$14.1 billion AutoNation, an automotive retailer, has appointed Michael Larson and Robert Brown as independent directors, effective as of Feb. 24. These appointments expand the board to ten members. Larson is chief investment officer for William Gates, III, a co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, and the Business Manager of Cascade Investment, which is wholly owned by […]
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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O’Reilly Nominates Independent Board Member
$3.5 billion O’Reilly Automotive has nominated Thomas Hendrickson, executive vice president and chief financial and administrative officer and treasurer of The Sports Authority, to the company’s board of directors to serve as an independent director. Hendrickson has served in his current role at The Sports Authority, since January of 1998. Previously, Hendrickson served as executive […]
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Study: ERM Programs Improving
Good news for chief risk officers: enterprise risk management programs appear to be improving. That’s according to the findings of a Web-based survey of 201 chief risk and financial executives conducted by risk-management consulting firm Aon. The study found that many respondents have moved beyond the basic stages of ERM development, and overall ERM maturity […]
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Yahoo CCO: On the Road With the Ethics Code
In the latest of our conversations with corporate governance and compliance officers, we talk with Dave Farrell, chief compliance officer of Yahoo, about the company’s interactive ethics campaign, “On the Road With the Code.” Readers can also visit our archive of Q&A interviews. DETAILS Farrell David Farrell joined Yahoo in June 2007 as the company’s […]
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Genzyme to Face Proxy Battle With Icahn
Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn is planning to nominate himself and three others to the board of embattled biotechnology company Genzyme. In addition to himself, Icahn is also seeking the nomination of Steven Burakoff, director of the Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Medical Center; Richard Mulligan, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School; […]
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New Co-Chair of ABA Sub-committee
The American Bar Association has appointed Joseph Zwicker, a partner in the government enforcement & compliance and major commercial litigation practice groups at Choate, Hall & Stewart, as co-chair of the white collar and corporate investigations sub-committee for the ABA’s securities litigation section. As co-chair, Zwicker will provide leadership, expertise, and experience to the ABA […]
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KV Pharmaceutical CAO Resigns
KV Pharmaceutical has announced the resignation of its chief accounting officer, Richard Chibnall, effective immediately. Chibnall has served in that role since June 2005. Assuming his role is Thomas McHugh, the company’s interim CFO and treasurer, vice president of finance, and corporate controller. McHugh has served as interim CFO and interim treasurer since September 2009, […]
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Yahoo Director Ron Burkle to Depart
Longtime Yahoo board member Ron Burkle, who has served as a director for the Internet company since November 2001, plans to step down so that he can pursue other business interests, the company said. His departure follows two other Yahoo directors, Carl Icahn and Maggie Wilderotter, who have left in the past four months. The […]
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Sunoco Elects General Counsel
$54.1 billion Sunoco has elected Stacy Fox to serve as senior vice president and general counsel, effective March 1. Michael Kuritzkes, who has been serving as general counsel since 2000, is departing to pursue other interests. A seasoned corporate lawyer with more than 25 years experience in business, Fox joins Sunoco most recently from the […]
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Allstate Names Chief Risk Officer
$29.3 billion home and auto insurer, Allstate, has hired Peruvemba Satish as managing director and chief risk officer of investments. Satish reports to Judy Greffin, senior vice president and chief investment officer. Satish most recently was chief risk officer for Jamison Capital Partners. From 2004 to 2009, he was the chief risk officer and a […]
