BJ’s Restaurants Inc. has appointed William J. Atkins as interim principal financial officer, effective July 28.
The Huntington Beach-based restaurant company has retained Atkins while the company continues its search for a new chief financial officer.
He succeeds Thomas A. Houdek, who resigned from the CFO position around the same time Chief Executive Lyle Tick was appointed in June.
Atkins is a partner at consulting firm FLG Partners LLC, where he acts as a CFO consultant or board advisor to clients. Prior to FLG, he was the CFO at various technology, software and analytics companies such as Mobileum Inc., One Concern, Clarify Health, Calix Inc., Intelsat and Airobotics.
BJ’s Restaurants also entered a consulting agreement with FLG Partners that will require the restaurant chain to pay the firm a rate of $650 per hour for Atkins’ services, effective July 14.
Shares were down 1.5% to $38.57 during midday trading with a market cap of $853 million (Nasdaq: BJRI).
