AMC Entertainment [LEAWOOD, Kansas] (NYSE: AMC) announced the hiring of Sean Goodman, currently CFO of Asbury Automotive Group, who will commence working with AMC as Executive Vice President – Finance on December 2, 2019. Current AMC CFO Craig Ramsey will retire on February 28, 2020, in a long-envisioned move. Goodman has more than 30 years of finance experience including leading Financial Planning and Analysis as well as Business Development at Home Depot in Atlanta, was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley in London and worked for Deloitte & Touche in South Africa and New York.

Palladio Biosciences, Inc. [NEWTOWN, PA] announced the appointment of Marella Thorell as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Thorell served as CFO/COO and an Executive Director of Realm Therapeutics which was acquired by ESSA Pharma in July 2019, having previously held a number of other senior positions within Realm. Thorell was appointed a director of ESSA following the acquisition. Thorell also worked at Campbell Soup Company, in several financial and management roles. She began her career and earned her CPA qualification with Ernst & Young LLP.

Kohl’s [MENOMONEE FALLS, WI] (NYSE: KSS) announced that Bruce Besanko has decided to retire from Kohl’s at the end of the fiscal year and will step down from his position as Chief Financial Officer, effective November 1. At that time, Jill Timm, Kohl’s Executive Vice President of Finance, will be promoted to Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Timm joined Kohl’s in 1999, holding progressive leadership positions across several areas of finance, most recently as Executive Vice President of Finance.

Emily A. Weaver

Gardner Denver Holdings, Inc. [MILWAUKEE,] (NYSE: GDI) announced the appointment of Emily A. Weaver as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) effective December 1, 2019. Weaver joins Gardner Denver from Fortive Corporation where she is currently its Chief Accounting Officer, and brings to Gardner Denver more than 25 years of experience with companies including Fortive, Danaher and General Electric. Weaver will succeed Neil Snyder, Gardner Denver’s current CFO, who is leaving to pursue other opportunities.

Innovest Global Inc. [CLEVELAND] (OTC Markets: IVST) announced the appointment of Indrani Egleston as the Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. Mike Yukich, Innovest Global’s prior Chief Financial Officer will remain on in a consulting role to help ensure a seamless transition through the 2019 financial reporting cycle. Egleston joined Innovest Global as the Executive Vice President, Finance & Controls in August 2019. She has held various strategic leadership financial roles including Internal Audit, Controlling, Financial Planning and Analysis and Mergers and Acquisitions throughout her tenured career at Covia Holdings Corp., Nordson Corporation, and PWC LLP.

GMS Inc. [TUCKER, GA] (NYSE: GMS) announced that Scott M. Deakin has been appointed Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective October 21, 2019. Lynn Ross, who has served as the Company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer, will continue in her role as Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller. Deakin most recently served as the President of the Thermal Acoustical Solutions segment of Lydall, Inc. Prior to that, he served as Executive Vice President and CFO of Lydall, Inc. Deakin previously served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Ensign-Bickford Industries, Inc. Earlier in his career he also held the role of Senior Vice President, Corporate Development at Barnes Group, Inc. and various operating and finance roles during his 12 years at Eaton Corporation. He began his career at Deloitte and Pricewaterhouse Coopers, LLP.

GRAIL, Inc. [MENLO PARK, CA] announced that Matthew P. Young has been appointed Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer effective October 28, 2019. Young joins GRAIL from Jazz Pharmaceuticals, where he most recently served as the company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Young worked in investment banking for approximately 20 years in positions at Barclays Capital Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., and Lehman Brothers Inc. Currently, he sits on the board of PRA Health Sciences, Inc., where he currently serves on the compensation and audit committee. He also serves as Lead Independent Director and Chairman of the audit committee of CytomX Therapeutics, Inc.

New York Life [NEW YORK] announced that Eric Feldstein has been named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Feldstein joins New York Life from Health Care Service Corporation, where he was CFO from 2016 to 2019. From 2010 to 2016, he served as an Executive Vice President with American Express. Feldstein began his career in finance with General Motors where he held a variety of roles with increasing responsibility. He served as Treasurer from 1997 to 2002, and subsequently served as Chief Executive Officer of GMAC Financial Services from 2002-2008. Feldstein replaces Joel Steinberg, who was serving as interim CFO following the retirement of the company’s former CFO John Fleurant earlier this year. Steinberg will resume his full-time role as Chief Risk Officer.

AEON Biopharma [NEWPORT BEACH, CA] announced that it has named Chris Carr as Chief Financial Officer. Carr most recently served as Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President of Finance and IT and Board Member of Dendreon Pharmaceuticals. Prior to his time at Dendreon, Carr has held financial management positions across the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, including Abbott Laboratories, PerkinElmer and Genzyme Corporation.

Tenet Healthcare Corporation [DALLAS] (NYSE: THC) announced that Brendan Strong has been appointed Chief Financial Officer for the company’s Massachusetts market. Strong will lead the finance and accounting functions at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester and Metro West Medical Center with locations in Framingham and Natick. Strong is currently Tenet’s Vice President of Investor Relations and has served in this role since 2015.

Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. [DULUTH, GA] (NYSE: ABG) announced that Sean Goodman provided notice of his intention to resign from the position of Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of the Company effective November 15, 2019, to accept the position of Chief Financial Officer of another publicly-traded company outside of the auto retail industry. The Company also announced that William Stax, Vice President, Corporate Controller & Chief Accounting Officer of the Company, was appointed interim Principal Financial Officer effective November 16, 2019.

Eastside Distilling, Inc. [PORTLAND, Oregon] (NASDAQ: EAST) announced the resignation of Steve Shum as the Company’s interim Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer.

Franworth [ANN ARBOR, MI] named David Taccolini as chief financial officer. Taccolini began his career at Domino’s Pizza, assisting franchisees with obtaining financing and later went on to serve as CFO of Service Brands International (SBI) for 14 years.

Target Corporation [MINNEAPOLIS] (NYSE: TGT) announced that Michael Fiddelke has been named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective Nov. 1. In more than 15 years at Target, Fiddelke has served in a variety of roles across finance, merchandising, human resources, and operations. Most recently he served as Senior Vice President of Operations. Prior to Target, Fiddelke worked at Deloitte Consulting, LLP.

Edwin Scholte

Blackboard Inc. [WASHINGTON] announced the appointment of Edwin Scholte as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Edwin will join the company on November 4, 2019. He joins Blackboard from Best Merchant Partners, where he served as Managing Director. Prior to joining Best, Edwin served as CFO and as COO of the higher education, professional and international divisions of McGraw-Hill Education. Earlier he held senior finance and operating executive roles at LexisNexis/Reed Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, as well as a privately-owned boutique incubator of Internet and corporate services start-ups in The Netherlands.

Port Tampa Bay [TAMPA, FL] announced the hiring of David M. Delac as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Delac most recently served as the Chief Financial Officer/Budget Officer for Galveston County, Texas. Prior to that role, Delac served as the Controller for WFN Consulting in Marietta, Georgia, as Budget Manager of West Palm Beach as well as the Deputy of Finance Director /Treasurer for the City of Roswell, Georgia.

Galera Therapeutics, Inc. [MALVERN, PA] announced Christopher Degnan has been named Chief Financial Officer, effective October 21, 2019. Degnan most recently served as Chief Financial Officer at Verrica Pharmaceuticals. Previously, Degnan held senior positions at Endo International plc, most recently as Vice President of Finance, Corporate FP&A and International Pharmaceuticals Segment Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Endo, Degnan spent more than 10 years at AstraZeneca plc, in roles of increasing responsibility which culminated in the position of Senior Finance Director, U.S. Commercial Finance.

Dean Butler

Synaptics Incorporated [SAN JOSE, CA] (NASDAQ: SYNA) announced the appointment of Dean Butler as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), to be effective on October 21, 2019. Butler most recently served as VP of Finance at Marvell. Butler also held key financial positions at Broadcom and Maxim Integrated. Effective October 21, 2019, Kermit Nolan has resigned his role as interim Chief Financial Officer and will resume his previous role as Corporate Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer.

NexTech AR Solutions Corp. [NEW YORK & TORONTO] (OTCQB: NEXCF, CSE: NTAR) announced that it has appointed Kashif Malik as Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) of the Company. Kashif began his professional career working at Deloitte in Ottawa, Canada specializing in technology and public entities. After leaving Deloitte, Kashif went to work for Merck in Bermuda leading the transition of their operations to different international locations. Kashif then joined Real Matters in Toronto, Canada. Prior to joining NexTech, he worked consulting various SaaS organizations which led him to joining Leonardo as Vice President Finance and Board Member through a restructuring.

Northwest Pipe Company [VANCOUVER, Washington] (NASDAQ: NWPX) announced that Robin Gantt will retire as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) on March 31, 2020. The company appointed Aaron Wilkins to succeed Ms. Gantt as CFO on April 1, 2020, in connection with Northwest Pipe’s planned succession process. Gantt joined Northwest Pipe Company (the “Company”) in 2010 and has served as CFO since 2011. Wilkins has served as Corporate Controller since joining the Company in 2014 and Vice President of Finance since 2016.

United States Steel Corporation [PITTSBURGH] (NYSE: X) announced that Kevin Bradley has informed the company of his intention to resign from his position as Chief Financial Officer of U. S. Steel effective Nov. 4.  Bradley will remain with the company as Executive Vice President and Adviser to the CEO through year-end. Bradley will be succeeded by Christine (Christie) Breves, currently Senior Vice President, Manufacturing Support and Chief Supply Chain Officer. Breves joined U. S. Steel in 2013 to oversee the enhancement and execution of the company’s global procurement and sourcing strategy.  Since then, Breves has assumed responsibility for the company’s logistics services organization; Transtar, U. S. Steel’s short-line railroad subsidiary; sales and operations planning (S&OP); information technology; commercial support; engineering; corporate quality; and leadership of U. S. Steel’s asset revitalization and reliability centered maintenance programs.  Prior to joining U. S. Steel, Breves spent fourteen years at Alcoa, culminating with her role as Chief Procurement Officer from 2004 through 2012. Prior to Alcoa, Breves held positions in accounting, maintenance, and procurement at Alumax, Inc., an integrated aluminum manufacturer that was acquired by Alcoa in 1998.

American BriVision Holding Corporation [FREMONT, CA] (OTCQB: ABVC) announced that Chihliang “Andy” An was appointed as the Company’s new Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. An served as the Managing Director – Investment Team at Yinyai Investment in Hong Kong. Before that, he served as a Senior Director of Sales and Operations at Goertek and as a consultant and Director of Finance at BioKey, Inc., which is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company.  Additionally, he was also a Global Program Manager at Flextronics (now Flex Ltd.), an Investment Banking Analyst at Chardan Capital, and a Financial Analyst at Optoplex.

Diane Parham

CU Service Network [LAKEWOOD, Colorado] announced that it has selected Diane Parham as its new CFO. Most recently as the SVP at Members Choice Credit Union in Houston, Texas, Parham has held positions of both CFO and CLO. Previously, Parham was the Finance Manager at American Airlines Federal Credit Union in Fort Worth, Texas.

SOCIAL HOUSE Vodka [RALEIGH, NC] announced Jeff Eakes as its chief financial officer. Prior to joining SOCIAL HOUSE® Vodka, Eakes served as the senior director of corporate treasury at SAS.

CPG Beyond Inc. [ASHBURN, VA] announced that Ben Pawson has joined CPG as its new Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Ben most recently served as Chief Accounting Officer and Controller at Presidio.

Bruce Snyder

Unico Properties LLC [SEATTLE], a subsidiary of Unico Investment Group LLC, announced that Bruce Snyder was named Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Recently, he served as CFO for the Qiddiya Investment Company, a wholly-owned closed joint-stock company of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), leading the finance team.

Jean-Philippe Kouakou-Zebouah

Vida Ventures [BOSTON] announced that Jean-Philippe (“JP”) Kouakou-Zebouah has joined in the dual role of Chief Financial and Chief Operating Officer. JP joins Vida from Versant Ventures where he was Senior Vice President of Finance. Prior to Versant, he served as Senior Director and Head of Finance for the U.S. Bio-Oncology Business Unit at Genentech.

Crescent Capital BDC, Inc. [LOS ANGELES] announced that the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, Mike Wilhelms, is departing the Company for personal reasons and has appointed Gerhard Lombard, currently Chief Financial Officer of Crescent Capital Group LP, to succeed Mr. Wilhelms and serve as the Chief Financial Officer of Crescent BDC. Lombard will also remain Chief Financial Officer of Crescent Capital. Gerhard Lombard joined Crescent Capital in 2016 as its Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Crescent Capital, Mr. Lombard served as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Whitehorse Finance Inc., a publicly traded business development company that is managed by H.I.G. Capital. Prior to his time with H.I.G. Capital, Mr. Lombard was Group Controller and Chief Accounting Officer for Churchill Financial Group. Earlier in his career, Mr. Lombard spent approximately 11 years at Ernst & Young LLP, rising to the level of Senior Manager.

Collabra Technology [SPOKANE] hired James Rouse as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Rouse’s recent experience includes serving for six years as division CFO at Cumulus Media. James joined the company as interim CFO in Q2.

RedSeal [SAN JOSE, Calif.] announced the appointment of Greg Straughn as its chief financial officer (CFO). He was previously CFO of A10 Networks. Additionally, he held CFO positions at Kabira Technologies and AT&T/Pacific Bell Internet Services. Straughn also served as a principal at Meridian Business Systems.

Silvergate Bank [La Jolla, CA] named Antonio “Tony” Martino as Chief Financial Officer. Martino was most recently Chief Financial Officer of LendingPoint. He began his professional career at Ernst & Young where he was responsible for audit, tax, and consulting services. Martino then transitioned to a senior manager role at BMO Bank of Montreal, followed by 17 years with Citigroup, Inc. in various senior finance and chief financial officer roles in North America, Europe, and the Middle East.

BioDerm, Inc. [LARGO, FL], announced the appointment of Marc Garofani as Chief Financial Officer. Garofani has worked with several respected companies including PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC, First Advantage Corporation and Chromalloy Casting Tampa, Corp. Prior to BioDerm, Inc., Garofani worked with TouchPoint Medical, Inc. as Americas Finance Director. Garofani also worked with STERIS Corporation as the Global Finance Director & Director of Customer Economic Support. Additionally, Garofani held the position of Global Finance Director with Synergy Health PLC.

Enrique Mayor-Mora

CarMax, Inc. [RICHMOND, VA] (NYSE: KMX) announced that Enrique Mayor-Mora, who has served as CarMax’s treasurer since 2016, will be promoted to senior vice president and CFO. Tom Reedy, who has served as CFO since 2010 and as executive vice president since 2012, will become executive vice president of finance. Mayor-Mora will continue to report to Reedy. Mayor-Mora joined CarMax in 2011 as vice president of finance and in 2016 moved into the treasurer role. Prior to joining CarMax, he served as vice president of financial planning and analysis and investor relations at Denny’s Corporation from 2005 to 2011. He also served in financial positions of increasing responsibility at Gap, Inc. from 2001 to 2005.

Arkose Labs [SAN FRANCISCO] recently hired Sam Francis as Chief Financial Officer. Francis brings more than 25 years of experience providing financial leadership, raising capital and managing both buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions.

Alaska Communications [ANCHORAGE, AK] (NASDAQ: ALSK) named Laurie Butcher chief financial officer. Butcher joined Alaska Communications in 1997, and has served as senior vice president of finance since October 2015 and principal financial and accounting officer since November 2015. Butcher’s prior roles include controller for Teamsters Local 959 and public accounting at Price Waterhouse and Deloitte & Touche.

AngioDynamics, Inc. [LATHAM, NY] (NASDAQ: ANGO) announced that Michael C. Greiner, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) will be departing the Company. Stephen A. Trowbridge, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, will assume the role of interim Chief Financial Officer in addition to his current responsibilities.

Databricks [SAN FRANCISCO] announced the appointment of Dave Conte as Chief Financial Officer. Conte was Splunk’s CFO for the last eight years. Prior to Splunk, he was the CFO at Opsware. Conte has also served as a member of the board of directors at Anaplan since 2016.

EFG Companies [DALLAS] announced that Neha Parikh assumes the role of Chief Financial Officer. Neha’s managerial and consulting experience spans companies like GoDaddy, ADP, Verint, Cox Enterprises and AT&T, where she served in various capacities ranging from Executive Director to Business Unit CFO.

Oncorus, Inc. [CAMBRIDGE, MA] announced the appointment of John McCabe as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to joining Oncorus, McCabe served as CFO of Flex Pharma, Inc., which is now known as Salarius Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Prior to joining Flex Pharma in 2014, McCabe served as Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer with ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from 2013 to 2014, which was acquired by Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., and is now part of Takeda Oncology Company. Previously, McCabe served as Vice President and Corporate Controller at Charles River Associates from 2009 to 2013. McCabe also previously served as Director and Strategic Business Unit Controller at Biogen. McCabe began his career at Arthur Andersen & Co., and he later held financial positions at Performance Technologies, Inc. and IP.com.

Sernova Corp. [LONDON AND ONTARIO, CA] (TSX-V: SVA, OTCQB: SEOVF) announced that David Swetlow has joined as Chief Financial Officer. Swetlow held various senior management, board, and advisory roles for companies, including multiple TSX and Nasdaq listed biotech companies amongst them QLT Inc. and Protox Therapeutics Inc. Swetlow replaced Sernova’s outgoing CFO, Sean Hodgins.

Toby O’Brien

Raytheon Company [WALTHAM, MA] (NYSE: RTN) announced that Anthony “Toby” O’Brien was named chief financial officer for the future Raytheon Technologies Corporation. He currently serves as vice president and chief financial officer of Raytheon Company. Prior to his current position, O’Brien was vice president of finance and chief financial officer for Raytheon IDS. He has also served as Raytheon vice president of finance, CFO of Raytheon Aircraft Company and has held other senior finance positions across Raytheon. O’Brien joined Raytheon in 1986.

First Financial Bankshares, Inc. [ABILENE, TX] (NASDAQ: FFIN) announced that J. Bruce Hildebrand intends to retire in August 2020 as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

Amgen [THOUSAND OAKS, CA] (NASDAQ: AMGN) announced the planned retirement of David W. Meline, who has served as the company’s executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO) since 2014. The company also announced that Peter H. Griffith has joined Amgen as executive vice president, Finance, and will be Meline’s successor as CFO as of Jan. 1, 2020. Griffith joins Amgen from Sherwood Canyon Group, LLC, where he served as president. Previously, he retired from EY (formerly Ernst & Young), after a distinguished career there, including almost 22 years as a partner. Most recently, Griffith served as EY’s Global Vice Chair, Corporate Development. He previously served as EY’s Global Managing Partner, Finance and Corporate Development and, before that, as Global Managing Partner, Operations and Finance. Prior to EY, he was Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking at Wedbush Securities.

Resideo Technologies, Inc.  [AUSTIN, TX] (NYSE: REZI) announced that Robert (Bob) Ryder has been named interim chief financial officer, effective Nov. 7, 2019. Bob will succeed Joseph Ragan, who is leaving the company on Nov. 6, 2019, to pursue other opportunities. Ryder previously served as CFO of Constellation Brands.

THINK Surgical, Inc. [FREMONT, CA] announced the appointment of Paul Weiner as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Most recently, Weiner served as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Conformis, Inc. Prior to joining Conformis, Weiner spent 18 years at Palomar Medical Technologies, Inc., where he served as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President among other positions during his tenure.

Obalon Therapeutics, Inc. [SAN DIEGO] (NASDAQ: OBLN) announced that William J. Plovanic has been promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer, from his prior position of President and Chief Financial Officer. In conjunction with this change, Nooshin Hussainy, previously Vice President of Finance, has been promoted to the position of Chief Financial Officer. Hussainy has been with Obalon since 2011, most recently serving as Vice President of Finance and Corporate Controller. Ms. Hussainy is a seasoned financial professional with over 18 years’ experience serving as a Corporate Controller or Assistant Controller with companies including GenMark Diagnostics, ACTIVE Network, DexCom, and Thermolase Corporation.

Schmitt Industries, Inc. [PORTLAND, OR] (NASDAQ: SMIT) announced the appointment of Regina (“Gina”) Walker as Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) of the Company. Prior to joining Schmitt, Walker served as CFO of TEC Equipment, Inc. Walker will work closely with Ann Ferguson, who previously submitted her resignation, effective November 30, 2019, to ensure a smooth transition.

Catalyte [BALTIMORE] announced that Vivek Khanna has joined Catalyte as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Most recently Khanna was CFO of Discovery Communications’ U.S. operations. He has also served as a trusted advisor to management teams while at Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and Deloitte.

Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta [ATLANTA] announced the appointment of Haig Kazazian to Chief Financial Officer, effective November 1, 2019. Kazazian was most recently FHLBank Atlanta’s Treasurer, a position he has held since June 1, 2013. Prior to that, he served as First Vice President in the Financial Management Division. Kazazian joined the Bank as a credit analyst in 1992, and later earned promotions to manager of National Accounts and Product Development in 2001, manager of National Accounts and Capital Markets Trading in 2009, and manager of Treasury Analysis and National Accounts Sales and Trading in 2011.

Elizabeth T. Beale

Old Point Financial Corporation [HAMPTON, Va.] (NASDAQ: OPOF) announced that Elizabeth T. Beale has been appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Old Point National Bank. Beale has served as Old Point’s Interim Chief Financial Officer since July of this year. Beale joined Old Point in April 2018 as Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer following Old Point’s acquisition of Citizens National Bank. She served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Citizens National Bank for 15 years and prior to that as Corporate Accountant for 4 years at James River Bankshares, Inc.

Inxeption [BRISBANE, CA] announced that Faisal Chughtai has joined Inxeption as the chief financial officer. Faisal was most recently an executive vice president at Web.com and prior to that, he was a senior investment banker at J.P.Morgan and RBC Capital Markets.

Andrew Kaufman

CRITICALSTART [PLANO, Texas] announced the appointment of Andrew Kaufman as its first Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, he served as CFO of STRAIT. Prior to that, Kaufman served as vice president of finance for Armor Defense. Earlier in his career, he held various accounting and financial roles at PeopleMatter, Blackbaud, Aprima Medical Software and Enterprise Holdings.

Varian [PALO ALTO, CA] (NYSE: VAR) announced that effective December 1, 2019 , Gary E. Bischoping, Jr. , currently senior vice president, Finance & chief finance officer, will take on a new role as president, Interventional Oncology Solutions; J. Michael Bruff, currently senior vice president, Finance and Investor Relations, will succeed Bischoping as senior vice president, Finance & chief finance officer. Bruff joined Varian two years ago. Prior to joining Varian, Bruff held a series of senior international and domestic roles, including business segment CFO, and roles in financial planning, accounting and internal audit at Dell Technologies. He also held leadership positions in corporate reporting at MCI Telecommunications and served as vice president, Services Accounting and Finance at CA, Inc.

Snapsheet [CHICAGO] announced the appointment of Susan Sell to Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, she served as CFO for PRA Business Events. Prior to PRA, Sell served as CFO at Fieldglass. Prior to Fieldglass, Sell held senior finance positions at Rewards Network and Technology Solutions Company.

A&R Logistics [LOUISVILLE, KY] named Taimur Sharih as its new Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. Sharih succeeds Tony Lenhart, who now leads A&R’s corporate development function.

Donald “Shawn” Jordan

First Community Corporation [LEXINGTON, S.C.] (NASDAQ: FCCO), the holding company for First Community Bank, announced that Chief Financial Officer, Joseph G. “Joe” Sawyer, will retire on December 31, 2019. Donald “Shawn” Jordan has been selected as First Community’s new Chief Financial Officer and will assume this position upon the retirement of Mr. Sawyer. Jordan’s most recent role was with IBERIABANK, where he served as Senior Vice President and Manager of Corporate Analytics.  Prior to joining IBERIABANK, Jordan worked with AloStar Bank of Commerce where he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Jordan will join the company on November 12, 2019 to provide time with Mr. Sawyer and ensure a smooth transition of the Chief Financial Officer responsibilities.

Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc. [BRISBANE, CA] (NASDAQ: SGMO) announced the appointment of Sung Lee as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Lee joins Sangamo from Gilead Sciences, where he spent nearly 14 years, most recently as Senior Vice President leading the financial planning & analysis (FP&A) and investor relations functions. Prior to this role, Mr. Lee held roles of increasing responsibility at Gilead, including Head of Europe Finance and Head of R&D FP&A.

Trinity Merger Corp. [HONOLULU & SEATTLE] (NASDAQ: TMCX) and the Broadmark real estate lending companies announced that David Schneider will join Broadmark Realty Capital Inc. as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer effective December 9, 2019. Schneider previously served as Chief Accounting Officer of New Residential Investment Corp., and as a Managing Director of its external manager. Previously, Mr. Schneider served in various other senior financial and regulatory reporting roles. These include Vice President of Corporate Accounting Policy at JPMorgan Chase.

LICT Corporation [RYE, NY] (OTC Pink: LICT) announced that Daniel E. Hopkins will serve LICT as President and Chief Financial Officer effective November 11, 2019. Hopkins most recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since 2007 with MTPCS, LLC

Mattel, Inc. [EL SEGUNDO, CA] (NASDAQ: MAT) announced that Chief Financial Officer Joseph J. Euteneuer will leave the Company after a transition period of up to six months.

Sidecar Health [LOS ANGELES] announced that Stuart Battersby now serves as Chief Financial Officer. He comes from Amerigroup Washington, a fully owned subsidiary of Anthem, where he served as CFO and COO before becoming President of its Washington Medicaid health plan.

Victory Park Capital [CHICAGO] (“VPC”), announced that Olibia Stamatoglou has been appointed chief financial officer. Stamatoglou assumes the role from Jeff Schneider, who joined the firm as chief financial officer in 2010. In January 2018, Schneider was promoted to chief operating officer, continuing to serve in his role as chief financial officer, until the firm could find a replacement. Stamatoglou will take over the role of chief financial officer, effective October 28, and Schneider will continue to act as chief operating officer and chief compliance officer for VPC. Most recently, Stamatoglou served as vice president of finance at Valor Equity Partners, Prior to Valor, Stamatoglou served as chief operating officer and chief financial officer of First National Assets. She joined First National Assets from Aurora Investment Management where she progressed through several accounting roles.

Altice USA [NEW YORK] (NYSE: ATUS) announced that Michael Grau has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Grau succeeds Charles F. Stewart who, in a separate announcement made today, was named Chief Executive Officer of Sotheby’s. Stewart will continue as a member of the Altice USA Board of Directors and serve as a special advisor to the CEO on M&A and related strategic matters. Grau joined Altice USA in 2016 and most recently was Executive Vice President of Financial Planning & Control at the Company. Prior to this, Grau held various leadership roles in finance at Cablevision for more than 15 years. Earlier in his career he held senior financial positions at Winstar Communications, Health Professionals Inc, and Deloitte & Touche.

KidKraft, Inc. [DALLAS] announced Todd Whitbeck has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Whitbeck was most recently CFO and Head of Business Development, Sales, Marketing and Administrative Functions for CANarchy. Previously he was Executive Vice President, CFO & Business Development for Water Pik, Inc.  He was CFO for JP Energy, Sears Holdings Corporation (SHC) in the hard goods business units and off-mall retail selling formats, and CompUSA, where he elevated his oversight to CFO through various finance roles as the company grew and was acquired. He is a board member for Tufts Health Plan Board of Directors.

NetAbstraction, Inc. [CHANTILLY, VA] announced that Ron Kolson has joined as Chief Financial Officer. Previously he was CEO/CFO at 24/7 Mid-Atlantic Network, LLC; VP/Chief Financial Officer at FiberGate, Inc.; and Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer at MICROS Systems, Inc. Additionally, Mr. Kolson has served as an independent member on various Boards of Directors, including most recently as a member of the Board for Precision Auto Care, Inc.

FS/KKR Advisor, LLC [PHILADELPHIA] a partnership between FS Investments and KKR Credit Advisors (US) LLC, announced that Steven Lilly, who joined FS Investments as a Managing Director in October, will assume the role of Chief Financial Officer of certain business development companies (BDCs) advised by FS/KKR in mid-November. In his role, Mr. Lilly will help strategically lead and will oversee the finance, investor relations and capital markets functions at FS KKR Capital Corp. (NYSE: FSK), FS Investment Corporation II, FS Investment Corporation III, and FS Investment Corporation IV (together, the BDCs). Previously, Lilly served for 13 years as Chief Financial Officer of Triangle Capital Corporation, a publicly traded BDC. Prior to joining Triangle, Lilly spent seven years as Senior Vice President of Finance and Treasurer at SpectraSite Communications. He began his career in the media and communications capital markets group at First Union, now part of Wells Fargo. Effective with Lilly’s appointment, William Goebel, who currently serves as the BDCs’ Chief Financial Officer, will become the BDCs’ Chief Accounting Officer.

Sovos Brands [BERKELEY, CA] announced the appointment of Chris Hall as the company’s Chief Financial Officer starting November 11th. Hall was most recently the CFO at Woodbolt Distribution LLC (Nutrabolt). Prior to joining Nutrabolt, Hall was at PepsiCo Inc. for more than 20 years in various financial leadership positions. His highlights at PepsiCo Inc. include working through the creation of PepsiCo Foods Canada; serving as the CFO for Quaker Foods North America and as the CFO for the Sabra Dipping Company.

