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.

General Counsels, Corporate Secretaries

Chiappetta

$46.6 billion Telecom Italia has announced the resignation of General Counsel Francesco Chiappetta. He will be replaced by Antonio Cusimano, former European general counsel for Pittsburgh-based PPG Industries and senior counsel for the global service of General Electric’s oil and gas business.

$3.3 billion Vulcan Materials has named Robert Wason as senior vice president and general counsel. Wason, who joined the Birmingham, Ala.-based company in 1988, most recently served as senior vice president of corporate development. He replaces William Denson, who has retired.

Ferro Corp. has hired Mark Duesenberg as vice president, general counsel, and secretary. Duesenberg, most recently was executive director of legal and government affairs for $16 billion computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd.

The Warnaco Group has appointed Jay Dubiner as senior vice president, general counsel, and secretary. Dubiner joins Warnaco from the law firm Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker.

Accounting Officers, Controllers

Jones

Chrysler Corp. has appointed Kim Harris Jones as senior vice president, corporate controller, and auditor. Jones was most recently vice president and chief controller for the company.

$6.7 billion CDW Corp., an IT services business, has hired Virginia Seggerman as vice president and controller. Most recently, Seggerman served as senior vice president and chief accounting officer at Equity Office Properties Trust in Chicago from 2004 until its acquisition by the Blackstone Group in 2007.

Chief Risk, Compliance Officers

$24.1 billion NATIONAL Australia Bank has appointed the head of its Asian operations, Bruce Munro, as group chief risk officer. Munro, who is chief executive of nabAsia, will replace Michael Harmer, who will be retiring in January.

Commodities broker MF Global has appointed Michael Roseman as its new chief risk officer. Prior to joining MF Global, Roseman served as chief risk officer for the Americas at Newedge Group.

Ambac Financial has hired Judy Slotkin as chief risk officer of municipal bond insurer Connie Lee. Slotkin is a former senior credit officer and head of public finance at Citigroup.

Marlin Business Services Corp. has hired Kerri O’Connor as chief risk officer and senior vice president of risk analytics and underwriting. O’Connor brings more than 25 years experience in the financial services industry. She most recently served the last 12 years at CIT Group.

U.S. Fiduciary has hired Jack Bruno as vice president and chief compliance officer. Bruno served as vice president and compliance manager at Stanford Financial for three years and, prior to that, served 20 years as vice president at Merrill Lynch where he worked in compliance and operations.

On the Board

Merrill Lynch & Co. has announced the resignation of Alberto Cribiore from its board of directors to accept a senior executive position at Citigroup. He has been a member of the Merrill Lynch board of directors since 2003.

Hershey Co. has elected David Shedlarz to its board of directors. He also will serve on the audit committee. His election increases the size of the board from nine to ten members.

In Other News

Pitt

Compliance Week Columnist Harvey Pitt has taken a part-time post as deputy attorney general of Alabama, where he will assist in a short-selling investigation of Colonial BancGroup. The former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman will continue as CEO of Washington, DC-based Kalorama Partners, a governance consulting firm, and will continue to write for Compliance Week as usual.

The California State Teachers’ Retirement System has appointed Anne Sheehan to the newly created position of corporate governance director, effective October. Sheehan, a CalSTRS board member who served as deputy policy director of the California Department of Finance, will direct a $3 billion portfolio that seeks to turn around under-performing companies through improved governance.

Interpublic Group, a provider of advertising and marketing services, has selected OpenPages FCM for its Sarbanes-Oxley compliance programs. Interpublic Group will be using OpenPages to streamline its approach to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley.