Corporate Controller

Financial Accounting Foundation Appoints New Members

November 29, 2010

The Board of Trustees of the Financial Accounting Foundation has announced the appointment of nine new members to the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC). The FASAC is responsible for advising the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) on technical issues, project priorities, and other matters that affect standard setting.The following...
 

FAF Names Four New Board Members

November 17, 2010

The Financial Accounting Foundation, an independent, private-sector organization responsible for the oversight of the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, has elected four new members to its board of trustees. Each of the appointments is for a five-year term that begins in January 2011. Among the...
 

Accounting Chief of Dean Foods Promoted to CFO

November 09, 2010

Dean Foods Company has promoted Shaun Mara, currently the company's senior vice president and chief accounting officer, to the role of chief financial officer, effective Dec. 1. He succeeds Jack Callahan, who has accepted a similar position as CFO of another publicly traded company.Mara has been with the company since...
 

Outrigger Enterprises Hires Internal Audit Manager

October 11, 2010

Outrigger Enterprises Group, a privately held hospitality company based in Hawaii, has appointed Eva Hang as internal audit manager. Hang comes to Outrigger after serving as corporate controller for Pipeline Micro, a start-up company that was developing liquid cooling systems for consumers and home electronics products. Prior to that, she...
 

Red Lion Hotels Hires Corporate Controller

October 01, 2010

Hospitality company, Red Lion Hotels, has hired Sandi Heffernan as corporate controller starting Oct. 11. In this role, she will direct all accounting and reporting functions for the company, be responsible for internal controls and be a key member of the team that manages outside banking and audit relationships.Heffernan most...
 

Viacom Names New Controller, CFO

September 30, 2010

Entertainment company Viacom has appointed Katherine Gill-Charest to the post of senior vice president and controller. She will report to James Barge, who recently was promoted to chief financial officer from the position of executive vice president, controller of tax and treasury. Both positions are effective Oct. 1.Gill-Charest has been...
 

EMRISE Appoints New Chief Accounting Officer

September 03, 2010

EMRISE Corporation, a multi-national manufacturer of defense, aerospace and industrial electronic devices and communications equipment, has promoted veteran corporate controller, Brandi Festa, to director of finance and administration and principal accounting officer, effective immediately. Festa, who was also appointed secretary and treasurer, reports directly to Chairman and CEO Carmine Oliva.Festa...
 

A.C. Moore Names Chief Accounting Officer

September 02, 2010

A.C. Moore Arts & Crafts has appointed Rodney Schriver chief accounting officer, in addition to his current roles as vice president and controller. Schriver, who joined the company as controller in 2004, took on the additional role of vice president in March 2007. Prior to A.C. Moore, Schriver served as...
 

KBR Names Chief Accounting Officer

August 17, 2010

KBR, a global engineering, construction and services company, has appointed Dennis Baldwin as vice president and chief acccounting officer, effective as of Aug. 16. He replaces John Gann, who left the company to pursue other opportunities.Baldwin joins KBR from Houston-based McDermott International, where he has served as vice president and...
 

CAMAC Energy Appoints Financial Controller

August 06, 2010

CAMAC Energy has appointed Jeff Courtright as financial controller, effective Aug. 19. He will be reporting to Executive Vice President and CFO, Abiola Lawal.Courtright brings to CAMAC Energy over 20 years of experience in financial management, including SEC reporting, mergers and acquisitions, treasury management and budgeting. Before joining CAMAC Energy,...
 

Former Controller Pleads Guilty to Embezzling Millions

July 29, 2010

The former corporate controller of construction products company, Cast-Crete Corporation, pleaded guilty in federal court this week to embezzling millions from the company, the St. Petersburg Times reports.Franklin Derochemont, who admitted to mail fraud and tax evasion, stole more than $5.3 million between October 2003 and December 2008 by sending...
 

Johnson Controls Names New Corporate Controller

July 29, 2010

Johnson Controls, a global diversified technology and industrial services provider, has hired Brian Steif as vice president and corporate controller. He will report to Executive Vice President and CFO, R. Bruce McDonald.Before joining Johnson Controls, Steif was a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he worked since 1979. In his new role,...
 

Allegheny Technologies Makes Management Changes

July 29, 2010

Allegheny Technologies Incorporated has announced several key executive changes effective Aug. 1.Dale Reid has been named senior vice president of finance and principal financial Officer reporting to L. Patrick Hassey, Chairman and CEO. Reid will be responsible for the company’s worldwide accounting, treasury, tax, and internal audit functions. Reid has...
 

Adeona Pharmaceuticals Appoints Controller

July 28, 2010

Adeona Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical company developing new medicines for serious central nervous systems diseases, has appointed Julie Caudill vice president of finance and corporate controller. Caudill brings to Adeona more than 15 years of biotechnology-related accounting and Securities and Exchange Commission compliance experience.For the past 15 years, Caudill served in...
 

Sensient Technologies Makes Executive Changes

July 22, 2010

Sensient Technologies Corporation, a global manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors and fragrances, has announced a handful of officer elections within its executive leadership. Among the new appointments, Jeffrey Makal has been elected to the position of vice president, controller and chief accounting officer.Other appointments include Stephen Rolfs to the...
 