Instructure [SALT LAKE CITY] (NYSE: INST) announced that Steve Kaminsky, chief financial officer, will retire in 2020 after nearly eight years of service.

Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P. [INDIANAPOLIS] (NASDAQ: CLMT) named H. Keith Jennings as the Partnership’s Executive Vice President (EVP) & Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Jennings will assume EVP and CFO duties on January 1, 2020 following an orderly transition with the current EVP & CFO, West Griffin, who announced he will leave the organization effective January 1, 2020. Jennings joins Calumet from Eastman Chemical Company where he served most recently as Vice President, Finance. Prior to this, he served as Vice President and Treasurer for Eastman. Prior to this, Jennings was Vice President and Treasurer of Cameron International Corporation. Earlier in his career, Jennings held progressively responsible finance leadership roles in Alghanim Industries, PepsiCo, Inc., Ingersoll-Rand and Pharmacia.

Questex LLC [NEW YORK] announced Patrick Nohilly has joined as its new Chief Financial Officer. Nohilly joins Questex from Messe Frankfurt North America, where he was President and CFO. Earlier, Nohilly had a long career at United Business Media and held several senior management positions where he was responsible for finance, mergers & acquisitions operations and centralized services, with his last position as SVP Central Operations and Finance.

Flexera [ITASCA, IL] announced that its Chief Financial Officer Joe Freda plans to retire from the company in 2020 after over a decade in the role.

Passage Bio [PHILADELPHIA] announced the appointment of Richard Morris as chief financial officer. Morris joins Passage Bio from Context Therapeutics, where he served as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Prior to his position at Context, Richard was chief financial officer of Vitae Pharmaceuticals. Previously, he was vice president, global financial planning and strategy at ViroPharma Inc.

Assembly Biosciences, Inc. [SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA] (NASDAQ: ASMB) announced the appointment of Thomas J. Russo as Chief Financial Officer. Russo joins Assembly from Gilead, where he spent seven years in finance and commercial operations roles, including Vice President, Head of Commercial Finance. Previously, Mr. Russo was Equity Research Senior Analyst covering biotechnology for investment bank, Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. He also spent nine years with Merck & Co. in roles of increasing responsibility within the manufacturing division.

Sandspring Resources Ltd. [DENVER AND VANCOUVER, British Columbia] (TSX-V: SSP, OTCQX: SSPXF) appointed Bassam Moubarak as Executive Vice President Finance and Chief Financial Officer, effective November 1, 2019. Moubarak has also been appointed to the Company’s Board of Directors. Most recently Moubarak was CFO of Lithium X Energy Corp. Prior to this Moubarak was CFO of Goldrock Mines Corp. He was Chief Financial Officer of Petaquilla Minerals Ltd.

ePac Flexible Packaging [AUSTIN, TX] announced the appointment of James Braun as Chief Financial Officer. For 12 years of his career, Jim was CFO of two international printing companies.

Swiss Post Solutions [NEW YORK] (SPS) announced the appointment of Ralf Schulz as Chief Financial Officer for North America. Ralf replaces John Chestnut, who held the position since 2014, who moves onto another role at SPS. Ralf comes to SPS, North America from Bern, Switzerland, where he has held the role of Head of Global Financial Reporting for Swiss Post Solutions since 2015. Prior to joining SPS, Ralf was the Divisional CFO, Agriculture Commodity Trading and Processing, at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in Switzerland.

Peter Faubert

Evolv Technology [WALTHAM, MA] announced the hiring of Peter Faubert as CFO. Peter joins Evolv from SeaChange International, Inc., where he spent the last three years. Peter served with eight public and private technology companies over the last 20 years, five of them as CFO. Prior to his CFO roles at SeaChange International, Inc., This Technology Inc., Vision Government Solutions, Inc., JNJ Mobile (MocoSpace), and Turbine, Inc., he has held various senior finance positions with Viisage Technology Inc., Burntsand Inc. and Ariba Inc.

Personify Inc. [AUSTIN, TEXAS] hired Joe Hermes as Chief Financial Officer. Hermes joins Personify from Marketo, where he served as head of Financial Planning and Analysis.

nCino [WILMINGTON, NC] announced the appointment of David Rudow as Chief Financial Officer. In his most recent position, Rudow served as the SVP of Finance for CentralSquare Technologies. Prior to that, he held Senior Analyst roles for several leading investment banking and asset management firms, including Thrivent Asset Management, Piper Jaffray and J.P. Morgan.

ReShape Lifesciences Inc. [SAN CLEMENTE, CA] (OTCQB: RSLS) announced the appointment of Thomas Stankovich as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Stankovich spent the past nine years as the Global Senior Vice President and CFO of MP Biomedicals. Prior to MP Biomedicals, Tom served as CFO at Response Genetics. Additionally, he served as CFO for Cobalis Corporation and for Ribapharm. Tom also held CFO positions at ICN International, which later changed names to Valeant Pharmaceuticals.

Jerash Holdings (US), Inc. [ROCHESTER, NY] (NASDAQ: JRSH) announced the recent passing of Richard J. Shaw. Mr. Shaw had served as Chief Financial Officer since 2017.

Retail Value Inc. [BEACHWOOD, OH] (NYSE: RVI) announced the resignation of Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, Matthew Ostrower, effective on November 27, 2019, to pursue a new opportunity. Following his departure, Christa Vesy will serve as the Company’s Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer and Treasurer. Vesy has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of RVI since February 2018 and as Executive Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of SITE Centers Corp., the parent of RVI’s external manager, since March 2012. Prior to joining SITE Centers, Vesy worked for The Lubrizol Corporation, where she served as manager of external financial reporting and then as controller for the lubricant additives business segment. Prior to joining Lubrizol, from 1993 to September 2004, Vesy held various positions with the Assurance and Business Advisory Services group of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, including Senior Manager from 1999 to September 2004.

NortonLifeLock [TEMPE, AZ] (NASDAQ: NLOK) announced that Vincent Pilette, NortonLifeLock’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer. Matthew Brown, NortonLifeLock’s Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer, has been appointed Interim Chief Financial Officer. Brown joined Symantec in October 2015 and has held multiple positions in the finance team of increasing leadership before becoming the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer in January 2019. Prior to that, he served as Symantec’s Vice President, Finance from August 2016 to January 2019 and as Vice President, Corporate Controller of Blue Coat, Inc. from October 2015 until Symantec acquired that company in August 2016. Previously, he served in various positions at NETGEAR, Inc., a computer networking hardware company, from 2010 to October 2015, most recently as Senior Director, Assistant Controller.

Pulse Biosciences, Inc. [HAYWARD, CA] (NASDAQ: PLSE) announced that Sandra (“Sandy”) Gardiner will be joining as the Company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer effective November 18, 2019. Brian Dow has elected to resign as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer to pursue other interests, he will continue as CFO until November 18, 2019 and will continue with the Company in a transitional role until December 31, 2019. Gardiner was most recently Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of Cutera, Inc. Prior to that, Gardiner served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Tria Beauty, Inc. Prior to these roles, Gardiner held a series of Vice President and Chief Financial Officer positions with both publicly traded and privately held companies.

Ekos [CHARLOTTE, NC] announced the addition of Chief Financial Officer Chris Rosbrook to its executive team. Rosbrook joins Ekos from MapAnything, where he served as CFO. Prior to MapAnything, he served as managing director at Piper Jaffray Companies, and spent nine years at Edgeview Partners. He began his career at MAGMA Foundry Technologies, Inc.

Applicaster [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Bennett Theimann as Chief Financial Officer. Theimann started his career in traditional media at Gruner+Jahr. Prior to Applicaster, Theimann was the CFO at Conductor, having also served as COO, and subsequently CEO, of the global mobile display company, Mojiva.

Cresset [CHICAGO]announced that Michael Costabile has been named as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Cresset Asset Management, an SEC registered investment advisor. Costabile joins Cresset as CFO of Cresset Asset Management after most recently serving as CFO of Moneta Group. Prior to that role, he was the CFO and Chief Human Resources Officer of Intalere (formerly Amerinet).

Guess?, Inc. [LOS ANGELES] (NYSE: GES) announced that Katie Anderson has been appointed Chief Financial Officer, effective December 2, 2019. Anderson will replace Sandeep Reddy, who will be leaving the Company on December 1, 2019. Ms. Anderson joins Guess? from California Pizza Kitchen (CPK), where she has served as Chief Financial Officer since November 2016. Between 2010 and 2016, Anderson held other finance roles at CPK including Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance and Senior Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis. After leaving CPK in February 2016 to become the CFO of Sprinkles Cupcakes, she returned to CPK as its CFO. Anderson began her career in investment banking at Citi and then Moelis & Company.

SITE Centers Corp. [BEACHWOOD, OH] (NYSE: SITC) announced the resignation of Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, Matthew Ostrower, effective on November 27, 2019, to pursue a new opportunity. Following his departure, Ostrower will be replaced by Conor Fennerty, who joined SITE Centers in April 2017, serving since then as Senior Vice President of Capital Markets.

Canterbury Group [GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands & DALLAS, Texas] announced the addition of Scott Mills as Chief Financial Officer. Mills joins Canterbury from Dean Foods, where he spent the past four years as Vice President of Commercial Finance. Mills has experience leading finance, accounting and supply chain operations in private-equity owned companies, including working as CFO for Genesis Today and as Vice President of Finance and Operations at Advanced Beauty. Mills began his finance career at PepsiCo’s Frito Lay division, where he spent 12 years in roles of increasing responsibility, lastly as Director of Operations Finance, Strategy and Sustainability. Mills previously also held financial posts at Radio Shack and Brinker International. Mills will be based out of the company’s newly-established office in Dallas, Texas.

BioDuro, LLC [SAN DIEGO] announced the appointment of Jeffery Blazevich as the new Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining BioDuro, Jeff was the CFO for Zest Dental Solutions. From 2008 to 2013, he served as Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller for DJO Global. Prior to DJO Global, Jeff held CFO positions at Vativ Technologies Inc. Staccato Communications, and Applied Micro Circuits Corporation.

Legacybox [CHATTANOOGA, TN] announced it has promoted Emily Holesinger to Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Holesinger, who has nearly 15 years’ experience across finance and accounting, joined Legacybox earlier this year as Controller. Prior to joining Legacybox, Holesinger served as the Director of Financial Planning and Analysis at U.S. Xpress, Inc.

AppLovin [PALO ALTO, CA] announced that Herald Chen joined the company as President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and remains on the AppLovin board. Chen was most recently head of Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) in the Americas at KKR, where he led the firm’s investment in AppLovin. He rejoined KKR in 2007, having previously worked for the firm from 1995 to 1997, and served as Chairman of the Board for several companies, including BMC, Epicor Software, Optiv Security and Mitchell International. In addition to AppLovin, Chen will continue to serve on the Board of Directors of WebMD, Internet Brands, GoDaddy, Teach for America-Bay Area and the University of Pennsylvania’s Management and Technology Program. His operational experience includes roles as CEO of ACMI Corporation and Co-founder and CFO of Jamcracker, Inc.

Bluebird Network, LLC [COLUMBIA, MO] welcomed Carla Cooper as its new Chief Financial Officer. Cooper will play a key role in the strategic direction of Bluebird and will oversee all aspects of finance. She is a versatile leader bringing three decades of experience across various industries and is dedicated to supporting the vision, values and culture that leads to success. Cooper previously served Fidelity Communications Co. as the Vice President of Finance/CFO and Director of Regulatory Accounting. She also serves on the Board of Directors of EMPAQ Group Inc. and the Sullivan Educational Foundation.

CBD Brands [JUPITER, FL] announced that it has hired Douglas McKinnon as CFO. Before joining the company, McKinnon served in multiple c-level executive positions in both the private and public sectors, including Chairman, CEO and CFO.

Reid Sullivan

Entertainment Studios [LOS ANGELES] announced the appointment of Reid Sullivan as Chief Financial Officer of Allen’s motion picture division, Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures. Sullivan comes directly to Entertainment Studios after 11 years as Chief Financial Officer of CBS Films. Sullivan started his career in the audit division of Arthur Andersen & Company.  He then served as Director of Financial Operations for the Sony’s Columbia Pictures, and then as Vice President and Controller for Sony’s Columbia Tri-Star Film Distributors International unit.  More recently, Sullivan held the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Village Roadshow Pictures Entertainment.

The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. [LAKE SUCCESS, NY] (NASDAQ: HAIN) announced Javier H. Idrovo is joining the Company as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective December 2, 2019. Prior to joining Hain Celestial, Mr. Idrovo held leadership positions at The Hershey Company, serving most recently as Chief Accounting Officer. Prior to becoming Chief Accounting Officer, he served in the roles of Senior Vice President, Finance and Planning as well as Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development. Prior to joining The Hershey Company, Idrovo held roles of increasing responsibility at Dole Food Company, Inc. including Chief Financial Officer and then President of Dole Packaged Foods. Earlier in his career, Mr. Idrovo worked at The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. Idrovo will succeed James Langrock, who has served as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer for the past several years.

Qualcomm Incorporated [SAN DIEGO] (NASDAQ: QCOM) announced the appointment of Akash Palkhiwala as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Palkhiwala has been serving the Company as interim CFO since August. Previously, he was Senior Vice President and finance lead for QCT. Palkhiwala joined Qualcomm in 2001 and has held a variety of roles in Finance, including Treasurer and lead for Corporate Finance overseeing Qualcomm’s overall financial planning and analysis.

Optoro [WASHINGTON] announced the addition of Katy McCarthy as Chief Financial Officer. McCarthy, Optoro’s new CFO, was previously CFO and then Chairman and CEO of Geeknet (GKNT), the parent company of ThinkGeek.com. McCarthy previously spent 18 years at GE, rising to the executive ranks running corporate audit and also was the CFO of GE Healthcare.

Natural Gas Services Group, Inc. [MIDLAND, Texas] (NYSE: NGS) announced that G. Larry Lawrence, the Company’s Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary will retire from the Company effective November 15, 2019. He will also relinquish his position as Principal Accounting Officer. Coincident with the retirement of Larry Lawrence, the NGS Board of Directors has appointed James (“Jim”) R. Lawrence as Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary of the Company, effective November 16, 2019. Mr. Lawrence will also assume the role as Principal Accounting Officer. Jim Lawrence joined the Company on October 1, 2019. Previously, he served as the Chief Financial Officer of Bold Energy III LLC. Prior to joining Bold, Mr. Lawrence served as Vice President-Finance and Treasurer for Legacy Reserves LP, from 2010 to 2014. Prior to joining Legacy, Mr. Lawrence worked for nine years in investment banking, including the last six years in the Energy Investment Banking Group at Raymond James & Associates, where he served as a Vice President. (James R. Lawrence is not related to G. Larry Lawrence).

CorMedix Inc. [BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J.] (NYSE American: CRMD) announced that the Company and Robert Cook, the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, have mutually agreed not to renew his employment agreement, which expires on January 31, 2020.

Kaleido Biosciences, Inc. [LEXINGTON, MA] (NASDAQ: KLDO) announced the appointment of William Duke as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective November 25, 2019. Duke joins Kaleido from Pulmatrix, Inc. where he has been CFO. Prior to Pulmatrix, he served as CFO of Valeritas, Inc. Duke also was senior director of finance at Genzyme Corporation, and director of finance/accounting at Haemonetics Corporation. Earlier in his career he held CFO positions at G8wave, and OTF Group, Inc.

Christopher Ross

AK Steel [WEST CHESTER, Ohio] (NYSE: AKS) said that Jaime Vasquez, Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer, will retire effective November 30, 2019. Christopher J. Ross, AK Steel Vice President and Treasurer, has been named Vice President, Treasurer and Interim Chief Financial Officer. Chris was named Vice President and Treasurer in January 2018.  Prior to that role he served as Treasurer since 2016 and General Manager, Cash Management since 2012.  Chris has served in a number of financial and strategic roles since joining the company over 20 years ago, including strategic planning, financial planning and analysis, products and marketing, investor relations and accounting.  He began his AK Steel career in 1997 as a Cost Accountant at Middletown Works.  Outside of his AK Steel career, Chris served as Director of Investor Relations for Omnicare, Inc. and held Credit and Portfolio Manager positions with U.S. Bank and J.P. Morgan.

Astec Industries, Inc. [CHATTANOOGA, TN] (NASDAQ: ASTE) announced that Rebecca Weyenberg will join the company as Chief Financial Officer, effective December 4, 2019.  Weyenberg succeeds David Silvious, who will be leaving the Company at the end of the year to pursue other interests. Prior to joining Astec, Weyenberg served as VP Global Financial Operations at Welbilt Inc. Prior to joining Welbilt, Weyenberg led Business Transformation efforts at the AGCO Corporation as its Vice President, Global Processes, Standard and Shared Services.

Cognition Therapeutics, Inc. [PITTSBURGH] announced that James M. O’Brien has joined the Company as chief financial officer. Prior to joining Cognition, he served as the executive vice president of finance at Enzo Biochem, Inc. Before Enzo, O’Brien was vice president and corporate controller at Actavis PLC (now Allergan, Inc.). Earlier in his career, he held positions with increasing responsibilities at life sciences companies including Nycomed and Bristol-Myers Squibb, and spent close to a decade at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Penn Virginia Corporation [HOUSTON] (NASDAQ: PVAC) announced that Russell T. Kelley, Jr. has been named Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer effective November 13, 2019. Kelley previously served as Chief Financial Officer of Extraction Oil & Gas, Inc. Prior to joining Extraction Oil & Gas, Mr. Kelley ran the Oil & Gas practice of Moelis & Company. Prior to that, he worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he was a Senior Vice President.

Reed’s Inc. [NORWALK, CT] (NASDAQ: REED) announced the departure of Chief Financial Officer Iris Snyder, who is leaving the Company to pursue another opportunity, and the appointment of Joann Tinnelly as Interim Chief Financial Officer. Tinnelly has served as Vice President and Corporate Controller of Reed’s Inc. since July 2018. Prior to joining Reed’s she served at Assistant Controller of Steel Excel, Inc. a subsidiary of Steel Partners Holdings. Tinnelly also served as Vice President Financial Planning & Analysis and as Assistant Corporate Controller at USI Insurance Services, Assistant Vice President of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Group, served in multiple financial roles at Momentive Performance Materials and financial auditing at PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Carla Luke

MGT Consulting Group [TAMPA, FL] announced that Carla Luke has joined MGT as Chief Financial Officer. Before joining MGT, Luke worked at Vector Solutions as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to Vector Solutions, Luke served as the CFO at Greenway Health. Prior to her nearly 14 years with Greenway Health, Luke worked in financial leadership roles at Comdial Corporation, Vicorp, and Danka Business Systems after starting her career in public accounting with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Farmer Bros. Co. [NORTHLAKE, TX] (NASDAQ: FARM) announced the appointment of Scott Lyon as interim principal financial and accounting officer. David Robson has departed the Company. Lyon joined Farmer Brothers in August 2018 as its Assistant Controller and has served in the role of Corporate Controller since October 2018. Prior to joining the Company, Lyon served as Assistant Controller of ION Geophysical, from April 2016 to August 2018. Prior to that, Lyon served as SEC Reporting Manager from September 2013 to April 2016, of Ensco Plc.

TreeHouse Foods, Inc. [OAK BROOK, IL] (NYSE: THS) announced that William J. Kelley, Jr., currently Senior Vice President, Corporate and Operations Finance, has been appointed Interim Chief Financial Officer of TreeHouse. He replaces Matthew Foulston, who after a three-month transition period will be pursuing other career opportunities. Kelley joined TreeHouse in 2016 as Corporate Controller. He was previously Head of Global Audit for Kraft Heinz Company, where he worked from 2014-2016. Before that, he spent two years as Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer at Hillshire Brands, the spin-off successor company to Sara Lee Corporation. From 2010 to 2012, he was Vice President and Corporate Controller at USG Corporation. He spent the previous ten years in a variety of increasingly senior finance roles at PepsiAmericas. His earlier career service included key finance and accounting roles at Arthur Andersen and Cargill.

FGL Holdings [DES MOINES, IA] (NYSE: FG) announced the appointment of John Fleurant as Chief Financial Officer. Fleurant succeeds Dennis Vigneau, who previously announced his intention to retire at the end of 2019. Most recently, Fleurant served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for New York Life since 2013, after previously serving as Senior Vice President of Finance and Controller from 2010 to 2013. Previously, John spent 15 years at Prudential in a number of leadership roles. In John’s latest tenure at Prudential, he occupied the positions of Corporate Controller and Chief Financial Officer, U.S. Businesses. John began his career at Deloitte.

Scott Javor

Rhapsody International Inc. [SEATTLE] announced the appointment of Scott Javor as senior vice president, chief financial officer. Most recently, Javor held the position of managing director at FTI Consulting and FTI Capital Advisors. Previously, he served as the Vice President of GE Capital’s Media, Communications & Entertainment business.

Patrick Donoghue

Truckstop.com [BOISE, Idaho] announced that Patrick Donoghue has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Donoghue joins Truckstop.com from Trilogy Education Services.  Donoghue’s last several CFO positions were in EdTech. Prior to that, Donoghue held senior finance roles with CCC Information Services. Donoghue replaces Mark Robinson. Robinson retired in October to spend time with his family.

Inkling [SAN FRANCISCO] announced that Eileen Treanor has joined the company as chief financial officer (CFO). Prior to Inkling, she served as the CFO of Lever, and the vice president of Finance for Wikia. She has also held senior-level finance positions at Virgin America and Yahoo!.

McDermott International, Inc. [HOUSTON] (NYSE: MDR) announced the appointment of Chris Krummel as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. Krummel joined McDermott in 2016 and previously served as the company’s Global Vice President, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer. He replaces Stuart Spence, who has resigned from McDermott to pursue other opportunities. Prior to joining McDermott, Krummel served as: a consultant of American Industrial Partners, a firm engaging in private equity investments in industrial businesses in the United States and Canada; Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of EnTrans International, LLC; and Chief Accounting Officer, Vice President and Corporate Controller/Vice President of Finance of Cameron International.

Mike Burnett

Offerpad [PHOENIX] announced the hiring of Mike Burnett to serve as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Offerpad, he served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of AV Homes, Inc. Previously, Burnett worked for JDA Software Group, Inc. as Group Vice President, Finance, Treasury and Investor Relations. During his career, Burnett has also served as the Chief Financial Officer for American Traffic Solutions Inc. and Senior Vice President, Treasurer at Allied Waste Industries, Inc.

Jody Johnson

SeQuel Response [EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.] announced the promotion of Jody Johnson to Chief Financial Officer. Johnson joined SeQuel in August 2018 as the Vice President of Finance. Johnson brings more than a decade of experience in various financial leadership roles at organizations such as NovuHealth, HealthFitness, Convey Compliance Systems and CHS.

Banc of California, Inc. [SANTA ANA, CA] (NYSE: BANC), the holding company for Banc of California, N.A., announced the appointment of Lynn M. Hopkins as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company and the Bank, effective December 9, 2019. Ms. Hopkins succeeds Executive Vice President and CFO John Bogler, who resigned from the Company effective November 13, 2019. Mike Smith, the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer, has been appointed interim CFO until Ms. Hopkins joins the Company on December 9, 2019. Hopkins joins the Company from First Choice Bank, located in Cerritos, California. From 2002 to 2017, Hopkins served as Executive Vice President of PacWest Bancorp and Pacific Western Bank, the subsidiary bank of PacWest Bancorp, in a number of finance and corporate governance leadership roles. Hopkins served as Chief Accounting Officer of PacWest from 2014 to 2017, as Chief Financial Officer of Pacific Western Bank from 2002 to 2014, as Corporate Secretary from 2009 to 2014, and as a Director of Pacific Western Bank from 2002 to 2006. Earlier in her career, Ms. Hopkins held senior finance positions at California Community Bancshares and Western Bancorp. She began her career as a CPA with KPMG in Los Angeles and London.

Ingram Micro Inc. [IRVINE, CA] announced the promotion of Mike Zilis as Ingram Micro’s next executive vice president and CFO, effective January 1, 2020. Zilis will succeed Gina Mastantuono, who is leaving to take the role of CFO for a US publicly traded company. Zilis currently serves as Ingram Micro executive vice president and group president of Asia Pacific. Prior to this role, he served as executive vice president and group president with oversight for the company’s operations in Latin America, Eastern Europe, ASEAN and Hong Kong markets. Zilis also previously led the company’s Latin American Technology Solutions business as executive vice president and president Latin America. Zilis joined Ingram Micro in 2006 as senior vice president and corporate controller. Prior to joining Ingram Micro, Zilis was vice president and corporate controller for Avnet, Inc.

Joel Sendek

Sema4 [STAMFORD, CT] announced the appointment of Joel Sendek as Chief Financial Officer. Previously, Sendek served as Chief Financial Officer at Spero Therapeutics for more than two years and held the same position at Forward Pharma the three years before that. He spent more than 15 years as a senior equity research analyst at Stifel Financial Corp. and Lazard. Prior to his career in equity research, Sendek worked as a Senior Director of Corporate Development at Progenics Pharmaceuticals and as an investment banking analyst at Goldman Sachs.

Moog Inc. [EAST AURORA, NY] (NYSE: MOG.A and MOG.B) announced that Donald R. Fishback, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, has announced his intention to retire as CFO effective January 2, 2020. He will continue to serve as a director on Moog’s Board, a position he was first elected to in 2015. Moog’s Directors elected Jennifer Walter Vice President and Chief Financial Officer effective January 2, 2020. She currently holds the position of Vice President – Finance, and previously held the role of Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer. She joined Moog in 2000 after working as a certified public accountant for KPMG.

SilverBow Resources, Inc. [HOUSTON] (NYSE: SBOW) announced the resignation of the Company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, G. Gleeson Van Riet, effective November 11, 2019. Effective November 12, 2019, the Company appointed Christopher M. Abundis as Chief Financial Officer in addition to his existing duties at SilverBow. Accordingly, Mr. Abundis will now serve as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, General Counsel and Secretary of the Company. Abundis has served in progressive roles of responsibility at SilverBow after joining the Company in 2005, most recently as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary since March 2017. Through the course of his employment at SilverBow, he has served the Board of Directors as Secretary and managed the Company’s Legal, Human Resources and Corporate Services departments. Prior to beginning his legal career, Abundis worked for KPMG LLP.

The Trade Desk [LOS ANGELES] (NASDAQ: TTD) announced the retirement of its Chief Financial Officer, Paul Ross, and the appointment of Blake Grayson to succeed him. Grayson joins The Trade Desk from Amazon.com, where he most recently was Vice President, Finance, for the International Consumer business, as well as worldwide finance teams for Automated Marketing, Kindle Content/Books and Global Payments. Over more than a decade at Amazon, he also led finance for the company’s worldwide Marketplace business, and various finance functions for North America Consumer, Amazon Web Services and Global Payments. Prior to Amazon, he worked for Washington Mutual/JP Morgan Chase leading Payments finance and FP&A functions, and previously worked in the wireless and financial services industries.

Munich Reinsurance America, Inc. [PRINCETON, NJ] announced that Oliver Horbelt has been named Chief Financial Officer. Since 2015 Horbelt has served as head of Munich Reinsurance America’s Capital Partners Americas business unit. Horbelt joined Munich Re in 2009 as a Senior Executive Manager responsible for the organization’s global center of competence for retroactive reinsurance based in Munich, Germany. In the past, Horbelt has held a number of leadership roles including President and CEO of Centre Solutions, Principal at ILS Solutions, Managing Director at Swiss Re, and Analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston.

National Health Investors, Inc. [MURFREESBORO, TN] (NYSE: NHI) announced that it appointed John L. Spaid, its current Executive VP of Finance, as Chief Financial Officer. Spaid joined NHI in March 2016 with over 30 years of experience in private equity, real estate, finance and senior housing. Previously, Spaid was with Emeritus Senior Living as their Senior Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis from 2012 to 2014. Prior to Emeritus, Spaid was an independent financial consultant from 2010 to 2011. He also served as the CFO of a regional assisted living and memory care provider in Redmond, Washington from 2008 to 2009.

Regis Corporation [MINNEAPOLIS] (NYSE: RGS) announced the appointment of Kersten D. Zupfer as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Zupfer will replace Andrew H. Lacko, who is leaving the Company for another opportunity. Zupfer has served in accounting and finance roles of increasing leadership at Regis for more than 12 years. Most recently, she served as Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer since November 2017, prior to which she served as Vice President, Corporate Controller, Chief Accounting Officer since December 2014.

Weatherford International plc [HOUSTON] (OTC PINK: WFTIQ) announced that Christoph Bausch stepped down as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer to pursue other opportunities. Stuart Fraser, Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer, will serve as the interim Chief Financial Officer until January 6, 2020, when the new Chief Financial Officer will begin. Fraser joined Weatherford in 2015 and has served in various senior financial roles including Vice President and Corporate Controller and Vice President of Finance and Purchasing, Sourcing and Logistics. Prior to joining Weatherford, he served a 19-year career with Schlumberger Ltd., where he held senior financial positions in global and regional capacities. Christian Garcia has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective January 6, 2020. Garcia recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Visteon Corporation, and served as a board member of Keane Group. Prior to these roles, he served as acting Chief Financial Officer of Halliburton, where he held a variety of leadership positions of increasing responsibility.

