Weekly Executive & Director Moves (July 22)

by | Jul 22, 2022

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Moves in this Issue

CEO

CDLX, CMPS, NEO, NVTA

CFO

ASMB, DX, JEF, JELD, KDP, RELY, SHC, VAL, VST

Directors

AFIB, AIR, ALPN, ASO, AWI, BNED, BOXD, CDE, CDLX, CLSN, CMPS, DFIN, DMTK, DRH, EIGR, GBL, HE, IART, IBP, JPM, KNTK, KO, LHX, LOB, MLP, MRVL, NEO, NVTA, PETS, PWR, PXD, RPM, SLDP, SLGC, SOVO, SWTX, THG, VSEC, VST, WLY, XPOF, ZVIA

CEO Moves

CARDLYTICS INC (CDLX)
Leaving: CEO – Lynne Marie Laube ( 2.3 yrs; -27.3% TSR)
Replaced by: Karim Temsamani

Karim Temsamani , age 49, has served as the Head of Global Partnerships at Stripe since November 2021. Prior to this role, Mr. Temsamani served as Head of Banking and Financial Products at Stripe since April 2019. Prior to his time at Stripe, Mr. Temsamani held numerous positions of increasing responsibility at Google from 2007 to April 2019, including President of Google’s Asia-Pacific division f…read full bio

COMPASS PATHWAYS PLC (CMPS)
Leaving: CEO – George Jay Goldsmith ( 1.3 yrs; -59.6% TSR)
Replaced by: Kabir Nath

Mr. Nath will also be appointed as a member of the board of directors as a Class II director effective as of August 1, 2022. Mr. Nath will stand for re-election to the board of directors in accordance with the Company’s articles of association at the Company’s 2023 annual meeting of shareholders. Mr. Nath is not expected to be named to any committee of the board of directors. Mr. Nath, age 57, has…read full bio

INVITAE CORP (NVTA)
Leaving: CEO – Sean E George ( 5.5 yrs; -16.2% TSR)
Replaced by: Kenneth D Knight

Mr. Knight Mr. Knight, age 62, has served as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer since June 2020. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Knight most recently served as vice president of transportation services at Amazon.com, Inc., a multinational and diversified technology company, from December 2019 to June 2020, and as vice president of Amazon’s global delivery services, fulfillment operations and…read full bio

CFO Moves

ASSEMBLY BIOSCIENCES INC (ASMB)
Leaving: CFO – Michael P Samar ( 1.2 yrs; -41.8% TSR)
Replaced by: Jason A Okazaki

Jason A. Okazaki 46 Mr. Okazaki has served as our Chief Operating Officer since August 2021. Mr. Okazaki served as our Chief Legal and Business Officer from March 2020 until his promotion to Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining us, Mr. Okazaki served in a series of positions of increasing responsibility in Gilead’s legal department from 2006 until March 2020, culminating in his role as Senior…read full bio

JELD-WEN HOLDING INC (JELD)
Leaving: CFO – David M Guernsey ( .3 yrs; )
Replaced by: Julie C Albrecht

Ms. Albrecht currently serves as Chief Financial Officer of Sonoco Products Company, one of the largest sustainable global packaging companies with sales of $5.6 billion in 2021. Ms. Albrecht has more than 30 years of finance experience and joined Sonoco in March 2017 as Corporate Vice President, Treasurer and Assistant CFO before being named Vice President and CFO in 2019. Prior to Sonoco, she se…read full bio

KEURIG DR PEPPER INC (KDP)
Leaving: CFO – Ozan Dokmecioglu ( 4.0 yrs; 16.1% TSR)
Replaced by: George Lagoudakis

Mr. Lagoudakis, 50, is currently the Company’s Senior Vice President of Finance for Cold Beverages, a position he has held since July 2018. Before joining the Company, he served as VP Finance, CFO Breakfast Food EU of Kellogg Company from May 2013 to June 2018. Mr. Lagoudakis has more than 25 years of global financial management experience in related industries, including service in various financ…read full bio

REMITLY GLOBAL INC (RELY)
Leaving: CFO – Susanna Morgan ( 3.9 yrs; -84.3% TSR)
Replaced by: Hemanth Munipalli