New Controller at Parson's

July 09, 2010

Parsons, an engineering and construction company based in Pasadena, Calif., has rehired former executive Rick Henderson to be the company’s corporate controller. Henderson had previously worked for Parsons from 1995 through 2007 in a variety of financial positions, lastly as international finance manager overseeing the company’s Mideast financial operations. Prior...
 

Actuant Appoints Corporate Controller

July 07, 2010

Actuant Corporation, a diversified industrial company with operations in more than 30 countries, has appointed Matthew Pauli as corporate controller and principal accounting officer. Pauli joined Actuant in June 2008 as assistant corporate controller following eight years in public accounting. He replaces Chadwick DeLuka, who has been promoted to a...
 

CIT Group Appoints Corporate Controller

July 06, 2010

CIT Group, a provider of financing to small businesses and middle market companies, has appointed Carol Hayles as senior vice president, corporate controller.Hayles also will serve as the company's principal accounting officer and will be responsible for managing the Accounting department, as well as all SEC and regulatory reporting. She...
 

New Independent Member on K-V Pharmaceutical Board

June 30, 2010

K-V Pharmaceutical Company has appointed Ana Stancic to the company's board of directors as a new independent member. She replaces Terry Hatfield, whose resignation from the board was effective upon Stancic's appointment.Stancic brings to the board extensive knowledge and experience in long- and short-term strategic planning, and the development and...
 

GameStop Promotes Chief Accounting Officer

June 18, 2010

$9 billion video game retailer, GameStop Corp., has promoted Troy Crawford to senior vice president and chief accounting officer. He assumes the roles from Robert Lloyd, who was promoted to executive vice president and chief financial officer.Since April 2006, Crawford had previously served as vice president and controller. From 1993...
 

New Chief Accounting Officer at Dean Foods Company

June 14, 2010

Dean Foods Company has hired Shaun Mara as senior vice president and chief accounting officer, effective June 28. He assumes the role from Ron McCrummen, who is departing the company to pursue other interests.Mara most recently served as senior vice president of finance for the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, a...
 

Leviton Names Corporate Controller

June 11, 2010

Leviton, a provider of electrical wiring devices, data center connectivity solutions, and lighting energy management systems, has appointed Lucy Guilherme to the role of corporate controller for all Leviton operations. In her new position, Guilherme oversees the company's accounting operations.Guilherme joins Leviton with an extensive background in public accounting, auditing,...
 

Keynote Systems Appoints New Chief Accounting Officer

June 09, 2010

Keynote Systems, a provider of on-demand mobile and Internet test and measurement solutions, has promoted David Peterson to chief accounting officer, effective as of June 1.Peterson has served as corporate controller since 2009 with responsibility for worldwide accounting and financial reporting, including Securities and Exchange Commission filings, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, and...
 

New Corporate Controller at Davis-Standard

June 08, 2010

$300 million Davis-Standard, a manufacturing company for the plastics processing and rubber industries, has promoted Jerald Warren to vice president and corporate controller.Warren joined Davis-Standard in January 2006 as business director-aftermarket and was promoted in October 2007 to vice president-aftermarket. In this role, Warren will be responsible for assisting in...
 

New Chief Accounting Officer at ABM Industries

June 04, 2010

Facility services provider, ABM Industries, has named Dean Chin as senior vice president, corporate controller, and chief accounting officer, effective immediately. He reports to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Jim Lusk.Chin joined ABM in 2008 as vice president and assistant corporate controller, where he led the financial reporting,...
 

SunPower Names Corporate Controller

June 02, 2010

$1.5 billion SunPower, a California-based manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels, and solar systems, has hired Eric Branderiz as vice president and corporate controller, reporting to the CFO. In this key role, Branderiz will oversee all accounting and financial reporting for the company.Branderiz brings more than 17 years of...
 

AK Steel Makes Senior Management Changes

May 28, 2010

AK Steel, based in Westchester, Ohio, has named Richard Williams as the company's new controller and chief accounting officer. He assumes the roles from Roger Newport, who has been promoted to vice president of business planning and development.The company also approved the promotion of several members of its executive management...
 

Executive Changes at EZCORP

May 19, 2010

EZCORP, a pawn store operator and provider of specialty consumer financial services, has announced that Brad Wolfe, senior vice president and chief financial officer, has left the company to pursue other interests.On an interim basis, Danny Chism, vice president and chief accounting officer, will serve as the company's principal financial...
 

Details of Goldman Sachs' Business Standards Committee

May 17, 2010

The Goldman Sachs Group has released some additional information on its newly created Business Standards Committee, announced last week at the company's annual meeting of shareholders.The Committee will undertake a review of the company's business standards and make recommendations to the board of directors and senior management to reinforce the...
 

Hercules Offshore Names Chief Accounting Officer

May 11, 2010

Hercules Offshore, a provider of oil and gas producing services, has named Troy Carson as chief accounting officer. Carson joined the company as vice president and corporate controller in March 2007 and was named principal accounting officer in July 2008. Previously, Carson served in a variety of roles, including as...
 

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