Vireo Health International, Inc. [MINNEAPOLIS]  (CNSX: VREO; OTCQX: VREOF) announced that Shaun Nugent will be joining as Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) on December 2, 2019. Nugent has previously served as the CEO and CFO of several major private and public companies, including Life Time Fitness, AllOver Media, Champps Entertainment, and Sun Country Airlines. The Company’s current CFO, Amber Shimpa, will be assuming a newly created role of Chief Administrative Officer. Ms. Shimpa will continue to serve on Vireo’s Board of Directors and as a member of the Nominating and Governance Committee.

Tucker Marshall

The J. M. Smucker Company [ORRVILLE, Ohio] (NYSE: SJM) announced that Mark Belgya, Vice Chair and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), has communicated his decision to retire September 1, 2020. Following a comprehensive internal and external search, Tucker Marshall, Vice President, Finance, has been elected to succeed Belgya as CFO. Effective November 25, 2019, Marshall will become Senior Vice President and Deputy CFO and an elected Officer of the Company. He will succeed Belgya following the completion of the current fiscal year on May 1, 2020. Belgya will continue as Vice Chair until his retirement, ensuring a seamless transition. Marshall joined the Company in 2012 following a career in investment banking and private equity. During his tenure at Smucker, he has established a leadership role in the finance organization, with responsibility for corporate accounting and financial reporting, accounting shared services and technology solutions, internal audit and compliance, financial planning and analysis, and investor relations.

Sgsco [LOUISVILLE, KY] announced that the company has appointed Jim Bresingham as the new chief financial officer effective November 18, 2019. Steve Goertz will step down as chief financial officer to pursue other career interests. Bresingham joins sgsco from Truck Hero, Inc., where he was chief financial officer. Before joining Truck Hero, Jim was chief financial officer at Pampered Chef. Prior to Pampered Chef, Bresingham held a number of roles at Sirva Worldwide, Inc., including vice president of business development (mergers & acquisitions), chief accounting officer and ultimately chief financial officer.

Aflac Incorporated [COLUMBUS, GA] (NYSE: AFL) announced that Frederick J. Crawford, who currently serves as executive vice president and chief financial officer, will be promoted to president and chief operating officer of Aflac Incorporated. Max K. Brodén, who currently serves as senior vice president; deputy chief financial officer and treasurer of Aflac Incorporated, will be promoted to executive vice president and chief financial officer of Aflac Incorporated. These changes will become effective January 1, 2020. Brodén joined Aflac in 2017 as senior vice president and treasurer, bringing more than 15 years of experience and leadership managing global financial and insurance portfolios. Earlier this year, he was promoted to senior vice president; deputy chief financial officer and treasurer of Aflac Incorporated. Before joining Aflac, Brodén served as senior portfolio manager at Norges Bank, managing an equity portfolio of global financial and insurance stocks.

Donor Alliance [DENVER] announced Matt Lovetro as its new chief financial officer. Before joining Donor Alliance, Lovetro served as director of finance at United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) for 16 years. Prior to UNOS, he held positions in the hospitality and healthcare industries.

Rakuten Medical, Inc. [SAN MATEO, CA] appointed Brenton Keath as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Keath previously served as head of Finance for Rakuten Commerce. During his tenure at Rakuten USA, Inc., he also built and led the company’s post-merger integration team as its VP of Mergers & Acquisitions Integration. Earlier in his career, Keath held M&A and financial positions at KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Gevo, Inc. [ENGLEWOOD, CO] (NASDAQ: GEVO) announced the appointment of Lynn Smull to the position of Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Smull is expected to start in this new role effective December 16, 2019. Prior to joining Gevo, Mr. Smull most recently served as Chief Financial Officer of One Energy Enterprises, LLC. Mr. Smull has thirty years of finance and commercial experience on corporate, investment banking, and private equity platforms including Calpine Corporation, Bank of America, Salomon Brothers, and Bechtel.

Varvara Alva

BenchPrep [CHICAGO] announced the appointment of Varvara Alva as its Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Alva was the Vice President, Treasurer, Head of Investor Relations at Gogo and helped lead its IPO in 2013. Prior to Gogo, Alva played a significant role with eCollege.

EyePoint Pharmaceuticals, Inc. [WATERTOWN, MA] (NASDAQ: EYPT) announced the appointment of George O. Elston as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Corporate Development. Elston most recently served as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Corporate Development at Enzyvant Therapeutics. He previously was President and Chief Executive Officer at 2X Oncology, Inc. He has also held senior executive roles at Juniper Pharmaceuticals, Inc. KBI Biopharma and Optherion, Inc. Elston began his career in public accounting at PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

CytoDyn Inc. [VANCOUVER, WA] (OTC.QB: CYDY) announced the appointment of Craig S. Eastwood as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). He joined CytoDyn in April 2019, and previously served as its Vice President and Controller. Michael Mulholland, the Company’s previous CFO, will remain at CytoDyn and will report to Eastwood in a newly created role of Senior Vice President of Finance. Prior to joining CytoDyn, Eastwood was a CFO for two publicly traded startup companies. He started his career as an auditor at Deloitte. His experience includes over three years at PPD, a formerly publicly traded global Contract Research Organization, where he served as Director of Accounting and later led the Investor Relations function.

Pfenex, Inc. [SAN DIEGO] Pfenex Inc. (NYSE American: PFNX) announced that Susan Knudson has resigned for personal reasons from her role as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, but will continue to support the company by providing transition services until February 1, 2020.

CPI Aerostructures, Inc. [EDGEWOOD, NY] (NYSE American: CVU) announced the appointment of Dan Azmon as Chief Financial Officer effective November 18, 2019, replacing Vincent Palazzolo, who has left the Company. Most recently, Azmon served as vice president, controller, and principal accounting officer of L3 Technologies, Inc. until the merger between L3 and Harris Corporation, now L3Harris Technologies, Inc.  Before joining L-3 in 2000, Azmon held a number of financial management and financial reporting positions at ASARCO Incorporated and Salomon Brothers, Inc., and was a manager in the audit practice at Coopers & Lybrand LLP.

Midland States Bancorp, Inc. [EFFINGHAM, IL] (NASDAQ: MSBI) announced that Eric T. Lemke has been appointed Chief Financial Officer of the Company and Midland States Bank, its wholly-owned subsidiary. Lemke joined Midland in 2018 as Director of Assurance and Audit. Immediately prior to joining Midland he was the Chief Financial Officer of Metropolitan Capital Bancorp, Inc. and Metropolitan Capital Bank & Trust, located in Chicago, Illinois. Prior to that he was a partner in the Financial Services Practice of RSM US LLP, having first joined RSM in 1993.

Health Insurance Innovations, Inc. [TAMPA, FL] (NASDAQ: HIIQ) announced the planned transition from Michael Hershberger as Chief Financial Officer to Erik Helding.  Hershberger will continue to be employed with HIIQ until December 31, 2019 to assist with the transition.  Helding is now Chief Financial Officer. Helding was most recently the Chief Financial Officer at CNO Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CNO). Prior to that, he served in various financial leadership positions at CNO. He joined CNO in 2004 as Director of Finance for Bankers Life and Colonial Penn. Prior to joining CNO, Mr. Helding held finance positions with GE Capital from 1999-2004.

NBT Bancorp Inc. [NORWICH, NY] (NBT) (NASDAQ: NBTB) announced that John V. Moran has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining NBT, he was Senior Vice President and Director of Corporate Development & Strategy for Old National Bancorp. He was previously employed by Macquarie Securities from 2010 to 2017 and, prior to that, by Cohen & Company and Ryan Beck & Co. Moran is succeeding Michael J. Chewens, who is retiring following a successful 25-year career with the company. Chewens will continue to be employed by NBT through March 31, 2020 and will assist with the transition.

EVO Payments, Inc. [ATLANTA] (NASDAQ: EVOP) announced that Tom Panther has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Panther joins EVO after working for over 19 years at SunTrust Banks, Inc. where he served in numerous leadership roles including Chief Accounting Officer, Corporate Controller, Director of Corporate Finance, and Head of Capital Planning & Analysis.

Suuchi Inc. [CARLSTADT, NEW JERSEY] announced the appointment of Mark Herman as the company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Most recently, Herman served as Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer & Secretary at Folio Dynamics Inc. Before that, Mr. Herman worked to scale companies across technology, product development, and SaaS software industries at companies such as Ringleader Digital Inc., mFormation Technologies, Inc., and PWC.

Rick Hasselman

Podium [LEHI, UT] announced the appointment of Rick Hasselman as Podium’s first Chief Financial Officer. Hasselman most recently served as VP of Finance and Operations for Sumo Logic. Prior to Sumo Logic, he served in several roles at Google including leading large acquisitions and divestitures and working with CapitalG, Google’s growth equity investment arm. Before Google, Hasselman was a director at PwC.

Laurie Doran

Health Alliance Plan [DETROIT] named Laurie Doran senior vice president and chief financial officer. During her career, she served as chief financial officer and chief customer officer of BMC HealthNet Plan. She also spent 12 years at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care in Massachusetts, where she led a variety of finance teams including medical economics, actuarial systems, reporting and analysis.  Earlier in her career, she held positions at the Department of Veterans Affairs/ Veterans Health Administration, Group Health Incorporated, The Bristol Group, Inc. and Massachusetts General Hospital.

First Choice Bancorp [CERRITOS, CA] (Nasdaq Capital Markets: FCBP) announced that Lynn M. Hopkins, Chief Financial Officer, has resigned from the Company and First Choice Bank in order to accept a position with another financial institution based in California. The Company also announced that Diana Hanson, Chief Accounting Officer for the Company and First Choice Bank, has been promoted to interim Chief Financial Officer. Hanson has over 25 years of experience in corporate accounting for the financial services industry, including as the SVP/Director of Accounting Policy at Pacific Western Bank, and has served as First Choice’s Chief Accounting Officer since 2019.

Workhorse Group Inc. [CINCINNATI] (NASDAQ: WKHS) announced that Paul Gaitan has stepped down from his position as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Company. In the interim Workhorse Controller Greg Ackerson has assumed operating responsibilities of the CFO on an interim basis.

Mesirow Financial [CHICAGO] announced that Natalie Brown has been named Chief Financial Officer. Natalie also serves on the firm’s Board of Directors. Natalie joins Mesirow from Nuveen where she served as Managing Director, Head of Nuveen Advisory Services Finance. Prior, she worked at Kraft Foods and KPMG in accounting and finance roles.

Office Depot, Inc. [BOCA RATON, FL] (NASDAQ: ODP) announced that Joseph T. Lower, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, is leaving the company, effective January 10, 2020, to assume the role of chief financial officer at AutoNation, Inc.

John Kimble

JAKKS Pacific, Inc.  [SANTA MONICA, CA] (NASDAQ: JAKK) announced the appointment of John Kimble as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Kimble worked for over 12 years in various VP / leadership positions at The Walt Disney Company covering Finance, Strategy, Operations, and Business Development. More recently, Kimble spent six years at Mattel, Inc. where he held several positions, including Vice President & Head of Corporate Development, Licensing Acquisitions, M&A. In between his service at Disney and Mattel, John spent a couple of years as an entrepreneur at a start-up gaming company. He began his career as a consultant for Mars & Co.

Middlefield Banc Corp. [MIDDLEFIELD, OH] (NASDAQ: MBCN), the holding company of The Middlefield Banking Company, announced that Michael C. Ranttila has been named Senior Vice President/Chief Financial Officer of The Middlefield Banking Company. Ranttila has served as Senior Vice President of Finance of the Bank since October, 2017. Ranttila replaces Donald L. Stacy as Chief Financial Officer of the Bank. Mr. Stacy will continue to serve as Executive Vice President and Treasurer of the Bank, as well as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer of MBCN. Ranttila first joined the Bank as Controller, in March 2011 and has extensive experience in financial reporting. Ranttila previously worked for Crowe as an auditor of community banks.

Bill Koefoed

OneStream Software [ROCHESTER, MI] appointed Bill Koefoed its new Chief Financial Officer. Before joining OneStream, Koefoed was the CFO for online retailer Blue Nile and prior to that a partner and the CFO for BCG Digital Ventures – part of The Boston Consulting Group. He also served as CFO for Puppet Inc. He was the CFO of Microsoft’s Skype Division and before that, the general manager for investor relations at Microsoft. He is currently a board member and the audit committee chair for Bank OZK.

Civeo Corporation [HOUSTON & CALGARY] (NYSE: CVEO) today announced that Carolyn J. Stone, currently the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer, has been appointed to the position of Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Civeo. Frank C. Steininger will remain with Civeo until his retirement in March 2020. Prior to joining Civeo, Stone served as the CFO of Synagro Technologies Inc. Prior to Synagro, Ms. Stone served in multiple roles at Dynegy Inc., including Chief Accounting Officer and Treasurer. She started her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where she worked in the firm’s audit practice.

Computer Services, Inc. (CSI) [PADUCAH, KY] (OTCQX: CSVI) announced that Brian K. Brown has been appointed the Company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer. Brown previously served as Senior Vice President of Finance at CSI. He replaces Andras Q. Bende who announced plans to pursue other career opportunities. Before joining CSI, Brown served as Vice President, Finance & Accounting Manager for FCB Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Farmers Capital Bank Corp. He previously served as an internal auditor for Farmers Capital Bank and a Financial Institutions Examiner for the Kentucky Department of Financial Institutions.

MercuryGate® International, Inc. [CARY, NC] announced that Mark Huebeler will join the company as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Most recently he was Vice President of Finance at Valassis Digital. Prior to that he worked in LexisNexis’s Legal Software Solutions division as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and then as CFO and Chief Operations Officer (COO). Earlier in his career, Huebeler held progressively responsible positions in accounting and finance operations at Red Hat, Nortel Networks and Constellation Energy. He began his career as an Auditor at Deloitte.

Gina Mastantuono

ServiceNow [SANTA CLARA, CA] (NYSE: NOW) announced that Gina Mastantuono will join ServiceNow as Chief Financial Officer, effective January 13, 2020. Mastantuono joins the company from Ingram Micro, where she served as Chief Financial Officer. Since 2016, she has served as CFO of Ingram Micro. Prior to Ingram Micro, Mastantuono was Revlon’s SVP, chief accounting officer, controller and international CFO from 2007 to 2013. Mastantuono also held various executive finance roles at InterActiveCorp., and Triarc Companies, Inc. She began her career at Ernst & Young in the entrepreneurial services group.

Cutera, Inc. [BRISBANE, CA] (NASDAQ: CUTR) announced the appointment of Fuad Ahmad to the role of Interim Chief Financial Officer. Ahmad is a partner at FLG Partners.

AVITA Medical [VALENCIA, California] (ASX: AVH, NASDAQ: RCEL) announced the appointment of David McIntyre as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Interim CFO Tim Rooney will continue in his role as AVITA Medical’s Chief Administrative Officer. Most recently, McIntyre served as a Partner with Apple Tree Partners (ATP). At ATP Mr. McIntyre was responsible for ATP’s medical device portfolio, together with various operating and Board functions, including acting as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Head of Technical Operations at Braeburn, Inc. Prior to ATP, Mr. McIntyre was Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at HeartWare® International, Inc. Prior to HeartWare, Mr. McIntyre practiced as a senior attorney in private practice specializing in corporate, mergers and acquisitions and equity capital markets with Baker & McKenzie and KPMG as well as holding various senior financial roles in multi-national companies, including within the Rio Tinto Group of companies.

Jim Hinson

1955 Capital [SAN MATEO, Calif.] announced that Jim Hinson joined as Chief Financial Officer. Jim Hinson is currently the Venture Capital Practice Lead at Greenough Consulting Group (GCG), and a consulting CFO for several firms, including 1955 Capital. Prior to GCG, Hinson was the COO of Rogers Venture Partners. Before that, he led the financing and accounting teams at Tenaya Capital, Lehman Brothers, and APV Technology Partners. In addition, Hinson served on the board of eight portfolio companies.

Marco Vanderlaan

The Doctors Company [NAPA, Calif.] announced the promotion of Marco Vanderlaan to chief financial officer (CFO) and chief risk officer. Vanderlaan has held a variety of senior leadership positions with The Doctors Company for 18 years, most recently serving as senior vice president, business assessment, a role he has held since 2010. He has also held executive positions in finance, reinsurance, and strategic planning. Vanderlaan succeeds David Preimesberger, who assumes new roles as senior vice president for strategic planning and chief ethics officer. Prior to his service with The Doctors Company, Vanderlaan was vice president of finance for Move.com (now Move, Inc.) and a senior manager with Deloitte & Touche (now Deloitte).

Trimble [SUNNYVALE, CA] (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced that David G. Barnes will be joining Trimble on December 2, 2019 and will serve as its chief financial officer (CFO) effective January 4, 2020. Barnes served as CFO at MWH Global Inc. Following the sale of MWH to Stantec Inc., Barnes assumed operational responsibility for Stantec’s businesses outside North America. Prior to being CFO at MWH, Barnes held financial leadership positions at Western Union, Coors, and YUM Brands. He began his career as a strategy consultant at Bain & Company.

Algolia [SAN FRANCISCO] announced that appointment of Iain Hassall as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to joining Algolia as CFO, Hassall spent nine years at Zuora, where he held several roles including VP of Finance and Head of Sales Operations and Strategy. Hassall also spent 15 years with KPMG’s audit and assurance practice, in both the U.S. and Australia.

Kyle Bunstein

Reiter Affiliated Companies [OXNARD, CA] announced the appointment of Kyle Bunstein as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Bunstein most recently served as the Vice President, Treasurer.

TalentGuard [AUSTIN, TEXAS] announced that Pete Pearson has joined as Chief Financial Officer. Previously he was Director of the Startup Services Division at Bridgepoint Consulting. Pearson brings 20+ years of varied experience in financial management, business leadership and corporate strategy. 

AutoNation, Inc. [FORT LAUDERDALE, FL] (NYSE: AN) announced that Joseph Lower, has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective January 13, 2020. Most recently, Mr. Lower served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Office Depot, Inc. Prior to joining Office Depot, Mr. Lower served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at B/E Aerospace, Inc. He held a number of management level positions at The Boeing Company, including Vice President – Business Development and Strategy and also served in numerous positions of increasing seniority within the investment banking industry.

Blackhawk Bancorp, Inc. [BELOIT, WI] (OTCQX: BHWB) announced that Matthew McDonnell has been named Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Blackhawk Bancorp, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Blackhawk Bank. McDonnell began his career in public accounting, working for Grant Thornton, LLP. He was most recently with a larger regional bank where he held various positions in finance and operations.

Kevan Krysler

Pure Storage [MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.] (NYSE: PSTG) announced that Kevan Krysler will join the company as CFO in early December. Krysler joins Pure from VMware, where he has served as Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Accounting Officer. Prior to VMware, he was a partner with KPMG.

SharpSpring, Inc. [GAINESVILLE, FL] (NASDAQ: SHSP) announced that Brad Stanczak will step down from his position as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Company, effective December 2, 2019, and will be replaced by Michael Power. Prior to his appointment, Power was Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer for ConnectWise. Prior to that, Power served as Vice President and Controller for CHUBB, formerly ACE Limited.

Entera Bio Ltd. [BOSTON AND JERUSALEM] (NASDAQ: ENTX) announced that it has established a U.S. Headquarters in the Boston area and has hired Jonathan Lieber as its U.S.-based CFO. Lieber currently serves as a managing director of Danforth Advisors, and most recently served as CFO of Histogenics (NASDAQ: HSGX). He additionally held the roles of CFO for Metamark Genetics and CFO and Treasurer of Repligen.  Previously, Jon was an investment banker for ten years at Cowen and Salomon Brothers.

Mercurys Coffee Co. [BELLEVUE, Washington] announced the appointment of Richard Sariraksa as Chief Financial Officer. In the past, he has served as Chief Financial Officer for several companies in the Seattle area; most recently as Director of Operations and CFO for KGF Holdings.

Ken Stelzer

Button [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Ken Stelzer as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Ken was the Chief Financial Officer of Zocdoc, prior to which he served as CFO of Bankrate and Integreon.

PatientPop [SANTA MONICA, CA] announced Nick Bellomo as Chief Financial Officer. Bellomo previously served as Chief Financial Officer at AOL and most recently at Tastemade.

Motion Recruitment Partners [BOSTON] announced that it has hired Brad Page as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Motion Recruitment Partners, Page was with Randstad USA where he spent the last 22 years leading the finance function beginning with IT staffing company, Vedior, before ultimately being acquired by Randstad where he last held the position of Senior Vice President of Finance.

Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. [BOSTON] announced that Daniel Cunha has joined the farmer-owned cooperative as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Cunha joins Ocean Spray from Tangram Partners where he was a Co-Founder. Prior to co-founding Tangram, Cunha was CFO of two businesses at Kraft Heinz (i.e., CFO of Heinz North America prior to Kraft’s acquisition, and later CFO of Beverages and Snack Nuts BU after Kraft’s acquisition). Before joining Kraft Heinz, Cunha worked at GP Investments and McKinsey and Company.

Jarrod Yahes

Shutterstock, Inc. [NEW YORK] (NYSE: SSTK) announced Jarrod Yahes is joining the Company as Chief Financial Officer, effective December 9th, 2019. Since October 2016, Yahes has served as the Chief Financial Officer at Zeta Global. Previously, he was the Chief Financial Officer at Jackson Hewitt, and he has served in multiple capacities at ExlService Holdings, where he advanced to Senior Vice President, Controller. Earlier, Yahes worked at Citi in the Global Technology Investment Banking group and started his career with Ernst & Young LLP.

Luna Innovations Incorporated [ROANOKE, VA] (NASDAQ: LUNA) announced that Gene Nestro will join the company effective December 2, 2019 and will be named as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Nestro will succeed current CFO Dale Messick, who has agreed to assist the company through mid-2020 to ensure a smooth transition. Nestro comes to Luna from Cree, Inc., where he held the position of Vice President, Corporate Finance. Prior to Cree, Mr. Nestro worked in senior finance positions at TE Connectivity, Arthur Anderson, LLP and Ernst & Young, LLP.

Intersect ENT, Inc. [MENLO PARK, CA] (NASDAQ: XENT) announced the appointment of Richard A. (Randy) Meier as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Meier previously served as the Chief Financial Officer and senior executive of Owens & Minor, Inc., including as President-International and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Owens & Minor from 2013 to 2018, and as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 2013 to 2015. Prior to joining Owens and Minor, Meier served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Teleflex, Inc., from 2010 to 2012. He served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Advanced Medical Optics, Inc., from 2007 to 2009, when the company was acquired as a wholly owned subsidiary of Abbott Laboratories. Meier joined Advanced Medical Optics, as Corporate Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 2002 and continuously served as Chief Financial Officer while simultaneously performing in a variety of finance and operations roles between 2002 and 2007. Meier also worked for ICN Pharmaceuticals Inc., now Bausch Health, from 1998 to 2002, where he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and as Treasurer. Meier serves on the board of BioMarin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., where he is Lead Independent Director.

Grid Dynamics International, Inc. [SAN RAMON, CA] announced the appointment of Anil Doradla as Chief Financial Officer. Doradla most recently served as Chief Financial Officer of Airgain, Inc., from February 2018 until November 2019. Prior to Airgain, Doradla was an equity research analyst at William Blair from June 2008 through January 2018. Prior to William Blair, Doradla held a range of senior finance, strategy and technology roles with Caris and Company, Deutsche Bank AG, AT&T Labs, and LCC International.

Hostess Brands, Inc. [KANSAS CITY, MO] (NASDAQ: TWNK, TWNKW) announced that Tom Peterson, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, transitioning to the newly created role of Executive Vice President, Strategy and M&A. Brian Purcell will join the Company as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. These changes are effective January 6, 2020. Most recently Purcell served as Chief Financial Officer of Rawlings Sporting Goods. Prior to this, for nearly ten years, Mr. Purcell held both field and corporate senior and executive finance leadership roles at PepsiCo across multiple segments of its businesses, culminating in a Regional Chief Financial Officer position for a multi-billion dollar business in North America. Earlier in his career, Mr. Purcell worked in finance at Argosy Gaming Company.

Airgain, Inc. [SAN DIEGO, None] (NASDAQ: AIRG) announced that Anil Doradla, Chief Financial Officer, left the company to pursue other opportunities.

HanesBrands [WINSTON-SALEM, NC] (NYSE:HBI) announced that Chief Financial Officer Barry A. Hytinen has notified the company of his decision to leave Hanes to accept another career opportunity outside of the apparel industry. Hytinen will continue to serve as Hanes chief financial officer until the end of the fiscal year, Dec. 28, 2019.

Peter Zarrella

Segra [CHARLOTTE, NC] announced that Peter Zarrella has joined the company and will serve as its Chief Financial Officer. Zarrella served as Senior Vice President at Lightower Networks and most recently as Vice President of Finance – Fiber for Crown Castle’s Fiber Division. In addition, Peter has served in accounting and finance roles at Honeywell and Serono Laboratories.

Axcella Health [CAMBRIDGE, MA] (NASDAQ: AXLA) announced that it has appointed Laurent Chardonnet as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Chardonnet joins the company following a 15-year tenure at Incyte Corporation. While at Incyte, Chardonnet served as Vice President, Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer as well as the Head of Finance and Administration for the company’s European division. Most recently he was Incyte’s Vice President of Alliances. Prior to Incyte, Chardonnet served as Controller, Vice President of Finance and acting Chief Financial Officer of DrugAbuse Sciences, and as a senior consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He began his career working within the finance organizations at Guerbet Biomedical and Sanofi-Aventis.

Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. [SYRACUSE, NY] (NASDAQ: TAST) announced that it has appointed Anthony “Tony” E. Hull as the Company’s Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer effective January 2, 2020. Tim LaLonde will continue serving as our Interim CFO until January 2, 2020 when Tony will start as CFO and will serve in a transitionary role for a period of time after January 2, 2020. Hull most recently served a Senior Advisor on corporate strategy and capital markets projects at Realogy Holdings Corp. and previously was the company’s Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer from 2006 to 2018.  Previously, Hull served as Executive Vice President, Finance at Cendant Corporation from 2003 to 2005. Earlier in his career, Hull was Head of Finance, Accounting and IT at DreamWorks, LLC from 1996 to 2003; Chief Financial Officer at King World Productions, Inc. from 1994 to 1995; and Corporate Vice President, Financial Planning at Paramount Communications, Inc. from 1990 to 1994. He began his career at Morgan Stanley & Co. in the mergers and acquisitions department, where he served as Associate and later Vice President from 1984 to 1990. Hull currently sits on the Board of Directors for Landis Technologies.

Carolina Dybeck Happa

GE [BOSTON] (NYSE:GE) announced that Carolina Dybeck Happe, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of A.P. Moller-Maersk, has been named Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of GE, effective in early 2020. Dybeck Happe spent 16 years at Assa Abloy, including seven as CFO. She also serves on the Boards of Directors of E.ON and Schneider Electric.

Fuling Global Inc. [WENLING, China and ALLENTOWN, PA] (NASDAQ: FORK) announced that Gilbert Lee has relinquished his position as Chief Financial Officer and will remain with Fuling Global as a consultant. Mr. Lee had been CFO since before the Company’s initial public offering in 2015. The Company also announced it has named Meihong Pan as Fuling Global’s interim CFO.

Owl Labs [BOSTON] announced that John Stevens has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to joining Owl Labs, Stevens held the roles of Head of Finance at Skycatch, Consulting CFO at Brenner Group and CFO at BitYota Inc. Stevens held a nearly 15-year tenure at Yahoo! as VP of Price and Yield Management and Finance Operations.

Iron Mountain Incorporated [BOSTON] (NYSE: IRM) announced that Barry A. Hytinen has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective January 1, 2020. Hytinen will succeed Stuart Brown, who will be stepping down from the CFO role on December 31, 2019 to pursue other interests. Hytinen has served as HanesBrands’ Chief Financial Officer since October 2017. Prior to joining HanesBrands, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Tempur Sealy International, Inc. He also served in a range of finance, corporate development, financial planning and investor relations roles at Tempur Sealy, including Corporate Development and Finance. Before joining Tempur Sealy, Hytinen served as Chief Financial Officer of Fogbreak Software. Earlier in his career, he held finance and corporate development positions at Vignette and General Electric Company.

DASAN Zhone Solutions, Inc. [OAKLAND, CA] (NASDAQ: DZSI) announced that Tom Cancro has been appointed to the position of Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. He recently served as Controller of GE Research, General Electric’s technology research and IP-licensing business unit.  Prior roles include executive positions at Verizon, including Chief Financial Officer of Verizon’s joint venture with AT&T and Deutsche Telekom, and an executive role in Verizon’s Treasury organization. Tom also served as Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller of GFI Group, Inc., and as Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller of MasTec, Inc.

ReneSola Ltd. [STAMFORD, CT] (NYSE: SOL) announced that Mr. Ke Chen was appointed to serve as Chief Financial Officer. Chen will continue to serve on the Company’s Board of Directors. Mr. Xiaoliang Liang, who had served as Chief Financial Officer since June 2018, left ReneSola to pursue other opportunities. Chen He has over 13 years of experience in the global capital markets, including investing in solar industry in China. Prior to joining Shah Capital, Ke worked in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, and was an inventor that holds four patents.

