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CHRO Moves – week ending July 27, 2018

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Pharmaceutical Product Development, LLC (PPD) FULLBEAUTY Brands Inc. GuideSpark
Playboy Enterprises, Inc. NCR Corporation Cinedigm Corp.
Ankura Abeona Therapeutics Inc. Bird
Pegasystems Inc. Astreya Lithia Motors, Inc.
RPM International Inc.

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Ron Garrow

Pharmaceutical Product Development, LLC (PPD) [WILMINGTON, N.C.] has named Ron Garrow executive vice president and chief human resource officer (CHRO). Garrow joins PPD from Belk, where most recently he served as chief human resource officer. Prior to joining Belk in 2016, he spent six years with Mastercard and served as its chief human resource officer starting in 2013. Before joining Mastercard, Garrow served as the chief learning officer for Bank of America. Prior to that, Garrow served as the HR executive for Bank of America’s chief financial officer group. Garrow joined Bank of America after 19 years at Wachovia, where he held various positions of increasing responsibility, his last role being chief learning officer.

FULLBEAUTY Brands Inc. [NEW YORK] announced the addition of Robert Lepere as Chief People Officer. Lepere  previously worked as the VP of Talent Strategy for Ascena Retail Group, and prior to that held a variety of human resources positions within Ann Inc. Lepere also served as the Head of HR & Stores for Charlotte Russe and was the HR Director for Old Navy.

GuideSpark [REDWOOD CITY, CALIF.] announced the appointment of John Staines, CHRO and SVP People & Culture. John is a seasoned HR leader with global executive experience at nationally recognized companies like PepsiCo, Mattel, The Gap, and Cigna.

Jennifer Greenwald

Playboy Enterprises, Inc. [LOS ANGELES] announced the appointment of Jennifer Greenwald to the position of Senior Vice President of People. Ms. Greenwald comes to Playboy after nearly a decade at RED, most recently serving as Vice President of Human Resources and Talent Acquisition.

NCR Corporation [ATLANTA] (NYSE: NCR) announced the addition of Debra Bronder, who joins as Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). Bronder most recently led Human Resources for Cardtronics. Previously, Bronder was the Executive Vice President, HR Operations for Metavante.

Cinedigm Corp. [LOS ANGELES] (NASDAQ: CIDM) announced that Mark Torres has been hired as Vice President of Human Resources. Torres has served as a senior Human Resources executive with such companies as Sony Pictures Entertainment, Ticketmaster and Reed Elsevier/Variety, as well as several technology and media start-up companies. Mark also served as SVP of People & Culture at AdTec/Rubicon Project. In addition to consulting with several start-up media organizations, Mark served as the VP of HR and Administration at phenomenon.

Angela L. Cinefro

Ankura [WASHINGTON D.C.] announced the appointment of Angela L. Cinefro as its new Chief People Officer. Ms. Cinefro joins Ankura from Clarity Insights where she was Chief Operating Officer and former Chief People Officer. Prior to joining Clarity Insights, Angela held the positions of Chief Human Resources Officer at MedExpress and Operations Vice President of Business Solutions at Hewlett-Packard. Additionally, she served as the Chief People Officer for Knightsbridge Solutions, and held several leadership roles at IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Abeona Therapeutics Inc. [NEW YORK and CLEVELAND] (NASDAQ: ABEO) appointed Kristina Maximenko as Global Head of Human Resources. Ms. Maximenko most recently served as the Global HR Director for Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAAP), a Novartis company.

Bird [VENICE, Calif.] announced Taylor Rose joined as the company’s Director of People. Rose previously led people programs for a range of early to late stage technology companies in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Adriana Bokel Herde

Pegasystems Inc. [CAMBRIDGE, Mass.] (NASDAQ: PEGA) announced it has appointed Adriana Bokel Herde as chief people officer and senior vice president. Ms. Bokel succeeds Jeff Yanagi, who will be retiring from Pega. Most recently, Ms. Bokel Herde was chief people officer and chief evangelist officer at PeopleDoc. Prior to that, she was vice president of people services at Biogen.

