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.

Accounting Officers, Controllers

$560 million A.C. Moore Arts & Crafts, based in Berlin, N.J., has named Rodney Schriver as chief accounting officer. Additionally, he will continue to serve in his current roles as vice president and controller.

Entravision Communications Corp., based in Santa Monica, Calif., has promoted Russell Sakamoto to chief accounting officer. Sakamoto, who has been with the company since 1998, most recently served as the corporate controller.

General Counsels, Corporate Secretaries

$1.8 billion HealthExtras, a pharmacy benefit management company based in Rockville, Md., has hired Bruce Metge as general counsel and corporate secretary. He assumed the positions from Thomas Farah, who will remain with the company as senior vice president and continue to serve as the company’s legal adviser. Previously, Metge was a partner in the law firm of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo.

National Financial Partners Corp. has promoted Stan Barton to general counsel and executive vice president. Barton, formerly deputy general counsel and chief compliance officer, takes over the position from Chief Operating Officer Doug Hammond. Barton will continue in his role as chief compliance officer.

Chief Risk, Compliance Officers

Hinsdale, Ill.-based LJM Partners, an investment management firm specializing in managed futures, has announced the appointment of Guillermo Bublik as chief risk officer. With more than 18 years of experience, Bublik comes to the company from UBS-O’Connor, the hedge fund arm of UBS Global Asset Management.

Steel

Bermuda-based AXIS Capital Holdings has appointed Michael Steel chief risk officer effective in August. Steel, who will be based in the company’s London office, most recently was a director with Benfield Ltd. and Benfield Advisory.

Swedbank has appointed Magnus Carlehed as acting chief risk officer. He assumes the role from Anders Karlsson, who has left the company to take the chief risk officer job at Carnegie. Carlehed has been working in Swedbank since 2000 and previously was head of financial risk control and credit and capital modeling.

Broad Street Capital Advisers has named Valerie Phillips chief compliance officer. A 13-year veteran of the investment industry, Phillips comes to the company most recently from Boca Raton, Fla.-based American Securities Group, where she served in several roles, including vice president and chief compliance officer.

On the Board

Biglari

Texas investor Sardar Biglari has been elected chairman of the board for $654 million Steak ’n Shake. Biglari was able to obtain the position at the troubled Indianapolis restaurant chain after campaigning with other dissident shareholders to pool their 3.7 million shares. Biglari, who heads Biglari Capital, replaces interim chairman Wayne Kelley.

Lakshmi Mittal joined the board of Goldman Sachs as an independent director. He will also serve on the investment bank’s audit, compensation, and corporate governance and nominating committees. Mittal, chairman and chief executive of $58.8 billion steel maker ArcelorMittal, became Goldman’s 10th independent director on its 13-member board.

Kabat

Unum Group, an employee benefits products and services provider, has elected Kevin Kabat to its board of directors. Kabat, who has nearly 30 years of experience in the financial services and banking industry, is currently chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Fifth Third Bancorp. Kabat’s election brings the size of the board to 12 directors.

From the Vendors

Lyndon Group, an accounting, finance, IT, and governance professional services firm, has added Vicki McIntyre as an associate to the firm’s expanding ethics and compliance practice group. With more than 25 years of experience, McIntyre served as a state bank examiner, vice president of risk management in the banking industry, and vice president of finance of a thrift institution.

The auditing firm Weiser has hired Christopher Janis and Raymond Paolantonio as partners in its governance, compliance, and risk-management practice. Janis, who will serve as the risk-management practice leader, most recently served as the commercial practice leader for a national consulting firm focused on providing risk management and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance services to the middle market. Paolantonio was most recently a managing director with a national risk-management consulting firm.