Penumbra, Inc. [ALAMEDA, CA] (NYSE: PEN) announced the appointment of Maggie Yuen as CFO of Penumbra. Lambert Shiu, who joined Penumbra in 2015 prior to the company’s IPO and most recently served as VP of Finance, will be promoted to chief accounting officer. Most recently, Yuen was at Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. serving as Vice President, Finance of the Genetic Science Division. Prior to Thermo Fisher, Yuen held leadership positions with increasing responsibility at Mirion Technologies, and senior finance roles at Boston Scientific, Glu Mobile, and Johnson & Johnson.

CentralSquare Technologies [LAKE MARY, FL] announced the appointment of Todd Dooley as chief financial officer. Dooley joins CentralSquare from BDP International, where he served as CFO. Prior to BDP, Dooley held a leadership role at H&R Block. Additional leadership roles include senior vice president at Ceridian, and ultimately became division CFO for the U.S. business; senior finance manager at IBM; and earlier at 3M where he held roles in audit and accounting.

Taro Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. [HAWTHORNE, NY] (NYSE: TARO) announced that it has accepted the resignation of its Chief Financial Officer, Mariano Balaguer, effective January 3, 2020.

Paul Parrish

Secureworks [ATLANTA] (NASDAQ: SCWX) announced the appointment of Paul Parrish as its new Chief Financial Officer. Parrish joins Secureworks from CIOX Health LLC, where he served as CFO. Parrish succeeds Wayne Jackson who has served as CFO of Secureworks for more than four years. Jackson’s planned move was announced in March, and he will stay on to assist in the transition through the end of the company’s fiscal year 2020. Before joining CIOX, he was CFO of Brightree LLC, and he was previously CFO of S1 Corporation.

Avalara, Inc. [SEATTLE] (NYSE: AVLR) announced that its chief financial officer (CFO), Bill Ingram, will retire March 31, 2020, and he will join the Board of Directors. Ingram will be succeeded as CFO by Ross Tennenbaum, Avalara’s executive vice president of strategic initiatives. Tennenbaum’s experience was built over a 10-year investment banking career at Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse, including working with Avalara for more than five years and leading its IPO in 2018.

KKR & Co. Inc. [NEW YORK] (NYSE: KKR) announced that Robert H. Lewin will be appointed Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), effective January 1, 2020. Lewin will succeed William (“Bill”) J. Janetschek who will be retiring from KKR at the end of the year. Since joining KKR in 2004, Lewin has held a number of positions. These include as an investor in private equity, helping launch KKR’s Asia business, co-leading the firm’s credit and capital markets businesses, and serving as Treasurer and Head of Corporate Development with oversight of KKR’s balance sheet. For the last two years, Lewin served as Head of Human Capital & Strategic Talent. Prior to joining KKR, Lewin was at Bear Stearns & Company. Lewin currently serves on the board of Answer the Call.

Alation Inc. [REDWOOD CITY, CA] announced the appointment of Eric Chan as Chief Financial Officer. Chan brings more than two decades of senior financial leadership to the company, having served as CFO at Optymyze, Formation Data Systems and Syncplicity by EMC, where he was responsible for the spinout to Skyview Capital. Prior to Syncplicity by EMC, Eric has also held various leadership positions at SuccessFactors and VMware. The CFO role at Alation had previously been held by Max Ochoa, who will continue as the company’s General Counsel.

EpicentRx, Inc. [LA JOLLA, CA] announced the appointment of Franck Brinkhaus, Ph.D., as Chief Financial Officer. Dr. Brinkhaus is CEO & Founder of Biotech Alliances International, Inc. Previously, Dr. Brinkhaus was Managing Director of Woodside Capital Partners.

Flowserve Corporation [DALLAS] (NYSE: FLS) announced that John E. (Jay) Roueche, III, Flowserve’s vice president, treasurer and investor relations, assumed the role of interim chief financial officer. Roueche’s appointment follows Lee S. Eckert’s departure from Flowserve as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Roueche has served as vice president, treasurer and investor relations, since October 2012. In addition, he served as Flowserve’s interim chief financial officer from February 2017 to October 2017. Prior to joining Flowserve, Roueche served in progressive accounting and finance roles with a variety of multinational companies.

Iteris, Inc. [SANTA ANA, CA] (NASDAQ: ITI) announced that Douglas L. Groves joined the company as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Most recently, Groves served as vice president, CFO and treasurer of Ducommun, Inc., having joined the company in January 2013. Through December 2012, Mr. Groves held the position of corporate vice president and chief information officer at Beckman Coulter, following a series of financial roles at the company beginning in January 1998. Prior to joining Beckman Coulter, Groves was corporate controller of a privately held civil engineering firm, and senior auditor and consultant at Deloitte & Touche. Groves will replace Andy Schmidt, whom Iteris has appointed as a senior advisor.

Repare Therapeutics [CAMBRIDGE, MA and MONTREAL, QUEBEC] announced that Steve Forte is appointed as Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer. Forte was CFO of Clementia Pharmaceuticals until its recent sale to Ipsen. His experience includes nearly a decade at Aptalis Pharma Inc., where he was responsible for the overall corporate controllership function. Prior to Clementia, Steve was CFO of Thinking Capital Financial Corporation.

Builders Insurance Group [ATLANTA] announced the appointment of Ellen G. Smith to the role of Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Smith was currently serving as Director of Financial Planning and Analysis with Builders. Smith served as interim CFO over the last eight months. Smith joined Builders in 2010 as Financial Reporting Manager before assuming her most current position as Director of Financial Planning and Analysis. Prior to joining Builders, Smith served as Audit Manager within the Insurance Practice at KPMG.

Venture Metals International [DALLAS] announced that it has appointed Michael (“Mike”) Ramirez as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to Venture Metals, Ramirez was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Strategic Materials, Inc. Before that, Ramirez was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of PSC, LLC.

Precision Optics Corporation [GARDNER, MA] (OTCQB: PEYE) announced the promotion of Daniel Habhegger to Chief Financial Officer. Habhegger initially joined Precision Optics in September 2019 as Director of Finance. Habhegger will succeed Don Major. Habhegger has held positions of Accounting Supervisor, Controller, Director of Financial Planning & Analysis and CFO for various companies including, SmartBear Software, AgaMatrix, Inc., and Weather Services International (an IBM Business).

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts [PARSIPPANY, NJ] (NYSE: WH) announced that David B. Wyshner has decided to step down as Chief Financial Officer, and move into a senior advisory role until March 1, 2020. The Company announced the promotion of its Treasurer and Executive Vice President, Michele Allen, to succeed Wyshner as CFO. Allen, who began her career at Deloitte & Touche, is a 20-year veteran of Wyndham Hotels, Wyndham Worldwide and Cendant Corporation – having been the global Senior Vice President of Finance and Controller for the former Wyndham Hotel Group, and Senior Vice President of Finance for Wyndham Worldwide.

America First Multifamily Investors, L.P. [OMAHA, NE] (NASDAQ: ATAX) announced that Craig S. Allen informed of his intent to retire and leave the Partnership in his capacity as its Chief Financial Officer on December 31, 2019. The Partnership appointed Jesse A. Coury, the Partnership’s current Corporate Controller, to serve as the Partnership’s interim Chief Financial Officer, effective on January 1, 2020. Coury has served as the Partnership’s Corporate Controller since 2017.

Hi-Crush Inc. [HOUSTON] (NYSE: HCR) announced that Laura C. Fulton, Chief Financial Officer, will resign as Chief Financial Officer and principal financial and accounting officer of the Company effective December 31, 2019. Phil McCormick, Vice President of Finance has been appointed by the Board of Directors to the role of Chief Financial Officer and principal financial and accounting officer effective January 1, 2020. McCormick joined Hi-Crush in August 2018. Prior to joining Hi-Crush, McCormick served in various senior level positions at KBR, Inc. from 2009 to 2018, including Vice President of Finance and Treasurer. Prior to that, he -held various senior level roles at LyondellBasell from 1998 to 2009, including Director, Internal Controls. McCormick began his career as an Audit Manager at Coopers & Lybrand in 1990.

Innovative Cellular Therapeutics (ICT) [ROCKVILLE, MD] announced the appointment of Morten Marott, who joined ICT as Chief Financial Officer in July 2019. Before joining ICT, Marott was Chief Financial Officer of Veloxis Pharmaceuticals A/S. Previously, Marott was a senior investment banker in the Healthcare Investment Banking Group at Deutsche Bank in New York. Prior to this, he was with the Healthcare Investment Banking Groups of RBC Capital Markets and Citigroup.

Terry Murphy

Kenna Security [SAN FRANCISCO, CA] named Terry Murphy as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Murphy was CFO of WhiteHat Security. He also led Finance at WhiteHat, Luminate, and GoBeam.

RAPT Therapeutics, Inc. [SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA] (NASDAQ: RAPT) announced the appointment of Rodney Young as chief financial officer. Most recently, he served as chief financial officer of Cellerant Therapeutics, Inc. Previously, he served as chief financial officer and vice president of finance and administration of StemCells, Inc. Earlier in his career, he was an investment banker at Lehman Brothers and SG Cowen.

Andrew Lacko

ClubCorp Holdings Inc. [DALLAS] announced the appointment of Andrew Lacko as Chief Financial Officer. Lacko joins ClubCorp from Regis Corporation where he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since July 2017. Before joining Regis Corporation, Lacko served as Sr. Vice President of Global Financial Planning and Analysis and Corporate Development at Hertz Global Holdings. Prior to Hertz Global Holdings, Lacko held positions of increasing Financial Planning and Analysis, Corporate Development and Investor Relations responsibilities at First Data Corp., Best Buy, UnitedHealth Group and Northwest Airlines.

AlgoSec [RIDGEFIELD PARK, NJ] announced the appointment of Ilan Erez as Chief Financial Officer and General Manager. Most recently, he served as GM of 3D Systems’ software business unit. Prior to that, he spent a decade with Cimatron Ltd. as CFO and VP Operations before their acquisition by 3D Systems. Earlier in his career, he was CFO and VP Operations of Silicom Ltd., a controller of Biodar Ltd. and auditor for Kesselman & Kesselman (a member of PwC).

Aspen Group Inc. [NEW YORK] (NASDAQ: ASPU) announced that it has named Frank J. Cotroneo Chief Financial Officer. Cotroneo has been a Board member of Aspen Group since 2018 and served as Chair of its Audit Committee. Cotroneo previously served as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Netspend (currently a subsidiary of Global Payments Inc.), as well as Chief Financial Officer of Acxiom Corporation (currently LiveRamp Holdings, Inc.), H&R Block, and MasterCard International Inc.

Reed’s Inc. [NORWALK, CT] (NASDAQ: REED) announced the appointment of Thomas J. Spisak as Chief Financial Officer. Spisak held numerous positions in multiple divisions of Diageo, most recently serving as Vice President of Finance and Controller of North America. Previously, he held positions of Vice President of Commercial Finance, Director of Business Performance and Senior Finance Director of Marketing and Innovation Decision Support, as well as other roles in finance. Prior to Diageo, Spisak served at International Masters Publishers, Inc. Joann Tinnelly, who served as Interim Chief Financial Officer during the transition, will resume her role as Vice President and Corporate Controller of Reed’s Inc. and take on an expanded role in Finance and Corporate Strategy reporting directly to the CFO.

Greg Wookey

Boulevard [LOS ANGELES] announced the appointment of Greg Wookey as the company’s first Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Boulevard, he served as the CFO for Inbenta. Before Inbenta, he spent nearly seven years at MINDBODY, Inc., where he served as the CFO and SVP of Merchant Processing Division.

LYNKD [MOUNT LAUREL, NJ] named Bob Daglian as Chief Financial Officer. Daglian began his career with Holman Enterprises, more than 35 years ago and has held a wide-range of financial and accounting positions across the organization’s various subsidiaries including ARI and Auto Truck Group. Daglian joins LYNKD from Flexdrive, a joint venture between Holman Enterprises and Cox Automotive, where he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

Expedia Group [SEATTLE] (NASDAQ: EXPE) announced the resignation of Alan Pickerill as CFO. Eric Hart, the Company’s Chief Strategy Officer, will serve as acting CFO.

Capstone Turbine Corporation [VAN NUYS, CA] (NASDAQ: CPST) announced the appointment of Frederick (Eric) Hencken III, the Company’s current Interim Chief Financial Officer, to the position of Chief Financial Officer, effective as of January 1, 2020. Hencken will continue to serve as the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer, and principal financial officer and principal accounting officer of the Company. Hencken was appointed to Interim Chief Financial Officer of Capstone effective October 1, 2019. Mr. Hencken has served as the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer since April 2019 and served as the Company’s Controller from October 2017 to April 2019. Prior to joining the Company, Hencken held various roles in Finance and Accounting with InnoVista Sensors, previously Custom Sensors and Technologies, Inc., from 2012 to 2017. While employed at InnoVista Sensors, Mr. Hencken’s various roles included the Director of Financial Planning and Analysis, International Controller, and Director of Finance and Administration, North America. Prior to InnoVista Sensors, Hencken served as the Manager of Financial Reporting from 2008 to 2011 and Director of Financial Reporting in 2012, for THQ Inc. Prior to THQ Inc., Hencken was employed by McGladrey, LLP, from 2001 to 2008.

Aparna Ramesh

The Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (Farmer Mac) [WASHINGTON] (NYSE: AGM) announced the selection of Aparna Ramesh as its Executive Vice President – Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, starting January 6, 2020. Ramesh joins Farmer Mac with over two decades of financial experience, most recently with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where she served in increasingly complex and senior finance roles culminating in her appointment as Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining the Boston Fed, Ms. Ramesh spent ten years in commercial banking at M&T Bank and Cambridge Savings Bank in roles spanning product management, asset-liability management, and profitability.

SparkCognition [AUSTIN, TX] announced that Jeffrey R. Lass has joined the company’s executive team as Chief Financial Officer. Lass has over 25 years of leadership experience in finance and operations with companies including GE Oil and Gas, Dover Corporation, Dresser, Inc., Pavilion Technologies, Trilogy Software, and PwC.

Matt Bates

Zenoss Inc. [AUSTIN, Texas] announced Matthew Bates as the company’s new chief financial officer. Prior to joining Zenoss, Bates spent more than 17 years at Rackspace. Most recently, he served as chief operating officer (Americas). Prior to Rackspace, Bates was an investment banker in North America and Asia for Deutsche Bank.

Origin USA [FARMINGTON, ME] announced that Don Miller has been appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Miller joins Origin USA after having served a nine-year tenure with BackOffice Associates (now “Syniti”), where he served in multiple leadership positions of increasing responsibility, including Controller, Director of Financial Operations, and Vice President of Corporate Planning and Analysis. Don also recently served as Interim CFO with Glivinski & Associates. Prior to BackOffice Associates, Don was an integral member of the financial and operational leadership teams at TDS Telecom, and GTE Corporation, where he held multiple positions of increasing responsibility in Finance, Treasury, Accounting, and Internal Audit.

N2 Biomedical [BEDFORD, MA] announced the appointment of Heidi DeGrazia to the role of Chief Financial Officer. DeGrazia has worked extensively in both the healthcare and manufacturing industries, including financial leadership positions at Avantor, Integra Companies, and Access TCA.

Berlin Packaging L.L.C. [CHICAGO] announced Amath Fall has joined as Chief Financial Officer. Fall most recently acted as the CFO for FleetPride. Prior to FleetPride, he served as CFO for several distribution companies including Ryan Herco Flow Solutions and Performance Team.

Africa Asset Finance Company [NEW YORK and DUBAI, United Arab Emirates and ADDIS ABBABA, Ethiopia] announced the appointment of Christine D. Gagnon as Chief Financial Officer. Previously, Gagnon served as a Director at Ernst & Young LLP in various leadership roles, including CFO and COO of EMEIA Financial Crime and COO of Financial Services Africa. She also held leadership positions at OneWest Bank, N.A., serving as First Vice President in the Offices of the CEO and Vice Chairman, and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, as a Senior Manager.

Jerash Holdings (US), Inc. [ROCHESTER, NY] (NASDAQ: JRSH) announced the appointment of Gilbert K. Lee as Chief Financial Officer. Lee previously served as the Chief Financial Officer of Fuling Global Inc., from August 2015 until November 2019. Previously, from August 2011 through May 2015, Lee served Tanke Biosciences Corporation, first as its U.S.-based Chief Financial Officer and then as its Vice President of Business Development. He has also served as Director of Finance at Two’s Company, and as Director of Finance and Marketing at Essilor of America. Early in his career, Lee served as a Plant Controller for a roofing materials manufacturer.

James (Jim) H. Welch

Cognoa [PALO ALTO, CA] announced that James (Jim) H. Welch has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Welch comes to Cognoa from Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, where he served as CFO. Prior to Eiger Pharmaceuticals, Welch was CFO at AcelRx. He also worked at Rigel Pharmaceuticals.

Harborside Inc. [OAKLAND, CA and TORONTO, Ontario] (CSE: HBOR) announced that it has appointed Tom DiGiovanni as Chief Financial Officer. Keith Li will remain with the Company as the Vice President of Finance. DiGiovanni most recently was a founding partner and the CFO at Canndescent.  Prior to joining Canndescent, DiGiovanni served in multiple executive roles in finance and operations, including as CFO of Mainstream Energy.

Computer Services, Inc. (CSI) [PADUCAH, KY] (OTCQX: CSVI) announced that Brian K. Brown has been appointed the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. Brown previously served as interim CFO. Brown joined CSI in 2012 and was previously Senior Vice President of Finance and most recently interim Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining CSI, Mr. Brown served as Vice President, Finance & Accounting Manager for FCB Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Farmers Capital Bank Corp. He previously served as an internal auditor for Farmers Capital Bank and a Financial Institutions Examiner for the Kentucky Department of Financial Institutions.

Horizon Global Corporation [TROY, MI] (NYSE: HZN) announced that it appointed Richard J. Jok as interim Chief Financial Officer. Jok replaces outgoing Chief Financial Officer Jamie G. Pierson, who stepped down from the role. Jok has served as the Company’s Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis, since August 2019. Prior to joining the Company, Jok served as the Chief Financial Officer of OE Automotive Group, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Crowne Group, LLC, from March 2016 to February 2018. In February 2018, Crowne Group spun off OE Automotive Group, LLC to form Vari-Form Group, LLC. Jok served as Chief Financial Officer of Vari-Form from February 2018 to May 2018. Previously, Jok was employed by Nexteer Automotive Corporation in positions of increasing responsibility from January 2003 to January 2015, ultimately serving as its Chief Financial Officer, Saginaw Division, from March 2011 to January 2015.

Community Health Systems, Inc. [FRANKLIN, TN] (NYSE: CYH) announced that Thomas J. Aaron, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will retire from his executive management position on December 31, 2019. Aaron joined Community Health Systems in November 2016 as Senior Vice President of Finance and has served as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer since May 2017. Kevin Hammons, who currently serves as Senior Vice President, Assistant Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, will be appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer immediately following Aaron’s retirement, effective January 1, 2020. Hammons joined Community Health Systems in 1997 and has held numerous financial leadership roles during his more than 20-year tenure. Hammons was appointed Assistant Chief Financial Officer in 2017 and has served as the Company’s Treasurer since 2018. He has also previously served as the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer. Prior to joining Community Health Systems, Hammons served for ten years in various positions in the Assurance and Advisory Services practice at Ernst & Young.

Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc. [LOS ANGELES] (NYSE: HPP) announced the promotion of Mark Lammas, who most recently served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, and Harout Diramerian is being promoted from Chief Accounting Officer to Chief Financial Officer. Lammas has held a variety of leadership positions at Hudson Pacific since its initial public offering in 2010, including Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. He also consulted for the company’s predecessor, Hudson Capital, LLC. Prior to that, Lammas was a senior finance executive for Maguire Properties, Inc. and an attorney for Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP. Diramerian has been with Hudson Pacific since 2010, most recently serving as Chief Accounting Officer. Prior to joining Hudson Pacific, Diramerian was a vice president of finance and analysis at Thomas Properties Group and worked in the real estate practice groups at Nanas, Stern, Biers, Neinstein and Co. LLP, Arthur Andersen LLP and KPMG LLP.

Nordson Corporation [WESTLAKE, OH] (NASDAQ: NDSN) announced that Gregory A. Thaxton, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, plans to retire in 2020 after thirty successful years with the company, with the last 12 years as CFO.

Aina Konold

Nautilus, Inc. [VANCOUVER, WA] (NYSE: NLS) announced that Aina Konold has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Previously, Konold held several executive level finance positions during her 20-year career with Gap, Inc. including senior leadership roles across financial planning and analysis, real estate strategy, and investor relations. Most recently, she was the founding CFO for Gap Inc. in China.

Fortive Corporation NewCo [EVERETT, WA] (NYSE: FTV) announced the appointment David H. Naemura as Chief Financial Officer of NewCo, a global industrial company that Fortive previously announced it will form as part of its planned separation into two independent, publicly traded companies. Naemura will assume their respective roles with NewCo in the first quarter of 2020. Fortive continues to expect to complete the separation in the second half of 2020. Naemura joins NewCo from Gates Industrial Corporation, where he has served as CFO for five years. Prior to his time at Gates, Naemura held numerous financial leadership positions at Danaher Corporation, including VP of Finance and Group CFO overseeing many of the businesses within the NewCo portfolio.

Schlumberger Limited [HOUSTON] (NYSE: SLB) announced that Simon Ayat, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will step down from this position effective January 22, 2020. Ayat, who joined the Company in 1982, will remain with Schlumberger as Senior Strategic Advisor to the Company’s Chief Executive Officer for a period of two years. Ayat will be replaced by Stephane Biguet as the Company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. In a 24-year career with Schlumberger, Biguet has held senior positions in finance and operations at the field and headquarters levels. Prior to his current assignment he held the position of Vice President, Finance of Schlumberger Limited.

Standard Solar, Inc. [ROCKVILLE, MD] announced the promotion of Dan Dobbs to chief financial officer. Dobbs moves into the CFO role from Executive Vice President, Structured Finance. He joined the organization in December 2018, coming to Standard Solar from SunEdison and Solar Grid Storage.

Ian Halifax

Riverbed [SAN FRANCISCO] announced that Ian Halifax has been appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Halifax most recently served as CFO at ON24, He also held public company CFO roles at: Macrovision (now TiVo); Micromuse (acquired by IBM); Wind River Systems; and at Tintri. Halifax has held private company CFO roles at Host Analytics and Grass Valley. In the early part of his career, he held finance positions at Sun Microsystems and KPMG. Halifax also spent time at IBM following its acquisition of Micromuse, and at Intel following its acquisition of Wind River Systems.

Earnin [PALO ALTO, CA] announced that Sean Delehanty has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Delehanty comes to Earnin from Symantec where he was Senior Vice President of Finance. Prior to that, he was a 13-year veteran of Silver Lake.

Annaly Capital Management, Inc. [NEW YORK] (NYSE: NLY) announced that it has appointed Serena Wolfe as Chief Financial Officer. The Company also announced that Glenn Votek, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and interim Chief Executive Officer and President, has stepped down from his role as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Votek will continue to serve as interim Chief Executive Officer and President and as a member of the Company’s Board of Directors. Wolfe most recently served as a Partner at Ernst & Young (“EY”) since 2011 and as its Central Region Real Estate Hospitality & Construction (“RHC”) leader from 2017 to November 2019. Wolfe was previously also EY’s Global RHC Assurance Leader.

Evaluate Ltd. [LONDON & BOSTON & TOKYO] announced the appointment of Martyn Hindley as Chief Financial Officer. Hindley succeeds Nick Southwell, who joined Evaluate as Interim CFO in December 2016, prior to being appointed as CFO in September 2017. Hindley most recently served as CFO of Global Reach Group, and also held executive roles at Equiniti Group Ltd., Quadriga Worldwide Ltd, Aquascutum and Emap International Ltd.

Nilanshu Raja

Super [SAN FRANCISCO, CA] announced the appointment of Nilanshu Raja as Chief Financial Officer. Previously, Raja served as the SVP Finance & Operations at Kidaptive. He has spent more than 15 years in global finance and operations across early stage and FORTUNE 100 companies, including Microsoft. He was also founder of MediCorp, a healthcare startup that was later acquired.

Alert Logic [HOUSTON] announced that Amanda Nevins has joined as Chief Financial Officer.

DHI Group, Inc. [NEW YORK] (NYSE: DHX) announced that Kevin Bostick has joined as Chief Financial Officer. Bostick most recently served as partner and CFO of Level 5 Capital Partners. Bostick has a long career of serving as Chief Financial Officer for a number of companies in Denver including 365 Data Centers (where he was also president), Elevation DC, Local Insight Media and New Global Telecom. The Company also announced Luc Grégoire, who has served as CFO since November 2016, is leaving the Company by mutual agreement. Mr. Grégoire will continue to be employed by the Company in an advisory capacity during the transition through February 2020.

William Atkins

One Concern [MENLO PARK, CA] has hired William Atkins as Chief Financial Officer. Atkins served as CFO at a number of successful technology companies – including companies with public listings as well as those backed by venture capital and private equity interests. Atkins previously worked at Morgan Stanley for nearly a decade and held several leadership roles there, including serving as deputy head of investment banking in Tokyo.

Northwest Biotherapeutics (NW Bio) [BETHESDA, MD] (OTCQB: NWBO) announced the addition of Jean M. Davis as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer, and interim Chief Information Officer. Ms. Davis comes to NW Bio from BDO USA LLP, where she was a Risk Advisory Senior Manager.

Tom Fitzgerald

Planet Fitness, Inc. [HAMPTON, NH] (NYSE: PLNT) announced that Tom Fitzgerald has been appointed Chief Financial Officer, joining the company in January. Fitzgerald will succeed Dorvin Lively who has served as Planet Fitness’ Chief Financial Officer since July 2013, and was promoted to Chief Financial Officer and President in April 2017. Lively will be continuing in his role as President. Prior to joining Planet Fitness, Fitzgerald was Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President at Potbelly Sandwich Works. Prior to Potbelly, he served in varying leadership roles at Charming Charlie Inc. including President and Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Administrative Officer. Previously, Fitzgerald served as Chief Administrative Officer of Sears Canada. Additionally, he held several leadership positions at Liz Claiborne, was Chief Financial Officer at Burlington Coat Factory, and served as Chief Operating Officer of Bath & Body Works. Fitzgerald began his career at PepsiCo, where he held various leadership roles in finance and planning.

Stanadyne LLC [WINDSOR, CT] announced that Costas Loukellis has been appointed Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He replaces Stephen Langin, Chief Financial Officer, who retired from the company on December 1. Loukellis most recently served as Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis at Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies (UTC) where he spent 38 years prior to retiring in January 2019. Loukellis served in a number of global financial executive roles during his career at UTC including Vice President, Operations Finance and CFO of Aerospace Power Systems, both at Hamilton Sundstrand, and Operations Finance Director at Carrier.

Waud Capital Partners [CHICAGO] announced Shay Gonen as Chief Financial Officer. Gonen was previously with Intralinks, and previously served as CFO/COO of ClickSoftware.

Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. [BETHESDA, MD] (NYSE: HST) announced that Michael D. Bluhm, the Company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will step down at the end of 2019 to resume his career in investment banking as Managing Director and Global Head of Lodging for Morgan Stanley, based in Los Angeles. Brian G. Macnamara, Host’s Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller, will serve as principal financial officer on an interim basis, effective January 1, 2020.

Potbelly Corporation [CHICAGO] (NASDAQ: PBPB) announced that Tom Fitzgerald is stepping down from his position to accept a senior leadership position with another company. Fitzgerald will continue in his current position as Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) until December 27, 2019 to ensure a smooth transition.

Admera Health, LLC [SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ] welcomed Omar Karame as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Admera Health, Karame was CFO of an energy technology company in addition to heading M&A activities for several different businesses, including a Fortune 500, NYSE listed contractor, an NYSE listed healthcare company and a $1.4 billion industrial holding company. In addition, Mr. Karame spent several years in private equity, venture capital, and investment banking.

PeerStream, Inc. [NEW YORK, NY] (OTCQB: PEER) announced the appointment of Kara Jenny as Chief Financial Officer. Alexander Harrington has been serving as the Company’s Principal Financial Officer since May 2019, in addition to his responsibilities as Chief Executive Officer. Jenny served as a financial consultant to the Company since May 2019. Most recently, and since 2014, Jenny was Chief Financial Officer of Walker Innovation.  Previously, she was the Chief Financial Officer of Bluefly, Inc. Ms. Jenny began her career at Arthur Andersen LLP.

Replimune Group Inc. [WOBURN, MA] (NASDAQ: REPL) announced the appointment of Jean M. Franchi as Chief Financial Officer. Franchi spent 16 years at Genzyme, and spent her final eight years at Genzyme as the Senior Vice President of Finance for all nine business units and then Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance working alongside the Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Ms. Franchi served as the Chief Financial Officer for Merrimack Pharmaceuticals.

Garth Hankinson

Constellation Brands, Inc. [VICTOR, N.Y.] (NYSE: STZ and STZ.B) announced that Garth Hankinson has been promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective January 13, 2020. Hankinson succeeds David Klein, who will leave his role with Constellation Brands on January 13 to become Chief Executive Officer at Canopy Growth, which is anticipated to be effective January 14. Hankinson joined Constellation Brands in 2001. In his most current role, he serves as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development. Prior to joining Constellation Brands, Hankinson served in a number of roles spanning more than eight years in strategy and finance at Xerox and Citi.