Astreya [SAN JOSE, Calif.] announced the appointment of Kris Hamner as Vice President of Global Human Resources. Kris joins from Foxconn Interconnect Technology (FIT) where he led HR; prior to FIT, Kris held various global HR executive roles at HP, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Avago Technologies (now Broadcom), and Canon, among others.

Lithia Motors, Inc. [MEDFORD, Ore.] (NYSE: LAD) announced Erik Lewis as Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer. Lewis assumes oversight of Human Resources from Chris Holzshu, Lithia’s Executive Vice President. Erik most recently served as the CHRO of Apple Leisure Group and has held related roles at Walmart stores and Sysco Corporation. Previously, he consulted for numerous organizations while working at PwC and Andersen LLP.

Randell McShepard

RPM International Inc. [MEDINA, Ohio] (NYSE: RPM) announced that Randell McShepard has been named Chief Talent Officer. He will continue to serve as vice president – public affairs, a position he has held for more than 10 years. McShepard joined RPM in 2001 as director of community affairs. Previously, he served as executive director of City Year Cleveland and, before that, as assistant director of administration and program development for the Cleveland Bicentennial Commission.

CHRO Moves – week ending April 13, 2018

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Flowserve Corporation RLH Corporation Tyler Technologies, Inc.
The Financial Accounting Foundation Aerojet Rocketdyne Aegis Living
Medallia, Inc.

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Elizabeth Burger

Flowserve Corporation [DALLAS] (NYSE: FLS) announced that Elizabeth Burger joined as Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer. Ms. Burger joins Flowserve from HanesBrands Inc. where she served as Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer between 2013 and 2017. Before joining HanesBrands, she worked at Monsanto Company in various roles of increasing responsibility, and most recently served as Senior Vice President, Global Business Operations.

RLH Corporation [DENVER] (NYSE: RLH) announced the addition of Kristin Thielking as Senior Vice President of Human Resources. Thielking joins RLH Corporation from SquareTwo Financial, where she was Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Organizational Development and Administration for the past seven years. Prior to SquareTwo Financial, Thielking was Senior Director, Human Resources for eight years at Orbitz Worldwide.

Kelley Shimansky

Tyler Technologies, Inc. [PLANO, Texas] (NYSE: TYL) announced that Kelley Shimansky has joined Tyler as the company’s new chief human resources (HR) officer. Kelley is assuming the role vacated by Bob Sansone, who recently retired after 23 years with Tyler, including serving as chief HR officer for the past nine years. Kelley will be based out of Tyler’s Yarmouth, Maine, office, home to its ERP & Schools Division. Most recently, Kelley served as vice president of human resources, North America for Dechra Pharmaceuticals from 2016 to 2018. Prior to that, Kelley served as vice president of human resources for Putney, Inc. She also held several HR positions at WEX, which is traded on the NYSE, from 1997 to 2014.

Elizabeth Ann Garti

The Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) [NORWALK, Conn.] announced that Elizabeth Ann Garti has joined the organization as vice president, human resources. Garti most recently served as associate vice president of human resources at Pace University. Previously, Ms. Garti served as a senior human resources manager at Lillian Vernon Corporation. Earlier, she served as a human resources manager at Caldor, Inc. Ms. Garti began her career in human resources at United Parcel Service.

Natalie Schilling

Aerojet Rocketdyne [SACRAMENTO, Calif.] announced that Natalie Schilling joined the company as Chief Human Resources Officer, and will serve as one of the officers of parent company Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AJRD). Schilling most recently served as vice president of Human Resources for Arconic’s (formerly Alcoa) Corporate Resource Units, and was also the global director of Compensation and Benefits.

