Post Falls, Id., USA - October 21, 2010, Post Falls, Id., USA - Command Center, a provider of on-demand labor solutions, announced that it has appointed Jeff R. Mitchell to the position of chief financial officer and as a member of the board.
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Prior to joining Command, Mr. Mitchell had served since September of 2005 as the CFO of Select Staffing, a full-service national staffing company based in Santa Barbara, California.
Mr. Mitchell was responsible for the financial modeling and evaluation of each prospective acquisition for Select, which led to about 40 transactions contributing $1.3 billion in revenue.
Mr. Mitchell also coordinated the business plan and credit agreements to re-capitalize the company numerous times through traditional debt with various investment bankers including Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas and Bank of the West.
During the ten years prior to assuming the CFO position at Select Staffing, Mr. Mitchell served in executive positions of several companies in his home state of Utah. He was CEO of Compensation Advisors LLC from October ’04 to September ’05 and served as COO/CFO and VP of Risk Management for Wasatch Property Management and its subsidiary, Freedom Advisors LLC, from June 2003 to October 2004.
Prior to joining Wasatch, Mr. Mitchell had served from December 1998 through June 2003 as Director of Financial Services (North America) and Controller (North & South America) for a Rio Tinto subsidiary, Rio Tinto PLC & Kennecott Exploration Company. Previously, he gained extensive audit experience while servicing the clients of Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) in Salt Lake City.
Mr. Mitchell replaces Ralph E. Peterson who has resigned his position as CFO but will continue with Command Center as Senior Vice President and as a member of the board of directors.
Mr. Peterson has served as company's Chief Financial Officer since April 2009. He was appointed to the Board as an independent director and as chairman of the board’s Audit Committee in November 2007.
From 2002 until 2006, Mr. Peterson was a partner with a mid-sized venture capital firm. Previously, Mr. Peterson held leadership roles with Labor Ready, Inc., a staffing Company, where he was a member of its Board of Directors and served as its Chief Financial Officer and EVP of Corporate and Business Development.
Mr. Peterson also spent more than 20 years in the restaurant industry, first as an officer of Hardee’s Food Systems, and subsequently as the Chief Financial Officer of Rax Restaurants. ■