Fourth Enterprises, LLC, parent company of HotSchedules [AUSTIN, TX and LONDON] announced the appointment of John Whitmarsh as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining the team, Whitmarsh served as the CFO of Vyze, which was recently acquired by MasterCard. Previously, Whitmarsh was the CFO for Zenoss Inc. He also held CFO roles at Century Payments (Worldpay), Misys Transactions Services (Allscripts), Digital Motorworks (ADP) and MessageOne (Dell).

Eastman Chemical Company [KINGSPORT, TN] (NYSE: EMN) announced that, after nearly 25 years of service, Curtis E. Espeland, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will be succeeded on Feb. 28, 2020 by current Vice President, Finance William T. McLain, Jr. Espeland will continue to serve as Executive Vice President to assist the Executive Team with finance organization transition, corporate strategy, and portfolio optimization until his retirement in mid-2020. McLain joined Eastman in 2000. Most recently, McLain has served as Vice President, Finance. He has previously served as Corporate Controller; Treasurer; and Director, Finance for Asia Pacific. Prior to Eastman, McLain worked for public accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Gates Industrial Corporation plc [DENVER] (NYSE: GTES) announced that David Naemura, Chief Financial Officer, will depart the company effective January 31st, 2020. Mr. Naemura is leaving to become the CFO of a new company to be formed by Fortive in association with its planned separation into two independent publicly traded companies. David Wisniewski, Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer, will assume the responsibility of interim CFO while the company conducts its search for a new CFO. Wisniewski joined Gates in April of 2018 and is well qualified to serve in this interim role. Prior to joining Gates, he held roles of increasing responsibility in the finance and accounting functions at General Motors Company, most recently as Global Business Services CFO, and was previously a partner at Ernst & Young.

Iota Communications, Inc. [ALLENTOWN, PA] (OTCQB: IOTC) announced the appointment of Jim Dullinger as Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”). Prior to joining Iota, Dullinger served as Director of Finance and Accounting Advisory Services at Centri Business Consulting. Dullinger began his career in public accounting with 10 years of combined experience at KPMG and PwC.

National CineMedia, Inc. [CENTENNIAL, CO] (NASDAQ: NCMI) announced that Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Katie Scherping is retiring as of March 12, 2020.

E-Scape Bio, Inc. [SAN FRANCISCO] announced the appointment of Tony Rimac as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Rimac joins E-Scape Bio from Chrono Therapeutics Inc., where he served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Business Officer. Prior to Chrono, he also served as CFO of Aldea Pharmaceuticals, Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Aerovance, Inc.

Apogee Enterprises, Inc. [MINNEAPOLIS] (NASDAQ: APOG) announced the planned retirement of James S. Porter, the company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

STAAR Surgical Company [LAKE FOREST, CA] (NASDAQ: STAA) announced that Chief Financial Officer Deborah Andrews plans to retire from the company in 2020.

Doug Allen

Green Rabbit [BRAINTREE, MA] announced the appointment of Doug Allen as chief financial officer. Allen has served as the chief financial officer at companies, including SmartPak Equine, LLC and KUIU, LLC. Previously, he held several senior financial and operations roles at companies such as Granite Telecommunications, Outpost International, LLC, True Partners, LLC and J. Jill.

Don Newman

Allegheny Technologies Incorporated [PITTSBURGH] (NYSE: ATI) announced that effective January 6, 2020, Don P. Newman will join ATI as Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer. He succeeds Pat DeCourcy, who will remain as Senior Vice President and Special Advisor to the CEO until his previously announced retirement on March 31, 2020. Most recently, Newman was Chief Financial Officer at Stelco Holdings Inc. Prior to Stelco, Newman served for six years as Chief Financial Officer of Headwaters Inc. In previous roles, Newman served as Vice President – Controller and Interim Chief Financial Officer at Boart Longyear Limited, and Chief Accounting Officer at ACI Worldwide. At NRG Energy, Inc., Newman held leadership roles in accounting and finance over 12 years. Newman began his career as an auditor at Deloitte LLP.

Sterling Trading Tech [CHICAGO] announced the appointment of Ben Mathews as the company’s new Chief Financial Officer. Mathews most recently was a Controller for a global workplace efficiency training solutions firm.

Roku, Inc. [LOS GATOS, CA] (NASDAQ: ROKU) announced that Chief Financial Officer Steve Louden plans to step down.

Aaron Akerman

Immersion Corporation [SAN JOSE, CA] (NASDAQ: IMMR) announced the appointment of Aaron Akerman as the company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO). He will begin his employment on January 13, 2020. Akerman joins Immersion from Hypertec Group, where he was its CFO. Earlier in his career, Aaron was the CFO of Lasik MD Group and the VP of Finance for OZ Communications.

Covetrus [PORTLAND, ME] (NASDAQ: CVET) announced that Stuart B. Gleichenhaus has been named interim chief financial officer. Christine T. Komola has departed as the company’s executive vice president and chief financial officer. Gleichenhaus most recently served as senior managing director in the Office of the CFO Solutions practice at FTI Consulting and led the Merger Integration & Carve-outs practice.

TCF Financial Corporation [DETROIT] (NASDAQ: TCF) announced that Dennis Klaeser will step down from his role as chief financial officer on October 1, 2020. At that time, Brian Maass, deputy chief financial officer and treasurer, will assume the role of chief financial officer. Maass assumed the role of executive vice president, deputy CFO and treasurer at TCF following the closing of the merger of equals on August 1, 2019. Prior to the merger, he served TCF as its CFO for nearly four years, and treasurer and chief investment officer for three years. Maass previously held leadership roles at Wells Fargo and Crowe LLP.

Zentalis Pharmaceuticals [NEW YORK & SAN DIEGO] announced the appointment of Melissa Epperly as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Epperly most recently served as CFO at PsiOxus Therapeutics, and prior to that, CFO and Head of Business Development at R-Pharm US. Previously, Melissa was a Director at Anchorage Capital Group; a Vice President at Goldman Sachs in equity research in New York and London; and a management consultant with Bain & Company. She began her career at Morgan Stanley in New York in healthcare investment banking.

BGC Partners, Inc. [NEW YORK] (NASDAQ: BGCP) has named Steven Bisgay as Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), effective January 1, 2020. He will replace Sean A. Windeatt, who was Interim CFO. Windeatt will remain in his role as Chief Operating Officer (“COO”) of BGC. Since 2015, Bisgay was CFO of Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. Prior to his time at Cantor, Bisgay was CFO at KCG Holdings, Inc. and prior to that, he served as CFO and COO, Head of Business Development, Group Controller, and Director of Internal Audit at Knight Capital Group, Inc. Mr. Bisgay was previously a Senior Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP.

Insteel Industries, Inc. [MOUNT AIRY, NC] (NASDAQGS: IIIN) announced that Michael C. Gazmarian, Insteel’s Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, will be leaving the Company to pursue other opportunities.

MSC Industrial Supply Co. [MELVILLE, NY] (NYSE: MSM) announced that Rustom Jilla, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, has decided to step down from his position with MSC effective January 17, 2020 to become chief financial officer of a public global manufacturing company. Greg Clark, the Company’s Vice President of Finance and Corporate Controller, will assume the position of Interim CFO effective following Jilla’s departure. Clark has held various finance positions with the Company since 2003.

C.A. Fortune [CHICAGO] announced Dave Cox as Chief Financial Officer. Cox has 20 years of experience in corporate finance and is joining C.A. Fortune after 15 years working with CareerBuilder, most recently as Vice President of Global Financial Planning and Analysis.

Chris Ricuarte

VillageMD [CHICAGO] announced it hired Chris Ricaurte as chief financial officer (CFO). Ricaurte has more than 20 years of senior executive finance experience and previously served in financial and operational roles at General Electric, Applied Materials and Nortel Networks. Most recently, Ricaurte was the CFO of R1. VillageMD’s current CFO, Ross Levine, will become the company’s chief strategy officer.

Libbey Inc. [TOLEDO, OH] (NYSE American: LBY) announced the appointment of Juan Amezquita as the Company’s senior vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer, effective January 13, 2020. Amezquita will succeed James C. Burmeister, who has served as Libbey’s CFO since March 2017. Burmeister will remain at Libbey and will continue to serve as senior vice president, chief operating officer. Amezquita joins Libbey from Owens-Illinois, where he has served as vice president of strategy and integration since April 2019. Amezquita previously held roles of increasing responsibility in O-I’s finance and treasury functions, beginning in 2005 as Colombia treasurer and culminating in his roles as vice president and treasurer from 2012 to 2015 and vice president of finance and corporate controller from 2016 to April 2019. Amezquita’s earlier experience includes serving as chief financial officer for companies in the business services and health care industries in Colombia, as well as working as an IT system analyst.

Cars.com Inc. [CHICAGO] (NYSE: CARS) announced the resignation of Becky Sheehan, Chief Financial Officer, effective Jan. 10, 2020. Becky has served as CFO of CARS since January 2017. The Company has appointed Jandy Tomy, Vice President of Treasury and Investor Relations, to serve as interim CFO. Jandy has been at CARS since March 2017 and has more than 20 years of public company experience in various financial and accounting roles.

NexTier Oilfield Solutions [HOUSTON] (NYSE: NEX) announced that Kenneth Pucheu, previously Vice President of Finance, has been promoted to Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Pucheu succeeds Jan Kees van Gaalen, who is leaving the Company to pursue other opportunities. Pucheu served as Vice President of Finance at Keane Group Inc. since 2016 and NexTier since October 2019, following the merger of Keane and C&J Energy Services, Inc. Previously, he worked at Schlumberger Limited for fifteen years in various senior-level positions, including Head of Finance for Drilling and Measurements, and Director of Finance for North America Offshore.

Nicholas W. Alexos

Univar Solutions Inc. [DOWNERS GROVE, IL] (NYSE: UNVR) announced the appointment of Nicholas W. Alexos as executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective January 6, 2020.  Nick will succeed Carl J. Lukach who will transition into the role of executive vice president of corporate development. Alexos joins Univar Solutions after serving as executive vice president, chief financial officer and chief administrative officer at Dentsply Sirona, Inc. Previously he served as a managing director of Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC.

Oconee State Bank [WATKINSVILLE, GA] (OTCQX: OSBK) announced the addition of Jim McLemore as its new Chief Financial Officer. McLemore most recently was CEO of MidSouth Bank. Prior to MidSouth, he was the CFO of Security Bank. Earlier in his career, McLemore also served as CFO for the The Independent Bankers Bank and IberiaBank, as a staff accountant for the Securities and Exchange Commission and as an audit manager at Mauldin & Jenkins.

Abed Abdo

ALSAC [MEMPHIS, Tenn.] the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, announced that Abed Abdo has joined its team as chief financial officer. Abed was previously the vice president of finance, Americas, at ConvaTec. Prior to that he spent 19 years with Abbott Laboratories, in leadership positions of increasing responsibility where he led the global finance function as division controller of Abbott Molecular Diagnostics and served as area finance director of Latin America for Abbott Nutrition.

RGC Resources Inc. [ROANOKE, VA] (NASDAQ: RGCO) announced Randall “Randy” Burton will join the company effective January 16, 2020 and will be appointed Vice-President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary. In his previous role as a partner at Brown, Edwards and Company, L.L.P., Burton, served both public and private companies in all areas of assurance and advisory responsibilities. Prior to joining Brown Edwards, Burton was a partner at Cherry Bekaert LLP and a Senior Manager at KPMG. Prior to his extensive public accounting tenure, Burton held several key positions at Advance Auto Parts, Inc. after beginning his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Freshpet, Inc. [SECAUCUS, NJ] (NASDAQ: FRPT) announced that Dick Kassar, Freshpet’s CFO, will transition into the newly created advisory role of Vice Chairman, effective September 30, 2020. In support of this planned CFO transition, Freshpet also announced today the appointment of Heather Pomerantz, currently Vice President of Finance, North America for The Nature’s Bounty Company, to the newly created role of Executive Vice President of Finance, effective January 13, 2020, transitioning into the role of CFO, effective October 1, 2020. Prior to Mrs. Pomerantz’s role at The Nature’s Bounty Company, she had a lengthy career at Unilever and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Her roles at Unilever included oversight and leadership of many key finance and operations responsibilities, including sales and marketing finance, financial services, controller, supply chain finance and information technology.  At PriceWaterhouseCoopers she was a consultant responsible for ERP implementations.

Jerome Rouquet

Visteon Corporation [VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, MI] (NASDAQ: VC) announced that Jerome Rouquet has been appointed senior vice president, finance, effective Jan. 21, 2020. Rouquet will become Visteon’s chief financial officer following the filing of the company’s fiscal 2019 financial statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission, replacing William R. Robertson, who has served as interim CFO since Nov. 1, 2019. Rouquet had a 23-year career at Federal-Mogul, where he served as vice president, chief accounting officer and controller from July 2010 to January 2016, and senior vice president and chief financial officer from January 2016 to September 2018. Following the acquisition of Federal-Mogul by Tenneco Inc., Rouquet most recently served as senior vice president, finance, Motorparts, for Tenneco, from October 2018 to December 2019.

Schmitt Industries, Inc. [PORTLAND, OR] (NASDAQ: SMIT) announced that Regina Walker has tendered her resignation as Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective January 15, 2020.

Aurora Spine Corporation [CARLSBAD, CA] (TSX-V: ASG) announced the appointment of Jana F. Kiena as their Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Kiena began her career with Arthur Anderson and has managed accounting operations in large, mid-sized and start-up companies, both publicly traded and private. Former CFO Sarina Mason resigned from the Company to pursue other opportunities.

Lantern Pharma [DALLAS AND KEARNY, NJ] announced the appointment of David Margrave as Chief Financial Officer. Margrave joins Lantern after having served at BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Margrave served in various positions during his time at BioNumerik, including as President, Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel.

Vishal Chhibbar

Epiq [NEW YORK] announced that Vishal Chhibbar has joined Epiq as president and chief financial officer. Chhibbar most recently served for 10 years as the executive vice president and chief financial officer for EXL Services. Prior to his role at EXL, Chhibbar has served in numerous leadership roles across the financial sector, including at GE Capital, American Express Bank, and Xerox and has directed initiatives in Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, and India.

WidePoint Corporation [FAIRFAX, VA] (NYSE American: WYY) appointed Kellie Kim as the company’s new Chief Financial Officer (CFO).  Kim has served in a range of senior finance roles throughout her career, including as CFO of Witt O’Brien’s, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Seacor Holdings, CFO of Opus Group, and CFO of Astrium Services Government, a subsidiary of Airbus Defence and Space.

Emerald Scientific, LLC [SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA] announced the appointment of its new Chief Financial Officer, Leigh White. White spent 14 years as a Silicon Valley venture capital investor, starting as a partner with Sunrise Capital, and later leading her own venture lending fund, Contare Ventures. In 2010, White acquired a scientific consulting firm, Alertness Solutions, and served as President until negotiating the 2015 sale of the company to CurAegis Technologies. White then served as Executive Vice President of Business Development for CurAegis until 2018.

Amerisure Mutual Insurance Company [FARMINGTON HILLS, MI] announced its new chief financial officer (CFO) and treasurer, Chris Spaude. Spaude previously served Amerisure as the vice president of finance since 2017. Prior to that, Spaude held numerous other roles in Amerisure’s financial services department including: director of financial planning & analysis and treasury; manager of financial planning & analysis; senior financial analyst; and budget analyst.

Iterable [SAN FRANCISCO] announced that Will Johnson has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Johnson held leadership positions at Workday, DemandTec, GuideSpark and others.

Stonebranch Inc. [ATLANTA] announced the promotion of Felix Lademacher to Chief Financial Officer. Prior to his appointment as Chief Financial Officer, he led finance, legal and HR for Stonebranch’s EMEA region. His experience includes progressive roles in both M&A advisory and the corporate finance industry.

Ed Bass

Equitus Corporation [CLEARWATER, FL] announced the appointment of Ed Bass as President and Chief Financial Officer. Bass joins Equitus from Xerox, where he was President of Xerox Business Solutions (XBS), the largest and most successful subsidiary of Xerox. Ed has held several other leadership positions within XBS, including General Manager and CFO. During his career, Ed has also held leadership positions within CP Ships and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Freddie Mac [McLean, VA] announced that James G. Mackey, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, notified the company that he is stepping down from his position. Donald Kish, Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer, will serve as interim Chief Financial Officer, in addition to his current role. Kish has served as Freddie Mac’s Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer since May 2018. Previously, he served as Vice President, Single-Family Controller, from 2014 to 2018 and as Vice President with responsibility for various accounting and control matters, in support of both the Single-Family Business Division and the Investments and Capital Markets Division, from 2004 to 2014. He joined Freddie Mac in April 2002.

Workhorse Group Inc. [CINCINNATI] (NASDAQ: WKHS) appointed Steve Schrader as the company’s new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to his appointment, Schrader was CFO of Fuyao Glass America. He was also CFO of Oncology Hematology Care (OHC). He started his career working for utilities that are now part of Duke Energy. His last position there was Vice President and CFO of Cinergy’s Regulated Business prior to Duke’s acquisition in 2006.

Laboratory for Advanced Medicine [IRVINE, CA] announced the appointment of Aarif Nakhooda as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Nakhooda led the launch of Amazon retail in Singapore where he was CFO of the business, as well as a member of Amazon Asia Pacific’s Board of Directors. He spent 7 years at Amazon in several leadership roles, including head of finance for Amazon worldwide transportation and worldwide Prime reporting to the CFO. Prior to that, Nakhooda held leadership and strategy roles at EY and at various PE portfolio companies.

Aileron Therapeutics, Inc. [WATERTOWN, MA] (NASDAQ: ALRN) announced the promotion of Richard J. Wanstall to Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Wanstall has served as the Company’s Vice President of Finance and Operations and principal accounting officer since 2018. Prior to joining the Aileron team in 2018, Wanstall served as Vice President of Finance at Moderna Therapeutics, Inc.  Prior to Moderna, Wanstall served as Senior Vice President of Global Finance at Stream Global Services, Inc., from 2010 until 2014.  Previously, Wanstall also served in management roles in finance, accounting and SEC reporting for several technology and financial services companies.  Wanstall began his career at Coopers & Lybrand, LLC.

Brooke Beers

Medical Marijuana, Inc. [SAN DIEGO] (OTC: MJNA) announced that it has promoted its VP of Corporate Finance, Brooke Beers, to Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Beers was hired by Medical Marijuana, Inc. in 2017.

EXL [NEW YORK] (NASDAQ: EXLS) announced that Pavan Bagai, who has served as the Company’s President and Chief Operating Officer since 2012, has been appointed Interim Chief Financial Officer. Bagai assumes the Chief Financial Officer role from Vishal Chhibbar.

Mindshare [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Will Graves as Chief Financial Officer for North America. Graves joins Mindshare from Dentsu Aegis Network, where he served as EVP, leading their Commercial Finance team across the U.S. Prior to that, he was the Chief Financial Officer for Vizeum, and before that, he served as SVP of Finance at IPG’s Initiative Media.  Graves replaces Joe Scangamor, who was Mindshare’s CFO for North America until being promoted to serve as GroupM North America’s CFO in September.

Unilog [WAYNE, PA] announced that it has appointed Hari Gopal as the company’s new CFO. Gopal will succeed Raghavendra GS, who has assumed responsibility as Managing Director over all India-based operations for Unilog. Before joining Unilog, Gopal was the Controller of Hay Group (US), which was acquired by Korn Ferry in 2015. Prior to Hay Group, Hari served in controller positions at Mettler Toledo, and FMC Corporation.

EQT Corporation [PITTSBURGH] (NYSE: EQT) announced it appointed David Khani as chief financial officer. Kyle Derham, who has been serving as the company’s interim chief financial officer, will remain with EQT in an executive advisory role to ensure a smooth transition and assist in the execution of EQT’s strategic initiatives before returning to his role as Partner of Rice Investment Group. Khani joins EQT from CONSOL Energy Inc., where he has been executive vice president and chief financial officer since 2013. In addition, Mr. Khani served as a director and chief financial officer of CNX Midstream Partners from its initial public offering in September 2014 until January 2018. Khani also served as vice president of finance of CONSOL Energy Inc. from 2011 until he was named chief financial officer in 2013. Prior to 2011, Khani spent nearly 20 years covering Energy and Natural Resource companies for several investment banks, the last 13 years at FBR Capital Markets.

TransEnterix, Inc. [RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC] (NYSE American: TRXC) announced that Brett Farabaugh has joined as interim Chief Financial Officer, replacing Joe Slattery who retired December 31, 2019, as previously announced. Farabaugh has served as CFO of Tryton Medical, Inc., since August 2008, and as CEO of Tryton Medical since August 2019. Prior to Tryton Medical, Farabaugh served as CFO of Strikeiron, Inc., from 2006-2008, as Vice President of Finance for Icoria, Inc. (formerly Paradigm Genetics, Inc.), from 2004-2006. Farabaugh also held various roles at Nuada Pharmaceuticals and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

Community Health Systems, Inc. [FRANKLIN, TN] (NYSE: CYH) announced that Kevin Hammons has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Hammons joined Community Health Systems in 1997 and has held numerous financial leadership roles during his more than 20-year tenure. Most recently, he has served as Senior Vice President, Assistant Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Hammons succeeds Thomas J. Aaron, who served as the Company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from May 2017 through his retirement on December 31, 2019.

NuVasive, Inc. [SAN DIEGO] (NASDAQ: NUVA) announced the appointment of Matthew K. Harbaugh as executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO). Harbaugh succeeds Rajesh (Raj) J. Asarpota, who will transition from the Company. Most recently, Harbaugh served as president of the specialty generics business at Mallinckrodt plc. Prior to that, he was Mallinckrodt’s CFO for more than five years. Harbaugh previously held a variety of financial management positions at Covidien Pharmaceuticals, which was spun-off from Covidien plc as Mallinckrodt plc in July 2013. Harbaugh joined Covidien in 2007 and served in several finance and leadership roles, including as CFO and interim president of Covidien Pharmaceuticals. Harbaugh’s prior experience includes nearly 10 years at Monsanto Company, where he held various roles in investor relations and finance as well as two ex-patriate positions.

Aridis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. [SAN JOSE, CA] (NASDAQ: ARDS) announced the appointment of Michael A. Nazak as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Nazak, who joined Aridis in November 2018, has been serving as Vice President, Finance and replaces Fred Kurland who has chosen to retire but will continue to support the Company as a consultant. Prior to joining Aridis, he served as Senior Vice President, Finance at Coherus Biosciences, Inc. Previously he was the Senior Director of Finance & Accounting at InteKrin Therapeutics Inc. Prior to that, Nazak served as the Corporate Controller for Reliant Technologies, Inc., and as a Senior Director of Finance & Corporate Controller at Connetics Corporation. Nazak also held Corporate Controller and other finance and accounting positions at Cygnus Solutions (a Red Hat company), and MIPS Computer Systems, and was previously an auditor with Coopers & Lybrand LLP.

Mission Valley Bancorp [SUN VALLEY, CA] (OTCQX: MVLY), the holding company of Mission Valley Bank, announced the appointment of Jeffrey M. Watson as Chief Financial Officer of Mission Valley Bancorp and Mission Valley Bank. Watson succeeds Diane Auten who resigned from the Company and the Bank. Watson will serve in this new role in addition to his current capacity as Chief Operating Officer of Mission Valley Bank.

Michael C. Greiner

Avanos Medical, Inc. [ALPHARETTA, Ga.] (NYSE: AVNS) announced the appointment of Michael C. Greiner as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Greiner most recently served as executive vice president and CFO for AngioDynamics, Inc. Prior to that, Greiner was the CFO at Extreme Reach, Inc.

ION Geophysical Corporation [HOUSTON] (NYSE: IO) announced that Steve Bate, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will be retiring and stepping down from his position as CFO effective February 1, 2020. Bate, who joined ION in 2005, will remain with ION as a Strategic Advisor to the CEO until the end of June to facilitate a seamless transition. Bate will be succeeded by Mike Morrison as the Company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Interim). In his 17-year tenure with ION, Morrison was mostly recently as Vice President of Finance and Treasurer.

Nielsen [NEW YORK] (NYSE: NLSN) announced that Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer David J. Anderson has resigned.

The First of Long Island Corporation [GLEN HEAD, NY] (NASDAQ: FLIC) announced that Jay P. McConie has been promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of The First of Long Island Corporation and The First National Bank of Long Island. McConie has been employed as Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of the Bank since 2015. Prior to that time, McConie served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Community National Bank from 2007 to 2015. McConie began his career at KPMG LLP in their Financial Services Group.

Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. [CAMBRIDGE, MA] (NASDAQ: MNTA) announced that it has appointed Young Kwon, Momenta’s Chief Business Officer, to the position of Chief Financial and Business Officer, effective January 8, 2020. Dr. Kwon joined Momenta in 2011 and has served in roles of increasing responsibility since that time. Prior to Momenta, he was at Biogen Idec in business and corporate development. Prior to that, he worked at Advanced Technology Ventures.

AzurRx BioPharma, Inc. [NEW YORK] (NASDAQ: AZRX) announced that Daniel Schneiderman has been appointed to serve as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. Schneiderman most recently served as Chief Financial Officer for Biophytis, SA (through its U.S. subsidiary Biophytis, Inc.) from November 2018 through December 2019. Previously, Schneiderman served as the Vice President, Finance, Controller and Corporate Secretary for MetaStat, Inc. from February 2012 through October 2018. Schneiderman was Vice President of Investment Banking for Burnham Hill Partners LLC, where he worked from 2008 to 2012. From 2004 through 2008, Schneiderman was Vice President of Investment Banking at Burnham Hill Partners, a division of Pali Capital, Inc. Previously, Schneiderman worked at H.C. Wainwright & Co., Inc. in 2004 as an investment banking analyst. Schneiderrman replaces Maged Shenouda, who left the Company on November 30, 2019 to pursue other career opportunities.

Veeco Instruments Inc. [PLAINVIEW, NY] (NASDAQ: VECO) announced that John P. Kiernan, was promoted to Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) effective January 1, 2020.  Kiernan, previously SVP of Finance, Chief Accounting Officer and Treasurer, succeeds Shubham (Sam) Maheshwari, who recently announced his resignation from Veeco. Since joining Veeco in 1994, Kiernan has held financial leadership roles of increasing responsibility including leading the controller, financial planning and analysis, tax and treasury teams.  Before joining Veeco, he was a Senior Manager at Ernst & Young LLP.

Hamilton Lane Incorporated [BALA CYNWYD, PA] announced that Atul Varma will join the firm as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. He will succeed Randy M. Stilman, who will be retiring from the role after 22 years. Stilman will remain at Hamilton Lane into 2020 to help ensure a smooth transition of his responsibilities. Varma was most recently Head of Business Strategy and Chief Financial Officer of Wealth Management at The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. Prior to joining BNY Mellon, Varma served as Chief Financial Officer of various divisions of Bank of America Corporation’s Global Wealth and Investment Management group and before that worked in corporate financial planning and analysis at Citigroup, Inc.

Landec Corporation [SANTA CLARA, CA] (NASDAQ: LNDC), with two operating businesses, Curation Foods, Inc. and Lifecore Biomedical, Inc., announced the planned resignation of Gregory S. Skinner for personal reasons. Skinner has served as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Vice President of Finance and Administration since 1999. The Company also announced that Brian F. McLaughlin, the current CFO of Curation Foods, will succeed Skinner as interim CFO, effective January 8, 2020, in addition to his current role. McLaughlin joined Curation Foods (formerly Apio) in 2015 as CFO. Prior to joining Curation Foods, McLaughlin was Executive Vice President and CFO of Big Idea Holdings, LLC from 2010 until 2015, CFO of EuroFresh Farms from 2008 until 2009, CFO of Driscoll’s, Inc. from 2006 until 2007 and CFO of Fresh Express, Inc. from 1996 until 2006. In addition, he spent 19 years in commercial banking.

John Fowle

Akerna Corp. [DENVER] named John Fowle as chief financial officer (CFO).  Before joining Akerna, he served as CFO for REV360, and as vice-president and controller for WELLTOK.

Bill Comeau

Waterstone Properties Group, Inc. [Needham, MA] announced the hire of Bill Comeau as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Waterstone, Comeau served in senior real estate industry finance roles with WeWork, C-III Capital and DLC Management.

CONSOL Energy Inc. [Canonsburg, PA] announced that David M. Khani, who has been serving as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, notified the Company of his intent to resign from his positions with the Company. The Company appointed Mitesh Thakkar as the Company’s interim Chief Financial Officer. Thakkar served as Director of Finance and Investor Relations of CEIX and CONSOL Coal Resources LP (“CCR”) since November 2017 and as Director of Finance and Investor Relations of CCR since May 2015. He previously served in various roles in the equity research department of FBR Capital Markets (now part of B. Riley FBR, Inc.) from May 2007 through May 2015. Prior to his work at FBR, he served in various roles at Reliance Engineering Associates (P) Limited from September 2002 through June 2006.

