PG&E Corporation and its utility unit, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, announced the election of two new officers and new assignments for key team members within the companies’ finance and risk organizations. PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric Company named Anil Suri as vice president and chief risk and audit officer. Suri will have […]
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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IDEX Corporation Makes Leadership Changes
$1.4 billion IDEX Corporation, an applied solutions company, has announced a series of changes to its senior leadership assignments, effective immediately. Among the changes, the company has appointed Mike Yates as vice president and chief accounting officer. Yates is currently vice president and controller. In other company news, the following appointments have been announced: Kevin […]
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AutoNation Adds to Its Board of Directors
$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 […]
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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 […]