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CFO Moves – week ending April 12, 2019

Posted on April 15, 2019 Written by Dergel CFO Admin Leave a Comment

CFO Moves this week include:

MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.	Blueknight Energy Partners, L.P.	Akili Interactive
GoGuardian	Majesco	Cognex Corporation
Graybar	Allbridge	Palladin Consumer Retail Partners, LLC
Global Knowledge	Canterbury Park Holding Corporation	Ostrow Reisin Berk & Abrams, Ltd. (ORBA)
Silver Bullet Water Treatment	Alico, Inc.	Hallmark Financial Services, Inc.
PinnacleART	Sportsman’s Warehouse Holdings, Inc.	Unifi Software Inc
CPS Technologies Corp.	C&A Industries Inc.	Curion Insights
BackOffice Associates	Aceable	Plus Products Inc.
Ventura Foods	Anritsu Corporation	The Hennessey Group
Drexel Hamilton	Grow Capital	ClickBank
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MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. [LOWELL, MA] (NASDAQ: MTSI) announced that Robert McMullan, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), has submitted his resignation. The company also announced Conor Hegarty, Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis has been appointed to the role of principal financial officer and principal accounting officer. Mr. Hegarty has been with MACOM for 22 years and has served as Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis of MACOM, since August 2016. Previously, he served as Senior International Finance Director from March 2011 to August 2016.

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

Santosh Shanbhag

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

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

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

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

Scott Clifford

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

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

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

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

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

Cara Sample

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

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

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

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

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

Robert Julian

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

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

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

Mike Morgan

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

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

Melanie Payne

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

Justin Kvasnicka

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CFO Moves – week ending April 5, 2019

Posted on April 8, 2019 Written by Dergel CFO Admin Leave a Comment

CFO Moves this week include:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brad Gipson

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ellen Taggart

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

Elena Ridloff

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

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

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

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

Ashoka Achuthan

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

John Schubert

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

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

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

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

Michelle Romano

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

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

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

Jason Wessling

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

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

Robert J. Brehl

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

CFO Moves – week ending March 29, 2019

Posted on April 1, 2019 Written by Dergel CFO Admin Leave a Comment

CFO Moves this week include:

J. C. Penney Company	Vitamin Shoppe, Inc.	Ryder System, Inc.
OneMain Holdings, Inc.	Albany International Corp.	CIM Commercial Trust Corporation
The ONE Group Hospitality, Inc.	Quanterix Corporation	Texas American Resources Company
Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P.	Razberi Technologies	PGT Innovations, Inc.
Lexington Realty Trust	Apple Hospitality REIT Inc.	Air T, Inc.
SynTech Bioenergy	Curator Solutions	CytomX Therapeutics Inc.
SurchX	Modo Labs	Insmed Incorporated
Blind Squirrel Entertainment	Rippe & Kingston	Arcus Biosciences, Inc.
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J. C. Penney Company, Inc. [PLANO, Texas] (NYSE: JCP) announced that Bill Wafford has been named executive vice president, chief financial officer, effective April 8. He succeeds Michael Fung, interim chief financial officer, who will remain with the Company through the end of April to allow for a seamless leadership transition. Wafford most recently served as executive vice president, chief financial officer for The Vitamin Shoppe. He joined The Vitamin Shoppe in 2017 as senior vice president overseeing strategy, finance, international operations and business development. Prior to The Vitamin Shoppe, Wafford served as a partner in the advisory practice group of KPMG following a five-year career at Walgreens Boots Alliance. Before Walgreens, Wafford held multiple finance-related positions with Archstone Consulting, Bank of America and at Target Corporation.

Vitamin Shoppe, Inc. [SECAUCUS, NJ] (NYSE: VSI) announced that Bill Wafford resigned from his current position as Executive Vice President – Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective April 5, 2019, in order to take a position as Chief Financial Officer at J. C. Penney Company, Inc. In connection with Mr. Wafford’s resignation, the Company will name Charles Knight as the Company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer. Knight currently serves as the Company’s Senior Vice President – Chief Accounting Officer. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Knight was employed at Toys “R” Us, Inc. since 1990, and has held positions of increasing responsibility, most recently as Senior Vice President-Corporate Controller (2010-2018). Prior to joining Toys “R” Us, he was a Senior Accountant at Deloitte & Touche LLP from 1986.

Scott T. Parker

Ryder System, Inc. [MIAMI, FL] (NYSE: R) announced the appointment of Scott T. Parker as executive vice president (EVP) and chief financial officer (CFO). Parker succeeds Art A. Garcia who announced his retirement in September 2018. He will join Ryder on April 5, 2019. Since November 2015, Mr. Parker served as EVP and CFO for OneMainFinancial. Prior to his most recent role at OneMain, Mr. Parker served as the CFO for commercial finance company CIT Group Inc. from July 2010 to October 2015. Prior to joining CIT, he served as CFO from 2006 to 2008 and chief operating officer from mid-2008 to 2010 for Cerberus Operations & Advisory Company, an affiliate of private investment firm Cerberus Capital Management. Mr. Parker also spent more than 15 years in leadership roles within the industrial and financial services businesses at General Electric Company, including CFO of GE Capital Solutions from 2005 to 2006.

OneMain Holdings, Inc. [BALTIMORE, MD] (NYSE: OMF) announced that Scott T. Parker, its Chief Financial Officer (CFO) since 2015, will be leaving the company. Micah Conrad, currently OneMain’s Deputy CFO, will become Acting CFO. Prior to Springleaf’s acquisition of OneMain Financial, Conrad was CFO of OneMain, then a subsidiary of Citigroup starting in 2013. In addition to having served as Deputy CFO, Conrad was and will remain CFO of Springleaf Finance Corporation, OneMain’s unsecured bond issuing subsidiary. Prior to his time at OneMain, Conrad was a managing director at Citigroup and served in a variety of senior finance roles within Citi Holdings, Global Wealth Management and Institutional Clients Group.“Micah is an integral member of the executive team and brings extensive finance, capital markets and operational expertise to this role,”Shulman said. “His experience with our company and in previous senior roles in the financial services industry will help OneMain continue to produce great results.”

Albany International Corp. [ROCHESTER, NH] (NYSE: AIN) announced that it appointed Stephen M. Nolan as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer to succeed John Cozzolino, effective April 1, 2019. Nolan most recently serving as CFO for Esterline, where he co-led the recently completed sale of Esterline to TransDigm Group Incorporated. Mr. Nolan had served as CFO of Esterline since February 2018. Prior to this role, he was the Chief Financial Officer for Vista Outdoor, Inc., and worked on the formation and spin-off of Vista Outdoor from its aerospace and defense parent company Alliant Techsystems (ATK) in 2015, as well as the related merger between ATK and Orbital Sciences to create Orbital ATK. Prior to that time, Mr. Nolan worked in a number of strategic and operational management roles within ATK, including Senior Vice President for Strategy and Business Development and several business unit leadership positions. Earlier in his career, Mr. Nolan served for five years in corporate development and strategy roles at Raytheon Company and five years as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company.

CIM Commercial Trust Corporation [DALLAS, TX] (NASDAQ & TASE: CMCT) announced that it appointed David Thompson as its Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and Nathan DeBacker as its Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”). Thompson previously served as CIM Commercial Trust’s CFO since 2014 and is a Principal and the CFO of CIM Group. DeBacker is a Senior Vice President and the CFO of CCO Capital, LLC, a subsidiary of CIM Group.

The ONE Group Hospitality, Inc. [NEW YORK, NY] (NASDAQ: STKS) announced the appointment of Tyler Loy as Chief Financial Officer effective April 1, 2019. Linda Siluk, who is serving as Interim Chief Financial Officer, has been named to the newly created position of Chief Administrative Officer effective April 1, 2019. Loy has served as Vice President of Strategy at The ONE Group since September 2018. Prior, he was the Vice President of Finance for PacificBells. Mr. Loy began his career in operations at McCormick and Schmick’s Seafood Restaurants later moving into corporate finance. Between 2011 and 2016, he held various positions of increasing responsibility at Einstein Noah Restaurant Group in corporate finance, marketing, operations and strategy, serving most recently as Vice President of Catering.

Amol Chaubal

Quanterix Corporation [LEXINGTON, MA] (NASDAQ: QTRX) announced that it has named Amol Chaubal to the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective April 12, 2019. Amol replaces Joseph Driscoll, who is stepping down from his current role as CFO. Amol joins from Smith & Nephew, where he serves as CFO of Global Operations. Prior to his time at Smith & Nephew, Amol served as corporate vice president and head of finance for PAREXEL’s CRS business. He has also held various roles at Novartis, including CFO North America – Vaccines & Diagnostics as well as international roles across Switzerland, Canada and the United States.

Texas American Resources Company [AUSTIN, TX] announced that Ben M. Ellis has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer. Ellis most recently as Chief Financial Officer for Travis Peak Resources, LLC. Ellis also spent nearly five years at BP Corporation North American Inc. (BP). Prior to BP, Ellis spent five years at Merrill Lynch.

Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. [TULSA, OK] (NYSE: MMP) announced that Aaron Milford has been promoted to chief operating officer effective May 1. Milford previously served as chief financial officer for Magellan. He has spent his entire career with Magellan or its predecessors. The partnership’s former vice president of finance and treasurer, Jeff Holman, will be promoted to chief financial officer also effective May 1. Holman has been with Magellan since its inception and has served in his most recent role since 2010 and other senior-level finance positions prior to that.

Razberi Technologies [FARMERS BRANCH, TX] announced that Jerry Trojan has joined as its chief financial officer. Trojan joins Razberi from Syncrolite LLC, where he served as CEO and previously CFO. Before that, he was the CFO of RAVE Restaurant Group Inc. His experience also includes CFO positions at two other publicly traded companies and several private equity backed companies.

PGT Innovations, Inc. [VENICE, FL] (NYSE: PGTI) announced the appointment of Sherri Baker as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective April 8, 2019. Baker succeeds Brad West, who is assuming the newly created position of Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Treasurer. Prior to joining PGT Innovations, Baker served as Vice President, Commercial Finance, for Dean Foods Company. Earlier, Baker served as Vice President of Investor Relations, Strategy and Corporate Finance, as well as Vice President of Finance, Logistics, forDean Foods. Prior to Dean Foods, Baker spent 13 years at Frito-Lay, a subsidiary of PepsiCo, in a succession of finance and accounting roles.

Lexington Realty Trust [NEW YORK, NY] (NYSE: LXP) named Beth Boulerice its chief financial officer and treasurer. She succeeds Patrick Carroll, who was appointed as the company’s chief risk officer. Prior to joining Lexington in 2007, Ms. Boulerice was the Chief Accounting Officer at Newkirk Realty Trust and held various accounting roles at First Winthrop Corporation.

Apple Hospitality REIT Inc. [RICHMOND, VA] (NYSE: APLE) said that Chief Financial Officer Bryan Peery plans to retire in the first quarter of 2020. Peery intends to remain with the company over the next year to ensure a smooth transition.

Air T [MAIDEN, NC] announced that Brett Reynolds, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, informed the Company that he expects to resign his employment with the Company on or about April 12, 2019 to accept a position at another company.

Garrett Pettingell

SynTech Bioenergy [ENGLEWOOD, CO] appointed Garrett Pettingell as Chief Financial Officer. Pettingell has more than 20 years of work experience as a CEO and CFO of public and private companies in the United States and in Europe. Pettingell started his career with Bank of Austria in Moscow, Russia, rising to Head of Corporate Banking. In 2002, Pettingell engineered the spin-out of Apptix Inc. from TeleComputing. He was also CEO of Blue Frog Solutions.

Curator Solutions [HERNDON, VA] added David Cooper as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Cooper was CFO of Dean & Company Strategy Consultants, Inc., in which he served as CFO for a number of affiliated startups that either had successful exists or grew to be mature operating businesses.

CytomX Therapeutics, Inc [SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA] (NASDAQ: CTMX) announced that its Chief Financial Officer, Debanjan Ray, will be stepping down from the Company, effective May 15, 2019, to become the Chief Executive Officer of a newly-formed private biotechnology company.

SurchX [PHOENIX, AZ] announced the appointment of Jared Peck as Chief Financial Officer. Peck comes to SurchX from Swift Transportation, where he spent 14 years in finance and leadership roles.

Jacquelyn Barry Hamilton

Modo [CAMBRIDGE, MA] announced that Jacquelyn Barry Hamilton has joined the leadership team as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Hamilton has most recently served as the CFO for NetCracker. Previously, Hamilton served for 4 Years as the Global Technology Division CFO for Monster Worldwide, and was also the CFO of Corporate Software, companies, which was acquired by Level 3 Communications during her tenure. At Level 3, Hamilton focused on M&A and post-merger integration activities.

Insmed Incorporated [BRIDGEWATER, N.J.] (NASDAQ: INSM) announced that Paolo Tombesi, Chief Financial Officer, will be leaving the company effective June 2, 2019.

Blind Squirrel Entertainment [LOS ANGELES] hired Steve Sardegna as its Chief Financial Officer. Previous to joining Blind Squirrel Entertainment, Sardegna served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at various companies. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Co-founder for fifteen years at Foundation 9 Entertainment. Before co-founding Foundation 9 Entertainment, Steve held various financial executive roles for both startup and global organizations, including Vulcan Programming; Virgin Interactive Entertainment; and KPMG.

Rippe & Kingston [CINCINNATI] announced the appointment of Sarah Huber as chief financial officer (CFO). Huber joins Rippe & Kingston from the Futbol Club Cincinnati (FC Cincinnati) where she was the senior vice president and chief financial officer.

