

Bonanza Creek Energy, Inc. [DENVER] (NYSE: BCEI) announced the hiring of Brant H. DeMuth as Chief Financial Officer. He will be assuming the role of principal financial officer from Scott A. Fenoglio, who has served as the Company’s principal financial officer since August 2017. Mr. DeMuth previously served as Vice President of Finance and Treasurer at SRC Energy Inc. from October 2014 until November 2018. Prior to joining SRC Energy, Mr. DeMuth served as Interim Chief Financial Officer of DJ Resources, LLC from August 2013 to September 2014 and as Executive Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development of Gevo, Inc. from June 2011 to May 2013.

Procare Software [MEDFORD, Ore.] announced the appointment of Marc Arseneau as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently he was the Chief Financial Officer for Oildex, culminating in the successful sale of the company to DrillingInfo, LLC. Prior to Oildex, Marc has held a variety of senior financial positions at industry leading companies like TeleTech, TriZetto, Microsoft and Cap Gemini.

Bovie Medical Corporation [CLEARWATER, Fla.] (NYSE: BVX) announced that Jay D. Ewers, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary, intends to retire.

Andrew Vollero

Allied Universal [SANTA ANA, Calif.] named Andrew Vollero its new Chief Financial Officer. Vollero will replace Bill Torzolini, who will retire in 2019, after serving 15 years in the role. Most notably, Vollero spent 15 years at Mattel, where he was a division CFO and later Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, Strategy, and Investor Relations. Following his tenure at Mattel, Vollero became the first CFO of Snap (formerly Snapchat). In the early stages of his career, he held senior posts at PepsiCo and later Yum Brand’s Taco Bell division, including Controller.

SPINS [CHICAGO] announced Bill Razzino has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining SPINS, Razzino was most recently the Chief Financial Officer of Cheetah Digital. Previously, Razzino has also held a variety of senior finance leadership roles at companies such as CareerBuilder, Tribune Company, Leo Burnett and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Madwire LLC [FORT COLLINS, Colo.] announced that Matt Bryson joined as Chief Financial Officer. Matt Bryson assumes the Chief Financial Officer role from Joe Kellogg, Madwire’s Co-Founder, Co-Chief Executive Officer, and previous Chief Financial Officer. Joe will continue to serve as Madwire’s Co-Chief Executive Officer, the position he has held since founding the company with son, JB Kellogg, in 2009. Bryson joins Madwire from Copley Equity Partners, a private investment firm, where he served as a Principal since 2017 and Vice President since 2013. Prior to his career with Copley Equity Partners, Bryson held various positions in finance and leadership at WilmerHale LLP and Fidelity Investments.

PCTEL, Inc. [BLOOMINGDALE, Ill.] (NASDAQ: PCTI) announced the appointment of Kevin McGowan as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer effective December 1, 2018. McGowan joined the Company in 2005, and has served as Vice President, Finance and Corporate Controller since 2010. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. McGowan commenced his career as an auditor for Arthur Anderson for four years and served in various finance and controller roles for a manufacturer of communications network hardware for twelve years.

Tenneco Inc. [LAKE FOREST, Ill.] (NYSE: TEN) announced the appointment of Ron Hundzinski as Executive Vice President of Finance, effective January 1, 2019. Upon completion of all required steps and related board approvals to spin off the new aftermarket ride performance company (the “SpinCo”) in 2019, it is expected that Hundzinski will serve as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Tenneco. Hundzinski recently announced his retirement as Chief Financial Officer for BorgWarner Inc. effective December 31, 2018. Hundzinski has served as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of BorgWarner Inc. since 2012. During his 13-year career with BorgWarner, he held a range of finance leadership positions including treasurer, principal accounting officer, and vice president of finance for the BorgWarner Turbo Systems business. Prior to joining BorgWarner, Hundzinski held leadership positions in finance at Emerson Electric, GKN and Meridian Automotive. He has been an Independent Director of Gentherm Incorporated since 2016. Jason Hollar will continue to serve as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Tenneco until the spinoff and is expected to serve as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the SpinCo.

MediXall Group Inc. [Fort Lauderdale, FL] (OTCQB: MDXL) announced the appointment of Kuldeep Hajela as CFO of MediXall.com. Most recently, Mr. Hajela was Chief Financial Officer of NationsHearing. Prior to his role at NationsHearing, Mr. Hajela served as Chief Financial Officer of MDLive. Previously, Mr. Hajela served as CFO & COO of MTI America. In addition, Mr. Hajela previously served as CFO and Senior Vice-President of Liberty Medical Supply.

MedMen Enterprises Inc. [LOS ANGELES] (CSE: MMEN, OTCQX: MMNFF) announced that Chief Financial Officer James Parker resigned, and that Jim Miller, the Company’s vice president of accounting, has been appointed interim chief financial officer until Parker’s successor is named. Miller joined MedMen in January 2018. Prior to joining MedMen, Miller held several senior finance and accounting positions at leading entertainment firms such as the Walt Disney Company and Viacom.

Zapproved LLC [PORTLAND, ORE.] announced the addition of Tom Pickett as Chief Financial Officer. Pickett’s most recent role was serving as CFO and Compliance Officer for Curvature.

Steven Coniglio

Harbor Compliance [LANCASTER, PA.] announced the appointment of Steven J. Coniglio as Chief Financial Officer. Coniglio began his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers, followed by more than two decades with Administrators for the Professions (AFP).

The Children’s Place, Inc. [Secaucus, New Jersey] appointed Michael Scarpa, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, as the Company’s Principal Financial Officer. Mr. Scarpa joined the Company in November 2012 as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and has served as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer and/or Chief Financial Officer for the last six years, most recently as Chief Operating Officer. In November 2018, Mr. Scarpa reassumed his former duties as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, in addition to his responsibilities as Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Scarpa was Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of The Talbots, Inc. Previously, Mr. Scarpa spent 25 years with Liz Claiborne, Inc. where he held positions of increasing responsibility, culminating in his appointment as Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Scarpa began his career in financial positions with Maidenform, Inc. and Krementz and Company.

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation [HOUSTON] (NYSE: APC) announced that Benjamin M. Fink, formerly Sr. Vice President, and President and CEO of the general partners of Western Gas Partners, LP and Western Gas Equity Partners, LP (collectively the “Partnerships”), will succeed Bob Gwin in the role of EVP, Finance & CFO. Gwin has been named President. Fink joined Anadarko in 2007 as Vice President of Finance for Anadarko Algeria Company LLC. He most recently served as Sr. Vice President of Finance of Anadarko since February of 2017, as well as President and CEO of the Partnerships. He previously served as Vice President, Finance of Anadarko, as well as Sr. Vice President and CFO of the Partnerships. Prior to joining Anadarko, Fink served as an independent financial consultant to the company in its former Beijing, China, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, offices.

