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Tracking Chief Human Resources Officer Moves across the USA

CHRO Moves – week ending August 7, 2020

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Major League Baseball MongoDB, Inc. U.S. Bank
ADM American Century Investments Summit Broadband
RAPT Therapeutics, Inc. Five Star Bank Freshpet, Inc.
Yumanity Therapeutics Heritage Southeast Bank Validity

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Michele Meyer-Shipp

Major League Baseball [NEW YORK] has named Michele Meyer-Shipp as its Chief People & Culture Officer. Meyer-Shipp joins MLB from KPMG LLP, where she has served as Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer. Previously, Meyer-Shipp worked for Prudential Financial, serving as Global Chief Diversity Officer for five years, and for the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, where she was Global Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer. Prior to those roles, she spent over a decade practicing employment law in both the public and private sectors.

MongoDB, Inc. [NEW YORK] (NASDAQ: MDB) announced the appointment of Harsha Jalihal as Chief People Officer. Most recently, Jalihal was Vice President of HR at Unilever. Jalihal was also on a part-time secondment to the World Economic Forum (WEF). Prior to that, she worked at Cognizant where she designed and operationalized strategy to drive early career hiring, led a Center of Excellence focused on HR expertise in strategic outsourcing deals and acquisitions and ran operations for the CFO & COO.

U.S. Bank [MINNEAPOLIS] announced that Elcio Barcelos will be joining the company as its new senior executive vice president and chief human resources officer. Barcelos comes to the bank from Fannie Mae, where he has worked since 2018 as senior vice president and chief people and places officer. Prior to that role, he worked in human resources and other executive leadership roles at DXC Technology, Hewlett Packard, Wells Fargo and Bank of America.

ADM [CHICAGO] (NYSE: ADM) announced that Jennifer Weber has been named Chief Human Resources Officer. Weber comes to ADM from Lowe’s Companies, where she has served as EVP of Human Resources since 2016.

Shannon Hobbs

American Century Investments [Kansas City, Mo] named Shannon Hobbs as its chief human resources (HR) officer, filling the role currently held by Mark Gilstrap, who plans to retire at the end of 2020. Hobbs assumes her new American Century role on October 1, 2020. Hobbs joins American Century after 10 years of serving in HR leadership roles at JPMorgan Chase, most recently as a managing director and head of talent. During her time at JPMorgan Chase, Hobbs also served as head of human resources for the commercial bank division, HR lead for investor services within the corporate and investment bank, head of learning and development for JPMorgan corporate and interim head of HR for the bank’s operations in France. Earlier in her career, Hobbs held senior HR positions at Smith Barney and Morgan Stanley.

Summit Broadband [ORLANDO, FL] announced the appointment of Randall Covard as Vice President, Legal and Human Resources. Previously, Covard served as in-house legal counsel at FiberLight, LLC.

RAPT Therapeutics, Inc. [SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA] (NASDAQ: RAPT) announced the appointment of Phyllis Loud Gray as Vice President of Human Resources. Gray joins RAPT from Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, where she was Senior Director and Head of Human Resources. Prior to Sunesis she served as Senior Director of Human Resources Business  at Crescendo Biosciences, a subsidiary of Myriad Genetics, Inc. Prior to Crescendo, she served as Director of Human Resources for QIAGEN/Ingenuity Systems, VISX, Oracle and Omnicell. She began her career at Syntex/Syva, serving in various Human Resources roles over many years.

Timothy Perrotta

Five Star Bank [WARSAW, NY], subsidiary of Financial Institutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISI) announced that Timothy Perrotta has been named Senior Vice President and Director of Human Resources. Perrotta joined Five Star Bank in June 2018 as Manager of Total Rewards. Prior to joining Five Star Bank, he was Compensation Administration Manager at Wegmans Food Market, Inc.

Freshpet, Inc. [SECAUCUS, NJ] (NASDAQ: FRPT) announced the appointment of Thembi Machaba as Senior Vice President of Human Resources. Prior to joining Freshpet, she was Vice President Global Human Resources & Organization Effectiveness at Molson Coors Beverage Company, a position she held for three years as part of a 16 year career of progressive roles at the company and its predecessors.

Yumanity Therapeutics [CAMBRIDGE, MA] announced the appointment of Ellen K. Forest as Chief Human Resources Officer. Prior to joining Yumanity, Forest served as Senior Vice President and Head of Human Capital for Cogen Immune Medicine and as Vice President and Head of Human Resources for Merrimack Pharmaceuticals. Previously, she held leadership positions in Human Resources at Partners HealthCare; Dovetail Health; and TA Associates.

Melissa Malcom

Heritage Southeast Bank [ATLANTA] announced it has hired Melissa Malcom as Chief of Human Resources. Malcom is an attorney who has specialized for more than 19 years in employment, health care and business law and commercial litigation. She has served as an attorney and business advisor for several law firms and owned a law practice focused on employment and business law.

