American CareSource Holdings has promoted David Boone to CEO. David previously served as the company’s chief operational officer and chief financial officer.
John Browett has been appointed to the board of EasyJet as a nonexecutive director. John will join DSG International as CEO in early December and is currently the operations development director of Tesco.
David Courtney has joined Adify as its president, COO, and CFO. A technology and media veteran, David will help Adify meet its growing global business needs and head up the operational and financial sectors of the organization.
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals has appointed Raymond Debbane to its board of directors.
Belgium-based banking- and insurance-services provider Fortis has appointed chief information officer Alain Deschenes as its COO. Alain joined Fortis in 2005 as CIO.
Anne Donaldson-Page spoke at the fifth annual International Symposium on Supply Chain Management in Toronto. Her presentation, “Long Term Partnering Relationships—Making Them Work,” drew on her experience making successful long-term arrangements with suppliers.
Colin Drummond has been appointed chairman of the Environmental Sector Knowledge Transfer Network and visiting senior research fellow in the department of earth sciences at Oxford University.
CreditRiskMonitor has announced the election of Josh Flum to its board of directors, expanding the board to five members. Josh has been an executive with CVS Caremark since July 2004 and is currently vice president for pharmacy systems.
Jean Hayden has been appointed chief operating officer of Dalberg Global Development Advisors, which focuses on providing economic consulting services to public and private organizations.
Whirlpool has announced that Katrina Helmkamp has joined the company as vice president of refrigeration. Katrina will have overall accountability for the global refrigeration-product business, including measures of operating profit, market share, and return on invested capital. She will also lead the global strategic direction and financial outcomes of the category.
Sepracor has appointed Thomas Hoover vice president of new-products planning.
Ranch Kimball has been named to the global competitiveness policy advisory group for United States presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Ranch is president and CEO of Joslin Diabetes Center and served as the Massachusetts secretary of economic development when Romney was governor.
Silicon Valley Solar has announced the formation of a board of directors that includes experienced entrepreneurs, financial executives, and cleantech venture capital investors. The board includes Justin Label, a partner in Bessemer Venture’s Menlo Park office, where he focuses on cleantech investments.
Roger Martin is named one of Toronto’s power elite in the November 2007 issue of Toronto Life magazine. Roger is the dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, which, under his stewardship, has jumped from seventy-second to twenty-seventh in the Financial Times’s international business school rankings.
Plank, founded by Jennifer McKinley, recently won the Make Mine a Million $ Business competition, a program of Count Me In for Women's Economic Independence. As the winner, Jennifer received a package of money, mentoring, marketing, and technology tools to help grow her businesses beyond the million-dollar mark. Plank produces a patented yoga mat, high-end bags, bamboo fibre towels, and robes.
Siddharth "Bobby" Mehta will assume the role of TransUnion's CEO and president. TransUnion is a global leader in credit and information management.
Lorenza Morandini has been appointed head of business development at Indesit Company.
Indra Nooyi, chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, has been ranked fifth on Forbes magazine's list of the world's 100 most powerful women. She was also named one of the world's 50 most influential people in business, according to the list of "The 50 Who Matter Now" published by Fortune group magazine Business 2.0.
Genetic Technologies has appointed Michael Ohanessian CEO, replacing company founder Mervyn Jacobson. Michael was chief executive of Vision Biosystems for seven years, leading a strategic restructuring involving the acquisition of a large United Kingdom-based reagents operation.
BJ's Wholesale Club has promoted Lon Povich to the positions of executive vice president, general counsel, and secretary.
Metacafe has hired David Rice as vice president of product. David will drive overall product strategy and lead development of new features and functionality that advance Metacafe’s position as an innovator in the rapidly evolving online video industry.
Ruben Rodriguez has joined Carnival Cruise Lines as executive vice president of marketing and guest experience. In his new role, Ruben will have overall responsibility for marketing, public relations, guest experience, and product development. Grisel Cisneros, from our Miami office, has also recently joined Ruben at Carnival.
Austin Ventures has promoted Phil Siegel to general partner. Phil joined Austin Ventures as a venture partner in October 1999.
First Communications has appointed Mark Stone to its board as a nonexecutive director. Mark is a senior managing director and president of operations for The Gores Group.
Frits van Paasschen, the former president and CEO of Coors Brewing Company, has joined Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide as CEO.
Michael von der Horst, managing director of the Internet Business Solutions Group Europe (IBSG) of Cisco Systems, was the keynote speaker at the 2007 European Competitive Intelligence Summit, held in October in Bad Nauheim, Germany.