Arcus Biosciences, Inc. [HAYWARD, Calif.] (NYSE: RCUS) announced the appointment of Rekha Hemrajani as Chief Operating and Financial Officer. Ms. Hemrajani joins Arcus from FLX Bio where she was Chief Operating Officer. Prior to FLX Bio, Ms. Hemrajani was Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Business and Financial Operations at 3-V Biosciences. Previously, Ms. Hemrajani was Vice President, Head of Licensing and Mergers and Acquisitions at Onyx Pharmaceuticals and Vice President of Business Development at Exelixis. Ms. Hemrajani began her career in investment banking at firms such as Credit Suisse First Boston and Lehman Brothers, where she focused on the biopharmaceutical and healthcare sector.

Provectus [KNOXVILLE, TN] (OTCQB: PVCT) announced the appointment of Heather Raines as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Mrs. Raines had previously served as Provectus’ Controller since 2017, and now replaces the Company’s interim CFO. From 2007 to 2015, Mrs. Raines served as Controller of the Oak Ridge, Tennessee location of AMETEK, Inc. Following AMETEK, from 2015 to 2017, she served as Vice President of Finance for BDry Waterproofing and Foundation Repair.

CFO Moves – week ending March 22, 2019

Posted on March 25, 2019 Written by Dergel CFO Admin Leave a Comment

CFO Moves this week include:

e.l.f. Beauty	Clearwater Paper Corporation	Diamond S Shipping Inc.
C.H. Robinson	Akumina	Ford Motor Company
Stratifyd	Stoke Therapeutics, Inc.	Springbot
Welbilt, Inc.	Priority Power Management, LLC	Bulletproof 360 Inc.
Franklin Resources Inc.	CNO Financial Group Inc.	Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc.
Highmark Health	Smoothie King	SigFig

Navy Capital Green Management, LLC	CV Sciences, Inc.	Image Sensing Systems, Inc.
Sienna Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.	Oxford Immunotec Global PLC	Affiliated Managers Group, Inc.
Carbon Black, Inc.	SB One Bancorp	Univest Financial Corporation
Protel Communications Group	View Inc.
Stratifyd	VAALCO Energy	BCW
Paratek Pharmaceuticals	BorgWarner	AgJunction

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e.l.f. Beauty [OAKLAND, Calif.] (NYSE: ELF) announced the appointment of Mandy Fields to the role of Senior Vice President – Chief Financial Officer, effective April 22, 2019. Fields most recently served as the Chief Financial Officer of BevMo!. Prior to joining BevMo!, Ms. Fields held progressive finance positions for the Albertsons Companies where she ultimately served as the Vice President of Finance and Analytics. Ms. Fields began her finance career at Gap, Inc. after working in investment banking at JPMorgan.

Clearwater Paper Corporation [SPOKANE, Wash.] (NYSE: CLW) announced the appointment of Robert Hrivnak as senior vice president, finance and chief financial officer, effective April 8, 2019. Mr. Hrivnak joins Clearwater Paper from Itron, Inc., where he most recently served as Itron’s chief accounting executive – vice president and corporate controller. Prior to Itron, Mr. Hrivnak held financial and accounting positions at Education Management Corp., Fluor Corp., Tyco International Ltd. and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Mr. Hrivnak began his career as an auditor with KPMG LLP. Hrivnak succeeds John D. Hertz, who has left the company to pursue other opportunities.

Diamond S Shipping Inc. [GREENWICH, Conn.] announced that Kevin M. Kilcullen is joining the company as its Chief Financial Officer. Kilcullen comes to Diamond S from Team Tankers International Ltd., where he served as CFO for three years. Prior to that, Kilcullen was CFO at Principal Maritime LLC.

C.H. Robinson [MINNEAPOLIS] (NASDAQ: CHRW) announced that Andrew Clarke will be departing from his position as Chief Financial Officer effective March 31, 2019.

Akumina [BOSTON] announced that John DiBartolomeo has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to joining Akumina, DiBartolomeo served as CFO for companies including Vee24, Axceler (acquired by Metalogix in 2013), AppNeta, and Softricity (acquired by Microsoft in 2006). He is also a current member of the board of directors for Nara Logics, Inc.

Tim Stone

Ford Motor Company [DEARBORN, Mich.] announced that Chief Financial Officer Bob Shanks plans to retire from the company at the end of 2019. He will be succeeded by Tim Stone, an accomplished finance executive who served 20 years at Amazon Inc., and as CFO of Snap Inc. Stone will join Ford on April 15 as a company officer and assume the role of CFO on June 1.

Stratifyd [CHARLOTTE, NC] appointed Shannon Ayers as its Chief Financial Officer. Shannon comes to Stratifyd with 18 years of experience providing financial leadership to companies such as ASC Volvo, SonaCare Medical, and most recently, PrecisionLender.

Stoke Therapeutics, Inc. [BEDFORD, Mass.] announced the appointment of Stephen J. Tulipano as chief financial officer. Prior to joining Stoke, Mr. Tulipano served as chief financial officer and treasurer of Aldeyra Therapeutics, Inc. He also spent five years as chief financial officer of Javelin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. that was acquired by Hospira, Inc. in 2010. Prior to that, Mr. Tulipano was director of corporate accounting at Biogen Inc.

Springbot [ATLANTA] announced it has named Oliver Bell to serve as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Bell joins Springbot from Braze, where he served as senior vice president of finance and operations. Previously, he spent three years at Salesforce after the company acquired Buddy Media, where he had worked since 2011. Prior to that, he held various financial roles for Google in their New York office and was an investment banking financial analyst for Citigroup’s Global Technology Group.

Welbilt, Inc. [NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla.] (NYSE: WBT) announced that it has appointed Martin D. Agard to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer effective April 8, 2019. Agard will assume the leadership of Welbilt’s finance organization from Haresh Shah, who is leaving Welbilt to pursue external opportunities. Agard has been the Chief Financial Officer of Lumber Liquidators Holdings, Inc. since September 2016. From 2013 to 2015, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Kohler Company. Prior to Kohler, he held various financial roles including Vice President and Treasurer with Georgia Pacific Corporation, since 2001. Earlier in his career, he spent time in financial roles at Homebanc Mortgage Corporation, The Eastman Kodak Company and The Proctor and Gamble Company.

Cortney Johnson

ESO [AUSTIN, Texas] announced Cortney Johnson has been named Chief Financial Officer. Prior to ESO, Johnson served as the Chief Financial Officer of All Web Leads, Inc.. Starting her career as an auditor with Ernst & Young, LLP.

Justin Courtney

Priority Power Management, LLC [MIDLAND, Texas & ARLINGTON, Texas] announced the hiring of Justin Courtney as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, he was a Managing Director at Stephens Inc.

Bulletproof 360, Inc. [SEATTLE] announced that Cameron Kinloch was named Chief Financial Officer. Kinloch has over 15 years of experience in leadership roles at high-growth companies, including Ripple Foods, Ripple, Sunrun, Box, and Netflix. Kinloch began her career at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, where she covered numerous consumer companies.

Franklin Resources, Inc. [San Mateo, CA] [NYSE: BEN] announced the appointment of Matthew Nicholls as executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective May 6, 2019. Nicholls will succeed Ken Lewis, who will retire from the Company as CFO on May 6, 2019. Nicholls most recently was a managing director and global head, corporate and investment banking, for the asset management industry in the Financial Institutions Group at Citigroup based in New York. In his tenure at Citigroup, Nicholls also held other leadership positions within the firm’s Financial Institutions Group, including as the global corporate banking head and North America head of corporate and investment banking. His earlier experience includes work in risk and capital management, corporate finance and transaction banking. He began his career at Citigroup in 1995.

Lumber Liquidators [TOANO, Va.] (NYSE: LL) announced that its Chief Financial Officer, Martin D. Agard, will resign from the Company effective April 5, 2019 to accept a new role with a company in Florida. Mr. Agard has been the Company’s Chief Financial Officer since September 2016. Timothy J. Mulvaney, currently the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer, has been named Interim Chief Financial Officer, effective April 5, 2019. Mr. Mulvaney will continue to serve as Chief Accounting Officer. Mulvaney has been the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer since June 2017. Mulvaney served as Media General’s Controller and Chief Accounting Officer up until the effective time of the merger between Media General and Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc. Prior to joining Media General, Mr. Mulvaney spent six years at Ernst & Young LLP.

Saurabh Tripathi

Highmark Health [PITTSBURGH] announced that Saurabh Tripathi has been named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Tripathi served as Senior Vice president and CFO since 2015 for Fresenius Kidney Care, Fresenius Vascular Care, National Cardiovascular Partners, Fresenius Labs, and Fresenius Physician Practices at Fresenius Medical Care in Boston, MA. Prior to Fresenius, his experience included working in various finance leadership positions at GE Healthcare, GE Capital, GE Appliances, and Procter & Gamble. Tripathi replaces Karen Hanlon as CFO and will now transition to the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) role on a full-time basis, an expanded senior leadership position to which she was named in July 2018. Hanlon served as the company’s Senior Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis from 2009 to 2014, when she assumed the role of CFO.

Smoothie King [DALLAS] named Thomas Kim as its new chief financial officer. Kim joins Smoothie King from YourCause where he served as chief financial officer. Prior to YourCause, Kim served as the chief financial officer of Working Solutions. He also served in various roles in investment banking at Citigroup and MHT Partners, and management consulting at Boston Consulting Group.

SigFig [SAN FRANCISCO] announced the appointment of Anne Morrissey to the position of Chief Financial Officer. Morrissey worked at Fitbit, LeapFrog, Yahoo! and has nearly a decade of financial services experience with JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Salomon Smith Barney.

Bitdefender [BUCHAREST, Romania and SANTA CLARA, California] appointed John Stynes as its Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Stynes worked as Verifone CFO for Europe and Russia. Before Verifone, Stynes was deputy CFO at TT Electronics. He spent the majority of his career at Cisco, setting up Cisco Capital and Treasury, implementing SOX as their EMEA Corporate Controller and serving as CFO for their Northern European and UKI operations organizations. Former CFO Niculae Dinca will remain part of the finance management team and support Stynes during the transition.

Navy Capital [NEW YORK] recently hired Kevin McLaughlin as CFO. Mr. McLaughlin brings over 25 years of experience in CFO and CCO roles in the hedge fund industry.

Paul McDonough

CNO Financial Group, Inc. [CARMEL, Ind.] (NYSE: CNO) named Paul H. McDonough as chief financial officer, effective April 1, 2019. He succeeds Erik Helding, who is leaving his current role as of March 29, 2019 to pursue other opportunities. McDonough served as chief financial officer of OneBeacon from 2005 to 2017. McDonough previously held a variety of executive, treasury and strategic planning roles at other companies throughout his nearly 30-year career. He also proudly served as an officer in the U.S. Navy and Navy Reserves for six years.

CV Sciences, Inc. [LAS VEGAS] (OTCQB: CVSI) announced the appointment of Joerg Grasser as Chief Financial Officer. Grasser has served as Chief Accounting Officer of CV Sciences since December 2018. Prior to his role at CV Sciences, Mr. Grasser served as Controller of Ballast Point Brewing, a subsidiary of Constellation Brands, Inc. He also held senior finance positions with Sequenom, Inc. and Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation.

Image Sensing Systems, Inc. [SAINT PAUL, Minn.] (NASDAQ: ISNS) announced that Todd Slawson has resigned as its Interim Chief Financial Officer to accept a position at another company. The Board of Directors has appointed Ted Johnson as Interim Chief Financial Officer. Johnson most recently served as the International Finance Director of Textron Specialized Vehicles from March 2017 until February 2019. From March 2011 to March 2017, he was the International Finance Director of Arctic Cat Inc. Before his time at Arctic Cat Inc., he held various Chief Financial Officer and finance positions with AGA Medical Corporation, Element 5 AG, and Black & Decker.

Sienna Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. [WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.] (NAQSDAQ: SNNA) announced the promotion of Alexander Azoy to Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Azoy, who has served as Sienna’s Corporate Controller since December 2017, will succeed John W. Smither, who has resigned for personal reasons, effective April 1, 2019. Azoy was previously the Vice President of Accounting for Smart & Final, from January 2016 to November 2017. Azoy was the Corporate Controller for Kythera Biopharmaceuticals from March 2015 until December 2015, after it was acquired by Allergan plc. From June 2013 to March 2015, Mr. Azoy served as Director, Finance Business Strategy for Warner Bros. Entertainment.

Oxford Immunotec Global PLC [OXFORD, United Kingdom and MARLBOROUGH, Mass.] (NASDAQ: OXFD) announced that Richard Altieri, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO), will retire on April 30, 2019. The Company has appointed Matthew McLaughlin, currently Chief Financial Officer, GE Healthcare – U.S. and Canada, as his successor. McLaughlin will join Oxford Immunotec as CFO on April 8, 2019. McLaughlin has been the CFO of GE Healthcare – U.S. and Canada since December 2016. Prior to that, Mr. McLaughlin worked at GE Aviation, serving as Chief Financial Officer of Global Supply Chain from May 2014 to December 2016, Chief Financial Officer of GE Avionics from March 2012 to April 2014 and Executive – Financial Planning and Analysis from 2009 to February 2012. Before that Mr. McLaughlin worked for General Electric as a member of the corporate audit staff, holding various positions and ultimately leading global audit coverage of three GE businesses, including GE Aviation.

Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. [WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.] (NYSE: AMG) announced the appointment of Thomas M. Wojcik as its next Chief Financial Officer. Jay C. Horgen, President and Chief Financial Officer, will serve as CFO until no later than the announcement of AMG’s earnings for the second quarter of 2019, and will continue in his role as President of the Company thereafter. Mr. Wojcik will join AMG on April 22, 2019, as Executive Vice President, Finance. Wojcik joins AMG from BlackRock, Inc., where he most recently served as Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), Head of EMEA Strategy, and Global Head of Investor Relations. Before joining BlackRock in 2012, Mr. Wojcik was responsible for coverage of the financial services sector at Hunter Global Investors. Prior to that, he was an investor at Durham Asset Management, and at Nautic Partners. Mr. Wojcik began his career as an investment banker in the Financial Institutions Group at Merrill Lynch & Co.

Carbon Black [WALTHAM, Mass.] (NASDAQ: CBLK) announced that Steve Webber has been appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Webber joins Carbon Black from BackOffice Associates, where he served as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and CFO. Prior to BackOffice Associates, he was the CFO at Cynosure. He spent 19 years at EMC Corporation and was promoted to leadership positions of increasing responsibility, including corporate finance, international finance and business partner roles supporting the Enterprise Software Division and Global Enterprise Services. In his last role at EMC, prior to its acquisition by Dell, Webber was Senior Vice President and CFO of Virtustream.

SB One Bank [ROCKAWAY, N.J] announced the appointment of Adriano Duarte to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Mr. Duarte succeeds former CFO Steven Fusco. Prior to his appointment, he served as Senior Vice President and Assistant Financial Officer at SB One Bank. Before joining SB One Bank, Duarte was a Vice President and Financial Reporting Manager at Investors Bank.

Univest Financial Corporation [SOUDERTON, Pa.] (NASDAQ: UVSP), parent company of Univest Bank and Trust Co. and its insurance, investments and equipment financing subsidiaries, announced the retirement of Roger S. Deacon, effective June 30, 2019. Mr. Deacon has served as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since July 1, 2016, when the Corporation acquired Fox Chase Bancorp, Inc. where he served as Chief Financial Officer for nine years. Brian J. Richardson, Executive Vice President and Director of Finance of the Corporation, will assume the position of Chief Financial Officer, effective July 1, 2019. Mr. Richardson also joined the Corporation on July 1, 2016, at the time of the Fox Chase Bancorp, Inc. acquisition, where he served as Senior Vice President and Director of Accounting for five years. Mr. Richardson began his career at KPMG LLP, where he served as a Senior Manager in their Financial Services Audit Practice.

Protel Communications Inc. [SAN DIEGO] announced David Krietzberg as its new chief Financial Officer. Krietzberg began his telecommunication career with Isoetec and Executone, and has since served as CFO for companies such as Inter-Tel Technologies, Mitel US, Crexendo, and, most recently, Vertical Communications. More recently, Krietzberg was CFO of Fulton Communications.

View, Inc. [MILPITAS, CALIF.] announced the appointment of Vidul Prakash as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Most recently, he was CFO of SunPower Technologies, a division of SunPower Corporation. Prior to SunPower, Prakash worked at Force10 Networks, KPMG, Deloitte, New View Technologies, and Honeywell.

VAALCO Energy, Inc. [HOUSTON] (NYSE: EGY) announced that Phil Patman, VAALCO’s Chief Financial Officer, has elected to resign from the Company, effective March 31, 2019, to pursue other interests. Elizabeth Prochnow, the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer, has been appointed by the Board to the role of Chief Financial Officer effective April 1, 2019. Prochnow has served as VAALCO’s Chief Accounting Officer since joining the Company in March 2015. Ms. Prochnow has held a variety of senior finance leadership positions including Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Sterling Construction Company, Inc., and Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Bristow Group Inc. Ms. Prochnow began her career as a public accountant at Arthur Andersen LLP in 1981.

BCW (Burson Cohn & Wolfe) [NEW YORK] announced that Mark Thorne has been appointed Global Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Thorne replaces Pat Przybyski, formerly Global Chief Financial Officer. Thorne spent the past 20 plus years with Hill+Knowlton Strategies in a range of leadership roles, most recently serving as Global Chief Financial Officer and Global Chief Operating Officer. Prior to that, Thorne was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, North America, for WPP, and before that he was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Beatrice International Food Company. He began his career at Deloitte & Touche (now Deloitte).

Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. [BOSTON] (NASDAQ: PRTK) announced that Douglas Pagán, Chief Financial Officer, has resigned, effective April 5, 2019, to join an early-stage biopharmaceutical company. Mr. Pagán has entered into a consulting agreement with Paratek through December 23, 2019 to assist the Company in the orderly transition of his Chief Financial Officer responsibilities. The Company also announced that Sarah Higgins, Paratek’s Vice President and Controller, will serve as the Company’s Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer on an interim basis,

BorgWarner [AUBURN HILLS, Mich.] announced the appointment of Kevin A. Nowlan to executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO), effective April 1, 2019. Nowlan comes to BorgWarner from Meritor, Inc. While there, he served as the Senior Vice President and CFO since 2013 and was given the additional responsibility of President of the Trailer and Components businesses in 2018. Mr. Nowlan’s career history spans a number of executive and financial leadership roles with Meritor including Controller, Treasurer and Vice President, Shared Services. Before joining Meritor in 2007, Nowlan worked for GMAC and the General Motors’ Treasurer’s Office for 12 years in a variety of roles.

AgJunction Inc. [SCOTTSDALE, AZ] (TSX: AJX) announced a CFO transition plan following the resignation of current CFO Mike Manning, who has made the decision not to relocate to the Company’s new Scottsdale, Arizona headquarters. Manning will work part-time for AgJunction effective March 29th to assist in a transition period through the Company’s annual general meeting on May 10th. The Company intends to appoint an interim CFO while it conducts a search for a permanent CFO in the greater Scottsdale, Arizona area.

CFO Moves – week ending March 8, 2019

Posted on March 11, 2019 Written by Dergel CFO Admin Leave a Comment

CFO Moves this week include:

CM Group	Tyto Athene, LLC	MSCI Inc.
Remedy Partners	RH	Karuna Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
GIPHY	Eyecare Services Partners	CathWorks
Fusion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	Jones Lang LaSalle Inc.	ADP, LLC
Delek US Holdings, Inc; Delek Logistics Partners, LP	Web.com Group, Inc.	Outsell LLC
StarCompliance	Study.com	electroCore, Inc.

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CM Group [NASHVILLE, Tenn.] announced the appointment of Mike Vantusko to chief financial officer (CFO). Vantusko most recently served as the CFO of Achieve3000. He has also held CFO positions for private equity sponsored companies at MRI Software and Rakuten/OverDrive.

Tyto Athene, LLC [HERNDON, Va.] announced that Daniel Smith has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Tyto Athene, Mr. Smith was the Chief Financial Officer and a member of the board of directors of MicroPact from January 2013 through January 2019. Previously, Mr. Smith was CFO for Attain LLC.

MSCI Inc. [NEW YORK] (NYSE: MSCI) announced that Andrew C. Wiechmann, who has been serving as the Company’s Head of Strategy, Corporate Development and Investor Relations, has been appointed Interim Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Kathleen A. Winters has resigned from her roles as
Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of MSCI to become the Chief Financial Officer of a large global company. Wiechmann joined MSCI in 2012. In addition to serving as Head of Strategy, Corporate Development and Investor Relations, he has previously served as Head of Financial Planning and Analysis.

Remedy Partners [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Steve Senneff as Chief Financial Officer. Senneff joins Remedy from DigitalOcean, where he served as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to DigitalOcean, Mr. Senneff served in multiple executive roles, including Chief Operating Officer and most recently as Chief Financial Officer, at Cotiviti Holdings.

RH [CORTE MADERA, Calif.] (NYSE: RH) announced the appointment of Jack Preston as Chief Financial Officer of RH. Preston is currently a member of the RH executive leadership team, serving as Senior Vice President, Finance & Chief Strategy Officer. Mr. Preston joined RH in 2013 and previously worked in investment banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch for more than twelve years. Ryno Blignaut has decided based upon health considerations to step down from his current role at RH.

Troy Ignelzi

Karuna Pharmaceuticals, Inc.[BOSTON] announced that Troy Ignelzi has joined the company as its chief financial officer. Ignelzi joins Karuna from scPharmaceuticals, where he was chief financial officer. Prior to scPharmaceuticals, Mr. Ignelzi was a senior executive at Juventas Therapeutics, Esperion Therapeutics, and Insys Therapeutics.

GIPHY [NEW YORK] announced that Whit Richards will join the company as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining GIPHY, Richards served in key financial leadership positions at high-growth companies, most recently as CFO of Fullscreen Inc. for more than five years. Before his time at Fullscreen, Richards held CFO roles at ShoeDazzle and DailyCandy.

Eyecare Services Partners [DALLAS] announced the appointment of Aaron Cho as Chief Financial
Officer. Cho was previously CFO of Access Dental. Before Access Dental, he was CFO of the largest operating division at Surgical Care Affiliates. Prior to that he held positions at CAPCO and Ernst & Young.

CathWorks [KFAR-SABA, ISRAEL & ALISO VIEJO, Calif.] announced that Mike Feher has joined CathWorks as Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer. Mike joins CathWorks with over 13 years of finance and strategy experience in companies such as Edwards Lifesciences, Volcom and Deloitte.

Fusion Pharmaceuticals [BOSTON & HAMILTON, Ontario] announced the appointment of John J. Crowley as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Merus, Inc. Prior to joining Merus, Mr. Crowley served as Corporate Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of Charles River Laboratories, Inc. Previously, he served as Vice President, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and held senior corporate finance positions at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Stephanie Plaines

Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. (JLL) [CHICAGO] named Stephanie Plaines as finance chief, effective by the end of March. Ms. Plaines replaces Trish Maxson, who served as interim CFO since Sept. 2018.

ADP [ROSELAND, N.J.] (NASDAQ: ADP) announced the appointment of Kathleen Winters as Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Winters will join ADP on April 15, 2019, at which time Jan Siegmund will step down as CFO. Winters joins ADP from MSCI Inc., where she has been Chief Financial Officer since May 2016. Prior to her tenure at MSCI, Ms. Winters served in increasingly senior financial roles at Honeywell International, Inc., from 2002 to 2016. She began her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where she served in various positions from 1989 to 2001.

Delek US Holdings, Inc. [BRENTWOOD, Tenn.] (NYSE: DK) and Delek Logistics Partners, LP (NYSE: DKL) announced the appointment of Assi Ginzburg to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Delek US and Delek Logistics GP, LLC, the general partner of Delek Logistics. Ginzburg will succeed Kevin Kremke, who will remain with the company as an Executive Vice President and assist with the transition. Mr. Ginzburg joined Delek US in 2004 and has served in various executive roles, including serving as Delek US and Delek Logistics GP’s Chief Financial Officer from January 2013 to June 2017 and as Delek US’ Executive Vice President, Strategic Planning since June 2017. Mr. Ginzburg also serves on the board of directors and as an executive officer of Delek Logistics GP, the general partner of Delek Logistics.

Christina Clohecy

Web.com Group, Inc. [JACKSONVILLE, Fla.] announced the appointment of Christina Clohecy as the company’s new chief financial officer (CFO). Clohecy succeeds Jennifer Lada. Clohecy most recently held leadership positions with Siris Capital portfolio companies Stratus Technologies, Inc., which she joined in 2016 as CFO, and Airvana. Previously, she held a series of positions at both Sycamore Networks Inc. and Vitronics Soltec.

Jon Ochetti

Outsell [MINNEAPOLIS] announced that Jon Ochetti has joined the company as CFO. Ochetti was most recently Vice President – Business Strategy and FP&A at the Star Tribune Media Company. Prior to that, he was Vice President – Finance for publisher Meredith Corporation’s marketing services agency, MXM. He also worked in finance positions at McDonald’s Corporation and KPMG.

Study.com [MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF.] appointed Rich Hornstein as the company’s Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel. Most recently, Hornstein was a managing director at Elevate LLC. Hornstein was also the CFO and general counsel at Quotient Technology, Inc.

electroCore, Inc. [BASKING RIDGE, N.J.] (Nasdaq: ECOR) announced the appointment Brian Posner as chief financial officer. Glenn Vraniak, electroCore’s current chief financial officer, will be leaving the company to pursue other opportunities and will be providing transition services through August 2019. Posner joins electroCore from Cellectar Biosciences, where he served as chief financial officer since April 2018. Prior to Cellectar, he served in chief financial officer roles at Alliqua BioMedical, Ocean Power Technologies and Power Medical Interventions. Earlier, Mr. Posner spent nine years at Pharmacopeia, where he rose from director of finance to chief financial officer before the company was acquired by Ligand Pharmaceuticals. Prior to Pharmacopeia, he was chief financial officer and vice president of operations at Photosynthetic Harvest, and regional chief financial officer at Omnicare. Mr. Posner began his career as an audit supervisor at Coopers & Lybrand.

CFO Moves – week ending March 1, 2019

Posted on March 4, 2019 Written by Samuel Dergel Leave a Comment

CFO Moves this week include:

Edgewell Personal Care Company	Tupperware Brands Corporation	NASA
Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.	Sidecar	Israel Discount Bank of New York
MeriCal, LLC	Bristow Group Inc.	Connection
The Doe Run Company	Genocea Biosciences, Inc.	Verana Health
Brighthouse Financial, Inc.	Trinseo	Gateway Mortgage Group
RecVue, Inc.	Hylan	Vology
CBB Bancorp, Inc.	JND Legal Administration	CCRM
Personal Genome Diagnostics Inc.	Spin Memory, Inc.	Atreca, Inc.
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.	Iconix Brand Group, Inc.	Lumina
Douglas Emmett, Inc.