Munipalli joins the company as Remitly continues to scale and deliver on its long-term vision to be the most trusted financial services provider for immigrants and their families around the world. Most recently, Munipalli served as Senior Vice President, CFO Marketplace Services, and CFO, Egencia at the Expedia Group for the past 5 years. Prior to the Expedia Group, Munipalli held var…read full bio

VISTRA CORP (VST)
Leaving: CFO – James A Burke ( 1.7 yrs; 16.1% TSR)
Replaced by: Kristopher E. Moldovan

Mr. Moldovan, 50, has been with Vistra and its predecessor companies since 2006 and, for the past five years, has served as senior vice president and treasurer, where he is responsible for all treasury-related activities, including financing activities and assuring availability of liquidity and cash resources, among other responsibilities. From 2010 to 2017, he was the Company’s assistant treasure…read full bio

Director Joins

ACUTUS MEDICAL INC (AFIB)
David Roman

David Roman . Mr. Roman joined Acutus in March 2021 as our Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Roman most recently served as Vice President, Strategy and FP&A for Baxter International, Inc., from September 2019 to February 2021. Mr. Roman joined Baxter in October 2016 as its Vice President, Strategy, Hospi…read full bio

BARNES & NOBLE EDUCATION INC (BNED)
Rory Wallace

Ms. Warren, 58, currently serves as the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Netlyst, LLC a consulting and advisory practice focused on digital business growth and scaling consumer and enterprise recurring revenue streams. She brings extensive public company board experience and has a prov…read full bio

BARNES & NOBLE EDUCATION INC (BNED)
Mario Dell’Aera

Mr. Dell’Aera, 63, previously served as Senior Audit Partner and Chief Operating Officer of U.S. Audit Operations at KPMG LLP from 2019 until his retirement in 2021, managing 16 business units encompassing over 9,000 partners and professionals and a $3.0BN operating plan. H…read full bio

BARNES & NOBLE EDUCATION INC (BNED)
Denise Warren

Ms. Warren, 58, currently serves as the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Netlyst, LLC a consulting and advisory practice focused on digital business growth and scaling consumer and enterprise recurring revenue streams. She brings extensive public company board experience and has a proven track…read full bio

BOXED INC (BOXD)
Tsukasa OjimaOver the last 30 years, Mr. Ojima has established himself as a top business executive in Asia, through a variety of management positions in commercial and investment banking with leading financial institutions, including Sanwa Bank (now MUFG Bank, Ltd.), Lehman Brothers Japan, Inc. and No…read full bio

CARDLYTICS INC (CDLX)
Karim Temsamani

Karim Temsamani , age 49, has served as the Head of Global Partnerships at Stripe since November 2021. Prior to this role, Mr. Temsamani served as Head of Banking and Financial Products at Stripe since April 2019. Prior to his time at Stripe, Mr. Temsamani held numerous positions of increasing respo…read full bio

CELSION CORP (CLSN)
Goff Corinne Le

Dr. Le Goff (age 56) served as Chief Commercial Officer of Moderna, Inc. from January 2021 through January 2022. Dr. Le Goff served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the U.S. Business Organization at Amgen, Inc. from March 2019 to January 2021. During her tenure at Amgen, she also s…read full bio

COCA COLA CO (KO)
Carolyn Everson

Everson most recently served as president of Instacart. Prior to that role, she was vice president, Global Business Group, at Facebook, now known as Meta, where she led a global team of more than 4,000 people and was responsible for over $80 billion in revenue.read full bio

COEUR MINING INC (CDE)
Jeane L HullMs. Hull has over 35 years of mining operational leadership and engineering experience, most notably holding the positions of Chief Operating Officer for Rio Tinto plc at the Kennecott Utah Copper Mine and Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Peabody Energy Corporation….read full bio

COMPASS PATHWAYS PLC (CMPS)
Kabir Nath

Mr. Nath will also be appointed as a member of the board of directors as a Class II director effective as of August 1, 2022. Mr. Nath will stand for re-election to the board of directors in accordance with the Company’s articles of association at the Company’s 2023 annual meeting of shareholders. Mr…read full bio

