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COO Moves – week ending February 24, 2017

Posted on March 1, 2017 Written by Dergel Executive Search Leave a Comment

COO Moves this week include:

BeavEx Incorporated	Toffler Associates	Celgene Corporation
MFour Mobile Research	California Medical Evaluators	BDC Capital Corporation
Phononic	Las Olas Capital Advisors	ROK Stars PLC
Nook Industries

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BeavEx Incorporated [ATLANTA] announced the appointment of Scott McDade as Chief Operating Officer. McDade joined Beavex in 2013 as its SVP Operations for the Central Division. In 2015, he was promoted to SVP Logistics and Operational Excellence. Prior to joining Beavex, he was the Division President for Velocity Express.

Toffler Associates [RESTON, VIRGINIA] has hired Maria Bothwell as chief operating officer. Prior to joining Toffler Associates, Bothwell led strategic development, transformation and performance improvement initiatives in more than a decade with management consulting firm North Highland. Most recently, she was a managing director. Her prior experience includes management consulting with Arthur Andersen Business Consulting and Ernst & Young.

Celgene Corporation [SUMMIT, N.J.] (NASDAQ: CELG) announced that President and Chief Operating Officer Jacqualyn (“Jackie”) Fouse, has decided to retire from Celgene effective June 30, 2017. She will continue to serve as President and COO until April 1, and through June 30, she will serve as a strategic advisor to the management team. The Company also announced the promotion of Scott Smith to President and COO, effective April 1, 2017. Scott joined Celgene in 2008 and successfully built and launched Celgene’s I&I Franchise. Before joining Celgene, Scott served as Global Commercial Head for Biovail.

MFour Mobile Research [IRVINE, Calif.] announced Darren Clark as its Chief Operating Officer. As Chief Technology Officer for YP Marketing Solutions. He also has held high management positions with Spot Runner, NextGen Healthcare, AT&T Interactive, Yahoo!, Overture Services, and PayMyBills.com.

California Medical Evaluators (CME) [LOS ANGELES] announced that Jerry Hall was appointed as Chief Operating Officer. Hall previously held the COO position at Medical Consultants Network. Most recently, Hall has been Principal of his own firm, Brightspeed LLC.

BDC Capital Corporation [WAKEFIELD, Mass.] announced the appointment of Paul Flynn, Jr. as its Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Flynn also serves as President, and Chief Operating Officer of the New England Certified Development Corp., BDC’s SBA 504 lending affiliate. Prior to joining BDC Capital, Flynn served as a Senior Vice President at Berkshire Bank. His banking career also includes senior level positions at T.D. Bank, formerly Banknorth, and Bank Boston, formerly BayBank.

Phononic [DURHAM, N.C.] announced the appointment of Ron Tarter as Chief Operating Officer. Tarter joins Phononic after successful engagements at Apple, where he worked in various manufacturing leadership capacities; and Flextronics. Tarter was most recently SVP/GM of Flextronics’ United States Operations.

Las Olas Capital Advisors [FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.] hired Raymond N. Catone as Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer. Raymond joins the team with over 24 years of experience within the Financial Services Industry having worked at Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, and Barclays prior to his time at Citibank.

ROK Stars PLC [LOS ANGELES] announced the appointment Graham Higgins as Chief Operating Officer for its ROK Drinks division. A highly respected figure in the UK drinks and Business Process Outsourcing market, Graham has over 20 years experience in the design, sale, delivery and operations of credit management, customer service and telesales solutions with the likes of Molson Coors, Carlsberg, Anheuser-Busch, SAB Miller, Marstons PLC and Best Western Hotels.

Nook Industries [CLEVELAND] announced Jim Rowell as its new chief operations officer. Prior to joining Nook, he held roles in Parker Hannifin’s Fluid Connectors and Automation groups as territory manager, product manager, business unit manager, manufacturing manager, general manager and vice president of operations.

COO Moves – week ending December 16, 2016

Posted on December 21, 2016 Written by cfomoves Leave a Comment

COO Moves this week include:

Goldcorp Inc.	Globalization Partners	Neurovance, Inc.
MrktServ Holdings	SurveyGizmo	JANE.com
Synlogic	Cliffs Natural Resources Inc.	Sonata Senior Living
DDR Corp.	Stewart	Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.
W. P. Carey Inc.	Principal Financial Group	TIAA Global Asset Management
Ball Corporation	The Palisades Group, LLC	Neovia Logistics

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Goldcorp Inc. [VANCOUVER] (TSX: G, NYSE: GG) announced that George Burns, Executive Vice-President (“EVP”) and Chief Operating Officer (“COO”) will be leaving Goldcorp to assume the role of President and Chief Executive Officer at Eldorado Gold. Todd White, currently Senior Vice President, Technical Services and Business Excellence, will succeed Mr. Burns as EVP and COO effective January 1, 2017. Prior to joining Goldcorp in 2014, White was the Senior Vice President, South America at Newmont Mining Corporation.

