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CHRO Moves – week ending July 10, 2020

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Cooper Tire & Rubber Company NS1 Signify Health
iPipeline Groundworks Companies Earnest
Rokt

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Paula Whitesell

Cooper Tire & Rubber Company [FINDLAY, Ohio] announced that Paula Whitesell will join the company as Senior Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) effective July 27. Whitesell joins Cooper from Peapod Digital Labs (PDL) in Chicago, where she served as Vice President, Human Resources. PDL is a unit of Ahold Delhaize. She progressed to this role after serving as Vice President of Human Resources at Peapod, LLC. Prior to Peapod, Whitesell had an 18-year career with Whirlpool Corporation, where she most recently served as Senior Director—Global Human Resources. Her career has also included roles in Tier 1 automotive industry suppliers such as VDO-Siemens and Budd Thyssenkrupp Company.

NS1 [NEW YORK] hired Lorraine Heber-Brause as vice president and global head of people. Prior to joining NS1, Heber-Brause held leadership roles at Yotpo, AppNexus, BlackRock, American Express, and Citi.

Kathleen Tourjee

Signify Health [DALLAS] announced the appointment Kathleen Tourjee as Chief Human Resources Officer. Tourjee joins Signify Health from WebMD where she served as the Vice President in charge of Human Resources. Prior to joining WebMD, Tourjee was with Pfizer where she started as a chemical process engineer in pharmaceutical manufacturing, but eventually switched to human resources where she progressed through increasing levels of responsibility to lead the global compensation, benefits and wellness programs.

iPipeline [EXTON, PA] announced the appointment of Kevin Baer as Chief People Officer. Baer has more than 35 years of experience designing people strategies and building high-performance organizations for clients including ConocoPhillips, Phillips66, United Airlines, and Constellation Energy. Baer comes to iPipeline from Mpact Leadership Coaching, where he was a founding partner. Prior to Mpact Leadership Coaching, Baer held key executive positions at Continental Airlines Travel University, Got-A-Job.com, Corestaff Staffing, and Sales Performance International.

Adam Currie

Groundworks Companies [VIRGINIA BEACH, VA.] announced the hiring of Adam Currie as Vice President of Human Resources. Currie comes to Groundworks from TruGreen, where he served in multiple roles including his most recent position as a director and HR business partner. Before entering the home services field, Currie worked in numerous HR and executive compensation positions with USAA.

Earnest [SAN FRANCISCO] welcomed Victoria Hughes as its new Chief People Officer. Hughes most recently served as the Chief People Officer at AnitaB.org. Her leadership experience spans a variety of industries including Fortune 500 companies to the non-profit sector.

Lisa Craven

Rokt [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Lisa Craven as Chief People Officer. Craven was previously consulting for Rokt. Previously she was Global Chief People Officer at Sizmek.

CHRO Moves – week ending June 5, 2020

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Perficient, Inc. Verso Corporation UL Inc.
Fetch Rewards

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Andrea Lampert

Perficient, Inc. [SAINT LOUIS] (NASDAQ: PRFT) announced that Andrea Lampert has joined the company as Vice President of People. Lampert most recently served as the VP of Talent Strategies at BJC HealthCare. Lampert previously held similar HR leadership positions with other leading companies, including Express Scripts.

Verso Corporation [MIAMISBURG, Ohio] (NYSE: VRS) announced that Terrence M. Dyer has been appointed Verso’s Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Communications. Dyer has served in human resources leadership roles at several Fortune 1000 companies, including Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at Worthington Industries; Vice President, Human Resources for Armstrong World Industries Inc.; and Human Resources Manager at Burlington Industries, Inc. Dyer will replace predecessor Kenneth D. Sawyer who retired from Verso.

UL Inc. [NORTHBROOK, Ill.] (UL) announced that Linda Chapin has joined the organization as senior vice president and chief human resources officer. She most recently served in senior HR roles for Johnson Controls, and also worked at Logica and Hewlett Packard.

Rukmini Banerjee

Fetch Rewards [MADISON, Wis.] announced that it hired Rukmini Banerjee to be its Chief People Officer. Banerjee joins Fetch from CUNA Mutual Group where she was Vice President of Shared Services. Prior to that she served as Director of Strategic Operations for HSBC Bank’s Consumer and Wholesale Lending division. Banerjee also spent four years at GE in Australia where she was a Customer Support Leader.

CHRO Moves – week ending May 22, 2020

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Tupperware Brands Corporation QBE North America Advanced Energy
Consulate Health Care Gulf Island Fabrication Diamond Hill Capital Management
Unity Technologies Section 32 CubicFarm Systems Corp.

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Beatriz Díaz de la Fuente

Tupperware Brands Corporation [ORLANDO, FL] (NYSE: TUP) named Beatriz Díaz de la Fuente as the Company’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO).  She will join Tupperware on June 1, 2020. Díaz de la Fuente joins Tupperware Brands following successful careers in human resources at multinational companies including GE and Herbalife Nutrition. Most recently, she was head of human resources at El Palacio de Hierro. Prior to El Palacio de Hierro, Díaz de la Fuente served as Vice President of Finance and Distribution Operations at Herbalife Nutrition.