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Edgewell Personal Care Company [SHELTON, Conn.] (NYSE: EPC) announced that Daniel J. Sullivan will join the company as Chief Financial Officer, effective April 1, 2019. He will succeed Rod R. Little, who, as previously announced, was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer, effective March 1, 2019. Sullivan most recently served as Chief Financial Officer of Party City. Before that he served as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Finance and as a Member of the Executive Board of Ahold USA, Inc., starting in 2010. Previously, Mr. Sullivan worked at Heineken for 12 years in executive finance positions both in the United States and Europe, including serving as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer & Senior Vice President – Strategy for Heineken USA. Prior to that, Mr. Sullivan was a controller for Amscan Inc. Mr. Sullivan started his career at KPMG.

Tupperware Brands Corporation [ORLANDO, Fla.] (NYSE: TUP) announced the appointment of Cassandra “Sandra” Harris, formerly of VF Corporation, as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer effective April 1, 2019. Harris succeeds Michael “Mike” Poteshman, who recently announced his retirement after a 25-year career with the Company, and who will remain until March 31, 2019 and provide consulting services through September 30, 2019 to ensure an orderly transition. Throughout Harris’ tenure at VF Corporation she held various positions of increasing responsibility including global Vice President and Chief Information Officer. Prior to this role, she served as Chief Financial Officer in the Direct to Consumer and Global Supply Chain divisions. She previously spent more than 10 years at Wilsonart International, Inc., where following a series of accounting roles, she served as the company’s Group Controller. Harris began her career at Deloitte & Touche, LLP.

NASA [HUNTSVILLE, Ala.] announced the appointment of Rhega Gordon to the Senior Executive Service position of center chief financial officer for NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Prior to her appointment, Gordon served as deputy center CFO since July 2013 and as acting center CFO since the retirement of Marshall CFO William Hicks in January. Previously, Gordon was manager of the Planning and Control Office in Marshall’s Flight Programs and Partnerships Office and manager of the Science and Mission Systems Program Planning and Control Office. She managed the Instrument & Payload Systems Department Resources Group, part of Marshall’s Engineering Directorate; and she was also manager of the Engineering Directorate’s Payload and Technology Business Office and Space Systems Payloads and Project Offices. Gordon was appointed team lead in Marshall’s Flight Projects Directorate after beginning her NASA career in 1991 as an engineer in Marshall’s Ground Systems Department of the Mission Operations Laboratory.

Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. [SAN ANTONIO & NEW YORK] (NYSE: CCO), a subsidiary of iHeartMedia, Inc. announced that Brian Coleman will become Chief Financial Officer of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (CCOH) when the company becomes a standalone public company upon iHeartMedia’s emergence from its previously announced restructuring process. Coleman currently serves as Senior Vice President and Treasurer of iHeartMedia, Inc.

Sidecar [PHILADELPHIA] named Saroosh Ahmed the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Before joining Sidecar, Ahmed was Senior Vice President of Finance for Datapipe. Prior to Datapipe, Ahmed held senior finance positions at Time Warner Cable (later acquired by Spectrum). Ahmed also spent 10 years in finance, operations, and M&A leadership roles at RCN. His experience culminated in his position as Vice President and General Manager of the company’s largest business division.

Scott Graham

Israel Discount Bank of New York [New York] announced that Scott Graham has been named Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, he served as Head of Strategy at Barclays Private Bank and has held key leadership roles, including Chief Operating Officer, Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Financial Officer for Wealth and Private Banking. Prior to Barclays, he served as CFO and COO at JPMorgan & Chase US Private Bank and CFO at both Citi North America Private Bank and Citi EMEA Private Bank.

MeriCal, LLC [ANAHEIM, Calif.] announced the appointment of Michael Smith as their new Chief Financial Officer. Smith previously worked as the Chief Financial Officer at National Pasteurized Eggs, and led the sale of the company to Post Holdings, Inc. Smith has also worked at Smithbucklin Corporation, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Mesirow Financial and Deloitte.

Bristow Group Inc. [HOUSTON] (NYSE: BRS) announced that L. Don Miller has been promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer from his role as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Brian Allman has been promoted and will replace Miller as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Allman was previously Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer for Bristow, and will continue as Bristow’s Chief Accounting Officer. Allman joined Bristow in 2006 as Director of Financial Reporting.

Connection (PC Connection, Inc.) [MERRIMACK, N.H.] (NASDAQ: CNXN) announced that Thomas C. Baker has joined the Company as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer. Prior to joining Connection, Mr. Baker served as Corporate Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for the New Markets and Service Group at Applied Materials, Inc. since 2013. He previously served as Vice President of finance for Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates from 2006 to 2013, and led the finance integration following the acquisition of Varian Semiconductor of Applied Materials in 2011. Mr. Baker launched his career as a public accountant with Price Waterhouse.

The Doe Run Company [ST. LOUIS] announced that Gary Mard has been promoted to vice president – finance and chief financial officer, succeeding Terry Fox who recently retired.

Genocea Biosciences, Inc. [CAMBRIDGE, Mass.] (NASDAQ: GNCA) announced the appointment of a new Chief Financial Officer, Diantha Duvall. Ms. Duvall joins Genocea from Bioverativ, Inc., where she served as Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer since the company’s spin out from Biogen, where she had served as U.S. and then Global Commercial Controller. Prior to Biogen, Ms. Duvall held a variety of financial and accounting positions at Merck and Co. and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Verana Health [SAN FRANCISCO] announced the appointment of Marie-Eve Piche as Chief Financial Officer. Marie-Eve Piche is Chief Financial Officer at Verana Health. Prior to joining Verana, Piche was the CFO of Pymetrics. Prior to this, Piche spent five years at AppNexus as the Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis. Piche started her professional career at General Electric where she spent 11 years holding several key financial roles. This included Head of Finance for NBC Sports and Senior Director for Telemundo. She was selected for the leadership program at GE Industrial and GE Capital.

Brighthouse Financial, Inc. [CHARLOTTE, N.C.] (NASDAQ: BHF) announced that the Company and Anant Bhalla, chief financial officer, have decided to part ways amicably, effective March 14, 2019. Conor Murphy, chief operating officer, was appointed to serve as interim chief financial officer. Prior to joining Brighthouse Financial in 2017, Murphy was the chief financial officer for MetLife, Inc.’s (“MetLife”) Latin America region. He also served as head of investor relations for MetLife, as chief financial officer for MetLife’s Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region, and as chief financial officer for MetLife’s Investments organization. Murphy joined MetLife from PwC and began his career at Grant Thornton LLP.

Trinseo [BERWYN, Pa.] (NYSE: TSE) announced that Barry J. Niziolek, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, has announced his plans to retire around mid-year 2019.

Gateway Mortgage Group [JENKS, Okla.] announced Christopher Treece as Chief Financial Officer. Previously, Treece was the Chief Financial Officer for Guaranty Bancorp in Denver, Colo. which was sold to Independent Bank Group in 2018.

RecVue, Inc. [PALO ALTO, Calif.] announced that Steve Lance has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Previously, Steve was CFO at Cloud Lending Solutions, which was acquired by Q2ebanking, as well as Giga-tronics and SugarCRM.

Hylan [HOLMDEL, N.J.] announced the appointment of Scott Gindea as new Chief Financial Officer for Hylan. Gindea succeeds Luke McKinnon, who has served as Hylan’s CFO for the last two years.

Grant Newmyer

Vology [CLEARWATER, Fla.] announced the appointment of Grant Newmyer as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Newmyer joins Vology from iQor, where he served as Senior Vice President–Global Controller since 2014. Previously, Newmyer was Group Financial Officer at First Advantage. Before then, he last served as Vice President of Finance at Sara Lee Corp. and formerly held several other finance management roles for a combined 11 years.

CBB Bancorp, Inc. [LOS ANGELES] (OTCQB: CBBI), the parent company of Commonwealth Business Bank, announced that Long T. Huynh has been hired as EVP and Chief Financial Officer. Huynh started his career in public accounting and went on to become the Chief Financial Officer of several community banks. He most recently served as Chief Financial Officer of Pacific Commerce Bancorp, which was acquired by First Choice Bancorp (NASDAQ – FCBP).

JND Legal Administration [SEATTLE] appointed Flora Bian as chief financial officer. Bian previously served as CFO at multinational creative and digital marketing agencies within the WPP and Omnicom global networks. Earlier in her career, she worked in various financial management positions within the insurance, telecommunication and banking industries.

CCRM (Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine) [DENVER] announced the appointment of R.P. Dickerson as chief financial officer (CFO). Prior to joining CCRM, Dickerson was the CFO for MD Now Urgent Care.

Personal Genome Diagnostics Inc. [BALTIMORE] announced that Jack Crowley has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Crowley most recently served as CFO at Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. Crowley’s prior roles at the company included Chief Accounting Offer, Vice President of Finance, and Global Corporate Controller. Before joining Lantheus, Mr. Crowley served as Director of Finance and Assistant Corporate Controller of Biogen Idec, the Director of Accounting at Thermo Fischer Scientific, and a Senior Manager in the Audit practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

Spin Memory, Inc. [FREMONT, Calif.] announced the appointment of Antoine Bruyns as the company’s first chief financial officer. Previously, Antoine was a consultant at Bain & Co and an investment banker for J.P. Morgan.

Atreca, Inc. [REDWOOD CITY, Calif.] announced the retirement of Susan Berland, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and the appointment of Herb Cross as her successor. Before joining Atreca, Cross was the first CFO at ARMO BioSciences. Prior to this, he was the CFO at Balance Therapeutics. Previously, Mr. Cross was CFO and interim Chief Executive Officer at KaloBios Pharmaceuticals. He also served as CFO at Affymax. Earlier in his career, Mr. Cross was Vice President, Finance at Facet Biotech Corporation, a spin-off of PDL BioPharma, where he was Executive Director, Finance and Corporate Controller. Mr. Cross was also the Vice President of Finance for Neoforma and began his career at Arthur Andersen, LLP.

Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. [NEWTON, Mass.] (NASDSAQ: KPTI) announced the appointment of Michael P. Mason as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Finance and Treasurer at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Prior to spending over 13 years at Alnylam in a progression of finance roles, Mr. Mason was Corporate Controller at Praecis Pharmaceuticals and previously worked in the audit practice at KPMG LLP.

Iconix Brand Group, Inc. [NEW YORK] (NASDAQ: ICON) announced that John T. McClain has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. From 2007 until 2014, Mr. McClain was CFO at Jones Apparel Group. He has also held senior finance roles at Lindblad Expedition Holdings, Inc., Avis Budget Group, Inc., formerly Cendant Corporation, Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. and ITT Corporation. Mr. McClain is currently a member of the board of directors for Lands’ End, Inc. and Seritage Growth Properties.

Lumina [TAMPA, Fla.] announced that Albert Narvades has joined the company as chief financial officer. Narvades most recently served as chief financial officer at Jagged Peak. Prior to that he served as controller for BP’s alternative energy group/biofuels in Tampa. Before joining BP, Narvades held a variety of roles with Walter Energy, Inc. (formerly Walter Industries) and its spin-off Walter Investment, including serving as vice president of finance, capital markets focused on structured finance transactions related to securitizations. Narvades began his career with Ernst & Young in 1994 and served in various roles including Audit Manager.

Douglas Emmett, Inc. [SANTA MONICA, Calif.] (NYSE: DEI) announced that Peter Seymour is replacing Mona Gisler as the Chief Financial Officer of Douglas Emmett, Inc. Gisler will continue to serve as Douglas Emmett’s Chief Accounting Officer. Seymour joined Douglas Emmett in 2017 as its Chief Strategic Officer. Before joining Douglas Emmett, Mr. Seymour spent 20 years at The Walt Disney Company, where he had served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Disney-ABC Television Group.

CFO Moves – week ending February 22, 2019

Posted on February 25, 2019 Written by Samuel Dergel Leave a Comment

CFO Moves this week include:

Avis Budget Group, Inc.	MGM Resorts International	Citigroup Inc.
Medical Informatics Engineering	Diodes Incorporated	Spirion
Ver-Tex Construction	Symmons Industries, Inc.	GenMark Diagnostics, Inc.
Hercules Capital, Inc.	Upwell Health	Stack Infrastructure
Ceragon Networks Ltd.	FISION Corporation	FinFit
Dorman Products, Inc.	Togetherwork	The Middleby Corporation
Surmodics, Inc.	United Bancshares, Inc.	Fresenius Medical Care
Voci Technologies	Energy Efficient Equity	MDLIVE Inc.
ATI Physical Therapy	McCourt Global

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Avis Budget Group, Inc. [PARSIPPANY, N.J.] (NASDAQ: CAR) announced that, effective March 18, 2019, John F. North III will join the Company as Chief Financial Officer. Martyn Smith will continue to be the Company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer until March 18, 2019, and thereafter will serve in a transitional and advisory role for at least six months. Since 2002, Mr. North has held various leadership roles in finance, including Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer, at Lithia Motors, Inc.

MGM Resorts International [LAS VEGAS] (NYSE: MGM) announced that current Chief Operating Officer Corey Sanders will be appointed Chief Financial Officer. Current Chief Financial Officer Dan D’Arrigo has chosen to take advantage of the voluntary resignation program offered as part of MGM 2020 and will be resigning from the Company and the Board of Directors of MGM China. Sanders served as the COO of MGM Resorts International since 2010, and previously served as the COO for the Company’s Core Brand and Regional Properties. In his tenure with the Company, Mr. Sanders has also served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for MGM Grand Resorts, Executive Vice President and CFO for MGM Grand, Assistant Vice President of Corporate Finance, and Tax Director for MGM Grand.

