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Director and CEO Moves
AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) $332.b IL Thomas Falk joins Board x- Kimberly-Clark COB CEO / Richard Gonzalez, Glenn Tilton resign from Board / Gonzalez x- company- ExCOB CEO / Tilton x- UAL COB CEO
UnitedHealth Grp (NYSE: UNH) $282.b MN Steve Hemsley promoted to CEO continues as ExCOB x- company- CEO succeeds Andrew Witty resigns from Board
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) $247.b CA Kevin Weil joins Board Chief Product Officer OpenAI
Since January 1, 2025: All Boards: Women -72 ~ Men -134: Boards Mkt Cap $5b+: Women +08 ~ Men -16
Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) $166.b CA Chris Young joins Board x- Microsoft EVP BD Strategy & Ventures
FedEx (NYSE: FDX) $55.7b TN David Steiner resigns from Board named US Postmaster General Trump Admin x- Waste Mgmt CEO CFO GC. Phelps Dunbar Ptnr
WEC Energy (NYSE: WEC) $33.2b WI Michael Hooper promoted to COO continues as Pres- Wisconsin Utilities
DexCom (NASDAQ: DXCM) $33.0b CA Jacob Leach promoted President COO succeeds Kevin Sayer continues as COB CEO
Steel Dynamics (NASDAQ: STLD) $20.5b IN Miguel Alvarez promoted to SVP Aluminum Grp was SVP Metals Recycling / Glenn Pushis retires as SVP Special Projects
Ashtead Grp plc (LON: AHT) $19.1b Nando Cesarone, Jamie Singleton join Board / Nando EVP Pres- USA United Parcel Service / Singleton BM- Wesco Int’l
Clorox (NYSE: CLX) $16.8b CA Ms. Gina Boswell joins Board CEO Bath & Body Works x- Unilever, Avon, Ford, Estée Lauder x- BM- ACCO Brands, Manpower, Wolverine Worldwide
Entegris (NASDAQ: ENTG) $12.7b MA David Reeder named CEO continues on Board x- Chewy CFO, GlobalFoundries CFO,Tower Hill Insurance, Electronics for Imaging, Cisco Systems, TI succeeds Bertrand Loy
Admiral Group plc (LON: ADM) $10.1b Paola Bonomo joins Board BM- FAAC SpA, Infrastrutture Wireless Italiane SpA x- Facebook Global Marketing Solutions Southern Europe, McKinsey
Comerica (NYSE: CMA) $7.70b TX Brian Goldman resigns as Chief Risk Officer
Brinker Int’l (NYSE: EAT) $6.74b TX Ms. Aaron White promoted to COO continues as Chief People Officer, Chili’s Grill & Bar CoCOO
Airtel Africa plc (LON: AAF) $6.26b Akhil Gupta retires from Board Vice Chair Bharti Enterprises Ltd
Selective Insurance (NASDAQ: SIGI) $5.41b NJ Brenda Hall to retire as COO- Standard Lines
IES (NASDAQ: IESC) $5.37b TX Ms. Kelly Janzen joins Board CFO Vestis x- Fernweh Grp, BlueLinx, WestRock, Baker Hughes, General Electric
Meritage Homes (NYSE: MTH) $5.10b AZ Clint Szubinski departs as COO
Reynolds Consumer Products (NASDAQ: REYN) $4.88b IL Carlen Hooker named Chief Commercial Officer x- Church & Dwight EVP Sales CCO succeeds Steve Pace / Ryan Clark named Div Pres- Hefty Tableware x- Post Consumer Brands CCO
Dream Finders Homes (NYSE: DFH) $2.29b FL Radford Lovett retires from Board x- TowerCom Fndr COB CEO, Lovett Miller & Co VC CoFndr
Diodes (NASDAQ: DIOD) $2.25b TX Gary Yu promoted to CEO continues as President succeeds Dr. Keh-Shew Lu continue as COB
Neogen (NASDAQ: NEOG) $1.41b MI Ms. Andrea Wainer joins Board BM- Analog Devices x- Abbott Laboratories EVP Rapid and Molecular Diagnostics succeeds James Tobin x- Monsanto VP Industry Affairs
