A. Schulman Names R. J. Schoger Manager of Financial Reporting; Promotes Malia Gelfo to Assistant Corporate Controller
AKRON, Ohio, April 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A. Schulman, Inc. (Nasdaq: SHLM) announced today that R. J. Schoger has been named Manager of Financial Reporting for the Company. His responsibilities include addressing new accounting pronouncements, preparing the worldwide consolidation and related financial statements, preparing quarterly and annual reporting documents and maintaining the Hyperion financial consolidation system.
Schoger is a certified public accountant with 10 years of financial and technical accounting experience including, most recently, five years as a senior auditor for Ernst & Young LLP. He has extensive knowledge and experience with public company filing regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, mergers and acquisitions, international coordination, and the development and implementation of financial systems. He earned a master's degree in accounting from The Ohio State University and a bachelor's degree in business administration from Baldwin-Wallace College.
In addition, Malia Gelfo, former Manager of Financial Reporting for the Company, has been promoted to Assistant Corporate Controller. In her new role, Gelfo will be responsible for the corporate accounting and financial reporting departments, as well as the integration of acquisitions into the financial consolidation and external reporting process. She is a certified public accountant and joined A. Schulman in 2004. Prior to that, she was a senior auditor with Ernst & Young. Gelfo earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from Kent State University.
About A. Schulman, Inc.
Headquartered in Akron, Ohio, A. Schulman is a leading international supplier of high-performance plastic compounds and resins. These materials are used in a variety of consumer, industrial, automotive and packaging applications. The Company employs about 2,000 people and has 17 manufacturing facilities in North America, Europe and Asia. Revenues for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2009, were $1.3 billion. Additional information about A. Schulman can be found at www.aschulman.com.
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