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CHRO Moves – week ending May 24, 2019

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Snap Inc. Dawn Foods Sun Life U.S.
Baker Tilly Virchow Krause FirstEnergy Corp. Encompass Health
Ob Hospitalist Group

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Lara Sweet

Snap Inc. [SANTA MONICA, Calif.] (NYSE: SNAP) announced the appointment of Lara Sweet as Chief People Officer. Sweet was until recently interim CFO and will continue as Chief Accounting Officer until a replacement is named. Sweet joined Snap in 2016 and has served multiple roles in the company’s finance organization, including interim CFO, Chief Accounting Officer, and Vice President, Controller. Prior to joining Snap, Ms. Sweet served as Controller and Chief Accounting Officer at AOL, Inc., and previously served as Vice President, Internal Audit, and Vice President, Controller. She has also held the positions of Senior Director, External Reporting at Freddie Mac and Manager, Internal Audit at Marriott International.

Dawn Foods [Jackson, MI] announced that Jason Lioy, currently Dawn’s Vice President of HR Services and Labor Relations, has been promoted to Chief Human Resources Officer. Since joining Dawn in 2014, Jason has served as Director of HR for BP Operations, Director of HR for Distribution, and VP HR East and Midwest Regions before transitioning to VP of HR Services and Labor Relations late last year. For the last three months, Jason has supported the HR operations for North America, and represented the HR function at the DLT. Jason’s career has included leadership roles at Phillips, GE, and Armstrong World Industries.

Tammi Wortham

Sun Life U.S. [WELLESLEY, Mass.] announced that Tammi Wortham has been appointed vice president of Human Resources (HR). Most recently, Wortham was vice president of Group Benefits Client Services at Sun Life. Before coming to Sun Life, Wortham held senior positions at Prudential overseeing customer service operations in group insurance and retirement services, and led annuities operations at The Hartford Financial Services Group.

Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP (Baker Tilly) [CHICAGO] appointed Partner Todd Stokes to lead its people strategy. Stokes most recently served as managing partner of Baker Tilly’s metro D.C. market.

Christine Walker

FirstEnergy Corp. [AKRON, Ohio] (NYSE: FE) announced that Christine L. Walker, vice president, Human Resources, has been named senior vice president and chief human resources officer, effective July 1, 2019. She succeeds Charles D. Lasky, who is retiring from FirstEnergy after 33 years of service. Walker began her career with GPU, Inc., in the Information Technology organization and held various positions in Human Resources and Customer Service prior to GPU’s merger with FirstEnergy in 2001. She was promoted to director, Compensation and Retirement programs in 2005, named executive director, Human Resources, in 2011, and executive director, Talent Management, in 2016. She was named vice president, Human Resources, in 2018.

Kim Sullivan

Encompass Health [BIRMINGHAM, Ala.] (NYSE: EHC) announced the appointment of Kim Sullivan as chief human resources officer, effective June 10. Since 2017, Sullivan served as vice president and chief people officer for Kaiser Permanente in Seattle, WA. Her extensive career has included senior management positions with The University of Texas System, Walgreens, and Marathon Petroleum.

Ob Hospitalist Group (OBHG) [GREENVILLE, S.C.] announced the addition of Cheryl Slack as Chief Human Resources Officer. Prior to joining OBHG, Slack held human resources leadership roles with Schumacher Clinical Partners and Sound Physicians/Cogent Healthcare.

CHRO Moves – week ending May 10, 2019

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Apollo Global Management BMO Harris Bank Karma Automotive
EBSCO Information Services ABC Financial Services, LLC

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Matthew Breitfelder

Apollo Global Management [NEW YORK] brought on Matthew Breitfelder as Senior Partner and Global Head of Human Capital. Prior to joining Apollo, he was Managing Director and Chief Talent Officer at BlackRock. Previously, Mr. Breitfelder held talent and strategy roles at Mastercard, PwC, and the Corporate Executive Board. He began his career at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Mr. Breitfelder serves on the boards of the Lumina Foundation and the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society program.

BMO Harris Bank [CHICAGO] announced the appointment of Tracie Morris as U.S. Chief Human Resources Officer. Morris’ role was previously held by Larissa Chaikowsky, who was recently named Chief Operating Officer, BMO Wealth Management U.S. Morris has been in HR leadership roles for over 20 years, including the last seven with Exelon Corporation and Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd).

