"New Hires" Archive

January 2014 comings and goings

February 17, 2014

See a list of employees joining and leaving the University in January 2014:

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Canales hired to lead human resources

May 31, 2011

Carmen I. Canales will join Wake Forest as the associate vice president for human resources and chief human resources officer on July 1, 2011. In this role, she will be responsible for recruitment and employment, employee benefits, employee relations, leadership development and talent management, training and development, compensation and classification, human resource information systems, equal opportunity and affirmative action, and human resource policies and procedures.

Canales comes to Wake Forest from Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC, where she served for nearly five years as the chief talent officer, with firm-wide responsibility for the leadership and professional development, recruiting, diversity, compensation and benefits functions. In that role, Canales focused on the recruitment, retention, and development of attorneys and professional staff, and worked with the firm’s leadership to ensure the human capital policies and programs were integrated and aligned to support the firm’s strategic agenda. Read more

Alumnus named chief financial officer

October 15, 2010

B. Hofler Milam has been named senior vice president for finance and administration and chief financial officer at Wake Forest. Milam is currently vice president for finance and treasurer at Duke University. He is expected to begin work at Wake Forest in December. Read more