Sandra Preyale

Aegis Living [BELLEVUE, Wash.] announced the appointment of Sandra Preyale as the new chief people officer. Prior to joining Aegis Living, Preyale served as vice president of HR Global Sellers Businesses at Amazon.com. Prior to Amazon.com, during her five-year tenure at Coach, Preyale built human resources teams in Asia, Europe and New York. Earlier in her career, she held regional and global positions for the LVMH Group; the L’Oréal Group; and served in sales and merchandising with Danone Group.

Medallia, Inc. [SAN MATEO, Calif.] appointed Susan Lovegren as Chief People Officer. Prior to joining Medallia, Lovegren served in Chief People Officer roles at AppDynamics, (acquired by Cisco), Juniper Networks, and Plantronics.

CHRO Moves – week ending November 3, 2017

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Zynga Inc. Press Ganey Huntington Ingalls Industries
Astreya Avanade Varian Medical Systems

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Jeff Ryan

Zynga Inc. [SAN FRANCISCO] (NASDAQ: ZNGA) announced that the Company has appointed Jeff Ryan as Chief People Officer effective Monday, November 27. Prior to joining Zynga, Ryan served as Senior Vice President of People at GoPro, Inc. Before joining GoPro, Ryan spent three years at CBS Corporation as Senior Vice President of HR for the company’s Digital Media Business. Ryan also spent nearly seven years at Electronic Arts, Inc., where he served as the Head of HR for EA Canada, Vice President of HR for EA Sports, and Vice President of HR for EA’s largest business unit, Publishing and Interactive. Ryan previously held HR leadership positions at Shell Oil Products, and Nestle. Ryan currently serves on the Board of Directors for Magic Memories.

Press Ganey [BOSTON] announced that Joseph Cabral has joined the company as Chief Human Resources Officer and President, Workforce Solutions. Most recently, Cabral was Chief Human Resources Officer for Partners HealthCare. Prior to Partners HealthCare, Cabral held the title of Chief Human Resources Officer for Cleveland Clinic, and previously for Northwell Health. He has also held Human Resources leadership roles at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Children’s Hospital Boston.

Melanie Anderson

Huntington Ingalls Industries [NEWPORT NEWS, Va.] (NYSE: HII) announced the appointment of Melanie Anderson as vice president of human resources at its Technical Solutions division. Most recently, she led human resources for the engineering business of KBRWyle, following KBR’s acquisition of Honeywell Technical Solutions, Inc. Prior to joining Honeywell, she held HR leadership roles of increasing responsibility for The Boeing Co., Harris Corp. and Raytheon.

Dave Gartenberg

Avanade [SEATTLE] announced that Dave Gartenberg has joined the company as Chief Human Resource Officer (CHRO). Gartenberg was most recently CHRO for Slalom.

Varian Medical Systems [PALO ALTO, Calif.] (NYSE: VAR) announced it has named Terilyn Juarez Monroe as Chief People Officer, senior vice-president, Human Resources.

Terilyn Juarez Monroe

Ms. Monroe is replacing Wendy Scott who is retiring after serving in this same role at Varian for 13 years. Ms. Monroe served the past two years as the Chief People & Culture Officer, SVP HR at Acxiom. Prior to Acxiom, Ms. Monroe spent 13 years at Intuit where she held several HR management roles, including Chief Diversity Officer and Director of Talent Engagement. Before joining Intuit, Ms. Monroe worked in various HR and internal communications functions at Amdocs, Nortel Networks, Bay Networks and Amdahl Corporation.

CHRO Moves – week ending October 27, 2017

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Netflix Inc. LyondellBasell The Proximy Group
AppNexus Anika Therapeutics, Inc. Great Lakes Management Services Organization
AMPAC Fine Chemicals Icertis Blue Apron Holdings, Inc.
Diebold Nixdorf Innovari, Inc. Xceligent
Principle Business Enterprises

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Netflix Inc. [LOS GATOS, Calif.] announced the promotion of Jessica Neal as Chief Talent Officer. Neal is a Netflix veteran, starting at the company in 2006. In 2013 she left to become head of human resources at Coursera, and later, Chief People Officer at Scopely. She returned to Netflix earlier this year, overseeing HR for the 2000-person product engineering team responsible for continuously improving the Netflix consumer experience.