Oshkosh Corporation [OSHKOSH, WI] (NYSE: OSK) announced that David M. Sagehorn, who has served the Company for two decades, including 12 years as Chief Financial Officer, has decided to retire effective April 3, 2020. Sagehorn will serve as an external advisor for a year after his retirement date to ensure a smooth transition. Michael E. Pack, Vice President of Finance in the Fire & Emergency segment at Oshkosh, will succeed Sagehorn as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Pack has served as Vice President of Finance in Oshkosh’s Fire & Emergency segment since 2012. Pack has been with the Company since 2006 and has held finance roles of increasing responsibility with the Fire & Emergency, Access Equipment, Commercial and Corporate teams. Prior to joining Oshkosh, he was a Senior Audit Manager at Grant Thornton.

Guidewire Software, Inc. [SAN MATEO, CA] (NYSE: GWRE) announced that Chief Financial Officer, Curtis Smith is resigning for personal reasons. Smith is transitioning into a consulting role with the company effective in March 2020.

Impinj, Inc. [SEATTLE] (NASDAQ: PI) announced that Cary Baker will join the company as Chief Financial Officer effective February 17, 2020. Baker comes to Impinj from RealNetworks, where he had been Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer since 2017. Prior to RealNetworks Baker served as CFO of HEAT Software, as CFO of NetMotion Software, and as VP of Finance with Clearwire Corporation. Baker’s earlier experience includes financial leadership roles at Boost Mobile and Sprint Corporation.

Chris Dunne

Atrium Hospitality [ALPHARETTA, GA] announced the appointment of Chris Dunne to chief financial officer (CFO). Dunne worked for InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) for more than 18 years with his most recent role being the vice president operations finance, Americas for IHG in Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to joining IHG in 2000, Chris started his career with Bristol Hotels & Resorts working in a variety of positions.

Amy B. Schwetz

Flowserve Corporation [DALLAS] (NYSE: FLS) announced that Amy B. Schwetz has been appointed senior vice president and chief financial officer, effective February 24, 2020. Schwetz joins Flowserve having been the executive vice president and chief financial officer at Peabody. Throughout her 14-year career at Peabody, she served in roles of increasing responsibility including vice president, capital and financial planning; vice president, investor relations; senior vice president finance – Australia; and for the past four years, chief financial officer. Prior to her tenure at Peabody, Schwetz spent eight years in various roles at Ernst & Young. Schwetz serves on the Board of Directors for Dril-Quip, Inc.

VirtualHealth [NEW YORK] announced the promotion of Tomer Benami to Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Benami was hired as VirtualHealth’s Vice President of Finance in 2016 and was subsequently promoted to Senior Vice President of Finance. Previously, Benami was employed by Apploi. Before that, he spent several years within the accounting practice at KPMG.

Tony Spagnola

ASRC Industrial (AIS) [CONCORD, CA] announced the addition of Tony Spagnola as Senior Vice President – Chief Financial Officer. Spagnola joins AIS from RGP where he served as a business consultant. Prior to RGP, Spagnola held senior operational and financial leadership roles with Mastec Utility Services, Quanta Power and SelectBuild Mid-Atlantic. Previous Spagnola worked in the consulting practices of both Deloitte and PwC.

Paxxal Inc. [NOBLESVILLE, IN] announced the appointment of Jeffrey M. Barlow as Chief Financial Officer. Barlow most recently served as a Founding Partner at Brigadier Consulting Group. Previously, Barlow was a Principal at Norbridge Inc., and also worked for The Avicon Group and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

ivWatch [NEWPORT NEWS, VA] announced the appointment of Teresa (Terry) Blevins as Chief Financial Officer. Blevins most recently served as the Interim CFO at Psionic Lidar. Prior to that, she served as CFO of Landmark Media Enterprises. She has held additional leadership roles in manufacturing with several Fortune 500 companies such as General Electric and Borg Warner.

Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. [RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC], a wholly owned subsidiary of Highland Therapeutics Inc., announced the appointment of Dave Lemus as Chief Financial Officer. Lemus has held several Executive Management roles including Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Lemus has also held Non-Executive Board roles in private and publicly traded companies in both Europe and North America.

Tom Ondrof

Aramark [PHILADELPHIA] (NYSE: ARMK) announced that Thomas Ondrof joined the Company as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, succeeding Steve Bramlage who will remain with the Company until April 3, 2020 in the role of Executive Advisor to assist in this transition. Ondrof previously served as Chief Financial Officer with Performance Food Group. Prior to PFG, Ondrof spent 24 years at Compass Group North America, where he served in a variety of financial and business development leadership roles, including Chief Development Officer, Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to his time at Compass, Ondrof worked in planning and development at ITT Rayonier. He began his career as an auditor with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

AVEO Oncology [CAMBRIDGE, MA] (NASDAQ: AVEO) announced the appointment of Erick Lucera as chief financial officer. He most recently served as chief financial officer of Valeritas. Prior to Valeritas, Lucera served as the chief financial officer, treasurer, and secretary of Viventia Bio (acquired by Eleven Biotherapeutics, Inc., now Sesen Bio). He also previously served as vice president, corporate development at Aratana Therapeutics. Previously, Lucera was vice president, corporate development at Sunshine Heart (now CHF Solution). Prior to Sunshine Heart, Lucera spent over 15 years in investment management as a healthcare analyst at Eaton Vance, the portfolio manager of the Triathlon Life Sciences Fund at Intrepid Capital, and as head of the healthcare research team at Independence Investments. He began his career as a staff auditor and accountant at Price Waterhouse & Co. (now PwC).

Gannett Co., Inc. [MCLEAN, VA] (NYSE: GCI) announced that Alison (Ali) K. Engel, Chief Financial Officer, will depart the Company at the end of the first quarter to pursue other opportunities. Mark Maring, current Treasurer of Gannett, is expected to lead the finance function on an interim basis after Ms. Engel’s departure. Maring had most recently served as the Treasurer of GateHouse Media for 10 years prior to the merger.

ECC [BURLINGAME, CA] announced that Bradley Graham joined our company as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Graham held positions as Vice President of Controller and Vice President of Financial Operations at DynCorp International; and as Vice President of Operational Finance and Corporate Controller at Granite Construction. He also served as an Auditor at Deloitte & Touche and Arthur Anderson.

Examity [NEWTON, MA] announced the appointment of Nicholas Malone as Chief Financial Officer. Malone served as CFO of Wayfair, since 2005. Malone served in leadership roles at high-growth startups and tech companies, including Siemens and Zagster.

The Columbus Organization [WAYNE, PA] appointed Mike Celano as CFO. Celano spent the first 20 years of his career in public audit and accounting, and the last 15 years since that time in the CFO role for various healthcare organizations. Additionally, Celano has served on various Boards and is currently Chairman of the Board for a medical diagnostic device company.

Dallas J. Zulli

Smith Land & Improvement Corporation [CAMP HILL, PA] appointed Dallas J. Zulli to Chief Operating Officer/Chief Financial Officer. Zulli most recently was vice president, senior commercial relationship manager with F&M Trust in the Capital Region.

Relmada Therapeutics, Inc. [NEW YORK] (NASDAQ: RLMD) announced that Maged Shenouda has been appointed the Company’s new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Relmada’s current CFO, Charles Ence, will assume a new role in the expanded financial team as the Company’s Chief Accounting and Compliance Officer. Most recently, Shenouda served as CFO and Executive Vice President of Corporate Development for AzurRx BioPharma. Prior to his tenure at AzurRx, Shenouda was Senior Vice President and Head of Business Development and Licensing at Retrophin, Inc. Previous to this, Shenouda spent the bulk of his career on Wall Street as an equity research analyst. He held senior level positions at UBS, JP Morgan and Stifel Nicolaus. Shenouda started his sell-side equity research career at Citigroup and Bear Stearns. Before entering Wall Street, he was a management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers Pharmaceutical Consulting practice and also spent time in pharmaceutical sales, having worked as a hospital representative and managed care specialist for Abbott Laboratories Pharmaceutical Products Division.

Varsity Brands [DALLAS] announced that John Hutchinson has joined the Company as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Hutchinson joins Varsity Brands from Apple Leisure Group (“ALG”), where he served most recently as President with responsibility for ALG’s resort management, vacation club, and tour operator businesses. Hutchinson joined Apple Leisure Group as Chief Financial Officer in 2013. Prior to his tenure at ALG, Hutchinson served with American Airlines for 24 years, progressing through several finance and planning roles including Senior-Vice President of Planning and Chief Financial Officer of American Eagle, Managing Director of Corporate Development, and Managing Director of International Planning at American Airlines.

Peabody [ST. LOUIS] (NYSE: BTU) announced that the company has named Mark Spurbeck as Interim Chief Financial Officer replacing Amy Schwetz. Spurbeck most recently served as Chief Accounting Officer. Prior to joining Peabody in early 2018, Mark was Vice President of Finance and Chief Accounting Officer at Coeur Mining, Inc. He also previously held multiple positions at Newmont Mining Corporation over an eight-year period, including Group Executive, Assistant Controller. Mark served in several financial positions at First Data Corporation and Deloitte LLP.

COMSovereign Holding Corp. [DALLAS] (OTCQB: DRNE) (formerly Drone Aviation Holding Corp.) announced that it has appointed Brian T. Mihelich as Chief Financial Officer. Kendall W. Carpenter, the Company’s prior Chief Financial Officer, will remain with the Company and retain responsibility for the financial matters relating to its Drone Aviation business operations. Mihelich most recently served as Vice President, Managed Services, and as Head of Operations of the Vodafone account at Ericsson. His experience in the telecom sector includes senior management responsibilities for numerous business relationships including AT&T, Sprint, Vodafone, Napster, Google and Facebook. In addition, he has served with distinction in the U.S. Air Force and has also worked for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Chico’s FAS, Inc. [FORT MYERS, FL] (NYSE: CHS) announced that Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Todd E. Vogensen has resigned, effective January 17, 2020, to accept a CFO position with another company. Jennifer Ellis, Senior Vice President, Finance, has been appointed Interim Chief Financial Officer, effective February 3, 2020. Ellis has served as the Company’s Senior Vice President, Finance since July 2018 and prior to that served in various finance roles at the Company, including Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis from April 2016 to July 2018 and Senior Director, Finance from October 2015 to April 2016. Prior to joining the Company, Ellis served as Vice President, Finance of Tailored Brands, Inc. from March 2013 to October 2015.

Alaska Air Group [SEATTLE] announced that Brandon Pedersen, Chief Financial Officer since 2010, plans to retire on March 2. Shane Tackett, currently Alaska’s executive vice president of planning and strategy will succeed Pedersen. Tackett joined Alaska in 2000 and has led in many capacities across the company. In 2010, Tackett became vice president of labor relations at Alaska Airlines. In 2015, he became responsible for the revenue management and e-commerce functions for Alaska and managed relationships with key commercial technology partners. He was promoted to executive vice president of planning and strategy in 2018.

Ron Hundzinski

TI Fluid Systems [AUBURN HILLS, MI] announced that Ron Hundzinski has been appointed Chief Financial Officer and an Executive Director of the Company. Hundzinski is joining the Company from Tenneco, Inc. where he was Executive Vice President ‑ Finance. During the prior thirty-five years, he has held a variety of leadership positions in finance at Emerson Electric, GKN, Meridian Automotive and BorgWarner. He served as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of BorgWarner from 2012 through 2018. Ron is also a Non-Executive Director of Gentherm. Ron succeeds Tim Knutson, who has elected to step down from the position to pursue other interests outside of the Company.

Maxeon Solar Technologies [SAN JOSE, CA] announced that Joanne Solomon has been named Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the company, a planned spin off of SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ: SPWR). Solomon most recently served since 2017 as CFO for Katerra Inc. Prior to this, she worked for 16 years at Amkor Technology, Inc., in various roles including CFO. Solomon began her career at Price Waterhouse.

Cumulus Media Inc. [ATLANTA] (NASDAQ: CMLS) announced that John Abbot, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will leave the Company at the beginning of March after it reports its full-year 2019 financial results.

BBQ Holdings, Inc. [MINNEAPOLIS] (NASDAQ: BBQ) announced the appointment of Jim Gilbertson as the new Chief Financial Officer of the Company.  Over the past 20 years Gilbertson has been the Chief Financial Officer of a number of public companies including Children’s Broadcasting Corporation (Radio AAHS), Navarre Corporation, and Granite City Food & Brewery. He also served as Vice President of Business Development and Cable Distribution at iMedia Brands, Inc. and Executive Business Advisor and Board Member of rareEARTH. He most recently served as the CFO of Bluespire, Inc.

Party City Holdco Inc. [ELMSFORD, NY] (NYSE: PRTY) announced that Todd Vogensen has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer of Party City Holdco Inc. (“PCHI”), effective February 3, 2020. From June 2014 to January 2020, Vogensen served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Chico’s FAS. Prior to joining Chico’s, Todd spent over four years with Michaels Stores from 2005 to 2009 as Corporate Controller, Vice President of FP&A, and Vice President of Merchandising Finance. He previously held finance management positions at Gap, Inc. and Hewlett Packard Company.

NexImmune, Inc. [GAITHERSBURG, MD] announced that John Trainer has been appointed as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. Trainer most recently served as Vice President and Head of Partnering & Strategy for MedImmune, the biologics-focused R&D unit of AstraZeneca. Previous to that role, Trainer was Vice President, Corporate Development for AstraZeneca and the commercial leader for AstraZeneca’s Infection, Neuroscience and Gastrointestinal group globally.

Prime Capital Investment Advisors [OVERLAND PARK, KS] hired Brian Dillbeck as its first chief financial officer. Most recently, he was the chief financial officer at Lockpath. Prior to Lockpath, Dillbeck held senior financial positions with American Italian Pasta Company and started his financial career with J.P. Morgan Retirement Plan Services in 2001.

ZAGENO [CAMBRIDGE, MA and BERLIN] announced that Robert Cruickshank joined the company as chief financial officer. Most recently Cruickshank has spent more than four years at ezCater, where he held roles as chief administrative officer and CFO. Prior to this, Cruickshank spent almost four years at Amazon Robotics (formerly Kiva Systems) as its CFO and corporate controller. Over nearly a decade, Cruickshank was VP of finance for Aspen Technology.

Sprouts Farmers Market [PHOENIX] (NASDAQ: SFM) announced that Denise Paulonis will join the company as chief financial officer, effective February 21, 2020. Paulonis most recently served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of The Michaels Companies. Paulonis joined Michaels in 2014 and prior to her service as executive vice president and chief financial officer from 2016 to 2019, served in various finance roles within the organization, including senior vice president of finance and treasurer, and vice president of corporate finance, investor relations and treasury. Prior to joining Michaels, Paulonis held various senior level positions with PepsiCo from 2009 to 2014, including vice president of financial planning and analysis of the Frito Lay division, vice president of finance and strategy of PepsiCo U.S. Sales, and vice president of corporate strategy and development. Prior to joining PepsiCo, Paulonis held various senior positions with McKinsey & Company and Bank of America.  Paulonis currently serves on the board of directors of Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.

Saia, Inc. [JOHNS CREEK, GA] (NASDAQ: SAIA) announced that Douglas Col has been promoted to Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Col replaces Robert Chambers who returned to his prior employer in a senior executive position after eight months with Saia. Col joined Saia in 2014 as Vice President and Treasurer. Prior to joining Saia, Col spent over twenty years working with transportation-related businesses as an investment analyst, equity fund manager and investment banker.

Perceptron, Inc. [PLYMOUTH, MI] (NASDAQ: PRCP) announced that Bill Roeschlein has been named Interim Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer. Previously, he served as Chief Financial Officer for Intermolecular until its recent acquisition by Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.  Earlier, he served as Chief Financial Officer for Power Integrations and Selectica, Inc.  He has also served in multiple finance leadership roles with other global companies.  He started his career at Coopers & Lybrand.

Vyome Therapeutics Inc. [PRINCETON, NJ] announced the appointment of Craig Tooman as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to his position at Vyome, Tooman served as Chief Executive Officer of Aratana Therapeutics. He also spent six years as the Chief Financial Officer and treasurer of Aratana. Previous to Aratana, Tooman served as founder and Chief Executive Officer of Avanzar Medical, Inc. Prior to his time at Avanzar, Tooman served as Chief Financial Officer at Ikaria Inc. and Enzon Pharmaceuticals. Tooman has served on several company boards, including Insite Vision, Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals, and Aratana Therapeutics, and currently serves on the Board of CureVac.

Blucora, Inc. [IRVING, TX] (NASDAQ: BCOR) announced that Davinder Athwal, Chief Financial Officer, will be stepping down from his role at the company, effective January 31, 2020, and will then be available in an advisory capacity through 2020.

Brett M. Carroll

Mercy College [DOBBS FERRY, NY] appointed Brett M. Carroll as Vice President for Finance and Chief Financial Officer. He will join the College on February 1. Carroll currently serves as the Associate Vice President and Treasurer at the University of Hartford. Previously, Carroll spent several years in the financial services industry where he served as Director at UBS Global Asset Management in Hartford, CT, as well as Manager at Landmark Partners in Simsbury, CT. Carroll began his career at Coopers and Lybrand.

HealthcareSource [WOBURN, MA] announced the appointment of Sean Bridgeo as Chief Financial Officer. Bridgeo joins HealthcareSource from TimeTrade, where he served as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Operations. Prior to TimeTrade, he was CFO of Cure Forward. Previously, Bridgeo was CFO of NaviNet. Earlier, he held financial management positions with Coventry Healthcare and TJX Corporation.

Todd Taylor

LRES Corporation [ORANGE, CA] announced the addition of Todd Taylor as CFO. Taylor previously served as CFO of a publicly traded financial services firm.

Abott Laboratories [Abbott Park, IL] announced that Brian B. Yoor, Executive Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer, informed Abbott that he will retire as an officer of the company, effective February 29, 2020. The company has appointed Robert E. Funck, Jr. as Executive Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer, effective March 1, 2020. Funck has served as Abbott’s Senior Vice President, Finance and Controller since 2018 and served as Vice President, Controller from 2013 to 2018, as Vice President, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer from 2009 to 2013, as Vice President, Internal Audit from 2007 to 2009, and as Vice President and Treasurer from 2005 to 2007. He joined Abbott in 1987 and became a corporate officer in 2005.

ALX Oncology [DUBLIN, Ireland and BURLINGAME, CA] announced the appointment of Peter S. García as Chief Financial Officer. García most recently served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of PDL BioPharma.

Diversey [FORT MILL, SC] announced that Philip R. Wieland has become interim Chief Executive Officer. Wieland most recently served as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. Wieland is succeeded in the CFO role by Todd Herndon, who is returning to the Company after holding a series of positions of increasing responsibility over eight years at Diversey Care, including general manager of the Building Care core business, and Vice President of Finance at the time of its acquisition by Sealed Air Corporation. He has since held the CFO role at Gardner Denver. Herndon also served as CFO at Capital Safety.

David Schlett

Prime Therapeutics LLC [EAGAN, MN] welcomed David Schlett as its new chief financial officer (CFO). Schlett held finance leadership positions at Medco and served as Express Scripts’ senior vice president of finance. Most recently Schlett worked for Cambridge Advisory Group, and operated his own independent consultancy.

Barings [CHARLOTTE, NC] appointed Patrick Hoefling to a new role as Chief Financial Officer. Patrick brings over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry and has held a number of senior leadership roles at Barings, including: Treasurer; Head of the Financial Planning and Analysis Group; and a member of Barings’ Global Investment Services Group. Prior to Barings, he worked at Mangan & McColl Partners, and was a consultant in Deloitte’s Private Client Advisory Tax Group.

Mark Massaro

ArcherDX, Inc. [BOULDER, CO] announced Mark Massaro has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Mark served as Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst covering the Diagnostics and Life Sciences Tools sector at Canaccord Genuity.

Andy Reinland

WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. [SEATTLE] announced that Andy Reinland has been appointed as the chief financial officer (CFO) of WatchGuard. Reinland spent the last 20 years of his career with F5 Networks, where he eventually became CFO. Reinland replaces Rich Barber, who has served as WatchGuard’s CFO for nearly 10 years.

Kubient [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Josh Weiss as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to Kubient, Weiss served as VP Finance for a privately-held global investment firm focusing on information services, education and technology. Previously, he was Senior Audit Manager – SEC & Transaction Services Practice Group, Assurance Services at Marcum, LLP.

Bright Health [MINNEAPOLIS] announced that Cathy R. Smith is joining as its new chief financial officer. Smith served most recently as CFO of Target Corporation. Prior to joining Target, she was the executive vice president and CFO at Express Scripts. She has also held CFO positions in several other companies, including Walmart International and GameStop.

RealNetworks, Inc. [SEATTLE] (NASDAQ: RNWK) announced that Cary Baker informed the Company of his decision to step down as CFO to pursue a new opportunity. In addition, the Company announced the hiring of Mike Ensing to replace Baker on an interim basis. Ensing most recently served as Chief Financial Officer from 2014 to 2019 of Savers/Value Village. Previously, Mr. Ensing served in Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer roles at Knowledge Universe, from 2012 to 2014, and in several financial leadership positions at Microsoft Corporation, from 2004 to 2012. Earlier in his career, Mr. Ensing served in various roles at consulting companies, including McKinsey & Co. and Deloitte Consulting.

NetSTREIT [DALLAS] announced the appointment of Andrew P. Blocher as its Chief Financial Officer. Blocher was previously with First Potomac Realty Trust where he served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Prior to his tenure at First Potomac, Blocher served as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer at Federal Realty Investment Trust.

Machine Zone [PALO ALTO, CA] (MZ) announced the hiring of Roie Chizik as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Chizik most recently held the title of CFO at Zūm. Prior to Zūm, Chizik was the Vice President of Finance at Amazon company, A9.com. Chizik additionally served as Vice President at Walt Disney’s mobile and social games unit, along with working at EA for more than five years.

Emerald Expositions Events, Inc. [SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, CA] (NYSE: EEX) announced that David Doft will become its Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) following the conclusion of the Company’s reporting of financial results and filing of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019. Doft will be joining the Emerald team as a full-time employee on January 16 and officially assuming the CFO role later in February. Philip Evans, the Company’s current CFO, will continue in that role through such date in order to allow for a smooth and successful transition of responsibilities and reporting of full year 2019 results. Evans will stay on with the Company as an employee through March 31, 2020. Before joining Emerald, Doft served as Chief Financial Officer of MDC Partners, since 2007.

Tallgrass Energy, LP [LEAWOOD, Kansas] (NYSE: TGE) announced that Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Gary J. Brauchle has informed the Board of Directors of the general partner (“the Board”) of his intent to resign as Chief Financial Officer on February 14, 2020. The Board has appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer, Gary D. Watkins, as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, also effective February 14, 2020. Watkins will retain his current role as Chief Accounting Officer. Watkins has served as the Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of TGE’s general partner from February 2015 until March 2019, and as Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of TGE’s general partner from March 2019 until his appointment as Chief Financial Officer. In addition to his service at TGE, Watkins has served as Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of the general partner of Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP since April 2014. Previously, he served as Vice President, Controller and Principal Accounting Officer of DCP Midstream Partners, LP and DCP Midstream, LLC from May 2011 until his departure in April 2014.

Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. [FOSTER CITY, CA] (NASDAQ: MIRM) announced the promotion of Ian Clements to Chief Financial Officer. Clements joined Mirum in March 2019 and most recently served as Senior Vice President, Finance and Communications. Prior to joining Mirum, Clements served as Vice President of Investor Relations at Dermira, Inc. Previously, Clements served as Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications at Tobira. Prior to that, he was head of investor relations and corporate communications at Avanir Pharmaceuticals. Clements has also held leadership positions at Sequenom, and The Trout Group.

HanesBrands [WINSTON-SALEM, NC] (NYSE: HBI) announced that current Chief Accounting Officer and Controller M. Scott Lewis will serve as interim chief financial officer. Lewis has served as chief accounting officer and controller since May 2015. He has held positions of increasing responsibility since joining the company in 2006 from KPMG.

John Jacunski

Pixelle Specialty Solutions [SPRING GROVE, PA] named John P. Jacunski Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to joining Pixelle, Jacunski served P.H. Glatfelter Company from 2003 until 2019 in positions of increasing responsibility, including Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, President of the Specialty Papers Business Unit, and Vice President and Controller. Previously, he served WCI Steel as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and also worked for KPMG.

Airgain, Inc. [SAN DIEGO] (NASDAQ: AIRG) announced the appointment of David Lyle as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Before joining Airgain, Lyle was the CFO of Sunniva, Inc. Prior to Sunniva, he was CFO at Maxwell Technologies, Inc. for four years, which was acquired by Tesla in 2019. Lyle also served as the CFO of Entropic Communications, Inc., which was acquired in 2015 by MaxLinear. Prior to Entropic, he served as the CFO of RF Magic, acquired by Entropic in 2007, Zyray Wireless, acquired by Broadcom in 2004, and Mobilian, acquired by Intel in 2003. Notably, he served in corporate finance positions at large global companies, including Intel and Broadcom.

Theo Chocolate [SEATTLE] welcomes Mark Rieland as their new Chief Financial Officer. Rieland served in various finance leadership roles including at General Mills as a Financial Analyst, Syngenta Seeds as the Global Controller in Switzerland, and Lenox Group as the Managing Director of Finance and Operations. Most recently, Rieland was based in Minneapolis where he was CFO/COO at Peace Coffee, LLC.

Island Hospitality Management [WEST PALM BEACH, FL] announced that it has promoted Roger Pollak to executive vice president and chief financial officer. Pollak joined Island Hospitality Management’s predecessor as controller in 1995 and has held progressive positions within the company, including director of financial reporting and controller, as well as senior vice president-accounting. Prior to joining Island, Pollak held similar positions with various companies, including a large real estate developer and property management firm.

Disarm Therapeutics [CAMBRIDGE, MA] announced the appointment of Scott Holmes as Chief Financial Officer. Holmes comes to Disarm from Kiadis Pharma, where he served as Chief Financial Officer. Previously, he spent four years as Chief Financial Officer of Keryx Biopharmaceuticals. Holmes was also previously Senior Vice President of Finance and Investor Relations at AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Citi Trends, Inc. [SAVANNAH, GA] (NASDAQ: CTRN) announced that Stuart C. Clifford, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, plans to retire effective March 29, 2020.

Australis Capital Inc. [LAS VEGAS] (CSE: AUSA, OTC: AUSAF) announced that Michael Carlotti had his employment with the Company as Chief Financial Officer has been terminated. The Company appointed Alex Han as Interim Chief Financial Officer.

Rexford Industrial Realty, Inc. [LOS ANGELES] (NYSE: REXR) announced that Adeel Khan, Chief Financial Officer, has decided to step down from his current role as CFO. Khan will remain at Rexford and will continue to serve as CFO until a new CFO assumes the role.

Eightfold.ai [MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA] announced the appointment of Celia Poon as Chief Financial Officer. Poon served as Chief Financial Officer at both Wag Labs, Inc. and Highfive. Prior to her roles as CFO, Poon served as VP of Finance at Twitter for four years, as well as VP of Corporate Finance at Zynga and VP of Corporate Finance and Treasury at Yahoo.

Mark Runyon

Tampa General Hospital [TAMPA, FL] named Mark Runyon its new Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Runyon begin his new role on March 2, 2020. For the last five years, Runyon has been the vice president of operational finance at Intermountain Healthcare, Inc. Prior to joining Intermountain Healthcare, Runyon served as the senior vice president of operations Finance at Inova Health System.

The Instant Group [CHICAGO] announced that Nestor Eliadis has joined the firm as its Americas Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Eliadis most recently served at Walgreen Co. for nine years in the real estate and finance divisions.

CUJO AI [EL SEGUNDO, CA] announced the appointment of Tuomas Laine as Chief Financial Officer. Laine most recently served as the Vice President of Finance at F-Secure Corporation. Prior to F-Secure, Tuomas served as Regional Finance Manager at GE/Genworth Financial for Northern Europe.

Avellino Labs [MENLO PARK, CA] announced that Chris Lehman has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Lehman has led or supported finance at companies including Coherus Biosciences, Quintiles, and Genencor International, and most recently served as CFO for Eureka Therapeutics.

Spirit of Texas Bancshares, Inc. [CONROE, TX] (NASDAQ: STXB), the bank holding company for Spirit of Texas Bank, announced that Jeffrey A. Powell unexpectedly passed away on January 13, 2020. Mr. Powell had served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company and its banking subsidiary, Spirit of Texas Bank, since July 2017. The Company has named Allison Johnson, the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer, as its interim Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Johnson has served as the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer since 2016, and began her career in the financial services industry as an auditor at Price Waterhouse Coopers.

Linda Zukauckas

Nielsen Holdings plc [NEW YORK] (NYSE: NLSN) announced that Linda Zukauckas will join the company as Chief Financial Officer, effective February 3, 2020. Linda Zukauckas has been with American Express since 2011, most recently serving as the Executive Vice President and Deputy Chief Financial Officer. At the time of the separation, Linda will remain as Chief Financial Officer of Nielsen’s Global Media business. Zukauckas also held roles at American Express as the Chief Accounting Officer and Global Controller and served on the Board of Directors of American Express Global Business Travel, a 50/50 JV, for five years. Prior to American Express, Zukauckas held various senior leadership roles at Ally Financial (formerly GMAC Inc). She serves on the board of MTS Systems Corporation, where she is on the Audit and the Governance & Nominating committees.

Raaj Shah

Sequent Software, Inc. [SANTA CLARA, CA] announced the hiring of Raaj Shah as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Shah was most recently founder and CIO at Matchpoint Investment Management Asia Limited. Shah began his career as a financial analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette.

