Deloitte & Touche Alumni News - November 13-19, 2006

• Hub International Limited announced the appointment of John P. Graham, age 41, to the position of vice-president and chief financial officer. Graham will replace Dennis J. Pauls, who has been named president and chief executive officer of Hub Ontario, the company's regional hub headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Graham brings nearly 20 years of public company and public accounting experience to Hub International. Most recently, he served as senior vice president finance, treasurer and assistant secretary at Career Education Corporation. He was also a manager of financial planning and analysis at Kraft General Foods and an audit supervisor at Deloitte Haskins and Sells (now Deloitte & Touche) in Chicago. (Source: Hub International Limited, 11/13/2006)

• GENBAND™ Inc., a leading provider of IMS-based telecommunications applications and infrastructure products enabling converged IP multimedia services, announced that Mark Lancaster has been elected to GENBAND Board of Directors and will serve as the Chairman of GENBAND’s Audit Committee. Lancaster is a CPA and a retired Partner of Deloitte & Touche LLP. During his 41 years with Deloitte, Mark served as audit partner and business advisor to a wide-range of public and private companies. Many of these were entrepreneurial, middle-market companies in the technology, manufacturing and consumer business industries. (Source: GENBAND Inc., 11/13/2006)


• KnowledgeArch, LLC announced that Wallace P. Buran has joined KnowledgeArch as Executive Advisor. KnowledgeArch is an independent beverage industry think tank focused on the future structure of the nonalcoholic and alcoholic beverage industry with national and global customers. Buran has extensive credentials in business transformation. Buran has extensive experience in the beer, soft drink, and wine sectors and has consulted for more than 25 years across many industries on a global basis. He was previously Senior Partner with The Monitor Group, CEO of Worldcrest, partner for Deloitte Consulting, and is an advisor to several private equity firms. (Source: KnowledgeArch, 11/13/2006)

• The Council of the Institute of Directors in Ireland (IoD) has appointed Eoin O’Shea as its new Chief Executive. A Chartered Accountant by profession, O'Shea is the outgoing President of the Institute of Management Consultants and Advisers. Following his accountancy training in Deloitte’s auditing and management consulting departments he went on to co-found Ground Marketing Group Limited in 2000 and remains as its non-executive Chairman. Eoin currently serves as a Council Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland, is a member of the Irish Taxation Institute and holds a Diploma in Commercial Law from the Law Society of Ireland. (Source: Finfacts.com, 11/13/2006)

• GlobeTel Communications Corp. announced the appointment of Michael DeCarlo to the position of interim Chief Financial Officer. A certified public accountant since 1981, DeCarlo brings to GlobeTel an extensive base of international accounting and auditing experience at firms now known as Deloitte-Touche, Ernst & Young, Berkowitz Dick Pollack and Brant, and Mallah Furman and Company. His full 28-year career comprises the public accounting and private sectors, principally providing forensic accounting, litigation advisory services. (Source: GlobeTel Communications, 11/14/2006)

• Bioelectronics, the maker of a drug-free, anti-inflammatory patch to relieve soft tissue pain and swelling, has named Larry Rosen its CFO. Rosen is a former partner with Touche Ross & Co., now known as Deloitte & Touche. He's been CFO for several startups, including a medical device company. BioElectronics executives say that Rosen's experience in financial statement presentation and Securities and Exchange Commission reporting will be a help to the Frederick-based company. (Source: Washington Business Journal, 11/14/2006)

• Petroleum Development Corp., which produces and markets natural gas and oil, said it hired Richard W. McCullough as its chief financial officer with Darwin L. Stump moving from that post to the newly created position of chief accounting officer. McCullough, 55, joins Petroleum Development from Gasource LLC, where he served as president and chief executive. McCullough, who will also be treasurer, held senior positions with JP Morgan Securities, Progress Energy, Deloitte and Touche and the Municipal Gas Authority of Georgia. (Source: Hemscott.com, 11/14/2006)

• MTI Technology Corporation, a multi-national provider of consulting services and comprehensive information infrastructure solutions, announced the appointment of William Atkins to its board of directors. Atkins is a consultant to multi-national firms focusing on technology and management. Atkins has worked in the technology and consulting industry for over 45 years. He was a senior partner at Deloitte Consulting, where he managed consulting practices at the office, regional, national and global level. Mr. (Source: MTI Technology Corp., 11/15/2006)

