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CHRO Moves – week ending March 6, 2020

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Lightspeed Acuity Brands, Inc. Cambridge Innovation Center
symplr Avionos First Northwest Bancorp
Seibels LogistiCare Solutions, LLC T.Y. Lin International Group

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Marty Reaume

Lightspeed [MONTREAL] appointed Marty Reaume as its first chief people officer (CPO). Reaume previously served as CPO for several technology companies including Twilio, Fitbit, and Netsuite.

Acuity Brands, Inc. [ATLANTA] (NYSE: AYI) announced that Dianne Mills has joined the company as its Chief Human Resources Officer.  Mills most recently served as principal at Mills Consulting.  Prior to Mills Consulting, she worked on the executive team at Walmart eCommerce as SVP, People. Her career background also includes positions with PayPal and Bank of America, where she held leadership roles in a wide range of HR disciplines.

Vanessa Brown

Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) [BOSTON] announced that Vanessa Brown has joined the company in a new role as Chief People Officer. Brown 25 years of experience in people operations, in companies from regional sports networks to large telecommunications.

Symplr [HOUSTON] announced that Heath Foist has joined as Chief People and Culture Officer. Foist most recently served as Chief People Officer at Field Service Holdings. Previously, he was Chief People Officer at Omnitracs. Earlier in his career, Foist served in HR leadership roles at Bank of America, SAP, and Sabre, as well as an HR Strategy and Management consulting leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Avionos [CHICAGO] announced that founder and principal Gibson Smith has also been raised to Chief People Officer.

First Northwest Bancorp [PORT ANGELES, Wash.] (NASDAQ: FNWB), the holding company for First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Port Angeles, recently promoted Derek Brown to Executive Vice President/Chief Human Resources & Marketing Officer. Brown has been a Senior Vice President since starting with the Bank in 2015. Prior to joining First Federal, Brown was an HR and business leader at Citibank.  He has also held HR leadership roles in financial and professional services and healthcare.

Pam Ringquist

Seibels [COLUMBIA, S.C.] announced the appointment of Pam Ringquist to Vice President of Human Resources. In addition to her role at Seibels, Ringquist also serves as Vice President of Human Resources at Gulfstream Property and Casualty Insurance Company, an affiliate of Seibels. Prior to her position at Gulfstream, Ringquist served as Director of Marketing followed by Director of Human Resources at Williams Parker Law Firm in Sarasota, Florida.

LogistiCare Solutions, LLC [ATLANTA] appointed Laurel Emory, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Human Resources. Prior to LogistiCare, Ms. Emory served as Executive Business Coach at Building Champions, Chief of Staff and Director of Strategy at Coram Specialty Infusion Services, and Country Director at Medical Teams International.

Ian MacLeod

T.Y. Lin International Group (TYLI) [SAN FRANCISCO] welcomed Ian MacLeod as Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). MacLeod comes to TYLI Group with more than 25 years of experience in human resources leadership, including holding senior leadership positions with global professional services firms in engineering, construction, and operations management.

CHRO Moves – week ending February 7, 2020

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Walmart Inc. Impossible Foods Magenta Therapeutics
EVP Eyecare Innovation G&A Partners
Resources Connection, Inc. PTC Stewart Information Services Corporation
Erie Insurance Grabango Lirio
CarGurus Brightcove, Inc. Frequency Therapeutics, Inc.
Seiler LLP Zerto ArisGlobal
Compass Keyera Corp.

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Donna Morris

Walmart Inc. [BENTONVILLE, Arkansas] appointed Donna Morris as executive vice president and chief people officer. Morris joined Walmart from Adobe, where she served as chief human resources officer and executive vice president of employee experience. Morris joined Adobe in 2002. She also serves on the board of directors of Marvell Technology.

Brian Miller

Impossible Foods [REDWOOD CITY, Calif.] hired biotech executive Brian Miller as Chief People Officer. Miller joins Impossible Foods after a decade at Gilead Sciences, where he served in numerous leadership roles, most recently Vice President for Talent, Development & Inclusion. Before that, he worked for Amgen, where he was the Global Head and Director Learning & Development. He was previously Founder and CEO of E3-Services.