Monique Ruiz

Graycor Inc. [OAKBROOK TERRACE, IL] announced that Monique Ruiz has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to joining Graycor, Ruiz served in corporate and operational finance leadership roles for global firms in manufacturing, banking, and public accounting, both in the U.S. and overseas.

Wabash National Corporation [LAFAYETTE, IN] (NYSE: WNC) announced the appointment of Mike Pettit as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to this appointment, Pettit served as Senior Vice President and Group President, Final Mile Products since January 1, 2018, following Wabash National’s acquisition of Supreme Industries in late 2017. He previously served as Wabash National’s Vice President of Finance and Investor Relations (2014–2018) and Director of Finance, Commercial Trailer Products (2012–2014). Prior to Wabash National, from 1998 to 2012, Pettit held various finance positions with increasing responsibility at Ford Motor Company.

Progress Software Corporation [BEDFORD, MA] announced the upcoming retirement of its Chief Financial Officer, Paul Jalbert, and the appointment of Anthony Folger to succeed him. Jalbert has served as CFO since March 2017, will retire as CFO on January 31, 2020. Folger will join Progress as CFO on January 31, 2020 and Jalbert will remain with Progress until April 2020 to assist Folger in the transition. Folger was previously Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Carbonite, Inc. from January 2013 until Carbonite was acquired by OpenText Corporation in late December 2019. From June 2006 to December 2012, Folger held senior leadership positions at Acronis, including Chief Financial Officer from October 2008 to December 2012. Prior to Acronis, Folger held senior finance positions at Starent Networks Corp., and served as an audit manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

Brian Robinson

RelaDyne [CINCINNATI] welcomed its new Chief Financial Officer, Brian Robinson. Robinson’s hire comes after the retirement of Paul Helton. Robinson joins RelaDyne from DuBois Chemicals, where he was the CFO. Robnson worked at companies including General Cable, Getronics and Deloitte.

Jeff Johnson

Tooling Tech Group [MACOMB, MI] (TTG) announced Jeff Johnson as the company’s new Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, he was CFO for Universal Fiber Systems.

Ageless Innovation LLC [PAWTUCKET, RI] announced James Waddell has joined as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Waddell joins Ageless Innovation from Bose Corporation, where he was Corporate Controller. Prior to joining Bose, he was the internal audit director at Teradyne, internal audit director at Talbots Corporation and a member of the National Retail Federation’s Internal Audit Board of Directors.

Aron Stern

CortiCare Inc. [CARLSBAD, CA] announced that Aron Stern has joined the company as its Chief Financial Officer. Stern has held CFO and VP Finance positions with several companies including Protein Polymer Technologies, Inc., 4-D Neuroimaging, Vital Therapies, Inc., and most recently, Immutrix & Intrinsic Materials.

Stryve [PLANO, TX] welcomed Billie Winkle as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining the company, Winkle served as the Vice President of Accounting, Tax and Treasury at KidKraft.

Parker University [DALLAS] announced the hiring of Clint Gilchrist as its new CFO. Gilchrist was previously controller for Southern Methodist University.

QBE North America [NEW YORK], an operating division of global insurer QBE Insurance Group Limited, announced the appointment of Christopher Castaldo as Chief Financial Officer. Castaldo will assume his new role effective March 2020. Castaldo has been with QBE for eight years. He spent five in the North America division where he served as a leader in both the FP&A and corporate development functions. Prior to joining QBE, Chris spent 5 years at AIG in a series of roles including Director, Strategic Planning and Corporate Development. In 2017, he was appointed Group Head of FP&A.

Strategic Student & Senior Housing Trust, Inc. [LADERA RANCH, CA] announced its promotion of Michael Crear to chief financial officer. Previously, he served as vice president and controller of the REIT. In addition to his role as chief financial officer of Strategic Student & Senior Housing Trust, Crear will continue to serve as vice president of accounting for its sponsor, SmartStop Asset Management, LLC. Prior to joining the SmartStop family of companies, Crear was vice president of finance and accounting for PADI Worldwide Inc., and held various positions with Alliance Healthcare Services, Inc., including vice president of corporate finance. Crear also spent seven years with Deloitte and Touche LLP.

Athersys, Inc. [CLEVELAND] (NASDAQ: ATHX) announced the addition of Ivor Macleod as Chief Financial Officer, effective as of January 31, 2020. Prior to joining Athersys, Macleod served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer of Eisai Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of the Japanese company, Eisai Ltd. He has held key leadership positions at Merck & Co., F. Hoffmann-La Roche, and Boehringer Mannheim Therapeutics, among others.

Marten Abrahamsen

Fundbox [SAN FRANCISCO] announced that Marten Abrahamsen has been named as the company’s first Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Fundbox, Abrahamsen was a senior member of the investment team at The Chernin Group (TCG). Before his role at TCG, Abrahamsen was a senior investment professional at Coatue Management’s private company investment fund. Abrahamsen also worked as a private equity technology investor with Vector Capital and started his career as an Investment Banker at Goldman Sachs.

Schmitt Industries, Inc. [PORTLAND, OR] (NASDAQ: SMIT) announced the appointment of Jamie Schmidt as Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”). Schmidt most recently served as Controller from October 2019 through January 2020. Prior to his role as Controller he served as Business Development and Financial Analyst since February 2019. Prior to Schmitt Mr. Schmidt was an analyst at Sententia Capital Management from 2016-2019. Prior to joining Sententia, Schmidt was an analyst in the Mergers & Acquisitions Department at Craig-Hallum Capital Group.

Vonage Holdings Corp. [HOLMDEL, NJ] (NASDAQ: VG) announced the retirement of David Pearson, who has served as the company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) since 2013. He will serve as CFO through May, and then as a special advisor to ensure a smooth transition to his successor.

Ceres Global Ag Corp. [MINNEAPOLIS, MN] (TSX: CRP) announced that its Chief Financial Officer, Kyle Egbert, will leave Ceres in February, 2020 to pursue a new opportunity. The Company also announced that John Haug joined Ceres and will replace Egbert as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, on an interim basis, effective February 1, 2020. Most recently, Haug led the finance and accounting function for Cargill, Incorporated’s energy, transportation, metals and financial services businesses.

AeroVironment, Inc. [SIMI VALLEY, CA] (NASDAQ: AVAV) announced the appointment of Kevin McDonnell as senior vice president and chief financial officer, effective February 10, 2020. Brian Shackley, who served as interim chief financial officer, will remain vice president and controller. Prior to joining AeroVironment, McDonnell served as chief financial officer of JAMS, Inc. McDonnell held various senior financial roles at Teradata Corporation. McDonnell also served as CFO of Digital Insight.

Penn National Gaming, Inc. [WYOMISSING, PA] (NASDAQ: PENN) announced the appointment of David (“Dave”) Williams, as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective March 3, 2020. Williams succeeds William (“B.J.”) Fair, who in September 2019, announced his intention to step down from his role at the Company. Since 2012, Mr. Williams has served as Chief Financial Officer and Controller of Apple Inc.’s Claris division (formally known as FileMaker).

Katabat [WILMINGTON, DE] hired Guy Abramovitz as chief financial officer. Prior to joining Katabat, he served as the CFO of Workarea (formerly WebLinc). At Veterinary Practice Partners (VPP), Abramovitz directed the finance team. Prior to VPP, Abramovitz worked for several national accounting and consulting firms, specializing in transaction services.

Joe Silver

Lighter Capital [SEATTLE] announced the appointment of Joe Silver to Chief Financial Officer. Silver had served as Lighter’s Vice President of Finance since 2015. Silver began his career in the Financial Management Program at GE Capital and later spent six years in the microfinance and impact investing sectors. Prior to Lighter, he managed treasury and capital markets at CAN Capital.

Naturally Slim [DALLAS] announced it has appointed Emily Buxton Taylor as chief financial officer (CFO). Prior to joining Naturally Slim, Taylor served as chief financial officer of Paradigm Tax. Previously, she held numerous financial positions including chief financial officer at National HME, chief accounting officer at Northstar Anesthesia, and chief financial officer at Orthofix Medical, Inc.

Grove Collaborative [SAN FRANCISCO] announced the appointment of Servaes Tholen as Chief Financial Officer. Tholen joins Grove from Thumbtack, where he served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer for over four years. Prior to Thumbtack, Servaes was Chief Financial Officer of Elance and Upwork. Earlier in his career, he held various finance roles at eBay in the Netherlands, UK and US, including Chief Financial Officer of the North America business unit.

Intekhab Weka

WekaIO [CAMPBELL, CA] (Weka) announced the appointment of Intekhab Nazeer as Chief Finance Officer (CFO). Nazeer comes to WekaIO from Unifi Software (acquired by DELL Boomi), where he was CFO. Prior to Unifi Software, his professional experience includes CFO and Chief Operations Officer (COO) appointments at Tribal Planet; HCL Group; Solix Group; Platfora (acquired by Workday); Greenplum (acquired by EMC); Appcelerator (acquired by Axway); and Pelikan Technologies.

StimGuard [POMPANO BEACH, FL] announced the appointment of Stephen Deitsch as the Company’s new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Deitsch most recently was Chief Financial Officer at BioScrip, Inc. Gil Bao, who has served as Interim CFO, will assume the role of Director of Strategy. Previously, Deitsch served as Executive Vice President and CFO of Lanx Inc. Prior to Lanx, Deitsch held numerous executive finance roles at Zimmer including Vice President, Finance, Europe, Middle East & Africa. Deitsch also presently serves on the Board of Directors of Green Sun Medical, since October 2017.

ThoughtSpot [SUNNYVALE, CA] appointed Mohit Daswani as Chief Financial Officer. Daswani was previously Head of Finance & Strategy at Square.  Prior to Square, Daswani was CFO of the Payments, Risk and Technology businesses at PayPal.

Oilfield Water Logistics [DALLAS] (OWL) announced the appointment of Price Moncrief as Chief Financial Officer. Moncrief joins OWL from Concho Resources Inc. where he was Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Midstream. From 2012 through 2018, Moncrief was Senior Vice President of Finance and Vice President of Capital Markets. Prior to joining Concho in 2010 as Director of Corporate Development, Moncrief was an investment banker at Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. and J.P. Morgan.

Nancy Person

Hyland [CLEVELAND, OH] announced the forthcoming retirement of Christopher J. Hyland, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Hyland, and the promotion of Nancy Person as Hyland’s new CFO effective April 2, 2020. Mr. Hyland will continue to hold his position as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the company. Mr. Hyland is retiring after a successful 28-year career with the company and 25 years as its CFO. Person is currently Senior Vice President of Finance and Accounting at Hyland and brings more than 25 years of experience to her new appointment. Person joined Hyland in 2010 having previously worked at KeyBank, Charter One Bank and Deloitte.

Michael Konstas

Atlis Motor Vehicles [MESA, AZ] announced the appointment of Michael Konstas as Atlis’s new Chief Financial Officer. Konstas most recently worked as Vice President of Finance Shared Services at American Express Global Business Travel. At American Express he also served as VP of Global FP&A and Divisional CFO of Global Accounts & Sales.

Sebastien Preel

Dreem [NEW YORK and PARIS] announced the hire of Sebastien Preel, who is joining the company as its new Chief Financial Officer. Preel previously served as Vice President of Finance at BlaBlaCar.

PNM Resources, Inc. [ALBUQUERQUE, NM] (NYSE: PNM) announced that Chuck Eldred, currently Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, has been named Executive Vice President, Corporate Development and Finance. Don Tarry, currently Vice President, Controller and Treasurer, has been named Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of PNM Resources. Don joined PNM Resources in 1996. Prior to his current position, Don held the role of Vice President, Customer Service and Chief Information Officer.

Matt Torrie

WineBid [SEATTLE] welcomes Matt Torrie as CFO. Torrie joins from Zulily. He began his career at Deloitte.

Olivia Nelligan

CHS Inc. [ST. PAUL, Minn.] (NASDAQ: CHSCP) announced it has named Olivia Nelligan as its new executive vice president and chief financial officer. Most recently, Nelligan served as founder and chief executive officer of Inish Enterprises. Prior to that, Nelligan served as chief executive officer of Nasco, LLC. After serving as Nasco’s CEO, she served as non-executive chair of the company’s board. Before being named Nasco’s CEO, Nelligan was the company’s chief financial officer. Prior to joining Nasco, Nelligan spent 14 years at Kerry Group where she held finance and strategy leadership positions, including serving as global chief financial and strategic planning officer for the Taste & Nutrition division and chief financial officer for the Americas Ingredients & Flavors division.

SinglePoint [PHOENIX, AZ] (OTCQB: SING) announced that Corey Lambrecht rejoined as their new CFO, Lambrecht was a founding investor in the predecessor company to SinglePoint, Lifestyle Wireless and served on the Board of Directors post merger with Carbon Credits International. Lambrecht has served as an independent public company board member and continues to serve on various audit and compensation committees. Lambrecht previously served as the President and Chief Operating Officer at Earth911 Inc., a subsidiary of Infinity Resources Holdings Corporation, from January 2010 to July 2013.

Zoom Telephonics, Inc. [BOSTON, MA] (OTCQB: ZMTP) announced Frank Manning’s retirement as CEO and acting CFO effective February 1, 2020.  Jacquelyn Barry Hamilton will become acting CFO on that date.

Numerated [BOSTON] announced the addition of Duncan Perry as Chief Financial Officer. Perry joins Numerated from Klaviyo. During his time at Klaviyo, Perry served as VP of Finance and VP of Operations. Perry’s other experience includes as CFO at PeopleCube and Senior Director of Finance at Charles River Development.

Complia Health [SCHAUMBURG, IL] welcomed Dawn Drella as Chief Financial Officer. Drella’s experience includes serving as an Operational CFO of a division of a software company.

G2 Integrated Solutions [HOUSTON] announced that Tom Wilkins has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining G2-IS, Tom served as the Senior VP of Operations Finance for C&J Energy Services.  Preceding his role at C&J Energy Services, Tom held numerous CFO positions at privately held companies in the broader energy industry.

Charles Jemley

Dutch Bros Coffee [GRANTS PASS, OR] named Charles Jemley chief financial officer. Jemley most recently, he served as CFO of CKE Restaurants Holdings, Inc., the operator of Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s. Jemley has served in numerous senior finance positions at global companies, including Starbucks, Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut.

ComplyAdvantage [NEW YORK, LONDON, AND SINGAPORE, None] announced the appointment of Vatsa Narasimha as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Narasimha is the former President and CEO of OANDA Global Corporation (OANDA). Prior to OANDA, Narasimha spent eight years as a Principal at The Boston Consulting Group.

Aerion [RENO, NV] announced that Matthew Mejía has joined Aerion as the company’s Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Strategy & Investor Relations. Prior to Renaissance Strategic Advisors, Matthew held leadership positions with the aerospace practices at Booz & Company and Charles River Associates. He also spent eight years as an investment banker at First Equity Development.

Billy Landreneau

Latter and Blum Property Management [NEW ORLEANS] announced that Billy Landreneau has been named Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Previously, Landreneau held the position of Chief Accounting Officer (CAO), Billy comes to Latter & Blum Property Management after having spent the majority of his 15-year career as Senior Auditor at Ernst & Young, a Big 4 accounting firm, and Assistant Controller at Hornbeck Offshore Services.

Praxsyn Corporation [WEST PALM BEACH, FL] announced that it has appointed Daniel Oswald as Chief Financial Officer for Praxsyn Corporation and Praxsyn Capital. Oswald began his career in the Mergers & Acquisitions group of Merrill Lynch’s Investment Banking Division in New York. He returned to California where he worked in corporate finance roles for PC Mall, Countrywide/Bank of America, and Prospect Mortgage. Since his last corporate role, Oswald has run his own consulting firm.

Easterseals [CHICAGO] named Glenda Oakley its Chief Financial Officer. Oakley was most recently Executive Director and Regional Chief Financial Officer at Aetna Medicaid in Illinois.

Casa Systems, Inc. [ANDOVER, MA] (NASDAQ CASA) announced that Maurizio Nicolelli, Chief Financial Officer, has notified the company of his intention to resign to pursue a CFO opportunity outside of the communications technology industry. Nicolelli will remain with the company until January 31, 2020. Scott Bruckner was appointed as interim CFO. Bruckner is currently SVP Strategy and Corporate Development, which he joined in November 2017 after a more than 20-year career as an investment banker.

Milena Alberti-Perez

MediaMath [NEW YORK] announced that Milena Alberti-Perez has joined the company as chief financial officer. Alberti-Perez most recently served as CFO of Penguin Random House.

WWE [STAMFORD, CT] (NYSE: WWE) announced the appointment of Frank A. Riddick III, who has served as a member of WWE’s Board of Directors for more than 11 years, as interim Chief Financial Officer. Riddick previously served as CEO for FloWorks International, LLC, JMC Steel Group, Formica Corporation, and Triangle Pacific Corp., and President/COO of Armstrong World Industries, Inc. He has also served in executive management positions, including Chief Financial Officer, Controller, Treasurer, and Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions during a career that spans 40 years. Riddick also served as Compensation Committee Chairman and member of the Audit Committee as a part of WWE’s Board of Directors.

Medin Technologies, Inc. [TOTOWA, NJ] announced the appointment of Jim Engler as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Medin Technologies, Engler served as the Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Finance at Preferred Display, Inc. and IPC Systems, Inc. and held executive financial roles at the LeFrak Organization and Medical Resources, Inc.

Motus [BOSTON] announced that Tim Brown, Chief Financial Officer, is transitioning to Chief Corporate Development Officer. Brown has been at the financial helm of Motus since 2013. Brown joined Motus after serving as the Chief Financial Officer of ConnectEDU (CDU). Prior to CDU, Brown led the corporate development/M&A function at EducationDynamics. He was also a principal at Halyard Capital.

Mediafly [CHICAGO] announced the appointment of Keith Parrish as Chief Financial Officer. Parrish is replacing John Evarts who previously held both CFO and COO roles. Prior to Mediafly, Parrish was the CEO of iPresent. Following Mediafly’s acquisition of iPresent in August 2019, Parrish joined the team as EVP of European Operations.

The Scion Group [CHICAGO] announced the appointment of Monte J. Huber as the company’s first-ever chief financial officer.  Huber served the past six years in the roles of chief accounting officer, chief financial officer and senior vice president of strategic initiatives for Blackstone at its multi‐family platform (LivCor) and its asset management platform (Revantage Corporate Services). He previously held positions at Equity Residential (EQR) and Strategic Hotels & Resorts.

Questionmark [TRUMBULL, CT] welcomed Peter Rooken-Smith as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to Questionmark, Peter was Finance Director at Vizolution, Ascom Network Testing and Financial Controller at Argo Interactive.

Roger Sim

Spartech [ST. LOUIS] announced that Roger Sim has been named new Chief Financial Officer. Sim replaces Bob Robison, who is retiring. Prior to joining Spartech, Sim was CFO for Custom Windows Systems. He previously served in similar leadership capacities for Backyard Products LLC, Innocor Inc.; Tyden Group; Global Closure Systems; Silgan Holdings; Silgan Closures; Thatcher Tubes LLC; Courtaulds Packaging/Akzo Nobel; and Arthur Andersen.

Six One Commodities LLC (61C) [NEW YORK] announced Joshua Bailey joined as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Bailey joins 61C from Castleton Commodities International LLC (CCI) where he was the CFO of the Assets group. Prior to being CFO at CCI, Bailey held various positions of increasing responsibility in the finance organization at Noble Americas Corp (NAC). Bailey started his career in the Financial Services Assurance practice at Ernst & Young LLP.

Trivest Partners [MIAMI] announced that Dan Rogan has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer. Dan joined Trivest in 2014 as Vice President of Finance. Prior to joining Trivest, he worked for L Catterton and Deloitte Tax LLP.

CJ Bermander

Digital River [MINNEAPOLIS] announced the appointment of Christopher (CJ) Bernander as the company’s chief financial officer. Bernander most recently was vice president of finance at Renaissance Learning. Prior to his role at Renaissance Learning, Bernander spent nine years at Digital River in various financial leadership roles, including accounting, finance and corporate development functions. His prior experience includes experience in public accounting at EY.

Ellen Coleman

PeerStreet [LOS ANGELES] promoted Ellen Coleman to Chief Financial Officer. Coleman joined the company a year ago as EVP of Finance. Prior to joining PeerStreet in 2019, Coleman held positions as Managing Director at Countrywide Financial Corp, Treasurer at Stearns Lending, and Executive Vice President and Treasurer at both Nationstar Mortgage and Homeward Residential, Inc.

Tennant Company [MINNEAPOLIS] (NYSE: TNC) announced that Keith Woodward, Tennant’s senior vice president and chief financial officer, will take a temporary medical leave of absence. In Woodward’s absence, Tennant has appointed Andy Cebulla to act as the Company’s interim CFO. He joined Tennant over two years ago and is currently the Vice President of Finance and Corporate Controller.

Dave Raszeja

The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company [HORSHAM, PA] announced that Dave Raszeja, senior vice president, financial management and chief risk officer, has been promoted to senior vice president, chief financial officer, effective March 1. Raszeja will move into the role and take over responsibilities from Sue Deakins, who announced her retirement early last year. Raszeja joined Penn Mutual in July 2001 as an actuarial analyst.

Effectual [HOBOKEN, NJ] announced that Robert Doherty has joined the team as Chief Financial Officer. He held progressively senior positions at PaineWebber, Salomon Brothers, and Citigroup and led finance teams at Metromedia Fiber Networks, FiberMedia, and vXchnge.

Spirit AeroSystems [WICHITA, KS] (NYSE: SPR) announced the appointment of Mark Suchinski as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. This follows the resignations of Jose Garcia, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Suchinski served in various financial leadership roles at Spirit since 2006. Since 2019, Suchinski served as Spirit’s Vice President, Quality. Before that he was Vice President, Boeing 787 Program, from 2018 to 2019. From 2014 to 2018, he was Spirit’s Vice President, Controller and Principal Accounting Officer, having previously held numerous roles within Spirit’s finance organization including Vice President, Treasurer and Financial Planning; Vice President, Finance and Treasurer; Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis and Corporate Contracts; and Controller, Aerostructures Segment. Prior to joining Spirit, he was at Home Products International, where he served as Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer from 2004 to 2006, and Corporate Controller from 2000 to 2004. Prior to that, he held financial leadership positions of controller and senior finance manager at other companies.

Realty Income Corporation [SAN DIEGO] (NYSE: O) announced that its EVP, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer Paul Meurer is leaving the company. To ensure a smooth transition, Meurer will serve as a senior advisor to the company through March 31, 2020. Sean Nugent, the company’s Senior Vice President, Controller, will serve as Principal Financial Officer and Treasurer on an interim basis.

Connors Group [CANONSBURG, PA] announced that Rocco Romano, a former partner at accounting firm Urish Popeck & Co. has joined Connors Group as CFO.

Lara Rickard

Subsplash [SEATTLE] announced that Lara Rickard has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Rickard was previously with Zumobi and Avocent.

Spartan Motors, Inc. [CHARLOTTE, MI] (NASDAQ: SPAR) announced the appointment of its incoming chief financial officer, Jonathan C. Douyard, effective no later than March 31, 2020. Douyard most recently served as the vice president of finance and CFO of Fluke Corporation, an operating company within Fortive, a Danaher Industrial spin-off. Prior to joining Fluke, he held key financial leadership positions at Sikorsky Aircraft, a United Technologies Company; and General Electric. Rick Sohm, the Company’s current CFO, previously announced he was stepping down for non-business reasons in September 2019.

Agrify Corporation [BURLINGTON, MA] announced the appointment of Niv Krikov as its chief financial officer. Krikov joins Agrify after two years as chief financial officer at Desalitech, which was acquired by DuPont. Previously, he held the same position at PeerApp. Krikov also served as chief financial officer at NTS from 2007 to 2014.

Cardiff Lexington [FT. LAUDERDALE, FL] Corporation (OTC: CDIXBB) announced that Steven Healy has agreed to join the senior management team as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. Healy founded Dania Solutions, and served as CFO of NetTalk.COM, Inc. He was CFO of National Molding, LLC and CFO of Imperial Industries, Inc.

EXL [NEW YORK] (NASDAQ: EXLS) announced the appointment of Maurizio Nicolelli to the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Nicolelli’s most recent role was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Casa Systems, which he joined in 2019. Prior to that, he served 23 years at FactSet Research Systems, where he was Senior Vice President, Principal and Chief Financial Officer from 2009 to 2018.

Bob Leger

Infinity Federal Credit Union [Westbrook, ME] hired Bob Leger as its chief financial officer (CFO). Leger was previously CFO for York County Credit Union and Town & Country Federal Credit Union. He most recently held the position of controller for Aroma Joe’s Franchising.

Leonid Rozkin

OrderMyGear [DALLAS] announced that Leonid Rozkin has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer. Prior to OMG, Rozkin was Vice President at Francisco Partners.

Nobis Rehabilitation Partners [ALLEN, TX] announced that Jerry Huggler joined as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to this role, he was the SVP/Controller of AccentCare, Inc.

Mark Willis

SR Homes [CUMMING, GA] announced Mark Willis as the company’s new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Willis previously worked with Rausch Coleman Homes, Baessler Homes and Cooper Homes.

Business.com [WALTHAM, MA] announced that Jason Teebagy has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Teebagy previously worked for General Electric, Vistaprint, and PerkinElmer.

TI-TRUST, Inc. [HINSDALE, IL] announced that Julie Kenning has been named as the Chief Financial Officer for the company. Kenning is the Executive Vice President of Operations, and will assume the role of CFO in addition to her current duties. Kenning has been with the company for over 20 years.

Insmed Incorporated [BRIDGEWATER, NJ] (NASDAQ: INSM) announced the appointment of Sara Bonstein as Chief Financial Officer. Bonstein most recently served as Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating Officer of OncoSec Medical Incorporated. Prior to joining OncoSec, Bonstein served as the Chief Financial Officer, Secretary, Treasurer and Executive Vice President at Advaxis, Inc. Before Advaxis, Bonstein was a Six Sigma Champion & Black Belt at Eli Lilly & Company. She also held key finance positions at ImClone Systems and Johnson & Johnson.

Narayan Menon

Vimeo [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Narayan Menon as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Vimeo, Mr. Menon served as Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Corporate Secretary at Prezi. Previous leadership roles include Corporate Vice President at Intuit, Senior Director of Finance at Microsoft, and Senior Director at Skype.

Cooks Venture [NEW YORK] announced the hire of Ankur Agrawal as chief financial officer. Most recently, Agrawal served as the VP of Finance at SeatGeek. Agrawal was also at Blue Apron, where he worked for over three years. Prior to Blue Apron, Ankur worked at Pepsico in a variety of Finance roles.

Lightspeed Systems [AUSTIN, TX] announced that is has appointed Kirk Orgeldinger to the newly created positions of Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) and Chief Operating Officer (“COO”). Most recently, he served as the CFO of Accruent. Previously, he worked for Three Rivers Operating Company, Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems.

Steve Clinton

DC Housing Finance Agency [Washington, DC] has a new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Steve Clinton. Prior to joining the DCHFA, Clinton was a Senior Housing Policy Advisor for the U.S. Department of the Treasury. At the Treasury Department, he also served as an advisor to the FISCAL Bureau of the Office of Domestic Finance and later was a Senior Advisor to the Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Capital Access. Before Clinton joined the U.S. Treasury Department, he spent 25 years at Freddie Mac where he was Senior Vice President. Other roles during his 25 years included Senior Vice President of Single-Family Operations, Director of Single-Family Mortgage Credit Pricing, and bond trader.

Jill McFarlane

Brillient Corporation [RESTON, VA] announced that they welcomed Jill McFarlane to the team as their new Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Brillient, Jill served in a variety of leadership roles including SVP, CFO and Controller.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. [LOWELL, Arkansas] (NASDAQ: JBHT) announced that effective March 1, 2020, David G. Mee will retire from his current duties as executive vice president, Finance and Administration and chief financial officer. John Kuhlow, currently senior vice president of Finance, controller and chief accounting officer, will assume the role of interim chief financial officer on that date.

CIRCOR International, Inc. [BURLINGTON, MA] (NYSE: CIR) announced that Chadi Chahine, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, plans to step down from CIRCOR effective March 2, 2020.

Management Registry, Inc. [LOUISVILLE, KY] announced the appointment of Michael Steinmetz as Chief Financial Officer. Steinmetz most recently held the position of Vice President of Finance and VP of Shared Services, North America for ManpowerGroup.

Elevate Security [BERKELEY, CA] announced the appointment of Nicholas (Nick) Telford as chief financial officer. Most recently he was chief financial officer at Bugcrowd. Before Bugcrowd, Telford was previously chief financial officer of Perforce Software (acquired by Summit Partners) and his background includes AmberPoint (acquired by Oracle) and Ernst & Young.

AngioDynamics, Inc. [LATHAM, NY] (NASDAQ: ANGO) announced that it has appointed Stephen Trowbridge to the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Trowbridge has served as the Company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer since October 22, 2019, in addition to his responsibilities as Senior Vice President and General Counsel. Trowbridge joined AngioDynamics as Corporate Counsel in 2008, was promoted to Vice President and General Counsel in 2010, and subsequently promoted to Senior Vice President, General Counsel in 2013. Prior to AngioDynamics, Trowbridge served as Corporate Counsel at Philips Healthcare and Intermagnetics General Corporation. Trowbridge began his career with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, LLP.

