Champion Home Builders, Inc., a leading producer of manufactured homes and modular structures, announced today the appointment of Mark Yost as its President. The Company also named Laurie Hough as Sr. Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Timothy Burkhardt as Vice President and Controller.
Yost has served as Chief Financial Officer for Champion since 2013. Prior to joining Champion, he served as CFO and EVP for Severstal North America, a major steelmaker based in Dearborn, MI.
Mark, Laurie and Tim’s combined experiences in operations and financial management coupled with their passion for serving the needs of our customers will serve the Company well as they lead our growth and expansion efforts in the U.S.
As part of the realignment, non-U.S. housing operations, including Star Fleet Trucking and Canadian and U.K. operations, will continue to report to Anderson.
Yost received his BS degree in finance and his MBA from the University of Michigan. He received Crain’s Detroit 2012 Business CFO of the Year award for his accomplishments at Severstal.
Hough joined Champion in 2010 as Vice President, Accounting and Financial Reporting, and was promoted to VP and Controller in 2012. She previously held the positions of Manager of Financial Consolidations at Chrysler Group LLC and Audit Manager at PwC. Hough is a licensed CPA and obtained her BS in Accounting from Oakland University.
Burkhardt was named Director of Financial Reporting at Champion in 2012. He held previous financial positions with Asset Acceptance Capital Corp., Chrysler and BDO Seidman, LLP. A licensed CPA, Burkhardt received his BA and MBA from Michigan State University in Accounting.
Media Contact:
Paul Perugi
Director, Marketing Services
Champion Home Builders, Inc.
248-614-8275, pperugi@championhomes.com
Champion Homes, Inc. (NYSE: SKY) is the largest independent, publicly traded, factory-built housing company in North America and employs approximately 8,700 people. With more than 70 years of homebuilding experience and 42 manufacturing facilities throughout the United States and western Canada, Skyline Champion is well positioned with a leading portfolio of manufactured and modular homes, ADUs, park-models and modular buildings for the single-family, multi-family, and hospitality sectors.
In addition to its core home building business, Skyline Champion operates a factory-direct retail business with 31 retail locations across the United States, and Star Fleet Trucking, providing transportation services to the manufactured housing and other industries from several dispatch locations across the United States.
Skyline Champion builds homes under some of the most well-known brand names in the factory-built housing industry including Skyline Homes, Champion Home Builders, Genesis Homes, Athens Park Models, Dutch Housing, Excel Homes, Homes of Merit, New Era, Redman Homes, ScotBilt Homes, Shore Park, Silvercrest, Titan Homes in the U.S. and Moduline and SRI Homes in western Canada.
Learn more about our products and services on the following company brand websites:
Manufactured and Modular Homes
www.championhomes.com
www.skylinehomes.com
www.genesishomes.com
Park Model RVs
www.athenspark.com
www.shorepark.com
Star Fleet Trucking
www.starfleettrucking.com
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