Personnel
CaringBridge names CFO
CaringBridge, Eagan, has hired Elizabeth Olson as it chief financial officer. Olson was most recently in financial leadership positions at nonprofit and advocacy organizations such as Volunteers of America and Grassroots Solutions Inc.
Pentair adds executives
Pentair PLC, Golden Valley, has named Karla Robertson as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary, and Kelly Baker as EVP and chief human resources officer for Pentair's new water business. The water business and Pentair's electrical business are expected to separate and form two independent public companies in the first half of 2018.
Robertson and Baker are senior executives most recently with Eden Prairie-based companies Supervalu and C.H. Robinson respectively.
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