IT Leadership Changes at Chevron, Weyerhaeser and more
Plus: Promotions at Ferrellgas Partners, Alaska Air, KePRO and more.
Chevron
announced IT leadership changes on April 14, spurred by the retirement of two executives. Melody Meyer, the vice president of Chevron's Gulf of Mexico business unit, was named president of Chevron Energy Technology (ETC), and Louie Ehrlich was moved upstream to become president of Chevron Information Technology and CIO. Meyer replaces Mark Puckett while Ehrlich succeeds Gary Masada. Both appointments are effective June 1, 2008.
Fast food chain
El Pollo Loco
is clucking over its hire of Allison Watanabe as its new vice president of IT. She's responsible for implementing new technology that will support the Costa Mesa, Calif.-based company's growth from 391 units to 441. Watanabe most recently served as CIO of BowTie Inc., a publisher of pet magazines. Prior to BowTie, she held senior management positions with Friend Communications, Canon U.S.A., Toshiba America Electronic Components and Rockwell International. Watanabe holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and an MBA from the University of La Verne in La Verne, California.
Bob Feghali joined marketing and media company
SpaFinder
as its first CIO on April 1, 2008. Feghali most recently served as vice president of business development and CIO of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), a position he held for 11 years. Feghali led the creation of ANSI's e-commerce operation and search engine for standards. While at ANSI, he chaired ISO's IT Strategy Implementation Group. Prior to ANSI, he was IT director at a division of Schlumberger and CIO of Memtek Products.
Jennifer Boren was promoted to vice president of information technology at propane distributor
Ferrellgas Partners
on April 14. She had been serving as the Overland Park, KS-based company's director of IT technical services since she joined in 2006. In her new role, Boren is responsible for all Ferrellgas's IT and the company's supply division that supports its retail locations. One of her top projects is the development and implementation of an enterprise technology platform that brings together CRM and mobile technologies to improve routing, supply and asset management.
Domain name registrar Network Solutions added Kamalesh Dwivedi to its leadership team as SVP and CIO. (Former MasterCard CIO Roy Dunbar is CEO of Network Solutions.) Dwivedi oversees operations, engineering, enterprise data services and program management. He joins the Herndon, Va.-based company from business process outsourcing provider TeleTech Holdings, where he was CIO. Prior to TeleTech, Dwivendi was VP and CIO of manufacturer ADC Telecommunications. Previously, he was CIO of Scientific-Atlanta. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kanpur, India and a master's degree in engineering from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario (Canada.)
Exide Technologies
moved Erach Balsara into the CIO role. Balsara had been serving as the lead-acid battery company's vice president of human resources strategy and development. He replaces Carlos Cabrera, who is leaving Exide, and reports to President and CEO Gordon Ulsh. Before Balsara stepped into the CIO role on April 14, the IT function had reported into the finance organization. Ulsh said in the press release
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