Jennifer Ryu

Resources Connection, Inc. [IRVINE, CA] (NASDAQ: RECN) announced the appointment of Jennifer Ryu as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Ryu served as the Company’s Interim CFO since August 2019. Ryu joined the Company in April 2019, serving first as the Company’s Senior Vice President of Finance and Accounting. Prior to joining the Company, from 2014 to 2019, Ryu was Chief Accounting Officer for Young’s Holdings. From 2007 to 2014, Ms. Ryu served as Director of External Reporting for Kaiser Aluminum. Ryu began her career in public accounting at Deloitte.

INBRACE [IRVINE, CA] announced the addition of Kevin Cousins as the company’s new Chief Financial Officer. Former CFO Kenny Chang has moved into a new executive role as Senior Vice President of Enterprise Development.

Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. [CAMBRIDGE, MA] announced the appointment of Jeffrey Trigilio as the company’s first Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Amylyx, Trigilio most recently served as Vice President of Finance at BlueRock Therapeutics. Previously, Trigilio held roles of increasing responsibility at Alexion Pharmaceuticals, most recently serving as Executive Director, Strategic Decision Analysis.

Jackson National Life Insurance Company [LANSING, MI] announced that Axel André has been named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Jackson. André most recently served as Chief Financial Officer of Individual Retirement at AIG and will assume his new role effective Feb. 24, 2020. André joined AIG in 2013 and initially served as Chief Risk Officer for Individual Retirement, Group Retirement, and Institutional Markets. He was promoted to Chief Financial Officer of Individual Retirement at AIG in 2018. Prior to his time at AIG, André served in a variety of leadership roles on the Global Insurance Strategies team at Goldman Sachs. André’s arrival coincides with the announcement that current Jackson CFO, Chad Myers, will be moving into the newly created role of Vice Chair of Jackson Holdings, LLC.

JDA Software, Inc. [SCOTTSDALE, AZ] announced the appointment of Sue Savage Pirri as executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO). Pirri joins JDA from Autodesk where he was Vice President of Finance. Earlier in her career Pirri held positions at Digital Island, Electronic Arts, AirTouch Communications and Coopers & Lybrand.

PPB Capital Partners [CONSHOHOCKEN, PA] welcomed Lance Baker as PPB’s Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining PPB, Baker was the Chief Financial Officer for Hatteras Funds, and previously served as Vice President of Operations at Smith Breeden Associates, and earlier as a manager at the accounting firm, BDO.

PSST, LLC [LOUISVILLE, KY] announced that it hired Mark Lattis as Chief Financial Officer. Lattis was previously Assistant Controller for Yum! Brands. Prior to Yum! Mark was a Senior Accountant with Strothman and Company. He began his financial career with Invesco, ultimately rising to Partner and Portfolio Manager.

iRobot Corporation [BEDFORD, MA] (NASDAQ: IRBT) announced that the company is appointing current vice president of finance Julie Zeiler as its next executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective May 4, 2020. She will succeed Alison Dean, the company’s CFO since 2013. Zeiler joined iRobot in 2017. Prior to iRobot, Julie served in a number of positions over a 20-year-tenure at Boston Scientific Corporation as well as financial management roles at Digital Equipment Corporation.

McorpCX, Inc. [SAN FRANCISCO] (TSXV: MCX, OTCQB: MCCX) appointed Barry MacNeil to serve as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, upon receiving notice that the Company’s previous Chief Financial Officer, Tricia Tomko, intended to pursue other endeavors. MacNeil has previously served as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. MacNeil has been appointed to serve as a director on the Company’s board of directors.

Nuvaira [MINNEAPOLIS] announced that Tom Griffin has joined Nuvaira as Chief Financial Officer. Griffin was most recently Chief Financial Officer of Avedro, Inc. Prior to joining Avedro, Tom served as the Chief Financial Officer of Entellus Medical, Inc., from 2007 to May 2016.

Gracie Point Holdings, LLC [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Joseph Sevely as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Most recently he was Chief Financial Officer of Aspen Group, Inc. Previously he was Chief Financial Officer of Cutwater Asset Management. Earlier in his career he was Treasurer and Head of Market Risk at MBIA Inc. and worked at major Wall Street firms. He was Controller of Merrill Lynch’s Global Fixed Income Sales and Trading Division and also led teams responsible for derivative and structured finance product development at Bankers Trust.

BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. [SAN RAFAEL, CA] (NASDAQ: BMRN) announced the transition of Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Dan Spiegelman, who will remain as an employee and senior advisor until September 1, 2020 to assist with the transition. After that, he plans to pursue other interests. Brian R. Mueller, Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer, has assumed the role of acting Chief Financial Officer. Mueller is a veteran at BioMarin with 17 years of experience at the company, Mueller is a member of the board of directors and the Chairman of the Audit Committee of Anthera Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Art’s Way Manufacturing Co., Inc. [ARMSTRONG, IA] (NASDAQ: ARTW) announced that Michael Woods has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer. Prior to this position, Woods served as the Vice President of Finance for Art’s Way and he initially joined Art’s Way in 2016. Woods began his career in public accounting at Brinkman and Reed, CPAs and worked at XPO Logistics.

Ankura [WASHINGTON] announced the appointment of Christina Wong as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Ankura, Wong spent more than 20 years at American Express where she most recently served as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President, Global Merchant Services. Wong succeeds Ben Seto, who will remain with Ankura in a consulting capacity until May to ensure a seamless transition.

Jill Streit

PenFed Credit Union [TYSONS, VA] welcomed Jill Streit as Chief Finance Officer and Executive Vice President. Prior to joining PenFed, Streit was chief financial officer and treasurer, executive vice president at TIAA Bank. She previously held positions at EverBank, Prudential Network Realty and Deloitte & Touche, LLP.

Northrop Grumman Corporation [FALLS CHURCH, VA] (NYSE: NOC) appointed David F. Keffer as corporate vice president and chief financial officer, effective Feb. 17, 2020. Keffer succeeds Kenneth L. Bedingfield. Keffer served as a general partner for Blue Delta Capital Partners, a role he held since 2018. Previously, he was chief financial officer for CSRA, Inc. and chief financial officer for SRA International.

Conformis, Inc. [BILLERICA, MA] (NASDAQ: CFMS) announced that the Company has appointed Bob Howe as its new Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Howe spent nearly five years at NxStage Medical, Inc., as VP of Finance and Corporate Controller. Prior to this, Howe served at Lake Region Medical as VP, FP&A – Cardio & Vascular Division, where he progressed from Senior Director of FP&A for its Advanced Surgical Division. Before this, he served for 17 years at Boston Scientific where he held financial leadership roles in three of the company’s operating divisions as well as senior roles in manufacturing and corporate finance.

PSAV [SCHILLER PARK, IL] announced that Becky Sheehan has been named Chief Financial Officer. Sheehan fills the vacancy left when former CFO Ben Erwin was promoted to President in October 2018. Sheehan spent the last three years as Chief Financial Officer for Cars.com. Previously, she spent 10 years with FTD Companies, Inc., as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

James Rohrbaugh

Allegheny Health Network [PITTSBURGH] announced that James Rohrbaugh has been named the organization’s Chief Financial Officer. Rohrbaugh succeeds former AHN CFO Jeffrey Crudele, who retired at the end of 2019. Rohrbaugh joined AHN in 2014 as vice president of Finance and Chief Financial Officer for Jefferson Hospital and was appointed Senior Vice President of Financial Operations for AHN in 2018. Prior to joining AHN in 2014, Rohrbaugh served in various financial and executive leadership positions at Ascension Health’s Providence Hospital in Washington, D.C., and Inova Loudoun Hospital in Leesburg, Virginia. He also spent three years in the healthcare regulatory consulting practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

ResMan [PLANO, TX] announced that Brad Almond has been appointed chief financial officer. Almond previously served as Vertex’s chief financial officer from 2013 to 2019 and currently serves on the company’s board of directors. Before Vertex, Almond was chief financial officer of Cambium Learning Group.

United Natural Foods, Inc. [PROVIDENCE, RI] (NYSE: UNFI) announced that John Howard, who has served as Interim Chief Financial Officer since August 2019 , has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Howard joined UNFI in July 2019 as Senior Vice President, Finance and Accounting. Howard brings more than 20 years of experience leading finance teams including senior finance positions with the Valspar Corporation prior to its merger with Sherwin-Williams in 2018.

Plus Therapeutics, Inc. [AUSTIN, TX] (NASDAQ:  PSTV) announced that Andrew J. Sims has been appointed as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Sims previously held Chief Financial Officer roles at several private equity-backed companies. Previously, Sims was Partner at Mazars.

Donuts Inc. [SEATTLE] announced the appointment of Randy Haas as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”). Haas joins Donuts from Rhapsody/Napster where he was CFO. Previously, Randy had a long career at Microsoft, including serving as General Manager/CFO of the Internet Advertising Business Group. He also held senior leadership roles in Finance for the Sales and Marketing and internet platform areas.

L. Brooks Mallard

Gates Industrial Corporation plc [DENVER] (NYSE: GTES) announced that L. Brooks Mallard has been appointed as executive vice president and chief financial officer, and will join Gates effective February 24, 2020.  Prior to Gates, Mallard was chief financial officer of Henniges.  Prior to Henniges he was the executive vice president and chief financial officer of Jeld-Wen.  He also has held senior financial leadership roles with TRW, Cooper Industries, Thomas & Betts and Briggs & Stratton during his 25-year career.

Potrero Medical, Inc. [HAYWARD, CA] announced that Jeff Mack is joining its executive leadership team as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Most recently, Mack led finance at Outset Medical.

Cipherloc Corporation [SCOTTSDALE, AZ] (OTCQB: CLOK) announced the appointment of Ryan Polk as Interim Chief Financial Officer. Previously, Polk served in CFO roles at Generation Next and Cellpoint Corporation. Prior to those appointments, he filled executive roles for six years in the portfolio companies owned by Lacy Diversified, a family office based in Indianapolis. Additionally, Polk served as the Vice President for Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis for Brightpoint. He began his career at Ernst & Young.

MCTC Holdings, Inc. [LOS ANGELES] (OTC PINK: MCTC) announce it has added Robert L. Hymers III as its Chief Financial Officer. Hymers is the Managing Partner of Pinnacle Tax Services and was previously Chief Financial Officer and Director of Marijuana Company of America, Inc. (OTC: MCOA).

InfuSystem Holdings Inc. [ROCHESTER HILLS, MI] (NYSE American: INFU) announced that Gregory Schulte, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of InfuSystem, and the Company have agreed to a mutual separation. The Company has appointed Wesley W. Winnekins as Interim Chief Financial Officer. Winnekins previously worked with the Company as a financial consultant.

Amber Diver

AmeriPro EMS [ATLANTA] announced the appointment of Amber Diver as its new Chief Financial Officer. Prior to this appointment, Diver held various executive finance roles in privately held organizations. Most recently, Diver served in a leadership role at Bennet Thrasher.

Rick Hans

Innovation [JOHNSON CITY, NY] hired Rick Hans as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Innovation, Hans served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Fred’s. Previously, Hans served in senior finance, real estate, and treasury roles with Walgreen Company, ending with a six-year tenure as vice president, investor relations and finance. He also served as trustee of Walgreens Profit Sharing Plan.

Mutual of Omaha [OMAHA, NE] named Rick Hrabchak to the dual role of Chief Financial Officer and Chief Investment Officer. Hrabchak joined Mutual in 2016 as Chief Investment Officer, and last August he assumed the role of Chief Financial Officer on an interim basis. Prior to joining Mutual, Hrabchak spent 29 years with Prudential Financial Inc., where he held a variety of investment management and finance positions including Chief Investment Officer of the U.S. Retirement Business.

Paul Todgham

Cognex Corporation [NATICK, MA] (NASDAQ: CGNX) announced the appointment of Paul Todgham as Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer, effective March 9, 2020. Most recently, Todgham spent six years at Levi Strauss & Company, where he served in a range of senior leadership positions, including leading finance for the company’s Global Supply Chain, Distribution, Merchandising, Planning, Design and Marketing teams. Prior to his time at LS&Co., Todgham was Vice President of Finance for Ross Stores, Inc. where he led FP&A, Treasury and merchandise finance. Earlier in his career, he worked at Boston Consulting Group.

Yelp Inc. [SAN FRANCISCO] (NYSE: YELP) announced the appointments of David Schwarzbach as Chief Financial Officer. Schwarzbach joins Yelp from Optimizely, where he most recently served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. He joined Optimizely in 2015 from eBay, where he held senior finance positions including Vice President and CFO for the North America marketplace. Prior to eBay, Schwarzbach was the CFO of a cleantech startup in Colorado and earlier served as an Executive Director in Morgan Stanley’s Global Capital Markets division. Schwarzbach will be replacing James Miln, who has been serving as interim CFO since September 2019. Miln will resume his role leading Financial Planning and Analysis at Yelp.

Varex Imaging Corporation [SALT LAKE CITY] (NASDAQ: VREX) announced that Clarence Verhoef has informed the company of his intention to retire as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Verhoef will remain in his current role until a successor is named.

Casey’s General Stores, Inc. [ANKENY, IA] (NASDAQ: CASY) announced that Bill Walljasper, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will retire from the company later this year. Walljasper  joined the company in 1990 as a Risk Manager and his career developed through leadership roles in Risk Management, Human Resources and eventually Vice President of Human Resources in 1998. In 2003, he was named Vice President of Finance, and Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 2004.

Flowhub [DENVER] announced the appointment of Craig Gomulka as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Most recently, Gomulka served as CFO at Health Fidelity and earlier Vice President of Finance at Highmark Health.

Will Porter

Aura [BURLINGTON, MA] announced the appointment of Will Porter as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Aura, Porter was Chief Financial Officer of ObserveIT (acquired by Proofpoint), BlueTarp Financial (acquired by Capital One), and Signiant, Inc.

Jumo Health [NEW YORK] announced that it has appointed Raymond N. Altieri as its Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Jumo Health, Altieri served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at BlueCrest. Altieri has held numerous executive positions such as CEO and CFO, sat on boards of directors, and worked in business development, as well as the deal management side. These positions were held within private equity, Fortune 500, and start-up companies alike.

PDF Solutions, Inc. [SANTA CLARA, CA] (NASDAQ: PDFS) announced the appointment of Adnan Raza as Chief Financial Officer. Raza is currently EVP, Finance with the Company, having joined in January 2020 and will succeed Christine Russell, who will focus on board service for technology companies. Prior to joining the Company, Raza served as an independent strategy consultant for private and public companies and served in various roles at Synaptics Inc., including as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, technology investment banking at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and UBS Investment Bank, strategic advising at Blackreef Capital, engineering and marketing at Azanda Network Devices, and engineering at Lucent Technologies.

Vivex Biologics, Inc. [ATLANTA AND MIAMI] announced the appointment of Chad Kolean as chief financial officer. Prior to joining Vivex, Kolean served as CFO and treasurer for Titan Spine, Inc. Kolean previously served as CFO and treasurer for Cellectar Biosciences, Inc. Kolean also served as CFO and treasurer for Pioneer Surgical Technology, Inc. Kolean held leadership positions of increasing responsibility for a number of other companies both within the healthcare space and beyond, including Tomotherapy, Inc., Metavante Corporation, Snap-On, Inc., Herman Miller, Inc., Kaydon Corporation and Arthur Andersen, LLP.

ArTara Therapeutics [NEW YORK] (NASDAQ: TARA) announced the appointment of Blaine Davis as chief financial officer effective February 11, 2020. Prior to joining ArTara, Davis served as vice president, head of investor relations and corporate communications at Insmed starting in July 2017. Previously, Davis held multiple executive leadership positions at Endo International, including senior vice president and general manager, specialty pharmaceuticals; president of Endo Ventures; and senior vice president, investor relations and corporate communications. Prior to Endo, Davis held positions in corporate and business development and investor relations at Bristol-Myers Squibb.

Green Stream Holdings Inc. [PACIFIC PALISADES, CA] (OTC: GSFI) welcomed Mike Sheikh as the Company’s new Chief Financial Officer. Sheikh began his civilian career as a stock broker with Dean Witter and with broker/dealer National Securities before becoming research analyst and publisher of reports in the aerospace sector.

Bradley-Morris/RecruitMilitary [NORFOLK, VA] announced the appointment of Dale Young as Chief Financial Officer. Young previously served in senior leadership roles at The First Group, Diamond Resorts International, Universal Studios, the Ritz Carlton Club and Marriott Vacations Worldwide.

TriNet Group, Inc. [DUBLIN, CA] (NYSE: TNET) announced that Chief Financial Officer, Richard Beckert, is transitioning from the Company to pursue professional and personal interests. Mr. Beckert will transition effective May 15, 2020.

Han Kieftenbeld

Amyris, Inc. [EMERYVILLE, CA] (NASDAQ: AMRS) announced that Han Kieftenbeld is joining the company as Chief Financial Officer effective March 16, 2020. Most recently, Kieftenbeld served as Chief Financial Officer of Innophos Holdings, Inc. Prior to Innophos, Han held finance and operations roles of increasing reach and impact, including serving as Global Chief Financial Officer of AB Mauri in the UK, Global Chief Procurement Officer of Ingredion Incorporated, and Global Chief Financial Officer of National Starch.

Lisa Drauschak

PJM Interconnection [VALLEY FORGE, PA] announced that Lisa M. Drauschak has been promoted to Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Drauschak joined PJM in 1999. Her promotion will be effective February 26, 2020.

TreeHouse Foods, Inc. [OAK BROOK, IL] (NYSE: THS) announced the appointment of William J. Kelley Jr. (Bill) as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Kelley has been serving as Interim Chief Financial Officer since November 2019. Kelley joined TreeHouse in 2016 as Corporate Controller and was promoted to Senior Vice President, Corporate and Operations Finance in 2018. Prior to joining TreeHouse, he was Head of Global Audit for Kraft Heinz Company, where he worked from 2014-2016. Before that, he spent two years as Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer at Hillshire Brands, the spin off successor company to Sara Lee Corporation. From 2010 to 2012, he was Vice President and Corporate Controller at USG Corporation. He spent the previous ten years in a variety of increasingly senior operating finance roles at PepsiAmericas. His earlier career service included key finance and accounting roles at Arthur Andersen and Cargill.

Infrascale [LOS ANGELES] announced the appointment of Robert Peterson as Chief Financial Officer.

Jeremy Fox-Geen

iStar Inc. [NEW YORK] (NYSE: STAR) announced that Jeremy Fox-Geen will join as Chief Financial Officer at both iStar and Safehold at the end of March. Fox-Geen was most recently the Chief Financial Officer of McKinsey & Co.’s North American business. He previously held senior leadership roles at PwC, Citigroup and McKinsey, as both a management consulting leader, advising financial services clients on corporate finance, growth strategy and business transformation, and as a finance officer.

America First Multifamily Investors, L.P. [OMAHA, NE] (NASDAQ:  ATAX) appointed Jesse A. Coury to serve as the Partnership’s permanent Chief Financial Officer. Coury has been serving as the Partnership’s interim Chief Financial Officer since January 1, 2020. Coury served as the Partnership’s Corporate Controller from 2017 to 2019 and served as the Director of Internal Audit for ATAX’s former ultimate parent entity, Burlington Capital LLC, in 2016.  Prior to joining the ATAX organization, Coury held various positions with RSM US LLP from 2009 to 2015, most recently as an Assurance Manager.

Blink Charging Co. [MIAMI BEACH, FL] (NASDAQ: BLNK) announced the appointment of Michael Rama as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Rama will succeed Jonathan New, the Company’s CFO since 2018 who will be stepping down in order to pursue other interests.  Rama joins Blink following nearly a decade with NV5 Global, where he served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. From October 1997 until August 2011, Mr. Rama held various accounting and finance roles with AV Homes, Inc., including Principal Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer, and Controller.

XPO Logistics, Inc. [GREENWICH, CT] (NYSE: XPO) announced that David Wyshner has been appointed chief financial officer, effective March 2, 2020, replacing Sarah Glickman who was acting chief financial officer. Glickman will continue as senior vice president, corporate finance and transformation. Prior to joining XPO, Wyshner served as CFO of Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc., a spin-off of Wyndham Worldwide Corporation. Earlier, he was president and CFO of Avis Budget Group, Inc. Earlier, he was instrumental in executing Cendant Corporation’s strategic split into four independent companies and led the spin-off of a multi-billion-dollar Cendant subsidiary. He began his career in the investment banking division of Merrill Lynch.

Mid-Southern Bancorp, Inc. [SALEM, IN] (NASDAQ: MSVB), the holding company for Mid-Southern Savings Bank, FSB, announced that Robert W. DeRossett has been hired as Chief Financial Officer of the Company.

Sonasoft Corp. [SAN JOSE, CA] (OTCQB: SSFT) announced the appointment of Rob Baumert as CFO. Following a engineering career in the hydrogen fuel cell industry, where he rose to the position of Head of Test Engineering for XCellsis USA (a joint venture of Ford Motor Company, Daimler Chrysler and Ballard Power Systems), Rob pivoted to a business career. Along with two MBA classmates, he formed Grattan Group Capital (GGC Pty Ltd.), a niche investment firm focused on new media start-ups in Australia. In 2010 Rob was recruited by Redbubble to take on the role of CFO/COO in Melbourne. In 2011, Rob moved to San Francisco to establish the US branch of this global marketplace, with global responsibility for Finance, Supply Chain, Customer Support and Data Analytics. Rob left Redbubble a year later to become the CFO of X-Company.

Amazing Energy Oil and Gas Co. [PLANO, TX] (OTCQB: AMAZ) announced that the Company has hired Benjamin Jacobson III as its new CFO upon the departure of Marty Dobbins who resigned for personal reasons. Prior to joining Amazing Energy, Jacobson co-founded ICP, LLC. Previously Ben spent over a decade as an alternative investment manager and Specialist with New York Stock Exchange Member firm, Benjamin Jacobson & Sons where he was a partner and subsequently 6 years as Vice President of Goldman Sachs after its purchase in 2001.  He directed the trading operations and risk management activities while serving a clientele of major global corporations. Ben holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Denver. Ben serves on the staff of his church as well as certain charitable organizations.

Chris Caswell

Welch’s [CONCORD, MA] appointed Chris Caswell as chief financial officer. Caswell has been serving as such in an interim capacity for Welch’s since September 2019. Prior to joining Welch’s, Caswell was the chief operating and financial officer for Clarks Americas. Previously he held a number of roles at Keurig Green Mountain (now Keurig Dr. Pepper), including chief financial officer of the international division and chief audit executive. Caswell began his career in consulting and auditing, including several years at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Silvaco, Inc. [SANTA CLARA, CA] announced the appointment of Howard Hideshima as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Hideshima was previously at Super Micro Computers, where he was Sr. VP and CFO, and led a successful IPO in 2007. Hideshima has more than 30 years of experience, including senior management roles in companies such as Force10 Networks (acquired by Dell), Virtual Silicon Technology (acquired by MOSAID), Internet Corporation, and ESS Technology.

Xcel Energy [MINNEAPOLIS] (NASDAQ: XEL) announced that Bob Frenzel will be named president and chief operating officer and that Brian Van Abel will be the company’s chief financial officer, both effective March 31. Frenzel is currently serving as chief financial officer. Van Abel is currently serving as senior vice president, Finance and Corporate Development. .

NIKE, Inc. [BEAVERTON, OR] (NYSE: NKE) announced that Andy Campion, currently Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will become Chief Operating Officer, effective April 1. Matthew Friend, currently CFO of Operating Segments and Vice President of Investor Relations, will become the new CFO for NIKE, Inc. Campion joined Nike in 2007 as VP of Global Planning and Development and served in senior finance and strategy roles before becoming CFO in 2015. Prior to joining Nike, he held leadership roles in strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, financial planning and analysis, operations planning, investor relations, and tax at The Walt Disney Co. from 1996 to 2007. Friend joined Nike in 2009, working on Corporate Strategy and Corporate Development, before being appointed CFO of Emerging Markets (now APLA) in 2011. He has served as CFO of Global Categories, Product and Functions; CFO of Global Brands and Functions; and CFO of the Nike Brand. As of 2019, Friend has served as CFO of Operating Segments and VP of Investor Relations. Prior to joining Nike, he worked in the financial industry including roles as VP of investment banking and mergers and acquisitions at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

Melissa Thomas

Groupon [CHICAGO] (NASDAQ: GRPN) announced that interim Chief Financial Officer Melissa Thomas assumes the role on a permanent basis. Thomas joined Groupon in 2017 as vice president of Commercial Finance and currently also serves as Chief Accounting Officer and Treasurer. Previously, she was vice president of Finance at Surgical Care Affiliates and spent nearly nine years at Orbitz Worldwide in a variety of positions including vice president of Finance. She has served as interim CFO since August 2019.

ThreatConnect, Inc. [ARLINGTON, VA] announced the hiring of Daniel Moser as CFO.Moser joins ThreatConnect with over 20 years of finance and operational leadership in the technology space. Moser had held CFO positions at ExecVision and Surefire Local.

Leanplum [SAN FRANSISCO] announced the appointment of Sheri Huston as chief financial officer (CFO). Huston has held CFO positions at Comscore Networks and LiquiBox, and senior financial leadership roles at Rockwell Automation and IRI.

Mark Shifke

Billtrust [LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ] announced the appointment of Mark Shifke as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Shifke served as CFO of Green Dot, also holding General Manager, Government Programs and Vice President, Special Projects positions at the fintech firm. Previously, he served as Managing Director, M&A and Corporate Finance Advisory at J.P. Morgan and as a Vice President at Goldman Sachs. He has also served as a Partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, a law firm and a Principal at KPMG LLP.

Sue Bachorski

House of Saka, Inc. [NAPA VALLEY, CA] announced the addition of Sue Bachorski to the role of Chief Operating and Financial Officer. Prior to joining House of Saka, Bachorski spent nearly three decades as a Senior Operations and Finance Executive at Constellation Brands, Inc. Most recently, Sue served as SVP, Operation Services, Global Wine & Spirits. Her prior roles include serving as SVP, CFO Constellation Wines North America and SVP & CFO Pacific Wine Partners.

MedLite ID, Inc. [ST. GEORGE, UT] announced that Steven Savage has joined the company as Chief Operating Officer/Chief Financial Officer. Savage was most recently CEO of Executive Performance group.

Vincent K. Petrella

Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. [CLEVELAND] (NASDAQ: LECO) announced that Vincent K. Petrella, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, will be succeeded by current Executive Vice President, Finance, Gabriel Bruno, effective April 22, 2020. Petrella will continue to serve as Executive Vice President to assist the Executive Team with the transition of the finance and corporate strategy organization until his retirement later this year. Bruno joined Lincoln Electric in 1995 and has held numerous leadership positions in finance, information technology and human resources, including Corporate Controller, Chief Information Officer, Chief Human Resources Officer and most recently, Executive Vice President, Finance. Prior to Lincoln Electric, Bruno worked in the audit practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

ADDvantage Technologies Group, Inc. [FARMERS BRANCH, TX] (NASDAQ: AEY) announced that Kevin Brown, Chief Financial Officer, will be leaving the Company effective March 6, 2020. Brown accepted a new opportunity in Houston where he and his family reside. Scott Francis, who serves as the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer and former CFO, will serve as the company’s Principal Financial Officer in the interim.

Tile [SAN MATEO, CA] announced the appointment of Rob O’Hare as its Chief Financial Officer. Prior to Tile, O’Hare served as Chief Financial Officer for Spark Networks SE and held financial leadership roles at Square and Pandora.

Staffing 360 Solutions, Inc. [NEW YORK] (NASDAQ: STAF) announced that it has appointed Mark Gibbens to Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. Gibbens replaces interim CFO Chris Powers. Gibbens’ most recent experience includes being the CFO at Arysta LifeScience. Prior to this, Gibbens was Head of Corporate Development and CFO at Aligned Energy. At Affinion Group Holdings, Gibbens was CFO among other executive positions. At Alcatel-Lucent, Gibbens was Head of Corporate Finance and Global Chief Investment Officer. At Alcatel-Lucent Investment Management Co., he held the position of Chief Investment Officer. At General Motors Corporation, Gibbens was Director, Mergers & Acquisitions and Director, Domestic Finance in addition to various positions.

Adaptimmune Therapeutics plc [PHILADELPHIA AND OXFORDSHIRE, UK] (NASDAQ: ADAP) announced the appointment of Gavin Wood as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective April 1, 2020. Most recently, Wood served as the CFO and a director of Abcam plc from September 2016 through February 3, 2020. Before that, Wood held a series of roles at Affymetrix Inc, from 2006 to 2016, including serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from May 2013 through March 2016, until the company was acquired by ThermoFisher Scientific. Michael Garone, who is serving as Interim CFO, will step down on March 31, 2020.

Digital Hands [TAMPA, FL] announced the addition of a new CFO, Wayne Nelson. Before his current role, Nelson lead numerous capital market transactions, including debt offerings, initial public offerings and restructurings with global finance company Cofinity and global technology service provider Syniverse Technologies.

Vendavo [DENVER] announced the addition of Dayton Kellenberger as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, he served as CFO for Four Winds Interactive.