Globalization Partners [BOSTON] announced that Debbie Millin will serve as the organization’s chief operating officer. Millin joined Globalization Partners in June as senior director of systems and scalability. Prior to joining the company in June, she ran UpperLevel Solutions, a consulting firm. Previously, she was vice president of operations at High Street Partners (now Radius).

Neurovance, Inc. [CAMBRIDGE, Mass.] announced the appointment of Brian Goff to the newly created position of Chief Operating Officer and to the Neurovance Board of Directors. Mr. Goff previously was President of the Hematology Division of Baxalta (a 2015 spin-out of Baxter Healthcare). Prior to joining Baxter in 2012, Mr. Goff was Vice President and Head of Novartis Pharmaceuticals’ Primary Care business. Previously at Novartis’ Swiss headquarters, he led the global marketing of their flagship cardiovascular brand, and he spent 14 years in a variety of commercial leadership positions at Johnson & Johnson.

MrktServ Holdings [ROLLING MEADOWS, ILLINOIS] announced that Richard Sawyer has been appointed chief operating officer. Sawyer spent over 38 years at a Fortune 500 company and in 2003 he became the divisional merchandise manager of its hardware division, where he was then promoted to vice president-general merchandise manager of its automotive division. Sawyer grew in this position for about six years before retiring and then branched out to become the CEO of an automotive tools and supply company for three years.

SurveyGizmo [BOULDER, COLORADO] named Nicole Craine as the company’s new Chief Operating Officer. Nicole previously worked with @Home Network, There.com, Organic and Cadreon,

JANE.com [LEHI, Utah] announced that Shelley-Ann Denoon will be joining the executive team as Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining JANE.com, Denoon served as eBay’s Director of North America Business Operations. She also served as the eBay’s Head of Operations within their deals platform. Other leadership roles she has held include Director of Business Excellence at eBay and Director of Technology Operations at General Electric Healthcare.

Synlogic [CAMBRIDGE, Mass.] announced the appointment of Samantha Truex as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Head of Corporate Development. Sam comes to Synlogic most recently from Padlock Therapeutics. Prior to Padlock, Sam spent several years each at Biogen and Genzyme. Earlier in her career, Sam worked for Chiron Diagnostics and Health Advances.

Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. [CLEVELAND] (NYSE: CLF) announced the appointment of P. Kelly Tompkins as Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, effective January 1, 2017. Mr. Tompkins, is currently Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer. Tompkins joined Cliffs in May 2010, having previously been executive vice president and chief financial officer for RPM International Inc.. Before joining RPM in 1996, he held various legal and management positions with Cleveland-based Reliance Electric Company and Exxon Corporation in Houston, Texas. Before serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Cliffs, he served in executive vice president roles in business development, commercial, legal and government affairs.

Sonata Senior Living [ORLANDO, Fla.] announced that Shelley Esden has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer (COO). Shelley has over 18 years of leadership experience in the senior housing industry, holding senior management and regional director roles with nationally recognized owners, developers and operators, including Summerville Senior Living, Legacy Senior Living and Marriott Senior Living.

DDR Corp. [BEACHWOOD, Ohio] (NYSE: DDR) announced that it has named William T. Ross as chief operating officer, effective January 3, 2017. Mr. Ross was with Forest City Realty Trust as executive vice president of asset management since 2006. Prior to his time at Forest City, Mr. Ross was an executive at General Electric Company where he led M&A for one of GE’s major divisions. He also spent six years as a consultant for McKinsey & Company, worked in venture capital, and ran a small sporting goods manufacturing company.

Stewart [HOUSTON] announced the appointment of Timothy Okrie as Chief Operating Officer. Okrie most recently served as a senior partner within the Advisory Services practice at Deloitte.

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. [BALTIMORE] (NASDAQ: SBGI) announced the promotion of John Solomon to Chief Operating Officer of Circa from Chief Creative Officer. Solomon has been with Sinclair since December 2015 as the Chief Creative Officer for Circa. Prior to that he was the Editor and VP for Content and Business Development for The Washington Times since 2013. His other roles included Executive Editor for the Center for Public Integrity and Director of News for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. He is also President of the Packard Media Group LLC, since 2009.

W. P. Carey Inc. [NEW YORK] (NYSE: WPC) announced that its Chief Operating Officer and Head of Asset Management, Thomas Zacharias, has informed the Company that he will retire from the Company effective March 31, 2017. Mr. Zacharias will remain a consultant for the balance of 2017.

Principal Financial Group^® [DES MOINES, Iowa] announced Pat Halter, current CEO and senior executive director of Principal Real Estate Investors, will assume the role of chief operating officer for Principal Global Investors. Since joining Principal in 1984 as a commercial real estate representative, Halter has held several leadership positions within Principal Real Estate Investors before assuming the role of CEO of the boutique.