• ClearOrbit, the leading provider of real-time supply chain execution and reverse logistics solutions, announced that Jerry Folsom has been named vice president of product management. Folsom previously served as ClearOrbit's vice president of product development. In his new role, Folsom is responsible for advancing the company’s continued commitment to lowering total cost of ownership (TCO) for customers, and driving rapid product innovations that compliment SAP and Oracle E-Business Suite. Prior to joining ClearOrbit, Folsom served as director of services at Austin-based SiteStuff, Inc. where he was responsible for managing the design and development of services products. Previously, In addition, Folsom has held positions in the information technology practice at Deloitte Consulting and implementation management and support at Sungard. (Source: ClearOrbit, 11/16/2006)

• Progress Software Corporation, a global supplier of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, announced the appointment of Charles Kane to its Board of Directors. Kane has held several leadership positions in the technology industry and is currently the Chief Financial Officer of “One Laptop per Child,” a non-profit organization founded at Massachusetts Institute of Technology that provides computers and internet access for students in the developing world. Kane also held senior financial positions at Stratus Computer, Inc., Prime Computer, Inc., and Deloitte & Touche LLP. (Source: Progress Software Corp, 11/16/2006)

Deloitte & Touche Alumni News - November 6-12, 2006

• FiREapps, the leading provider of corporate foreign exchange management technologies, announced the appointment of Andrew Gage as vice president of marketing. Gage has accumulated over 16 years of experience in marketing, product management and consulting. In his role as vice president of marketing, Andrew will be responsible for driving the vision, strategy and value proposition to FiREapps customers. Gage was most recently vice president of marketing and product management for Destinator Technologies where he had global oversight for all aspects of marketing and product strategy. Prior to Destinator, Gage was vice president of marketing and industry solutions at Cyclone Commerce. He also spent several years providing strategic consulting services for Deloitte Consulting. (Source: FiREapps, 11/7/2006)

• Switch and Data, a leading provider of Internet exchange and colocation services, announced that M. Alex White has been elected to the Company's Board of Directors. He will serve on the Board’s Governance Committee and will be Chairman of the Audit Committee. White is a Certified Public Accountant with more than 25 years of experience working with public companies. He was an audit partner with Deloitte & Touche LLP from 1987 until his retirement effective January 2005. During his career at Deloitte & Touche, Mr. White spent the majority of his time serving public companies and led the Sarbanes-Oxley effort for the North Florida practice of Deloitte & Touche at the time of his retirement. (Source: Switch and Data, 11/7/2006)

• Calvetti, Ferguson & Wagner, P.C. (CF&W), a full-service public accounting and business advisory firm, is pleased to announce that Kevin Chesser has joined as partner of the firm effective November 1, 2006. Kevin will lead the firm's Audit practice and will also play a key role in the firm's Public Company Consulting practice, providing technical accounting consulting services to SEC registrants. Chesser comes to CF&W from Sterling Bancshares where he served as Senior Vice President and Controller. Previously, Chesser served as a Senior Audit Manager with Deloitte & Touche LLP. (Source: Calvetti, Ferguson & Wagner, P.C., 11/7/2006)

• American States Water Company elected Gary F. King as a Class II director of the Company to serve until the Company’s annual meeting in 2008 or until his successor is duly elected and qualified. Mr. King (age 59) was also elected as a director of two of the Company’s subsidiaries, Golden State Water Company and Chaparral City Water Company. Mr. King retired as a senior audit partner of Deloitte & Touche LLP in 2005, after 27 years of service with the firm. (Source: American States Water Company, 11/7/2006)

• American States Water Company has elected Gary F. King as a class II director of the company until its 2008 annual meeting or a successor is elected, the company said. King, 59, was also elected director of two of the company's subsidiaries, Golden State Water Co. and Chaparral City Water Co. He retired in 2005 as a senior audit partner of Deloitte & Touche in 2005 after working there for 27 years. (Source: Losangeles.bizjournals.com, 11/8/2006)