Citigroup Inc. (Citi) [New York] appointed Mark A.L. Mason to be Citi Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Mason will replace John C. Gerspach, retired as Citi Chief Financial Officer. Mason joined Citi in 2001 and has held several senior operational, strategic, and financial executive positions, including serving as CEO of Citi Holdings from December 2011 through May 2013. He also served as CEO of Citi Private Bank from June 2013 through September 2014.

Mike White

Medical Informatics Engineering (MIE) [Fort Wayne, IN] announced the appointment of W. Michael “Mike” White as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining MIE, he most recently served as Sr. Director of Financial Planning, Reporting & Analysis and Head of Performance Controlling at Siemens PLM Software. Additionally, he has held senior financial leadership roles with UGS Software, Structural Dynamics Research Corporation (SDRC) and Sybase. Mike has served as an Advisory Board member to multiple financial software vendors and has served as an Adjunct Instructor in Accounting at the University level.

Diodes Incorporated [PLANO, Texas] (NASDAQ: DIOD) announced the appointment of Brett Whitmire, Diodes’ Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer, as Chief Financial Officer effective March 1, 2019. Whitmire will succeed current CFO, Richard (Rick) White, who has been in the role for 10 years. White plans to remain with the company part-time as Corporate Secretary and Special Assistant to the CEO. Whitmire has 30 years of industry experience and has been with Diodes for over eight years. In addition, Whitmire worked at Freescale Semiconductor as CFO for the Analog and Sensors Division and previously worked at Texas Instruments for 20 years. At TI, he served in a variety of finance and operational leadership positions, including seven years as vice president, while serving as the finance and operations executive for the high-volume Analog and Logic Division and the head of corporate supply chain.

Spirion [ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.] recently expanded its executive team with the addition of Ty Hurner as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Hurner’s most recent tenure was VP Global Finance at VIPRE Security, which was acquired by j2 Global in January 2018. After beginning his career in public accounting with PwC, Hurner spent the past 10 years working in the technology and security sectors.

Ver-Tex Construction [CANTON, MASS.] announced that Cindy Cox will join the company as Chief Financial Officer. Cox brings with her more than 20 years of experience in senior finance and leadership roles, and she most recently helped bring her previous company from startup to a business with hundreds of employees, including national and international expansion.

Karen Foley

Symmons Industries, Inc. [BRAINTREE, Mass.] announced the appointment of Karen A. Foley as Chief Financial Officer. Karen joined Symmons in 2008 as Manager of Finance. She was promoted to Director of Finance in 2010 and then appointed to the company’s leadership team in 2017. Prior to joining Symmons, Karen worked at Haemonetics Corporation and other biotech companies.

GenMark Diagnostics, Inc. [CARLSBAD, Calif.] (NASDAQ: GNMK) announced that Scott Mendel, currently GenMark’s Chief Financial Officer, assumes the newly created role of Chief Operating Officer. Simultaneous with this transition, Johnny Ek has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer. Ek has served as GenMark’s Vice President of Finance and Corporate Controller since 2013. Prior to joining GenMark, he served as Vice President of Finance and International Controller for Affymetrix, as Corporate Controller of eBioScience, and as a Senior Manager at Ernst & Young.

Hercules Capital, Inc. [PALO ALTO, Calif.] (NYSE: HTGC) announced the appointment of Seth Meyer as Chief Financial Officer, effective March 4, 2019. Meyer replaces David Lund, who served as interim CFO for the prior 16 months and will continue to serve as a special consulting advisor to the Company through April 2019. Most recently, Meyer served as the CFO of Swiss Re’s Commercial Insurance business unit for over six years. Mr. Meyer joined Swiss Re in 2000 and was appointed Group Tax Director in 2007, and then promoted to Finance Division Operating Officer in 2009, a position he held until appointed CFO in 2011. Prior to joining Swiss Re, he worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers as a Senior Tax Manager. Mr. Meyer began his finance career as a senior tax accountant at KPMG.

Upwell Health [SALT LAKE CITY] announced that the appointment of Patrick Grosso as chief financial officer. Grosso assumes the position of CFO after serving as Upwell’s chief administrative officer since March 2018 and interim CFO since November.

Heather Paduck

Stack Infrastructure [DENVER] announced the appointment of Heather Paduck as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to STACK, Paduck was Chief Financial Officer of Northwood Investors. She also served as Chief Financial Officer of Pembroke Real Estate, a Fidelity Investments subsidiary. Paduck’s experience also includes six years at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Ceragon Networks Ltd. [LITTLE FALLS, New Jersey] (NASDAQ: CRNT) announced that it appointed Ran Vered to serve as its chief financial officer, replacing Doron Arazi, who will continue in his role as Ceragon’s deputy CEO with expanded business and strategic responsibilities. Ran joins Ceragon from Check Point Software, where he served as VP – Finance since 2018, and he previously served as CFO of Radcom. His career also included various financial positions at Amdocs and several years in public accounting with KPMG.

FISION Corporation [MINNEAPOLIS] (OTCQB: FSSN appointed Dan Dorsey as Chief Financial Officer and to its board of directors, effective March 1, 2019. Dorsey presently serves as a partner with Capital Market Solutions. He formerly served as vice president and corporate controller for Rodale until it was acquired by Hearst Communications. Dorsey was previously the chief financial officer of Hudson News Distributors and was the senior vice president of finance and corporate controller for both Tribune Publishing Company and Source Interlink Companies. Dorsey will succeed Garry Lowenthal, who has served as FISION’s Chief Financial Officer since 2010. Lowenthal will transition into a non-officer role within the company and will also step down as a Director of the Company, effective February 28, 2019.

FinFit [VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.] announced that it has hired Matthew Fahy as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Fahy was most recently CFO and Executive Vice President of Global Services at AgilQuest. Prior to AgilQuest Fahy served as CFO for Public Access Technologies and QualityClick.com Inc.

Dorman Products, Inc. [COLMAR, Pa.] (NASDAQ: DORM) announced that David M. Hession will join its management team as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer effective March 1, 2019. Hession replaces Mike Ginnetti who acted as Interim Chief Financial Officer. Hession joins Dorman from his post as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Johnsonville, LLC. David has held a number of positions of increasing responsibility in his career including Vice President Finance & Administration at McCormick & Company, Inc. after beginning his career in management consulting.

Priyanka Singh

Togetherwork [NEW YORK] announced that Priyanka Singh has joined as Chief Financial Officer. Before joining Togetherwork, Singh was CFO at USA Technologies. Prior to that, she spent six years in various finance and product roles at Heartland Payment Systems, and subsequently at Global Payments after it acquired Heartland. She left Global Payments as Divisional CFO for point-of-sale payments solutions. Earlier in her career, Ms. Singh held various finance roles at General Electric. She started her career at Ernst & Young in tax and audit.

The Middleby Corporation [ELGIN, Ill.] (NASDAQ: MIDD) announced that Timothy FitzGerald has been named Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors. Mr. FitzGerald served as Chief Financial Officer since 2003. Bryan Mittelman, Middleby Chief Accounting Officer, has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer, replacing FitzGerald. Prior to Middleby, he spent five years as a Vice President and Controller of Knowles Corporation. Mittelman has also served as Corporate Controller at Morningstar, Inc. and in finance and accounting roles at Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Dade Behring and Arthur Andersen.

Surmodics, Inc. [EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.] (NASDAQ: SRDX) announced the appointment of Timothy J. Arens, Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy, as the company’s new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Arens was named interim CFO in May 2018 following the departure of Andrew LaFrence. Arens has served in his current role since February 2013. He joined Surmodics in February 2007 as Director, Business Development, was named Senior Director and General Manager of the in vitro diagnostics business unit in October 2010 and served as Vice President of Finance and interim CFO from August 2011 to February 2013.

United Bancshares, Inc. [Columbus Grove, Ohio] appointed Stacy A. Cox to the position of Chief Financial Officer of United Bancshares, Inc. Ms. Cox will also be appointed to the positions of Executive Vice President and CFO of the Company’s wholly-owned bank subsidiary, The Union Bank Company (the “Bank”). Daniel J. Lucke, the Company’s current Chief Financial Officer, has transitioned to the position of Controller of the Bank. Ms. Cox served as Senior Vice President, Operations, for Huntington National Bank from 1992 to 2008. In 2008, Ms. Cox accepted the position of Vice President, Core Banking Operations and Information Technology, with First National Bank Omaha, where she served until taking the positions of Chief Operations Officer and Chief Risk Officer with Croghan Colonial Bank, Fremont, Ohio, positions which she has continuously held until her current appointment.

Fresenius Medical Care [Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany & Waltham, MA] announced that CFO Michael Brosnan plans to retire from the Company after his successor has been identified and transitioned into the role. Michael Brosnan has been Global CFO of Fresenius Medical Care since January 2010. Previously, he served as CFO of Fresenius Medical Care North America for seven years. He joined the company in 1998 as Vice President of Finance and Administration for the company’s laboratory services organization and then assumed several key executive positions at Fresenius Medical Care in North America. Prior to joining the company, he held senior financial positions at Polaroid Corporation and was an audit partner at KPMG.

Voci Technologies [PITTSBURGH] announced the appointment of Tony Ryan as CFO. Ryan served as CFO at Primal Palate, Transim Technology Corporation, TimeSys and Ansoft Corporation. Ryan was also Director, IP Strategy at Arrow Electronics and COO and CFO for DesignAdvance Systems.

Energy Efficient Equity (E3) [SANTA MONICA, Calif.] announced that it has appointed Rasool Alizadeh to serve as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining E3, Alizadeh was Treasurer & Head of Capital Markets at Ygrene Energy Fund. Prior to his time at Ygrene, Mr. Alizadeh spent time at SMBC Nikko Securities, RBC Capital Markets, and S&P Ratings Services.

MDLIVE Inc. [Sunrise, Fla.] announced the appointment of Dan Monahan as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to MDLIVE, Mr. Monahan was the Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Operations for the Imaging business within Change Healthcare, formerly McKesson. He has also held several key financial and operational leadership roles with Sprint, Nortel Networks, SITA, CDC oftware and EMS Technologies.

Joseph Jordan

ATI Physical Therapy [Bolingbrook, Ill.] announced that Joseph Jordan has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer for the organization. He moves into the role from Senior Vice President and Controller. Al Hamood, who was serving in a dual role of CEO and CFO, will move into the role of President of the company with Jordan’s promotion. Jordan joined the organization in April 2018, coming to ATI from Sears Holdings where he was Corporate Controller. In addition to his role as Corporate Controller at Sears, he served as Assistant Controller for Suncoke Energy. Jordan began his career at Deloitte & Touche, LLP.

McCourt Global [NEW YORK] announced its appointment of Joe Riley as Chief Financial Officer. Riley  previously served as Managing Member and Chief Administrative Officer of the Psilos Group.

CFO Moves – week ending February 15, 2019

Posted on February 18, 2019 Written by Samuel Dergel Leave a Comment

CFO Moves this week include:

Mastercard	Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC	Avaya Holdings Corp.
Mimecast Limited	FOX Television Stations	Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Oscar	Arhaus	Copper
Chaparral Energy, Inc.	Niche Exports	The High Companies
National American University Holdings, Inc.	Cengage	Smith
Moda Operandi	Unity Technologies	Prosperity Bancshares, Inc.
Regional Management Corp.	NuZee, Inc.	SilverSun Technologies, Inc.
CBB Bancorp, Inc.	Global Employment Solutions and Fahrenheit IT	RainFocus
Kadmon Holdings, Inc.	Cleveland-Cliffs Inc.	SixAxis
bluebird bio, Inc.	Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	Meritize
Keweenaw Land Association, Limited	Adeptus Health

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Sachin Mehra

Mastercard [PURCHASE, N.Y.] (NYSE: MA) announced that Martina Hund-Mejean, chief financial officer, will retire after more than a decade in the role. Sachin Mehra, chief financial operations officer, will succeed Hund-Mejean as CFO on April 1. Mehra joined Mastercard in 2010 as group executive and treasurer with responsibility for treasury strategy and operations, global settlement, customer credit risk management and enterprise risk management. Prior to joining Mastercard, Mehra held treasury and finance roles of increasing responsibility at the Hess Corporation, General Motors and GMAC in New York, Singapore, Belgium and Shanghai.

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC [THE WOODLANDS, Texas] announced that Carolyn Burke joined the company as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Burke previously worked for Dynegy Inc. where she held the position of executive vice president, Strategy and Administration. Throughout her career, she has held various positions of increasing responsibility in finance and strategic roles for organizations including J.P. Morgan, NRG Energy Inc., University of Pennsylvania, Yale University and Atlantic Richfield Company (now British Petroleum).

Avaya Holdings Corp. [SANTA CLARA, Calif.] (NYSE: AVYA) announced that Kieran McGrath assumed the role of Senior Vice President and CFO of Avaya. McGrath has most recently served as Executive Vice President and CFO at CA Technologies from July 2016 until the company’s acquisition in November 2018. Prior to CA, he served in several key finance and operations leadership roles during a lengthy career at IBM, including six years as the Vice President of Finance for the IBM Software Group.

Mimecast Limited [LEXINGTON, Mass.] (NASDAQ: MIME) announced the appointment of Rafe Brown to the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective March 18, 2019. Prior to joining Mimecast, Rafe served as the Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of SevOne, Inc. Before SevOne, Rafe served as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer of Pegasystems, Inc. Additionally, Rafe served in leadership positions at salesforce.com, inc. for several years, including as a Senior Vice President of Finance. The Company announced in September 2018 that Peter Campbell, the Company’s long-time CFO, would be leaving the Company in March. Peter has agreed to stay with the Company in an advisory capacity to assist in the transition through the end of May 2019.