LyondellBasell [HOUSTON and ROTTERDAM, Netherlands] (NYSE: LYB) announced the appointment of Darleen Caron as executive vice president and chief human resources officer. Most recently, Ms. Caron was executive vice president of global human resources for SNC-Lavalin, Inc. Previously, she led HR functions for the Dow Chemical Company and ABB, and both HR and environment, safety and health for Alcan.

Debra Phillips

The Proximy Group [LOS ANGELES], parent company of Centinela Feed & Pet Supplies, Lotus Pet Foods, and 1st Care Animal Health Clinic, announced that Debra G. Phillips has been appointed as their first Chief Human Resources Officer. Debra has over 10 years experience in human resources education and leadership development and brings experiences from her previous roles at Lyondell Chemical Company, ODS International, and as Independent Business Consultant.

AppNexus [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Nithya Das to the new role of Chief People and Legal Officer. Das formerly served as AppNexus’ Senior Vice President, General Counsel. Das joined AppNexus in 2011 and served as General Counsel for four years. Prior, she was a lawyer at Goodwin Procter.

Anika Therapeutics, Inc. [BEDFORD, Mass.] (NASDAQ: ANIK) announced the appointment of Thomas M. Finnerty as its Chief Human Resources Officer. Most recently, Mr. Finnerty spent 17 years as Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Smith & Nephew. Prior to his time at Smith & Nephew, Mr. Finnerty served as Executive Director of Human Resources at Novartis/Chiron Diagnostics. Mr. Finnerty began his human resources career at The Foxboro Company.

Melissa Dabrowski

Great Lakes Management Services Organization (MSO) [GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.] announced the appointment of Melissa Dabrowski as Vice President of Human Resources. Most recently, she was Executive Partner with Behringer & Co. based in Caledonia, Mich., where she was the lead consultant on Career Exploration client engagements. Prior to Behringer, Ms. Dabrowski led the global succession planning and talent acquisition process for Federal-Mogul, Motorparts in Southfield, Mich.

Steven Taylor

AMPAC Fine Chemicals (AFC) [RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif.] announced the addition of Steven Taylor as Vice President, Human Resources (HR). Steven Taylor brings over 22 years of US and international HR experience with major companies including Union Carbide, British Petroleum, General Electric, and most recently Honeywell International.

Icertis [BELLEVUE, Wash.] announced the appointment of Tami Lamp as Chief People Officer. Tami’s previous experience includes over nine years at Microsoft where she was instrumental in building their international development presence in India. Most recently, Tami served as the Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Group Health.

Blue Apron Holdings, Inc. [NEW YORK] announced that Lainie Cooney has joined the company as Chief Human Resources Officer. She most recently served as Chief Human Resources Officer at DPI Specialty Foods. Previously, Cooney served as Vice President of Human Resources at State Street Investment Management Services from 2005 to 2012 and as a Human Resources Manager and Six Sigma Black Belt Project Leader at Home Depot from 2000 to 2005.

Patricia Lang

Diebold Nixdorf [NORTH CANTON, Ohio] (NYSE: DBD) announced that Patricia A. Lang has been promoted to vice president, chief people officer. Lang joined Diebold, Incorporated in 2012 to lead the company’s global rewards, human resources information systems (HRIS) and people analytics organizations. Prior to joining Diebold, Lang worked at Mylan N.V. She has more than 25 years of experience in human resources and related fields, successfully holding various leadership positions in human resources operations and consulting at companies such as Alcoa, Mercer, Conduent and Cigna.