TIAA Global Asset Management [NEW YORK] named Vijay Advani as President and Chief Operating Officer, effective January 9, 2017. Advani joins from Franklin Templeton Investments, where he was Co-President.

Ball Corporation [BROOMFIELD, Colo.] (NYSE: BLL) announced that Erik Bouts is leaving the company at the end of the month and that Daniel W. Fisher has been named senior vice president, Ball Corporation, and COO, global beverage packaging. Fisher joined Ball in 2010 as vice president, finance, North American metal beverage operations. Since 2014, he has served as president, Beverage Packaging North and Central America.

The Palisades Group, LLC [LOS ANGELES] announced the promotion of Justin Bodiya to Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Bodiya, prior to Palisades, was the Vice President of Asset Management at Arch Bay Capital, LLC. Prior to Arch Bay Capital, Mr. Bodiya held multiple positions in the Portfolio Reporting and Management Group at American Capital Strategies.

Neovia Logistics [IRVING, Texas] announced that Kit Q. Boyd will join the company as Chief Operations Officer on January 16, 2017. Mr. Boyd recently served as Senior Vice President of Global Logistics with Ingram Micro. Before joining Ingram, Mr. Boyd was responsible for warehousing and transportation at Ecolab. Earlier in his career, Mr. Boyd worked for Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer.

COO Moves – week ending October 21, 2016

Posted on October 26, 2016 Written by cfomoves Leave a Comment

COO Moves this week include:

GumGum	Great Lakes Integrated	Earley Information Science Corp.
Zafin	Ironside	Qualtrics
Catalyst Healthcare	GNS Healthcare	SkyWire

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GumGum [SANTA MONICA, Calif.] announced that Phil Schraeder, formerly COO/CFO, will now serve the company as President and COO. Schraeder joined GumGum in 2011 as VP of Finance and was promoted to COO/CFO in March 2013.

Great Lakes Integrated [CLEVELAND] announces the appointment of Scot D. Adkins as the company’s new President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. was most recently President/CEO for Rohrer Corporation, from 2003 to 2016. From 2002 to 2003, he was Vice President, Commercial Sales at St. Ives in Cleveland. From 2000 to 2002, Mr. Adkins served as Vice President of Membership & Marketing for the trade association, Printing Industries of America, Northern Kentucky and Ohio. Prior to that, he was Operations Manager at Rohrich Corporation in Akron, Ohio, from 1990 to 2000.

Earley Information Science Corp. [CARLISLE, MA] has named Mark Allen to be its first full-time Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Allen joined EIS from Accenture. Besides serving at Accenture, Mr. Allen has held senior positions at Medullan, and SapientNitro.

Zafin [CHICAGO & VANCOUVER, British Columbia] announced that Nancy Langer has joined the executive leadership team as President and Chief Operating Officer.. Prior to joining Zafin, she served as Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer for Fidelity National Information Services (FIS).

Ironside [LEXINGTON, Mass.] announced the appointment of David Michelson, Chief Operating Officer. David spent 13 years as a Senior Partner and Director at Computer Sciences Corporation. David continued to build his reputation as a Director at Tata Consultancy Services and as a Partner at the Monitor Group. His final stop before arriving at Ironside was as a Principal at Deloitte’s Strategy & Operations Group.

Qualtrics [SALT LAKE CITY] announced the appointment of Zig Serafin as the company’s chief operating officer. Prior to joining Qualtrics, Serafin spent 17 years at Microsoft. Most recently, Serafin was a corporate vice president with responsibility for Office 365 Skype for Business. Serafin previously served as general manager of Microsoft’s Tellme Networks.

Catalyst Healthcare [Boulder, Colorado] announced that Ron Jost has joined the company as Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Jost has over 25 years of experience in the software industry, having previously worked with Intuit, Amazon, Saville Systems, IP Commerce, QHR Technologies, and recently, The Monarch Corporation where he served as CEO for Pack4U.

GNS Healthcare [CAMBRIDGE, Mass.] announced the appointment of Leslie Hoyt as Chief Operating Officer. Hoyt most recently served United Health Group as Senior Vice President at Optum Health. Prior to Optum, Hoyt was Chief Strategy Officer and Managing Partner at Dovetail Health. Before Dovetail, Hoyt was Vice President, US Healthcare Practice Lead for Sapient Corporation. Prior to Sapient, Hoyt worked for a decade building and leading provider organizations.

SkyWire [LAS VEGAS, NV] announced that Dennis Montellano will assume the Chief Operating Officer role. Mr. Montellano previously held the role of VP of Sales. Montellano brings with him over 20 years of experience from roles at Steiner Leisure Limited and SpaSoft.

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