CEO John Standley

By John SawinskiI learned something new last week: I always thought CEOs understood what a CFO's role was. Well, not all of them do. For example, a couple months ago I contacted the founder of a new company in my area. I have great personal interest in what the company does, and I thought it would be a chance to do something fun. The local newspaper wrote a feature article about them and they were really starting to generate national attention. My first meeting with the founder and sales...Read Full Story

Drug store chain, also reporting a large loss, brings CFO Vitrano and president Standley from the Pathmark chain. Stephen Taub - CFO.com | USSeptember 25, 2008 Email Print Reprints Permalink Rite Aid named a new finance chief and brought a former CFO back as its president and COO in a shake-up of its executive suite. It also reported a $222-million quarterly loss, three times the year-ago deficit, and wider than analysts had forecast. As president and chief operating officer, Rite Aid...Read Full Story

SeaBright Insurance Appoints New Senior VP, CFO SeaBright Insurance Holdings has appointed Scott Maw as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Mr Maw has public company experience and skills over his nearly 20 years in the financial services industry. He was a senior vice president and CFO of the retail/consumer bank operations of JP Morgan Chase. Read more on Insurance Business ReviewRead Full Story

Waterloo Gardens Inc., a popular Philadelphia-area garden center that maintains stores in Devon and Exton, Pa.; and Wilmington, Del., bought a former 56,000-square-foot Pathmark grocery store on nine acres at 700 York Road in Warminster, Pa., for an undisclosed price from Pathmark Stores Inc. (BDN)Read Full Story

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I recently met with a private investment firm who explained they had stopped investing in start - ups and early phase companies. In their eyes, start - ups were too risky and took too long to mature. These days they look to invest in... Tagged as: private, investment, explained, stopped, investing, companies, mature, investRead Full Story