ContraFect Corporation [YONKERS, N.Y.] (NASDAQ: CFRX) announced the appointment of Michael Messinger as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Messinger previously served as the Company’s Senior Vice President of Finance. Prior to joining the Company in 2012, Mr. Messinger was Director of Finance at Lexicon Pharmaceuticals. Before that, Mr. Messinger was Controller at Coelacanth Corporation. Previously, he was an auditor at Ernst & Young.

The Parking REIT, Inc. [LAS VEGAS] announced that it appointed J. Kevin Bland to serve as the company’s chief financial officer. Bland previously served in a series of strategic financial roles in the real estate industry, including as chief financial officer of UMTH General Services L.P. and vice president, controller and principal accounting officer for Pizza Inn, Inc.

Mariam Iskandarani

Tweddle Group [CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich.] announced the appointment of Mariam Iskandarani as new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Iskandarani has worked for many leading organizations in several industries—including Tier 1 automotive—such as Johnson Controls, TRW Automotive, Dana Corporation and Aramark. Iskandarani succeeds Dan Titus, who served as Tweddle Group’s CFO for 24 years.

CloudBolt Software, Inc. [ROCKVILLE, Md.] announced the appointment of Steve Scribner as CFO. Over his career, Scribner held key leadership roles including CFO at Force 3, VP Finance and Controller at Metastorm and Sequoia Software.

CFO Moves – week ending November 9, 2018

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CFO Moves this week include:

Zillow Group, Inc. Aqua Metals, Inc. XG Sciences, Inc.
Blackmore Sensors and Analytics, Inc. Colony Credit Real Estate, Inc. McorpCX, Inc.
Ballantyne Strong, Inc. Qlik The Joint Corp.
Equidate, Inc. PROCEPT BioRobotics W&T Offshore, Inc.
Ansira Partners, Inc. Globe Photos, Inc. Centric Brands Inc.
Tapestry, Inc. Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc. Datadog
Carbon Peraton Darigold
iPic Entertainment Constellis CenturyLink, Inc.

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Zillow Group, Inc. [SEATTLE] (NASDAQ: Z, ZG) announced Allen Parker will join the company as Chief Financial Officer. Parker brings nearly 30 years of experience in deep operational finance, including at Fortune 500 companies Amazon and General Electric. Parker spent the last 13 years in finance roles at Amazon. Since 2011, Parker served as VP Finance, Amazon Devices, Appstore & Amazon Pay. Prior to Amazon, Parker was CFO and VP of strategic planning at Trane Residential Systems where he led finance and strategy. Before that, Parker held various leadership roles at General Electric Lighting. Parker will begin his role as CFO of Zillow Group on November 16, at which time Interim CFO Jennifer Rock will continue on with her position as Chief Accounting Officer.

Judd Merrill

Aqua Metals, Inc. [MCCARRAN, Nev.] (NASDAQ: AQMS) announced the appointment of Judd Merrill as Chief Financial Officer. Merrill joins Aqua Metals from Klondex Mines Ltd. where he was Director of Finance/Accounting.  Prior to joining Klondex, Merrill spent five years as Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary of Comstock Mining Inc. Merrill also worked as a controller at Fronteer Gold Inc. and as an assistant controller at Newmont Mining Corp. Merrill began his career at Deloitte & Touche. Mr. Merrill replaces Frank Knuettel II, who left the Company in August 2018.

XG Sciences, Inc. [Lansing, Michigan] appointed Jacqueline Lemke as Chief Financial Officer of the Company, beginning on November 19, 2018. Lemke served on the Board of Directors of the American Brain Tumor Association since January of 2017. From 2012 to 2016, she served as President and CEO of Bioanalytical Systems, Inc. Previously, Ms. Lemke was Vice President of Finance and Global CFO of Remy, Inc., a division of Remy International, from 2007 to 2010. From 2004 to 2005, she served as Vice President of Finance and Global CFO Connected Home Solutions at Motorola, Inc., and, prior to that, was Global Strategic Planning Director of the Invista division at the DuPont Company.

Blackmore Sensors and Analytics, Inc. [BOZEMAN, Mont.] announced the appointment of Jeff Davison as chief financial officer. Prior to joining Blackmore, Davison was CFO for Mitek. He previously was with RightNow, where he was the company’s CFO, as well as VP Finance, and VP worldwide sales operations. Earlier in his career, Davison spent three years with Netsuite as SVP of Sales Success. Mr. Davison also served as the CFO of Outbrain.

Colony Credit Real Estate, Inc. [LOS ANGELES] (NYSE: CLNC) announced that Sujan S. Patel resigned as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company, to pursue other opportunities. The Company appointed Neale W. Redington as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Mr. Redington, a 10-year veteran of Colony Capital, Inc., also serves as Managing Director and the Chief Accounting Officer of Colony Capital. Prior to joining the predecessor Colony business in 2008, Mr. Redington was an audit partner in the real estate and hospitality practice of Deloitte & Touche LLP, having worked there for 20 years.

McorpCX, Inc. [SAN FRANCISCO, CA] (TSX-V: MCX, OTCQB: MCCX) announced the appointment of Tricia Tomko as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently Ms. Tomko has been the Director of Finance for a privately held communications and consulting firm and has past experience as the controller of an international SaaS software company.  Earlier in her career, Ms. Tomko was the controller for the Federal Reserve Bank in Cleveland, Ohio, the Director of Accounting Operations for a publicly traded media company and a large retail grocery chain.

Ballantyne Strong, Inc. [OMAHA, Neb.] (NYSE American: BTN) announced that Mark Roberson will join the Company as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer effective November 16th. Roberson has served most recently as Chief Operations Officer of Chanticleer Holdings, Inc. since May 2015. Prior to Chanticleer Holdings Inc., he served as Chief Executive Officer, since February 2010, Acting Chief Executive Officer, from May 2009 to February 2010, and as Chief Financial Officer, since October 2007, of PokerTek, Inc. Mr. Roberson previously held positions of increasing responsibility at Baker & Taylor, Inc., Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc., Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation, Inc., LifeStyle Furnishings International, Ltd., Coopers & Lybrand, LLP and Ernst and Young, LLP. He has served on the Board of Directors of Cynergistek, Inc. since May 2016, where he chairs the Audit and Compensation Committees. Roberson will succeed Lance Schulz, who resigned effective November 16, 2018, as Chief Financial Officer.