Innovari, Inc. [PORTLAND, Ore.] announced that Mike Guerchon joined the company as its new Chief People Officer. Mike is an accomplished human resources and workplace executive with over 25 years of experience in both ground level start-ups and global public companies, including most recently at Riverbed Technology. Mike also previously served as Chief People Officer at Puppet and Okta and was the Vice President of Human Resources for several companies including Lucy Activewear, Hollywood Entertainment, Guess? Inc., and Ikon Office Solutions.

Xceligent [KANSAS CITY, Mo.] announced that Chief People Officer, Erin Curry, will step down.

Rodney Eason

Principle Business Enterprises (PBE), Inc. [DUNBRIDGE, Ohio] announced that Rodney Eason has joined the company as Vice President of Human Resources and Administrative Services. Eason served most recently as the HR Director overseeing the Corporate Services Group with The Andersons.

CHRO Moves – week ending September 29, 2017

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Moody’s Corporation Cox Automotive MongoDB Inc.
Ankura Consulting On Tap Credit Union WaveCrest

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Moody’s Corporation [NEW YORK] (NYSE: MCO) announced that Melanie Hughes has been appointed Chief Human Resources Officer of the Corporation. Prior to joining Moody’s, Ms. Hughes held leadership positions in the US and Europe at companies including American Eagle Outfitters, Tribune, UBS, and Gilt Groupe.

Janet Barnard

Cox Automotive [ATLANTA] named Janet Barnard as chief people officer following the retirement of longtime human resources leader Rock Anderson. During the past three years, Barnard served as president of the company’s Inventory Solutions group. Prior to joining Cox Automotive, Barnard worked at Cox Communications in positions of increasing responsibility and leadership.

MongoDB Inc. [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Dan Heasman as Chief People Officer. Heasman joins MongoDB with more than 20 years of culture and HR leadership working with some of the largest companies in the world such as Coca Cola, Illumina and Pfizer. Prior to MongoDB, Heasman spent more than four years with The Rise Group and more than eight years at ?What If! Innovation.

Rachel Platt

Ankura Consulting [WASHINGTON] announced the appointment of Rachel Platt as a Senior Managing Director and Chief Human Resources Officer. Ms. Platt joins Ankura with more than 20 years of experience in human resource management and has worked in the professional services, direct response, online, and telecommunications industries.

On Tap Credit Union [GOLDEN, Colo.] announced the appointment of Kellee Barbee as Vice President, Human Resources and Cultural Transformation. Barbee brings more than 20 years of human resources experience to On Tap, having previously served in HR leadership roles for Alcon Laboratories, Inc. – a division of Novartis – and for Toyota Financial Services, Raytheon Company, General Mills, Inc. and Dell Computer.

WaveCrest [CORAL SPRINGS, Florida, and GIBRALTAR] announced the appointment of Leigh AuCoin as Chief HR Officer. AuCoin joins from Cambridge Global Payments. Before that, she worked for JLL.

CHRO Moves – week ending May 26, 2017

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CHRO Moves this week include:

DaVita Kidney Care Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. Core-Mark Holding Company, Inc.

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DaVita Kidney Care [DENVER] a division of DaVita Inc. (NYSE: DVA), announced the hiring of Eric Severson as the company’s new chief people officer. Severson has 15 years of executive level human resources experience with Gap Inc. Most recently, he served as the co-chief human resources officer and SVP for Global Talent Solutions. Prior to Gap Inc., Severson spent nearly 10 years at Macy’s in employee and labor relations and store operations.

Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (CFP Board) [WASHINGTON] announced that it has appointed Kerry Smith as its Director of Human Resources. Smith comes to CFP Board from the National Retail Federation (NRF), where she spent the last 11 years in successively responsible human resources positions, most recently as Vice President of Human Resources.

