Carmel-based Protective Insurance Corp. has hired two company outsiders to fill its chief financial officer and chief information officer roles, the company announced Monday.
Christine Birch has tackled some tough issues at Taft. including championing a plan that eliminated the traditional two-class partnership structure in favor of a single class of ownership.
Kristin Sherman joined VMS as CFO in 2016, and a year later added oversight of all the firm’s support functions—everything from legal and IT to compliance and HR.
Retail industry observers are speculating that the appointment of Robert Riesbeck is likely to mean a bankruptcy for Pier 1 in the near future, based on his track record.
In addition to numerous criminal charges, the former chief operating officer and chief financial officer of Indianapolis-based Celadon Group are facing a civil suit filed Thursday by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Indianapolis-based company lost its way after founder Stephen Russell gave up the CEO’s role in 2012, and three of its former executives now are facing fraud charges.
CEO Paul Svindland said challenges in the trucking industry, along with fallout from what prosecutors allege was a massive accounting fraud engineered by prior management, proved impossible to overcome.
The company moved goods for many well-known companies, including Alcoa, General Electric, John Deere, Philip Morris, Procter & Gamble, Target and Walmart.
As a result of Daniel Murphy’s work, Shiel Sexton now has 300 employee-owners instead of 14 and is positioned to remain locally owned for the next 50 years.
Patrick Shannon not only guided Allegion’s spinoff in December 2013 from Ingersoll Rand, but he has has since led the company through 20 acquisitions and major investments, growing its market value from $4 billion to more than $11 billion.
Since arriving in 2014, Kristina Cerniglia has transformed Hillenbrand Inc.’s finance and IT organizations, making them strategic partners in the company’s growth.
John Macke joined Merchants in 2017 at a critical time for the company; it was preparing for its $115 million initial public offering—a process he’d been through before.
Angie Clark, the CFO for Indy Parks, has kept such a sharp eye on expenses while also looking for ways to enhance revenue and service delivery that the agency was certified in 2017 by the Commission for Accreditation of Parks and Recreation Agencies, recognition the it had gone without for 10 years.
Indiana Sports Corp. started 40 years ago as the first sports commission of its kind in the country, and Brad Bowman has been there almost half that time.