Validity [BOSTON] announced it has hired Frank Capecci as senior vice president of human resources.

CHRO Moves – week ending July 31, 2020

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Great Expressions Dental Centers Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. Duke Energy
National Equity Fund, Inc. Oatey Co. Turning Point Therapeutics, Inc.
Intelligent Waves, LLC GreenPath Financial Wellness Bounteous
RingCentral, Inc.

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CHRO Moves is published by Samuel Dergel (Executive Search Consultant with Dergel Executive Search). Samuel can be reached by email at samuel@dergelsearch.com or by phone at +1 (415) 738-2070.

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Eric Magnussen

Great Expressions Dental Centers [SOUTHFIELD, MI] announced the hire of Eric Magnussen as Chief Human Resources Officer.  Great Expressions is a leading Dental Services Organization (DSO) comprised of 255 dental offices and 2,500 Team Members with locations in Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Texas.  Prior to Great Expressions, Magnussen served as Senior Vice President, Talent for Cancer Treatment Centers of America, a national network of five destination cancer hospitals and outpatient clinics where he was responsible for all aspects of the enterprise human resources strategy and operations.

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. [UNION, NJ] (NASDAQ: BBBY) announced the appointment of Lynda Markoe as Executive Vice President, Chief People & Culture Officer. Markoe will join Bed Bath & Beyond in September 2020. Since 2003, Markoe has held various leadership roles at J.Crew Group, Inc., including Chief Administrative Officer and Global Head of Human Resources. Prior to that, Markoe was a human resources leader at Gap Inc. from 1988 until 2003. Markoe succeeds Bill Gilooly.

Ron Reising

Duke Energy [CHARLOTTE, NC] (NYSE: DUK) hired Ron Reising as senior vice president and chief human resources officer. Before assuming his current position, Reising served as Duke Energy’s senior vice president of operations support. An 18-year veteran of the company, Reising led Duke Energy’s supply chain function and served as the chief procurement officer from 2006 to 2017. Before that, he served as vice president and chief procurement officer for Cinergy since 2004. Prior to joining Cinergy, he held various senior management positions with Ameritech’s (AT&T’s) domestic and international operations, including chief financial officer of Bell Canada in Montreal and chief financial officer of Magyar Telekom. Other positions held with Ameritech included vice president of operations and business development for Ameritech Europe, vice president of finance for Telephone Industry Service, director of planning and analysis for General Business Services, and director of the corporate investment and acquisitions group.

National Equity Fund, Inc. (NEF) [CHICAGO] named Jaclyn Jackson to be its new chief human resources officer. Jackson most recently served as vice president of human resources for the Helping Hand Center. She also served for a time as interim director and acting COO. Earlier in her career, Jackson was assistant director of human resources at SOS Children’s Villages Illinois, and at the National Able Network.

Dalithia Smith

Oatey Co. [CLEVELAND] announced the promotion of Dalithia Smith to Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer. Smith joined Oatey just over two years ago as Vice President, Human Resources. Prior to joining Oatey, she spent 10 years at Lincoln Electric, most recently as Vice President, Human Resources, Americas Welding.

Turning Point Therapeutics, Inc. [SAN DIEGO] (NASDAQ: TPTX) announced the appointment of Heather Adams as vice president of Human Resources. Adams joins the company from Bionano Genomics, where she served as chief administrative officer. She previously served in senior human resources positions for life sciences companies of various sizes, including Illumina, Micrus Endovascular and AngioScore. Early in her career, she was a researcher in the areas of protein chemistry, animal physiology and liver cell discovery, resulting in several publications in scientific journals.

Heidi Pirela

Intelligent Waves, LLC [RESTON, VA] announced that Heidi Pirela will join the company as its new Chief Human Resources Officer. Pirela joins the Intelligent Wavesteam after serving for two years as Head of People Operations for Spaceflight Industries (SFI). Pirela has served across multiple industries including High-Tech Start-Ups, Aerospace, Defense & Intelligence, Commercial Technology, and Fortune 100 companies.

Susan Murphy

GreenPath Financial Wellness [FARMINGTON HILLS, MI] welcomed Susan Murphy as Chief People Officer. Murphy most recently served as Vice President of Human Resources, Organizational Development and Governance at United Way for Southeastern Michigan. During more than 17 years with the organization, Susan held a series of increasingly responsible positions in the areas of community impact, fund development, operations, and corporate governance, and served as a Global Resident Fellow with United Way Worldwide. Prior to joining United Way, Susan held roles in human service organizations in the areas of youth development, vocational training and rehabilitation, employment coaching, and senior services.

Bounteous [CHICAGO] announced the promotion of Leah Weyandt as the company’s first Chief People Officer.

Gunjan Aggarwal

RingCentral, Inc. [BELMONT, CA] (NYSE: RNG) announced the appointment of Gunjan Aggarwal as Chief People Officer. Aggarwal joins RingCentral from RELX Group. Prior to joining RELX, Aggarwal held a variety of leadership positions at Ericsson, where she spent five years, including vice president of people and culture. Aggarwal also served as vice president and head of HR for North America at Ericsson. Before joining Ericsson, Aggarwal held various positions at leading companies including Novartis and Unilever.

