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

Christopher Liucci has been named chief accounting officer and global controller at Connecticut-based freight railroad Genesse & Wyoming. Liucci previously held a similar post at Genencor International.

Willis Group Holdings, a New York-based insurance broker, has hired Eric Dinallo as general counsel. Dinallo most recently was head of regulatory affairs at Morgan Stanley.

New York-based MLB Advanced Media, which manages Internet content for Major League Baseball, has appointed Edward Weber senior vice president and chief financial officer. Weber previously was chief accounting officer at Sirius Satellite Radio.

Miracor Diagnostics announced several governance changes recently. Ross Seibert, formerly chief financial officer, has been promoted to chief executive and appointed to the board of directors. He replaces Lee Hulsebus, who is retiring. Howard Salmon, a director on Miracor’s audit, compensation and corporate governance committees, has also been named chairman of the board. Ann Wadsworth has been promoted from accounting manager to chief accounting officer.

Lichtman

Morgan

TechTeam Global, an IT outsourcing firm based in Michigan, has ousted its chief financial officer for unstated “potential misconduct.” The company insists the misconduct is unrelated to TechTeam’s financial statements, but Chief Financial Officer David Morgan was suspended March 29 and then resigned. Chief Accounting Officer Marc Lichtman has been named to oversee financial duties in Morgan’s place.

In Irvine, Calif., computer distributor Arbitech Corp. has hired Jim Binford as vice president of finance. Binford has worked at several technology startups in the past, and spent 10 years as CFO of American IC Exchange in the 1990s.

Emcor Group, an engineering firm in Norwalk, Conn., has promoted Mark Pompa from chief accounting officer to chief financial officer. Pompa succeeds Leicle Chesser, who has been named vice chairman. Pompa has been with Emcor for 12 years.

Jones

Biotech startup TransMolecular has appointed Jonathan Lloyd Jones as vice president of finance. Jones comes to TransMolecular from Genzyme Corp. , where he was senior developer of corporate development.

EuroZinc Mining Corp. , based in Vancouver, B.C., has appointed Richard Godfrey vice president of finance effective June 1. Godfrey previously was vice president of finance and chief financial officer at Breakwater Resources Ltd.

Drug research company Tercica, in Brisbane, Calif., has appointed Ajay Bansal chief financial officer and Susan Wong chief accounting officer. Prior to joining Tercica, Bansal was chief financial officer at Nektar Therapeutics. Wong has been working at Tercica as acting CFO.

On The Board

Frank Borelli, presiding director at the troubled advertising and public relations giant Interpublic, will step down from that role this month but remain on the board. Director Richard Goldstein will succeed him as presiding director. Interpublic’s top accounting executive recently left the company amid ongoing financial reporting difficulties.

Real estate investment trust American Financial Realty Trust has tapped Harold Pote to serve on its board of directors, to serve on the Jenkintown, Penn., company’s audit, compensation and finance committees. Pote previously has been executive vice president and Chase Regional Banking, among other jobs.

Ubben

San Francisco hedge fund ValueAct Capital has announced that it will run three candidates for the board of directors at Acxiom Corp. this spring. ValueAct will nominate Jeffrey Ubben, its managing partner, along with Louis Andreozzi and Michael Lawrie.

Flight Safety Technologies in Mystic, Conn., has created a new director’s seat on its board which will be slotted as a lead independent director. The seat is currently unfilled, and the company will consider naming a lead director at an upcoming board meeting.

Foundation Coal Holdings of Linthicum Heights, Md., has reorganized its board of directors. William Macaulay, chairman for the last two years, has resigned. Succeeding him is James Roberts, Foundation’s chief executive officer. Joel Richards, a board member since last year, has been named lead independent director, and Thomas Shockley has been appointed to the board’s audit committee.

From The Vendors

Governance software maker OpenPages has won Horizon Lines Corp. as a new customer. The North Carolina-based shipper will use OpenPages’ SOX Express for its compliance initiatives.

Venture capitalists have poured $14 million into Rome Corp. , a Texas-based risk management software business, for Rome’s second round of funding.

Trintech Group in London, a maker of software for transaction reconciliation, has landed Lloyds TSB Asset Finance as a customer for its ReconNet software. Lloyds TSB will use the software to increase visibility and control of internal bank reconciliation processes.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida has selected software from LogicManager to help automate the insurer’s enterprise risk management processes.

Cartesis, a maker of business performance management software, recently announced that engineering consulting business CH2M Hill has selected Cartesis ES Magnitude for global financial consolidation and reporting. Cartesis also recently struck a partnership with Resources Global Professionals to provide compliance-related consulting services to corporate clients.