Mike Nelson

FOX Television Stations [NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES] announced that Mike Nelson will serve as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. The appointment will be effective on March 1. Currently, Nelson serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Twentieth Century Fox Film. Prior to this, Nelson served as Executive Vice President and Controller for Twentieth Century Fox Film. Previously, he held a variety of executive finance and accounting positions for the film studio.

Akamai Technologies, Inc. [CAMBRIDGE, Mass.] (NASDAQ: AKAM) announced a planned transition in leadership within the Company’s finance organization. Ed McGowan, Senior Vice President of Finance, will succeed Jim Benson as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective March 1, 2019. After nine years at Akamai (and seven as Chief Financial Officer), Benson has decided to retire from Akamai to pursue his next set of challenges. He will serve as an Executive Advisor through an extended transition period. McGowan is an 18-year Akamai veteran who began his career at the Company in Finance and Sales Operations and then held executive roles in Corporate Development and Global Media and Carrier Sales.

Oscar [New York] announced the appointment of Sid Sankaran as its new Chief Financial Officer. His first day will be March 1. Sid most recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at AIG. Prior to that, he spent five years as AIG’s Chief Risk Officer. Before joining AIG, Sid was a partner in the finance and risk practice at Oliver Wyman Financial Services.

Dawn Phillipson

Arhaus [CLEVELAND] announced that Mark Thompson has been named President & COO of the company. Dawn Phillipson, formerly the Senior Vice President of Finance for the company, replacing Thompson as Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Phillipson joined Arhaus in 2016. In her prior role at Arhaus, Dawn oversaw Financial Planning & Analysis, Budgeting, Operational Finance, Accounting/Audit, Tax, and Fraud Prevention.

Copper [SAN FRANCISCO] recently promoted M.G. Thibaut from senior vice president of finance and operations to CFO. Thibaut joined Copper in July 2017, with experience from companies ranging from Ruby Ribbon, Strava and Revision 3. She also worked within Yahoo!’s business operations and strategy departments for six years.

Chaparral Energy, Inc. [OKLAHOMA CITY] (NYSE: CHAP) announced that Joseph O. Evans, its Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President, has elected to retire from the Company effective March 15, 2019, following 14 years of service as Chief Financial Officer. Scott Pittman will be joining Chaparral effective February 28, 2019, and will be appointed Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of the Company effective March 16, 2019. Most recently, Mr. Pittman served as the Chief Financial Officer of Ursa Resources and the Chief Financial Officer of Aethon Energy Management. He has also served as Vice President-Finance at Cobalt International Energy, and as a Vice President in commercial and investment banking at J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. for nine years.

Niche Exports [SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ.] announced the appointment of Paul DeFries as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Niche Exports, DeFries owned and operated a diverse portfolio of Indonesian assets with direct experience in transshipping bulk products to clients in China and India. DeFries was also the Trading Head of Dry Bulk at JPMorgan in Singapore responsible for developing the bank’s physical presence throughout Asia and served as Group Head of Risk and Head of Macro Training at Noble.

Karen Biondolillo

The High Companies [LANCASTER, Pa.] announced that Karen Biondolillo has been named chief financial officer. Biondolillo succeeds Mike Van Belle, who has been CFO since 2005 and recently announced his retirement. Biondolillo joined High in 2006. In her most recent position, she was vice president and controller of High Industries Inc., which includes affiliates High Steel Structures LLC, High Concrete Group LLC, High Steel Service Center LLC, High Transit LLC, High Structural Erectors LLC, High Construction Company, and Greenfield Architects Ltd. Previously she served as vice president and controller of High Real Estate Group LLC and its affiliates High Associates Ltd., High Hotels, Ltd., and High Environmental Safety & Consulting Ltd.

National American University Holdings, Inc. [RAPID CITY, S.D.] (OTCQB: NAUH) announced that it has appointed Thomas Bickart as Chief Financial Officer following the resignation of David Heflin earlier this month. Most recently, Bickart assisted EdisonLearning, Inc. restructure its operations and position the organization for new market growth. Mr. Bickart previously served as CFO at TCI College of Technology from 2013 to 2016. From 2008 through 2013, he was CFO at Neumont University.

Cengage [BOSTON] announced the appointment of Bob Munro as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, effective April 1. Munro has spent the last four years as the Chief Financial Officer at Callcredit Information Group. Previously, he held multiple senior finance roles at RELX (formerly Reed Elsevier PLC), including CFO of Elsevier Health Sciences, Director of Business Performance, Director of Business Control and Group Chief Accountant. Munro replaces Interim CFO Rebecca McNamara.

Smith [HOUSTON] announced the appointment of Sean Evans to the position of Chief Financial Officer. Sean previously served as interim CFO of Smith since early 2018. Before he stepped into his interim CFO role, Sean served as Smith’s Vice President of Credit & Finance and Director of Credit.

Kristina Salen

Moda Operandi [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Kristina Salen as its Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Kristina served as CFO and COO of UnitedMasters. Prior to that Kristina served as CFO of Etsy. Before Etsy, Kristina held positions with Fidelity, Oppenheimer Capital, Merril Lynch, and Lazard Freres. Kristina sits on the Board of Directors for both SiriusXM and Cornerstone OnDemand.

Unity Technologies [SAN FRANCISCO] announced the appointment of Kim Jabal as the company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Jabal joins Unity from Weebly where she served as CFO, responsible for selling the company to Square in May 2018. Previous to Weebly, Jabal was the CFO at Path, Inc., and held senior leadership positions at Lytro, Inc. and Google. Jabal is a current Board of Directors member for FedEx and SVB Financial Group.

Prosperity Bancshares, Inc. [HOUSTON] (NYSE: PB) announced the retirement of David Hollaway, Chief Financial Officer of Prosperity Bancshares and Prosperity Bank effective April 1, 2019. Mr. Hollaway served as CFO since joining the Bank in 1992. Following his retirement as CFO, Mr. Hollaway plans to continue to work with the Bank in a reduced capacity for at least two years.

Regional Management Corp. [GREENVILLE, S.C.] (NYSE: RM) announced that Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Donald E. Thomas is retiring from Regional, pending the appointment of a new CFO.

NuZee, Inc. [VISTA, Calif.] (OTCQB: NUZE) announced the appointment of Shanoop Kothari as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Kothari joins NuZee from B. Riley FBR, where he was Senior Managing Director and Head of E&P investment banking. Prior to that, he was CFO of Endicott Biofuels and its subsidiary, Sabine Biofuels and spent seven years at Credit Suisse in the energy investment banking group. Mr. Kothari also held positions of increasing responsibility, including Interim CFO, at BindView Development prior its acquisition by Symantec Corporation in 2005.

SilverSun Technologies, Inc. [EAST HANOVER, NJ] (NASDAQ: SSNT) announced the appointment of Christine Dye as Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Dye will also serve as CFO of SWK Technologies, Inc., the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary. Crandall Melvin, who has served as the Company’s CFO since 2015, and has also served as CFO of SWK Technologies since 2007, is retiring. Dye was CFO of Send Word Now, Inc., and later was CFO at On-Net Surveillance Systems. In addition, she was previously Finance Director at Citrix Systems, Inc.

CBB Bancorp, Inc. [LOS ANGELES] (OTCQB: CBBI), the parent company of Commonwealth Business Bank, announced that J. Duncan Smith has resigned from his position as Chief Financial Officer to pursue other interests.

Global Employment Solutions and Fahrenheit IT [DENVER] announced Klaus Geiser has joined the Company as Chief Financial Officer. Before joining the Company, Geiser was Global CFO with Pontoon Solutions from 2015 to 2018 and Pontoon’s Financial Controller for the Americas region from 2013 to 2015. Pontoon is a global brand of The Adecco Group. Before his relocation to the U.S. in 2012, Geiser spent more than seven years at Adecco’s Corporate Headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland.

RainFocus [LEHI, Utah] announced the hiring of Michael Olson as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining RainFocus, Olson served as CFO for DigiCert and WorkFront.

Kadmon Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KDMN) announced the appointment of Steven Meehan as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. Meehan has served as a member of the Board of Directors at Kadmon since 2017 and will step down as a member of the Board at Kadmon as he assumes his appointment as CFO. Meehan previously served as a partner in the Healthcare Group of Moelis & Company. Prior to Moelis, Mr. Meehan was Head of Life Sciences within the Global Healthcare Group in the New York office of UBS Investment Bank (UBS). During his tenure at UBS, Mr. Meehan was Chief Executive Officer of UBS Russia and the former Soviet Union. During his investment banking career, Mr. Meehan also held senior roles in M&A, leveraged finance and capital markets at Salomon Smith Barney, NatWest Securities and Drexel Burnham Lambert.

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. [CLEVELAND] (NYSE: CLF) announced that Keith A. Koci has been appointed Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of the company. Mr. Koci replaces Timothy K. Flanagan, who will be leaving the company. Koci joins Cliffs from Metals USA Holdings Corp., where he served most recently as its Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to that role, Mr. Koci served as Metals USA’s Senior Vice President, Business Development from 2006 to 2013; its Vice President, Corporate Controller from 2004 to 2005; its Director of Budgeting from 2003 to 2004; and its Regional Controller of the Flat Rolled Group from 1998 to 2003.

Peter White

SixAxis [ANDREWS, S.C.] announced the appointment of Peter White to the role of Chief Financial Officer. White most recently served as global controller for 17 companies in his role at Apergy, formerly known as Dover Artificial Lift.

bluebird bio, Inc. [CAMBRIDGE, Mass.] (NASDAQ: BLUE) announced Chip Baird joined the company as chief financial officer (CFO). Mr. Baird joins bluebird from Amicus Therapeutics, Inc., where he was the CFO for the past seven years. Prior to Amicus, Mr. Baird spent 10 years as CFO of PTC Therapeutics. Previously, Mr. Baird worked in the life science practice at L.E.K. Consulting, and began his career at First Union National Bank in corporate debt underwriting. Baird currently serves as a director of Axcella Health.

Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. [NEW HAVEN, Conn.] (NASDAQ: ACHN) announced the appointment of Brian Di Donato to the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Di Donato previously held positions as Managing Director and Co-Portfolio Manager at Sorin Capital Management and President and Chief Investment Officer at Capmark Investments. He previously worked in fixed-income capital markets as an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley and Vice President at UBS Securities.

Eugene Ostrovsky

Meritize [FRISCO, Texas] announced the appointment of Eugene Ostrovsky as the company’s new chief financial officer. Meritize co-founder and former CFO Phillip Stegner will take on the newly created role of chief operations officer. Prior to joining Meritize, Ostrovsky most recently served as head of capital markets for Cross River Bank and Laurel Road (formerly DRB). He also spent several years at Morgan Stanley as a vice president with a focus on student loan asset-backed issuance, following a period at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Keweenaw Land Association, Limited [IRONWOOD, Mich.] (OTC US: KEWL) announced that Claudio Nicoletta has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Nicoletta comes to Keweenaw from Boston Scientific Corporation, where he spent the last six years as a Finance Director – Global Operations, in the American Medical Systems Business Unit. Mr. Nicoletta previously worked for United Health Group, Medtronic, Tennant Company and Steelcase, Inc.

James Hopwood

Adeptus Health [IRVING, Texas] announced that James Hopwood has been appointed as its new Chief Financial Officer. Hopwood officially joined Adeptus on October 15, 2018. Since 2014, Hopwood has been serving as Chief Financial Officer of Promise Healthcare Group, LLC. Prior to joining Promise, he served as a Managing Director at Focus Management Group. Previously, he served as CFO of Wickes Lumber Company. He began his career as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs & Co.

CFO Moves – week ending February 8, 2019

Posted on February 11, 2019 Written by Samuel Dergel Leave a Comment

CFO Moves this week include:

Chevron Corporation	Lumentum Holdings Inc.	PrismHR
Babel Health, LLC	CVD Equipment Corporation	Illumio
Cosential	HPIL Holding	ExpressJet Airlines
Myomo Inc.	IZEA Worldwide, Inc.	Victory Capital Holdings, Inc.
Chase Corporation	Mavenir	Fluent, Inc.
Valley National Bancorp	Stage Stores, Inc.	Balchem Corporation
American Banknote Corporation	Trumark Companies	Airfox
Aratana Therapeutics, Inc.	Kyn Therapeutics	Eldorado Resorts, Inc.
Lung Therapeutics, Inc.	Pandora Media, LLC	Fred’s, Inc.
JOANN Stores	OpenView	MFG Chemical
Pinnacle Dermatology	SITO Mobile, Ltd.	Biogennix
Cavalcade Midstream	Milani Cosmetics

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Chevron Corporation [SAN RAMON, Calif.] (NYSE: CVX) named Pierre Breber vice president and chief financial officer, effective April 1, 2019. Breber replaces Patricia Yarrington who has elected to retire. Breber joined Chevron in 1989. He became vice president and treasurer in 2009, vice president of Gas & Midstream in 2014, executive vice president of Gas & Midstream in 2015 and executive vice president of Downstream and Chemicals, his current position, in 2016.

Lumentum Holdings Inc. [MILPITAS, Calif.] announced the appointment of Wajid Ali as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Mr. Ali will also serve as the Company’s principal financial officer, replacing Christopher Coldren who had been serving as the Company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer since June 2018. Mr. Ali joins Lumentum from Synaptics Incorporated, where he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to that, he was Vice President and Controller of Teledyne Technologies, after having served as Chief Financial Officer at DALSA Corporation, that was acquired by Teledyne in 2011. He also held key financial management positions at AMD and ATI.

PrismHR [HOPKINTON, MASS.] announced that Joyce Bell has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Bell joins PrismHR from Brand Networks, where she was CFO. Prior to Brand Networks, she held CFO positions with Nexage, Clicksquared and Compete.

