Compliance Week regularly tracks various personnel moves, board appointments, product releases, customer wins and industry gossip in the corporate governance realm. Submit announcements to Compliance Week Managing Editor Matt Kelly.

Executive Moves

Embattled Chicago Bridge & Iron, which already fired its chief executive and chief operating officers earlier this month, announced the resignation of acting Chief Financial Officer Richard Byers last week. Richard Goodrich, who had retired as CBI’s chief financial officer last October, will return to his old duties on an interim basis. Goodrich will also forgo a post-retirement consulting arrangement with CBI and in favor of his previous compensation agreement.

VH Industries has named Timothy Allen vice president of finance and corporate controller. Allen previously was controller for American Tower Corp. and had been a senior partner at KPMG.

The Hartford Financial Services Group has appointed Thomas Jones as vice president of securities compliance for The Hartford and chief compliance officer for The Hartford Mutual Funds. Jones was previously chief compliance officer for the SEI Funds and SEI Investments Management Corp.

Buckeye Technologies Inc. has promoted Steven Dean to vice president and company controller. Dean joined Buckeye in 1999 and has held numerous positions in its finance department.

Australian airline Qantas Group has reorganized its risk and auditing functions into a new Risk and Assurance Office, which will be led by Rob Kella. Kella has been Qantas' head of internal audit, but will now hold the title of chief risk officer.

On The Board

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Shipping powerhouse UPS has appointed Chief Financial Officer Scott Davis to the company’s board of directors. He will replace Lea Soupata, who retired last month as UPS’ human-resources chief, and will stand for formal election to the board in May. Davis has been CFO since 2001, and worked at UPS since 1986.

Alaska Communications Systems has elected Edward Hayes to its board of directors and appointed him to its audit committee. Hayes is chief financial officer of Quantum Corp., and also serves as a director and audit committee chairman at New Wave Research Inc.

Shareholders at Bradley Pharmaceuticals have elected Leonard Jacob and William Murphy to the company’s board of directors. Jacob will serve as chairman of the board’s nominating and governance committee, Murphy as chairman of the audit committee.

From The Vendors

MultiCare Health System, a nonprofit healthcare business in Washington state, has selected OpenPages’ SOX Express governance software to manage its Sarbanes-Oxley compliance initiatives. MultiCare says it will use SOX Express to automate the company's ongoing test and review of its internal controls documentation.

Risk consultancy Protiviti has acquired two Canadian competitors, Creative Options and Radius, which specialize in the retail sector. The founder of Creative Options and co-founder of Radius, Patricia Quinn, joins Protiviti as a managing director and will work in Waterloo, Ont.; Radius co-founder Craig Matsumoto will hold the same title and work in Protiviti’s Boston office.

Email security firm MailFrontier and AXS-One, a maker of records-management software, have formed a partnership to offer an integrated email and document archiving solution. The two have crafted a co-selling agreement to pursue the market. MailFrontier also recently announced it has been acquired by network security firm SonicWall.

Fujitsu Consulting has acquired GIM Risk Management of Montreal, part of Fujitsu’s plan to enter the North American market. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Kennametal Inc., manufacturer of engineering components, has selected Axentis Enterprise Suite to manage its compliance obligations. The company will use Axentis to document and test its internal controls, both in the United States as well as in Europe, South America and Asia.

Compliance Week regularly tracks various personnel moves, board appointments, product releases, customer wins and industry gossip in the corporate governance realm. Submit announcements to Compliance Week Managing Editor Matt Kelly.