• Atlanta-based Callaway Partners, an accounting professional services firm focused on project management and staff augmentation, announced that Keith Keller joined the firm as a national partner and will lead Callaway’s internal audit, Sarbanes-Oxley and financial services practices. Prior to joining Callaway Partners, Keller served as deputy chief auditor and senior vice president at Wachovia Corporation in Charlotte. Previously, Keller was in charge of the Sarbanes-Oxley and internal audit practices within the enterprise risk services group for the Southeast at Deloitte & Touche, LLP in Atlanta. (Source: S-ox.com, 11/8/2006)

• Manaris Corporation President and CEO, John Fraser, is pleased to announce the recent appointment of Tony J. Giuliano as Manaris' Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Giuliano joined Manaris Corporation in August 2006 as Group Controller. He brings more than fifteen years of experience in corporate finance and investment banking. He spent the first nine years of his career with Deloitte & Touche Canada in Montreal where he gained expertise with Canadian public companies operating (Source: Manaris Corporation, 11/8/2006)

• Courtney Ruby beat incumbent City Auditor Roland Smith, apparently denying him a third term with 64 percent of the vote in the recent election. Ruby, chief financial officer of the East Bay Conservation Corps, pledged to turn the city auditor's office into a model for the rest of the state by focusing on areas that pose the greatest risk to the city's financial well being. Ruby, a certified public accountant who also has worked for Deloitte & Touche, collected the lion's share of high-profile endorsements, including five members of the Oakland City Council and U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee. (Source: Insidebayarea.com, 11/8/2006)

• London Business School is delighted to announce that Robin Buchanan is to be its new Dean. Buchanan is currently the Senior Partner in the UK of Bain & Company Inc., the global business consultancy. He will bring to the School over 30 years' experience of providing advice on strategy, organization, operations and acquisitions to international business clients. Buchanan was elected Managing Partner of Bain in the UK in 1990, and became Senior Partner in 1996. From 1979-82 Mr Buchanan worked for American Express International Banking Corporation and prior to that worked with accounting firm Mann Judd Landau (now Deloitte & Touche) (Source: London Business School, 11/8/2006)

• CIT Canada, a division of CIT Group Inc., a leading global provider of commercial and consumer finance solutions, announced the appointment of Mark Bruce Smith as Senior Vice President of CIT Vendor Finance, Canada. Smith will be responsible for overseeing CIT's vendor financing relationships throughout Canada. Prior to CIT, Smith served as General Manager of Dell Financial Services (DFS) Canada. He has also worked at Deloitte & Touche, providing audit, tax, and consulting services to clients. He received a BA from McMaster University and is a Chartered Accountant. (Source: CIT Group Inc, 11/9/2006)

• The E.W. Scripps Co. has named Douglas F. Lyons its new vice president of finance and administration for Scripps Interactive Media. Lyons has served as the corporation's director of financial reporting since 1992, and previously was an audit manager with Deloitte & Touche. (Source: The Cincinnati Post, 11/10/2006

• Nickelodeon & Viacom Consumer Products has upped and Sherice Torres to Senior Vice President, Hard Goods. Torres will lead the business development and creative efforts of multiple product categories, including: toys and games; packaged goods; stationery; social expressions; and consumer electronics. Torres came to Nickelodeon in 1999 as Director of Licensing for Interactive, Home Entertainment, and Consumer Electronics. Prior to joining Nickelodeon, Torres was a consultant with Deloitte & Touche where she did strategic planning and change management across various industries. Torres is active in a number of trade organizations. (Source: Nickelodeon, 11/10/2006)

• Fifth Third Bancorp announced that it has hired Raymond C. Dury as chief information officer (CIO). As CIO, Dury will be responsible for leading the Bank's technological processes, systems developments and e-commerce solutions. Dury, 46, comes to Fifth Third with 20 years of experience in senior and executive management roles in operations and information technology. Most recently, he was managing director, Citigroup Technology Infrastructure, where he led the North American Technology Infrastructure Group including core technology systems, data centers, operations, network and voice services, project office and business services. He previously was chief information officer at Ameritrade Holding Corporation and before that a managing consultant with Deloitte Consulting. (Source: Fifth Third Bancorp, 11/10/2006)

Deloitte & Touche Alumni News - November 5, 2006

• Deloitte & Touche said it has appointed Irvin H. Bisnov as managing partner for the financial services firm's Carolinas practice. Bisnov, who is relocating from Washington D.C. to Charlotte, will oversee all operations at the firm's North Carolina offices in Raleigh and Charlotte, as well as South Carolina offices in Greenville and Columbia. Bisnov is a 20-year veteran of Deloitte & Touche, working most recently as the Assurance & Enterprise Risk Services leader for the Southeast region. (Source: Bizjournals.com, 10/30/2006)
  