DERMTECH INC (DMTK)
Mark Christopher CaponeMr. Capone is an accomplished life sciences executive, most recently serving as president and chief executive officer of Myriad Genetics which he transformed from a pioneering start-up to one of the largest precision medicine companies in the world. During his 17-year tenure, Myriad Genet…read full bio

DERMTECH INC (DMTK)
Mark CaponeMr. Capone is an accomplished life sciences executive, most recently serving as president and chief executive officer of Myriad Genetics which he transformed from a pioneering start-up to one of the largest precision medicine companies in the world. During his 17-year tenure, Myriad Genet…read full bio

DIAMONDROCK HOSPITALITY CO (DRH)
Justin L. Leonard. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Leonard was at Walton Street Capital, LLC for 20 years, most recently as a Senior Principal where he was responsible for the oversight and asset management of the firm’s hotel investments since 2007. During his tenure, he directed the asset management o…read full bio

DONNELLEY FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS INC (DFIN)
Chandar Pattabhiram

Pattabhiram, 53, brings a wealth of experience in marketing leadership. At Coupa, a leading Business Spend Management software provider, he is responsible for all of revenue marketing including go-to-market marketing strategy, product and segment marketing, growth marketing…read full bio

GAMCO INVESTORS INC ET AL (GBL)
Agnes Mullady

Agnes Mullady served as a Senior Vice President of the Company from 2008 until 2019. She has also served as Executive Vice President of AC from November 2016 until 2019, as the President and Chief Operating Officer of the Fund Division of Gabelli Funds, LLC (“Gabelli Funds”) from 2010 until 2019, as…read full bio

HANOVER INSURANCE GROUP INC (THG)
Elizabeth A Ward

Ms. Ward, 58, has served as Chief Financial Officer of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (“MassMutual”), a mutual life insurance company, since June 2016. She has previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief Actuary of MassMutual from June 2015 to November 2019, a…read full bio

INSTALLED BUILDING PRODUCTS INC (IBP)
Robert H Schottenstein

Mr. Schottenstein will serve as a Class I director of the Board, effective as of July 18, 2022, until the Company’s 2023 annual meeting of stockholders (“2023 Annual Meeting”), at which time Mr. Schottenstein will stand for election to the Board. Mr. Schottenstein had previously served on the Board …read full bio

INTEGRA LIFESCIENCES HOLDINGS CORP (IART)
Renee Wonlai LoMs. Lo currently serves as a general manager for Microsoft, leading its data and artificial intelligence business in Asia. She is responsible for helping strategic customers of Microsoft reshape their business models through digital technologies. Additionally, Ms. Lo chairs the read full bio

INVITAE CORP (NVTA)
Randal W Scott

Dr. Scott Dr. Scott, age 64, is a Co-Founder of the Company and served as its Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer from 2012 to 2017 and its Executive Chairman from 2017 to 2019. Prior to his involvement with the Company, Dr. Scott cofounded Genomic Health, Inc., a genomic-based diagno…read full bio

INVITAE CORP (NVTA)
Kenneth D Knight

Mr. Knight Mr. Knight, age 62, has served as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer since June 2020. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Knight most recently served as vice president of transportation services at Amazon.com, Inc., a multinational and diversified technology company, from December 2019 …read full bio

LIVE OAK BANCSHARES INC (LOB)
Casey S Crawford

Crawford is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Movement Mortgage, a top 10 national retail mortgage lender. He is also the chairman of Movement Bank; founder and chairman of Movement Schools, a network of tuition-free public charter schools; and the founder of the nonprofit Movement Founda…read full bio

MAUI LAND & PINEAPPLE CO INC (MLP)
Glyn Aeppel

Glyn Aeppel, 63, is President and Chief Executive Officer of Glencove Capital, a lifestyle hospitality investment and advisory company that she founded in 2010. From October 2008 to May 2010, Ms. Aeppel served as Chief Investment Officer of Andre Balazs Properties, an owner, developer and operato…read full bio