QBE North America [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Becket McNab as Chief Human Resources Officer. McNab most recently served as Executive Vice President, Human Resources, Global Operations and Functional groups at Chubb, and previous to that McNab was the Executive Vice President of Human Resources for Chubb Overseas General. Prior to Chubb, she held a variety of senior HR roles with the Richemont Group, Nabisco International and PepsiCo International.

Rory O’Byrne

Advanced Energy [DENVER] (NASDAQ: AEIS) hired Rory O’Byrne as senior vice president and chief human resources officer (CHRO). Most recently, O’Byrne served as the CHRO at Jonah Energy, LLC in Denver, CO. Prior to that, he was the CHRO for MRC Global, Inc. in Houston, TX.

Consulate Health Care [MAITLAND, FL] announced the appointment of Cindy Chrispell to Chief Human Resources Officer. Chrispell served as an HR consultant for Consulate since 2015. In January of 2020, Cindy joined the company as the interim SVP of HR. From 2008 to 2012, she served as the Chief Human Resources Officer at Sun Healthcare Group, and for seven years prior, served as the Vice President of Human Resources for the western half of the United States at Starbucks Coffee Company.

Gulf Island Fabrication [Houston, TX] (NASDAQ: GIFI) named Thomas Smouse Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer.  Thomas most recently served as Managing Director – Human Capital for EBL Advisors, a management consulting company.  Prior to his time with EBL Advisors, Thomas served as Vice President Human Resources and Administration for Newfield Exploration and served in various human resources leadership positions at Noble Energy, Anadarko Petroleum, BP and Vastar Resources.

Diamond Hill Capital Management [COLUMBUS, Ohio], an independent active asset manager and a subsidiary of Diamond Hill Investment Group, Inc., announced the appointment of Anna Corona as chief people officer. Before joining Diamond Hill, Corona was head of talent and culture for Morningstar Australasia, based in Sydney. Corona began her human resources career at Chicago-based Morningstar in 2003, where she held increasingly senior roles until relocating to Sydney to lead the firm’s human resources there.

Unity Technologies [SAN FRANCISCO] announced the appointment of Scott Pitasky as Chief People Officer. Before joining Unity, Pitasky was the Vice President of Human Resources supporting Amazon’s largest business, the Worldwide Consumer business. This role was Pitasky’s second stint at Amazon — the first was in 1999. Pitasky also headed up Human Resources at Starbucks and held a number of senior-level HR positions with Microsoft.

Section 32 [SAN DIEGO] announced that Sarah Larson was appointed Chief People Officer. Larson was recently Chief Human Resources Officer and Partner at Third Rock Ventures and prior to that Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Foundation Medicine.

CubicFarm® Systems Corp. [VANCOUVER, BC] (TSX-V:CUB) announced the appointment of Jacqui Noftall as Head of People. Noftall has held executive and senior leadership positions in the finance, higher education, and real estate sectors and has experience building global human resources and operational infrastructure for start-ups, including Citizens Bank (now Vancity Community Investment Bank).

CHRO Moves – week ending April 3, 2020

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Qualcomm Incorporated PPT Solutions MAXIMUS
Collective Health Root Inc. TapClicks

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Qualcomm Incorporated [SAN DIEGO] (NASDAQ: QCOM) announced the appointment of Heather Ace as executive vice president of human resources. Michelle Sterling, executive vice president of human resources who has worked at Qualcomm for 25 years, is retiring. Ace served most recently as the chief human resources officer at Dexcom. Prior to Dexcom, Ace served as the EVP of global HR at Orexigen Therapeutics, the Business Integration Leader for Royal Philips’ HealthTech acquisition of Volcano Corporation, the EVP of global HR at Volcano Corporation, and held various HR executive roles at Life Technologies. Heather was also a partner at Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich (now DLA Piper).

Kathryn L. Martin

PPT Solutions [TULSA, Okla.] announced the addition of Kathryn L. Martin as Vice President of Human Resources and General Counsel. Most recently, Martin was Director of Human Resources for Limco Airepair. Earlier in her career, she served in key leadership positions that included tenures at Applied-Cleveland Holdings, Miratech Group and Precision Castparts Corporation.

MAXIMUS [RESTON, Va.] (NYSE: MMS) announced that Michelle Link joined MAXIMUS as Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). Before joining MAXIMUS, Link was the Executive Vice President of Human Resources at ADS, Inc. Link replaces Rebecca Kenawell who was acting Chief of Human Resources over the past seven months.

Collective Health [SAN FRANCISCO] appointed Abbie Buck as its new Chief People Officer. Most recently, Buck was VP of Human Resources at Splunk. Previously, Abbie held senior HR roles at PayPal, eBay, and IBM.

Root Inc. [COLUMBUS, Ohio] the parent company of Root Insurance, announced that Annette Reavis joined the company as its first Chief People Officer. Reavis joined after spending a decade at Facebook, serving as a strategic HR leader for Facebook’s product, marketing, growth/integrity, community operations, and partnerships organizations.

TapClicks [SAN JOSE, Calif.] announced that Marielle Smith has joined as Vice President of People Success. Before joining TapClicks, Smith was the VP, People and Culture, at Science Exchange, and held other leadership HR roles at companies like GoodHire, Apigee and News Digital Media (Newscorp).

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