• IM Investments announced that R. Canon Coleman II will become lead portfolio manager of AIM Mid Cap Basic Value Fund, effective Nov. 1, 2006. Coleman is a CFA charterholder and joined AIM after serving in the corporate associate program at AMVESCAP PLC, the parent company of AIM. Coleman worked as a certified public accountant with Deloitte & Touche from 1993 to 1997. (Source: AIM Investments, 10/30/2006)
  

• Teekay Shipping Corporation announced that its Senior Vice President and Treasurer, Vince Lok, has been appointed to the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. As Teekay's new Chief Financial Officer, Lok will assume leadership of the Company's financial operations. Lok has been with Teekay for over 13 years and during that time has held a number of senior finance and accounting positions, including Controller from 1997 until his promotion to the position of Vice President, Finance in March 2002. Most recently, Lok has served as Teekay's Senior Vice President and Treasurer. Prior to joining Teekay, Lok worked in the audit practice of Deloitte & Touche. (Source: Teekay Shipping Corporation, 11/1/2006)
  

• Acme Packet, Inc., the leader in session border control solutions, announced that David Elsbree, a former senior partner at Deloitte & Touche, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Acme Packet effective immediately. Elsbree has been appointed as chair of the Audit Committee. From 1981 to May 2004, Elsbree was a partner with Deloitte & Touche where he served many of the firm's most complex software and technology client companies. Elsbree served in a number of leadership roles in the firm's high technology practice, including partner-in-charge of the New England High Technology Practice. (Source: Acme Packet, 11/2/2006)

Deloitte & Touche Alumni News - October 29, 2006

• Atlanta-based Callaway Partners, an accounting professional services firm focused on project management and staff augmentation, announced that Keith Keller joined the firm as a national partner and will lead Callaway's internal audit, Sarbanes-Oxley and financial services practices. Prior to joining Callaway Partners, Keller served as deputy chief auditor and senior vice president at Wachovia Corporation in Charlotte. He was responsible for managing internal audit for all operating businesses of the organization including retail banking, corporate and investment banking, capital and wealth management, operations and information technology. Previously, Keller was in charge of the Sarbanes-Oxley and internal audit practices within the enterprise risk services group for the Southeast at Deloitte & Touche, LLP in Atlanta. (Source: Callaway Partners, 10/23/2006)

• Creative Enterprises International, Inc., the marketer and distributor of Skinny Water(r), a dietary supplement designed to facilitate consumers' weight loss efforts, announced the appointment of Michael Reis as its new Chief Operating Officer. Since April 2003, Reis operates a consulting practice through M.R. Reis Co., pursuant to which he provides business and accounting consulting services. Reis began his career as an accountant with Deloitte & Touche and thereafter held executive positions with a number of companies including serving as the Chief Financial Officer of Public Gas Co., the Chief Financial Officer of Waste Masters, Inc., the President of Pollution Control Industries and a Senior Vice President of ENSI. (Source: Creative Enterprises International, 10/26/2006)
  

• Cytogen appointed Kevin Bratton as new chief financial officer. Bratton worked at The JPM Company, where he served as chief financial officer from 2000 to 2002 and as director of external reporting from 1999 to 2000. Bratton began his career with Deloitte & Touche LLP. He has a bachelor of science in business and accounting from Northeastern University. (Source: Cytogen Corporation, 10/26/2006)
  

• Ilypsa, Inc., a privately-held biopharmaceutical company pioneering novel non-absorbed drugs for renal and metabolic disorders, announced the appointment of William D. Waddill as Chief Financial Officer. Waddill brings more than 15 years of experience as a CFO managing the funding and finances of numerous venture-backed and more mature life science companies. Most recently, Mr. Waddill served as the principal of Square One Finance, a financial consulting business. Prior to Square One Finance, Waddill held positions at Exelixis, Inc., most recently as Senior Director, Finance, and served as CFO of Medical Science Partners, a venture capital firm in Boston. He received a BS in accounting from the University of Illinois, and certification as a public accountant after work at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte and Touche. (Source: Ilypsa, Inc., 10/26/2006)

