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Wild Oats Could Choose CFO Before CEO

BOULDER, Colo. -- Wild Oats Markets here, which is searching for both a new chief executive officer and a new chief financial officer, may not wait until hiring the former if a good candidate come along for the latter, a spokeswoman for the chain told SN yesterday.

BOULDER, Colo. -- Wild Oats Markets here, which is searching for both a new chief executive officer and a new chief financial officer, may not wait until hiring the former if a good candidate come along for the latter, a spokeswoman for the chain told SN yesterday. The chain has engaged search firm Korn-Ferry International, Los Angeles, to find a CEO in the wake of the departure this fall of Perry Odak, but has not yet hired a firm to find a CFO to replace Robert Dimond, who is leaving at the end of this week to rejoin Nash Finch Co., Minneapolis. Sonja Tuitele, the Wild Oats spokeswoman, noted that acting CEO Greg Mays, a former CFO himself, “is quite competent” at choosing a CFO if one comes along that meets the chain‘s criteria before a new CEO for the natural food retailer is found.