Magenta Therapeutics [CAMBRIDGE, Mass.] (NASDAQ: MGTA) announced the hire of Kristen Stants as Chief People Officer. Stants joins Magenta from Alexion Pharmaceuticals, where she served as Head of Talent Strategy. Prior to that, she led talent management and development strategy at Patheon Pharmaceuticals, in addition to 10 years at Biogen, where she held various leadership roles in executive development and organizational effectiveness.

Ben Novy

EVP Eyecare [DENVER, Colorado] announced that Benjamin A. Novy has joined the company as Chief People Officer (CPO). Most recently, Novy served as Vice President of HR at Vail Resorts. Early in his career, he held senior HR leadership roles at Northrop Grumman and TRW.

Dionne Archie

Innovation [Johnson City, NY] hired Dionne Archie as Executive Vice President, Human Resources. Archie recently led her own firm, Transform HR Consulting. She has over 20 years of in-depth human resource experience with Baxalta, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Walgreens, Time Warner Cable, SBC, and Manpower.

G&A Partners [HOUSTON] announced the appointment of Michelle Mikesell as its vice president of corporate human resources. Mikesell has 15 years of experience in the PEO industry leading multiple top-performing teams within various departments for another national PEO firm.

Katy Conway

Resources Connection, Inc. [IRVINE, Calif.] announced the appointment of Katy Conway as the company’s new Chief People Officer (CPO). Conway previously served as RGP’s Senior Vice President for Talent.

Jill Larsen

PTC [BOSTON] (NASDAQ: PTC) announced that Jill Larsen has joined the company as its chief human resources officer. Prior to PTC, Jill served in leadership roles at international technology companies including Cisco and EMC.

Stewart Information Services Corporation [HOUSTON] announced that Emily Kain, Senior Human Resources Director, is being promoted to Chief Human Resources Officer. Kain joined Stewart Title in 2014 as manager of associate onboarding. Kain replaces Ann Manal. Prior to joining Stewart, Kain held positions in recruiting, staffing and employee development at Deloitte, National Oilwell Varco and BP America in Houston and at IBM in Dubai, UAE.

Sean Dugan

Erie Insurance [ERIE, Pa.] appointed Sean Dugan to senior vice president, Human Resources. Dugan most recently served as corporate human resources officer for ERIE. His prior leadership roles include vice president of Talent Acquisition and Community Outreach, vice president of Recruiting and vice president of Corporate Training and Development.

Saralynn Malott

Grabango [BERKELEY, Calif.] announced the appointment of Saralynn Malott as the company’s vice president of human resources. She comes to Grabango with over 15 years of growth experience, people operations management, and successful team leadership in the technology and e-commerce industries.

Lirio [KNOXVILLE and NASHVILLE, Tenn.] appointed Emily Moses as Chief People Officer.

CarGurus [CAMBRIDGE, Mass.] (NASDAQ: CARG) announced the appointment of Andrea Eldridge as Chief People Officer. Prior to joining CarGurus, Eldridge was Senior Vice President of Talent and Employee Experience at Cengage Learning. Prior to Cengage, she held various leadership positions in talent and general management at Ahold USA, and served in marketing roles at Digitas.

Amee Desjourdy

Brightcove, Inc. [BOSTON] (NASDAQ: BCOV) announced the appointment of Amee Desjourdy as Chief People Officer. Desjourdy joins Brightcove from biotech company Quanterix, where she served as its Chief People and Culture Officer. Prior to that role, she was the Chief Human Resources Officer for Global Partners LP.

Frequency Therapeutics, Inc. [WOBURN, Mass.] (NASDAQ: FREQ) announced that Wendy Arnold has joined the company as Chief People Officer. Arnold joins Frequency from Kaleido BioSciences, where she was Senior Vice President of Human Resources. Prior to that she held senior roles in the human resources organization at Moderna Therapeutics, and she brings experience from her roles at Celgene, Predictive Biosciences and Inotek Pharmaceuticals and work at other small to mid-size public and private companies.

Lupita McLane

Seiler LLP [REDWOOD CITY, Calif.] announced that it has promoted Lupita McLane, formerly the firm’s Director of Human Resources, to Chief People Officer. McLane  joined Seiler in 2006 and was named Director of Human Resources in 2015.

Zerto [BOSTON] announced the appointment of Sofia Kaufman as its first Chief People Officer. Kaufman brings more than a decade of experience, most recently as CPO at Intralinks.

ArisGlobal [MIAMI] announced that Clint Wolfe, joined as Chief Human Resources Officer.

