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.

From the Regulators

NYSE Regulation has appointed Frederic Krieger to lead a new risk group. In this role, Krieger will be in charge of identifying, tracking, and addressing key external market and industry trading developments that require regulatory responses, as well as internal areas of risk. He will report to Robert Marchman, executive vice president of enforcement and risk division. Krieger was most recently managing director of Riverview Capital Holdings, a private investment firm.

Morrison

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s regional director in San Francisco, Helane Morrison, will leave the agency at the end of October to become general counsel, chief compliance officer, and a principal at San Francisco advisory firm, Hall Capital Partners. During her eight years at the SEC, Morrison led the commission’s enforcement and examination programs in northern California, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, and Alaska. Under her leadership, the SEC brought numerous high-profile enforcement actions, including stock option backdating cases against Brocade Communications Systems and Apple, as well as financial reporting cases against Hewlett-Packard and Google.

Scholz

The Treasury Department has selected University of Kansas Professor Susan Scholz to research the effects of and reasons behind public company financial restatements. Scholz is an associate professor at the University of Kansas School of Business.

Chief Compliance Officers, Risk Officers

International Coal Group has announced the retirement of William Campbell from his position as vice president of purchasing and risk management and treasurer. Campbell was a named executive officer for the fiscal year ended December 2006.

Steve Scheck, general auditor and chief ethics officer of ConocoPhillips, will retire after 36 years of service. Glenda Schwarz, who is currently general manager of downstream finance and performance analysis, will assume Scheck’s roles. The changes will take effect in January.

Accounting Officers and Controllers

McDermott International has hired Dennis Baldwin as vice president and chief accounting officer. Baldwin replaces Michael Taff, who was named chief financial officer in April 2007. With 23 years of financial and accounting experience, Baldwin comes to McDermott from Integrated Electrical Services, where he served as chief accounting officer.

Graco has appointed Caroline Chambers chief accounting officer. Chambers has served as the company’s vice president and controller since December 2006.

General Counsels, Corporate Secretaries

Jamba and Fox Mobile Entertainment have appointed Jamie Samson executive vice president of business and legal affairs and general counsel. She joins Jamba from Fox Licensing and Merchandising, where she most recently served as senior vice president.

$2.8 billion Brown-Forman has appointed Matthew Hamel general counsel. He succeeds Michael Crutcher, who has retired. Hamel joins Brown-Forman from Dow Jones & Co., where he served as associate general counsel and vice president of law for the publishing company’s enterprise media group.

Erickson

$2.4 billion Hawaiian Electric appointed Susan Li vice president and general counsel. She succeeds Jackie Mahi Erickson, who retired after 26 years with the company. Li joined Hawaiian Electric 17 years ago, most recently serving as manager of its legal department.

On the Board

Kepler

$1.4 billion Teradata Corp. has elected David Kepler to its board of directors as a member of the audit committee. Kepler is senior vice president, chief sustainability officer, and chief information officer of Dow Chemical. He is also a corporate director of Shared Services, a member of Dow’s management committee, and chairman of its sustainability committee.

$165.2 billion Citigroup has elected Robert Ryan to its board of directors. He will also serve on the audit and risk management committee and the public affairs committee.

From the Vendors

TriGeo Network Security, an IT consulting firm in Port Falls, Idaho, has released TriGeo InSight, which applies business intelligence technology to the task of security information and event management. TriGeo InSight uses data mining and visualization techniques to “connect the dots” of network, user, and application activity.