Doug Haslam

Karma Automotive [IRVINE, Calif.] hired Doug Haslam as Vice President, Human Resources.  Haslam comes to Karma from Lucid Motors where he served as Vice President, Global Human Resources. Prior to Lucid, Haslam led HR at the GlobalFoundries headquarters site. Prior to GlobalFoundries, Doug led HR functions and provided consulting services to a number of Silicon Valley technology companies, including Rearden Commerce, Silicon Image, Borland Software, and Palm Computing.

EBSCO Information Services [IPSWICH, MASS.] announced the hiring of Patricia Carroll as Senior Vice President of Human Resources (HR). Carroll was most recently the Vice President, Human Resources, at OSRAM Sylvania, Inc. Before her time at OSRAM, Carroll worked in HR at Aspen Technology in Cambridge, Mass., and held earlier positions with Teradyne, UNICCO Service Company and Deloitte & Touche.

ABC Financial Services, LLC [LITTLE ROCK, Ark.] announced the appointment of Rachana Jain as Chief People Officer. Jain has over 20 years of Human Resources and Talent Acquisition experience, notably at Accenture and Emtec Inc.

CHRO Moves – week ending May 3, 2019

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Flex Neustar, Inc. Dorman Products, Inc.
Adaptive Biotechnologies Masergy Havertys
Berry Companies, Inc. Vestmark ATI Physical Therapy
DigitalOcean Marketing Management Analytics Cerner

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Phil Ulrich

Flex [SAN JOSE, Calif.] (NASDAQ: FLEX) announced that Phil Ulrich has been named the Chief Human Resources Officer. Ulrich will be joining Flex on May 13, 2019. Prior to joining Flex, Ulrich was senior vice president, Human Resources, Electrical Sector for Eaton.

Neustar, Inc. [STERLING, Va.] announced the appointment of Carey Pellock as Senior Vice President of Human Resources. Pellock has more than 20 years of demonstrated expertise in leading high performance HR teams.

Scott Leff

Dorman Products, Inc. [COLMAR, PA] recently hired Scott Leff as Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer. Prior to joining Dorman, Leff held a variety of Global Divisional Human Resources roles at Hewlett-Packard and Hewlett-Packard Enterprises (HPE), including Pointnext and HPE Financial Services. He also held Chief Human Resources Officer roles for D&M (Bain Capital Portfolio Company), Metrologic (Francisco Partners Portfolio Company acquired by Honeywell) and Divisional HR and Employee Relations roles for GMAC.

Adaptive Biotechnologies [SEATTLE] announced the appointment of Francis Lo as Chief People Officer. Lo comes to Adaptive from Whole Foods Market: An Amazon Company, where he was Vice President of Human Resources. Previously, Mr. Lo held leadership roles in Sales, Operations, Corporate Strategy, Consumer Insights, and Human Resources across domestic and international markets at Frito Lay, PepsiCo, and Starbucks.

Maria Gotes

Masergy [DALLAS] announced that Maria Gotes will serve as Masergy’s new Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). Gotes joins Masergy from TriTech Software Systems, where she served as SVP of Human Resources. Prior to that role, Gotes was the SVP of HR at Tiempo Development. She began her career at Johnson Controls followed by Arizona State University.

Havertys [ATLANTA] (NYSE: HVT and HVT.A) has named Kelly A. Fladger as its new senior vice president and chief human resources officer (CHRO). Fladger will succeed Allan DeNiro who is retiring after 15 years with the company. Fladger comes to Havertys from Perdue Farms, Inc. where he served most recently as vice president of HR services and chief diversity and inclusion officer. Prior to joining Perdue in 2016, he was vice president of people strategy and corporate human resources for Belk, Inc. From 1998 to 2014, he served in human resource capacities of increasing responsibility to include vice president, HR global functions and chief diversity officer for Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc.

Stephanie Farley

Berry Companies, Inc. [WICHITA, Kan.] announced the promotion of Stephanie Farley as Chief People Officer. Farley has served as HR Director for Berry Companies since 2017. Farley’s experience includes roles in human resources and accounting, serving as General Manager of Kansas Operations for Connex International and Regional Director of a large-scale fitness facility in the Topeka/Lawrence area. Prior to joining Berry, Stephanie served as an accountant and HR business partner for a CPA firm in Wichita.

