Financial Executives International, a 15,000-member trade group for chief financial officers and other senior financial personnel has elected its new slate of officers. Robert Walker, former CFO of Agilent Technologies, will serve as chairman, while Richard Schrader, executive vice president and CFO of Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc., in New York, will become vice chairman. Additional officers include: Alexis Dow, elected auditor, metro, regional government in Portland, Ore., and Joseph DiLorenzo, co-founder and manager, M/D Group LLC, in Humarock, Mass., who will serve as vice presidents at large. Gerald Urich, corporate assistant controller, The Hershey Co., Hershey, Pa., will serve as treasurer. Jeffrey Curtiss, senior vice president and CFO, Service Corp. International, Houston, will become secretary.Mary Jo Green, immediate past FEI chairman, and senior vice president and treasurer, Sony Corp. of America, New York, and second past FEI chairman H. Stephen Grace, Jr., president of H.S. Grace & Co., Houston, will continue in their capacities as directors-at-large. Joan Netzel, first vice president, audit relationship manager for SunTrust Banks Inc., Atlanta, will remain as chairman of the Board of Trustees for Financial Executives Research Foundation -- FEI's research affiliate. The FEI officers slate began officially July 1.
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