Deloitte & Touche Alumni News - October 22, 2006

• Freddie Mac named Anthony S. ("Buddy") Piszel to serve as executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective Nov. 13. Piszel will serve as a member of the McLean, Va.-based mortgage company's senior executive leadership team and report directly to chief operating officer Eugene M. McQuade. Piszel joins Freddie Mac from Health Net, where he has served as CFO since August 2004. Piszel has also worked as an audit partner with Deloitte & Touche and as a practice fellow with the Financial Accounting Standards Board. (Source: TheStreet.com, 10/16/2006)
  

• Burr Wolff, L.P., a nationwide, full-service provider of state and local tax reduction solutions, announced that David Hurrell has joined the Company as property tax regional vice president in the Midwest. Hurrell will manage client accounts, recruit top property tax negotiators to his team, and lead business development efforts within his 13-state region, based from the firm's Cleveland office. Prior to joining Burr Wolff, Hurrell was a practice leader in Deloitte & Touche's North Central region, where he led a group of compliance and appeals professionals covering seven states since 2002. (Source: Burr Wolff, 10/17/2006)
  

• Bridge Capital Holdings of San Jose promoted Tom Sa to executive vice president and chief administrative officer. Sa is former chief financial officer at Central Coast Bancorp. Before that, he held senior financial positions with companies in the software and leasing industries, and served at Deloitte & Touche. (Source: The Mercury News, 10/17/2006)
• Kei Advisors, LLC, an investor relations and business advisory firm, has appointed James M. Culligan as Vice President. Mr. Culligan will be responsible for capital market research, client management and financial community liaison. Before joining Kei Advisors, Culligan was Director of Business Development and Client Relations at LaBranche & Co., a leading New York Stock Exchange specialist firm. Culligan began his career at Deloitte & Touche where he spent two years in the audit and tax departments. (Source: Kei Advisors, LLC, 10/21/2006)

Deloitte & Touche Alumni News - October 15, 2006

• AOL announced that it has appointed Ralph Rivera as Vice President and General Manager to oversee AOL Latino, while also remaining in charge of AOL Games. In his new role, Rivera would lead the programming and business strategy for AOL Latino overseeing the seven programming areas: Noticias, Deportes, Entretenimiento, Musica, Automoviles, Tu Vida and Dinero y Exito. Before joining AOL, Rivera held executive and staff positions at Pearson, Simon & Schuster, Deloitte & Touche, and IBM. (Source: RealTimeTraders.com, 10/11/2006)
• Nimsoft Inc., the leading provider of Service Level Management (SLM) solutions, announced that Mark Harris has been appointed the company's Chief Financial Officer. Bringing more than 20 years of experience, much of it spent in executing successful capital-raising efforts to propel corporate expansion, Harris will provide pivotal leadership for Nimsoft's continued growth. After graduating at the top of his class with First Class Honors Degree in Mathematics, Harris qualified as a Chartered Accountant in London, and subsequently started his career with Deloitte & Touche where he spent six years providing audit, corporate and accounting services to a varied portfolio of private and public companies. (Source: Nimsoft, Inc., 10/11/2006)
• Hyperspace Communications, computing products manufacturer, announced the appointment of Michael Whyte as its new Chief Financial Officer. Whyte has 26 years of accounting and financial management experience, including 9 years as a manager of audit, review and consulting engagements with Deloitte & Touche; and 17 years of finance and accounting positions at Washington Group International. (Source: RealTimeTraders.com, 10/13/2006)

Deloitte & Touche Alumni News - October 8, 2006

• Turin Networks has appointed William Zerella chief financial officer and vice president of finance and administration. Previously, Zerella was CFO at Infinera, Calient Networks, Logictier, and he has held senior executive finance positions at GTECH and Deloitte & Touche. (Source: CFO.com, 9/28/2006)
  

• NewGen Technologies, Inc. announced that it has appointed Tadas Norvaisa to the position of Corporate Controller, bringing 15 years of finance and accounting experience to NewGen's leadership team. Prior to joining NewGen, Norvaisa served as an audit manager at Deloitte & Touche, providing Sarbanes Oxley compliance counsel to Fortune 100 clients. (Source: NewGen Technologies, Inc., 10/4/2006)