Vestmark [WAKEFIELD, Mass.] announced that Nick Thurlow has joined the company as Chief People Officer. Prior to joining Vestmark, Mr. Thurlow worked for five years as Vice President of Human Resources and Public Affairs at InterGen Services, Inc. Earlier in his career, he spent 15 years at Comverse, Inc. in roles of increasing responsibility, ultimately as Vice President of Human Resources. He also held various roles managing human resources for Boston Technology and Cabletron Systems.

Cedric Coco

ATI Physical Therapy [Bolingbrook, Ill.] announced that Cedric Coco is joining as Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). Prior to joining ATI Physical Therapy, Coco served as the Chief People Officer for Brookdale Senior Living. Before joining Brookdale, he served in various human resources roles for Lowe’s Companies Inc., culminating as senior vice president of human resources. Before Lowe’s, Coco gained nearly two decades of experience in human resources, learning and development and organization performance at Microsoft Corporation and KLA-Tencor Corporation. He began his career at the General Electric Company, where he held numerous leadership roles in engineering, business development, sales, general management and organizational learning.

DigitalOcean [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Lysa Dahlin as chief people officer. Prior to DigitalOcean, Dahlin spent 11 years at Comcast, where she was senior vice president of human resources. Dahlin left Comcast in 2017 and had since been consulting with mid-size companies on strategic HR projects. Prior to joining Comcast, she spent eight years at AT&T Broadband and previously led HR functions across varied industries throughout her career.

Liz Osterhus Fleuette

Marketing Management Analytics (MMA) [NEW YORK], an Ipsos Company, announced that Liz Osterhus Fleuette has been named Chief People Officer. Fleuette most recently served as Interim Head of Human Resources for Ipsos North America.  Prior to joining Ipsos in 2015, Fleuette built the HR function at a financial management consulting firm, Orion Consultants.

Cerner [KANSAS CITY, Mo.] (NASDAQ: CERN) announced that Julie Wilson, chief people officer, is retiring effective June 30, 2019. Julie has spent the past 24 years with Cerner and the last 16 in this executive role.

CHRO Moves – week ending April 19, 2019

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Cision Louisiana-Pacific Corporation (LP) Uniphore
Intetics Inc. Avamere Family of Companies

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Susan Steele

Cision [CHICAGO] (NYSE: CISN) announced the appointment of Susan Steele as the company’s new global Chief Human Resources Officer. Prior to joining the Cision executive team, Steele served as HR Reinvention Lead for Global Talent and Transformation at IBM. Steele’s 25 years of experience also include HR leadership roles at WPP, Deloitte and Linklaters and earlier investment banking roles at HSBC and JPMorgan Chase.

Robin Hirsch Everhart

Louisiana-Pacific Corporation (LP) [NASHVILLE, Tenn.] (NYSE: LPX) announced that Robin Hirsch Everhart has been named to the position of Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources and Transformation Officer. Everhart joins LP from Cintas Corporation, where she served in a variety of strategic and operational leadership roles over the past 14 years, including most recently as senior vice president and chief diversity officer. Prior to Cintas she held senior corporate compliance roles at Winn Dixie and The Home Depot. Everhart fills the vacancy created when Tim Harnett moved to Entekra, a company in which LP is a major investor, where he is a senior vice president of operations.

Annie Weckesser

Uniphore [PALO ALTO, Calif.] announced that it has appointed Annie Weckesser as Chief Marketing and People Officer. For the past three years, Weckesser was part of the leadership team at NIO. Prior to NIO, Weckesser held various strategic communications and marketing roles for nine years for Cisco.

Intetics Inc. [NAPLES, FLA.] announced that Natalia Sidorenko joined the company as Intetics’s Vice President of Human Resources and Operations Europe. Sidorenko has experience on related positions in Samsung, Epam, and Luxoft.

Dale Fruehauf

Avamere Family of Companies [WILSONVILLE, Ore.] announced that Dale Fruehauf joins the as the Vice President of Human Resources. Fruehauf brings over 25 years of experience in the HR field and over 20 years of providing senior HR leadership in a variety of industries.

CHRO Moves – week ending March 1, 2019

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CHRO Moves this week include:

American Express WPP Arconic Inc.
HomeTrust Bancshares, Inc. First Midwest Bancorp, Inc. Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc.