Sara Patterson

Compass [NEW YORK] announced that Sara Patterson will join as Chief People Officer. Patterson brings expertise across human resources, talent management and digital innovation from category-changing brands like Bonobos, Conde Nast, Gilt Groupe and more. Patterson joins Compass after serving as Chief People Officer at Bonobos. After overseeing Bonobos’ integration with Walmart in 2017, her role expanded to Vice President of HR and Talent Management for Walmart eCommerce.

Keyera Corp. [CALGARY] (TSX: KEY) announced the promotion of Dion Kostiuk, Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Services, will be appointed Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Services, effective March 1, 2020.

CHRO Moves – week ending January 10, 2020

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Invitation Homes Inc. Pella GODIVA Chocolatier
Bullhorn Avetta, LLC PROS
Medidata OCC Weave
Vor Biopharma

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Elizabeth Galloway

Invitation Homes Inc. [DALLAS] (NYSE: INVH) announced that Elizabeth Galloway has joined the company as executive vice president and chief human resources officer (CHRO).  Prior to joining Invitation Homes, Galloway was CHRO of home décor retailer At Home. Previously, she held human resources leadership positions with PepsiCo, Owens Corning and Marathon Petroleum Company.

Pella [Pella, Iowa] appointed John Bollman as Chief Human Resources Officer. Bollman comes to Pella from Cooper Tire & Rubber Company where he was the Senior Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer.

Amy Zuckerman

GODIVA Chocolatier [NEW YORK] announced that Amy Zuckerman has joined the company as Chief People Officer. Zuckerman joins from Salvatore Ferragamo where, during her nearly 20-year tenure, she built the North American HR infrastructure.

Bullhorn [BOSTON] announced that Kristin Machacek Leary has joined the company as its Chief People Officer. Leary joins Bullhorn from Hitachi Vantara, where she served as Chief Human Resources Officer. Previously, Leary spent more than two years as Chief Human Resources Officer at Forcepoint. Leary has spent her career primarily leading people functions at companies including Alphatec Spine, Boston Scientific, and Hewlett-Packard.

Aaron Wattam

Avetta, LLC [OREM, Utah] announced the appointment of Aaron Wattam as chief human resources officer. Most recently, he served as VP – Global Human Resources at Paradigm Ltd. for almost a decade, including 2 years spent post-acquisition by Emerson Electric to create Emerson’s E&P Software group. 

PROS [HOUSTON] (NYSE: PRO) announced that Nikki Brewer has been appointed as Chief People Officer. Brewer joined PROS in 2017 as Vice President of Total Rewards.

Naveen Bhateja

Medidata [New York] appointed Naveen Bhateja to SVP, Chief People Officer. Bhateja most recently served as People Business Partner at Medidata until his appointment in to Chief People Officer in Oct. 2019. Prior to joining Medidata, he was global vice president of HR for Juniper Networks for five years. Bhajeta’s career spans nearly 25 years at companies including GE, JP Morgan Chase, Experian and Amazon.

OCC [CHICAGO] announced that Carla Dawson, previously First Vice President, Talent Management, has been promoted to Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer. Before joining OCC in 2017, Dawson served for nearly 20 years in a series of roles of increased responsibility at Driehaus Capital Management, LLC, including as the Managing Director, Human Resources. Previously, Dawson worked for two executive search firms; Heidrick & Struggles, and Korn Ferry, as well as the financial services firm of Abaco De Bolsa.

Angie Balfour

Weave [LEHI, Utah] announced that Angie Balfour has joined as the company’s first Chief People Officer (CPO).Prior to joining Weave, Angie spent over five years at Instagram and Facebook. Most recently, she served as Head of Instagram Human Resources and Director of Human Resources at Facebook. Prior to that, Angie spent over a decade at Fairchild Semiconductor as a Senior Global Human Resources Manager and Human Resources Business Partner.

Vor Biopharma [CAMBRIDGE, Mass.] announced that Tania Philipp has joined as Vice President of People. Prior to joining Vor, Philipp was Vice President and Head of Human Resources at Tango Therapeutics. Tania has held various senior human resources positions for Bavarian Nordic, Mendel Biotechnology, Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Pearl Therapeutics (acquired by AstraZeneca) and Protein Design Labs.

CHRO Moves – week ending February 8, 2019

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Waste Management Boardwalk Pipeline Partners The Trade Desk
EnsembleIQ Echo Global Logistics, Inc. Dynata
Cedilla Therapeutics Clinical Innovations Meritage Hospitality Group, Inc.
Eta Compute Inc. Cetera Oportun

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Waste Management [HOUSTON] recently hired Tamla Oates-Forney as senior vice president and chief human resources officer. Prior to WM, Forney served in numerous positions throughout her 20 years at General Electric including the Senior Executive and Human Resources Director for GE Africa, Chief Diversity Officer for GE Appliances & Lighting, and most recently, Vice President of Human Resources for GE Energy Connections.

Boardwalk Pipeline Partners [HOUSTON] announced that Mercy Kamps has been promoted to the Senior Management Team, where she will serve as Boardwalk’s Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Communications and Investor Relations. Mercy previously served as Boardwalk’s Vice President, Assistant General Counsel and led the Legal Operations team.

The Trade Desk [LOS ANGELES] (NASDAQ: TTD) announced the appointment of Shelley Zajic as Chief Talent Officer. Previously, she served as Global Head of Human Resources at the Patrón Spirits Company. Prior to Patrón, Shelley held human resource leadership roles at Apollo Education Group, Schottenstein Stores Corporation, and UnitedHealth Group, among others.

EnsembleIQ [CHICAGO] announced that it has appointed Ann Jadown as Chief Human Resources Officer. Jadown joins EnsembleIQ from Mario Tricoci Hair Salons & Day Spas.

Echo Global Logistics, Inc. [CHICAGO] (NASDAQ: ECHO) announced that Paula Frey has been named Chief Human Resources Officer. Prior to working at Echo, Ms. Frey worked at the Education Corporation of America as EVP and Chief Human Resources Officer. From 2008 to 2015, Ms. Frey worked at Sears Holdings Corporation in multiple roles, including Senior HR Business Partner and Vice President of Human Resources, as well as Interim Chief Human Resources Officer. For 19 years, Ms. Frey was Senior Director of Human Resources at Motorola, where she worked in Mergers and Acquisitions, Business Partnering, Talent Acquisition, and Talent Management.

Dynata [DALLAS] announced that Dawn Hirsch is joining the company as Executive Vice President, Human Resources. Before joining Dynata, Hirsch was Chief Human Resources Officer at HireRight. She also held senior positions at inVentiv Health, Lend Lease and Thomson Reuters.

Cedilla Therapeutics [CAMBRIDGE, Mass.] announced the appointment of Andrew Dawson as chief human resources officer. Dawson joins Cedilla after having served in senior roles of increasing scope and responsibility at Shire, Roche, Novartis, Eli Lilly and TripAdvisor. Most recently, he was a senior vice president and head of human resources at Enzyvant.

Clinical Innovations [SALT LAKE CITY] announced it has hired Jason Whetstone as vice president of human resources. Whetstone was most recently the senior director of human resources for Polaris Industries’ Engineering and Lean organizations. He previously worked in HR for General Mills for more than a decade.

Jeff VanHaitsma

Meritage Hospitality Group, Inc. [GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.] (OTCQX: MHGU) announced the promotion of Jeff VanHaitsma to Vice President of Human Resources. VanHaitsma joined Meritage in 2014 as Director of Organizational Development.  He grew his talent management and human resources experience at Herman Miller, Family Christian Stores and Amway.

Eta Compute Inc. [WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.] announced that Leon Bezdikian joined the company as vice president of human resources. During his career he held vice president, human resources positions with InvenSense, Inc., Inphi Corporation, SiBEAM, and other fast-growing technology companies.

Cetera [LOS ANGELES] appointed Jeannie Finkel as Chief Human Resources Officer. Finkel most recently held the position of Chief Administrative Officer at Cydcor. Jeannie has previously served as a senior HR leader, business focused executive team member and trusted advisor to senior management for companies such as Charles Schwab, Countrywide Financial and Trust Company of the West.

Oportun [SAN CARLOS, Calif.] announced it has appointed Robin Lykins as its Chief People Officer. Lykins joins Oportun after having served in a number of senior roles at Verifone, most recently as Chief People Officer. Prior, she held executive leadership positions at Risk Management Solutions (RMS), MegaPath, California Eastern Laboratories, Trazar Corporation, and Applied Materials. She began her career in HR roles with Nordstrom and Macy’s.

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