MAUI LAND & PINEAPPLE CO INC (MLP)
John Sabin

John Sabin, 67, is Chief Financial Officer at Revolution LLC, where he has served since May 2011. Prior to joining Revolution, Mr. Sabin served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and General Counsel for Phoenix Health Systems from October 2004 to May 2011, where he was responsi…read full bio

QUANTA SERVICES INC (PWR)
Robert Scott Rowe

Since April 2017, Mr. Rowe has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Flowserve Corporation, a publicly traded developer and manufacturer of precision-engineered flow control systems that support global infrastructure industries, includin…read full bio

RPM INTERNATIONAL INC (RPM)
Ellen M Pawlikowski

Pawlikowski entered the Air Force in 1978 as a distinguished graduate of the ROTC program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ. She then attended the University of California at Berkeley and received a doctorate in chemical engineering. She commanded five times as a general offic…read full bio

SOLID POWER INC (SLDP)
Mary Ann Wright

Ms. Wright brings to the Solid Power board more than 30 years’ experience building successful, high-performing teams, primarily in the automotive industry. Ms. Wright spent the first 18 years of her career at Ford Motor Company, where she served as Director, Sustainable Mobility Technologie…read full bio

SOVOS BRANDS INC (SOVO)
Tamer Abuaita

Mr. Abuaita has served as the Senior Vice President, Operations and Chief Supply Chain Officer for Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. since January 2022. Previously, Mr. Abuaita served as Chief Supply Chain Officer for SC Johnson Company from June 2015 to January 2022 where he was responsible for e…read full bio

VISTRA CORP (VST)
James A Burke

Mr. Burke previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company since the Company’s formation in October 2016. Prior to that time, since 2004, he served in multiple leadership roles at TXU Corp. and Energy Future Holdings Corp., the Company’s predecessors, includin…read full bio

VSE CORP (VSEC)
Anita D Britt

Anita D. Britt, 59, has extensive corporate finance, capital markets, and board-level experience. Previously, Ms. Britt served as the Chief Financial Officer for Perry Ellis International from 2009 to 2017 and held senior financial leadership positions at Jones Apparel Group and Urban Brands. She cu…read full bio

VSE CORP (VSEC)
Lloyd Emerson Johnson

Lloyd E. Johnson, 68, has a strong background in management consulting, mergers and acquisitons, internal audit and commercial operations experience. Previously, Mr. Johnson served as Global Managing Director, Finance and Internal Audit at Accenture Corporation from 2004 to 2015; Executive Director,…read full bio

Director Exits

AAR CORP (AIR)
David P Storch ( 34.0 yrs; 2.8% TSR)
Committees: Executive

ALPINE IMMUNE SCIENCES INC (ALPN)
Jay Venkatesan ( 5.0 yrs; -.8% TSR)

BARNES & NOBLE EDUCATION INC (BNED)
Zachary Levenick ( 1.8 yrs; 13.1% TSR)
Committees: Audit, Nominating (and Governance)

BARNES & NOBLE EDUCATION INC (BNED)
Lowell W Robinson ( 2.0 yrs; 30.8% TSR)
Committees: Audit, Compensation

BOXED INC (BOXD)
Yuki Habu ( .6 yrs; -91.4% TSR)

CARDLYTICS INC (CDLX)
Lynne Marie Laube ( 14.9 yrs; 3.2% TSR)

JOHN WILEY & SONS INC (WLY)
Mariana Garavaglia ( 2.1 yrs; 13.4% TSR)
Committees: Compensation, Digital Product & Technology ​

KINETIK HOLDINGS INC (KNTK)
Thomas Lefebvre ( .4 yrs; 30.7% TSR)
Committees: Nominating (and Governance)

MARVELL TECHNOLOGY INC (MRVL)
Bethany Mayer ( 4.2 yrs; 5.4% TSR)

MARVELL TECHNOLOGY INC (MRVL)
Bethany Mayer ( 4.2 yrs; 21.9% TSR)

PETMED EXPRESS INC (PETS)
Ronald J Korn ( 19.7 yrs; 15.8% TSR)
Committees: Audit, Compensation, Nominating (and Governance)

SOMALOGIC INC (SLGC)
Stephen Quake ( 1.4 yrs; -49.7% TSR)

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