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American Express [NEW YORK] (NYSE: AXP) announced that Monique Herena will be joining American Express as Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), effective April 1. Monique joins from BNY Mellon, where she was CHRO and Senior Executive Vice President, Human Resources, Marketing and Communications since 2014. Prior to BNY Mellon, Monique was at PepsiCo for 13 years where she served in a number of increasingly senior HR leadership roles, including assignments in Dubai and Chicago, as well as in their Purchase, NY headquarters. Her career also included several years at both Honeywell and The Quaker Oats Company. Monique succeeds Kevin Cox, who recently left the company.

WPP [NEW YORK & LONDON] (NYSE: WPP) announced the appointment of Jacqui Canney as Global Chief People Officer, effective June 1, 2019. Canney is currently Executive Vice President, Chief People Officer at Walmart Inc. Before Walmart, Canney worked at Accenture for 25 years. Canney succeeds Mark Linaugh, who has decided to retire from the business and will stay on until the summer to ensure a smooth handover process.

Neil Marchuk

Arconic Inc. [NEW YORK] (NYSE: ARNC) announced that Neil Marchuk joined the Company as Executive Vice President, Human Resources. Marchuk was most recently serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at Adient, since 2016. Previously, Marchuk was Executive Vice President of Human Resources at TRW Automotive from 2004 to 2015. He has also previously held various human resources positions at DuPont and SC Johnson.

HomeTrust Bancshares, Inc. [ASHEVILLE, N.C.] (NASDAQ: HTBI), the holding company of HomeTrust Bank, announced that Paula C. Labian assumed the position of Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) of both the Company and the Bank effective January 30, 2019.  Labian worked with companies as diverse as Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida to Whole Foods to CoBiz Financial. Prior to joining HomeTrust Bank, she served as Senior Vice President, Director of Human Resources at CoBiz Financial, Inc., in Denver, CO.

First Midwest Bancorp, Inc. [CHICAGO] announced it has named Doug Rose as Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer. Prior to joining First Midwest, he was the Senior Vice President and Chief HR Officer at Discover Financial Services. He has also held senior HR leadership positions at United Airlines and Capital One.

Michele R. Kuhrt

Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. [CLEVELAND] (NASDAQ: LECO) announced that Michele R. Kuhrt will serve as Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). Kuhrt joined Lincoln Electric in 1997 as Director of Taxes and later served as Company Officer and Senior Vice President, Tax. She most recently served as Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer, a position she has held since 2016. Prior to joining Lincoln Electric, Kuhrt was with Elsag Bailey Process Automation (a unit of ABB) and Pricewaterhouse Coopers.

CHRO Moves – week ending February 15, 2019

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CHRO Moves this week include:

The Coca-Cola Company Chicago Cubs Sonoco
Guidehouse Mr. Cooper Group Inc. Encompass Health Corp.
Black & Veatch

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Lisa Chang

The Coca-Cola Company [ATLANTA] (NYSE: KO) announced that Lisa Chang has been named chief people officer. Chang will join the company March 1. Chang most recently served as senior vice president and chief human resources officer for AMB Group LLC in Atlanta. Prior to joining AMB Group in 2014, Chang served as vice president of human resources for international at Equifax. Before joining Equifax, she was senior vice president of human resources at Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Prior to Turner, her career included HR roles of increasing responsibility at The Weather Channel Companies, ultimately as executive vice president of human resources. Chang replaces Jennifer Mann, who now serves as president of Global Ventures for the company.

Chicago Cubs [CHICAGO] announced that Ann Weiser, head of HR, is leaving the Cubs and is being replaced by Sara Schultz, who will be Senior Vice President of Human Resources. Sara has worked for the NFL the last four years, first as head of Learning and Development in the NY office and recently, as the head of HR for NFL Media in Los Angeles. Prior to the NFL, Sara worked for Comcast.

John Florence

Sonoco [HARTSVILLE, S.C.] (NYSE: SON) announced that Allan McLeland, vice president of Human Resources, has announced his plans to retire after 25 years with the Company, effective April 1, 2019. Sonoco also announced the appointment of John M. Florence Jr. as vice president of Human Resources, general counsel and secretary, effective following McLeland’s retirement. Florence joined Sonoco in 2015 and currently serves as vice president, general counsel and secretary. Prior to joining Sonoco, Florence was a lawyer with Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, PA, a South Carolina law firm, for more than 10 years.

