Investment management firm, Invesco, announced on March 15 that its group controller and chief accounting officer, David Hartley, has resigned to pursue another opportunity. The company said in an SEC filing that “Hartley’s resignation is not the result of any issue or concern with the company’s accounting, financial reporting or internal control over financial reporting.” […]
Jaclyn Jaeger
Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal, enforcement, technology, and more. Prior to joining CW, she spent four years as a legal reporter for Lawyer’s Weekly. Jaclyn attended undergraduate school at St. Joseph’s College of Maine and graduate school at Emerson College, earning degrees in journalism.
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UPS Names First Chief Sustainability Officer
UPS, a package delivery company and supply chain and freight services provider, has named Scott Wicker as the company’s first chief sustainability officer. Wicker, vice president of corporate plant engineering, already has been deeply involved with the advancement of sustainability at UPS, establishing a dedicated engineering group that manages global sustainability data for reporting and […]
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Cooper Tire & Rubber Company Appoints GC
Cooper Tire & Rubber Company has appointed Stephen Zamansky to vice president, general counsel and secretary, effective April 4. Zamansky will succeed Jim Kline, who has announced his retirement effective May 31, after eight years of leading Cooper’s legal department. Zamansky joins Cooper from Essar Minerals Americas (former Trinity Coal Corporation), where he most recently […]
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Lincoln Financial Group Appoints Compliance Chiefs
Lincoln Financial Group has appointed Mitchell Avnet as head of enterprise compliance and ethics, and Peter Feeley as head of business law and compliance. The appointments are effective as of March 14. Avnet comes to Lincoln from PNC Financial Services Group, where he most recently served as chief compliance officer for broker dealer and […]
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Sterling Construction Names Accounting Chief
Sterling Construction Company has named Elizabeth Brumley as chief accounting officer, effective March 17. She reports to Chief Financial Officer, James Allen. Before joining Sterling, Brumley was vice president of finance and CFO with Bristow Group, a global helicopter services provider. She joined Bristow in 2005 as vice president, chief accounting officer and controller. Earlier […]
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Thor Industries Names General Counsel, Corporate Secretary
Thor Industries, a manufacturer of recreation vehicles and a major builder of commercial buses, has named George Lawrence to the position of senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary, effective as of March 14. He will report to Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer Peter Orthwein. Lawrence has practiced law for over 25 years […]
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At Two Companies, Directors Under Fire
Since passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002 ushered in new fears over director liability, finding qualified board members who are willing to take the job has been a more challenging task. Now two recent enforcement actions by the Securities and Exchange Commission against directors might be giving potential board members even more pause. Breath […]
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Dynegy Shakeup a Case Study in Shareholder Communications
Usually when a board does a poor job of reaching out to shareholders, the consequences are some additional shareholder resolutions on the proxy or a few prickly questions at the annual shareholder meeting. On rare occasions, the stakes are much higher. Such was the case at Dynegy Corp., which stunned the corporate governance world last […]
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Oil-Dri Corporation Appoints General Counsel
Oil-Dri Corporation of America, a supplier of specialty sorbent products for agricultural, horticultural, fluids purification, specialty markets, industrial and automotive, has appointed Douglas Graham as vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. Graham joins Oil-Dri from Exelon, where he worked for the past eleven years, most recently serving as assistant general counsel at its Commonwealth […]
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International Flavors & Fragrances Names General Counsel
International Flavors & Fragrances, a maker of flavors and fragrances for consumer products, announced that Anne Chwat has been appointed senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary, effective April 14. In this role, Chwat will serve as the company’s legal officer overseeing all aspects of global legal and regulatory affairs. Chwat was most recently […]
