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CHRO Moves – week ending October 18, 2019

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Standard Insurance Company Zymeworks Inc. Stoke Therapeutics, Inc.
Angion Biomedica Corp. Amerant American Electric Power
Greystar Real Estate Partners, LLC 4Front Ventures Corp.

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Susan Bruechner

Standard Insurance Company [PORTLAND, Ore.] announced that Susan Bruechner joined the company as vice president and chief human resources officer. Bruechner comes to The Standard from PeaceHealth where her most recent role was senior vice president and chief human resources officer. Prior to her time at PeaceHealth, Bruechner held various human resources leadership roles at Goldman Sachs’ commercial real estate division.

Zymeworks Inc. [VANCOUVER, British Columbia] (NYSE: ZYME) announced the appointment of Kathryn O’Driscoll to the executive team as Chief People Officer (CPO). O’Driscoll has held various senior people-centric roles at Microsoft, including within the Server and Tools Business. Most recently, she served as Vice President of People at Snowflake. Formerly she was the Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at PATH.

Stoke Therapeutics, Inc. [BEDFORD, Mass.] (NASDAQ: STOK) announced the appointment of Joan Wood as Head of Human Resources. Most recently, Wood served as Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer at Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. Prior to joining Karyopharm, Ms. Wood served as Vice President, Head of Human Resources for Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. Earlier, Ms. Wood was Senior Vice President of Global Leadership Development at Genzyme Corporation.

Angion Biomedica Corp. [UNIONDALE, N.Y.] announced the appointment of Daniel Iazzetti as vice president of human resources. Iazzetti formerly served as the head of human resources for Five Prime Therapeutics. Prior to this, he held human resource leadership positions at Actelion Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Johnson and Johnson) and ZS Pharma (acquired by AstraZeneca). Iazzetti was also a member of the Talent Acquisition team at Gilead Sciences earlier in his career.

Manolo Cuervo

Amerant [MIAMI] announced that Manolo Cuervo has been named Executive Vice President Human Resources. Prior to joining Amerant, Cuervo most recently served as Managing Director of Regional Rewards and Recognition for Citi across the U.S. and 20 international markets. Previously, Cuervo also served as Chief Human Resources Officer for Mexico at Citibanamex. Cuervo has also held various positions at Citi (Citibanamex) in the compensation and benefits areas.

American Electric Power [COLUMBUS, Ohio] (NYSE: AEP) named Julius Cox senior vice president and chief human resources officer. Cox will succeed Tracy A. Elich, vice president, Human Resources, who is retiring Dec. 31 after more than 43 years with the company. Cox was most recently executive vice president and chief transformation officer for Dynegy. Previously, Cox was Dynegy’s chief administrative officer. Cox joined Dynegy in 2001 as a human resources director and held progressive leadership roles in human resources. Before joining Dynegy, Cox was a consultant at Arthur Andersen and worked in human resources roles at Shell Oil and Neiman Marcus.

Greystar Real Estate Partners, LLC [CHARLESTON, S.C.] and its affiliates announced that Pia Cornejo has joined the firm as Senior Managing Director, Global People & Culture. Cornejo joins Greystar from InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), where she spent the last 11 years. Prior to her role at IHG, she had a diverse career working in human resources, marketing and product development roles for organizations such as Starwood Hotels & Resorts and the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games.

4Front Ventures Corp. [VANCOUVER and PHOENIX, AZ] (CSE: FFNT, OTCQX: FFNTF) hired Alicia Mandel as their first Chief Human Performance Officer. Mandel has held positions at American Express, Apollo Education Group/University of Phoenix, the U.S. Olympic Committee, and Citi, among others. As a consultant, she’s also worked with companies such as Oracle, Adobe, Nike, and Microsoft.

CHRO Moves – week ending October 4, 2019

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CHRO Moves this week include:

DXC Technology Nextiva LabCorp
SentinelOne Myers Industries, Inc. Northwest Federal Credit Union
Rafael Pharmaceuticals Inc.

