Interview with the President, CEO & Director: AV Homes, Inc. (NASDAQ:AVHI)

Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> April 22, 2016

Roger A. Cregg was appointed President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of AV Homes, Inc. in November 2012. Most recently, Mr. Cregg served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of The ServiceMaster Company from August 2011 to November 2012. He served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of PulteGroup, Inc., the publicly owned parent company of Pulte Homes, Inc., one of the nation’s largest homebuilders. During his 13-year tenure at PulteGroup Inc., Mr. Cregg helped the company grow from $2 billion to a peak of more than $15 billion in annual revenues and helped steer the company through the challenges of the U.S. housing market decline. Prior to joining PulteGroup, Inc., Mr. Cregg served as Executive Vice President and CFO at Zenith Electronics, a publicly traded company on the NYSE. He previously spent six years as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Sweetheart Cup Company, Inc., a privately held leading manufacturer and distributor of specialty containers and paper goods. He also worked as a Regional Vice President at Zellerbach, a global division of paper manufacturer MeadWestvaco Corp. Mr. Cregg began his career at New York-based Continental Can Company, Inc. working in a variety of accounting and finance and administration roles, eventually becoming General Manager of Finance for the company’s Bondware Division, a paper and plastic manufacturing subsidiary in Illinois. Mr. Cregg graduated from Northeastern University in Boston with a Bachelor of Science in accounting. He earned his Master of Business Administration from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for AV Homes, Inc., and as a Director of Comerica Inc., a commercial bank holding company. He has served as the former Chairman and member of the Board of Directors for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Detroit branch. He was named public company CFO of the Year by Crain’s Detroit Business in 2010. Profile

TWST: AV Homes has recently undergone somewhat of a transformation. Can you talk about what that entails?

Mr. Cregg: Yes. The company was previously named Avatar,

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Interview with the President, CEO & Director: AV Homes, Inc. (NASDAQ:AVHI)

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