Retailer hhgregg has promoted Kevin Kovacs to finance chief. He takes over for Robert Riesbeck, who has been named president and CEO. Kovacs started at the firm in 2009 and formerly served as vice president/controller and director of tax and treasury.
Brian Robinson has been chosen to lead the finance function at Pomeroy, an IT infrastructure–services provider, effective Aug. 15. Previously, he was CFO and treasurer at General Cable Corp.
Healthways has named Robert Dries to fill the top finance spot, effective Aug. 22. Dries, who replaces Alfred Lumsdaine, joins the health-services company from Omnicare, where he was senior vice president of financial operations.
Katie Scherping has been appointed finance chief of in-theater advertising distributor National CineMedia Inc. and of National CineMedia LLC, in which the former owns a stake. Scherping had been interim president and CEO of Quiznos since June, and had led the finance function since 2013.
Health-care firm Haemonetics has named William Burke to head finance. Most recently, he was chief integration officer at Medtronic, working to integrate Covidien into that company.
Corporate controller Bradley Coleman will add to his responsibilities at Lending Club, having been named interim CFO. He succeeds Carrie Dolan, who has resigned.
PharMerica said that CFO and treasurer David Froesel, Jr., plans to retire at the end of September. The pharmacy-services provider has begun a search for his replacement.
Martin Pilling has been named interim CFO at Rambus. He takes over for departing CFO and senior vice president of finance, Satish Rishi. Pilling had been vice president-corporate controller since June.
Senior living-community provider Wingate Healthcare has chosen Lisa Burgess to lead the finance function. Previously, she was senior vice president of finance at Post Acute Partners.