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Mary E. Finch

DXC Technology [TYSONS, Va.] (NYSE: DXC) announced the appointment of Mary E. Finch as executive vice president and chief human resources officer (CHRO). Finch joins DXC from AECOM, where she served as CHRO since 2015. Prior to AECOM, Finch served as senior managing director and chief operations officer for Global Human Resources at Accenture.

Nextiva [Scottsdale, Arizona] announced that Mark Green has joined the company’s executive leadership team as Chief People Officer. Green most recently worked as Eastman Kodak’s chief human resources officer. Previously, Green led human resources functions in the telecom sector at UTStarcom and Nortel, as well as in the semiconductor and software space with Applied Materials and Verisign.

Judi Seltz

LabCorp [BURLINGTON, N.C.] (NYSE: LH) announced that Judi Seltz has been appointed its chief human resources officer effective Oct. 15. Seltz replaces Lisa Uthgenannt following her planned retirement. Seltz comes to LabCorp from Diversey Inc., where she was chief human resources officer. Prior to Diversey, Seltz was senior vice president of human resources for the Global Human Health division of Merck. Seltz started at Merck in 2003 and held numerous roles serving emerging markets, corporate, research, and information technology, and lived and worked in Europe for several years. Prior to Merck, she also worked at Hughes Network Systems and ARINC.

SentinelOne [MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.] announced the appointment of Divya Ghatak to Chief People Officer. Ghatak recently held the position of Global Vice President of People at Nevro. Prior to Nevro, Mrs. Ghatak was Chief People Officer at GoodData and held global HR leadership roles in a variety of technology companies including Cisco and Tavant.

Myers Industries, Inc. [AKRON, Ohio] (NYSE: MYE) announced that Tom Harmon has joined the Company as Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer. Harmon joins Myers from Gryphon Investors where he was Managing Director, Human Resources. Previously, he held HR leadership positions with Dawn Food Products, Armstrong World Industries and Pfizer.

Jean Cain

Northwest Federal Credit Union [HERNDON, Va.] hired Jean Cain as its new Senior Vice President of Human Resources. Cain most recently served as Vice President and Chief HR Officer at Noblis, in Reston, VA. Prior to that, Cain’s 30+ years in human resources included management positions at The MITRE Corporation in McLean, VA and Montgomery County Teachers Federal Credit Union in Rockville, MD.

Rafael Pharmaceuticals Inc. [Newark, NJ] announced the appointment of Wendy McDermott as Chief People Officer. McDermott joins Rafael from Sanofi, where she served as Vice President of Human Resources. She also held the position of Senior Human Resources Manager at Schering-Plough Corporation before it was acquired by Merck.

CHRO Moves – week ending August 30, 2019

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) DiscoverOrg and ZoomInfo ANSYS
AML RightSource HireRight Lockton

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Michelle A. O’Hara

Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) [RESTON, Va.] (NYSE: SAIC) announced it has appointed Michelle A. O’Hara as the company’s chief human resources officer effective October 1, 2019. O’Hara succeeds Karen Wheeler, who is retiring from SAIC. O’Hara is currently human resources senior vice president.

DiscoverOrg and ZoomInfo [VANCOUVER, Wash.] announced the appointment of Alyssa Lahar as Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). Lahar joins the company following 19 years at Dell Technologies (formerly EMC Corporation), most recently as Vice President of Human Resources in Dell’s Storage Division. Previously, Lahar served as a Senior Director for Human Resources in the Global Engineering and Sales & Presales divisions at Dell EMC. Lahar is based in Waltham, MA.

Julie Murphy

ANSYS [PITTSBURGH] (NASDAQ: ANSS) has named Julie Murphy as its vice president of human resources. Prior to joining ANSYS, Murphy was the chief human resources officer for Tradesmen International. She previously worked for such companies as Westinghouse, Heinz, Blue Cross Blue Shield and PWC.

