On the Go v2.10

Snapshots of executive transitions. LinkedIn profile (in bold) when available.

• UAL Corp. appointed Dana Sacks as vice president – Human Resources Partners and Talent Acquisition. Sacks will be responsible for leading the HR support team for the company’s business leaders and for talent acquisition. Most recently Sacks served as vice president of Human Resources for PepsiAmericas. Prior to PepsiAmericas, Sacks held HR leadership roles at Tellabs, Platinum Technology and Amoco Corp.
• Professional staffing firm PROVEN launched its Human Resources Practice which will provide staffing and consulting services to its rapidly growing client base. Morgan Krumb, formerly the Director of Human Resources at 24 Hour Fitness, has been appointed as the Practice’s Senior Partner and joins the Executive Committee of the company. PROVEN’s HR practice will staff a variety of positions which will include HR Generalists, Internal Recruiters, Benefits and Compensation specialists, Training personnel and HRIS professionals. The practice will also provide specialist HR consulting services in the areas of HR department start ups, compensation and benefits, compliance, organizational change and HRIS implementation.
• Hosetta Belcher Coleman has been appointed to Florida A&M University’s (FAMU) Foundation Board of Directors. A native of Tampa, Fla., Coleman is senior vice president-human resources director for Fifth Third Bank. In 2005, Coleman joined Fifth Third shortly after the merger with First National Bank. She brought with her 18 years of banking experience, 14 of which were spent in strategic HR management functions. Coleman founded Tampa Bay’s National Association of African Americans in Human Resource Chapter and is still actively involved in the organization. She is a previous board member of the Centre for Women, Inroads, Tampa Bay Committee for the Arts, and currently serves on the Hillsborough County Community Action Board.
• PHH Corporation appointed Adele T. Barbato Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer effective February 25, 2010. In her role, Barbato will assume responsibility for driving business growth and shareholder value through an effective human capital strategy across the company. Barbato brings to PHH more than 35 years of global human resources experience particularly with organizations undergoing significant business and organizational change. She has expertise in transformational leadership aligning talent with the business strategy across several industries including technology services, clinical health information management, and higher education. Most recently, Barbato served as the first senior vice president, human resources for Drexel University where she transformed the HR function from an administrative to a strategic organization with a major focus on culture change, talent management, leadership development and building a performance driven culture across the university. She previously held senior management roles at MedQuist, Inc. and Unisys Corporation.
• Univar, the leading global chemical distributor, appointed Edward A. Evans senior vice president and chief human resources officer. Evans will lead Univar’s human resources activities globally. Evans joined Univar in January 2010 after serving as executive vice president and chief personnel officer at Allied Waste Industries, Inc. from 2005 through its merger with Republic Services in 2009. A Fortune 500 company and publicly traded on the NYSE, Allied was the second largest non-hazardous solid waste company in the US with 2008 sales in excess of $6.5 billion. Prior to joining Allied Waste, Evans held operations and staff roles in both private and publicly traded, decentralized service organizations. His career began in operations with Saga Foodservice in the Northeast followed by field human resources roles in the South Central and Pacific Northwest regions of the US. He held HR support and vice president positions with Marriott Corporation in Washington, DC, and then corporate Human Resources senior vice president positions with ARAMARK Corporation, first in Philadelphia and then in Los Angeles. Evans returned to his hometown of Ithaca, NY, as the founding director of what is now the Cornell University School of Hotel Administrations Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship.