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Standard Pacific Replaces CFO, General Counsel

Standard Pacific Corp. has replaced its chief financial officer and general counsel, the Irvine-based homebuilder said on Wednesday.

John Stephens, formerly a senior vice president and corporate controller at Standard Pacific, was named CFO.

He replaces Andrew Parnes, who resigned Tuesday, the company said. Parnes had served as Standard Pacific’s CFO since 1996.

Also being promoted is John Babel, who was appointed general counsel and secretary.

Babel joined Standard Pacific in 2002 as the company’s associate general counsel.

Babel replaces Clay Halvorsen, who resigned last week. Halvorsen had been the company’s general counsel since 1998.

Both Stephens and Babel will receive a base salary of $400,000, along with 300,000 stock options, and are eligible for bonuses, the company said in a regulatory filing.

The changes are the latest under Chief Executive Ken Campbell, a turnaround specialist tapped late last year to take over the homebuilder.

Campbell hails from New York-based MatlinPatterson Global Advisors LLC, which invested in Standard Pacific in 2007.

The private equity firm owns two-thirds of Standard Pacific but is capped at a 49% voting stake.

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Mark Mueller
Mark Mueller
Mark is the former Editor-in-Chief and current Community Editor of the Orange County Business Journal, one of the premier regional business newspapers in the country. He’s the fifth person to hold the editor’s position in the paper’s long history. He oversees a staff of about 15 people. The OCBJ is considered a must-read for area business executives. The print edition of the paper is the primary source of local news for most of the Business Journal’s subscribers, which includes most of OC’s major corporate and community players. Mark’s been with the paper since 2005, and long served as the real estate reporter for the paper, breaking hundreds of commercial and residential real estate stories. He took on the editor’s position in 2018.

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