Qlik [PHILADELPHIA] announced that Dennis Johnson has been promoted and appointed Chief Financial Officer, assuming the official role and title after serving in an interim basis for the past several months. Johnson has served in various financial roles at Qlik since 2009, including Vice President of Finance and Director of Accounting and External Reporting. Prior to serving as interim CFO, Dennis was Qlik’s Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer. Prior to joining Qlik, Dennis served as the Vice President of Finance for Medecision, and has also previously held finance and accounting roles at VerticalNet and Arthur Andersen.

The Joint Corp. [SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.] (NASDAQ: JYNT) appointed its Corporate Controller, Jake Singleton, to the position of Chief Financial Officer. Previously, Singleton was a senior manager with Ernst & Young.

Mark Lee

Equidate, Inc. [SAN FRANCISCO] announced that Mark Lee has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Lee’s most recent role was COO/CFO at PENSCO Trust Company. Prior CFO/Finance roles include: CFO for the Stanford Management Company (the University’s endowment), CFO of Charles Schwab’s Capital Markets, RIA Trading/Custody, and Asset Management Groups, Goldman Sachs Equity Trading, Barclays Global Investors, and Hewlett Packard.

PROCEPT BioRobotics [REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.] announced the appointment of Kevin Waters as chief financial officer. Mr. Waters most recently served as senior vice president and chief financial officer of Accuray Inc. Prior to Accuray, Mr. Waters held financial leadership positions at three publicly traded medical device companies, including Conceptus, Laserscope and VISX. Mr. Waters began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP.

W&T Offshore, Inc. [HOUSTON] (NYSE: WTI) announced the appointment of Janet Yang to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, following her appointment as acting Chief Financial Officer in August 2018.  Ms. Yang will also assume the role of Principal Accounting Officer of the Company.  Previously Yang was Finance Manager and in 2012 became Director, Strategic Planning & Analysis, a position she held until being appointed Vice President, Corporate & Business Development in 2017. Prior to joining W&T, Ms. Yang held positions in research and investment analysis at BlackGold Capital Management, investment banking at Raymond James and energy trading at Allegheny Energy.

Laurie MacLaren

Ansira Partners, Inc. [DALLAS and ST. LOUIS] announced that Laurie MacLaren has joined the company in a newly formed role of Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. MacLaren replaces Gary Weller who served as Ansira’s CFO for more than 10 years. Before joining Ansira, MacLaren spent 19 years with Sapient. During her last six years with Sapient, she served as the company’s Chief Operating Officer.

Globe Photos, Inc. [LAS VEGAS] (OTCQB: GBPT) appointed Shamar Tobias as the company’s interim chief financial officer. Tobias succeeds Scott C. Black who has been appointed to the new position of chief legal officer. Tobias co-founded and serves as managing partner of Blue Chip Accounting, LLC.  Earlier, he served as a consulting partner at a PCAOB, a registered accounting firm also located in Henderson, Nevada.

Centric Brands Inc. [NEW YORK] (NASDAQ: CTRC) announced that Anurup Pruthi has joined the Company and has assumed the role of Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Pruthi most recently served as Chief Financial Officer at The Children’s Place. Prior to this role, Mr. Pruthi served as the Chief Financial Officer of the retail subsidiary of Reliance Industries, as well as the Chief Executive Officer of the Future Group business consulting and services company. He also held senior executive financial and operational positions at Burberry PLC, Mexx Europe Holding, a subsidiary of Liz Claiborne, Inc., and at Liz Claiborne, Inc.

Tapestry, Inc. [NEW YORK] (NYSE: TPR) announced that the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, Kevin Wills, has advised he will be departing the Company to pursue another opportunity. In order to facilitate a smooth transition, Mr. Wills is expected to stay through February 8, 2019.

Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc. [SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.] (NASDAQ: FPRX) announced that David V. Smith will join the company as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective November 26, 2018. Smith replaces Linda Rubinstein who was Interim CFO. Smith most recently served as Chief Operating Officer of IntegenX, Inc. until its acquisition earlier this year by Thermo Fisher Scientific. He previously served as Chief Financial Officer at each of Thoratec Corporation, Chiron Corporation, and Anergen, Inc., and in various accounting and financial leadership roles at Genentech, Inc.

Datadog [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of David Obstler as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Obstler served as CFO of TravelClick. Prior to TravelClick, Mr. Obstler held CFO roles at OpenLink Financial, MSCI Inc., Risk Metrics Group, and Pinnacor. Mr. Obstler also held investment banking positions at JPMorgan, Lehman Brothers, and Goldman Sachs.

Carbon [REDWOOD CITY, Calif.] announced the promotion of Elisa de Martel to Chief Financial Officer. Elisa de Martel joined Carbon in February 2018 as Vice President of Finance. Elisa was with Apple Inc. for 11 years, where she served in a variety of financial roles and most recently, was the Director of Manufacturing Finance. Prior to her tenure with Apple Inc., she was a finance manager with Citroen UK and a supervisor at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Alan Stewart

Peraton [HERNDON, Va.] announced the appointment of Alan Stewart as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Stewart joins Peraton from Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. where he served as senior vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer. Prior to this role, Stewart served as chief financial officer for Vistronix, now a part of ASRC. Earlier in his career he held chief financial officer roles at Oceus Networks, Inc., ICF International, DataZen Corporation, Blackboard, Inc., and Deltek Systems, Inc.

Darigold [SEATTLE] announced the hiring of Mark Garth as its new Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer, effective Nov. 27. Garth most recently served as the Chief Financial Officer for Country Fresh Holdings, LLC. Prior to joining Country Fresh, Garth was Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer at Perdue Farms (Maryland) and Wells’ Dairy (Iowa). Previously, Garth held significant senior financial roles at Plexus Corp. (Wisconsin), Conagra (Nebraska) and Maytag (Iowa).

iPic Entertainment [BOCA RATON, Fla.] (NASDAQ: IPIC) announced that Paul Westra is resigning to rejoin the financial services industry. Andre Loehrer, iPic’s Controller, will assume the position of interim Chief Financial Officer. Loehrer joined iPic in March 2017 as the financial controller. He has over 18 years’ experience in accounting and auditing. Prior to joining iPic, Loehrer served as the Controller of Twin-Star International, Inc. from October 2013 until March 2017.

Constellis [Reston, Va.] announced that Gordon Foster has joined as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Constellis, Gordon served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of ASRC Federal and Northrop Grumman’s Chief Financial Officer/Director of Business Management for its civil division. Prior to that, he served as Northrop Grumman’s Chief Financial Officer/Director of Business Management for its Cyber Solutions division and Intelligence Systems division.

