CW Staff

Best Western has announced their newly elected board of directors, effective March 7. The board of directors is comprised of eight independent hoteliers from the United Kingdom who are owners or general managers of a hotel within the Best Western Group. These members include: Rhys Roberts, chairman, Interchange and Consort Hotels Limited and Director, Best […]

GreenHunter Energy, a renewable energy company, has appointed Ernie Easley to its board of directors. Additionally, Easley has been elected to serve on the compensation committee. Easley has over 32 years of business development and executive management experience in the oil and natural gas and production industry. He is a managing partner at Easley Exploration […]

Engineering company Curtiss-Wright has elected Dean Flatt, a twelve-year veteran of the aerospace and defense industry, to serve on its board of directors. He also will serve as a member of the audit committee, and the committee on directors and governance. Flatt joins Curtiss-Wright following his retirement from Honeywell International, where he most recently served […]

Allena Pharmaceuticals, a manufacturer or non-systemic oral protein therapeutics, has appointed Gino Santini to its board of directors. Santini most recently served as senior vice president of corporate strategy and business development at Eli Lilly and Company, where he led corporate strategy and long-range planning, mergers and acquisitions, new product licensing, financing of internal development […]

IBI, a junior international mining and investment company, has appointed Aldine Coffman as corporate secretary. Coffman was appointed to the board of directors in November 2009 and serves as principal technical advisor on the company’s Uranium and Nuclear Strategy Advisory Board. He will continue this role and also that of a director in addition to […]

Makeup and skincare manufacturer L’Oreal has announced the departure of Liliane Bettencourt from the board of directors. The board has appointed Jean-Victor Meyers as director after the proposal by the appointments and governance committee. Meyers has spent several months with L’Oreal’s divisions in France and abroad.

Genworth Financial, an insurance holding company, has named Ray Romano as senior vice president and chief risk officer. Prior to joining Genworth, Romano was the executive vice president and chief credit officer at Freddie Mac. During his time there, he was responsible for credit management activities including credit policy, customer credit risk management, quality control, […]

Legend Oil and Gas has named Alan Jochelson and John Busey to its board of directors. Jochelson currently serves as a partner at Growlings, while Busey is a retired businessman. Jochelson has a background in corporate finance, with emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, reorganizations and financings. Busey has over 30 years of experience in […]

Cereplast, a bioplastics manufacturer, has appointed Michael Okada as its chief accounting officer, vice president and interim chief financial officer, effective immediately. Okada assumes the position from Heather Sheehan. He joined Cereplast in April 2011 as vice president and corporate controller. Prior to joining the company, he served as vice president of finance and corporate […]