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Morgan Stanley has elected Robert Herz, a former chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, to its board of directors, effective July 2. He also will serve on the board’s audit committee. Herz, who is a regular columnist for Compliance Week, served as FASB’s chairman from July 2002 to September 2010 and was previously a […]

The Navigators Group, an international specialty insurance holding company, has appointed Jennifer Yan as chief risk officer. Yang will be responsible for oversight of enterprise risk management, reporting to Ciro DeFalco, chief financial officer and senior vice president. Yang has an extensive background in risk management and capital modeling. She most recently worked in the […]

HollyFrontier Corporation, an independent petroleum refiner and marketer, has appointed J.W. Gann as controller and vice president, effective as of June 25. Gann also will serve as principal accounting officer. Gann joins HollyFrontier with more than 20 years of public accounting experience. For the last year, he has served as chief financial officer at Energy […]

Social-networking giant Facebook has appointed Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg to the company’s board of directors as its first female director. Her appointment to Facebook’s board follows a wrath of criticism from institutional investors for having an all-male board. Sandberg, who joined Facebook as COO from Google in 2008, oversees Facebook’s business operations including sales, marketing, […]

The Phoenix Companies, a boutique life insurance and annuity company, has appointed Douglas Miller as chief accounting officer and senior vice president, effective immediately. He reports to Peter Hofmann, senior executive vice president and chief financial officer. Miller will be responsible for accounting operations, U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles accounting and expense management, statutory accounting, […]

SquareTwo Financial, an asset recovery and management company, has appointed Judy Messenbrink to the newly-created role of chief compliance officer. In this capacity, Messenbrink will manage and oversee existing regulatory compliance programs and ensure that appropriate policies and procedures are developed and followed by the company, its subsidiaries and its partners. Messenbrink joins SquareTwo Financial […]

Drug developer ViroPharma announced that Richard Morris no longer serves as chief accounting officer, as of June 20. Instead, he will remain with the company as vice president of financial planning and strategic analysis. Morris has been chief accounting officer since April 2008 and vice president since January 2011. “He has a proven track record […]

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on June 19 announced several changes to its senior leadership team. These staffing changes include: Steven Antonakes has been appointed associate director for supervision, enforcement, and fair lending. Previously, he served as the assistant director of Large Bank Supervision at the CFPB. Paul Sanford, who has been serving as chief […]

Suffolk Bancorp, a one-bank holding company, has appointed Patricia Schaubeck as general counsel, corporate secretary and senior vice president, effective immediately. She will assume these positions for both Suffolk Bancorp and its banking subsidiary, Suffolk County National Bank. Schaubeck brings the position of general counsel in-house and assumes the responsibilities of corporate secretary from Douglas […]

glendonTodd Capital, a Dallas-based private equity firm, has appointed Mary Hatcher as chief compliance officer and chief financial officer. Hatcher joins glendonTodd Capital from Blockbuster, a movie rental services company, where she most recently served as a mergers and acquisitions consultant. Since joining Blockbuster in 2000, Hatcher previously served the roles of vice president of […]