Neel Dev

CenturyLink, Inc. [MONROE, La.] (NYSE: CTL) announced that Neel Dev has been named executive vice president and chief financial officer. Dev served as interim CFO since Sunit Patel‘s departure from the company in September. Dev previously served as CenturyLink’s group vice president of finance and was with Level 3 for 13 years prior to the CenturyLink acquisition.

CFO Moves – week ending November 2, 2018

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CFO Moves this week include:

Cargill J. C. Penney Company, Inc. Wasabi Technologies
EVERTEC, Inc. Russell Investments Echodyne
Manscaped, Inc. Torque Sentry Data Systems, Inc.
The AES Corporation Worthington Industries Icertis
Powell Industries, Inc. Collibra Moogsoft
Cleco Corporate Holdings LLC Ohio National Financial Services Exabeam
FirstClose Harpoon Therapeutics, Inc. Axial Biotherapeutics
Rapid Micro Biosystems Elanco Animal Health Incorporated Sanchez Energy Corporation
Intellia Therapeutics, Inc. RESIDE Worldwide, Inc. Assertio Therapeutics, Inc.
ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc. Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions Checkers & Rally
The Dallas Housing Authority eXp World Holdings, Inc. Site 1001
Resonant, Inc. Harvest Oil & Gas Corp. Windhaven Insurance
Beneplace, LLC Rockwell Medical, Inc. Realogy Holdings Corp.
Crowd Cow Social Life Network, Inc.

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Cargill [MINNEAPOLIS] announced that David Dines will be named chief financial officer, effective December 1, 2018. Dines has previously led global trading businesses in financial and industrial sectors and is responsible for the creation and growth of Cargill’s risk management business. Marcel Smits, currently Cargill’s CFO, will move into a new strategic role, assuming leadership of Cargill Asia Pacific, effective December 1, 2018.

J. C. Penney Company, Inc. [PLANO, Texas] (NYSE: JCP) announced that Michael Fung is temporarily joining the Company as interim chief financial officer succeeding Jerry Murray who will resume his responsibilities as senior vice president of finance. Fung recently served as interim chief financial officer for Neiman Marcus Group and 99 Cents Only Stores following his retirement from Walmart Stores. Prior to Walmart, he served in the top finance positions at several large corporations, including vice president and chief financial officer for Sensient Technologies Corporation, senior vice president and chief financial officer for Vanstar Corporation, and vice president and chief financial officer for Bass Pro Shops, Inc.

Wasabi Technologies, Inc. [BOSTON] announced that Michael Bayer joined as Chief Financial Officer. His most recent role was at iZotope Inc. where he served as the CFO.  Prior to that he managed the IPO for MotherNature.com and acquisitions for LightChip and Revivio.  Michael co-founded RPM Communications.

Joaquin Castrillo

EVERTEC, Inc. [SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico] (NYSE: EVTC) announced the promotion of Joaquin Castrillo to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Joaquin Castrillo most recently served as the interim Chief Financial Officer of Evertec. Previously, he served as Vice President of Finance. Prior to joining Evertec in 2012, he worked for PwC in Banking and Capital Markets group in New York and Puerto Rico.

Russell Investments [SEATTLE] hired Jennifer McPeek as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Janus, McPeek was at ING Group where she ran strategic planning and corporate development for the Americas. Earlier in her career, McPeek worked as a consultant and investment banker for McKinsey & Company and Goldman Sachs, respectively.

Echodyne [KIRKLAND, Wash.] announced that it has added Paul Farmer to its management team as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Paul brings 30 years of financial and operational leadership with high growth technology companies along with public company CFO experience.

Manscaped, Inc. [SAN DIEGO] announced the hiring of Katy Hopwood as CFO. Katy joined the corporate workforce of fledgling First Virtual Holdings Inc. in 1994 and quickly rose to become Managing Director of International Business Development. Her career growth landed her as the Vice President of Finance and Operations Sourcefinder, where she was responsible for assisting the CEO in its initial capital raising. Katy was one of the first employees (CFO) at Mobile Media Group. As Director of Operations at Renomics Corporation, Katy was instrumental during the acquisition by TopQuadrant in 2011. Her most recent roles include CFO at PB Microsaving in Beverly Hills, California, and an independent Senior Financial Consultant.

Torque [CAMBRIDGE, Mass.] announced the appointment of Alex Bruni as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Previously, Bruni held several leadership positions at Patheon (acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific), including Vice President of Finance and Vice President of Corporate Development. Prior to that, he held strategic Finance and Operations leadership positions at Merz, CombinatoRx, Sepracor, and EMD Serono.

Ron Linares

Sentry Data Systems, Inc. [DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla.] announced the addition of Ron Linares as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to his role at Sentry, he served as CFO for several companies, including OmniComm Systems, Inc.

The AES Corporation [ARLINGTON, Va.] (NYSE: AES) announced that Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Tom O’Flynn, will transition to a new leadership role, focusing on raising third-party capital to systematically and cost effectively help finance AES’ attractive growth opportunities. Current Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Gustavo Pimenta, will become Chief Financial Officer. These changes will be effective as of January 1, 2019. Gustavo served as CFO of several of AES’ Latin American businesses, including the publicly listed Brazilian companies, Eletropaulo and AES Tietê. He became Deputy CFO nine months ago.

Worthington Industries [COLUMBUS, Ohio] (NYSE: WOR) announced that Joseph Hayek has been named vice president and chief financial officer (CFO).  Andy Rose, previously president and CFO will continue as Company president. Hayek joined Worthington Industries in April 2014 as vice president of mergers and acquisitions (M&A). In 2017, he was named general manager of the Company’s oil & gas equipment business. Before joining Worthington, Hayek was president of SARCOM, the largest division of PCM, Inc. Joe also led PCM’s M&A and investor relations groups as executive vice president during his six years there. In addition, he spent 10 years in investment banking with Raymond James and Wachovia.

Icertis [BELLEVUE, Wash.] announced the appointment of Curt Anderson as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Curt was CFO of startup Chef Software. Prior to Chef, he had a long career at Microsoft, including serving as CFO of the Cloud & Enterprise Division and CFO of the Manufacturing and Supply Chain Group. He also held senior leadership roles in both Finance and Operations for the Enterprise Partner Group and led Investor Relations. Prior to Microsoft, Curt held various roles at Amazon and began his career at Deloitte.

