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’s Jaclyn Jaeger.

Chief Accounting Officers and Controllers

Manufacturing giant Honeywell International has named Talia Griep controller and principal accounting officer. Griep comes to the Morristown, N.J.-based company from The McGraw-Hill Cos., where she was corporate controller for seven years.

$12.4 billion industrial manufacturer Eaton Corp. has named Jeff Moelich vice president of internal audit. In this newly created position, Moelich has responsibility for directing the company’s worldwide auditing operations, including evaluating and recommending improvements to Eaton’s risk-management systems. Prior to this promotion, Moelich was Eaton’s director of internal audit.

Kiddoo

Bruce Kiddoo has resigned as chief accounting officer and controller of $3.6 billion Broadcom Corp., based in Irvine, Calif. Kiddoo is leaving Broadcom to join Maxim Integrated Products as vice president of finance and chief financial officer.

The $54 million textbook supplier Varsity Group has appointed John Griffin, its vice president of finance, as chief accounting officer. Griffin also serves as the company’s controller, a position he has held since February 2004.

Aleris International has appointed Joseph Mallak vice president of finance, chief accounting officer and controller. Mallak has more than 20 years of finance and accounting experience, most recently serving as managing director for The Reserve Group, a private equity firm based in Akron, Ohio.

Denver-based Rancher Energy has appointed Richard Kurtenbach chief accounting officer. Prior to joining Rancher Energy, Kurtenbach was vice president administration and controller with Galaxy Energy Corp.

Skilled Healthcare Group has promoted Chris Felfe to senior vice president of finance and chief accounting officer. Felfe most recently served as controller of the company.

$938.6 million corporate staffing firm Kforce has appointed Sara Nichols as chief accounting officer. Nichols, a certified public accountant, previously served as director of the business process management department at Kforce, where her team led enterprise-wide process improvement projects and managed the internal control certification process for the company.

$128.7 million TradeStation Group has announced that Mark Glassman will resign as chief accounting officer and corporate controller in September. Glassman will be replaced by CFO, vice president of finance, and treasurer, David Fleischman.

Orleans Homebuilders, based in Bensalem, Penn., has appointed Mark Weaver corporate controller. Weaver previously held the same title at Agere Systems, a semiconductor manufacturer spun off from Lucent Technologies.

General Counsels, Corporate Secretaries

Lam

San Diego-based Qualcomm has announced the resignation of General Counsel Lou Lupin after the $7.5 billion wireless chip supplier was dealt several legal setbacks in its dispute with rival Broadcom.Carol Lam will serve as acting general counsel until Qualcomm finds a permanent successor. Lam was the U.S. attorney in San Diego before being fired last year in a Justice Department shake-up now under congressional investigation.

Boulder, Colo.-based Wild Oats Markets has placed its general counsel and corporate secretary, Freya Brier, on administrative leave pending resolution of a dispute in connection to her November 2002 severance agreement. At question is whether she received a constructive termination in anticipation of a change in control. Wild Oats is currently in merger talks with its larger grocery rival Whole Foods.

$1.2 billion PharMerica Corp. has named Thomas Caneris general counsel. Caneris will receive an annual base salary of $250,000, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Safeguard Scientifics, a life sciences company in Wayne, Penn., has named Brian Sisko general counsel. He comes to Safeguard from Traffic.com and succeeds Steven Feder, who has left the company.

Boards of Directors

Vitesse Semiconductor has elected Steve Hanson to its board of directors; he will serve on the Camarillo, Calif., company’s audit and governance committees. Hanson is a senior partner at Southwest Value Acquisitions, a private equity firm, and spent many years as an executive at Motorola.

In Dallas, Flowserve Corp. has named John Friedery and Joe Harlan to its board of directors. Friedery, 51, is a senior vice president at Ball Corp. and will serve on the audit committee. Harlan, 48, is executive vice president of the electro and communications business for 3M Corp., and will serve on Flowserve’s finance committee.

Cardium Therapeutics has elected Andrew Leitch to its board of directors, and he will serve on its audit committee. Leitch, a certified public accountant, is a financial industry veteran, having served 28 years in public accounting, including 20 years as a partner in Deloitte & Touche.

From the Vendors

Segal

Aon Corp. has appointed Sim Segal as managing director of Aon Global Risk Consulting. Segal joined Aon from Deloitte Consulting, where he led the development of Deloitte’s enterprise risk management modeling approach and tools.