Courtney Abraham

AML RightSource [Cleveland] appointed Courtney Abraham to the role of Chief People Officer. Abraham has experience with diverse industries including staffing, consulting, retail, insurance, and technology.

HireRight [IRVINE, Calif.] announced the appointment of Chelsea Pyrzenski as Chief Human Resources Officer. Pyrzenski joins HireRight from VIZIO, where she served as the Head of Human Resources. Prior to VIZIO, Ms. Pyrzenski held HR leadership roles at the National Football League (NFL), AT&T and DIRECTV.

Dondi Dix

Lockton [KANSAS CITY, Mo.] announced that Dondi Dix is its new senior vice president- chief people officer. Dix joins Lockton from Dairy Farmers of America, where she was the vice president of human resources, talent and organization development. Prior to this role, she spent more than five years at Sprint in various talent and business transformation roles before becoming the chief of staff to the chief operating officer. Earlier in her career, Dix spent over a decade with Accenture. She also served in the U.S. Army as a Captain.

CHRO Moves – week ending August 9, 2019

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CHRO Moves this week include:

Albertsons Companies Acreage Holdings, Inc. Databricks
LSI Industries Inc. Matrix Medical Network Juvly Aesthetics

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Albertsons Companies [BOISE, Idaho] announced that Mike Theilmann has been named EVP & Chief Human Resources Officer, effective August 19, 2019. Theilmann joins Albertsons Cos. from Heidrick & Struggles, where he served as the Global Practice Managing Partner, Human Resources Officers Practice. Andy Scoggin, who has served Albertsons Cos. as Executive Vice President of Human Resources, Public Affairs, Government Relations and Labor Relations since its founding in 2006, has announced his plans to leave the company at the end of the calendar year. Theilmann amassed a wealth of experience in human resources over his nearly 30-year career with Diageo, PepsiCo, Yum and JC Penney.

Acreage Holdings, Inc. [NEW YORK] (CSE: ACRG.U, OTCQX: ACRGF) announced the hiring of Steve Hardardt as Executive Vice President, Chief People Officer and Administration (CPO). For five years prior to joining Acreage, Hardardt owned and operated Noble Coaching & Consulting. Prior, he served as Senior Vice President, Human Resources & Business Administration at tw telecom from 2007 to 2014.  He was Vice President, Human Resources & Communications, at Johns Manville from 2003-2007. Hardardt also spent time at Honeywell, Monsanto, Hasbro, Frito-Lay and Dow Jones.

Databricks [SAN FRANCISCO] announced the appointment of Amy Reichanadter as Chief People Officer. Prior to joining Databricks, Reichanadter served as Chief People Officer for Adaptive Insights. Preceding this, Reichanadter was the Senior Vice President of Human Resources at E2open for nearly nine years.

LSI Industries Inc. [CINCINNATI] (NASDAQ: LYTS) announced the appointment of Thomas A. Caneris as Senior Vice President – Human Resources and General Counsel. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel for PharMerica Corporation from 2007 through 2019. From 2004 to 2007, Mr. Caneris was employed by Convergys Corporation as a Senior Attorney.  Earlier in his career, Mr. Caneris served as Commercial Affairs Counsel for AK Steel Corporation.

Matrix Medical Network [SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.] announced that Jill Patterson has joined the company as Chief People Officer. Patterson most recently served as HR Strategic Advisor and Interim Chief Human Resources Officer for Kalispell Regional Healthcare. Prior to consulting, she served as Vice President, Human Resources – Delivery Operations for Banner Health. She also served as Executive Director, Human Resources at the Cleveland Clinic. Ms. Patterson also has HR leadership experience in the banking industry and was a practicing attorney.

Erin Sutley

Juvly Aesthetics [NEW YORK] announced the addition of Erin Sutley as its Chief People Officer. Most recently, she spent four years as VP of Operations for FlyCleaners. Between 2013 and 2015, Sutley found herself helping online retail start-ups transform their service and operations functions to deliver best-in-class customer experience. In 2008, she was among the first employees at flash-sale sensation Gilt Groupe.

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