Core-Mark Holding Company, Inc. [SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.] (NASDAQ: CORE) announced that Jordana Kammerud will join the Company as Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer. Joe Wegener, the Company’s current Vice President of Human Resources, will retire on June 30, 2017 and in the interim, will work closely with Ms. Kammerud in transitioning leadership. Ms. Kammerud joins Core-Mark from SC Johnson Company, where she held various human resources positions including Vice President of the Global Commercial division. Ms. Kammerud has held senior human resources roles at American Express and started her career at Chrysler in the U.S. and Germany.

CHRO Moves – week ending May 5, 2017

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Prudential Financial, Inc. Lombard International Depomed, Inc.

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FAST [ISELIN, N.J.] announced the appointment of Kimberlee Ho as Chief Human Capital Management Officer. Prior to joining FAST, Kim spent 15+ years with technology and pharmaceutical R&D companies.

FLIR Systems, Inc. [WILSONVILLE, OR] (NASDAQ: FLIR) announced that Paul Sale will join the company in the newly-created position of Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer. Mr. Sale most recently served as Chief Human Resources Officer at Mentor Graphics, where he led the global HR function since 2015. Previously, he held leadership roles in HR and Finance at Mentor Graphics, as well as positions at Con-Way, Inc. and KPMG LLP as an auditor.

Myra Gregorian

Seattle Children’s Hospital [SEATTLE] appointed Myra Gregorian as senior vice president and chief people officer, effective July 24. Gregorian previously served as chief human resources officer at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) since 2015.

PureRED | Ferrara [ATLANTA] named Shaun Francis, as Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Talent. Shaun has held executive level positions at both Fortune 500 companies and private equity firms, including 17 years at General Electric in domestic and global human resource and finance roles of increasing importance. He also served as Executive Vice President of Human Resources for Next Era Energy/Florida Power & Light and Chief Human Resource Officer at Integramed. Most recently, as Chief Human Resource Officer and Senior Vice President of Transformation at CSM Bakery Solutions in Atlanta.

CHRO Moves – week ending April 7, 2017

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Cenduit LLC Fjuri McCourt Global
BETA Healthcare Group Cint W2O Group
Handshake

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Tim Toterhi

Cenduit LLC [Durham, NC] appointed Tim Toterhi as Vice President, Human Resourecs. Tim brings over 15 years of diversified HR experience to Cenduit having held global roles in change management, organization development, talent management, and HR Operations. Prior to joining Cenduit, he had a 12 year career with Quintiles during which he held a variety of positions, most recently, Head of HR M&A and Strategic Project Office. Tim also held key HR roles at Bayer Diagnostics and Visocom.

Fjuri [Seattle, WA] announced Tammy Perkins has joined the firm as Managing Partner and Chief People Officer. Perkins’ most recent position was Senior Vice President, Crowdsourcing and HR at Appen. Prior to Appen, Perkins led human resources for Microsoft’s global customer services and support team of 10,000 employees. From 2000 to 2013, Perkins also led human resources for Amazon in senior leadership roles for a number of key businesses and launches during a period of significant scaling for a variety of global teams.

McCourt Global (MG) [NEW YORK] announced that Maribeth Carroll has been named Chief Human Resources Officer. Carroll previously served as Global Head of Human Resources for the Institutional Client Business at BlackRock. Prior to BlackRock, Carroll served as Global Head of Human Resources for Acumen, and before that as Senior Vice President and Global Head of Corporate and Finance Human Resources at Guy Carpenter, a unit of Marsh & McLennan Companies. Previously, Carroll spent ten years at Morgan Stanley where she rose from the role of recruitment manager for finance and operations to Executive Director for Investment Management Human Resources.

BETA Healthcare Group [ALAMO, Calif.] announced that Deborah Verdream has been named Vice President of Human Resources and Administration. Debbie joined BETA in March 2007.  Her career started with Emery Worldwide as a Staffing and Development Specialist, followed by three years of managing Human Resources for Mercedes Benz Credit Corporation. She spent fifteen years at a certified public accounting firm where she was the National Director of Human Resources and Administration.

