$19.6 billion Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has appointed Thomas Connell, formerly vice president and chief information officer, as vice president and controller. He will retain his current leadership role for information technology. Connell assumes the role from Richard Noechel, who has been appointed vice president of finance for the company’s North American Tire business. […]
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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SEC Names New Chief Information Officer
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Charles Boucher has been named chief information officer and director of the Office of Information Technology, a role in which he will direct the Commission’s information technology program and systems. Most recently, Boucher was an executive director at Morgan Stanley, where he directed all technology audits for infrastructure, […]
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Belo General Counsel Promoted
$1.5 billion Belo Corp, a pure play television company, has promoted Russell Coleman to senior vice president and general counsel. Most recently, Coleman was vice president and general counsel, a position he has held since July 2003. He also will remain as assistant secretary, reporting to Guy Kerr. Coleman came to Belo from the law […]
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LRN Adds to Its Executive Leadership Team
LRN has appointed Alister Christopher, former senior vice president of Gartner Events Worldwide, and David Greenberg, former senior vice president and chief compliance officer at Altria Group, to its executive leadership team. As executive vice president of Knowledge, Greenberg is responsible for developing the insights that serve as the building blocks of LRN’s market-tested and […]
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Airgas Taps New Board Member
$4 billion Airgas has named Ellen Wolf to its board of directors. She also will serve on the audit committee. Former roles by Wolf include senior vice president and CFO for USEC from 2003 to 2006, and vice president and CFO of American Water, a company she joined in May 1999.
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Two New Board Members at Southwest Airlines
Southwest Airlines has appointed John Denison and Daniel Villanueva to serve as members of its board. An airline industry veteran, Denison previously served in an executive capacity with Global Aero Logistics, an airline holding company, including as its chairman of the board. The board has appointed Denison to serve on its audit and nominating and […]
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Jane Garvey Quits Bombardier Board to Join Obama Team
Jane Garvey, the former CEO of U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, recently quit the board of Canadian jet and train manufacturer Bombardier to join U.S. President-elect Barack Obama’s team. Garvey was the head of U.S. Federal Aviation Administration from 1997 to 2002, becoming the first administrator to be appointed to a five-year term, first female administrator, […]
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CA Elects New Board Member
CA, a $4.2 billion independent IT management software company, has elected Kay Koplovitz to its board of directors. She will also serve as a member of the corporate governance committee. Koplovitz is founder of the USA Network and chairman and CEO of Koplovitz & Co. In 2007, she was named chairman of Liz Claiborne’s board […]
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New General Counsel at Sallie Mae
Sallie Mae has appointed Mark Heleen senior vice president and general counsel. Heleen, who joined Sallie Mae in 1998, has held responsibility for all legal matters for the financing and derivative transactions of the company, including the company’s recent $3 billion equity offering, its $34 billion asset-backed commercial paper facility and its $2.5 billion unsecured […]
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Provest Names New CCO, General Counsel
ProVest LLC, a national process server management company dedicated to improving the default servicing industry, has hired Karen Kelly as general counsel and chief compliance officer. In her role as general counsel, Kelly will provide in-house legal counsel to management and operations on all legal matters affecting the business, and will assist in deal transactions […]
