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 Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has named Kyra Armstrong, Ray Hamm and Jerry Decker as deputy directors in the Board’s Division of Enforcement and Investigations. Armstrong and Hamm, an attorney and an accountant, respectively, were promoted from being associate directors in the division and will now have a more supervisory role in investigations. Decker, also an attorney, will have the additional title of chief trial counsel and handle litigation stemming from the PCAOB’s disciplinary proceedings.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has appointed James Carley associate district administrator for examinations in the Commission’s Atlanta office. He replaces Frank McGing, who retired in January.
Executive Moves
Rambus, the San Francisco-based maker of computer chips, has demoted General Counsel John Danforth after setbacks in legal wranglings with the Federal Trade Commission. The company describes Danforth’s new role as a “senior legal adviser” focusing on litigation. Deputy General Counsel Robert Kramer will assume Danforth’s old duties on an interim basis.
Automatic Data Processing has poached Christopher Reidy, formerly controller and chief accounting officer at AT&T, to be ADP’s next chief financial officer. ADP, based in Roseland, N.J., has also promoted Controller Dan Sheldon to the additional role of principal accounting officer. Sheldon will serve as interim CFO as well until Reidy formally moves into the job.
Cooper
In Islandia, N.Y., computer services giant CA has named Nancy Cooper chief financial officer. Cooper comes to CA—which has endured numerous changes to its financial reporting ranks in recent years as it tries to shake off accounting scandals from 2004—from IMS Health. Bob Cirabisi, who had been CA’s acting CFO, will return to his duties as corporate controller.
NightHawk Radiology Holdings has announced the departure of its chief accounting officer, Peter Hausback. Christopher Huber, the company’s chief financial officer, will now act as principal accounting officer. Based in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, NightHawk provides outsourced radiology services to medical centers.
John Whittington has been named interim general counsel and corporate secretary at HealthSouth Corp., the Birmingham, Ala.-based health care giant that foisted a $2.7 billion fraud on investors in the early 2000s. Whittington comes to the company from the law firm Bradley Arant Rose & White, and replaces Greg Doody.
Gillette
In Frisco, Texas, energy company Comstock Resources has hired Dale Gillette as general counsel. Gillette has practiced law in the energy sector for 32 years, most recently as a partner in the Dallas office of Gardere Wynne Sewell.
In Folsom, N.J., South Jersey Industries has promoted Kenneth Lynch from director of internal audit to assistant vice president of financial reporting and risk management. Lynch will now be responsible for all external financial reporting and SEC filings at the company, and be the primary adviser to senior management on disclosure and internal control matters.
Jo-Ann Stores, an apparel chain based in Hudson, Ohio, has promoted Chief Accounting Officer James Kerr to chief financial officer. Kerr has overseen the company’s accounting and financial reporting functions for eight years.
In Framingham, Mass., construction firm Perini Corp. has rehired Douglas Mure as vice president of human resources and risk management. Mure had been vice president of administration at Perini until 1999, and spent the last several years as an industry consultant. In his new role, he will focus on coordinating risk management and corporate human resources programs.
In Montreal, information technology services company CGI Group has promoted Corporate Controller David Anderson to chief financial officer. He replaces founder Andre Imbeau, who will assume the position of executive vice chairman.
In The Boardroom
Terrell
New York-based Comverse Technology has named Mark Terrell to its board of directors, including seats on its audit, corporate governance and nominating, and special committees. Comverse can certainly use the help; three of the computer equipment manufacturer’s top executives resigned in May amid allegations of options backdating. Terrell is a past executive director of the Audit Committee Institute at KPMG.
Dallas-based Odyssey HealthCare has appointed Robert Ortenzio, CEO of Select Medical Corp., to its board of directors. Ortenzio will serve on the board's nominating and governance committee.
The Inventure Group (formerly Poore Brothers) has appointed Bryce Edmonson a director and member of the audit committee. The Phoenix-based snack maker also appointed Ashton Asensio chairman of the audit committee, replacing Phil Giltner, who recently resigned.
Teledyne Technologies has appointed Wesley von Schack, CEO of Energy East Corp., to its board of directors. He will serve on the Los Angeles-based electronic equipment company’s nominating and governance, and personnel and compensation committees.
From The Vendors
Clearwell Systems, a maker of email monitoring software, has landed KLA-Tencor as a customer. KLA, which makes process management systems for the semiconductor industry, will use the Clearwell Email Intelligence Platform to analyze the email traffic of its 5,500 employees.
PCCW Ltd., one of the largest telecommunications companies in Hong Kong, has decided to use OpenPages FCM software from OpenPages to automate the company’s internal controls testing and help it comply with sections 404 and 302 of Sarbanes-Oxley.
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