Cint [SAN FRANCISCO & STOCKHOLM] announced the appointment of Johanna Isander as Chief Human Resource Officer. Most recently, Isander served as senior director of HR for Nasdaq, and previously worked at SunGard and UniCredit.

Eric M. Bacolas

W2O Group [SAN FRANCISCO] announced the appointment of Eric M. Bacolas as Chief People Officer. He joins W2O Group from Conductor. Before that, he was chief talent officer at 360i. Earlier in his career, Eric held people leadership roles at The Interpublic Group (IPG), where he supported several companies including DraftFCB, ID Media and R/GA.

Handshake [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Paul McCarthy as the company’s first Chief People Officer (CPO). Immediately prior to joining Handshake, McCarthy was Vice President, Head of People Operations at Magnetic. In that role, he established People Operations after Magnetic’s acquisition of MyBuys, successfully managing the integration of the combined companies. Prior to Magnetic, McCarthy was Vice President, Global Head of Talent Management at LivePerson.

CHRO Moves – week ending March 17, 2017

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Cooper Tire & Rubber Company Brandywine Realty Trust Workfront
Puget Sound Bank Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco LSI Industries Inc.

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John Bollman

Cooper Tire & Rubber Company [FINDLAY, Ohio] (NYSE: CTB) announced that John Bollman will join the company as Senior Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer effective March 21. Bollman will succeed Brenda Harmon, who has served in the position for more than seven years and will retire effective April 15. Bollman joins Cooper from Sequa Corporation, where he served for the past nine years as Chief Human Resources Officer. Prior to Sequa, Bollman spent more than 18 years at Whirlpool Corporation, where he served in a series of human resources positions in the United States and Europe, including Vice President of Human Resources, North America, a post he held for eight years.

Brandywine Realty Trust [RADNOR, Pa.] (NYSE: BDN) announced that it has promoted Gina Alm-Myers to Vice President of Human Resources and Diversity & Inclusion. Gina Alm-Myers joined Brandywine in 2007 and served as Senior Director of Human Resources and Diversity & Inclusion.  Prior to joining Brandywine, Alm-Myers was the Director of Human Resources for Lundbeck Pharmaceuticals, and served in the Human Resources function at ViroPharma, Inkine Pharmaceuticals and Saint-Gobain/CertainTeed Corporation.

Laura Butler

Workfront [SILICON SLOPES, Utah] announced that Laura Butler has joined the company as its new senior vice president of people and culture and a member of the executive leadership team. Prior to Workfront, Laura was the Vice President of Talent Management and Chief Diversity Officer for Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E).

Puget Sound Bank [BELLEVUE, Wash.] the bank subsidiary of Puget Sound Bancorp (OTC: PUGB), announced that Suzanne Santora joined the company as vice president, human resources manager.

Jan Homan

Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco [SAN FRANCISCO] appointed Jan Homan as Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer and Office of Minority and Women Inclusion. Before joining the Bank, she served as Head of Human Resources for MACH Energy in Oakland, California, where she was responsible for building the software company’s human resources function. Prior to her tenure at MACH Energy, Ms. Homan held a number of executive positions in human resources at Barclays Global Investors and Bank of America, with responsibility for managing a wide range of functions and initiatives.

LSI Industries Inc. [CINCINNATI] (NASDAQ: LYTS) announced the appointment of Howard (“Howie”) E. Japlon to the position of Executive Vice President, Human Resources and General Counsel.  Prior to joining LSI, Mr. Japlon served as Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary at ACE Hardware Corporation.  Previous employers include RG Steel, LLC and Schneider Electric.

CHRO Moves – week ending December 16, 2016

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CHRO Moves this week include:

GE Civitas Senior Living Glatfelter
FOX News Radius Watts Water Technologies, Inc.
Universities Space Research Association Second Genome, Inc.

