Irvine’s Epicor Software Corp., a maker of business software for retailers and manufacturers, promoted one of its own as finance chief.
Epicor appointed Michael Pietrini as chief financial officer and executive vice president of finance and administration.
Pietrini, 39, is an Epicor veteran with some 14 years at the company in various posts.
Pietrini joined Epicor in 1995 as a business development representative and has served in several sales operations management roles.
He most recently was vice president of sales and operations for the Americas. Epicor didn’t say who would fill his spot.
Epicor had been looking to fill the CFO spot for nearly a year.
Michael Piraino stepped down in May.
He went on to start investment company M2 Technology Partners LLC in Laguna Hills with Epicor’s former president and chief operating officer Mark Duffell last year.
The company had installed Russell Clark as interim CFO.
Clark is set to continue on as Epicor’s principal accounting officer and will report to Pietrini.
The move follows a big executive shake up at the start of the year that brought back Chief Executive George Klaus, who ran Epicor for more than a dozen years.
Software veteran Tom Kelly ran the company for a little over a year while Klaus took a stab at retirement.
Epicor makes what’s known as enterprise resource planning software, which helps midsize companies manage accounting, customer contacts, inventory, sales and other back-office tasks.
The company, which had a recent market value of about $270 million, is set to report first quarter results on May 4.