Sharon McCarthy

Babel Health, LLC [PITTSBURGH] announced that they have appointed Sharon McCarthy as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Babel, Sharon provided Acquisition Support at Wombat Technologies, served as Vice President-Finance at Foundation Radiology, Inc., Finance Director and Corporate Controller at invivodata, inc., and Area Finance Director at Adelphia Communications – Western Pennsylvania.

CVD Equipment Corporation [CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y.] (NASDAQ: CVV) announced that Thomas McNeill has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary, effective March 4, 2019. Since April 2015, he has been CFO at Century Direct, LLC. From November 2014 to April 2015, he was a consultant at Mailmen Inc. until its assets were purchased by Century Direct, LLC. Mr. McNeill was CFO/COO at Nina Mclemore from July 2013 to June 2014. On the Public reporting side, he was CFO at DineWise, Inc. from April 2006 to April 2013, and from October 1996 to April 2006, was CFO at Global Payment Technologies, Inc.

Illumio [SUNNYVALE, Calif.] announced the appointment of Anup Singh, as Chief Financial Officer. Singh was previously CFO at high-growth companies such as Anaplan, Nimble Storage, Clearwell Systems, and Asurion.

Cosential [AUSTIN, TEXAS] announced Sharon McCollum will serve as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, she served as the Vice President of Operations at Epicor Software. Prior to that, she spent 10 years providing contract CFO services to various companies in Austin, TX, including Silicon Laboratories and Guaranty Bank. McCollum is also a former Partner at Ernst & Young, where she began her career.

HPIL Holding [MIDLAND, Mich.] (OTC PINK: HPIL) announced that David C. Langle has been appointed Chief Financial Officer of the company. Langle, a former Florida certified public accountant since 1985, has an extensive history as CFO and in other senior management roles for various publicly and privately held companies in the technology, healthcare, manufacturing, and telecommunications industries. Mr. Langle currently also serves as Chief Financial Officer for other US public companies listed on the OTC stock exchange.

John Greenlee

ExpressJet Airlines [ATLANTA] , a United Express carrier, announced John Greenlee has been named Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Planning and Operations Control. Most recently, he served as Managing Director of United Express Business Strategy. Greenlee’s previous roles at United and Continental include Managing Director of Airport Operations, Cargo and Real Estate Finance, Tech Ops Finance and Fleet Planning.

Myomo Inc. [CAMBRIDGE, Mass.] (NYSE American: MYO) announced that Ralph A. Goldwasser, its Chief Financial Officer, is retiring effective as of February 18, 2019. Goldwasser will provide transitional services to the Company for an expected three-month term under a transition and consulting agreement. He will be succeeded by David Henry, effective February 18, 2019. Mr. Henry is joining Myomo from Eos Energy Storage, where he has served as Chief Financial Officer since August 2017. Prior to Eos, Mr. Henry served as Chief Financial Officer of American Superconductor Corporation from July 2007 to June 2017 and as Chief Financial Officer of AMI Semiconductor from April 2004 to July 2007. He has also held various financial executive roles at Fairchild Semiconductor and National Semiconductor.

IZEA Worldwide, Inc. [ORLANDO, Fla.] (NASDAQ: IZEA) announced the appointment of Troy J. Vanke as Chief Financial Officer, effective February 18, 2019. Mr. Vanke previously served as the Chief Accounting Officer of Diamond Resorts International, a holding of private equity firm Apollo Global Management LLC, since January 2018. Prior to joining Diamond Resorts, Mr. Vanke served as the Chief Accounting Officer for both Caesars Acquisition Company and Caesars Interactive Entertainment since January 2014. He served as Vice President, Assistant Corporate Controller for Caesars Entertainment from August 2009 through January 2014. Prior to joining Caesars Entertainment, Mr. Vanke served as an Assistant Corporate Controller of Federal-Mogul Corporation in Southfield, Michigan and as a Senior Manager of External Audit with Ernst & Young LLP.

Victory Capital Holdings, Inc. [CLEVELAND] (NASDAQ: VCTR) (“Victory Capital” or “the Company”) today announced that Michael Policarpo has been named President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer. Current Chief Financial Officer and Head of Strategy, Terence Sullivan will be leaving the Company effective March 1, 2019, to assume a leadership position at a diversified financial services firm located closer to his home. Mr. Policarpo has been with Victory Capital for 14 years and currently serves as Chief Operating Officer. Since joining the Company, he has held a variety of senior-level financial and operating roles, including serving as Chief Financial Officer from 2013 to 2017.

Chase Corporation [WESTWOOD, Mass.] (NYSE American: CCF) announced the appointment of Christian J. Talma to the position of Chief Financial Officer. Previously, he served as Chief Accounting Officer since joining Chase in August of 2018. Talma replaces Kenneth (Ken) Feroldi who will continue as a Chase company officer fulfilling the role of Treasurer and senior advisor on Investor Relations, Capital Structure and M&A. Talma spent 14 years in finance leadership roles with increasing responsibility at Siemens, and most recently served as the VP of Operations Finance and Strategy at Haemonetics.

Terry Hungle

Mavenir [RICHARDSON, Texas] announced the appointment of Terry Hungle to the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, replacing Walter Loh. Hungle re-joined Mavenir on January 14, 2019, having previously served as the Company’s CFO from 2008 to 2015. His role as CFO will become effective on March 4, 2019. Most recently, Hungle was Chief Financial Officer of Imagine Communications. Prior to Imagine, Terry served as Chief Financial Officer at Mavenir, participating as a leader in the company’s IPO and its subsequent sale to Mitel.

Fluent, Inc. [NEW YORK] (NASDAQ: FLNT) announced the appointment of Alex Mandel as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Mandel has worked with Fluent as a financial consultant since July 2018. Prior to his consultancy, Mr. Mandel served as Chief Financial Officer of IAC Applications, Inc., a division of IAC/InterActiveCorp. He previously served as the Chief Financial Officer of LendingTree, Inc. Mr. Mandel started his career as an investment banker, advising clients in the Media & Entertainment industry, primarily at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.

Valley National Bancorp [WAYNE, N.J.] (NASDAQ: VLY), the holding company for Valley National Bank, announced the transition of Chief Financial Officer Alan Eskow to a Senior Advisor position supporting the Bank’s CEO and President. Eskow will continue in his capacity as CFO for Valley National Bancorp and Valley National Bank until a successor is named. Once the company concludes the search for a new CFO, Eskow will remain at Valley as an Executive Officer and Senior Executive Vice President.

Stage Stores, Inc. [HOUSTON] (NYSE: SSI) announced the promotion of Jason Curtis to Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Mr. Curtis has been with Stage since 2011, most recently serving as its Interim Chief Financial Officer from August 2018 to present. Prior to that, he served as Senior Vice President, Finance and Credit from March 2017. Mr. Curtis also held the roles of Group Vice President, Finance and Credit from May 2016 to March 2017, Vice President, Finance and Accounting from November 2013 to April 2016, and Vice President, Finance and Treasurer from May 2011 to November 2013. Prior to joining Stage, Mr. Curtis served in various financial roles at Belk, Inc. and The May Department Stores Company.

Balchem Corporation [NEW HAMPTON, N.Y.] (NASDAQ: BCPC) announced the appointment of Martin Bengtsson as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Bengtsson joins Balchem following a successful 15-year career at Honeywell, Inc. Martin progressed through a variety of finance, accounting, and audit positions at Honeywell including Vice President, Finance – Group Corporate Audit; Vice President, Global Controller – Performance Materials & Technologies; and several division CFO roles, including his most recent role as CFO, Performance Materials & Technologies.

Aglika Georgieva

American Banknote Corporation [STAMFORD, CONN.] announced the appointment of Aglika Georgieva as Chief Financial Officer for the consolidated operations.

Trumark Companies [SAN RAMON, Calif.] announced that it has appointed the company’s corporate controller Eric Lindquist to serve as its Chief Financial Officer of the Trumark Homes and Urban divisions. Lindquist previously served as Corporate Controller of Trumark Homes for the past year. Prior to joining Trumark, Lindquist served as the Vice President of Finance for the Bay Area Division of Lennar Corporation (formerly CalAtlantic Homes). He has also held positions as a Controller at Blu Homes Inc. and Audit Senior Manager with KPMG.

Airfox [BOSTON] announced the appointment of Douglas Lopes as its new global chief financial officer. Prior to joining Airfox, Lopes served as CFO and investment relations director at Biomm SA. Lopes also worked as chief operations officer at Grupo Ibmec Educacional, a senior manager at management consultancy company Monitor Group, and a senior procurement specialist with General Motors.

Aratana Therapeutics, Inc. [LEAWOOD, Kan.] (NASDAQ: PETX) announced the appointment of Rhonda Hellums as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Aratana. Hellums will transition into the CFO role from her position as Vice President of Finance and will succeed Craig Tooman, who was recently appointed the Company’s President and Chief Effective Officer. Prior to her role at Aratana, Hellums served as Director of Global Finance at Kinetic Concepts, Inc. Hellums served as Vice President of Finance for Enzon Pharmaceuticals. She worked at ILEX Oncology, Inc. as the Director of Finance and Strategic Planning when it was acquired by Genzyme Corporation. Subsequently, Genzyme named her Director of Finance, Alliance and Strategic Planning. Early in her career, Hellums was a management consultant for KPMG, LLC. and client EG&G, Inc., a division of URS Corporation, hired her to serve as their Division Controller.

Kyn Therapeutics [BOSTON] announced the appointment of Douglas Carlson as its chief financial officer. Mr. Carlson’s most recent role was vice president, commercial operations, corporate strategy & business development at Collegium Pharmaceutical. Mr. Carlson joined Collegium Pharmaceutical in 2013. Prior to Collegium, he was senior director, business development at BTG International. Previously, Mr. Carlson worked at Ovation Pharmaceuticals as director, corporate business development and strategy.

Eldorado Resorts, Inc. [RENO, Nev.] (NASDAQ: ERI) announced that Bret Yunker has been named Chief Financial Officer, effective May 2, 2019. Yunker will assume the CFO position from Thomas (Tom) R. Reeg, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, who on an interim basis has also served as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer following his appointment as Chief Executive Officer on January 1, 2019. Yunker most recently served as Managing Director at J.P. Morgan in its Real Estate Investment Banking group with primary coverage responsibility for the gaming industry. Mr. Yunker began his banking career in 1998, serving for fourteen years in various investment banking roles including as Managing Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Charles T. Garner

Lung Therapeutics, Inc. [AUSTIN, Texas] announced the hiring of Charles T. Garner as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Garner was a life sciences industry consultant to private and public life sciences companies, providing financial and advisory services. Prior to this, he was Chief Financial Officer and Chief Business Officer for Recro Pharma, Inc.

Pandora Media, LLC [Oakland, CA] announced that Naveen Chopra stepped down as chief financial officer. Mr. Chopra has agreed to remain a consultant of Pandora for a period of two months following the termination of his employment with Pandora.

Fred’s, Inc. [MEMPHIS, Tenn.] (NASDAQ: FRED) announced the appointment of Ritwik Chatterjee as Chief Financial Officer. Chatterjee joined Fred’s as Vice President of Finance in June 2018 and was named Senior Vice President of Corporate Development in September 2018. Prior to joining Fred’s, Mr. Chatterjee most recently served as Senior Vice President, Strategy & Business Development at Rachel Zoe, Inc. Before that, Mr. Chatterjee served as Interim Chief Financial Officer of Microdynamics Group. Prior to that, Mr. Chatterjee was Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. Before Martha Stewart, Mr. Chatterjee held positions at Structured Portfolio Management, Harbinger Capital Partners, Merrill Lynch (now Bank of America), Piper Jaffray Companies, and CIBC World Markets.

JOANN Stores [HUDSON, Ohio] announced that Matt Susz will take over the duties leading the financial organization as CFO. Susz has been an integral part of driving results at JOANN, most recently as COO. Since joining JOANN in 1996, Susz has served in various roles of progressing responsibility across Finance, Information Technology, and Operations. Prior to JOANN, Susz was with Arthur Andersen LLP. Susz replaces Wade Miquelon who has been named President, CEO, and a member of the Board of Directors of the company.

OpenView [BOSTON] announced the addition of a new CFO, Kate Ramirez, to succeed Bonnie Lewis who is shifting into the newly formed role of Executive Finance & Audit Chair. Ramirez was formerly the Fund Controller at Guidepost Growth Equity. Prior to that, Ramirez was a Finance Manager at Bain Capital and the Controller at Great Hill Partners.

Darin Gyomory

MFG Chemical [DALTON, Ga.] named Darin Gyomory to the position of Chief Financial Officer. Gyomory comes to MFG Chemical with 25 years of experience having served previously as CFO of WL Plastics (INEOS), Scepter Inc., and Area Controller at Dean Foods.

Pinnacle Dermatology [Lombard, Illinois] announced that Cecilia Taylor has joined its Executive Leadership team as Chief Financial Officer. Taylor last served as SVP and CFO at Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) at Midwestern in Zion, IL. Prior to joining CTCA, she held various senior financial positions at Dental Associates and IKON Technology Services. She also held various financial and operational positions at Micro Information Services over 12 years.

SITO Mobile, Ltd. [JERSEY CITY, N.J.] (NASDAQ: SITO) announced the appointment of Terry Lynn as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer effective as of February 19, 2019. Mr. Lynn served as Chief Financial Officer at MedHelp, and helped to lead its acquisition by Merck & Co., Inc. in 2014. Since the time of the sale of MedHelp, Mr. Lynn has served as a contract CFO and financial advisor to a number of Silicon Valley startups and emerging companies, including Dropbox, Weather Underground, Birdeye, iMeem and others. William Seagrave, SITO Mobile’s Chief Operating Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer, will step down as the Company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer when Mr. Lynn joins the Company on February 19, 2019, and will continue to serve the Company as Chief Operating Officer.