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GE [BOSTON] (NYSE: GE) announced that Jennifer Waldo has been promoted to Vice President Chief Human Resources Officer, GE Digital. Jennifer joined GE in 2001 as part of GE’s Human Resources Leadership Program (HRLP) and held of number of leadership roles at GE Aviation before becoming the leader of Human Resources at GE Digital.

Civitas Senior Living [FORT WORTH, Texas] announced the hiring of Dionne Motal as Vice President of Human Resources. Previously, she led a district based human resource team at Sava Senior Care and served as the Senior Vice President of Skilled Healthcare prior to their merger with Genesis Healthcare Systems.

Glatfelter [YORK, Pa.] (NYSE: GLT) announced that Senior Vice President of Human Resources & Administration, William T. Yanavitch II, will retire from the company, effective March 31, 2017. Eileen Beck, Vice President, Global Compensation & Benefits, has been selected as Mr. Yanavitch’s successor. Eileen Beck joined Glatfelter in 2012 as Global Director of Compensation & Benefits, and was promoted to her current role in September 2015. Prior to joining Glatfelter, Mrs. Beck worked for Armstrong World Industries for approximately 28 years with leadership assignments in Shared Services and Corporate Human Resources. She also served in various business unit Human Resource roles, as well as Vice President, Training & Development, and Vice President, Compensation & Benefits.

FOX News [NEW YORK] appointed Kevin Lord the Executive Vice President of Human Resources. He will begin his new role on January 16, 2017. Prior to being named to this position, Lord was the Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at TEGNA Inc. Throughout his career, Lord has specialized in HR transformation within new management structures. Before joining TEGNA, he served as the Executive Vice President of Human Resources for NBC News and was the HR Integration leader during NBCUniversal’s extensive transition from General Electric (GE) to Comcast ownership. His initial role at NBCUniversal was Senior Vice President of Human Resources for its Integrated Media & International divisions prior to the Comcast ownership. Before moving to NBC, Lord held several HR leadership positions with General Electric, including Chief Human Resources Officer for GE Plastics, GE Corporate HR Leader for Commercial & Communications, Senior Vice President of Human Resources for GE Vendor Financial Services, as well as various HR roles at GE Aviation. Lord began his career in human resources at Burlington Industries, later moving on to similar positions at Hewlett-Packard, Colgate-Palmolive and Roche.

Radius [BOSTON] announced that Wendy DeFeo has joined as its first chief talent officer. DeFeo joins Radius after 12 years with Grant Thornton, where she served as national people and culture, HR and global talent mobility leader.

Watts Water Technologies, Inc. [NORTH ANDOVER, Mass.] announced the appointment of Jennifer L. Congdon as Chief Human Resources Officer. Ms. Congdon comes to Watts Water from Xylem Inc. where she served as Vice President, Human Resources, Applied Water Systems and Business Transformation and Continuous Improvement. Prior to joining Xylem, Ms. Congdon was Vice President, Human Resources, Power Transmission for Rexnord Corporation. Ms. Congdon has also held human resources management positions with Honeywell International Inc. and Cisco Systems, Inc.

Universities Space Research Association [COLUMBIA, Md. and WASHINGTON] announced the appointment of Paula King as Vice President, Human Resources. Ms. King will start her new position at USRA on January 1, 2017. Ms. King currently serves as Senior Vice President at NeighborWorksTM America.  Prior to joining NeighborWorks in 2012, she served as Vice President for Operations and Chief Human Resources Officer at the U.S. Institute of Peace. Before her tenure at the Institute of Peace, she served as Director of Human Resources at the International Life Sciences Institute, and was a compensation analyst at Children’s National Medical Center.

Second Genome, Inc. [SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.] announced that it has appointed Jim Sjoerdsma as executive vice president of human resources. Prior to his current role, Sjoerdsma served in various roles in human resources for Genencor at all stages of its growth – from start-up to publicly traded to its acquisition by DuPoint BioSciences.

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