ViaSat (NASDAQ: VSAT) $1.36b CA William LaPlante, Michael Paull join Board / LaPlante x- Under Secy Defense Acq & Sustainment / Paull CEO RBmedia succeeds James Bridenstine x- NASA Administrator
MeridianLink (NYSE: MLNK) $1.34b CA Laurence Katz promoted to CEO continues as President and on Board succeeds Nicolaas Vlok
Cannae (NYSE: CNNE) $1.13b NV William Royan, Woodrow Tyler join Board / Royan Fndr Markets Infrastructure / Tyler x- Detroit Police & Fire Pension Chief Investment Officer
Avadel Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: AVDL) $.873b Ireland Susan Rodriguez named COO BM- Heron Therapeutics, Veradigm x- Ardelyx Chief Commercial Officer, Tolmar Pharmaceuticals CEO
Kalvista Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: KALV) $.581b MA Jebediah Ledell resigns as COO
Fortrea (NASDAQ: FTRE) $.421b NC Thomas Pike resigns as CEO and from Board
Chesnara plc (LON: CSN) $.413b Carol Hagh promoted to Sr Independent Director succeeds Jane Dale leaves Board
PAMT (NASDAQ: PAMT) $.315b AR Joseph Vitiritto resigns as CEO and from Board
Rimini Street (NASDAQ: RMNI) $.314b NV Vijay Kumar named COO x- Genesys Cloud SVP, Kony, HP Software, Vignette
2Seventy Bio (NASDAQ: TSVT) $.266b MA Acq’d by Bristol-Myers Squibb / x- BM- Nick Leschly, Chip Baird, Ms. Sarah Glickman, Ms. Denice Torres, Marcela Maus, Wei Lin, Eli Casdin, Charles Newton
PHX Minerals (NYSE: PHX) $.164b TX / To be Acq’d by WhiteHawk
CFO Moves
Ford Motor (NYSE: F) $42.0b MI Kyle Crockett named CAO x- Carrier Global Controller CAO, General Motors
Brown & Brown (NYSE: BRO) $31.4b FL Paul Gallagher promoted to CAO continues as Controller x- Deloitte Ptnr
Chewy (NYSE: CHWY) $16.4b FL David Reeder resigns as CFO named CEO Entegris
BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT) $9.96b VA Michael Fitzgerald promoted to CFO was VP Finance CAO x- MorganFranklin Consulting, Deloitte succeeds Robb LeMasters
Skyward Specialty Insurance (NASDAQ: SKWD) $2.41b TX Corey LaFlamme named Div President Captives & Specialty Programs x- The Hartford Head of Programs succeeds Kirby Hill continues as Chairman Captives & Specialty Programs
Dynavax Technologies (NASDAQ: DVAX) $1.16b CA Joseph Metzinger named CAO x- CFGI consultant, ACC Consumer Finance CAO, PwC
Frontier Grp (NASDAQ: ULCC) $.999b CO Josh Wetzel continues as CAO had previously resigned
BlueLinx (NYSE: BXC) $.591b GA Chris Wall named CFO Treasurer x- The Aaron’s Company CFO, TMX Finance SVP Finance, Bank of America Merrill Lynch Mng Dir
America’s Car-Mart (NASDAQ: CRMT) $.435b AR Jonathan Collins named CFO x- Walmart CFO- Africa, Flipkart Grp CFO, KPMG
Genasys (NASDAQ: GNSS) $.079b CA Dennis Klahn retires as CFO
General Counsel Moves
Atmus Filtration Technologies (NYSE: ATMU) $3.23b TN Laura Heltebran named CLO Secy x- Wheels Up CLO Secy, Hilton WW Deputy GC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Urban Edge Properties (NYSE: UE) $2.36b NY Heather Ohlberg promoted to GC Secy was Deputy GC x- RPT Realty, Rouse Properties, Tarter Krinsky and Drogin LLP
Clearwater Paper (NYSE: CLW) $.461b WA Marc Rome promoted to GC Secy was AGC Secy x- eBay succeeds Michael Gadd
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