Powell Industries, Inc. [HOUSTON] (NASDAQ: POWL) announced that Michael W. Metcalf has been named Executive Vice President of Powell Industries, Inc. and will be named Chief Financial Officer following the announcement of the Company’s financial results for the quarter and year ended September 30, 2018 and the filing of its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2018.  Don R. Madison will remain as the Company’s chief financial officer until that time.  Since 1998 until joining Powell, Mr. Metcalf held financial management positions with General Electric Company.  Most recently, Mr. Metcalf served as CFO Aeroderivative Products, GE Power effective August 6, 2018.  Prior to this role, he served as the Chief Financial Officer of Artificial Lift Systems, Baker Hughes, a General Electric company, from August 7, 2017 to August 3, 2018 and CFO of GE Oil & Gas Production Solutions from November 2, 2015 to August 4, 2017.  Mr. Metcalf is also bringing with him both operational and international experience having served as the CFO for GE Oil & Gas Supply Chain Operations from April 18, 2011 to October 30, 2015.

Collibra [NEW YORK] announced the addition of Sebastien Giroux as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to Collibra, Sebastien was Chief Accounting Officer at Atlassian. He has also held strategic financial management positions with RingCentral, IBM, BigFix, and Taleo Corporation.

Moogsoft [SAN FRANCISCO] announced it has welcomed Raman Kapur as Chief Financial Officer. Raman was formerly VP of Finance at Splunk.

Cleco Corporate Holdings LLC [PINEVILLE, La.] has announced Kazi Hasan as the new chief financial officer (CFO). Hasan has spent the last 20 years with The AES Corporation holding numerous positions of increasing responsibility, most recently as chief risk officer. Hasan replaces the current Cleco CFO, Terry Taylor, who is retiring on Jan. 1, 2019, after 18 years with the company.

Rocky Coppola

Ohio National Financial Services [CINCINNATI] announced the promotion of Rocky Coppola to Chief Financial Officer. Coppola succeeds Anthony W. Dunn. Coppola began his career at Ohio National in 1999 after nine years at Liberty Mutual and one year in consulting. Prior to his promotion to CFO, he held the position of senior vice president, finance and controller since December 2016.

Exabeam [SAN MATEO, Calif.] announced the appointment of Manish Sarin to chief financial officer (CFO). Prior to joining Exabeam, he was an executive vice president of Corporate Planning and Development at Proofpoint since 2012. Sarin also led strategy and corporate development efforts for the Software and Security groups at HP and was an investment banker at Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan.

FirstClose [AUSTIN, Texas] announced the appointment of Patrick McClain as chief financial officer and chief operating officer. Most recently, he served as CFO at Xplore Technologies and as executive vice president, CFO and treasurer at Falconstar Software. Previously, he served as CFO at Aurea Software and Rules-Based Medicine. Mr. McClain also has held senior operational and financial roles at several financial institutions and FI service providers. He started his career at Price Waterhouse Coopers.

Georgia Erbez

Harpoon Therapeutics, Inc. [SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.] announced that it has appointed Georgia L. Erbez as Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Erbez previously served as Chief Business Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Zosano Pharma. She also served as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Asterias Biotherapeutics and Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Treasurer of Raptor Pharmaceuticals. Prior to Raptor, Ms. Erbez was a Managing Director, Healthcare Investment Banking at Collins Stewart, a Founder and Managing Director at Beal Advisors, and a senior level investment banker at Jefferies & Company, and Cowen and Company. She has also held positions at the investment banks Hambrecht & Quist and Alex. Brown & Sons.

Axial Biotherapeutics [BOSTON & PASADENA, Calif.] announced the appointment of Jeffrey Young as the company’s first Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Mr. Young most recently served as CFO, Treasurer and Secretary at Juniper Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Prior to that, Mr. Young served as CFO and Treasurer of OvaScience. Mr. Young was previously the CFO and Treasurer of Transmedics. Before that, he served as CFO and Treasurer at Lantheus Medical Imaging. Mr. Young began his career holding various positions of increasing responsibility in finance at Critical Therapeutics, PerkinElmer, Inc. and PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP.

Rapid Micro Biosystems [LOWELL, Mass.] announced the appointment of Sean Wirtjes as Chief Financial Officer. He replaces Richard Kollender who has rejoined the company’s Board of Directors. Most recently, Wirtjes served as Vice President, Finance and Controller of Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa (AMEA) for Boston Scientific.  Prior to that, he served as Vice President of Investor Relations at Boston Scientific, in progressive roles at Varian, Inc. including Vice President and Controller and Vice President, Finance and Treasurer, and as Corporate Controller at Quova.  Wirtjes began his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Elanco Animal Health Incorporated [GREENFIELD, Ind.] (NYSE: ELAN) named Todd S. Young as executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO). Lucas Montarce, who has been serving as acting Elanco CFO, will return to Eli Lilly and Company as vice president and CFO of Lilly’s International Business Unit. Most recently, Young was executive vice president and CFO for ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc. in San Diego. He also spent several years in varying financial leader roles at Baxter International and worked on the spin-off of Baxalta, which he then joined as senior vice president and treasurer. He started his career at law firm Sidley Austin L.L.P.

Sanchez Energy Corporation [HOUSTON] (NYSE: SN) announced the appointment of Cameron W. George as Interim Chief Financial Officer.  George joined Sanchez Energy in 2016 as Senior Vice President of Capital Markets and has more than 15 years of investment banking and industry experience. George led the finance team at Linn Energy, LLC from 2005 until joining Sanchez Energy.  Before that, he was an investment banker in the energy group at RBC Capital Markets. George will succeed Howard J. Thill, who resigned from the company to pursue other opportunities.

Intellia Therapeutics, Inc. [CAMBRIDGE, Mass.] (NASDAQ: NTLA) named Glenn Goddard its executive vice president and chief financial officer. Before Intellia, Mr. Goddard was the chief financial officer at Generation Bio Company. Previously he was the senior vice president of finance and principal financial officer at Agios Pharmaceuticals. Prior to Agios, Mr. Goddard held various senior-level financial management positions at both Archemix and Immunogen.

Bill Kearns

RESIDE Worldwide, Inc. [SEATTLE] announced the hiring of Bill Kearns as the organization’s Chief Financial Officer. Bill joins RESIDE most recently from Zipwhip where he was the VP of Finance. Prior to Zipwhip, Kearns was the Director of Financial Reporting for Alaska Airlines. Kearns has also served as Assistant Director of Financial Reporting for PACCAR, Staff Accountant for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Audit Manager for Deloitte & Touche.

Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. [LAKE FOREST, Ill.] (NASDAQ: ASRT) announced that Phillip B. Donenberg, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will retire effective November 30, 2018. Replacing Donenberg will be Daniel A. Peisert, who has been appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Peisert was previously serving as Senior Vice President, Business Development, for Assertio. Peisert joined Assertio as Vice President, Business Development in September 2017. Most recently he served in the position of Vice President of Concordia International Corp.’s U.S. Legacy Pharmaceuticals business. Prior to this, he was Vice President, Business Development for Concordia. From 2008 to 2012, Mr. Peisert was Director of Finance and Business Development for Marathon Pharmaceuticals. Prior to entering the pharmaceutical industry, he was a healthcare equity analyst and portfolio manager for Magnetar Capital and UBS O’Connor and began his career as an auditor for PricewaterhouseCoopers.

ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc. [SAN DIEGO] (NASDAQ: ACAD) announced that Todd S. Young, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will be leaving the organization to join another healthcare company. Elena Ridloff, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations will serve as the Company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer.

Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions (CAES) [ARLINGTON, Va.] announced that Mark Santamaria has been appointed as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mark was previously the CFO at Mission Essential. He also assumed the role of CFO at AM General LLC, and The SI Organization. Additionally, Mark enjoyed a 24 year career at Lockheed Martin in various positions with increasing responsibilities.

Checkers & Rally [TAMPA, FLA.] announced that Bob Baker has joined as Chief Financial Officer. Baker most recently served as CFO at Benihana, Inc. from 2015 until 2018. Before Benihana, Inc., Baker was President and CFO at Café Rio Mexican Grill. Before his role at Café Rio, and for the majority of his professional career, Baker was with Yum! Brands. For 16 years, Baker worked in various roles with the QSR brand, including positions in financial and strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, accounting and field finance positions.

The Dallas Housing Authority (DHA) [DALLAS] announced that chief financial officer Chetana Chaphekar plans to retire after serving on DHA’s leadership team for the past eight years.

eXp World Holdings, Inc. [BELLINGHAM, Wash.] (NASDAQ: EXPI) announced that Jeff Whiteside is joining the company in a dual role as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Collaboration Officer. Jeff brings more than 30 years of finance and operations experience, including running divisions of General Electric and successfully integrating acquisitions at Pitney Bowes. Alan Goldman, who has been with eXp World Holdings since May 2016, will continue as Chief Financial Officer of eXp Realty and take on the additional role of Chief Accounting Officer of eXp World Holdings.

Site 1001 [SAN CLEMENTE, CALIF.] announced that it has named Dipak Shah as the company’s Chief Financial Officer / Chief Operations Officer. Shah has over 30 years of experience in founding, developing and managing enterprise software, financial technology and SaaS companies.

Resonant, Inc. [GOLETA, Calif.] (NASDAQ: RESN) announced Martin “Marty” McDermut as the company’s new Chief Financial Officer effective November 15, 2018. Prior to joining Resonant, McDermut served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, from January 2016 to February 2017 when the company was acquired by MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. Prior to that, McDermut served as Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation, from August 2011 to April 2015 when the company was acquired by Microsemi Corporation. Prior to that, McDermut served as a managing director and consultant at Avant Advisory Group, LLC. He also served as chief financial officer for other publicly traded companies including Iris International Inc. and Superconductor Technologies Inc. He was a partner at the public accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand LLP (now known as PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP). McDermut is a member of the board of directors of CDTi Advanced Materials, Inc.

Harvest Oil & Gas Corp. [HOUSTON] announced the appointment of Ryan Stash as Vice President and CFO. Stash most recently served as a Managing Director at Regions Securities focused on the energy sector. Prior to that, he spent 11 years in the Energy Investment Banking Group for Wells Fargo Securities in Houston rising to the level of Director. Prior to that, Mr. Stash spent 5 years as an auditor working at Hewlett-Packard and Ernst & Young, LLP.

Windhaven Insurance [MIAMI] named John D. Rosilier to serve as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Windhaven, Rosilier served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in the Property and Casualty Division at National Lloyds Insurance Corporation, a Dallas subsidiary of Hilltop Holdings. Rosilier also spent close to two decades at United Services Automobile Association (USAA), where he was in the Property and Casualty Division as Vice President and CFO and earlier as Assistant VP for Financial and Enterprise Planning and Analysis.

Beneplace, LLC [AUSTIN, Texas] announced that John Pence has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Beneplace, Pence served as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Mobi. Prior to Mobi, John worked in various leadership roles for Freescale Semiconductor, Brinkmann International and Allied Riser Communication. He began his career at Arthur Andersen.

Rockwell Medical, Inc. [WIXOM, Mich.] (NASDAQ: RMTI) announced that Angus Smith has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective at the end of November 2018. Mr. Smith will join Rockwell Medical from Pernix Therapeutics, where he currently serves as Senior Vice President, Chief Business Officer and Principal Financial Officer. Prior to this role, he served as Vice President, Business Development & Strategic Planning, and as Vice President, M&A and Corporate Finance. Prior to joining Pernix, Mr. Smith worked in healthcare investment banking, most recently serving as a Director in the Healthcare Investment Banking Group at Cantor Fitzgerald.

Realogy Holdings Corp. [MADISON, N.J.] (NYSE: RLGY) announced that Anthony E. Hull, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, will retire from his position effective November 5, 2018. Hull, a 15-year veteran of Realogy and its former parent organization, will remain employed and serve as a senior advisor to the Chief Executive Officer and President until March 31, 2019. As part of this transition, Realogy has appointed Timothy B. Gustavson as Interim Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, adding to his duties as Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller, effective November 5, 2018.

Michelle Newbery

Crowd Cow [SEATTLE] hired Michelle Newbery as chief financial officer. Michelle Newbery comes to Crowd Cow from Lowe’s Companies, where she had a variety of roles including director of corporate accounting, COO and CFO for ATGStores.com and president of The Mine.

Social Life Network, Inc. [DENVER, CO] (OTCQB: WDLF) announced the appointment of Mark DiSiena as its new Chief Financial Officer. DiSiena’s public company background includes Chief Financial Officer at Cherokee Global Brands and 4medica, as well as key financial management roles at Oracle-NetSuite, Lucent Technologies, Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy, and Senior Auditor at Cooper & Lybrand.

CFO Moves – week ending October 26, 2018

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CFO Moves this week include:

AbbVie Inc. Segment Twilio
Breather Harvard Bioscience, Inc. Wag!
SE Solutions Hero Digital Great Western Oil and Gas
Gibson Brands, Inc. Cadence Aerospace Zipwhip
TimePayment Relatient MidAtlantic Farm Credit
Loot Crate™ AIT Therapeutics, Inc. Iconix Brand Group, Inc.
Bryn Mawr Bank Corporation Tunnell Consulting SolarWindow Technologies, Inc.
PowerReviews Blackhawk Bancorp, Inc. Medical Group Management Association (MGMA)
Kadmon Holdings, Inc. Amazing Energy Oil and Gas Co. MeiraGTx Holdings
Hospitality Properties Trust Government Properties Income Trust Select Income REIT
RMR Real Estate Income Fund

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AbbVie [North Chicago, Illinois] announced that William J. Chase, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, informed AbbVie that he plans to retire from the company in mid-2019. Effective October 19, 2018, Mr. Chase has been appointed Executive Vice President, Finance and Administration, and Robert A. Michael has been appointed Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Michael has been AbbVie’s Vice President, Controller, since March 1, 2017 and served as AbbVie’s Vice President, Treasurer from 2015 to 2016, and as Vice President, Controller, Commercial Operations from 2013 to 2015. He joined Abbott Laboratories in 1993 and held numerous positions in the finance organization.

