McAfee Inc., a $936.3 million provider of computer security products that is based in Santa Clara, Calif., hired Eric Brown as its CFO and executive vice president. Brown, 39, joins McAfee from MicroStrategy Inc., a business intelligence software company, where he served as president and CFO. He replaces Steve Richards, who is retiring. Earlier in his career, Brown served as CFO and COO for a division of Electronic Arts Inc. and was a co-founder and CFO of DataSage Inc. McLean, Va.?? 1/2 based MicroStrategy named its vice president of finance, Arthur Locke III, to succeed Brown as CFO and said its CEO, Michael Saylor, will take on the additional role of president.
American International Group Inc., the $81.3 billion insurance company based in New York City, said its treasurer, Steven Bensinger, will take on the additional roles of comptroller and senior vice president. As comptroller, he succeeds Michael Castelli, who was named chief administrative officer and senior vice president. Bensinger, 50, joined AIG in 2002 from Combined Specialty Group Inc., a division of Aon Corp., where he was CFO. Earlier, he held senior positions at Trenwick Group Ltd., Chartwell Reinsurance Co. and Skandia America Reinsurance Corp.
Fannie Mae, the $53.7 billion mortgage finance company based in Washington, D.C., named Robert Levin interim CFO after a financial reporting scandal triggered the resignations of CEO Franklin Raines and CFO Timothy Howard. Levin, 49, most recently was Fannie's executive vice president of housing and community development. He has worked at Fannie Mae since 1981 in positions including executive vice president of marketing and senior vice president of corporate finance.
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Cardinal Health Inc., a $65 billion pharmaceuticals distributor based in Dublin, Ohio, named Linda Harty treasurer and senior vice president. She replaces Donna Brandin, who left to become CFO of Equity Residential. Harty, 44, most recently was CFO and senior vice president of RTM Restaurant Group. Before joining RTM, she was treasurer of BellSouth Corp. and ConAgra Inc. Earlier, Harty spent 16 years in finance positions at Kimberly-Clark Corp.
Tyler Woolson rejoined Atlanta-based Georgia-Pacific Corp. as its treasurer and senior vice president of finance and strategy. He replaces Phillip Johnson, who is retiring from the $20.2 billion paper products company. Woolson, 41, most recently was CFO of Consolidated Container Co., after serving as Georgia-Pacific's vice president of strategic planning from 1995 to 2001.
Wesley Bush was named CFO and corporate vice president of Northrop Grumman Corp., the $26.2 billion defense contractor based in Los Angeles, Calif. He succeeds Charles Noski, Northrop's CFO since 2003, who is leaving to pursue other interests. Bush, 43, joined Northrop as president of its space technology unit in 2002 when it acquired TRW Inc., where he was CEO of the U.K.-based aeronautical systems business and also vice president of TRW Ventures. Bush spent 15 years at TRW's space and electronics group.
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