Todd Cordell

Guidehouse [WASHINGTON] announced that Todd Cordell has joined as Chief Human Resources Officer. Todd has served in prominent CHRO roles and brings notable industry experience from leading brands such as Starbucks, GE and Merck.

Kelly Ann Doherty

Mr. Cooper Group Inc. [DALLAS] (NASDAQ: COOP) announced the appointment of Kelly Ann Doherty as Executive Vice President and Chief People & Communications Officer. Doherty most recently served as Chief Communications Officer for Mr. Cooper Group, a role she assumed in August 2018. Prior to joining Nationstar in 2016 as the Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications, Kelly Ann was Vice President of Corporate Communications at Elevate. She also served as a public relations and affairs consultant for four years and as a strategic communication staffer for a Presidential campaign and within President George W. Bush’s administration with a tour at the White House in Presidential Personnel and N.A.S.A. as a political appointee.

Encompass Health Corp. [BIRMINGHAM, Ala.] (NYSE: EHC) announced the planned retirement of Cheryl Levy, the Company’s chief human resources officer of 12 years, effective March 31, 2019.

Cheryl Levy

Black & Veatch [OVERLAND PARK, Kan.] announced that Stephanie Hasenbos-Case has been named President and Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). Hasenbos-Case comes to Black & Veatch from Grant Thornton International.

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.

CHRO Moves – week ending February 1, 2019

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CHRO Moves this week include:

World Fuel Services GE Maine Pointe
PCI Coursera Tilray, Inc.
Snow Software OppLoans CHA Consulting, Inc.
NFP Gilbane Building Company

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Fernando Casadevall

World Fuel Services Corporation [MIAMI] (NYSE: INT) announced that Fernando Casadevall has joined as Chief Human Resource Officer.   Fernando has been Chief Human Resources Officer for Qatar Airlines Group since 2016.  Fernando has also held executive HR roles with Al-Futtaim Group Companies in Dubai, Citigroup in London, Baltimore and New York and Spear, Leeds & Kellogg.

GE [BOSTON] (NYSE: GE) announced that L. Kevin Cox will join GE as Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, effective February 25, 2019. Cox joins GE from American Express, where he was the Chief Human Resources Officer. Cox succeeds Raghu Krishnamoorthy who will be retiring from GE after 25-years of dedicated service. Cox joined American Express in 2005 after 16 years at Pepsi-Cola and the Pepsi Bottling Group (PBG), where he held positions leading strategy, business development, technology, and Human Resources.

Mary Lyons

 

Maine Pointe [BOSTON] announced the appointment of Mary Lyons as EVP and Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO).

PCI [Philadelphia, PA] announced the appointment of Angi Calkins as Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer. Calkins served in senior leadership roles at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.

Rich Jacquet

Coursera [Mountain View, CA] announced that Rich Jacquet has joined as new Chief People Officer. Most recently, he was the Chief People Officer at Gigamon. He also held leadership positions at companies like Packeteer, Bay Networks, eBay and Yahoo!

Tilray, Inc. [NANAIMO, British Columbia] (NASDAQ: TLRY) announced the hire of Rita Seguin as EVP of Human Resources. Seguin served as the Senior Vice President of Human Resources for Diageo North America and most recently as Vice President of Human Resources for Southern Glazers Wine & Spirits Distributors.

Rachel Mooney

Snow Software [STOCKHOLM & AUSTIN, Texas] announced the appointment of Rachel Mooney as Chief People & Culture Officer. Mooney from Vodafone, where she led strategic and operational HR for group corporate functions and global shared services. Previously, Mooney led organizational culture for Google across EMEA as well as the company’s human resources function in Ireland.

Karishma Patel Buford

OppLoans [Chicago] announced the appointment of Karishma Patel Buford to the new role of Chief People Officer. Karishma joins OppLoans after a successful tenure as Head of Global Talent Management at Groupon. She has previously held leadership roles at BAE Systems Inc and Korn Ferry.

Jennifer Chatt

CHA Consulting, Inc. [ALBANY, N.Y. and BIRMINGHAM, Ala.] announced the appointment of Jennifer Chatt as Senior Vice President of Human Resources. Jennifer joined CHA in July 2017 to lead human resources. She previously held senior human resource management positions at Key Bank, NYISO, Northeast Parent and Child Society and Angiodynamics.