Biogennix [IRVINE, Calif.] named Robert Baizer its new Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, he led a private equity group that partnered with Qualcomm, Inc. to develop a suite of wireless medical devices. Prior to that, he formed and led an investment company that provided financing to emerging biotech companies during the financial crisis, which resulted in two portfolio companies becoming publicly traded. He started his finance career with TD Securities (USA) LLC, the investment bank and broker-dealer affiliate of Toronto-Dominion, where he worked from 1993 through 2008. Most recently, Baizer was the Managing Director responsible for TD’s US derivatives business.

Tom Russell

Cavalcade Midstream [SAN ANTONIO] announced that Tom Russell has joined the executive team as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Cavalcade, Russell was Vice President of Corporate Development at NuStar Energy. Prior to his work at NuStar, Russell spent 15 years with Valero Energy.

Milani Cosmetics [SAN FRANCISCO] announced it has appointed industry veteran David M. Berk as Chief Financial Officer. For the past 15 years, Berk has held senior positions at several divisions of L’Oreal USA, in roles that included Worldwide CFO at NYX Professional Makeup and Vice President – Finance & Accounting at Urban Decay Cosmetics. His earlier role at L’Oreal included Vice President, Finance for all brands in the Professional Products Division. Prior to L’Oreal, Mr. Berk held senior financial positions at LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton and Tiffany & Co., Inc.

CFO Moves – week ending February 1, 2019

Posted on February 4, 2019 Written by Samuel Dergel Leave a Comment

CFO Moves this week include:

Symantec Corp.	Snap Inc.	Norsk Titanium
Snow Software	NN, Inc.	Two Harbors Investment Corp.
International Youth Foundation	MomentFeed	VMG Partners
FICO	Alula	Sunworks, Inc.
Covalent Collective, Inc.	GlobalLogic Inc.	888VoIP
DreamBox Learning	PCF Insurance Services	Horizon Global Corporation
Old Pal	Sanmina Corporation	Armor Express
Reading International, Inc.	Citizens, Inc.	USA Technologies, Inc.
Constellation Advisers, LLC	Bantek, Inc.	Curaleaf Holdings, Inc.

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Symantec Corp. [MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.] (NASDAQ: SYMC) announced that Nicholas Noviello will be stepping down from his role as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in the coming months to pursue other opportunities. Mr. Noviello will continue as CFO until a successor is appointed and will assist in a smooth transition.

Snap Inc. [SANTA MONICA, Calif.] (NYSE: SNAP) announced the appointment of Lara Sweet, Snap’s current Chief Accounting Officer, as interim Chief Financial Officer and principal financial officer. Ms. Sweet’s appointment follows the previously announced departure of Chief Financial Officer Tim Stone, which is planned for February 5, 2019. Sweet joined Snap in 2016 and served in multiple roles in Snap’s finance organization, including Chief Accounting Officer and VP Controller. Prior to joining Snap, Ms. Sweet served as Controller and Chief Accounting Officer at AOL. She has also held the positions of Senior Director, External Reporting at Freddie Mac and Senior Manager, Internal Audit at Marriott International.

Norsk Titanium [PLATTSBURGH, N.Y.] announced that Stephen L. Littauer has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. After serving as CFO for over three years, Bart van Aalst will return to his position as a member of the Norsk Board of Directors. Littauer most recently served as CFO for Ten Cate Advanced Composites and AIP Aerospace. Prior to his positions as a corporate officer, he spent 17 years as a senior-level financial executive with Eaton Corporation and GE Aviation. Littauer began his career progressing through increasingly responsible finance and contracts management roles at Rockwell and Thiokol.

James Denena

Snow Software [STOCKHOLM & AUSTIN, Texas] announced the appointment of James Denena as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Denena was Vice President of Global Finance & Corporate Development for PROS. He also served more than a decade at Applied Materials in various senior finance, business development, and M&A roles.

NN, Inc. [CHARLOTTE, N.C.] (NASDAQ: NNBR) announced that Chief Financial Officer Thomas C. Burwell will be departing from the company.

Two Harbors Investment Corp. [NEW YORK] (NYSE: TWO) announced the appointment of Mary Riskey as Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. The appointment of Ms. Riskey as Chief Financial Officer became effective following the previously announced resignation of Brad Farrell. Ms. Riskey joined Two Harbors in 2011 and has most recently served in the role of Vice President, Acting Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, since October 2018.

Yvonna Stevens

International Youth Foundation (IYF) [Baltimore, MD] appointed Yvonna Stevens as their new Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President of Finance, Administration, and Information Technology. She previously served as IYF’s Director, International Finance and Administration from 2007 to 2018. Prior to this and since joining IYF in 2001, she worked in a variety of roles diversifying her financial and project experience including Project Finance Officer and Assistant Controller.

MomentFeed [SANTA MONICA, Calif.] announced that Ed Shaughnessy has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to joining MomentFeed, Shaughnessy was CFO at LogicMonitor. He also spent more than a decade at Intel Corporation in core finance operational positions. In addition to serving as Director, Strategic Business Development in the Software and Solutions Group, Shaughnessy was Mergers & Acquisitions Finance Controller for Intel Capital, playing a key leadership role in Intel’s purchase of McAfee in 2010.

VMG Partners [SAN FRANCISCO] announced that Angad Hira has been promoted from his previous role as Vice President to Chief Financial Officer at VMG Partners. Hira will remain on the Board of Directors for VMG portfolio brand, Lily’s Sweets. Prior to joining VMG in 2010, Mr. Hira was an investment banker in the Mergers & Acquisitions group of UBS Investment Bank.

FICO [SAN JOSE, Calif.] (NYSE: FICO) announced that Mike Pung, CFO, has announced that he intends to retire from the company December 31, 2019. Pung will remain CFO until a successor is named and will facilitate a smooth transition.

Gregg Waldon

Alula [ST. PAUL, MINN.] announced that Gregg Waldon has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Waldon comes to Alula from Kareo. Before joining Kareo, Waldon served as the CFO at RedBrick Health. He also served a CFO at SoftBrands. Waldon also served for seven years as CFO at Stellent, that was acquired by Oracle. He also served as CFO at GalaGen.

Sunworks, Inc. [ROSEVILLE, Calif.] (NASDAQ: SUNW) announced that Phil Radmilovic, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer will resign to pursue other career opportunities. Mr. Radmilovic will continue in his role until February 22, 2019 to ensure an orderly transition of his responsibilities. Sunworks has appointed Paul McDonnel, its Treasurer and CFO from September 2016 – June 2018, to serve as interim CFO until a successor is identified.

Covalent Collective, Inc. [Colorado Springs, Colorado] announced that the Company added Anthony Engel as Chief Financial Officer. Before joining Covalent Collective, Mr. Engel served as CFO at Agrium. In addition to his experience at Agrium, Mr. Engel also previously served as Corporate Accounting Manager at Molson Coors.

Scott Brubaker

GlobalLogic Inc. [SAN JOSE, Calif.] announced that Scott Brubaker has joined as chief financial officer. Brubaker joins GlobalLogic from TPG Global, where he was an operating partner and managing director for the company’s credit arm. He began his career at accounting firm Arthur Andersen, and spent over ten years at Alvarez & Marsal.

888VoIP [BUFFALO, N.Y.] announced that Peter Crage will assume the role of Interim Chief Financial Officer. Most recently he was Chief Financial Officer for Diamond Resorts. Crage’s previous positions include Chief Financial Officer for Seaworld Entertainment Inc. Additionally, Crage also headed the financial team of Extended Stay America Inc. as the CFO and held the position of EVP and CFO for the Cedar Fair Entertainment Company.

DreamBox Learning [BELLEVUE, Wash.] announced that Lance Ludman has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Ludman served as CFO of the Enterprise Markets Group for Blackbaud.

PCF Insurance Services [WOODLAND HILLS, Calif.] announced that Dani Goldsmith has joined the Company as its Chief Operating and Chief Financial Officer. Dani will also serve as a Director on PCF’s Board of Directors. Dani is the former Chief Financial Officer of HUB International. Dani has held leadership positions with Tenneco, Borg Warner, Owens Corning as well as numerous private equity-sponsored transactions.

Horizon Global Corporation [TROY, Mich.] (NYSE: HZN) announced that Barry Steele has been named the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, effective February 18, 2019. Steele will be joining Horizon Global from his role as Chief Financial Officer at Gentherm Incorporated. Prior to joining Horizon Global and in addition to Steele’s CFO role at Gentherm Incorporated, he also served in a number of financial roles, including the role of Chief Financial Officer, at Advanced Accessory Systems, LLC. Brian Whittman, a Managing Director of Alvarez & Marsal North America, LLC, who has been serving as interim CFO for Horizon Global since November 9, 2018, will continue to serve in that capacity until Steele joins the Company. After stepping down as interim CFO, Whittman will hold the title of Vice President, Finance through the filing of Horizon Global’s 10-K.

Joe Franciskovich, Chief Financial Officer

Old Pal [LOS ANGELES] appointed Joe Franciskovich as Chief Financial Officer. Franciskovich joins from Live Nation Entertainment where he served as Deputy CFO to Live Nation’s ticketing business, Ticketmaster. Prior to joining Ticketmaster, Joe was a director and investment lead for Steel Partners, LP. Prior to Steel, Franciskovich’s professional experience includes private equity roles with Platinum Equity, investment-banking roles with Citigroup, and five years active duty as an officer in the US Air Force.

Sanmina Corporation [SAN JOSE, Calif.] (NASDAQ: SANM) announced that Chief Financial Officer, David Anderson, plans to retire from his role to spend more time with his family. Anderson’s career with the company spans 17 years. David joined Sanmina in 2002 and has held various financial positions becoming CFO in 2017. To ensure a smooth transition, Anderson will continue in his role as Chief Financial Officer until a successor is named, and then will move to an advisory role until March 27, 2020.

Armor Express [CENTRAL LAKE, Mich.] announced the appointment of Thomas (Tom) Thebes, Jr. as its new Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Armor Express, his most recent roles were that of CFO and VP of Finance at Domo Tactical Communications (DTC). Before that, he served as EVP of Operations, General Manager, CFO and VP of Finance at Chemring (Niitek, 3^rd Radar, Chemring Detection Systems). Tom also served as CFO and VP of Finance at Protected Vehicles, Inc. and Force Protection, Inc. Earlier in his career, he held various positions including Finance Manager, Controller and Director of Finance, at Spectrum Group, Insilco Technologies, KPMG Peat Marwick, Exide Electronics, and Owens-Corning Fiberglas.

Reading International, Inc. [CULVER CITY, Calif.] (NASDAQ: RDI) announced that Devasis “Dev” Ghose has retired from the Company as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Gilbert Avanes, Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis, has been appointed Interim Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Avanes joined Reading in 2007 and has held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility on the Company’s finance team, including: Senior Director of Financial Planning and Analysis; Director of Financial Planning and Analysis; Senior Finance Manager; and his current position of Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis. Prior to joining Reading, Mr. Avanes served in various finance and accounting roles over the course of a decade at Toronto-Dominion Bank Financial Group.

Citizens, Inc. [Austin, Texas] announced that Kay E. Osbourn will transition to the role of Head of Financial Reporting and step aside as Citizens’ Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Investment Officer, effective upon the Company’s appointment of a new Chief Financial Officer. Since joining the Company in 2008, Mrs. Osbourn has served in several different management roles including Chief Investment Officer, President, Interim Chief Executive Officer, Treasurer, and Vice President, Internal Audit. Mrs. Osbourn, served as Citizens’ Chief Financial Officer from 2009 through 2015 and then assumed the Chief Financial Officer role again in 2017. From 2015 to 2017, Mrs. Osbourn was the Company’s President.

USA Technologies, Inc. [MALVERN, Pa.] (NASDAQ: USAT) announced that Glen Goold has been appointed interim Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Goold has served as a consultant to USA Technologies since October 2018. Goold served as Chief Financial Officer at Sutron Corporation from 2014 to 2018. Mr. Goold had previously served as the assistant Chief Financial Officer and Director of Finance, and then as interim Chief Financial Officer for Sutron Corporation. Prior to that, he spent seven years at The Carlyle Group, where he served as Associate Vice President of Fund Management. Former Chief Financial Officer, Priyanka Singh, stepped down, effective January 7, 2019.

Constellation Advisers, LLC [NEW YORK] announced that it has hired Michael Sabatell as its Corporate Chief Financial Officer and Director of Financial and Regulatory Reporting. Sabatell joins Constellation after having spent nearly a decade at Fortress Investment Group where he last was Vice President and Controller. Prior to Fortress, Mr. Sabatell served as a Vice President and Management Company Controller for a global multi-strat hedge fund.

Bantek, Inc. [PINE BROOK, N.J.] (OTCPINK: DRUS) announced that it has selected Jeffrey L. Garon to be its new CFO and to join its board of directors. Jeff held senior positions in the following companies: Mota Group, CVA Partners, Etelos, Kaufman Bros., Tripath Technology, Silicon Storage Technology, Monster Cable Products, Oracle, Ashton-Tate, and Teledyne Microelectronics.

Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. [WAKEFIELD, Mass.] (CSE: CURA, OTCBB: CURLF) announced that Neil Davidson was appointed Chief Financial Officer. Davidson most recently served as Chief Financial Officer for Deluxe Entertainment Services Group. Prior to that, he spent nine years at Bally Technologies, Inc. where he rose through the ranks to become its Chief Financial Officer.

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