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LipoScience, an in vitro diagnostic company, has appointed Ashok Marin as chief compliance officer, general counsel and corporate secretary. In his new role, Marin is responsible for overseeing all legal and compliance functions for the company. Prior to joining LipoScience, Marin served as senior counsel for global compliance at GE Healthcare. From 2001 to 2010, […]

Merz, a U.S. affiliate of Merz Pharma Group, has appointed Katrina Church as chief compliance officer and vice president, effective as of July 1. She will be responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership relating to compliance issues. Church joined Merz in November 2009 and has more than 20 years of legal experience in areas […]

ViewPoint Financial Group, the parent company for ViewPoint Bank, has appointed Scott Almy as chief risk officer, general counsel and executive vice president, effective July 16. He will be responsible for overseeing the credit, risk, compliance and legal functions of the company and bank. Almy joins ViewPoint with almost 20 years of bank regulatory experience. […]

Mineral resource company Rare Element Resources has appointed Kelli Kast as general counsel, corporate secretary, vice president and chief administrative officer, effective as of July 2. Kast joins Rare Element Resources with over 16 years of in-house legal experience. Most recently, Kast served as general counsel, corporate secretary and senior vice president at Coeur d’Alene […]

PetSmart has appointed Paulette Dodson as general counsel, corporate secretary and senior vice president. Dodson joins PetSmart with over 25 years of legal experience. She most recently served as general counsel, corporate secretary and senior vice president at Sara Lee. Before joining Sara Lee, Dodson spent 14 years at the Tribune Company, the parent company […]

Apple has announced that Betsy Rafael, corporate controller, principal accounting officer and vice president, will retire from the company effective Oct. 19. She has served in this capacity since January 2008. With over 20 years of finance and operations experience at small and large high-tech companies, Rafael previously served as vice president of corporate finance […]

TRACE International, an anti-bribery membership association, has appointed Emelia Probasco as director of the organization’s newest compliance program, TRAC. The appointment is effective immediately. In her new role, Probasco is responsible for providing leadership and direction to TRAC (TRACE Reviewed Access Code). Prior to joining TRACE, Probasco served as special assistant and speech writer to […]

John Roth, the Justice Department’s special counsel for money-laundering policy in Paris and a former top member of the department’s Fraud Section, is jumping over to the Food and Drug Administration to head up that agency’s Office of Criminal Investigations.   Roth has been squaring off against corporate wrongdoing in one form or another for […]

Sequenom, a life sciences company, has appointed Carolyn Beaver as chief accounting officer and vice president. Beaver joins Sequenom from Beckman Coulter, a maker of biomedical laboratory instruments. Since 2005, she served in various capacities there, including the roles of chief accounting officer, controller, and corporate vice president. From 1987 until 2002, Beaver was a […]

Global brewing company Heineken has announced that Floris van Woerkom, chief controller and accounting officer, has decided to leave the company to pursue a new career opportunity. In order to ensure a smooth transition process, van Woerkom has agreed to remain in the role until the end of the year, or until a replacement is […]