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

Cody Colquitt, chief financial officer of financial printing powerhouse Bowne & Co. , has left the company to pursue other opportunities. Chief Accounting Officer Richard Bambach will replace him temporarily, while New York-based Bowne searches for a replacement.

The chief accounting officer of Chicago-based chewing gum maker Wrigley, Duane Portwood, resigned late last month for undiclosed reasons. He has been replaced by Shaun Mara, Wrigley’s controller. Mara has been with the company since 2001.

In College Station, Texas, O.I. Corp. announced the departure of its principal accounting officer, Juan Diaz, who is leaving the chemical company for personal reasons. No replacement has been named.

Phosphate manufacturer Mosaic has named Anthony Brausen chief accounting officer. Prior to joining the Plymouth, Minn.-based company, Brausen served as chief financial officer at Tennant Co.

Intervolve, a software company in Raleigh, N.C., has named Steve Paladino vice president of finance and operations. Paladino comes to Intervolve from FloLogic, where he was chief financial officer.

In the Netherlands, media giant VNU has named Matthew O’Laughlin senior vice president of tax. O’Laughlin previously had been chief of VNU’s U.S. tax compliance, and will continue to be based in New York. He replaces Bart Kuper, who has been hired as group tax director for TNT, a Dutch shipping company. VNU also announced that it has re-assigned Marcel Kerff from vice president of international tax to vice president of European tax.

Aircraft components manufacturer Spirit AeroSystems has hired Randy Davis for the newly created position of corporate controller. Davis previously worked at Vought Aircraft Industries as chief accounting officer; he will report to Rick Schmidt, Spirit’s chief financial officer.

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Maximus, a government contractor and consulting firm, has fired Chief Executive Officer Lynn Davenport amid allegations of improper conduct towards a female employee. The board has hired Richard Montoni, a former chief financial officer at the company, to replace him. David Walker has been named Maximus’ chief financial officer and treasurer.

In St. Paul, Minn., Deluxe Corp. announced that it has temporarily promoted Chief Accounting Officer Terry Peterson to chief financial officer, while the company looks for a new permanent CFO. Douglas Treff, Deluxe’s former CFO, recently resigned to take a position at another company.

Accounting firm KPMG has named Lord Michael Hastings to a new position as head of the firm’s corporate social responsibility practice. Lord Hastings comes to KPMG from the British Broadcasting Corp., where he held a similar position bolstering corporate social responsibility throughout the organization.

On The Board

In Little Rock, Ark., Peter Bridgman has been elected to the board of directors at Alltel. Bridgman is controller of PepsiCo, and is a member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s standing advisory committee.

Enesco Group, a maker of home and garden products and based in Itasca, Ill., has appointed David du Four to its board of directors and audit committee. Du Four is the former general manager of Labsphere.

San Antonio-based energy concern Valero has elected Dan Bates to its board of directors. Bates, chief executive officer of the Southwest Research Institute, will sit on Valero’s audit, conflicts and compensation committees.

FCG, a healthcare consulting firm based in Long Beach, Calif., has appointed Ronald Aprahamian to its board of directors, to serve on the company’s audit and compensation committees. A founder of investment firm Healthcare Ventures, Aprahamian also serves on the audit and compensation committees of Sunrise Senior Living.

St. Louis-based cable company Charter Communications has elected Rajive Johri to its board of directors and placed him on the audit committee. He replaces director John Tory, who resigned from the committee but remains on Charter’s board. Johri is an executive at First National Bank of Omaha.

From The Vendors

Sipex Corp. in Milpitas, Calif., has deployed a corporate governance system from software company Compli. The software, Compli Management Compliance System, will be used to educate employees on Sipex’ code of conduct and ethics, as well as policies on legal compliance, insider training and records retention.

Governance software maker OpenPages has won healthcare giant HCA as a customer. HCA will use the company’s OpenPages FCM product to manage its Sarbanes-Oxley compliance initiatives, such as archiving documents and procedures for Sections 404 and 302.

Oversight Systems has launched its latest governance software product, Oversight 3.8. Oversight specializes in software to monitor controls continuously and to inspect transactions in real-time.

Cartesis, a maker of financial software, has unveiled its latest upgrade, Cartesis 10. The new version incorporates a partnership with EDGAR Online to allow users to pull external financial data into a software simulation for benchmarking and what-if scenarios.