CHRO Moves – week ending July 24, 2020

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Fairstead Rent the Runway One Call

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Gladys Chen

Fairstead [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Gladys Chen as its first Chief People Officer (CPO). Most recently, she was head of HR for both the Customer Experience and Technology divisions at E*TRADE. Before that, she held various senior HR roles at Citigroup within their Digital Consumer businesses as well as the Citi Private Bank organization.

Rent the Runway [NEW YORK] announced that Ellen Shultz is joining as the company’s Chief People Officer. Her start date is September 8, 2020. Shultz has served as the Executive Vice President of Talent and Inclusion and a member of the Executive Committee at The New York Times since 2016. Prior to the New York Times, from 2015-2016, Shultz served as Vice President and Head of Human Resources at Media General. Prior to that, Shultz worked for 15 years at Time Inc., joining as a manager in recruitment and serving in a number of successively senior roles in the HR department.

Terri Lewis

One Call [JACKSONVILLE, FL] announced the appointment of Terri Lewis to Chief Human Resources Officer. She most recently served as senior vice president of global human resources for Pontoon Solutions. Prior to Pontoon, Lewis served in various HR leadership positions for companies such as PSS World Medical (now McKesson Corporation), CHEP USA (A Brambles Company) and General Electric.

CHRO Moves – week ending July 17, 2020

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Orbia Vanguard Covetrus
CareFinders Total Care DoiT International Computer Services, Inc. (CSI)
Advisor360° Flagstar Bank

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Deb Butters

Orbia [Boston, MA] announced that Deb Butters has joined the company as Senior Vice President & Chief People Officer. Butters joins Orbia from PerkinElmer, where she served as their Chief Human Resources Officer for the past 4 years. Prior to PerkinElmer, Butters had a 17-year career with IBM in both the US and Europe, where she most recently served as Vice President HR of IBM’s North America business and VP People Strategy.

Vanguard [VALLEY FORGE, PA] announced that John James, will move from his current role as chief human resources officer to lead the Institutional Investor Group. Lauren Valente has been appointed as chief human resources officer and managing director. Valente joined Vanguard in 2003, and has held a range of leadership roles across the firm’s Corporate, Institutional, Retail, and Information Technology divisions. Over the last five years, Ms. Valente has worked with defined contribution clients, overseeing Vanguard Retirement Plan Experience and, most recently, leading Participant Services and Operations.

Ditte Marstrand Wulf

Covetrus [PORTLAND, ME] (NASDAQ: CVET) announced that it has promoted Ditte Marstrand Wulf to global chief human resources officer, effective August 1, 2020. Prior to her appointment, Marstrand Wulf served as the company’s European vice president of human resources. Marstrand Wulf joined Covetrus in 2019. Prior to her time with the company she served as the group chief human resources officer for BMI Group Ltd. She has also led diversity and inclusion efforts at RSA Ltd, a global insurance service provider as well as at Microsoft where she had several international HR Director positions. In addition, she was a diversity and inclusion advisor to her home country of Denmark’s ministry of foreign affairs.

CareFinders Total Care [HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, NJ] announced that Erika Duncan has joined the company as their new chief people officer (CPO). Duncan was most recently CHRO at Trinity Health’s Northeast group. Prior to Trinity Health, Erika held several HR executive roles at large healthcare service organizations in Michigan including Metro Health, and Spectrum Health.

Kristen Tronsky

DoiT International [SANTA CLARA, CA] announced the naming of Kristen Tronsky as Chief People Officer. Tronsky joins DoiT International from VMware, where she served most recently as Chief of Staff for CloudHealth Technologies after their successful acquisition. Prior to CloudHealth’s acquisition to VMWare, Tronsky led Global Human Resources and Talent Acquisition. She joined CloudHealth in early 2016. Tronsky previously held Human Resources leadership positions at Altisource Labs, and Sophos.

Computer Services, Inc. (CSI) [PADUCAH, KY] (OTCQX: CSVI) named Charmaine Smith the company’s new Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). Prior to joining CSI, Charmaine was the vice president of human resources at Samsung Austin Semiconductor.

Advisor360° [WESTON, MA] announced the hire of Meredith Crouse as Senior Vice President, Chief People Officer. Crouse previously served as the Chief Human Resources Officer and Head of Internal Communications for Monster Worldwide. She also served as Global Head of Human Resources and Internal Communications for Clarivate Analytics and Thomson Reuters’ IP and Science business.

David Hollis

Flagstar Bank [TROY, MI] named David W. Hollis executive vice president and chief human resources officer. Most recently he served as chief talent officer at Goodyear Tire and Rubber. Previously, he was chief human resources officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Earlier in his career, he held senior roles with PNC Financial Services, National City Bank, and Sears Roebuck & Co.

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