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.

From The Regulators

The Securities and Exchange Commission has named Martin Dunn acting director of the Division of Corporate Finance. His tenure will be short; New York securities lawyer John White is scheduled to take charge as the division’s permanent director on March 20. Dunn has been with the SEC in various capacities since 1988.

The SEC also announced that Chairman Christopher Cox received a clean bill of health from doctors last week. Cox had a benign thyroid tumor removed in January.

Executive Moves

Dallas-based Haggar Clothing has promoted Chief Accounting Officer John Feray to be the company’s chief financial officer. Feray has been with Haggar since 1996.

Atheros Communications, a maker of software for wireless communications, has named David Torre vice president and chief accounting officer. Torre joined the Silicon Valley company in 2000 and previously was vice president of finance and administration.

General Electric has named Brian Worrell vice president of corporate audit staff, and he will oversee the company’s internal audit operations. Worrell previously was general manager of finance for GE Oil & Gas. GE also named Daniel Janki vice president of investor relations; he previously was chief financial officer for the Americas at GE Consumer Finance.

In Louisville, Ky., healthcare real estate investment trust Ventas Inc. named Robert Brehl chief accounting officer and controller.

Aviation-equipment maker Aviall Inc. has promoted Jacqueline Collier from controller to vice president and chief accounting officer. Collier has been with Aviall and its predecessor company since 1976.

Eric Maxey, currently vice president of accounting at Universal Forest Products in Grand Rapids, Mich., will assume the title of vice president of business development this month. The company's corporate controller, Scott Bravata, will be promoted to vice president of accounting. Both Maxey and Bravata have a long history with Universal.

Nordson Corp. has named Gregory Thaxton corporate controller. He replaces Nicholas Pellecchia, who last September announced plans to retire. Prior to Thaxton's new role, he was the group controller for Nordson's Pacific South Division.

Platinum Underwriters Holdings has appointed Kenneth Kurtzman chief risk officer of Platinum Administrative Services. Prior to joining Platinum, Kurtzman held a number of senior positions at Swiss Reinsurance Co.

Panhandle Royalty has promoted its controller, Lonnie Lowry, to vice president, chief accounting officer and corporate secretary. The company also re-elected two directors, Chris Kauffman and Grant Swartzwelder, for three-year terms.

Weyerhaeuser has promoted Jeanne Hillman from assistant controller to vice president and controller. She will assume the title of chief accounting officer next month upon the retirement of Steven Hillyard.

On The Board

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Arrow Electronics of Melville, N.Y., has named Richard Hill to its board of directors, and he will serve on the electronics distributor’s audit and corporate governance committees. Hill is chief executive officer of Novellus Systems, which makes microchip equipment.

Lexington, Mass.-based Stride Rite Corp. has appointed Edward Larsen to its board of directors, and Larsen will chair the shoe company’s audit committee. He is chief financial officer and treasurer of Talbots Inc. Larsen will serve until Stride Rite’s 2008 annual meeting, and replaces Bruce van Saun, who has retired.

From The Vendors

Computer Sciences Corp. has launched a new risk management solution for European financial services companies. Known as CSC Risk Constellation, the software suite bundles more than 12 risk management consultancies and software firms, including CD Financial Technology Ltd, idRisk, JEG & Partners, Z/Yen and others depending on the type of engagement.

IAS has new product suite, AuditGPS, a risk management tool for companies to manage Sarbanes-Oxley compliance requirements. AuditGPS uses a collaborative multi-phased approach between internal auditors and IAS to include field-testing and trials.

Software company Vericept Corp. has licensed its technology to risk management consultancy Protiviti. Protiviti consultants will apply Vericept’s technology to clients’ networks to study electronic data flows, identify how the information might be compromised, and design systems to reduce risk of incidents.

Stellent Inc., a provider of content-management software, has landed the Los Angeles Times as a customer for Stellent’s software to automate and enhance its document- and content-related Sarbanes-Oxley compliance processes. The newspaper has already been using Stellent Universal Content Management technology to manage its Sarbanes-Oxley documentation for the past year.

Governance software maker OpenPages and ACL Services Ltd. have struck a partnership to combine OpenPages’ governance and compliance management solutions with ACL’s continuous controls monitoring solutions.