Sandra Smith

Segment [SAN FRANCISCO] announced that Sandra Smith has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Smith joins Segment from Twilio, where she served as VP of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) for five years. Prior to Twilio, Smith spent a decade with Akamai Technologies, where she served as CFO of the Emerging Cloud Business Unit and held key roles in finance. She also led Akamai’s investor relations program.

Khozema Shipchandler

Twilio [SAN FRANCISCO] (NYSE: TWLO) announced that Khozema Shipchandler will join as the company’s chief financial officer, effective Nov. 12, 2018. Shipchandler most recently served as GE Digital’s chief commercial officer. Khozema previously served in a variety of positions within GE, including as the chief financial officer and EVP of corporate development at GE Digital and the vice president of corporate audit staff of GE.

Breather [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Mark Frackt as Interim Chief Financial Officer. Previously he was inaugural CFO at BuzzFeed.

Harvard Bioscience, Inc. [HOLLISTON, Mass.] (NASDAQ: HBIO) appointed Kam Unninayar as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective November 26, 2018. Most recently, she was CFO at Tetraphase Inc. Ms. Unninayar spent more than eleven years at Thermo Fisher Scientific across multiple roles leading financial operations, corporate financial planning and analysis, finance for business strategy, and acquisitions and integrations. During her tenure there, she was Vice President Finance for the Customer Channels group, Laboratory Products and Services segment, and other businesses. Ms. Unninayar replaces Robert E. Gagnon, who resigned the position of Chief Financial Officer effective August 31, 2018.

Wag! [LOS ANGELES] has named Celia Poon as chief financial officer. Most recently, she served as CFO of Highfive and has also held senior financial leadership roles at Twitter, Yahoo! and Zynga.

SE Solutions [MCLEAN, Va.] announced that Tom Stepka has been named Chief Financial Officer. Previously, Stepka held leadership roles at Cognosante, ACS/Xerox, Integic, CACI and Unisys.

Nick Gerostathos

Hero Digital [SAN FRANCISCO] announced the appointment of Nick Gerostathos as its new chief financial officer. Prior to joining Hero Digital, Gerostathos held several key executive positions with companies including PwC, Anheuser-Busch InBev, MasterCard and Revlon, UpWind Solutions and Genesys.

Great Western Oil and Gas [DENVER] has named Brady Parish as chief financial officer. Prior to joining Great Western Oil and Gas, Parish was senior managing director and head of U.S. oil and gas investment banking for Texas-based Macquarie Capital.

Gibson Brands, Inc. [NASHVILLE, Tenn.] announced Kim Mattoon as CFO (chief financial officer). The appointment is effective November 1, 2018. joins Gibson with nearly 25 years of experience, most recently as the chief operating officer of Richemont North America. Prior to Richemont, Kim served as CFO at IWC Schaffhausen and Peter Millar – both Richemont portfolio companies – and as Vice President – Finance, Real Estate, and IT at The Body Shop. She began her career and spent 10 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Joyce Pae

Cadence Aerospace [ANAHEIM, Calif.] announced the appointment of Joyce Pae as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Cadence Aerospace.  Ms. Pae has served as Interim Chief Financial Officer of Cadence Aerospace since September 10, 2018.  She succeeds Don DeVore, who retired from Cadence Aerospace earlier this year. She joined the Cadence Aerospace Corporate Headquarters team as Vice President, Finance, in 2013.  Ms. Pae came to Cadence Aerospace from Synchronous Aerospace, where she served as the Vice President of Finance. Prior to that, Ms. Pae held positions of increasing responsibility at Baxter International, PharMedium Healthcare Corporation and DLC, Inc.

Zipwhip [SEATTLE] announced the appointment of Bob Chamberlain as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Chamberlain served as CFO at Big Fish and PopCap Games.

TimePayment [BURLINGTON, MASS.] announced that Robert K. Moskovitz has joined the company as its Chief Financial and Administrative Officer. For the past 14 years, Mr. Moskovitz was the Chief Financial Officer at LEAF Commercial Capital, until its acquisition by People’s United Bank.

Relatient [FRANKLIN, Tenn.] announced the appointment of Patrick Block as Chief Financial Officer, effective Oct 1, 2018. Block joins Relatient from LeanKit, where he served as Vice President of Finance. Previously, Block was Vice President of Finance at Emma for nine years, a SaaS marketing technology provider recently acquired by Insight Venture Partners.

Brian Rosati

MidAtlantic Farm Credit [WESTMINSTER, MD] announced Brian Rosati as their new Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Farm Credit, Rosati served as the Vice President of Finance with Videology for four years. He was also the Director of Finance with Micros Systems, and spent time in public accounting with both Ernst & Young and Arthur Andersen.

Loot Crate™ [LOS ANGELES] announced the hiring of Rob Leff, former Chief Financial Officer and SVP for Fandango, as its Chief Financial Officer. Leff joins Loot Crate from Fandango, where he has been a significant member of the team for over 10 years and its CFO since 2011.  Prior to Fandango, Leff was formerly the 1st vice president of corporate financial planning at Countrywide Financial Corp, which was purchased by Bank of America in 2009.

AIT Therapeutics, Inc. [GARDEN CITY, N.Y., and REHOVOT, Israel] (OTCQB: AITB) announced the appointment of Douglas J. Beck as its Chief Financial Officer effective as of November 1, 2018. Beck most recently served as Chief Financial Officer at JLM Couture, Inc. Prior to JLM Couture, Inc., Mr. Beck was Chief Financial Officer of Relmada Therapeutics, Inc. Mr. Beck also served as Chief Financial Officer for iBio, Inc., and Lev Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Iconix Brand Group, Inc. [New York] announced that David K. Jones, the Chief Financial Officer notified the Company of his intention to resign in order to pursue another business opportunity. Jeffrey Wood, the Company’s current Senior Vice President of Accounting, Tax and Treasurer, has been appointed Interim Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Wood has been an employee of the Company since December 2015 and has been its Senior Vice President of Accounting, Tax and Treasurer since June 2018. From October 2012 to December 2015, Mr. Wood was the Vice President of Tax and Treasurer of The Children’s Place, Inc. Mr. Wood is a graduate of Seton Hall University.

