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.

Chief Risk, Compliance Officers

$18 billion insurer MassMutual Financial Group has appointed Bradley Lucido senior vice president and chief compliance officer. Lucido is currently a vice president and associate general counsel of the company. He succeeds Margaret Sperry, who is retiring after 27 years of service.

$490 million Orthofix International, an orthopedic product maker based in Netherlands Antilles, has appointed Denise Pedulla senior vice president and chief compliance officer. Pedulla was formerly vice president of compliance, regulatory, and government affairs and associate general counsel for Fresenius Medical Care North America.

Núñez

Eutelsat Communications has appointed Ignacio González Núñez chief risk officer. Núñez joined the Paris-based company in 2003 as regional director for Spain and Latin America and as advisor to the CEO.

Accounting Officers, Controllers

Washington Post Co. has named Wallace Cooney vice president of finance and chief accounting officer. Cooney joined the $4.2 billion company in 2001 as controller.

Leap Wireless International, a $1.6 billion telecom firm based in San Diego, has named Jeff Nachbor chief accounting officer. Nachbor has been at the company since April, serving as the company’s senior vice president of financial operations. He replaces Steven Martin, who was acting chief accounting officer.

General Counsels, Corporate Secretaries

Conseco has appointed Matthew Zimpfer executive vice president and general counsel. He had been serving as interim general counsel.

$2 billion UST has hired Gary Glass as vice president, general counsel, and assistant secretary. Glass comes to UST most recently from Altria Group, where he served as senior assistant general counsel, responsible for litigation and compliance.

Hirsch

$3.8 billion UnionBanCal, a commercial bank holding company, has named Morris Hirsch general counsel and corporate secretary. Hirsch is currently executive vice president, a position he has held since May. He replaces senior executive vice president John McGuckin, who is retiring after more than 27 years with the company.

Family Dollar Stores has promoted Jacob Modla to vice president and deputy general counsel. Modla began his career with the discount general merchandise store operator in 2004 as assistant general counsel of litigation.

On the Board

Nuti

$40.1 billion Sprint Nextel Corp. has appointed William Nuti to its board of directors. He will also serve on the nominating and corporate governance committee. Nuti is the chairman, CEO, and president of NCR Corp., a technology company based in Dayton, Ohio.

$27 billion Tyson Foods has announced that Alltel Corp.’s president and CEO Scott Ford has resigned from its board of directors. The agribusiness giant said Ford’s resignation was “due to recent changes in his professional and personal circumstances.”

$2.3 billion AirTran Holdings, the parent company of AirTran Airways, has elected Geoffrey Crowley to its board of directors. Crowley is president of Northshore Leasing of Appleton and was a founder of Air Wisconsin Airlines Corp.

From the Vendors

Lyndon Group, an accounting, finance, IT, and governance professional services firm, has hired Brenda Schowalter to the firm’s ethics and compliance practice. Previously, Schowalter held several managerial positions in corporate governance and internal audit at Homebase, Cerplex Group, and AST Research.

Walker

Robert Walker has joined the law firm Wiley Rein as counsel in the firm’s election law and government ethics and white-collar defense practices. Walker is former chief counsel and staff director of the Senate Ethics Committee.

Informative Graphics Corp. has announced the launch of its latest product, Redact-It Enterprise Server 6.0. Targeted to corporate legal departments, law firms, and state and local governments to cleanse privacy information, Redact-It software detects and automatically removes personally identifiable information before making documents available to a wider audience.