NFP [NEW YORK] announced that Kim Davis, formerly NFP’s chief human resources officer, is joining NFP’s board of directors. In addition, Davis will take on the newly created role of chief diversity and inclusion officer. Ginnette Quesada-Kunkel and Mary Steed will join NFP’s Executive Management Committee as chief human resources officer and chief people officer, respectively. Quesada-Kunkel, currently senior vice president of HR, will become executive vice president and assume oversight for the HR function as chief human resources officer. Steed, currently senior vice president of HR, assumes the newly created role of chief people officer.

Katherine Johnson

Gilbane Building Company [PROVIDENCE, R.I.] announced that Katherine Johnson joined the company as senior vice president and chief human resources officer, succeeding Pierre LaPerriere as he retires at the end of 2019. In her most recent role, Ms. Johnson served as global vice president and head of human resources for buildings, infrastructure and advanced facilities for Jacobs in Englewood, Colorado. She also held a range of domestic and international human resources management roles of increasing responsibilities at CH2M over a span of twenty-four years.

CHRO Moves – week ending January 25, 2019

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Acushnet Holdings Under Armour, Inc. JLL
Papa John’s International, Inc. CopperPoint Insurance Companies Carbon Black

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Brendan Reidy

Acushnet Holdings [FAIRHAVEN, Mass.] (NYSE: GOLF) announced Brendan Reidy as its new Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO).  Prior to joining the Company, he was Vice President HR – Organizational Effectiveness at Biogen.  In his 7 years at Biogen, he also led HR for the global R&D organization and Global Commercial Operations.  Prior to Biogen, he worked at P&G and Gillette in various HR roles across a number of geographies and businesses.

Under Armour, Inc. [BALTIMORE] (NYSE: UA, UAA) announced the appointment of Tchernavia Rocker as its new Chief People and Culture Officer. Rocker joins Under Armour from Harley-Davidson, Inc. where she spent more than 18 years in HR leadership roles, most recently as the Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer. Prior to that, she served in various HR and operations roles at Goodyear Dunlop North America Tire Inc. Rocker will join Under Armour in February 2019.

Mary Bilbrey

JLL [CHICAGO] (NYSE: JLL) announced that Mary Bilbrey has been promoted to Global Chief Human Resources Officer from her current role as Americas CHRO. The change is effective February 1, and she will continue to oversee human resources in the Americas region until her successor is named. Bilbrey succeeds Trish Maxson as Global CHRO. Maxson maintains her roles as Chief Administrative Officer and interim CFO. Bilbrey joined JLL in early 2016 as CHRO for the Americas. Prior to joining JLL, Bilbrey held a succession of senior HR leadership roles for HSBC, based at different times in the U.S. and in Europe. She was the Head of Human Resources for HSBC USA and, prior to that, held several leadership roles in HSBC’s London headquarters. Previously, she held various positions focused on compensation, benefits, and mergers and acquisitions.

Papa John’s International, Inc. [LOUISVILLE, Ky.] (NASDAQ: PZZA) announced the appointment of Marvin Boakye as its first Chief People Officer. Boakye joins Papa John’s after serving as vice president of human resources at Andeavor. Prior to Andeavor, he was chief human resources officer for MTS Allstream, and held senior human resources positions at Goodyear, Pulte Group and The Home Depot. Boakye replaces Senior Vice President of People Operations Bob Smith, who retired from Papa John’s in August 2018 after serving 15 years with the company.

Rachel Davis-Schultz

CopperPoint Insurance Companies [PHOENIX] announced that Rachel Davis-Schultz has joined the company as Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer. For the past 10 years, she has been with Express Scripts.

Carbon Black [WALTHAM, Mass.] (NASDAQ: CBLK) announced that Sandra O’Sullivan has been appointed Chief People Officer (CPO). O’Sullivan joined Carbon Black in 2012, most recently serving as the company’s Vice President of Customer Success. Prior to Carbon Black, O’Sullivan launched and was President of Ametros Financial. O’Sullivan steps into the CPO role as Amy Robinson, former Carbon Black CPO, establishes a new function within Carbon Black focused on leadership coaching.

