William Restrepo has been appointed CFO andtreasurer of Smith International, a Houston-basedprovider of oilfield services with $10.7 billion of 2008 revenue.He succeeds Margaret Dorman, the company's CFO andtreasurer since 1999, who is retiring. Restrepo, 50, was mostrecently CFO, executive vice president and secretary of Seitel,which provides seismic data to the oil and gas industry. Earlier,he spent two decades at Schlumberger, where his positions includedcorporate treasurer.

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Advanced Micro Devices, a $5.8 billiontechnology computing, has named Thomas Seifert CFOand senior vice president. He succeeds RobertRivet, who was promoted to chief operations andadministrative officer of the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company.Seifert, 46, most recently was CFO and COO at Qimonda. Previouslyhe was senior vice president and general manager of the WirelineBusiness Group at Infineon.

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Anthony Massetti has been appointed CFO andsenior vice president of Avaya, the Basking Ridge,N.J., communications equipment company that was taken private byventure capitalists in 2007. Massetti is joining Avaya from NCR,where he had served as CFO since 2008. Earlier, he served as CFO ofQLogic and vice president of finance for SanDisk, and spent 17years in finance positions at IBM.

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Harley-Davidson, the $5.5 billion motorcyclemanufacturer, has appointed John Olin CFO andsenior vice president. He has served as interim CFO since May, whenthe previous CFO, Thomas Bergmann, resigned topursue other opportunities. Olin, 48, has been the Milwaukee-basedcompany's controller and vice president since signing on in 2003.Earlier, he worked in finance at Kraft Foods, where he served ascontroller of the cheese division, Oscar Mayer Foods and MillerBrewing.

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John Woods has been named vice chairman of thefinancial management group of San Francisco'sUnionBanCal, the parent of Union Bank, and willsucceed David Matson as the company's CFO afterMatson retires early next year. Woods most recently was CFO of thehome lending business of JPMorgan Chase. Earlier, he worked infinance at Washington Mutual, serving as its corporate controllerand later as CFO of its home loan unit. Woods also worked atFreddie Mac, where he served as corporate controller.

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Thomas & Betts, a $2.4 billion electriccomponent manufacturer in Memphis, appointed William WeaverJr. CFO and senior vice president. He succeedsKenneth Fluke, who announced his retirement inJune. Weaver, 46, has served as the company's controller and vicepresident since November 2008. Earlier, he was CFO for FirstHorizon Home Loans/MetLife Home Loans and was the managing partnerfor the Memphis office of KPMG.

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MEMC Electronic Materials, a $2 billion makerof silicon wafers in St. Peters, Mo., has named TimOliver CFO and senior vice president. He succeedsKen Hannah, who was promoted to executive vicepresident of MEMC and president of MEMC Solar Materials. Oliver,41, was CFO and senior vice president of Metavante Technologiesuntil it was acquired by Fidelity National Information Servicesthis fall. Earlier, he was treasurer of Rockwell Automation andvice president of investor relations and financial planning atRaytheon.

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Mark Rosenbaum has been named the first CFO ofMySpace, the social networking Website that'sowned by News Corp. Rosenbaum most recently was a consultant to MGMon business intelligence and financial management systemimplementation. Earlier, he was senior vice president of corporatefinance at Gemstar-TV Guide, a former News Corp. unit, and CEO ofSmartJog, a French start-up.

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