Marc Jenkins

Bryn Mawr Bank Corporation [BRYN MAWR, Pa.] (NASDAQ: BMTC) parent of The Bryn Mawr Trust Company (”BMT”), announced that Marc Jenkins has been appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Wealth Management division. Marc joins BMT from Wells Fargo, where he worked since 2003 and advanced through various roles, including Senior Vice President and Regional Investment Manager, Regional Finance Manager, and Regional Chief Financial Officer. His other previous work includes time at Ernst & Young, LLP; Arthur Anderson, LLP; and JP Morgan & Co., Inc.

Tunnell Consulting [KING OF PRUSSIA, PA.]  announced the promotion of Larry Frattura to the position of Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Tunnell in 2016 as Controller, Frattura served as Controller/CFO at Marcum LLP, CFO at Magellan Search and Staffing, and VP of Finance at Yoh Services LLC, a Day and Zimmerman Company.

SolarWindow Technologies, Inc. [SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.] (OTC: WNDW) announced the appointment of its Chief Financial Officer, Steve Yan-Klassen, who brings more than 20 years of public company experience.

PowerReviews [CHICAGO] announced that the company has hired Jillian Sheehan as Chief Financial Officer. Most notably, Sheehan spent 10 years at Textura Corporation as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and later led the sale to Oracle Corporation in 2016. Most recently, Sheehan served as Chief Financial Officer at Aquilon Energy Services.

Blackhawk Bancorp, Inc. [ELOIT, WI] (OTCQX: BHWB) announced that Mary King McGovern has been named Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Blackhawk Bancorp, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Blackhawk Bank. Mary has held the chief financial officer position at multiple community banking organizations and has also served as the chief financial officer of a wholly owned subsidiary of a larger regional bank. Her appointment fills the position most recently held by Todd James, who was recently named as the President & CEO of Blackhawk Bancorp, Inc.

Akash Madiah

Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) [ENGLEWOOD, Colo.] welcomed Akash Madiah as the organization’s new Chief Financial Officer. Madiah joins MGMA from DaVita Medical Group where he served as market CFO for the Colorado Springs region. Before joining Davita Medical Group, Madiah served in financial leadership roles at a variety of organizations, including Vail Resorts, KPMG LLP and Zolfo Cooper.

Kadmon Holdings, Inc. [NEW YORK] (NYSE: KDMN) announced that Konstantin Poukalov has notified the company of his intent to step down as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Principal Accounting Officer (PAO). Kyle Carver, the Company’s Controller, has been appointed PAO and will report directly to the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

Amazing Energy Oil and Gas Co. [PLANO, TX] (OTCQX: AMAZ) announced that it has appointed Marty Dobbins as the Company’s new Chief Financial Officer. Simultaneous with running his CPA firm for 25 years, Mr. Dobbins also served as President and CEO of K&W Resources, Inc., an oil and gas operator, Managing General Partner of Cafe Adobe Restaurants and Vice-President and CFO of Guardian Fire Protection Co., Inc.. From 2007 to 2014, Mr. Dobbins simultaneously served as President of Franskill, Inc., and as the Chief Global Investment Analyst for Motorskill Venture Group, LLC, the parent company of Franskill. For the past four years, Mr. Dobbins has been the President and CEO of InFocus Venture Group, LLC.

MeiraGTx Holdings plc [LONDON and NEW YORK] (NASDAQ: MGTX) announced that the appointment of Katherine Breedis as chief financial officer. Prior to joining MeiraGTx, Ms. Breedis was a managing director, equity research, and senior analyst for biotechnology and major pharmaceuticals with Stifel Nicolaus & Company.  Prior to joining Stifel Nicolaus & Company in 2015, Ms. Breedis worked for several years in the pharmaceuticals industry. At Pfizer Inc., she served as senior director, corporate strategy. Before that, she was senior director, global external research and development, at Eli Lilly & Company. Earlier in her career, she held a number of positions in the financial industry, including first vice president/healthcare equity analyst at Schroder Investment Management North America; principal and founder of Teewinot Capital Investors, LLC; and vice president, global investment research, and senior analyst, specialty pharmaceuticals at Goldman Sachs & Co. Before that, she held positions at Citigroup Asset Management, General Electric Capital Corporation, Creditanstalt-Bankverein, Dillon, Read & Co. and Citibank, N.A.

Hospitality Properties Trust [NEWTON, Mass.] (NASDAQ: HPT) announced that Brian E. Donley has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, effective January 1, 2019. Mr. Donley has been HPT’s controller since 2007 and he has served in various finance and accounting leadership roles at The RMR Group (Nasdaq: RMR) since 1997. Mr. Donley succeeds Mark L. Kleifges who is retiring and therefore resigning from his positions with both HPT and RMR effective December 31, 2018. Mr. Kleifges has been with both HPT and RMR since 2002. Mr. Donley has also been recently appointed as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the RMR Real Estate Income Fund (NYSE American: RIF).

Government Properties Income Trust [NEWTON, Mass.] (NASDAQ: GOV) announced that Jeffrey C. Leer has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, effective January 1, 2019. Mr. Leer was recently promoted to Senior Vice President of RMR and has been with RMR for over five years in various accounting leadership functions. Prior to joining RMR, Mr. Leer held accounting and finance positions at several Fortune 500 companies as well as practiced for several years in public accounting. Leer succeeds Mark L. Kleifges who is retiring and therefore resigning from his positions at both GOV and RMR effective December 31, 2018. Mr. Kleifges has been with GOV since 2010, and he has been with RMR since 2002. To ensure a smooth transition

Select Income REIT [NEWTON, Mass.] (NASDAQ: SIR) announced that Jeffrey C. Leer has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, effective December 1, 2018. Mr. Leer was recently promoted to Senior Vice President of RMR and he is currently responsible for the day to day oversight of the accounting and finance support functions of RMR and various affiliates. Mr. Leer has been with The RMR Group (Nasdaq: RMR) for over five years in various accounting leadership functions. Prior to joining RMR, Mr. Leer held accounting and finance positions at several Fortune 500 companies as well as practiced for several years in public accounting. Leer succeeds John C. Popeo, who is retiring and therefore resigning from his positions with both SIR and RMR, effective November 30, 2018. Leer has also been recently appointed as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Government Properties Income Trust (Nasdaq: GOV).

RMR Real Estate Income Fund [NEWTON, Mass.] (NYSE American: RIF) announced that Brian E. Donley has been appointed Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, both effective January 1, 2019. Mr. Donley has served in various finance and accounting leadership roles at RMR since 1997. Mr. Donley is also a certified public accountant. Mr. Donley has also been recently appointed as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Hospitality Properties Trust (Nasdaq: HPT).

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