CHRO Moves – week ending December 7, 2018

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Nuance Communications, Inc. La-Z-Boy Incorporated Adverum Biotechnologies, Inc.
Heidrick & Struggles BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. ConsultNet
CareerBuilder RK Logistics Group TapClicks
ETQ

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Beth Conway

Nuance Communications, Inc. [BURLINGTON, MA] (NASDAQ: NUAN) appointed Beth Conway as executive vice president and Chief Human Resources Officer.  Before joining Nuance, Conway held numerous leadership roles at CA Technologies, most recently serving as senior vice president of People.

La-Z-Boy Incorporated [MONROE, Mich.] (NYSE: LZB) announced the appointment of Katie Vanderjagt as Chief Human Resources Officer. Vanderjagt joined La-Z-Boy in 2015 as Director of Talent Management, was made Director of Corporate HR and Talent in 2017, and has been serving in the lead Human Resources position since August. Prior to joining La-Z-Boy, Vanderjagt was with Borgwarner as Director, Human Resources and Global Talent.  Before that, she spent seven years at Owens-Illinois in various Human Resources positions of increasing responsibility before becoming Director, Global Talent Management and HR Strategy.  She began her career at Target Corporation as a Human Resources Manager.

Sarah Payne

Heidrick & Struggles [CHICAGO] (NASDAQ: HSII) announced Sarah Payne has been appointed Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), and Rick Greene, Heidrick & Struggle’s current CHRO, will move into the Heidrick Consulting business as a Partner. Both leadership changes will become effective January 1, 2019. Payne was most recently Vice President, Human Resources, Global Executive Search. Prior to joining Heidrick & Struggles, she was Director of Global Executive Compensation at Bunge. Earlier she was Global Director of Compensation and Benefits at PanAmSat.

Adverum Biotechnologies, Inc. [MENLO PARK, Calif.] (NASDAQ: ADVM) announced the appointment of Mike Fitzgerald as vice president, human resources. Fitzgerald was the Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources for ZELTIQ Aesthetics (now Allergan). Prior to ZELTIQ, he served as the Executive Vice President, Global Human Resources for Cepheid. Before joining Cepheid, he served as the Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources at Verigy, Ltd (now a part of Advantest Corp.). Prior to Verigy, Mr. Fitzgerald was Vice President of Human Resources at Varian, Inc. (acquired by Agilent Technologies), and prior to that, he held various HR roles culminating in becoming the Global Director of HR Strategy and Planning for Vodafone Group, plc.

BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. [SAN RAFAEL, Calif.] (NASDAQ: BMRN) announced the promotion of Amy Wireman to Group Vice President, Human Resources, effective January 1, 2019.  Ms. Wireman joined BioMarin in 2013 and has held roles of increasing responsibilities, starting with head of compensation and benefits, followed by responsibilities for HR operations, and most recently talent acquisition.  Ms. Wireman will be replacing Rich Ranieri, Head of Human Resources, who announced in June that he will be retiring from the company at the end of the year. Ms. Wireman previously held managerial HR positions at Wind River, Xyratex and Micromuse as well as senior consulting roles with Watson Wyatt and Mercer.

ConsultNet [SOUTH JORDAN, Utah] welcomed Amy Esser as the organization’s new vice president of Human Resources. Before joining ConsultNet, Esser worked at the McCann World group as a SVP, Regional Director of Human Resources.

Michelle Armer

CareerBuilder [CHICAGO] announced the promotion of Michelle Armer to Chief People Officer. Joining as an HR Coordinator, Armer quickly stepped into a managerial role and was instrumental in supporting CareerBuilder.

RK Logistics Group [FREMONT, CALIF.] announced that Kimberly Meccariello has joined the company as corporate director of human resources. Meccariello progressed through increasingly responsible human resource management positions with Bio-Rad Laboratories, Rite Aid Corporation and Lockheed-Martin Corporation. A 23-year U.S. Air Force veteran, she previously served as a personnel officer stationed at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif. Upon retirement from active military duty she continued in service to the country as a member of the USAF Reserves.

TapClicks [SAN JOSE, Calif.] announced that it hired Tonya J. Long who is joining the company as Vice President of People and Operations. Long most recently held senior product operations roles at Akamai Technologies and Avaya and has more than 20 years of senior leadership in high-tech enterprise companies.

Brian Testa

ETQ [Burlington, MA] announced the appointment of Brian Testa as VP of People Operations. Before ETQ, Testa was Vice President, Global People Operations at KBACE Technologies. Testa has been a part of the Boston start-up technology landscape for the past 20 years.

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